tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32963693160374018932024-03-19T01:03:46.893-07:00Northwoods Ministry of Truth"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths." Northwoods is a ministry dedicated to refreshing Christians and challenging them to search for the truth in Christianity, politics, sociology, and scienceGary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.comBlogger5129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-88250541367818921452024-03-18T18:55:00.004-07:002024-03-18T18:55:50.529-07:00Islamic Insanity > Malmo will be predominently Muslim in 1 Generation; Nurses at Gaza Hospital cheered Hamas for its prisoners<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">U.S.-based Muslim cleric boasts that Muslims</span></h1><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; 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font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Swedish women have never had so few children as in 2023, new data shows. Based on the childbearing gap, Yasir Qadhi, a Pakistani-born American theologian, predicts that in just one generation, <a class="ek-link" href="https://magyarnemzet.hu/kulfold/2024/03/hamarosan-tobbsegbe-kerulnek-a-muszlimok-a-nagyvarosokban" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">half of Malmö’s population will be Muslim</a>.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i><b>“Walking through the streets of Malmö is like walking through Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, or Damascus, the capital of Syria,”</b></i> said Yasir Qadhi, a Pakistani-born American theologian, as reported in the Swedish newspaper Samnytt.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Qadhi, who has a doctorate in theology from Yale University, gave lectures on Islam to young Muslims in Stockholm and Malmö.</b> He says he asked himself during his visit to Malmö whether he was in Sweden, according to a video he posted on YouTube.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">He also shared his theory with the world that the towns he mentioned would become Muslim towns because <b>while Swedes have few children, it is not uncommon for a Muslim family to have five or six. </b>In a generation’s time, Malmö will not be dominated by Swedes, according to the theologian.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">As Remix News <a class="ek-link" href="https://www.rmx.news/sweden/majority-of-malmo-children-are-immigrants-leading-to-call-for-arabic-schools/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">previously reported</a>, <b>ethnic Swedish children are already a minority in the school system of Malmö,</b> with <b>one Swedish academic reacting to the massive demographic transformation known as the Great Replacement by claiming that schools should be taught in Arabic, as Swedish is now a minority language.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Associate professor of social work, Erica Righard, who works at Malmö University, wrote in her report for the Growth Commission, that the demographic changes present <i><b>“new challenges for integration.”</b></i></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47;">Come on, Erica, there is no integration. For Heaven's sake look around! Muslims will never integrate, Swedes will integrate, because they won't have any choice. Your granddaughters will be in hijabs.</span></i></b></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Conservatives in Sweden have long pointed to Malmö as a harbinger of a <a class="ek-link" href="https://www.rmx.news/article/majority-of-swedes-want-to-reduce-immigration-survey/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">future that the majority of Swedes remain opposed to</a>, as the city has completely transformed from nearly all ethnic Swedes into a multicultural area marked by urban decay, <a href="https://www.rmx.news/article/jews-in-malmo-are-fearful-of-migrants-says-swedish-writer-at-the-un/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">no-go zones controlled by migrant clans</a>, and a <a href="https://www.rmx.news/article/video-swedish-woman-randomly-punched-in-the-face-by-migrant-youth/" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Freed hostage: Nurses at Gaza hospital were cheering</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/386718" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Israel National News</a>, March 14, 2024:</i></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><u>Judith Raanan</u></b>, a Chicago-area resident who <b>was kidnapped together with her daughter, <u>Natalie</u>, by Hamas during its October 7 attack on Israel, said her captors were greeted as heroes when she and her daughter arrived at a Gaza hospital.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i><b>“The minute we came in, all the nurses were standing there and going like this [cheering]. They were all so happy that they came back with prey, with Israeli-Jewish prey,” </b></i>Raanan told NewsNation in an interview on Wednesday.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Judith and Natalie Raanan were the first hostages to be freed by Hamas. They were released on October 20, after nearly two weeks in captivity.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">At the hospital, Raanan said she interacted with a man she believed to be a “very high-ranked” Hamas leader who spoke “brilliant Hebrew.”…</span></p></blockquote><p><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">=========================================================================================</b></p></div></div><p><br /></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-61689428053939500382024-03-18T18:25:00.001-07:002024-03-18T18:26:41.769-07:00Bits and Bites from around the World > Deadly Bear attacks in Slovakia<p> </p><div class="container mt-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 3rem !important; max-width: 1170px; padding-left: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); padding-right: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); width: 1170px;"><div class="row" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: calc(var(--bs-gutter-y) * -1);"><div class="col-md-12 col-lg-7 col-lg-mod-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 682.5px;"><h1 class="headline lato bold" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Bear attack leaves one person dead,</span></h1><h1 class="headline lato bold" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">two injured in Slovakia</span></h1><div class="row author-social d-flex align-items-center ta_th" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; align-items: center !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px;"><div class="col-xl-6 col-lg-5 col-md-5 col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 341.25px;"><div class="author lato semi-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #707375; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">By <a href="https://www.upi.com/author/Mark-Moran/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Moran</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1170px; padding-left: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); padding-right: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); width: 1170px;"><div class="row" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: calc(var(--bs-gutter-y) * -1);"><div class="col-md-12 col-lg-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 682.5px;"><div class="slide-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 455px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 658.5px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="Environment Ministry officials in Slovakia are considering asking for fewer protections for bears after a series of attacks on humans. Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA" height="532" src="https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/i/1911710716632/2024/1/17107174431124/Bear-attack-leaves-one-person-dead-two-injured.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 430px; vertical-align: middle; width: 658.5px;" title="Environment Ministry officials in Slovakia are considering asking for fewer protections for bears after a series of attacks on humans. Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA" width="800" /></span></div><div class="stph_caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 15px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Environment Ministry officials in Slovakia are considering asking for fewer protections for bears after a series of attacks on humans. Photo by Luong Thai Linh/EPA</i></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="story_dl" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>March 17 (UPI)</i> --</span> Two people were hospitalized after being attacked by a bear in Slovakia, officials reported Sunday. The Environment Ministry may propose making the animals easier to hunt to reduce their population.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A 49-year-old woman suffered a wound to her shoulder and a 72-year-old man was treated for a gash on his hand <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68591540" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">from the bear</a> in the town of Liptovsky Mikuláš, emergency services said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Police drove the bear out of town, they reported.</span></p><div class="embed-block embed-object" contenteditable="false" readonly="readonly" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><emb style="box-sizing: border-box;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0iWEqSwYSBM" frameborder="0" height="507" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0iWEqSwYSBM" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;" title="Slovakia: Bear filmed during attack in Liptovský Mikuláš" width="901"></iframe></emb><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Videos posted on social media showed the bear bounding along a road, and in one, lunging at a man on the pavement.</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A day prior to the latest attack, <b>a 31-year-old Belarussian woman <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68584139" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">apparently fell to her death</a> trying to escape a brown bear</b> in the nearby Low Tatra mountains.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">She and a male companion had been walking in the thickly forested area when the bear approached them.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The man and woman fled in different directions. A rescue dog found the victim's body shortly after the male hiker called authorities for help.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>There have been several relatively recent bear attacks in Slovakia including a fatal one in 2021.</b> <b>The country had not reported a lethal bear attack in more than a century.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Improved protections in Central and Eastern Europe have meant bears have returned to their natural habitats across the Carpathian mountain range, which stretches from Romania through western Ukraine and to Slovakia and Poland.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The uptick in human-bear interactions has prompted the Environment Ministry to consider calling on the European Union to loosen protections for bears, making it easier to hunt them in an attempt to reduce their numbers and lower the threat of such encounters.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The ministry has said it may revisit the bears' status on the protected species list, arguing their increasing numbers mean they are no longer endangered and can be selectively hunted, culling the herds.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Researchers have argued there has been no sharp increase in Slovakia's bear population, which they say remains stable at around 1,275.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-BzRkpL67Q7g68IFb-eAmA77DEGuASBrnQ6v4g5ck6JZAZxhlkUh70vuLmjt9NFHqVTiNxLJZks20_ENb7BAJEb-nKojsR7LRmumsAx8mykpQ9Eb9QDdqsyt5jkBL2x5OPBaudKQWJUNR9eZBLxAYlXaYFhZTkCPo_FjxBUu8lCUcVdAVCFuTyMHl3wM/s563/Slovakia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; 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font-family: roboto, Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25008px;"><i>WATCH: Joe Scarpelli is joined by Capt. 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Levy, Former Commerical Pilot and Aviation Expert, to discuss recent issues with Boeing airplanes that have raised concerns about reliability and safety</i></span></div></span></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px;"><b>A Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by United Airlines flew Friday with a large part of its exterior missing, </b>according to the airline, marking the latest in a series of malfunctions to plague the manufacturer.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The flight <b>from San Francisco to Oregon landed safely, but upon arrival crews discovered a broken exterior panel on the 25-year-old aircraft.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">According to a statement from United Airlines, <b>no emergency had been declared and the missing piece was not discovered until all 139 passengers and six crew members safely disembarked from the plane.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“We’ll conduct a thorough examination of the plane and perform all the needed repairs before it returns to service,” the airline said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it has launched an investigation into the incident. It marks <b>the seventh reported incident involving a Boeing plane just this week.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Despite travelers’ <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10222453/boeing-alaska-airlines-blowout-public-trust/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">growing fears</a> of flying with Boeing, aviation expert Richard Levy says this latest incident is not a concern.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“The airplane did not just come out of the Boeing factory. It was an older aircraft. The airplane landed safely. Yes, it’s going to be an investigation because of the recent news with Boeing. But as far as safety, this does not concern me whatsoever,” said Levy, who is also a former commercial pilot.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-bottom: 24px;"><figure class="c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--contained c-figure--containedPortrait" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="c-figure__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><div class="c-figure__imageWrapper c-imageContainer" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-height: 500px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img alt="Boeing panel" class="c-figure__image c-imageContainer__image" data-loaded="true" data-sizes="(min-width: 520px) 720px,450px" data-src="https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image.png" data-srcset="https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image.png?w=338 450w,https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image.png 720w," height="500" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 520px) 720px,450px" src="https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image.png" srcset="https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image.png?w=338 450w,https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image.png 720w," style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 500px; left: 320px; max-width: none; opacity: 1; position: absolute; text-align: justify; top: 250px; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%); transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: auto; z-index: 1;" width="375" /><div class="c-imageContainer__bg" data-background="true" data-in-view="true" style="background-image: url("https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image.png"); background-position: 50% center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(8px); height: 500px; left: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: justify; top: 0px; transform: translateZ(0px) scale(2); width: 640px;"></div></div><figcaption class="c-figure__caption c-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-grey-500-200); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><span class="c-caption__desc" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy7K-GurLm4k6ARwoA3mwIXGNO9SuJI1VM5EV6lteXKUr6ikepSErLG-obBTyW_7xVzFBl7l-Ai3gIuqRLpylZ7Dvu8JG8saNmfkI6p1svhl8V1f41E0y4v5RTBtZ2c5gaJf4OrhZKP-5PQ5fMLVrAR1Xb6s6T5G7P6NJ0PvlVJ3n9XNWj1qqSCMwv0co" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="375" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy7K-GurLm4k6ARwoA3mwIXGNO9SuJI1VM5EV6lteXKUr6ikepSErLG-obBTyW_7xVzFBl7l-Ai3gIuqRLpylZ7Dvu8JG8saNmfkI6p1svhl8V1f41E0y4v5RTBtZ2c5gaJf4OrhZKP-5PQ5fMLVrAR1Xb6s6T5G7P6NJ0PvlVJ3n9XNWj1qqSCMwv0co=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="color: var(--theme-color-text-grey-500-200); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">A picture of the underbelly of a United Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft that landed in Oregon with a missing panel Friday. This unverified photo is sourced by the Rogue Valley Times.</i></div></i></span></figcaption></div></figure></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">According to FAA records, the Boeing aircraft Friday was built in late 1998.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Boeing has been facing intense scrutiny over the quality of its aircrafts after an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 was forced to make an emergency landing on Jan. 5, when a panel called a door plug blew out of the side of the plane shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Three passengers who were on board the flight have since <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10335827/alaska-airlines-boeing-lawsuit-1-billion-flight-door-panel-blowout/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">sued the airline and Boeing</a>, claiming the incident was caused by negligence.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Levy notes that the Boeing aircraft used by United Airlines was not a ‘Max’, which is the model associated with the Alaska Airlines incident and most under probe.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</em>Boeing makes great airplanes. We know that Boeing is under the spotlight right now… but would you also believe that Airbus has issues? Not daily, but almost every day,” Levy told Global News.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Airbus is another major aircraft manufacturing company with planes commonly operated by Air Canada.