Low energy prices make Russian industry more competitive than its European rivals, a Sber official has said | Electricity costs for Russian consumers are nearly ten times lower than in the UK, and are roughly four times less than in the EU, a leading banker stated on Wednesday, referring to prices for households and businesses. ● Anatoly Popov, deputy chairman of the board of Russia’s largest lender, Sber, was speaking at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow. 💬 “Electricity is cheap in Russia. If you take the price in Russia and the price that British industries pay, I do not know if there is any industry left with such prices, but the price is almost ten times lower in Russia than in the UK. In the EU, the prices for industrial consumers are four times higher per kilowatt/hour, and for households also 4-4.5 times higher,” Popov explained. ● According to the British government website, floor unit prices for electricity for households averaged £0.34 ($0.41) per kWh over the past year. Russian consumers pay on average $0.04 per kWh.

Russia says it has obtained papers that confirm the United States is moving its “illegal” bioresearch laboratories to Africa. | In February 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry discovered the existence of 30 Pentagon-funded biological research laboratories in Ukraine. Back then, Russia said the laboratories were only a small part of a global network of over 300 similar facilities. ● The Defense Ministry, on Monday, citing documents that had been obtained from the Pentagon, said the US is transferring dual-purpose biological research activities to the Black continent. ● Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who leads the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, said the move is in response to Moscow’s efforts to expose Washington’s illegal military-biological operations. He also cited the worsening “epidemic situation near bio-sites in the European region.” Moscow has repeatedly accused the US of plotting biological warfare against Russia and other countries.

Unelected bureaucrats at the United Nations (UN) are calling for the public to start living in huts made from mud and straw in order to meet the globalist agency’s “Net Zero” goals before the year 2050. | The UN has just released a new report that lays out extreme measures citizens in Western nations will need to endure to comply with the corporate elite’s green agenda. ● To meet the target of reaching “zero carbon emissions” before 2050, as dictated by the UN and the World Economic Forum (WEF), the public will need to significantly slash their quality of life and begin to align with the globalist vision of collectivism. ● The UN insists that traditionally built homes are no longer acceptable and people will need to start living in huts made from building materials consisting of mud bricks, bamboo, and forest “detritus.” ● According to the UN, the world needs to switch to “regenerative material practices.” These practices involve using “ethically produced” low-carbon earth and bio-based building materials. Examples include mud bricks, timber, bamboo, and agricultural and forest detritus. The report harks back to the middle of the last century when the vast majority of cultures built large buildings and cities out of indigenous earthen, stone, and bio-based materials, including timber, cane, thatch, and bamboo. Contrasting modern concrete, steel, and glass buildings, the United Nations asserts that “massive mud buildings have been maintained for centuries with their structures intact.” ● The UN lays out the plans in a recently published report titled “Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future.” The report draws on a wide variety of international authors. The UN worked alongside Yale University and the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GABC) to prepare the report. GABC received financial funding from the green activist Laudes Foundation and the British Government.

Gaza should be “flattened” with nuclear-capable missiles, a member of the Knesset from the ruling party has stated | Israel should use Jericho missiles to “level” Gaza “without mercy” after the weekend’s attacks by Hamas, lawmaker Revital Gotliv has said. Gotliv is a member of the Knesset from the ranks of Likud, the party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [...] Hamas, a Palestinian militant group which controls much of Gaza, launched ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ on Saturday, firing rockets and sending commandos deep into Israeli territory. The Israel Defense Force responded by bombing Gaza and turning off all of its utilities. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Israeli authorities recorded at least 900 killed and 2,600 injured. Meanwhile, the Palestinian authorities in Gaza have counted at least 830 dead and another 4,250 wounded since the outbreak of hostilities.

■ Israel bombs residential areas in Gaza for 5th day in a row (PressTV)

David Livingstone | Israel Created Hamas to Avoid Peace | Israel does not want peace. Israel created Hamas as a pretext to wage war on the Palestinians. Israel does not want peace. They want all of Palestine, and their belligerent settlement practices confirm that. But the Israelis are posturing as being willing to talk "peace", only to actually stall that peace process, so as to advance the further colonization of Palestine. Hamas' rockets are mere peashooters compared to Israel's air force but they provide another excuse for ethnic cleansing. 💬 "The masses are naive and fail to suspect the Machiavellian extremes that certain leaders will resort to. This includes creating a false enemy, in this case, Hamas, whereby the right-wing leadership of the Israelis can point the finger at some "enemy" to blame for supposedly stalling the process."

