Important Takeaways:
- The International Criminal Court intends to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of crimes against humanity for Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war, its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan announced Monday, on the 227th day of the Gaza war.
- “Today, my Office seeks to charge two of those most responsible, Netanyahu and Gallant, both as co-perpetrators and as superiors pursuant to Articles 25 and 28 of the Rome Statute,” Khan stated.
- Khan first spoke of the warrants in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and then published a video and text statement from the court.
- Netanyahu and Gallant would face accusations of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, and willful killing.
- Khan’s statement comes as Israel is in its seventh month of an existential war against Hamas, which led an invasion of the Jewish state’s southern border on October 7, killing over 1,200 people and seizing 252 as hostage, out of which 128 remain in captivity.
- Israel has argued that its actions fell within the boundary of International law, stressing that there is no famine in Gaza.
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- Second destructive derecho in a week slams central US with 100-mph winds, baseball-sized hail
- On Thursday, a derecho plowed across parts of Texas and Louisiana, blasting the Houston metro area with winds up to 100 mph that left at least seven people dead and more than 1 million customers in the dark.
- Cleanup efforts are underway across parts of the central U.S. after a destructive derecho blasted across Kansas with 100 mph wind gusts and baseball-sized hail, causing major damage and knocking out power to tens of thousands of utility customers across the region.
- This is now the second derecho in a week to blast parts of the U.S. On Thursday, a derecho plowed across parts of Texas and Louisiana, blasting the Houston metro area with winds up to 100 mph that left at least seven people dead and more than 1 million customers in the dark.
- Damaging wind reports stretch more than 400 miles across Kansas
- Millions of people from the Plains to the Midwest will be on alert for powerful thunderstorms capable of producing damaging wind gusts, large hail and possible tornadoes.
- The highest threat of severe weather will be found across portions of the Plains on Monday, but the potential for powerful storms will also have people in cities like Chicago, Milwaukee and Des Moines in Iowa on alert.
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- It was just after 5:30 a.m. when chaos and confusion swept through the encampment. A student who filmed the raid by the Chicago Police Department provided the footage to CBS 2. Students tried to block the officers’ entry, but the officers pushed through.
- DePaul University President Robert Manuel gave law enforcement the green light Wednesday night, after deeming the situation on campus “unsafe.”
- After the raid, students quickly regrouped, taking their movement across the street to a gas station.
- DePaul also reported more than 1,000 complaints altogether, including more than 625 registered complaints from neighbors and community members, and more than 425 from students, faculty and staff, and parents.
- These complaints included one death threat, four credible threats of violence, 12 incidents of criminal property damage, and 34 reports of antisemitism, among other issues raised.
- DePaul also outlined numerous complaints of harassment at the encampment and of Jewish community members feeling unsafe.
- “You know, the day that the encampment went up, one of the first signs that went up said, ‘Jewish safety cannot be guaranteed until Palestine is free’
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Important Takeaways:
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he will soon speak face-to-face with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who demanded a day earlier that the premier publicly rule out the possibility of Israeli military or civilian rule in Gaza, suggesting instead that “Palestinian entities” and other “international actors” should govern the Strip
- Netanyahu’s public disagreement with Gallant came about after the premier dismissed any discussions of the “day after” in Gaza as meaningless until Hamas is defeated.
- Gallant warned in his address that he will not consent to Israeli civil or military governance of Gaza, and that governance by non-Hamas Palestinian entities, accompanied by international actors, is in Israel’s interest.
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Important Takeaways:
- Shani Louk, 22; Amit Esther Bouskila, 28; and Itzhak Gelerenter, 58, were named as the hostages killed on Oct. 7
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended his condolences to the families in a statement on X, restating his commitment to “return all our hostages, the dead and the martyrs alike.”
- U.S. military personnel began moving aid to Gaza using a floating pier anchored to the Palestinian territory’s coastline, as aid groups warned of famine in the enclave.
- U.S. Central Command said aid trucks started moving in using the temporary pier, adding that no U.S. troops went ashore in Gaza.
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- Houston Mayor John Whitmire said strong winds and “some twisters” hit the area, downing power lines, spreading debris and leaving many roads impassable
- The winds reached 100 mph and included some tornadoes
- A widespread 3 to 6 inches of rain fell north of Houston, with one of the highest rainfall totals reported being around 6.90 inches in 24 hours near Romayor.
- In Texas, the night’s destruction was evident even before sunrise, with high winds tearing out windows of high-rise buildings in downtown Houston, and inundating the region with flooding.
- Streets in the area were littered with glass, electrical lines and other detritus strewn by the ferocious storms.
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- The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a drone that fired two missiles. The attack wounded three soldiers, one of them seriously, according to the Israeli military.
- Hezbollah has regularly fired missiles across the border with Israel over the past seven months, but the one on Thursday appears to have been the first successful missile airstrike it has launched from within Israeli airspace.
- “Hezbollah has been escalating the situation in the north,” said military spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani. “They’ve been firing more and more.”