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="0" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_10356776_65f7322e435e4" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="10356776" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10356776/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_10356776_65f7322e435e4" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; 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display: block; height: 360px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 640px;" width="640" /><span class="c-video__overlay" style="align-items: flex-end; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847) 99.91%); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; left: 0px; padding: 16px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 640px;"><div class="c-button c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon c-button--mini" style="align-items: center; border-radius: 2px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: grid; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; gap: 8px; grid-auto-flow: column; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; outline: none; padding: 8px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><svg class="c-icon c-button__icon" focusable="false"></svg></div><div class="c-video__data" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #aeacac; font-family: roboto-mono, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; text-transform: uppercase;">5:33</span></div><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">How will Boeing bounce back after slew of flight incidents?</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Levy says he would have “zero hesitation” flying with his wife on any Boeing model, including the 737, 777, Max 8 or 9.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“I flew these Boeing airplanes 41 years, had a great time flying them, and I had really no engine shutdowns,” Levy said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Since the January incident, Boeing has frequently made headlines for seemingly unrelated safety and quality issues.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Earlier this March, <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10344419/tire-falls-off-boeing-plane-united-cars-crushed-san-francisco/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">a tire fell off a Boeing jetliner</a> shortly after takeoff at San Francisco International Airport, breaking through a fence in a parking lot below and smashing into cars.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Also in January, the nose wheel of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 passenger jet <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10246902/boeing-nose-wheel-falls-off-delta-flight-atlanta/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">fell off and rolled away</a> as the aircraft waited on the runway for takeoff clearance at Georgia’s Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">On Monday, at least 50 people were injured after a <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10351147/boeing-dreamliner-strong-movement/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner dropped abruptly</a> in what LATAM Airlines described as a “strong movement” mid-air.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The FAA launched an investigation into Boeing in March 2023, almost a year before the Alaska Airlines incident, following fatal crashes of Boeing 787 MAX-8 planes flown by Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines in 2018.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="1" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_10344732_65f7322e44435" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="10344732" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10344732/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_10344732_65f7322e44435" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; 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display: block; height: 360px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 640px;" width="640" /><span class="c-video__overlay" style="align-items: flex-end; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847) 99.91%); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; left: 0px; padding: 16px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 640px;"><div class="c-button c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon c-button--mini" style="align-items: center; border-radius: 2px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: grid; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; gap: 8px; grid-auto-flow: column; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; outline: none; padding: 8px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><svg class="c-icon c-button__icon" focusable="false"></svg></div><div class="c-video__data" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #aeacac; font-family: roboto-mono, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; text-transform: uppercase;">1:35</span></div><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">United Airlines Boeing 777 plane loses tire during takeoff in San Francisco</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The report concluded in February that Boeing is <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10320588/faa-report-slams-boeing-safety/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">not as committed to safety as it says it is</a>. It said the FAA “observed documentation, survey responses, and employee interviews that did not provide objective evidence of a foundational commitment to safety that matched Boeing’s descriptions of that objective.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A few weeks early, FAA head Michael Whitaker told told U.S. lawmakers that Boeing’s oversight system “is not working.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“I certainly agree the current system is not working because it’s not delivering safe aircraft, so we have to make changes to that,” he said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Regarding the most recent incident Friday, Levy says the public shouldn’t hesitate to travel on a Boeing aircraft.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“Boeing will be producing more and more airplanes that are going to be good airplanes, safe airplanes,” he said.</span></p></article></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhT6gtMeVDVyMNNYxZw2JQuioNL4YFotWI75T2-uYhrklxGT4dFn3FWObhtn3yophNyFs4L5-l1hk3sByQoQ4CPkoKFUvmu3s60OYq4CciYJ9I2Z9y862i2yrey6G513TYxh3nJRi-DlsB7IN4GUkvX0EF9ERnSI2yG0V8KI35uMpLAU1Qhvr27iExiOTE" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="691" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhT6gtMeVDVyMNNYxZw2JQuioNL4YFotWI75T2-uYhrklxGT4dFn3FWObhtn3yophNyFs4L5-l1hk3sByQoQ4CPkoKFUvmu3s60OYq4CciYJ9I2Z9y862i2yrey6G513TYxh3nJRi-DlsB7IN4GUkvX0EF9ERnSI2yG0V8KI35uMpLAU1Qhvr27iExiOTE=w640-h414" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><br /><p></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-79674438495218008262024-03-17T11:33:00.000-07:002024-03-17T11:33:36.367-07:00Islamic Insanity in Europe > Teen Criminal Gang aspires to do Jihad in Austria; 17 y/o female jihadist completely insane; Tyrol - “In my country you would already be dead”<p> </p><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">‘Protection money gang’ tyrannized Vienna-Meidling and wanted to ‘do jihad’</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">translated from “„Schutzgeld-Bande“ tyrannisierte Wien-Meidling und wollte, Dschihad machen,“” <a href="https://exxpress.at/schutzgeld-bande-tyrannisierte-wien-meidling-und-wollte-dschihad-machen/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Exxpress</a>, March 16, 2024:</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Austrian-gang-weapons.jpeg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; font-size: 16px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-323136" decoding="async" height="232" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Austrian-gang-weapons-300x174.jpeg" srcset="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Austrian-gang-weapons-300x174.jpeg 300w, https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Austrian-gang-weapons.jpeg 700w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The young “protection money gang” was heavily armed. She<span style="color: #741b47;"><i> (he?)</i></span> terrorized her victims with arson attacks, severe extortion and robberies. The main suspect is Bosnian (17). The police found photos of the accused with the IS flag, as well as IS videos on their cell phones. They wanted to “do jihad,” says one member.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Robberies, building a bomb, an arson attack with a Molotov cocktail, a list of torture victims, as well as terror with Kalashnikovs, knives and machetes: the “protection money gang” spread fear and terror in Vienna-Meidling.</b> Numerous attacks took place within a very short period of time and led to numerous arrests. There are now increasing indications of <b>a radical Islamic background</b>. <b>The headquarters of the young gang is said to have been in a mosque in Meidling.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The main suspect is said to be a Bosnian (17) with contacts in the radical Islamic scene. <b>He and nine other suspects between the ages of 14 and 21 are accused of several serious crimes in an indictment. </b>The list ranges from forming <b>a criminal organization, predatory theft, aggravated arson, serious bodily harm, damage to property, aggravated robbery and aggravated extortion to numerous violations of the weapons law, reports “Heute.”</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Videos from the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) were found on the cell phones of some members of the gang. <b>One suspect stated that some of his accomplices had IS sympathies and claimed they wanted to “do jihad.”</b> The Vienna youth justice service suspects <b><i>“possible advanced religious-Islamist radicalization”</i> in three of the suspects. Two of the boys even posed for photos with weapons in front of an IS flag.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The judiciary released two of the suspects after just ten days. The investigations and the authorities’ reactions remain a critical point in the public debate.</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47;">This should be interesting. Austrian justice will bend over backwards to treat these horrible kids with kidd gloves. If they do, they will be back on the streets in a couple years wreaking havoc on Austrian society.</span></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA1Uu9Ll4aIbza89LLl9iBDGB2nka-qDrYXoOom0nCmXO3tNvij9s7exvmxsReBCRAFzYWIGjQDeHqd14BuKNeHrOyMWRz8-0m4pZXMoTBTIlmflrBhlbxTM9m7H2jI5KvIBerQvnbphHOz-V3O5Uhj3M97aov1BBmPnYUpju0s28HT9lRoBApnVxk-fg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="519" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA1Uu9Ll4aIbza89LLl9iBDGB2nka-qDrYXoOom0nCmXO3tNvij9s7exvmxsReBCRAFzYWIGjQDeHqd14BuKNeHrOyMWRz8-0m4pZXMoTBTIlmflrBhlbxTM9m7H2jI5KvIBerQvnbphHOz-V3O5Uhj3M97aov1BBmPnYUpju0s28HT9lRoBApnVxk-fg=w640-h412" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p></p></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">JUSTICE. ‘I have learned to cut throats’:</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">a young woman who planned a terrorist attack</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">with a saber in Béziers, tried in Paris</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">translated from “JUSTICE. “J’ai appris à égorger” : une jeune femme qui projetait une attaque terroriste au sabre à Béziers, jugée à Paris,” by Josette Sanna, <a href="https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/herault/beziers/justice-j-ai-appris-a-egorger-une-jeune-femme-qui-projetait-une-attaque-terroriste-au-sabre-a-beziers-jugee-a-paris-2940435.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1710520360" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">FranceInfo</a>, March 15, 2024 (thanks to <a href="https://medforth.biz/france-i-have-been-taught-to-cut-throats-young-woman-who-planned-terrorist-attack-with-a-sabre-in-beziers-put-on-trial-in-paris/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Medforth</a>):</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Church-of-Notre-Dame-de-la-Reconciliation-in-the-La-Deveze-neighbourhood.jpeg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-323142" decoding="async" height="232" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Church-of-Notre-Dame-de-la-Reconciliation-in-the-La-Deveze-neighbourhood-300x174.jpeg" srcset="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Church-of-Notre-Dame-de-la-Reconciliation-in-the-La-Deveze-neighbourhood-300x174.jpeg 300w, https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Church-of-Notre-Dame-de-la-Reconciliation-in-the-La-Deveze-neighbourhood.jpeg 700w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><u>Leila, 21,</u></b> <b>was planning to attack the faithful of a church in Béziers on Easter Day with a sword when she was arrested. She is on trial in Paris for conspiracy to commit terrorist crimes in preparation for several crimes. She faces 10 years in prison.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>A slum littered with trash bags, graffiti on the walls, dishes full of maggots and excrement on the floor. </b>This is what the <b>police officers</b> from the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), and those from the Raid, <b>discovered when they came to arrest Leila B. at her home,</b> in the Devèze district in Béziers on April 4, 2021.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Investigators are then convinced that they have foiled an imminent attack. The young girl, then aged 18, completely withdrawn into herself, spends her days in her room with walls covered with photos of the decapitated body of Samuel Paty and the Columbine massacre, watching videos of beheadings and making acid-based homemade bombs.</b></p></blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">I have to go buy an outfit, some hydrogen peroxide, a glass container. </span></i></b><b style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Soon it will all be over, soon I will take revenge. From now on, no one will be able to stop me. </span></i></b><b style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Leila B.</span></i></b></p></blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Surfing on sites such as “tiresurtoutlemondesuicidetoi,” “anti-noirs” or even “tueursdejuifs,” she discusses her attack plans with other Internet users.</span><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">After considering a terrorist attack in a church in Montpellier, due to health restrictions and travel difficulties, she retreated to Béziers. She then plans to attack with a saber the faithful of the church of Notre-Dame de la Réconciliation in the Devèze district near her home.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Spiral notebook</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Everything is recorded in his <i><b><span style="color: #741b47;">(her)</span></b></i> spiral notebook, <b>“his <i><span style="color: #741b47;">(her)</span></i> increasingly intense desire to go out into the street to slit the throat of the first passerby, drag his corpse into the forest and smash his skull with an iron bar or a hammer then return to look for someone on the other hand,</b> <i><b>“I have learned to cut throats so there will probably be no problem,”</b></i> the young woman writes. Alongside these texts, <b>she draws pistols, knives, diagrams for manufacturing explosives, swastikas and sketches of an ISIS executioner holding a decapitated head.</b></span></div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">His <b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">(her)</span></i></b> arrest in April 2021 will put an end to his deadly projects. Tried before the Paris Criminal Court for “conspiracy of terrorist criminals with a view to preparing several crimes,” <b>she risks up to 10 years in prison</b>.</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">And the rest of her life in a mental intitute for the criminally insane. All radicalized Muslims are criminally insane. Europe needs to figure that out and segregate radicalized Muslims from sane societies. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwlmajXBWOt5wjY6f11w6TMjRypPOgy3aDe6c0uja22N7F-TachyphenhyphenyakacvbcEwlq9RSVuLwqneF7T46r9KVFrh7OBRUuwYbpngbFWo-iSTRphBzY8AyeTXoXDThCrZobRwtSjJZyD7x3O5Ny7sOLQ3-3el7Jwte536cMW0FeqUywZkYBltn_opGzJ6xoc/s638/Beziers,%20FR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="638" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwlmajXBWOt5wjY6f11w6TMjRypPOgy3aDe6c0uja22N7F-TachyphenhyphenyakacvbcEwlq9RSVuLwqneF7T46r9KVFrh7OBRUuwYbpngbFWo-iSTRphBzY8AyeTXoXDThCrZobRwtSjJZyD7x3O5Ny7sOLQ3-3el7Jwte536cMW0FeqUywZkYBltn_opGzJ6xoc/w640-h228/Beziers,%20FR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Incident in Italian supermarket:</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">‘In my country you would already be dead!'</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">translated from “Vorfall in Supermarkt: „In meinem Land wärst du bereits tot!" <i><a href="https://www.unsertirol24.com/2024/03/16/vorfall-in-supermarkt-in-meinem-land-waerst-du-bereits-tot/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Unser Tirol</a>, March 16, 2024 (thanks to <a href="https://medforth.biz/aggressive-iraqi-shoplifter-threatens-in-tyrolean-supermarket-in-my-country-you-would-already-be-dead/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Medforth</a>):</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQgBGnrRfif7YgtCmPhn0hPeRm_YbtXlm-DQp0Cy-OqxJJECHRHTgpXmimgunkcFoaCICZbcfrbD_Hsox9EmpBLTZNrQe55PTl1Dd4PMdx4j0ws6vAH39P53fYRBtRSidYOuMjrj2UkmQ2nGKA4odxy23XxgcXd_MuQ1gFAVW-nxqDuFf7L3fBbiNv4RM" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1024" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQgBGnrRfif7YgtCmPhn0hPeRm_YbtXlm-DQp0Cy-OqxJJECHRHTgpXmimgunkcFoaCICZbcfrbD_Hsox9EmpBLTZNrQe55PTl1Dd4PMdx4j0ws6vAH39P53fYRBtRSidYOuMjrj2UkmQ2nGKA4odxy23XxgcXd_MuQ1gFAVW-nxqDuFf7L3fBbiNv4RM=w640-h485" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Another worrying incident has occurred in South Tyrol’s state capital. A 24-year-old Iraqi man entered a supermarket and threatened the store manager. Bolzano’s new quaestor didn’t hesitate for long and quickly revoked the foreigner’s residence permit.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The whole thing happened late on Thursday afternoon. The Bolzano law enforcement officers were called to an emergency call to a Eurospar supermarket. <b>The emergency services were immediately deployed and were able to find the Iraqi in the supermarket who had carried out an attack on the same store three days earlier and made threats.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">According to the Bolzano Quaesture, the manager of the supermarket said that <b>the Iraqi had threatened her with death a few minutes earlier and that he said several times: <i>“In my country you would already be dead.”</i></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">According to information, the foreigner tried to downplay the incident. The 24-year-old was reported for serious threats. <b>The quaestor of the province of Bolzano, Paolo Sartori, revoked the Iraqi’s residence permit due to the incidents.</b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">I have no idea what a quaestor is, but I like this guy. The name comes from ancient Rome where a quaestor was a low-level government official in charge of funds. It appears he has more authority than that in modern Tyrol.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></i></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFhzeaO_l-0uLzucKzWAdpfMO7ZWXxKY20qqEhxIrjD7yayVQQvxsvs7tH-nj7NNaQbdTLV2FtCf-O_5zwBYOjazju64EoLA07vFBTnZsK6ri56fVxM6iLsLibTI3R-gUbWnONsdV9D-VPRkwhNttJQFSeehs1H3Jd4LWlZpfk21nX8WEuUJJQ4cvlPSA" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="864" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFhzeaO_l-0uLzucKzWAdpfMO7ZWXxKY20qqEhxIrjD7yayVQQvxsvs7tH-nj7NNaQbdTLV2FtCf-O_5zwBYOjazju64EoLA07vFBTnZsK6ri56fVxM6iLsLibTI3R-gUbWnONsdV9D-VPRkwhNttJQFSeehs1H3Jd4LWlZpfk21nX8WEuUJJQ4cvlPSA=w640-h280" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p><br /></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-12044183904974474712024-03-16T18:36:00.000-07:002024-03-16T18:36:16.740-07:00Ozzone 9-13 > “If you want to be My disciple, you must give up your right to yourself to Me.”<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNwPH0YxJnnBAt7pB1LpMW9tN-YDUQoNYLAsvlN6bcDDxThCg1EmWEoFYlbZasNHjFlqApZhINVfqozzb7H2pVZMb2NvAk-VbNcya601i84ncjEuUjW_57213ANp8O0uH4AzGJgYqvc3JZuonQ2e7K7E3GQR-c1TmKgJ9qD_i2itOANshNFa957vLU08o" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="861" height="637" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNwPH0YxJnnBAt7pB1LpMW9tN-YDUQoNYLAsvlN6bcDDxThCg1EmWEoFYlbZasNHjFlqApZhINVfqozzb7H2pVZMb2NvAk-VbNcya601i84ncjEuUjW_57213ANp8O0uH4AzGJgYqvc3JZuonQ2e7K7E3GQR-c1TmKgJ9qD_i2itOANshNFa957vLU08o=w640-h637" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: 5.65pt; margin-right: 79.35pt; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="text-decoration: none;">Giving up your right to