The allegations are “complete nonsense,” Israel’s ambassador in Moscow has said | Israel does not believe that Russia was in any way connected to last week’s Hamas attack, the country’s ambassador to Moscow, Alexander Ben Zvi, said in an interview with Kommersant on Wednesday. ● Ben Zvi was asked to comment on allegations against Russia on social media and by a number of news outlets that it may have been involved in the attack and that the situation in Gaza is beneficial to Moscow, as it supposedly draws Washington’s attention away from Ukraine. ● The ambassador responded by calling the allegations “complete nonsense.”

Dmitry Medvedev (Дмитрий Медведев) (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) | Zelensky said that Russia is behind Hamas. | It is pointless to talk to drug addicts in the language of reason, to urge them to turn on their brains. They do not have one, they have burned it out under the influence of coke. ● Therefore, we should answer this way: ISIS (Islamic State - an organization banned in Russia) is a traditional partner of the Ukrainian regime, carrying out its terrorist tasks all over the planet. The Ukrainian authorities recognize the closeness of the positions of the Bandera ideology and the ideology of ISIS. ● ISIS regularly receives large sponsorships from the Zelensky clique, as well as a variety of weapons stolen by Ukronazis from NATO supplies. ISIS members have secret accounts in Ukrainian banks and secretly buy Ukrainian real estate.(Translation: DeepL.com)

Jane Goodall thinks the world would be better if the population were reduced by 90%.

Why would she say this? pic.twitter.com/iAMXpDmVgd

— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) September 30, 2023

WEF Member: 90% Population Reduction Would Solve Globalists’ ‘Problems’ | A World Economic Forum (WEF) member told her fellow globalists that all of their “problems” would be solved if the Earth’s population was 90 percent smaller than it is today. ● English primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, who the WEF lists as one of its “agenda contributors,” made the statement during a panel discussion at the organization’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland. ● Goodall’s comments have gathered renewed attention after a clip of her statement at the summit was recently shared on Twitter/X. ● During the panel discussion, participants were discussing the hurdles they face with ushering in the WEF’s agenda to a non-compliant public. They complained about the pushback to unpopular policies for fighting “climate change” and ending capitalism.

■ Declaration of a Planetary Emergency to begin "the long term reduction of global population"

Chris Hedges | The collective retribution against innocents is a familiar tactic employed by colonial rulers. | The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier. Israel has spoken this blood-soaked language of violence to the Palestinians since Zionist militias seized more than 78 percent of historic Palestine, destroyed some 530 Palestinian villages and cities and killed about 15,000 Palestinians in more than 70 massacres. Some 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed between 1947 and 1949 to create the state of Israel in 1948. ● Israel’s response to these armed incursions will be a genocidal assault on Gaza. Israel will kill dozens of Palestinians for every Israeli killed. Hundreds of Palestinians have already died in Israel air assaults since the launch of “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” on Saturday morning, which left 700 Israelis dead. ● Prime Minister Netanyahu warned Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday to “leave now,” because Israel is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble.” But where are Palestinians in Gaza supposed to go? Israel and Egypt blockade the land borders. There is no exit by air or sea, which are controlled by Israel.

■ Israeli Lawmaker Says ‘Pogroms’ Against Palestinians Provoked Hamas Assault (antiwar.com)

The European Commission has backtracked after Israel announced a “siege” of Gaza | The European Union will not suspend aid payments to the Palestinian Authority, its foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday evening, contradicting an earlier announcement by Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi. [...] Varhelyi’s announcement came two days into clashes between the Palestinian militant movement Hamas and the Israeli military, which has claimed hundreds of lives on both sides. Shortly afterward, however, Israel ordered a “complete siege” of Gaza, cutting off the supply of water, food and electricity to more than 2 million Palestinians in the territory.

■ Some Israeli actions ‘against international law’ – EU (RT.com) - Denying Gaza water, food and electricity is not appropriate, Josep Borrell has said [...] and called for Israel to respect international law and not block the delivery of food, water or electricity to the civilian population of Gaza.

