On Wednesday, February 14th a highly controversial law was pushed through the National Assembly in France.
The new law would potentially turn a critic of mRNA gene therapy treatments into a criminal.
B. Kalman: This is an article containing and about the Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz. It contains Sundance’s perspective on the changes being made to the internet in the US by the US national security surveillance state. The changes are happening now, but may seem invisible at first. It’s important to know what we are facing.
By Sundance, CTH 16 February 2024
The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. “What I’m describing is military rule,” says Mike Benz. “It’s the inversion of democracy.”
CTH readers have discussed this issue for several years. What Benz describes in the video below is the reality of what systems and tech architecture are in place right now. The big picture of who wants control over the domestic internet apparatus and how. WATCH:
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR 16 February 2024
The Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. It also covers events and trends that affect the stability and decision-making of the Iranian regime. The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) provides these updates regularly based on regional events. For more on developments in Iran and the region, see our interactive map of Iran and the Middle East.
by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE • February 17, 2024
Protesters and members of Iranian paramilitary’s Basij forces march next to the fourth generation Khorramshahr ballistic missile Khaibar in Tehran on November 24, 2023. (Photo by Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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Despite Iran’s continued aggression, many in Washington—including President Joe Biden—still believe that the United States needs to appease the Islamic Republic to de?escalate the situation.
At the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Director Michael Doran engaged in an open debate with CFR’s Ray Takeyh and the Stimson Center’s Barbara Slavin on Biden’s failed Iran diplomacy, the prospect of a nuclear Iran, and the threat Tehran poses to the global order. Excerpts from Doran’s answers are below.
Kedar discusses the threats of potential Iranian militia attacks from Jordan and Syria.
IDSF Webinar, February 14, 2024
Peloni: As the US comes to wage economic war upon its allies as well as its enemies, it would only serve to increase the already disparaging view of allegiance to the US dollar. I would argue that even the report that such sanctions were being considered against Israel will have a detrimental effect upon the already frayed trust in the American monetary system, just as I would also argue that this will likely not be the end of the US consideration of this policy in the coming months.
The Biden admin is desperate to stop Israel’s campaign against Hamas.
by Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine February 16, 2024
The Biden administration has a plan for the Hamas-Israel war. It’s the same plan that past administrations have unleashed on Israel. Pressure Netanyahu or whoever is in office into ignoring voters and conservative members of his coalition, push him into making a deal with the Islamic terrorists, and go back to advocating for a terrorist state. The problem is that things fundamentally changed in Israel on Oct 7 even if they didn’t change in D.C.
By Victor Sharpe, RENEW AMERICA February 15, 2024
‘‘The Gaza War was notable for the horrible scenes that erupted in European and British streets. Who can forget the sight of British bobbies running for their lives in London as pro-Hamas mobs chased them with impunity.’’
The above words might as well be describing what has been happening in British, European and American cities since the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israeli men women and children occurred on that horrific day of October 7, 2023. But no, it refers to an earlier day in February 2009, fifteen years ago.
Francisco Gil-White, The Management of Reality Substack Feb 16, 2024
Once thought to be the mask of Sargon of Akkad, this is now believed to be, on stylistic grounds, the mask of Naram-Sin, his grandson. Credit: Wikimedia.
Imagine that history class were like plunging into the millennia-spanning, action-packed, multi-novel adventure worlds of Frank Herbert (Dune), Isaac Asimov (Foundation), or J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings). No child would ever get bored!
So why are teachers boring them?
I ask because the political history of Western Asia—which includes Europe—does have that fantasy/science-fiction structure: it’s been a 4,300-year clash between two great ideological forces.
B. Kalman: This interview by Tucker Carlson of Mike Benz will give you a granular, detailed description of how the US National Security State has been the primary driver of censorship. It began with US efforts to use social media to overthrow other governments. But with Trump’s election, the national security state realized that they no longer controlled the media and thus they no longer controlled the message. Enter a kind of censorship which has all but ended freedom of speech and association in the US and the western world, because in their view, it was an issue of “national security” to stop the growth of populist/dissident movements in the US and America. The interview is startling in its encyclopedic completeness.
By Tucker Carlson, X 16 February 2024
Ep. 75 The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy." pic.twitter.com/hDTEjAf89T
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 16, 2024
Peloni: The UN is an entirely antisemitic organization, whose specific animus against the Jewish State seems to never fail to demonstrate that animus. In fact, the UN is entirely aligned with Hamas against Israel in this war, as it has been aligned against Israel since Israel disappointed the world by not being consumed in the War of Independence.