yourself is no more than accepting the fact that Jesus is Lord of every aspect
of your life. Have you done that?</span></i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span lang="EN-US"> If you don’t, it will cost you in
the end.</span></i></b></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #953735; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #953735; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></p><br /><p></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-26450144360435877592024-03-15T19:23:00.000-07:002024-03-15T19:23:28.180-07:00When a Christian in Pakistan refuses to convert to Islam, what follows is Islamic hysteria; Arrested for eating during Ramadan fast<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; 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clear: both;"></div></div><div class="heateorSssClear" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Here is yet another indication of how blasphemy accusations are weaponized against religious minorities in Pakistan. No one cares, however, because the case doesn’t fit the establishment media narrative, in which Christians are always oppressors and Muslims are always victims.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Muslims-accused-Ashbeel-Ghauri-of-blasphemy-in-Attock-city-Pakistan-after-he-refused-to-convert-to-Islam.-Christian-Daily-International-Morning-Star-News.jpg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-322897" decoding="async" height="174" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Muslims-accused-Ashbeel-Ghauri-of-blasphemy-in-Attock-city-Pakistan-after-he-refused-to-convert-to-Islam.-Christian-Daily-International-Morning-Star-News-300x174.jpg" srcset="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Muslims-accused-Ashbeel-Ghauri-of-blasphemy-in-Attock-city-Pakistan-after-he-refused-to-convert-to-Islam.-Christian-Daily-International-Morning-Star-News-300x174.jpg 300w, https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Muslims-accused-Ashbeel-Ghauri-of-blasphemy-in-Attock-city-Pakistan-after-he-refused-to-convert-to-Islam.-Christian-Daily-International-Morning-Star-News.jpg 700w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Christian in Pakistan Accused of Blasphemy for Refusing to Convert</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><a href="https://morningstarnews.org/2024/03/christian-in-pakistan-accused-of-blasphemy-for-refusing-to-convert-he-says/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Morning Star News</a>, March 12, 2024:</i></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i>LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) </i>– <b>A former classmate of an 18-year-old Christian in Pakistan accused him of blasphemy after failing to convert him to Islam, impeding the accused’s college studies and his family’s hopes for a better future,</b> sources said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Police arrested <b><u>Ashbeel Ghauri</u></b> from his home in Attock city, Punjab Province on Wednesday (March 6) after his former classmate, <b><u>Sheraz Gulistan</u></b>, accused him of disrespecting Islam during a religious discussion in a WhatsApp group two months ago, said his father, Babar Ghauri.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“We were shocked when the police came to arrest Ashbeel,” Ghauri said. “My son had not shared with us before that Sheraz and some other Muslim classmates had been pressuring him to change his Christian faith.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A devout Christian passionate about his faith, Ashbeel Ghauri had begun college while his former classmate, Gulistan, entered an Islamic seminary (madrassa), said his father, who belongs to the Presbyterian church. Gulistan and other Muslims had engaged Ashbeel Ghauri in religious discussions on several occasions in a bid to convert him, he said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">His former classmates have implicated him in a false blasphemy case to destroy his educational career and prospects because he refused to renounce his faith in Christ, Babar Ghauri said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“Ashbeel has categorically denied making any derogatory remarks about Islam,” Babar Ghauri told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. <i><b>“He always asked academic questions about the Islamic faith whenever he was forcibly dragged into such conversation. As Christians living in Pakistan, we are all well aware of the sensitivities involving religious discussion, and our children are taught from day one to avoid getting into such arguments.”…</b></i></span></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD7QJoVOp7dzBekB4pxmt-kGJVhf1e02WX6f08_i3H7RKa3Ay_mUPlwuC0hHGtf-UNNsaCF4YbHCm2pFRTFEdLTh3S9NCqNUxCgRgjiAJR5WQrPSeLN6XNDmhzUuLY0oJX5Qfmg6lISNFLApyVEyZIH56U3oLox90uBJGxzYD9Zn9Hgi5R0b1KpNANXh8" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="513" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD7QJoVOp7dzBekB4pxmt-kGJVhf1e02WX6f08_i3H7RKa3Ay_mUPlwuC0hHGtf-UNNsaCF4YbHCm2pFRTFEdLTh3S9NCqNUxCgRgjiAJR5WQrPSeLN6XNDmhzUuLY0oJX5Qfmg6lISNFLApyVEyZIH56U3oLox90uBJGxzYD9Zn9Hgi5R0b1KpNANXh8=w640-h322" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p></p></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Fasting in Christianity is a voluntary matter. There is no punishment for failing either from God or man. Christianity operates under grace, not the Law.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Nigeria: Islamic police arrest eleven Muslims</span></h1><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">caught eating during Ramadan fast</span></h1><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><time class="entry-time" datetime="2024-03-15T08:00:08-04:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="background-color: #fce5cd; 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clear: both;"></div></div><div class="heateorSssClear" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Much of the Islamic polemic against the West centers on the latter’s immorality, versus the alleged piety of the Islamic world. That piety, however, is not genuine virtue, that is, the choosing of the good because it is good. It is the piety that fear engenders. Toe the line, or else.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Nigerian-Muslim-women.jpeg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-322893" decoding="async" height="174" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Nigerian-Muslim-women-300x174.jpeg" srcset="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Nigerian-Muslim-women-300x174.jpeg 300w, https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Nigerian-Muslim-women.jpeg 700w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Islamic Police in Nigeria arrest 11 Muslims caught eating</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">during Ramadan fast</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2024/03/13/islamic-police-in-nigeria-arrest-11-muslims-caught-eating-during-ramadan-fast//" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Africa News</a>, March 13, 2024 (thanks to <a href="https://thereligionofpeace.com/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">The Religion of Peace</a>):</i></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The Islamic police, known as Hisbah, in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano, detained 11 Muslims for breaking the Ramadan fast by eating.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Hisbah spokesperson Lawal Fagge reported the arrest of 10 men near markets and a female groundnut vendor caught eating from her wares. The arrests followed tips from onlookers.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“We got 11 persons on Tuesday including a lady selling groundnuts who was seen eating from her wares, and some persons alerted us,”Fagge said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“The other 10 were men and were arrested across the city especially close to markets where a lot of activities happen.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The 11 accused were later absolved of their crimes after vowing to abstain from food or drink. Additionally, their families were requested to ensure they observe the fast….</b></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirRuIk8omyvsWam1S4p_VRzaDgqd90ALVno-9XjHq0bW4MhRpJHOjX0srIBSArSm8Bi5pT0KboTq5YjOjIgAbxdxbkSgO4R4ld3gx8UkNqJSQ8QCvNbEEa40BezXEdJ12PnXp66cIFeEUqjnIC_E13zxC-BHTJCyX6q4B8ietrphRIrOkDoHfN-FwevI/s703/Kano%20St,%20Nigeria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="703" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirRuIk8omyvsWam1S4p_VRzaDgqd90ALVno-9XjHq0bW4MhRpJHOjX0srIBSArSm8Bi5pT0KboTq5YjOjIgAbxdxbkSgO4R4ld3gx8UkNqJSQ8QCvNbEEa40BezXEdJ12PnXp66cIFeEUqjnIC_E13zxC-BHTJCyX6q4B8ietrphRIrOkDoHfN-FwevI/w640-h272/Kano%20St,%20Nigeria.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> </span></p></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-48511982515902042722024-03-15T15:57:00.000-07:002024-03-15T15:57:24.212-07:00Islamization > UK to pay illegal migrants to move to Rwanda; >60 migrants die crossing the Med<p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">UK to pay tens of thousands of illegal migrants</span></h1><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">to move to Rwanda</span></h1><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><time class="entry-time" datetime="2024-03-15T13:00:39-04:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></time></p><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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clear: both;"></div></div><div class="heateorSssClear" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 16px;"></div><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Last year, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who had a handle on <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/02/uk-former-home-secretary-says-the-islamists-the-extremists-and-the-anti-semites-are-in-charge-now" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">the truth</a> about what was going on in Britain, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/uk-migrants-channel-asylum-human-rights-braverman-497fc05aa4056bc3fdb2b5ba381931c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">sent</a> this message: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you enter Britain illegally, you will be detained and swiftly removed.” </em><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Braverman was eventually <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/uk-sunak-fires-braverman-for-noting-that-cops-go-easy-on-pro-hamas-protesters-are-tough-on-counterprotesters" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">fired</a> by her government for “offensive” statements she made about the “political bias” of pro-Hamas protesters in London. </span></b></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The UK has given up on any real efforts to end unvetted, illegal migration, and instead has opted simply to try to project the impression that something is being done to control the illegal invasion through the English Channel.</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Less than a week and a half ago, illegal migrant crossings via the Channel hit the <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/03/uk-illegal-migrant-crossings-of-english-channel-hit-highest-level-this-year" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">highest level</a> this year, so the Sunak government came up with yet another outrageous plan: it revived the Boris Johnson-era proposal of throwing even more taxpayer money at the problem by <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">paying</em> illegals to move to Rwanda.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">The economic migrants are being treated by Britain as if Britain had wronged them:</span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><b>It will use the existing voluntary returns system and schemes that offer up to £3,000 in assistance for failed asylum seekers to return to their country of origin,</b></span></p></blockquote><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">But how is Sunak planning to ensure that the economic migrants won’t end up making their way back into Britain even after being paid to leave?</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><i><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Like a niche market industry!</span></b></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Last month, the UK government <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/02/uk-government-to-pay-tiktok-influencers-to-discourage-illegals-from-coming-through-english-channel" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">pledged money</a> to TikTok influencers to discourage illegals from coming into the country via English Channel.</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Britain’s immigration problem is grave. <b>The Home Office has already <a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/53591/uk-home-office-loses-track-of-17000-asylum-seekers" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">lost track </a>of 17,000 asylum seekers.</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">The UK government has abandoned all policies of responsible immigration, and in doing so, has sacrificed its national security and imperiled its own sovereignty.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Rishi-Sunak.jpeg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-280823" decoding="async" height="174" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Rishi-Sunak-300x174.jpeg" srcset="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Rishi-Sunak-300x174.jpeg 300w, https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Rishi-Sunak.jpeg 700w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Tens of thousands of migrants with failed asylum applications will ‘be offered up to £3,000 to move to Rwanda</b></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><i>by Alesia Fiddler, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13189341/amp/migrants-failed-asylum-applications-offered-money-Rwanda.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Daily Mail</a>, March 12, 2024:</i></span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Tens of thousands of migrants with failed asylum applications will be offered money to voluntarily move to Rwanda under new legislation proposed by the government.</b></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A new agreement made between the UK and Rwandan government means that <b>migrants could choose to be sent to Rwanda when they have no legal right to remain in the UK but cannot return to their home country.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Tens of thousands of people in the UK have had their asylum application rejected and the arrangement would be open to them meaning thousands of migrants could be removed…</span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivzUf0QS3XEiTDDobMcQEduCsDRXJf8wb6NyfJBWyecv1mzY5J_05yqZ7c8aMGdk4nB6YTNDb9yyoZo-NcvIoNmouV1JilEu17mOQsI1JJUMT0NMKpPIWRzoy-zVQCfTer7JsaKiCxPGDkd_g6mOG8xHJoWmXyolAM2ni8K62OCZ4tKc2I6EsDDvL1Z4w/s982/Rwanda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="982" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivzUf0QS3XEiTDDobMcQEduCsDRXJf8wb6NyfJBWyecv1mzY5J_05yqZ7c8aMGdk4nB6YTNDb9yyoZo-NcvIoNmouV1JilEu17mOQsI1JJUMT0NMKpPIWRzoy-zVQCfTer7JsaKiCxPGDkd_g6mOG8xHJoWmXyolAM2ni8K62OCZ4tKc2I6EsDDvL1Z4w/w640-h256/Rwanda.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Survivors say at least 60 migrants died in</span></h1><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Mediterranean shipwreck on way to Europe</span></h1><p class="t-content__chapo" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 22px 16px; 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border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Survivors report that <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/shipwreck/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">at least 60 people died </a>en route, including women and at least one child," said Marseille-based <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/sos-mediterranee/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">SOS Mediterranee</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The group's Ocean Viking rescue ship is currently heading for port,<a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/migrants/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self"> carrying 224 people rescued from different boats</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Among them are 25 from a boat that survivors said had set off from Zawiya, Libya on March 8 -- only for its motor to give out three days later.</span></p><div class="m-em-flash" id="em-WBMZ297513-F24-EN-20240314" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-direction: normal; 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flex-grow: 1; height: 1157px; position: static; text-align: justify; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><figcaption class="m-em-flash__legend"><span class="a-media-legend" style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #616972; line-height: 1.4;"></span></figcaption></div><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">UN body the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it was "deeply troubled by news of a shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Passengers reported drifting without food or water for several days, said SOS Mediterranee.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">It was not immediately clear how those who died were said to have lost their lives. AFP was not in an immediate position to confirm the toll.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Ocean Viking also has aboard 113 people recovered on Wednesday night and a further 88 rescued on Thursday from "an overloaded inflatable craft".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">It has been directed to Ancona on Italy's eastern coast, which SOS Mediterrannee said was 1,450 kilometres (900 miles) from its current position.