New footage from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…pic.twitter.com/bOxiIvjNib

— Elon Musk (Parody) (@ElonMuskAOC) October 9, 2023

On October 7, Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory, firing a barrage of rockets and catching the IDF (Israeli Army) off guard. Israeli government launched Operation Swords of Iron and invoked Article 40 of the Basic Law which de facto implies a declaration of war. | The Palestinian Hamas movement has achieved the goals of its operation in Israel and now it is open to any discussions, a member of the movement's political bureau, Mousa Abu Marzouq, said on Tuesday. 💬 "We have achieved our goals...We are open to any discussions and political dialogue," Abu Marzouq told the regional broadcaster, adding that the movement is "not closed to negotiations." Russia has called for a ceasefire and immediate peace talks while stressing that the roots of the conflict must be understood. According to the latest available data, the death toll from hostilities has risen to over 700 among Palestinians and roughly 1100 Israelis, with thousands of wounded from both sides.

■ Dozens Of Palestinians Killed In Ongoing Israeli Bombing Of Gaza, Monday (IMEMC.org)
■ Gaza under Attack: Civilian Objects Targeted (PCHR.org)
■ Israeli Soldiers Abduct 40 Palestinians In West Bank (IMEMC.org)

Jonathan Ofir (February 8, 2016)| An open letter to my fellow Israelis | [...] I have to tell you first that our evaluation of Israeli history omits so much atrocity from our side. Indeed, much of it is still classified – even back to 1948. Yes, you may have heard about the Deir Yassin massacre, it is often taught in school books, yet portrayed as an aberration, perpetrated by “extremist” and “rogue” factions before the Declaration of Independence (although the leaders of those extremist factions became our Prime Ministers). But what of the dozens of other massacres perpetrated by – us – in 1948, indeed by the very IDF? Have you read about Al Dawayima, which was apparently worse than Deir Yassin? [...] When you sum up the systematic mass executions, the many gang-rape cases (which have been slow to be uncovered, because they involve shame on both fronts), the crushing of children’s skulls with sticks, the ripping out of fetuses from their mothers’ wombs – all, and many more, perpetrated by “us”, the “good guys”, the “cultured elite” – often in situations which presented no danger, just out of pure gratuitous sadism and hate for the “Arabs” – then you may begin to realise, that Israel is not in a war of survival, a war of an elite and advanced culture in a “bad neighborhood” of backwards Arab sub-culture. ● Let me put it out there, clearly and directly: We have been acting like animals, with barbarism of a degree which indeed could be, and should be, and has been, compared to those whom we love to hate – the Nazis – whose cruelty is supposed to exonerate ours. As Golda Meir told MK Shulamit Aloni: “After the Holocaust, Jews are allowed to do anything.” NO. Damn well not.

Caitlin Johnstone | The problem with oppressing a population with maximum force is that at some point they start figuring they’ve got nothing to lose by fighting back. | The coming days are going to be full of Western news media slyly reversing the aggressor-defender relationship and reporting as though all the violence began with the Hamas offensive, spontaneously out of nowhere. ● Do I think this latest uprising will end in more positive results than negative for Palestinians? No. Does that mean I’ll condemn the Palestinian resistance for fighting back? Also no. ● This is because doing so would be nonsensical, for a couple of different reasons. Firstly, because nobody can tell me what the Palestinians should do instead that is both realistic and reasonable. It would be easy for me to sit here in my armchair and say the Palestinians should either maintain the status quo or lie down, relinquish their homes and homeland and accept whatever table scraps they’re able to get, but we can see from the Palestinian perspective that that’s not reasonable. It would be easy for me to sit in my armchair and argue that Palestinians should just focus on securing a one-state or two-state solution, but we can see from the Israeli political landscape that that’s not realistic. ● So what else can they do? What reasonable and realistic options do they have? No one can provide me with a satisfactory answer.

■ Israeli Lawmaker Says ‘Pogroms’ Against Palestinians Provoked Hamas Assault (antiwar.com)
■ Egypt Claims It Warned Israel Of Upcoming Attack (Moon of Alabama)
■ The Top Takeaways From Hamas’ Sneak Attack On Israel (Andrew Korybko)

This post offers an account of pivotal events in the history of Israel/Palestine from 1947 to the present through the reflections of a number of informed and articulate commentators. — Vincent Di Stefano   WEBAMP Sound

Two days after Christmas in 2008, the isolated and densely populated city of Gaza was visited by volley upon volley of deadly missile and mortar fire. The intense bombardment of what has been described by the United Nations Development Programme as "one of the most densely populated places on earth" continued unabated for a period of three weeks. By the end of the assault, over 1,400 Palestinians had been killed and more than 5,000 wounded, many seriously. Between three and four hundred of the dead were children. A total of 13 Israelis were killed during the same time, four of them by the action of their own troops. This post offers a fifth-anniversary commemoration of this tragic and highly destructive assault which commenced on the 27th of December 2008 and ended on the 18th January 2009. It offers an account of pivotal events in the history of Israel/Palestine from 1947 to the present through the reflections of a number of informed and articulate commentators.

