Israel is in the process of erecting a new 13-mile-long separation fence in the Jordan Valley. The wall will isolate Palestinian villages and cut off farmers from their land. | According to Haaretz, the IDF is in the advanced stage of building the barrier. Last month, Israel informed several Palestinian families that their land in the southern Jordan Valley would be seized, and they must destroy any structures on the property.  ● The outlet notes that the new fence will significantly restrict Palestinians’ freedom of movement throughout the Jordan Valley. The wall will cut shepherds off from grazing areas. Additionally, the wall will include roads for the IDF and embankments. The total land seized is about 270 acres. ● Israel has already erected over 400 miles of separation barriers across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The walls wind between Palestinian cities and Israeli settlements, creating significant restrictions on Palestinians’ ability to move within the West Bank. ● Palestinians who need to cross the barriers are forced to cross checkpoints manned by Israeli soldiers. The Palestinians are frequently humiliated, harassed, and killed at the checkpoints. ● Human rights groups and international bodies have criticized the separation walls for harming the Palestinian economy, dividing communities, and creating the conditions for Israel to annex the West Bank.

✅ Israel adopting apartheid Bantustan model for Palestinians (Wayne Madsen) (01/11/13)

The manufactured "scientific consensus" | For years, questions surrounding the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) have been met with censorship, propaganda and outright deception from top U.S. health officials. Now, damning evidence confirms what many have long suspected: Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), engaged in a deliberate cover-up to suppress the Wuhan lab-leak theory—despite privately acknowledging its plausibility.

■ Fauci involved in ‘massive’ COVID-19 origins cover-up, FDA chief Marty Makary tells ‘Pod Force One’ (New York Post)
■ Fauci’s Lies Are Catching up with Him (Brownstone) (January 2024)

The tech mogul lashed out at the “bureaucratic monster” after his platform X was slapped with a huge fine | US-based tech billionaire Elon Musk has called for the dissolution of the European Union after the bloc fined his social media platform X. ● On Friday, the European Commission fined X €120 million ($163 million) for “breaching its transparency obligations” under the 2022 Digital Services Act, which sets standards for accountability and content moderation. The ruling called the platform’s blue checkmark system ‘deceptive’ and accused it of weak advertising transparency and failing to provide required data access. ● In a series of posts on Saturday, Musk, who often accuses Brussels of imposing excessive regulations, argued that “EU bureaucracy is slowly smothering Europe to death.”

Musk, who also owns Tesla and SpaceX, has previously described the EU as a “giant cathedral to bureaucracy,” arguing that over-regulation suppresses innovation. ● US Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized the ruling as “an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.” US Vice President J.D. Vance said the EU had targeted X for “not engaging in censorship.”