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The aid group said it had asked Italian authorities for "somewhere closer to put ashore".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">SOS Mediterranee has rescued more than 39,000 people in the Mediterranean since 2016 -- most of them on the Central Mediterranean route, the world's most dangerous migrant passage.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Last year, 3,105 migrants died or were reported missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, according to IOM figures.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The count has reached 278 so far this year.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><em><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-small;">(AFP)</span></em></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><em><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-small;"></span></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWGVgrhsiIR3AyqL-qFAihFC5iBpTvUro0WLokHgTsfNS8qzOZso7Rqs4Owh5Y32wRu2hOlReh2ezUJ28RXxcrqe9T6Zj5A6K486HZu-0PNpuBdTtTC4sl9i2kqF_mXom5BreQw0aySdiTjPwKB0zg-vwqP4D1uNCpIk3ZeNgSqgkuf6N56PF03Pl2G6Q" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Published </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 14, 2024, 3:20 a.m. ET</span></i></div></div></div><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/14/us-news/american-airlines-boeing-flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-lax-over-mechanical-issue/" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="904" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidkP4t8z7CY3IwwtaC-vU-nbA1qqLayJ8X-v5p-H1gufRVqIts3sP5jotuiFa-X0enmGO1T2ofjTc7BsC9uuk5KYss-cFeqy8uRpAMyJCFxK7Bwfy8E5sYjjhEAqBAIRRIYdAhl9tUnNmyrN0NI3OliYp5wECUy_4YbyBH_BP1FdF_jR-Xx5m-91qK8CQ=w400-h226" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Deja vu.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday night over a “possible mechanical issue,” according to<a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/american-airlines-jet-makes-emergency-landing-in-l-a-after-tire-blowout/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> KTLA</a>.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The flight, which was arriving from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, safely landed at LAX on Runway 25 around 8:45 p.m., an official from American Airlines told the outlet.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihX8l11mILwHVOw0NVtMV-0xns0MnMKyXbcSdD4vB-Qck-gfNR6hWZJX4wL5TE25DskUH90wBe9gQJ-XBhpOcIiJnAjyKSM3z3nlZZk39cfsCu0hgZ7mYCPF1QRUrz3_QsbrI_CrNpirk8_HmcO8e2q_9y3LnTlLbmuG7fCnWNZt2k-Wv6ar68mtnUb1M" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="904" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihX8l11mILwHVOw0NVtMV-0xns0MnMKyXbcSdD4vB-Qck-gfNR6hWZJX4wL5TE25DskUH90wBe9gQJ-XBhpOcIiJnAjyKSM3z3nlZZk39cfsCu0hgZ7mYCPF1QRUrz3_QsbrI_CrNpirk8_HmcO8e2q_9y3LnTlLbmuG7fCnWNZt2k-Wv6ar68mtnUb1M=w400-h180" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-e); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; text-align: left;">American Airlines Flight 345 on the runway at LAX after making an emergency landing Wednesday evening.</span></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Passengers safely exited the Boeing aircraft through the jet bridge after the aircraft pulled into the gate.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">There were no reports of injuries onboard, according to the outlet.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">There were reports of a blown-out tire, but AA officials only cited the pilot’s claim of a “possible mechanical issue,” according to the outlet.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">It remains to be seen what the issue was. </span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The scare is the latest in <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/us-news/united-airlines-reports-fifth-incident-in-over-a-week-as-us-bound-flight-returns-to-australia/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a surfeit of mechanical and safety issues Boeing aircraft</a> have faced in the last two weeks — and the second aircraft to make an emergency landing at LAX in March.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHQgaGtb8m9JHfVpdz9kbt4Gd4CoRW57MI4mjL6Cdg9krWArRSMQE_0uEXOniqujK9LAvR-eqEwnNYBNDLnph0XKuZqy2Lp3ieCUBxAjxFHmLCL1fAEA4yRA5YBLIvOIl-bJcVR1HvtP9_Zf-5bTU4NMPgIS39-3uuWQSVEZ30s8krwicm0OknD-lK5U8" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="921" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHQgaGtb8m9JHfVpdz9kbt4Gd4CoRW57MI4mjL6Cdg9krWArRSMQE_0uEXOniqujK9LAvR-eqEwnNYBNDLnph0XKuZqy2Lp3ieCUBxAjxFHmLCL1fAEA4yRA5YBLIvOIl-bJcVR1HvtP9_Zf-5bTU4NMPgIS39-3uuWQSVEZ30s8krwicm0OknD-lK5U8=w400-h244" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Japan diverted to <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/07/us-news/united-flight-diverted-to-lax-after-tire-falls-off-during-takeoff/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Los Angeles International Airport on March 7</a> after one of the landing gear on the Boeing 777-20 fell off after takeoff.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Distressing footage shows the plane losing one of its six tires on the left side as it ascended.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">All 235 passengers, 10 flight attendants and four pilots on board safely landed at LAX.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">On Monday, a United Airlines Boeing 777-300 aircraft suffered a midair fuel leak and was forced to make an emergency landing.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR0cgYpcKQa9oZ2xHOnEF31au7JprW4AknWsEPngVpofMxdM_nbE_f93XDJhKJN2Yqlk4g0pwwHfWWmgZPLyWC65XdVSSrkKdV-3FvFWcn1-u0Vi3YZSSJdiX3n_DrL9Yr_uE4guN4TZPvAj9bZ_P8_rqVufnhM6Lof0Pp3ePPl8Pv7U2vQMxWxfl61N4" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="1104" height="545" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR0cgYpcKQa9oZ2xHOnEF31au7JprW4AknWsEPngVpofMxdM_nbE_f93XDJhKJN2Yqlk4g0pwwHfWWmgZPLyWC65XdVSSrkKdV-3FvFWcn1-u0Vi3YZSSJdiX3n_DrL9Yr_uE4guN4TZPvAj9bZ_P8_rqVufnhM6Lof0Pp3ePPl8Pv7U2vQMxWxfl61N4=w640-h545" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">United Airlines Flight 830 took off for a 14-hour journey from Sydney to San Francisco, but was redirected two hours into the flight over a “maintenance issue.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Boeing said in a memo to employees on <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/business/boeing-adding-weekly-compliance-checks-audits-at-737-factory-amid-quality-problems-memo/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tuesday</a> that the company is implementing weekly compliance checks for every 737 work area and additional equipment audits to reduce quality problems.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/us-news/family-of-boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-blames-hostile-work-environment-for-his-death/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">John Barnett</a>, a former Boeing quality inspector of three decades, was found dead from a “self-inflicted” gunshot wound in his truck in the parking lot of his South Carolina hotel on Saturday.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The engineer, who retired in 2017</a>, had provided his first testimony in a bombshell lawsuit against the company, the Charleston County coroner told the BBC.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">================================================================================</b></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-23903880564884217782024-03-15T14:35:00.000-07:002024-03-15T14:35:38.141-07:00European Politics > Will British Tories desert Sunak for Nigel Farage? Geert Wilders can't be PM of the Netherlands though he won the election<p> </p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Rishi Sunak is warned that MORE Tories are poised to switch to Reform UK after Lee Anderson drops bombshell becoming party’s first MP – as poll shows Nigel Farage’s outfit at their highest-ever support… with one-fifth of 2019 Conservative voters backing them</span></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><i>by James Tapsfield, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13183929/amp/Rishi-Sunak-warned-Tories-poised-switch-Reform-UK-Lee-Anderson-drops-bombshell-partys-MP-poll-shows-Nigel-Farages-outfit-highest-support-one-fifth-2019-Conservative-voters-backing-them.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Daily Mail</a>, March 11, 2024:</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit4oQ3oEgvp7tpEG6CPb431GQZk7YbAWv3QBD99l3UMK7iRWOSfqbEhztdJSLBQEs-qLVh1invuzZC6cqK4M1azitrD_Iidt7degJ_IIxUJ7TJWXA4lJbf8bZFZ5uLagOpuwpxkF6h62bKEVrTzY4NzkZ9Z87dIXeSiRURwV7JdBnfmXXubpHR0pf0seA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="300" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEit4oQ3oEgvp7tpEG6CPb431GQZk7YbAWv3QBD99l3UMK7iRWOSfqbEhztdJSLBQEs-qLVh1invuzZC6cqK4M1azitrD_Iidt7degJ_IIxUJ7TJWXA4lJbf8bZFZ5uLagOpuwpxkF6h62bKEVrTzY4NzkZ9Z87dIXeSiRURwV7JdBnfmXXubpHR0pf0seA=w640-h372" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Rishi Sunak faced warnings today that more Tories are gearing up to switch to Reform UK after Lee Anderson became the insurgents’ first MP.</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">The PM has been left yet again struggling to quell panic in his ranks after the former Conservative deputy chair was unveiled by jubilant Reform leader Richard Tice at a press conference this morning.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Swiping at his former colleagues, Mr Anderson said <b>he ‘wants our country back’</b> and had to be able to ‘speak my mind’.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">The Ashfield MP said there had been a ‘lot of soul searching in my political journey’ but his parents and his staff had all told him to switch to Reform. </span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The news immediately fuelled Conservative panic about the threat of an implosion at the election.</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">The latest Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey, published this afternoon, showed Reform UK at their highest-ever level with the pollster at 14 per cent support.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">This put them just <b>10 percentage points behind the Tories (24 per cent), with Labour holding an 18-point lead over the Conservatives on 42 per cent…..</b></span></p></blockquote><p><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">At the very least, Reform will prevent Sunak from forming the next government. </span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">=========================================================================================</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Dutch far-right firebrand Wilders says he won't</span></h1><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">be prime minister despite election win</span></h1><p class="t-content__chapo" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 22px 16px; max-width: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p class="t-content__chapo" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i><b>"I can only become Prime Minister if ALL parties in the <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/coalition/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">coalition</a> support it. That was not the case," </b></i><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/geert-wilders/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Wilders</a> said on X. <i><b>"The love for my country and voters is bigger and more important than my own position."</b></i></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The announcement came on the eve of an eagerly awaited report on <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/netherlands/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Dutch</a> coalition talks, amid speculation of a breakthrough that could result in a technocratic government.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The man overseeing the negotiations, Kim Putters, has said the bickering parties were ready to take the "next step" after two days of "good and intense" talks at a country estate.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Wilders posted on X that he wanted a <i>"right-wing cabinet... less asylum and <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/immigration/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">immigration</a>. The Dutch come first."</i></b></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Party leaders have been tight-lipped during the process but public broadcaster NOS reported that the most likely outcome for Thursday's report was an "extra-parliamentary" or technocratic cabinet. It is unclear exactly what form this could take, but it is expected that four party leaders will serve as MPs.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Parties would appoint the members of the cabinet but they could be drawn from "ordinary" party members or even from outside politics, according to media reports.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Wilders stunned the Netherlands and Europe with a <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231123-netherlands-far-right-firebrand-wilders-courts-rivals-after-shock-legislative-election-win" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">convincing victory in November elections</a> that put him in pole position to lead coalition negotiations.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Unlike Britain, France or the United States for example, the Netherlands has a very fractured political system that means no party is strong enough to govern on its own.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The far-right leader's Freedom Party (PVV) therefore started talks with the centre-right Liberal VVD party, the BBB farmers' party, and a new party, the New Social Contract (NSC).</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The NSC, led by anti-corruption champion Pieter Omtzigt, was the other new factor in the election, gaining 20 seats and making it indispensable in any coalition.</b></p><h2 style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;">Nexit referendum?</span></h2><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">But cracks began to show in the talks almost immediately, with sniping on social media and by the NSC in particular raising questions about the PVV's far-right manifesto.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Among other things, <b>the PVV manifesto calls for a ban on mosques, the Koran and Islamic headscarves. It also wants a binding <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/referendum/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">referendum</a> on a "Nexit" – the Netherlands leaving the European Union.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In February, Omtzigt abruptly quit the coalition talks, plunging the process into chaos with the differences between his party and the PVV "too big" to bridge.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">At the time, the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper described the talks as a "slow-motion disaster" with "poison, mutual sniping, gossiping".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A new person, known in the Netherlands as an "informer", was appointed to oversee the talks and this appears to have unblocked the stalemate.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The new informer, Putters, managed to get the four party leaders back to the negotiating table with talks reportedly moving towards a technocratic government.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Time is ticking for the Netherlands to find a prime minister, as the man holding the fort, <b><a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/mark-rutte/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Mark Rutte</a>, is <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240222-france-us-uk-germany-back-dutch-pm-mark-rutte-to-lead-nato" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">widely expected to become</a> the new NATO secretary general.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Since the election, support for the PVV has only increased, surveys suggest, as voters voice frustration at the slow pace of talks.</b></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"Do not forget: I will become prime minister of the Netherlands one day. With the support of even more Dutch," Wilders posted. "If not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow. Because the voices of millions of Dutch will be heard!"</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><em><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-small;">(AFP)</span></em></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: #fce5cd;"></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVchTAYFPWvzMsa7z5kJH61_FgXMXHMdW0NiNoUvO4HIUyvr_VsOEK49fbQAhQABD68-6FlXkFxeeawzn9c0TW0viw8yxNQc6vS2QylQcoje73xJrkPgmxt6m2kmoeQ0YZ_qx8skTlk6fccPJqb-BZBHyVh8IEPFyTbSvzZEO_MLi0iJDlH2a3kQxdbCc/s680/Netherlands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="680" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVchTAYFPWvzMsa7z5kJH61_FgXMXHMdW0NiNoUvO4HIUyvr_VsOEK49fbQAhQABD68-6FlXkFxeeawzn9c0TW0viw8yxNQc6vS2QylQcoje73xJrkPgmxt6m2kmoeQ0YZ_qx8skTlk6fccPJqb-BZBHyVh8IEPFyTbSvzZEO_MLi0iJDlH2a3kQxdbCc/w640-h310/Netherlands.jpg" width="640" /></a></em></div><p></p><div class="t-content__dates t-content__dates--reading-time" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: center; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; display: flex; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px 22px 32px; padding: 0px;"><div class="a-reading-time" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-flex: 1; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: center; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616972; display: flex; flex: 1 0 auto; gap: 5px; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-11941526023426273012024-03-15T09:51:00.001-07:002024-03-15T09:51:42.349-07:00Canadian Convulsions > "More than half of his (Trudeau's) cabinet are actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum" Schwab<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Canada is a full-on One World Government committer. Justin Trudeau's super-ego probably sees him as replacing Klaus Schwab at the head of that government one day. King of the World!</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 class="sm:title-bold font-source my-2 text-[25px] font-medium leading-[30px] sm:text-[45px] sm:font-bold sm:leading-[54px]" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: var(--font-source-serif),Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-variation-settings: "wght" 650, "opsz" 40; line-height: 54px; margin: 0.5rem 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Former Finance Minister’s Thank-You Letter to WEF</span></h1><h1 class="sm:title-bold font-source my-2 text-[25px] font-medium leading-[30px] sm:text-[45px] sm:font-bold sm:leading-[54px]" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-wrap: nowrap;"><i>3/13/2024</i></div></div></div><br /></span><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Close interactions between Canadian cabinet ministers and the <b>World Economic Forum </b>are well-documented, but a newly revealed letter suggests <b>forum staff may have been doing more work with the federal government than previously disclosed.