The Voices
Chris Hedges (New York Society for Ethical Culture, January 2009)
Richard Falk (Middle East Monitor Conference, London, Dec. 2010)
Sara Roy (University of Sydney, Ideas, October 2008)
Tanya Reinhart (University of Sydney, Ideas, October 2006)
Mustafa Barghouti (TUC Radio, March 2004)
Edward Said (U. of California, Berkeley, March 2003)
David Ben-Gurion (June 1947, Talking History Archive, Dec. 2004)
Ilan Pappe (University of Bern, Switzerland, November 2012)
Robert Fisk (Interview with Cindy Sheehan, September 2010)
Eyal Weizman (KPFA, Against the Grain, April 2009)
Mads Gilbert (Unusual Sources, January 2010; Muslim Perspectives, January 2010; Sounds of Dissent, Nov. 2012)

The Poetry
Suheir Hammad. Gaza Suite. 1: Gaza
Vincent Di Stefano. Careful Now (Excerpt). Music composed and performed by Nico Di Stefano

The Music
Gilad Atzmon and Orient House Ensemble. Dal'Ouna on the Return
Rim Banna. The Wall
Yggdrasil. Al Dabaran
Sirocco. Nomads
The Ida Raichel Project. Azini (Comfort me)
Digital Samsara. C#
Jocelyn Pook. Migrations
Steve Kahn and Rob Mounsey. I See a Long Journey
The Herd. Kids Learn Quick
Digital Samsara. 7am
Outlandish and Sami Jusuf. Try not to Cry

Produced by Vincent Di Stefano (LINK)

Andrew Korybko | Everything that’s happened thus far has been eye-opening for everyone | Hamas launched an unprecedented sneak attack on Israel over the weekend that completely caught the self-professed Jewish State by surprise after all its security systems unexpectedly failed at the same time. The border wall was breached, some military bases were captured, and dozens of hostages were taken back to Gaza. Israel responded by launching airstrikes inside the strip and preparing a ground operation. Here are the top ten takeaways from everything that’s happened thus far in the latest Israeli-Hamas war. ● Everything that’s happened thus far has been eye-opening for everyone. The reputation of Israel’s security services has been shattered, Hamas’ has never been better in the eyes of most non-Western observers, and many among the latter finally learned that neither Russia nor China favor Palestine. Should the latest conflict become protracted, let alone expand into a regional one, then there’s a real possibility that the US will freeze the Ukrainian Conflict in order to redirect finite military aid to Israel.

🚨 JUST IN: The UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine: "We are horrified by what is happening and we call for a truce."

Source: Al Jazeera

Video: Gaza under intense bombing. pic.twitter.com/Xaj4Wwires

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 9, 2023

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday he has ordered the Ford carrier strike group to sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to be ready to assist Israel after the attack by Hamas that has left more than 1,000 dead on both sides. Americans were reported to be among those killed and missing. | The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, and its approximately 5,000 sailors and deck of warplanes will be accompanied by cruisers and destroyers in a show of force that is meant to be ready to respond to anything, from possibly interdicting additional weapons from reaching Hamas and conducting surveillance. ● The large deployment reflects a U.S. desire to deter any regional expansion of the conflict. But the Israeli government formally declared war Sunday and gave the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas.

■ US Officials Expect Israel to Launch Ground Invasion of Another Charnel house In Gaza (antiwar.com)

Hostilities have been raging around the Gaza Strip for the third day with the death toll reportedly rising over one thousand from both sides of the conflict. | Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold an urgent meeting with the Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit in Moscow on Monday in order to discuss the escalation around the Gaza Strip and a possible solution for the crisis. ● On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas fired a barrage of rockets toward Israeli territory and infiltrated it by land, sea and even paragliders, catching IDF (Israeli Army) off guard. The surprise move aimed "to liberate Palestinian lands" met support in several Middle Eastern countries while others cautioned to exercise restraint and urged for immediate ceasefire. ● The Israeli government launched Operation Swords of Iron in order to expulse Hamas and invoked Article 40 of the Basic Law which de facto implies a declaration of war.