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Important Takeaways:
- President Biden has made his “biggest blunder” yet by driving China and Russia into a closer strategic partnership through his faulty foreign policy
- Heritage Foundation senior fellow Michael Pillsbury argued on “Fox & Friends” that the “shocking” relationship the two nuclear world powers have fostered never would have happened under the Trump administration
- Putin visited Xi in Beijing to strengthen bilateral relations and garner additional support for the war in Ukraine
- China has vowed “resolute measures” against the U.S. in retaliation for Biden’s newly announced tariffs on $18 billion worth of Chinese imports
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In a January 1838 speech to a group in Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln stated: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Important Takeaways:
- Why Are Western Countries Committing National Suicide?
- In 1973, Frenchman Jean Raspail, seeing his country being overwhelmed by mass immigration, wrote a stunning novel: Camp of the Saints. He depicted a fleet of third world refugees landing on his country from a flotilla of wretched ships. The captain of one of the ships said, “If this horde of brutes ever lands on your country, they will swallow you up.”
- One critic said, “Once you read Camp of the Saints, you will need brain surgery to remove it…”
- One look at France today, 55 million French persons, and 5 million Muslims, you can cut the racial/religious air with a knife. You might remember where Muslim terrorists shot up Paris restaurants, slaughtered theater patrons and killed cartoonists in that once “free society.” More than 90 “no-go zones” now dominate the French countryside. That means French people dare not enter the religious Islamist enclaves. While Raspail suffered “racial” criticism when the book published, its prophetic pages have come true across Europe.
- But the fact is, the book now applies to Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Finland, Spain and more. No go zones abound. European women cannot walk the streets of Paris with any chance of personal safety. The invaders expect welfare, housing, and medical care. They lack any cultural, linguistic, or educational compatibility with those Western countries.
- “The Camp of the Saints, a speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world.”
- Now let’s travel over to America. Just last week, Muslim Hamas demonstrators in Detroit and New York City chanted, “Death to America.”
- “lslam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.” said Omar Ahmad, Director of C.A.I.R. “The Qur’an,, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
- Take a car trip into Dearborn, Michigan to see mosque after mosque built like forts with walls around them.
- Take a walking trip through “Somaliland” in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- If you look at what’s happened to Europe, you’re seeing the disintegration of Western Society. If you look at Canada’s Vancouver, B.C., you notice that Canadians are now the minority in their own city. If you look at Miami, Florida, you see few Americans and more and more illegal aliens.
- It’s a sad situation when you must fight for your own country within your own country. But that’s what’s coming, and it’s coming fast. I might pen my next book: The Strange Death of America: Immigration, Islam, Identity by Frosty Wooldridge.
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Important Takeaways:
- “West’s Governments Need War” Warns Martin Armstrong “Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable”
- Martin Armstrong is one of the most influential economists of our times. Someone called him the “Forecaster”, because that was the title of the biopic film that helped make his activities known throughout the world.
- Those of Martin Armstrong are not just “predictions”, as his reflections are based on the compendium of precise mathematical formulas and analytical skills. We interviewed him to try to understand the current geopolitical context. From the crisis of Western democracies to the birth of the BRICS front, to arrive at profound reflections on the risk of a military conflict on a global scale, Armstrong interprets real-time data thanks to his diachronic “vision” and a decades-long effort of research and analysis. Armstrong’s work allows us to connect knowledge of the past to critical factors of the present time. For all these reasons, Armstrong’s analyzes are precious for understanding the present and orienting ourselves towards a future that appears full of unknowns and pitfalls.
- Fukuyama advocated the end of history. Huntington spoke of a clash of civilizations. Is it possible to imagine a third way?
- Our greatest threat is centralized control; that is what doomed communism. I agree with Huntington that the clash of civilizations will be based upon cultures and religion mainly because of centralized attempt to impose a unified culture.
- With the birth of the BRICS, is it possible to talk about a multipolar option? What are the limits that you see in this geopolitical dimension?
- The birth of the BRICS was caused by these people we call the neocons who engaged in ethnic racism and targeted Russia by removing them from the world economy under SWIFT. This woke up many in the world, realizing that the dollar was now being weaponized and was no longer a monetary instrument exclusively. Nations began to realize if they did not conform to the commands of Washington, then they too could be removed from SWIFT. Thus, they have divided the world economy bringing to an end globalization.
- Now, we invite you to make some reflections on the geo-economic dimension. The global capitalist system is based on the indebtedness of sovereign states. Is this a sustainable situation? Who will pay the bill in the end?
- The sovereign debt crisis that we face has appeared often throughout history. It is unsustainable because governments act in their own self-interest and will always expand debt to retain power. Historically, these systems collapse when they issue new debt to pay off the old, and no one is there to buy the new debt. Once they can no longer continue to borrow new money, then inevitably, they collapse.
- Is it still possible to avoid a large-scale world conflict?
- It is unlikely that we can avoid world war. Governments need war because their debts are no longer sustainable. They will use the war as the excuse for defaults – as was the case for WWII. They will create Bretton Woods II with the IMF digital currency as the reserve.
- Pope Francis has been talking about a piecemeal Third World War for years. From your point of view, is what the Holy Father claims can be shared? What are the main weapons of this possible Third World War?
- I believe we have a third world war that will begin piecemeal with the Middle East, Iran vs Israel, Europe vs Russia, north Korea vs Japan and South Korea, China vs Taiwan. But they will eventually merge together.
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