</b></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In an undated letter to a WEF official, former <b>Finance Minister Bill Morneau</b> praised the organization and its collaboration to achieve “common” objectives.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“I would also like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to the WEF staff, for the support provided to the Government of Canada,” wrote Mr. Morneau in the letter obtained through the access-to-information regime.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Neither the WEF nor the Canadian government typically advertise what support the forum provides. The finance department has not replied to a request for information about the date of the letter and details of how WEF staff helped the government.</span></p><p></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The letter was addressed to Philipp Rösler, a former German politician who served as a WEF manager and head of its Centre for Regional Strategies.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The federal government is known to have been involved in at least two WEF policy initiatives: the Known Traveller Digital Identification (KTDI) project and the Agile Nations network.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">KTDI was a pilot project between Canada, the Netherlands, and private sector interests to develop a system of digital credentials for airplane travel between countries. Agile Nations is a group of countries working to streamline regulations to usher in the WEF-promoted “Fourth Industrial Revolution” that includes gene editing and artificial intelligence.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMJXP1wwmi12zii2MSbt8XTOqqwoQmufwBxAZTczobKGX2b4abvdO7oAituG4mtU6INh1hBg3uT_L_gAYdZ_KOB9Fole5fEXEBwEtOAbcgDiBkDuQOOyx7nwPZpsJRinn326fpZiBq0ZC9QuEOzq8gQURuIhuD6VtB1MYBp8MrPOMaSJgyHg-VvYFeVVI" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="330" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMJXP1wwmi12zii2MSbt8XTOqqwoQmufwBxAZTczobKGX2b4abvdO7oAituG4mtU6INh1hBg3uT_L_gAYdZ_KOB9Fole5fEXEBwEtOAbcgDiBkDuQOOyx7nwPZpsJRinn326fpZiBq0ZC9QuEOzq8gQURuIhuD6VtB1MYBp8MrPOMaSJgyHg-VvYFeVVI" width="179" /></span></a></div><p></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><a class="article-hover-class" href="http://theepochtimes.com/world/wefs-digital-id-pilot-project-in-travel-has-stalled-says-transport-canada-4779334" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">KTDI</a> began in 2018, and Canada signed onto <a class="article-hover-class" href="http://theepochtimes.com/world/feds-reveal-canadas-role-in-wef-promoted-fourth-industrial-revolution-4997973" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Agile</a> Nations in November 2020, a few months after Mr. Morneau resigned during the WeCharity scandal. Both projects were worked on while Mr. Morneau was finance minister from 2015 to 2020.</span></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Since both these projects fell outside of Mr. Morneau’s portfolio as finance minister, it seems to suggest that his letter of appreciation to the WEF was referring to other joint collaborations.</b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The WEF’s mission statement says it is dedicated to “improving the state of the world.” It gathers leaders in the fields of politics, business, and activism to promote progressive policies on issues like climate change and making capitalism more “inclusive.” As is routine with the organization, it did not respond to requests for comment.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Critics of the WEF, which gathers world elites to shape global policies, often disagree with its progressive agenda and warn about its influence on countries.</span></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><i>“No staff, no ministers, no MPs in my caucus will be involved whatsoever in that organization,”</i> Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre <a class="article-hover-class" href="http://theepochtimes.com/world/poilievre-reaffirms-ban-on-wef-links-within-conservative-party-says-davos-crowd-hypocrites-5571332" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">said</a></b> in January. He added that officials who attend the forum’s annual meeting in Davos are <i><b>“high flying, high tax, high carbon hypocrites”</b></i> <b>who travel in private jets while telling average citizens not to <i>“heat their homes or drive their pickup trucks.”</i></b></span></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Alberta Premier Danielle Smith </b>has also <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/Downloads/theepochtimes.com/world/in-reference-to-wef-alberta-premier-says-she-doesnt-like-billionaires-who-brag-about-controlling-political-leaders-4818069" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">criticized</a> the WEF, saying in 2022 <b>she finds it <i>“distasteful when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders, as the head of that organization has.”</i></b></span></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Ms. Smith was likely referring to <b><a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoBRnrtX9U4" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">comments</a> made by WEF founder and chairman <u>Klaus Schwab</u> in 2017, when he said said he was <i>“very proud” to “penetrate the cabinets”</i> of world governments, including that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.</b></span></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47;">Sounds almost like "rape" terminology.</span></i></b></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><i>“I know that half of his cabinet or even more than half of his cabinet are actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum,” </i></b>Mr. <b>Schwab told an audience at Harvard University.</b></span></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><h2 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 1.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 2.375rem; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Davos Links</span></h2><h2 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxRa9d0HRiwQxT2khj3gEeheEyA_DEfNzgkyhmjl99QMEjFWHEMPxwRyQI8c3DPEhgkaCsmkqEfW_kMqgSpslwwJdA_3C5n5ycVxizgfd5yJ6iVoT3OmNvlWLZjJgax0vMtdG-Ap-0jQIVOduNjHmOSFBQzbWgXOwQ6tFEl__dKXFW3BxfucUvvNfnXs/w400-h240/Klaus%20Schwab3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; letter-spacing: -0.18px;">Mr. Morneau’s letter to the WEF comes from internal Finance Department records and is the only document in the release package that pertains to Mr. Morneau. It consists mostly of praise for the organization.</span></div></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“As a Steward of Economic Growth and Social Inclusion, I have had the privilege of observing first-hand and benefiting from the WEF’s important contributions to foster public and private collaboration towards developing concrete solutions for strong, broad-based economic growth,” he wrote, adding that WEF analysis of different topics such as “structural reform priorities” was “helpful to develop substantive policy measures.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">He wrote that “as we enter another ambitious year for the WEF, I look forward to a continued fruitful collaboration to pursue our common objective of achieving stronger, sustainable and more inclusive growth.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Other department records relate to current <b>Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her involvement with the WEF. She is a board member of the forum and also an alumnus of the Young Global Leaders program that Mr. Schwab referenced.</b></span></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Mr. Morneau, who resigned as minister in 2020, is listed on the WEF website as an “<a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/william-francis-morneau/" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">agenda contributor</a>“ and a ”<a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.weforum.org/people/william-francis-morneau/" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">digital member</a>.” He was <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.international.gc.ca/gac-amc/visit-visite/davos_2017.aspx?lang=eng" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">a</a><a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2019/01/minister-morneau-to-attend-world-economic-forum-annual-meeting.html" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"> regular</a><a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2020/01/minister-morneau-promotes-canada-at-the-world-economic-forum-annual-meeting.html" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"> participant</a> at the group’s annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland, while he was in office.</b></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">During those years, the Finance Department’s media relations office wasn’t shy about advertising ministerial trips to Davos.</span></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“Canada’s strong presence at the Forum underscores the importance of this meeting for shaping <b>the international agenda</b> and advancing economic opportunities for Canadians,” read a January 2020 <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2020/01/minister-morneau-promotes-canada-at-the-world-economic-forum-annual-meeting.html" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">press release</a> from the department announcing Mr. Morneau’s trip.</span></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The Finance Department has <a class="article-hover-class" href="http://theepochtimes.com/world/canadian-government-discreet-about-participation-in-wef-davos-meeting-4999794" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">not returned</a> inquiries in recent years pertaining to Ms. Freeland’s involvement with the WEF, nor has it issued press releases referencing her involvement.</b></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Some have questioned whether Ms. Freeland’s role as deputy prime minister and finance minister as well as a forum board member constitutes a conflict of interest. </b>The Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://ciec-ccie.parl.gc.ca/en/publications/Pages/ARAct202122-RALoi202122.aspx" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The office said <b><i>the requests “did not provide sufficient information to warrant an investigation.” </i></b>Ms. Freeland’s leadership position with the WEF has been <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://prciec-rpccie.parl.gc.ca/EN/PublicRegistries/Pages/Client.aspx#k=8c283ee4-555c-e311-8703-002655368060" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">================================================</b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-51348505326744631322024-03-14T15:46:00.000-07:002024-03-14T15:46:01.702-07:00Islamic Insanity > Turkey fully backs Hamas although a NATO country; Muslima arrested in Lyon for explosives, etc.; Islam still practicing piracy<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i>In my humble opinion, Erdogan is the <a href="https://northwoodsministries.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-abomination-of-desolation-is-he.html" target="_blank">Abomination of Desolation</a>. His aggressive, jihadist position againt Israel fits in perfectly with him leading the prophetic attack on Israel by 10 Islamic states.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: footnotes 0;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">President Erdogan says Turkey firmly backs</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Hamas leaders and speaks openly with them</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13176859/President-Erdogan-Turkey-Hamas-speaks-openly.html" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Daily Mail</a>, March 9, 2024:</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 48px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Erdogan-Quran.jpg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; font-size: 16px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-174892" decoding="async" height="232" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Erdogan-Quran-300x174.jpg" srcset="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Erdogan-Quran-300x174.jpg 300w, https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Erdogan-Quran.jpg 700w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a></h1><p></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan today said that his nation ‘firmly backs’ the leaders of Hamas and that the country speaks openly with them.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">He has refused to brand Hamas as a terrorist group, despite Western allies of NATO-member Turkey, including the UK, and some Arab nations, doing so.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">‘<i><b>No one can make us qualify Hamas as a terrorist organisation,</b></i>’ Erdogan said in a speech in the city of Istanbul.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">‘Turkey is a country that speaks openly with Hamas leaders and firmly backs them.’</b></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Erdogan has been one of the most virulent critics of Israel since the start of the war in Gaza, which began after the October 7 attack Israel where Hamas killed at least 1,160 people, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures….</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">I honestly think that Turkey is trying to put itself on a war footing so it can enter the war against Israel. Erdogan is ambitiously aspiring to rebuild the Ottoman Empire with himself as Caliph. But he is getting on in age and has to be more aggressive in his pursuit. </i></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Note that NATO will do nothing to rein in Erdogan, and America and Europe will not sanction him in any serious way. </i></b></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghlxiJp37VwCCdY4GlgfC0d0_TQrpD3csGvsAu6aBpiN63TBFT7604tTjHmrUUvmZVyu678AnWPCdukoLC9d52TCR1YiiszpV1F4DkLFy4nRTCHtIXM8YsxkW4aeCikEH63djAdzebJErFuncXjzajD2vu38uQRY44o2ZOaN7wCyd9vP3I_VzsQBXPZxs/s984/Turkey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="984" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghlxiJp37VwCCdY4GlgfC0d0_TQrpD3csGvsAu6aBpiN63TBFT7604tTjHmrUUvmZVyu678AnWPCdukoLC9d52TCR1YiiszpV1F4DkLFy4nRTCHtIXM8YsxkW4aeCikEH63djAdzebJErFuncXjzajD2vu38uQRY44o2ZOaN7wCyd9vP3I_VzsQBXPZxs/w640-h254/Turkey.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">France: Muslim couple found to have explosives</span></h1><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">and a book of jihad propaganda</span></h1><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><time class="entry-time" datetime="2024-03-13T11:30:31-04:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></time></p><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Europe 1</a>, March 10, 2024:</i></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The RAID and the deminers intervened this Sunday morning, shortly after 6 a.m. in an apartment in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon. During the search, investigators found at least one kilo of TATP, a very unstable homemade explosive, as well as Salafist literature. A man and a woman were taken into custody.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">According to information from Europe 1, a man and a woman were arrested and taken into police custody in Lyon. <b>The woman is suspected of having prepared explosives with a view to offering them for sale via social networks</b>, in particular Snapchat. The RAID and the deminers intervened this Sunday morning, shortly after 6 a.m. in an apartment in the 8th arrondissement of the capital of the Gauls.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">During the search, at least one kilo of TATP, a very unstable homemade explosive, was found and immediately destroyed by the deminers due to its dangerousness. Two mobile phones, a false identity card and a booklet of Salafist literature were also seized.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>The suspect’s companion was wanted by the police, due to a 6-month prison sentence for drug violations</b>. The judicial police were contacted.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">How smart is that girl? Keeping a drug user in her apartment along with unstable explosives?</span></i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7QOFxv1HX-WF_SO0gBoP5QFYtIMQXdcrX1LgYZ86i8bVGvEv8h4-0dVQWfDPEqUgmuxui5E8O1I6MdBsLZwB6UECyeBqMFJ172pK1euJZeuRmAvyvwPWoWSOHUrU-eGvQ9Kmo6SNL4UvfxjLYlJVtJl3riSCbexMBeFwa_jJb7w-KRET8G8fKChqTRc/s989/Lyon,%20Fr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="989" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7QOFxv1HX-WF_SO0gBoP5QFYtIMQXdcrX1LgYZ86i8bVGvEv8h4-0dVQWfDPEqUgmuxui5E8O1I6MdBsLZwB6UECyeBqMFJ172pK1euJZeuRmAvyvwPWoWSOHUrU-eGvQ9Kmo6SNL4UvfxjLYlJVtJl3riSCbexMBeFwa_jJb7w-KRET8G8fKChqTRc/w640-h236/Lyon,%20Fr.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></span><p></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">In the real world, piracy went out 3-400 years ago with Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Sir Francis Drake, etc. But in medievil Islam, this is still a niche industry.</span></i></b></p></div><div class="container mt-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; 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color: #050505; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">take more than 20 hostage</span></h1><div class="row author-social d-flex align-items-center ta_th" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; align-items: center !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-size: 16px; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px;"><div class="col-xl-6 col-lg-5 col-md-5 col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 341.25px;"><div class="author lato semi-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #707375; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">By Chris Benson</i></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1170px; padding-left: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); padding-right: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); width: 1170px;"><div class="row" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: calc(var(--bs-gutter-y) * -1);"><div class="col-md-12 col-lg-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 682.5px;"><div class="slide-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; max-height: 455px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: justify; width: 658.5px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="Images released by Yemen's Houthi group on Nov. 20 show a Houthi militant as they Hijack a cargo ship near Yemen in the southern Red Sea. On Tuesday, a Bangladeshi cargo shipped was hijacked by Somali pirates as it was headed to the United Arab Emirates from Mozambique. File Photo by Houthi Group Press Service/UPI" height="535" src="https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/upi/7421710268786/2024/1/5b579354c3ebd1826917a442fde39269/Somali-pirates-hijack-Bangladeshi-cargo-ship-take-more-than-20-hostage.