■ Palestinian resistance launches surprise attack on Israel (live updates) (If Americans Knew)
■ Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Sept. 27 - Oct. 04 2023) (PCHR.org)
■ Abu Obeida: We captured a new group of Israeli soldiers (Pal-Info)
■ Calls for mass confrontation across West Bank (Pal-Info)
■ Israel was warned ‘something big’ could happen – AP (RT.com)
■ And What Rough Beast Slouches Towards Gaza? - Operation Cast Lead and the Dismembering of a People

Senator warns of 'very serious criminal penalties' ahead of a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney in response to Israel conflict. | The shadow home affairs minister has issued a firm warning to anyone planning to attend pro-Palestine rallies in Sydney that "very serious criminal penalties" can apply for associating with "terrorist organizations" [resistance organizations] like Hamas and Hezbollah. ● Liberal Senator James Paterson has issued a firm warning to Australians ahead of a pro-Palestine rally planned in Sydney on Monday night, following a mass incursion of Hamas militants on Israel. ● There are reports that more than 100 Israelis have been taken hostage by the terrorist group, which controls the Gaza Strip, as Israel continues its major counter-offensive to regain control. ● The attack on Israel has sparked a number of protests around the world, including a pro-Palestine rally at Sydney's Lakemba Station on Sunday night.  ●  It is understood another rally has been advertised on social media which is due to be held at Sydney Town Hall on Monday evening.

Dmitry Medvedev | Well, NATO friends, have you had enough? | The weapons handed over to the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine are being actively used in Israel. ●  Further, like the weapons left by the fugitive Americans in Afghanistan, they will be used uncontrollably in all hot spots. After all, even before, the corrupt Ukrainian authorities traded everything they got. They stole gas oil, food, and materials. They stole everything that was lying around. ● It will only get worse. Wait on the black market for missiles, tanks, and soon airplanes from Kyiv.

■ Are Hamas fighters using American weapons meant for Ukraine? (Scott Ritter)
■ Russian MFA points to repeated calls about weapons supplied to Kyiv going to black market (TASS)

Norman Finkelstein | The crocodile tears have begun over Israeli hostages taken by Gaza militants. | The crocodile tears have begun over Israeli hostages taken by Gaza militants. But Israel has held the 2.1 million people of Gaza, including one million children, hostage in one of the most densely populated areas on the planet for nearly 20 years. In fact, Israel was the only country in the world to have legalized hostage-taking. Revered President of the Israeli High Court Aharon Barak held in 1997 that “a detention is legal if it is designed to promote State security, even if the danger to State Security does not emanate from the detainees themselves,” and that “detention ... for the purpose of release of ... captured and missing soldiers is a vital interest to the State.” (The decision wasn’t reversed until 2000.) If the past is any guide, Gaza’s leadership will swap the Israelis for some of the 4,500 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons on alleged “security grounds.” Gaza is only playing by the book written by Israel.

💬 “All the chorus of calumny, which the Party of Order never fail, in their orgies of blood, to raise against their victims, only proves that the bourgeois of our days considers himself the legitimate successor to the baron of old, who thought every weapon in his own hand fair against the plebeian, while in the hands of the plebeian a weapon of any kind constituted in itself a crime.” — Karl Marx, The Civil War in France

■ Gazans Break Out of World's Biggest Concentration Camp (Kevin Barrett)

■ Gazans Break Out of World's Biggest Concentration Camp (Kevin Barrett)

On Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza confirmed that Israeli missiles and shells have killed 370 Palestinians and injured more than 2200. | The Health Ministry [said] that Israeli missiles have killed at least twenty children and many women in Gaza. It stated that the Palestinians located the corpses of a pregnant woman and several children after the army fired missiles at a Palestinian home in central Gaza. ● The army continued the bombing of Gaza, firing dozens of missiles and shells targeting many areas, including homes, residential towers, commercial buildings, infrastructure, mosques, and medical centers. ● The Israeli bombing also targeted Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza and several areas in Gaza City, in addition to Khan Younis and Rafah, leading to massive destruction and additional casualties. At least 20,000 Palestinians fled their homes due to Israeli bombing and took shelter in UNRWA-run schools.