Israeli officials blast UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, who claimed in TV interview that Hamas is a “political movement” and not a terrorist group.
Elad Benari, INN Feb 16, 2024
A United Nations official came under fire from Israel on Thursday, after he claimed in a TV interview that “Hamas is not a terrorist group for us”.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, spoke to Sky News on Wednesday and, when asked whether he thought Israel’s plan to eliminate Hamas was realistic, replied, “I think it’s very difficult. I’ve worked with many many many different terrorist and insurgent groups. Hamas is not a terrorist group for us. It’s a political movement.”
Lebanon is being held hostage by Hezbollah and Iran. The country’s plight is stark. It’s trapped in the clutches of Hezbollah, a pawn in Iran’s regional power play. As Hezbollah’s dominance metastasizes, Lebanon now finds itself at a crossroads. The time has come for decisive action to extricate the country from the grip of extremism.
Lebanon is under the control of Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy that obstructs Lebanese politics and is more powerful than the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). Thanks to Iran and Hezbollah, Lebanon has become a failed state.
The two-state conceptzia, like other fatal errors in Israel’s history, relies on the delusion that there is a willingness to live in peace with Israel as a Jewish State. Intafadas and multiple Gaza Wars do not deter Israelis who stand by the two-state conceptzia.
We have been in Israel for several weeks hoping to help in various ways and to possibly see our grandson who has been in Gaza from day one. Invariably in almost every conversation with Israelis and others the term conceptzia (?????????) has arisen with different definitions.
More often than not it is used to lambast Netanyahu and his team for the abject failures of October 7. Others use it to describe the failures of military intelligence and command general staff. No clear consensus.
How the U.S. blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon
“… Promise was that I
Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver;
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him
Eyeless in Gaza …”
—John Milton, Samson Agonistes
It will be a while before we’re able to piece together a more complete picture of how Israel, despite its vaunted intelligence-gathering capabilities, was blindsided by the massive Hamas terrorist onslaught on Oct. 7, which led to the biggest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. After the current Israeli operation in Gaza concludes, there will be inquiries, official and unofficial, in Israel and beyond, about what contributed to this intelligence failure. Where was Israel blinded, and how?
Security commentator Alon Ben-David says IDF encountering exhausted terrorists who surrender after not hearing from their commanders for weeks. ‘This is what a collapsing military looks like.’
Senior Channel 13 News security commentator Alon Ben-David stated that people should not believe the shows of confidence put on by the Hamas terrorist organization, as Hamas is on the verge of collapse and its members are running scared.
In a column for Maariv this morning (Friday), Ben David explained that “out of the 24 battalions of Hamas, only 6 battalions remain that function and Hamas also knows that the IDF is within decisive distance of disbanding them as well. Under siege, the remaining commanders are trying to manufacture a semblance of control in the area.”
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Egypt is setting up a huge walled enclosure in the Sinai Desert as part of a contingency plan if there is a mass migration of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
According to the report, which cites Egyptian sources and intelligence analysts, Cairo is “fearful that an Israeli military push further into southern Gaza will set off a flood of refugees.”
A Washington Post article lays out the US’ dangerous plan that will ensure the establishment of a Palestinian terror state and the defeat of Israel.
IDF Col. Hezi Nachman said that there are hundreds of thousands of people in northern Gaza and Hamas rule of the area is returning.
By ,JERUSALEM POST STAFF FEBRUARY 13, 2024 19:45
Hamas is returning to power in northern Gaza, IDF Col. (res.) Hezi Nachman said in an interview with 103FM Tuesday morning, adding that the Israeli military isn’t doing enough to stop it.
Speaking to Ben Caspit and Yinon Magal, Nachman, the former head of the Menashe Brigade, was discussing a letter to the war cabinet he and several other IDF commanders signed calling on Gazans not to be allowed to return home in the North until the hostages come home.
After speaking to Biden, Netanyahu responds to reports that the administration is planning to establish a Palestinian state: Israel will continue to oppose the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.
Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuMarc Israel Sellem/POOL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on Thursday night on reports that the Biden administration and several Arab countries are advancing a plan to establish a Palestinian state.
“At the Cabinet meeting, I clarified my position regarding the recent talk of imposing a Palestinian state on Israel,” Netanyahu said.
“My position is summed up in the following two sentences: 1. Israel rejects outright international dictates regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians. Such a settlement will only be achieved through direct negotiations between the parties, without preconditions,” he added.
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