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 430px; vertical-align: middle; width: 658.5px;" title="Images released by Yemen's Houthi group on Nov. 20 show a Houthi militant as they Hijack a cargo ship near Yemen in the southern Red Sea. On Tuesday, a Bangladeshi cargo shipped was hijacked by Somali pirates as it was headed to the United Arab Emirates from Mozambique. File Photo by Houthi Group Press Service/UPI" width="800" /></span></div><div class="stph_caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 15px; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Images released by Yemen's Houthi group on Nov. 20 show a Houthi militant as they Hijack a cargo ship near Yemen in the southern Red Sea. On Tuesday, a Bangladeshi cargo shipped was hijacked by Somali pirates as it was headed to the United Arab Emirates from Mozambique. File Photo by Houthi Group Press Service/UPI | <a href="https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/lp/5b579354c3ebd1826917a442fde39269/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">License Photo</a></i></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="story_dl" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>March 12 (UPI)</i> --</span> <b>Somali pirates hijacked a Bangladeshi cargo ship on Tuesday and took more than 20 of the crew hostage.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The cargo ship "MV" Abdullah was hijacked while on its way to Al Hamriyah port in the United Arab Emirates.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">According to reports, <b>23 crew members were taken hostage along with the ship, which was carrying 58 tons of coal from Mozambique.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">An official with SR Shipping Lines, which own 23 vessels, confirmed to <a href="https://www.newagebd.net/article/227706/somali-pirates-hijack-bangladeshi-ship-in-indian-ocean-hold-23-sailors-hostage" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">New Age Bangladesh</a> that the company got a message at about 1:30 p.m. local time from the captain, who informed them of the hijacking.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The captain said in short message that the crew was safe.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A crew member said in an audio clip that <b>the pirates attacked their ship using an Iranian fishing boat allegedly hijacked months prior.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i><b>"The pirates are threatening us. I am sending this voice message from the washroom. There are 7-8 of them. They intend to take us to their camp. They all have guns,"</b></i> the crew member, who's identity could not be ascertained, according to <a href="https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/bangladeshi-flag-carrier-ship-hijacked-pirates-indian-ocean-807974" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Business Standard</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"We are waiting for their next message or call," commented Meherul Karim, SR Shipping's CEO.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Karim said <b>a previous December 2010 hijacking that took 25 of the company's sailors hostage ended up with the workers being set free more than two months later.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The International Maritime Organization -- which is a United Nations body -- warned that <b>attacks on commercial ships in the region in <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6685dbd3-d69b-4b75-a18c-cea7d65748e3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">recent months</a> by Houthi rebels gives room for Somali pirates to step up further attacks in shipping lanes, too.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The hijacking in that area -- known for such occurrences -- of the Indian Ocean came the <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/03/12/sanctions-al-Shabaab/6681710213426/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">same day</a> the Biden administration announced sanctions against a international network of money launderers of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab terrorist organization, who are accused of compromising an expansive network that generates and launders millions for the al-Qaida affiliate in the Horn of Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In 2017, Somali pirates <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/04/03/Somali-pirates-hijack-Indian-ship-with-11-aboard/8161491230581/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">hijacked an</a> Indian ship with 11 on board while it was traveling from Dubai to Yemen. Two years later in 2019, maritime officials in India, China and Pakistan <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/04/09/China-India-Pakistan-free-19-after-Somali-pirate-hijacking/3701491751365/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">responded to</a> a Somali pirate hijacking and freed 19 captured crew members in the close by Gulf of Aden.</b></p></article></div></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Ships in that part of the world need to have security teams that are armed with bazookas and automatic weapons. It shouldn't be that easy to hijack a huge cargo ship.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjl8gf5TQRIQqlSUURYsFX9jJnO0gswYb9UjseQ7oR2CVyTP0RSd-AWs9JxriGBNIB5z4yx8ZHPUvt8GX3Sd5xgg0XYYmo-PNqwOHWQSZnnegtg3TuAMmOST4u8cE3SUtsval51hQPdpW5FN7JZPHoRM7VUc6k5iyqqO40LRCC0U4l2qCMrXZr18K4Z62c" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="721" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjl8gf5TQRIQqlSUURYsFX9jJnO0gswYb9UjseQ7oR2CVyTP0RSd-AWs9JxriGBNIB5z4yx8ZHPUvt8GX3Sd5xgg0XYYmo-PNqwOHWQSZnnegtg3TuAMmOST4u8cE3SUtsval51hQPdpW5FN7JZPHoRM7VUc6k5iyqqO40LRCC0U4l2qCMrXZr18K4Z62c=w640-h394" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-5426208270341524772024-03-13T18:14:00.000-07:002024-03-13T18:14:12.741-07:00Military Madness > Hezbollah launched >100 Katyusha rockets at Israel Tuesday; Poland's President calls for 3% of GDP military spending for NATO countries<p> </p><header style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: GlosaTextRoman, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><h1 class=" " data-article-head="" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: GlosaHeadline-Black, Georgia, serif; line-height: 3rem; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Hezbollah says launched over 100 rockets</span></h1><h1 class=" " data-article-head="" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: GlosaHeadline-Black, Georgia, serif; line-height: 3rem; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">at Israeli positions</span></h1><p class="lead " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, Arial, "sans serif"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p class="lead " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, Arial, "sans serif"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">On Monday, Israeli air strikes near Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek killed one person</b></p><hr class="divider" style="border-bottom: 0px rgb(222, 226, 230); 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font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px; padding: 0.3rem 0px; word-break: break-word;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A youth sits by a damaged vehicle outside a destroyed building in the aftermath of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the city of Baalbek in east central Lebanon on March 12, 2024.</i><span class="image-credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #767676; display: block; font-weight: 300; margin-top: 5px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Image Credit: AFP</i></span><span class="image-credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #767676; display: block; font-weight: 300; margin-top: 5px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></i></span></figcaption></figure><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah said on Tuesday it launched over 100 rockets at Israeli military positions in retaliation for a strike on the country’s east that killed one person the day before.</b></p></div><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Hamas ally Hezbollah and its arch-foe Israel have exchanged near-daily fire since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza in October.</b></p><div class="AV63ef561cea214c48560d40d6" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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display: flex; justify-content: space-between; left: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px 13px 11px; position: absolute; right: 0px; transition: all 0.15s ease-in-out 0s;"><div id="left" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 24px; position: static; text-align: justify;"></div></div><div id="aniview-credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, fallback, sans-serif; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; position: absolute; right: 2px; top: 2px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="cacher gn-meter" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Strikes have largely been confined to border regions, but several Israeli strikes have hit Hezbollah positions further north in recent weeks, raising fears of a full-blown conflict.</span></p></div><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Hezbollah launched “more than a hundred katyusha rockets” Tuesday morning at two military bases,</b> the group said in a statement.</span></p></div><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">This was “in response to the Israeli attacks on our people, villages and cities, most recently near the city of Baalbek and the killing of a citizen”, it added.</span></p></div><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">On Monday, Israeli air strikes near Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek killed one person, in the second raid on the Hezbollah stronghold since cross-border hostilities began.</span></p></div><div class="adv " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; text-align: center;"></div><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">On February 26, Israeli strikes targeted Baalbek, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the border, killing two Hezbollah members.</b></p></div><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Hezbollah has repeatedly said it will only stop its attacks on Israel with a ceasefire in Gaza.</span></p></div><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">But Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant recently said <b>any truce in Gaza would not change Israel’s goal of pushing Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon, by force or diplomacy.</b></span></p></div><div class="adv " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; text-align: center;"></div><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, <b>at least 317 people, mainly Hezbollah fighters but also 54 civilians, have been killed in Lebanon,</b> according to an AFP tally.</span></p></div><div class="story-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In Israel, at least 10 soldiers and seven civilians have been killed in the cross-border hostilities.</b></p></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx_iCNWWqhnujIJgOjzPRptwKn7gFI9gP56yf7M2hpb7P_sFMZPD7PcHuaC3ECENcgEqKKAF3q69dvNq7n_-QvlQyhCPGngFjX2fnfdm4Azna9qt_W_z7Q58t8SicOjYONAXzB-izB2IkkHVbOl-Ta9L5AY7XY_2id7PucV_A22b7CELX_j0fBmg4LjiM" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="664" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx_iCNWWqhnujIJgOjzPRptwKn7gFI9gP56yf7M2hpb7P_sFMZPD7PcHuaC3ECENcgEqKKAF3q69dvNq7n_-QvlQyhCPGngFjX2fnfdm4Azna9qt_W_z7Q58t8SicOjYONAXzB-izB2IkkHVbOl-Ta9L5AY7XY_2id7PucV_A22b7CELX_j0fBmg4LjiM=w640-h342" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Is Duda vying for the top job at NATO here, or is he that paranoid? Or, is he getting a big fat envelope under the table for his speech?</i></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="l-article__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Poland’s president calls for NATO defence</span></h1><h1 class="l-article__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">spending to rise to 3% of GDP</span></h1><div class="c-byline l-article__byline" id="article-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; display: flex; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; 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letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Posted March 11, 2024 1:45 pm</i></span></div><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate is-expandable " id="bylineDateUpdated" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; overflow: hidden; transition: visibility 0s ease 0.3s, height 0.3s ease-out 0s; visibility: visible;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Updated March 11, 2024 1:46 pm</span></i></div><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; visibility: visible;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">3 min read</span></i></div></div></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NATO</a> alliance to raise their <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/nato-defence-spending/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">spending on defence</a> to three per cent of their gross domestic product as Russia puts its economy on a war footing and pushes forward with its invasion of Ukraine.</b></p><p><img alt="" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; height: 1px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; position: absolute; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 1px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>President Andrzej Duda</b> made his call in remarks directed at home and abroad. His appeal came on the eve of a visit to the White House, where U.S. President Joe Biden will receive both Duda and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“In the face of the war in Ukraine and Russia’s growing imperial aspirations, the countries making up NATO must act boldly and uncompromisingly,” Duda said in a Monday evening address to his nation.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">His appeal comes at Poland marks the 25th anniversary of its accession to NATO, along with the Czech Republic and Hungary, on March 12, 1999.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #231f20;">“Poland is proud to have been a part of it for 25 years,” he said. “There has been and there is no better guarantor of security than the North Atlantic Alliance.”(</span><span style="color: #741b47;">*SR)</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">*Satanic Reversal - NATO is the only real threat to European peace and stability. It fronts the global war industry and ensures military industrial oligarchs in the Western world get filthy rich as countries like Ukraine and Kosovo are bombed back into the middle ages.</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“The war in Ukraine has clearly shown that the United States is and should remain the leader in security issues in Europe and the world,” Duda said in his speech to his nation. “However, other NATO countries must also take greater responsibility for the security of the entire alliance and intensively modernize and strengthen their troops.”</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="0" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_10347993_65f239af9b69d" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="10347993" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10347993/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_10347993_65f239af9b69d" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; position: relative; width: 640px;"><div class="c-video__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><span class="c-video__placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 360px; left: 320px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 180px; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%); width: 640px;"><img alt="Click to play video: 'Meeting NATO’s 2% defence spending target is ‘about credibility’: Latvian defence minister'" class="c-video__image" data-loaded="true" data-sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/dvr9opfp7t-2w3n78c71y/SEG_ONE_VMS.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/dvr9opfp7t-2w3n78c71y/SEG_ONE_VMS.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/dvr9opfp7t-2w3n78c71y/SEG_ONE_VMS.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/dvr9opfp7t-2w3n78c71y/SEG_ONE_VMS.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," height="360" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" src="https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/dvr9opfp7t-2w3n78c71y/SEG_ONE_VMS.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/dvr9opfp7t-2w3n78c71y/SEG_ONE_VMS.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/dvr9opfp7t-2w3n78c71y/SEG_ONE_VMS.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/dvr9opfp7t-2w3n78c71y/SEG_ONE_VMS.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," style="box-sizing: border-box; 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line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #aeacac; font-family: roboto-mono, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; text-transform: uppercase;">7:54</span></div><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Meeting NATO’s 2% defence spending target is ‘about credibility’: Latvian defence minister</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Duda’s remarks came on the same day that Sweden’s flag was raised at NATO headquarters in Brussels to cement its place as the 32nd member of the trans-Atlantic alliance. Finland joined NATO last year.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“Today, NATO is sending a clear and strong signal by welcoming Finland and Sweden into its ranks,” he said. “This is a historic event. Countries that have so far maintained a neutral status for years are joining the alliance. NATO is therefore significantly strengthened. However, further bold decisions are needed.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">NATO members agreed in 2014 to boost their defence spending to two per cent of GDP after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, but most members, including Germany, still fall short of that benchmark.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Poland, however, now spends four per cent of its GDP on defence,</b> making it the member to spend the most in percentage terms as it modernizes its military, while <b>the U.S. is well above three per cent.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“Russia’s imperialistic ambitions and aggressive revisionism are pushing Moscow toward a direct confrontation with NATO, with the West and, ultimately, with the whole free world,” Duda said in an op-ed published in The Washington Post.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="1" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_10319417_65f239af9c423" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="10319417" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10319417/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_10319417_65f239af9c423" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; 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line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #aeacac; font-family: roboto-mono, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; text-transform: uppercase;">2:40</span></div><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Trudeau defends Canada’s NATO defence spending, Ukraine war aid</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Duda said that puts the United States and Poland in a position to “lead by example and provide an inspiration for others.