■ 313 Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza (Pal-Info)
■ ‘We Support Palestinians’ Right to Self Defense’: Iran’s President Speaks to Hamas Leaders (Palestine Chronicle)
■ ‘We are completely shocked by the damage’ (RT.com)
■ Israeli repression units storm Negev, Megiddo prisons (Pal-Info)
■ Abu Obeida Tells Netanyahu: ‘Don’t Miscalculate’ (Palestine Chronicle)

Hamas seized several villages in southern Israel, and Tel Aviv has conducted air strikes on Gaza, at least 200 Israelis and 230 Palestinians killed | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “We are at war, this is not an operation,” after Hamas launched thousands of missiles and seized villages near Gaza. The political leader of Hamas said that the ongoing attacks are a response to the Israeli treatment of Palestinians at the al-Aqsa Mosque. ● On Saturday morning, fighters from Hamas invaded villages near Gaza. The group says its fighters used paratroops, ships, and cut through the border fence to conduct the operations. Hamas claims it have captured several Israeli soldiers and villages. ● Human rights groups consider Gaza an “open-air prison.” Most Palestinians living in the region are refugees. Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on the planet, with 2 million people living in 140 sq. miles. Israel severely restricts the amount of food, fuel, and water the people of Gaza can access.

■ 'Huge Mess': What's Known So Far About Hamas-Israel Armed Standoff? (Sputnik News)
■ Hamas claims ‘big number’ of Israeli captives (RT.com)

Iran’s authorities have detained the activist 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison where she remains to this day | The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 has been awarded to Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced. ● According to the committee, Mohammadi receives the award "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all." ● Berit Reiss-Andersen, head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said that the award also recognized the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against Iranian discrimination and oppression of women. According to her, the "Woman-Life-Freedom" slogan adopted by the protesters, reflects Mohammadi’s defiance and work.

One of the world’s leading climate scientists has admitted that the World Economic Forum’s green agenda is actually a scam designed to force the public into accepting globalism. | When Dr. Judith Curry's work gave her worldwide recognition after it was linked to “climate change,” Curry admits that she enjoyed the green agenda ride. “I was adopted by the environmental advocacy groups and the alarmists and I was treated like a rock star,” Curry recounts. [...] But then some researchers pointed out gaps in her research by highlighting the years with low levels of hurricanes. “Like a good scientist, I investigated,” says Curry. “Part of it was bad data,” she admitted. “Part of it is natural climate variability.” Curry says that she decided to speak out after her own work was exposed. [...] Her own experience made Curry realize that there is a “climate-change industry” set up to reward alarmism. “The origins go back to the . . . UN environmental program,” says Curry. Some United Nations officials were motivated by “anti-capitalism,” she revealed. “They hated the oil companies and seized on the climate change issue to move their policies along,” Curry explains.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the 20th anniversary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. This year, the meeting’s theme was “Fair multipolarity: How to ensure security and development for everyone.” Read the full text of Putin's speech below. | Participants in the plenary session! Colleagues! Ladies and gentlemen! ● I am glad to welcome you all in Sochi at the anniversary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The moderator has already mentioned that this is the 20th annual meeting. ● In keeping with its traditions, our, or should I say your forum, has brought together political leaders and researchers, experts and civil society activists from many countries around the world, once again reaffirming its high status as a relevant intellectual platform. The Valdai discussions invariably reflect the most important global political processes in the 21st century in their entirety and complexity. I am certain that this will also be the case today, as it probably was in the preceding days when you debated with each other. It will also stay this way moving forward because our objective is basically to build a new world. And it is at these decisive stages that you, my colleagues, have an extremely important role to play and bear special responsibility as intel-lectuals. ● Over the years of the club’s work, both Russia and the world have seen drastic, and even dramatic, colossal changes. Twenty years is not a long period by historical standards, but during eras when the entire world order is crumbling, time seems to shrink.