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“The Russian Federation has switched its economy to war mode. It is allocating close to 30 percent of its annual budget to arm itself,” Duda argued in the newspaper op-ed. “This figure and other data coming out of Russia are alarming. Vladimir Putin’s regime poses the biggest threat to global peace since the end of the Cold War.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The Biden administration suggested Duda’s call to raise the defence spending target for NATO countries may be, at least for now, overly ambitious.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">”I think the first step is to get every country meeting the two per cent threshold, and we’ve seen improvement of that,” U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. “But I think that’s the first step before we start talking about an additional proposal.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Duda will visit Brussels for a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg after his visit to the U.S.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-small;">—<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Aamer Madhani contributed to this report from Washington.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-small;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">=======================================================================================================================</b></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The claims of victimhood and demands for special treatment never end. And why should they? They work. Don’t be surprised if this guy’s trial is postponed until after Ramadan.</span></p></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Courts are in session during Lent, which is the only Christian celebration more than one or two days long. Ramadan is not a holiday, it's a month long and life goes on for most Muslims. If you want the priveleges of Islam you should have murdered someone in Pakistan.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">===========================================================================================</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">58 graves are covered in Islamic graffiti including </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">‘France is already Allah’s’, ‘Submit to Allah’</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> and ‘Happy Ramadan, non-Muslims’</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">at Dordogne cemetery</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">by Taryn Pedlar, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13187963/graves-covered-Islamic-graffiti-France-Allahs-Ramadan-Muslims-Dordogne-cemetery.html" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Daily Mail</a>, March 12, 2024:</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Soumetez-vous-a-Allah-tomb.jpeg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-322751" decoding="async" height="300" sizes="(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px" src="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Soumetez-vous-a-Allah-tomb-252x300.jpeg" srcset="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Soumetez-vous-a-Allah-tomb-252x300.jpeg 252w, https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Soumetez-vous-a-Allah-tomb.jpeg 634w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="252" /></a></p><p></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Nearly 60 graves in a French cemetery have been covered in Islamic graffiti, including phrases such as ‘Submit to Allah’ and ‘Happy Ramadan, non-Muslims’.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">On Monday morning, a total of 58 burial sites in Clermont-d’Excideuil cemetery, in Périgord Vert, Dordogne, were discovered scrawled over in an incident that has left the neighbourhood outraged.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Images of the graffiti show Islamic messages written in French sprayed in black and white paint across graves and doors.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The acts of vandalism allegedly occurred over Sunday night, only to be discovered by the Mayor of Clermont d’Excideuil, Claude Eymery, the following morning.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Tombs, the war memorial, the church door, a Calvary, and a fountain were covered with inscriptions.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">On the side of one grave site, a message written in uppercase reads: <b><i>‘France is already Allah’s’.</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Another says: ‘Happy Ramadan, non-Muslims’.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The word ‘GWER’ can be spotted on at least two tombs – translating from Algerian Arabic to a white person, a Westerner, or a non-Muslim.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The church, located 300 metres from the cemetery, was also made a target with the inscription ‘Ramadan Mubarak’ on its wooden doors….</span></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiTqjQKv2PavugjnTHri3bGlh32gSQUVHr2tTKIzPj0BlCtuK9ox76Z9Ae7o2_gaouIFV57oLku6J-SXU_5pSYTq_PzeFz3Ha3dm8F0F8T0ep-1clLhURrqjqWsFwl2LE6lU-8-gqXYNFIxXWH8vQdKU5Bv7J8OhUkJ2GgwOuAPnOfwO0pjKfzbONJLrQ" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="831" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiTqjQKv2PavugjnTHri3bGlh32gSQUVHr2tTKIzPj0BlCtuK9ox76Z9Ae7o2_gaouIFV57oLku6J-SXU_5pSYTq_PzeFz3Ha3dm8F0F8T0ep-1clLhURrqjqWsFwl2LE6lU-8-gqXYNFIxXWH8vQdKU5Bv7J8OhUkJ2GgwOuAPnOfwO0pjKfzbONJLrQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i><span style="color: #741b47;">Dordogne, FR</span></i><br /></span><br /></div></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-1398203959540043112024-03-13T11:40:00.000-07:002024-03-13T11:40:10.966-07:00Canadian convulsions > Did Canada contribute to the Covid Epidemic, and did Trudeau cover it up? Trudeau lied about suspension of UNRWA contributions<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Microbiology labs are a disgrace to mankind. They are generally funded by the military as with China and the dozens of labs operated around the world by the Pentagon. If you think anything good can possibly come out of Level 4 microbiology, you are badly deceived. They are created in order to find horrific ways to kill people by the millions. They are a crime against humanity and Canada is a part of it. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 class="mar-top-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a313c; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Exposing the Canadian government's espionage cover-up: The shocking truth behind Winnipeg's National Microbiology Lab</span></h1><div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p class="lead mar-bottom-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a313c; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Rebel News investigates events from the past five years, uncovering a nearly three-year cover-up linked to the Prime Minister's office. Recent revelations shockingly suggest gain-of-function experiments with bat viruses conducted right under our noses.</span></p><ul class="rn_byline list-inline mar-bottom-0 small margintopless" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #75859e; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.92px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -5px; margin-top: 11px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><li class="rn_byline_author" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><ul class="rn_byline list-inline mar-bottom-0 small margintopless" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #75859e; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.92px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -5px; margin-top: 11px; padding-left: 0px;"><i><li class="rn_byline_author" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><br /></li></i></ul></li><li class="rn_byline_author" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;">By <a class="linked-signup-name" href="https://www.rebelnews.com/journalist_sheila_gunn_reid" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #75859e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;">Sheila Gunn Reid</a></li> <li class="rn_byline_divider hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ced4dd; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;">|</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;">March 11, 2024</li> <li class="rn_byline_divider hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #ced4dd; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;">|</li> <li style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">News Analysis</span></li></i></ul><div class="marginbottom" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a313c; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 16.5px;"></div><div id="content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a313c; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="intro" id="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><div class="content last-child-mar-bottom-0" id="blog-post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 11px;"></p><div class="iframe-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; height: 0px; padding-bottom: 421.5px; position: relative;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjziyFbQfxL5vxgS3oEX_U-lO94M2Czy9g0x1jIhdI6A45fAv38NOD7FGzbCw6YOHjEyVdAiWIp2C6EThh_86if9JBKPyhEzxN4-7m7kn-rVoObk2a2RGYU6LQmcX-sVhpuNUg1RxpsiaXZjW1vk3q8xhdsPfbMy70PKuqEoWPdAFdvsXs8AC3J1vl0Dd8" style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="266" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjziyFbQfxL5vxgS3oEX_U-lO94M2Czy9g0x1jIhdI6A45fAv38NOD7FGzbCw6YOHjEyVdAiWIp2C6EThh_86if9JBKPyhEzxN4-7m7kn-rVoObk2a2RGYU6LQmcX-sVhpuNUg1RxpsiaXZjW1vk3q8xhdsPfbMy70PKuqEoWPdAFdvsXs8AC3J1vl0Dd8=w640-h454" width="640" /></a></div><div class="rn-article-ad margintopmore marginbottom center-block hide-access font-size-base" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 22px auto 16.5px;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2971918791097124" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-slot="4985954053" data-ad-status="filled" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 188px; text-align: center; width: 750px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">This is the National Microbiology Lab nestled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. But don't be fooled by its</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;"> innocuous exterior; within its walls lies a tale of international espionage, government cover-up</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">s</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">and potential global consequences.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">This isn't your average research facility.</span></div></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">It's Canada's lone Level 4 biolab, equipped to handle the world's deadliest pathogens. However, what sets it apart is its dubious association with Chinese government scientists. Chinese scientists, outside of China, had access to this high security facility.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The plot thickens when we delve into the past few years' events, five years in the making, and nearly three years of meticulous cover-up with tendrils into the Prime Minister's office. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shockingly, recent revelations point towards gain-of-function experiments with bat viruses conducted right under our noses.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Imagine a lab situated in a regular Winnipeg neighbourhood, just up the street from a high school and nestled among residential areas and government services. The implications should send shivers down your spine.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Let's rewind to 2019:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Two Chinese nationals, along with their students, were escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab under suspicion of collaborating with the Chinese military. Their misdeeds included transferring deadly pathogens, including Ebola, to the Chinese People's Liberation Army, with samples possibly ending up at the Wuhan Virology Institute.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">This incident triggered a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) investigation, the details of which were concealed from the public for three long years. However, the truth is finally emerging.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">According to investigative reports by Sam Copper at The Bureau, Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, one of the implicated scientists, led a project on synthetic bat filoviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology alongside Dr. Shi Zhengli, ominously dubbed the "bat woman."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Their research, purportedly aimed at assessing cross-species infection and pathogenic risks, hints at the controversial gain-of-function studies.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But the timeline doesn't end there, i</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">n June 2019, amidst the espionage scandal, Dr. Qiu and her husband were stripped of their security clearances for clandestinely removing vials of dangerous pathogens from the lab and sending them to contacts in China.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">In November 2019, a few months later, the first official clusters of COVID-19 were identified, with the Wuhan Institute of Virology suspected as the genesis of the disease.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Meanwhile, CSIS continued its investigation into the Canadian lab's espionage. Once the investigation concluded, bureaucratic stonewalling ensued.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Ian Stewart, president of the Public Health Agency of Canada then, refused to disclose the findings to Parliament, earning the dubious honour of being the first federal manager censured in over a century.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">In a bizarre turn of events, Stewart stepped down. He was subsequently hailed as a hero upon his retirement, conveniently just weeks before Parliament received the damning 600-page report detailing the espionage scandal.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, embroiled in the chaos, resorted to legal maneuvers to block the unredacted release of the CSIS investigation. His actions raise alarming questions about the extent of government complicity or incompetence.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; letter-spacing: 0px;">Adding fuel to the fire, Trudeau's snap election in August 2021 raised eyebrows—accusations of Chinese government intervention favouring Trudeau's Liberal Party.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; letter-spacing: 0px;">What exactly transpired within the walls of the National Microbiology Lab? What secrets were Dr. Qiu and her team shipping to the Wuhan Virology Institute, now implicated as the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak?</span></div></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;">And why did Trudeau's government funnel nearly $900,000 to the same institute at the onset of the pandemic? The truth remains hidden, for now, buried beneath layers of bureaucracy and political machinations and scheming.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">As Canadians demand accountability, one thing is clear: our government's integrity is gone, and our nation's safety is at risk.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br /></span></p></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil6P_7UyHN7NsCQOqUso5C-S3TWcDdbnNoputNhGygXV8genJUP_hhD3Y70Drxp5sLPzHV3ktSOzVdfHG_p_gGZuOx1BDoID3SROl3P9oUeWPjxzH34ARds60Low0i9YM0YCPfvx2yTShs8cDhXwmmbJG2X9tVTTOdXdi6bwwDVCgQvrRCdK30UGCMlc0/s738/Winnipeg,%20MB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; 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clear: both;"></div></div><div class="heateorSssClear" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Trudeau lied. </b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Although the title below states: <b>“Trudeau says no decision made on UNRWA funding but Canada will ‘protect innocent lives,’” Trudeau’s lie is clear, since Canada did not pause payments to UNRWA, as it said it would back in January.</b> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">According to the National Post: <b>“</b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Canada has not missed a payment since announcing the pause in funding in January. </b>Its payment of $25 million for this year isn’t due until April</em>.” <b>The <a href="https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-liberals-never-stopped-funding-unrwa" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Toronto Sun</a> states that “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Trudeau government never paused funding to UNRWA, despite claiming to do so in January when a dozen staffers were accused of participating in or aiding Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel.”</em></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Trudeau justified funding to UNRWA, stating: “We know how important it is to get aid into Gaza to help families, innocent civilians, the people who have been devastated by the past two months facing starvation facing instability and uncertainty.” Yet how does Trudeau justify his stance, considering that Hamas intentionally targeted innocent people? Hamas and UNRWA are intertwined, as UNRWA’s Commissioner General, Philippe Lazzarini has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/02/unrwa-head-our-employees-are-part-of-the-social-fabric-in-gaza-and-hamas-part-of-that-social-fabric&source=gmail&ust=1709735097416000&usg=AOvVaw1a1GvXseTXaKlnqhYrX6Y3" href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/02/unrwa-head-our-employees-are-part-of-the-social-fabric-in-gaza-and-hamas-part-of-that-social-fabric" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">indicated</a>: “Our employees are part of the social fabric in Gaza and its ecosystem. And as part of the social fabric in Gaza, you also have Hamas.” IDF recently released audio recordings of UNRWA staff who participated in the October 7 attacks, and it was <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/03/idf-releases-audio-recordings-of-unrwa-staff-who-participated-in-october-7-called-captive-women-sex-slaves" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">revealed</a> that <b><i>“young women were treated like animals” and were referred to in Islamic terms as “sabaya” — that is, “sex slaves.”</i></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Canada also plans to issue temporary <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/gov-t-to-offer-3-year-visas-to-canadians-extended-family-in-gaza-starting-in-2024-1.6697076" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">three-year</a> visas <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-expands-gaza-war-related-immigration-program-2023-12-21/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">for</a> Palestinian “relatives of Canadian citizens and permanent residents.