■ Putin outlines desired principles of international relations (RT.com)
■ Putin weighs in on Canadian parliament Nazi scandal (RT.com)

Zelensky’s wife reportedly spent $1,100,000 on a shopping trip in NYC while visiting the United States together with her husband to shore up continued support from Washington. | During the visit, Zelensky gave his first in-person address to the UN General Assembly, met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and also visited the White house. While Zelensky was blitzing Washington in urgent effort to bolster support for Ukraine, his wife Olena Zelenska was spotted on Fifth Avenue in NYC. [...] According to information collected by Boukari Ouédraogo from the Cartier store ex-employee, Olena Zelenska visited the boutique during her and her husband’s visit to New York. “I tried to take her on a quick tour, but she wasn’t interested,” the ex-employee further recalls. ● Zelenska’s visit to the luxury boutique ended up in a very unexpected manner as she snapped at the employee who was trying to assist her with a “Who said I need your opinion?” rant. ● After that, according to the boutique ex-worker, Zelenska had a talk with the manager. The ex-worker has no idea what the discussion was about but the next day she got fired from the boutique.  ● After receiving a “you’re fired” call the next day after Zelenska’s visit, the ex-employee decided to share her story about the bizarre encounter on the Instagram. She has managed to sneak away a copy of a receipt containing Zelenska’s purchases while packing her personal belongings at the boutique. ● Thanks to Olena Zelenska’s aggressive behavior, her shopping habits went public again. Yes, it’s not the first time the wife of the Ukrainian president was spotted flashing cash in some luxury stores. (H/T: steigan.no)

Israeli forces have opened fire on a vehicle near the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, killing two Palestinian youths. | The victims, identified as Hudhayfah Fares and Abd al-Rahman Atta, were shot dead after Israeli troops targeted their car near the village of Shufah, south of Tulkarm in the northwestern part of West Bank, on Thursday. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of Atta, 23, and Fares, 27, saying they were killed during confrontations with the occupying regime’s forces, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported. The two slain Palestinians were from the Tulkarm camp and lived in the suburb of Dhanaba, east of the city. Violent clashes erupted in the Tulkarm refugee camp after Israeli forces invaded it, and fired live rounds, stun grenades and teargas canisters towards Palestinians.

Jeffrey D. Sachs | The American people urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine and its current prospects. Unfortunately, the mainstream media ––The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, MSNBC, and CNN –– have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating US President Joe Biden’s lies and hiding history from the public. | Biden is again denigrating Russian President Vladimir Putin, this time accusing Putin of a “craven lust for land and power,” after declaring last year that “For God’s sake, that man [Putin] cannot stay in power.” Yet Biden is the one who is trapping Ukraine in an open-ended war by continuing to push NATO enlargement to Ukraine. He is afraid to tell the truth to the American and Ukrainian people, rejecting diplomacy, and opting instead for perpetual war. ● Expanding NATO to Ukraine, which Biden has long promoted, is a U.S. gambit that has failed. The neocons, including Biden, thought from the late 1990s onward that the US could expand NATO to Ukraine (and Georgia) despite Russia’s vociferous and long-standing opposition. They didn’t believe that Putin would actually go to war over NATO expansion.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova | Germany: The Rehabilitation of Nazism is in Full Swing | The "Collective West" does not intend to abandon the goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia, as they formulate it. There are calls in the German Bundestag to transfer Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv as soon as possible. This was stated by the Chairman of the Defense Committee Marie-Agnes Stark-Zimmermann. She emphasized that she considers potential strikes by the AFU against Russian territory with these missiles justified.

■ Such a statement, drenched in Russophobia and revanchism, shows that Berlin has not yet realized what their thoughtless pumping of arms of the criminal Kyiv regime can lead to. ■ In addition, the other day, responding to an opposition party's request for a public assessment of the activities of the SS division "Galicia", which during the Great Patriotic War included Ukrainian OUN-UPA fighters, the FRG government said that it was not ready to call the Banderites anti-Semites and Nazis in general.

■ I have the same question for Marie-Agnes Stark-Zimmermann. 👉 How does she feel about the SS division "Galicia"? It's so easy to answer this uncomplicated question. We'll all understand why she advocates continuing to pump the Kyiv regime full of weapons and considers potential AFU strikes on Russian territory justified. How? After all, it will not be difficult to answer the question about the attitude of the SS division "Galicia" and OUN-UPA in general.

■ What does all that I have given in the form of direct quotations and facts tell us? That it seems that the German leadership has forgotten the lessons of history, although, it would seem, it should have remembered them better than others, to be more sensitive and intolerant to any manifestations of hateful ideology, wherever it may occur.

■ But we see the opposite. Berlin denies the generally recognized fact of cooperation of Ukrainian nationalists with Hitler's Third Reich. ❗️ Hence the logical conclusion: in today's Germany, the rehabilitation of Nazism is in full swing. (T:DeepL.com)