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>At least six Canadians were <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canadians-killed-missing-israel-hamas-war" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">reported dead</a> and two more are missing in the October 7 savagery against Israel:</b> Shir Georgy, Ben Mizrachi, Alexandre Look, Adi Vital-Kaploun, Netta Epstein, Vivian Silver, Judith Weinstein Haggai and <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/israeli-woman-with-canadian-relatives-has-died" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Tiferet Lapidot.</a> Meanwhile, <b>in the U.S., legal action has been <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jns.org/survivors-sue-unrwa-usa-for-funding-hamas-terrorism/&source=gmail&ust=1710244290861000&usg=AOvVaw11zQQkdQLtrkiVz-OeIc0Z" href="https://www.jns.org/survivors-sue-unrwa-usa-for-funding-hamas-terrorism/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">launched</a> on behalf of a group of survivors of October 7. T</b>he lawsuit “has been filed in a U.S. district court against the American fundraising arm of UNRWA, in the first direct legal case against the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency for its role in the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/trudeau.jpg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-126882" decoding="async" height="174" src="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/trudeau.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="301" /></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Trudeau says no decision made on UNRWA funding but</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Canada will ‘protect innocent lives' </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/trudeau-says-no-decision-made-on-unrwa-funding-but-canada-will-protect-innocent-lives/wcm/42fefc16-39b6-4eb6-a3d8-de669c49633c/amp/&source=gmail&ust=1710244290861000&usg=AOvVaw1sK7nl4dL_MUG_m1y6wWjw" href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/trudeau-says-no-decision-made-on-unrwa-funding-but-canada-will-protect-innocent-lives/wcm/42fefc16-39b6-4eb6-a3d8-de669c49633c/amp/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">National Post</a>, March 7, 2024:</span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government has not made a decision on restoring funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), but any choice it makes will be based on protecting civilian lives.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Trudeau made the comments Thursday in response to questions from reporters after media reports indicated the government was considering restoring funding to the UN agency that provides relief in Gaza.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“We’re not making any announcements today. But we will continue to make sure Canada does the right thing in this situation and puts the protection of civilian life at the forefront of everything we do,” he said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Canada and many other western nations suspended funding to the agency after Israel accused employees of UNWRA of having participated in the Oct. 7 attacks. Hamas launched raids in several Israeli communities on that day resulting in the deaths of 1,200 people with another 250 taken hostage.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Israel responded to the attack with an invasion of Gaza, which has led to an estimated 30,000 deaths. The region has had limited aid supplies since the conflict began and aid agencies have raised concerns about starvation.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen was set to hold a press conference on Wednesday morning alongside UN Ambassador Bob Rae, but that event was abruptly cancelled…..</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">===========================================================================================</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> </span></p></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-77719679199393184182024-03-12T21:35:00.000-07:002024-03-12T21:35:43.129-07:00Corruption is Everywhere > Did I mention Boeing, Boeing, Boeing? Boeing and United - A Machiavellian pair? <p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i>No-one is accusing Boeing of murdering Barnett, or are they? How easy it would be to threaten the whistleblower with repercussions for his family if he continued to testify. Did he suicide? Was he suicided like Jeffrey Epstein? This needs to be thoroughly investigated.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="l-article__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #231f20;">Boeing whistleblower found dead </span><i><span style="color: #741b47;">in the midst of</span></i></span></h1><h1 class="l-article__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">testifying against company</span></h1><div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="c-byline l-article__byline" id="article-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; overflow: hidden; transition: visibility 0s ease 0.3s, height 0.3s ease-out 0s; visibility: visible;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Updated March 12, 2024 2:59 pm</span></i></div><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; visibility: visible;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">4 min read</span></i></div></div></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><u>John Barnett</u></b>, who worked for <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/boeing" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Boeing</a> for more than three decades before blowing the whistle on the aircraft maker’s allegedly questionable safety standards, <b>was found dead in his car in South Carolina</b>.</span></p><p><img alt="" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; height: 1px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; position: absolute; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 1px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Barnett, 62, was supposed to be in a deposition Saturday to answer questions related to a lawsuit against his former employer when he failed to show up to the meeting.</b> His legal team <a href="https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-in-charleston-after-break-in-depositions/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">tried to reach him by phone</a> to no avail, until they contacted the hotel where Barnett was staying.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">He was found dead in his truck in the hotel parking lot.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The Charleston County Coroner’s Office told local media that <b>it appears Barnett died from a <a href="https://abcnews4.com/news/local/boeing-whistleblower-dies-in-charleston-charleston-county-coroners-office-confirms-south-carolina-boeing-news-abc-news-4" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">self-inflicted wound</a>.</b> The Charleston Police Department is investigating his death.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Barnett, originally from Louisiana, was in Charleston for legal interviews related to his case against Boeing, in which <b>he argued that his former employer retaliated against him for raising concerns about the safety of the airplanes produced at its Charleston manufacturing plant.</b></span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="0" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_10355048_65f125072a3e3" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="10355048" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10355048/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_10355048_65f125072a3e3" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; 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What does it mean for the plane-maker’s reputation?</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“Today is a tragic day,” Brian Knowles, Barnett’s lawyer, wrote in an email to <a href="https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-in-charleston-after-break-in-depositions/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Corporate Crime Reporter</a>. “John had been back and forth for quite some time getting prepared. The defense examined him for their allowed seven hours under the rules on Thursday. I cross examined him all day yesterday (Friday) and did not finish. We agreed to continue this morning (Saturday) at 10 a.m., (co-counsel) Rob (Turkewitz) kept calling this morning and (Barnett’s) phone would go to voicemail. We then asked the hotel to check on him. They found him in his truck dead from an ‘alleged’ self-inflicted gunshot.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Boeing stated that the company is “saddened by Mr. Barnett’s passing, and our thoughts are with his family and friends.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Barnett worked at Boeing for 32 years as a quality control engineer before retiring in 2017.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In 2019, along with a dozen other workers, Barnett told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-production-problems.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">the New York Times</a> that, facing manufacturing delays, Boeing pushed its workforce at the Charleston plant to churn out Dreamliners and ignore safety issues.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Barnett <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-production-problems.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">said at the time that </a><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-production-problems.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">he had discovered</a> clusters of metal shavings hanging over wiring that commanded the flight controls in several planes. </b>The metal shavings were apparently produced when fasteners were fitted into nuts, but<b> if the shavings pierced the wires, the results would be “catastrophic.”</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Barnett said he repeatedly urged his bosses to remove the shavings but they refused and moved Barnett to a different part of the Charleston plant.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A spokesperson for the <b>Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed to the New York Times that it had inspected several Boeing planes and found the metal shavings, which can lead to electrical shorts and cause fires.</b> The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-production-problems.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">FAA issued a directive</a> to have the shavings cleaned up and Boeing said at the time it was complying with the order and working to improve the design of the nut that produced the metal slivers.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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line-height: 1.25rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="c-caption__desc" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boeing 787 Dreamliners are built at the aviation company’s North Charleston, S.C., assembly plant on May 30, 2023. </span><cite class="c-caption__cite" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Juliette Michel/AFP via Getty Images</cite></span></figcaption></div></figure></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Later in 2019, Barnett raised another safety concern, </b>this time with <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">the BBC</a>. He said that <b>procedures to track defective parts had failed, resulting in some sub-standard parts being fitted to planes to speed up manufacturing time</b>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>He claimed that tests of the emergency oxygen systems on some planes had shown a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">failure rate of around 25 per cent</a>, </b>meaning that one in four oxygen masks deployed in the event of an emergency could fail.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Boeing denied the claims but the FAA found that at least 53 defective parts in the factory had gone missing and were considered lost. Boeing was ordered to take remedial actions following the report.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Barnett launched his own lawsuit against Boeing, accusing the company of defaming his character and hindering his career because of the safety issues he raised. This was the lawsuit Barnett was pursuing when he died.</b></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="1" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_10277018_65f125072c1b5" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="10277018" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10277018/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_10277018_65f125072c1b5" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; position: relative; width: 640px;"><div class="c-video__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><span class="c-video__placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In January, a door plug failed on a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane, resulting in a <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10219139/faa-boeing-alaska-airlines-investigation/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">door panel blowing off</a> the fuselage mid-flight. The blowout was linked to loose bolts and the FAA grounded all Boeing 737 Max 9 planes with a door plug shortly after the incident.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">On Monday, 50 people were injured onboard a Boeing 787 plane after a “<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10353421/boeing-dreamliner-drop-update/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">strong shake</a>” and sudden plunge caused people to be thrown from their seats and hit the plane’s ceiling during a flight from Australia.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; 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width: 1170px;"><div class="row" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: calc(var(--bs-gutter-y) * -1);"><div class="col-md-12 col-lg-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 682.5px;"><div class="slide-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 455px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 658.5px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="A United Airlines flight left Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport en route to San Francisco and returned two and a half hours later, according to flightaware records. File Photo by Brian Kersey/UPI" height="533" src="https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/upi/2521710247338/2024/1/6c5f2669d1ac626ecdfec0144e0445f3/United-Air-flight-diverted-back-to-Sydney-due-to-maintenance-issue.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 430px; vertical-align: middle; width: 658.5px;" title="A United Airlines flight left Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport en route to San Francisco and returned two and a half hours later, according to flightaware records. File Photo by Brian Kersey/UPI" width="800" /></span></div><div class="stph_caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">A United Airlines flight left Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport en route to San Francisco and returned two and a half hours later, according to flightaware records. File Photo by Brian Kersey/UPI | <a href="https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/lp/6c5f2669d1ac626ecdfec0144e0445f3/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">License Photo</a></span></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="story_dl" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>March 12 (UPI)</i> --</span> <b>A United Airlines flight from Sydney, Australia to San Francisco was cut short after crews discovered a "maintenance issue."</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">United Airlines said in a statement Monday that the crew and 167 passengers aboard the Boeing 777-300 aircraft arrived safely back in Sydney after the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfo-bound-united-flight-returns-australia-due-18896961.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">plane was redirected.</a></b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>According to <a href="https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL830/history/20240311/0120Z/YSSY/YSSY" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Flight Aware</a>, United Flight 830 turned around just a couple of hours after departing from Sydney</b> Kingsford Smith Airport at 12:01 p.m. Australian Eastern Daylight Time on the way to SFO.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The mishap, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/australia/australia-united-airlines-sydney-san-francisco-intl-hnk/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">credited to a "maintenance issue,"</a> is the latest in a string of safety issues for both United Airlines and Boeing.</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>On Monday, more than 50 <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/03/11/New-Zealand-Latam-technical-problems-Boeing/2801710174953/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">people were injured</a> on a LATAM Airlines flight in Auckland, New Zealand, after an instrument failure caused the Boeing plane to drop suddenly</b>. <b>On Friday, a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Mexico City was diverted to Los Angeles after an issue with the plane's hydraulic system.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The <a class="tpstyle" href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Federal_Aviation_Administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Federal Aviation Administration">Federal Aviation Administration</a> is also investigating United Airlines after a <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/03/08/united-flight-loses-wheel/1071709911998/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">wheel fell off</a> one of its Boeing 777 departing from San Francisco on Thursday.</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In 2023, the FAA <a href="https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-proposes-11m-fine-against-united-airlines-allegedly-not-performing-maintenance" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a58ca; text-decoration-line: none !important;" target="_blank">proposed a $1,149,306 civil penalty</a> against United Airlines for allegedly conducting flights on Boeing 777 aircraft that were not in airworthy condition.</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXMltxYo10xJKTS970jlFmM21lDr13YsfxOCw9nCpQzW-SCz49j6KVt0OAp-vSO8-MsYzNdV5kNSXsrtRfId_1DhBUF8GEJii22eGNZ8KEDhXN64aXNwfe0xX-wEwSVYwpT2KVbWhgsrNKPMFBpJMa-7IBEUNI6qpP7D8uwdDB8U0mfSKf_WUzeC8dIs/s752/Sydney,%20NSW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="752" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXMltxYo10xJKTS970jlFmM21lDr13YsfxOCw9nCpQzW-SCz49j6KVt0OAp-vSO8-MsYzNdV5kNSXsrtRfId_1DhBUF8GEJii22eGNZ8KEDhXN64aXNwfe0xX-wEwSVYwpT2KVbWhgsrNKPMFBpJMa-7IBEUNI6qpP7D8uwdDB8U0mfSKf_WUzeC8dIs/w640-h386/Sydney,%20NSW.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><b><br /></b><p></p></article></div></div></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-14466502989796424002024-03-12T20:45:00.002-07:002024-03-12T20:59:55.324-07:00Islamic Insanity > Assad's Uncle - The Butcher of Hama, to be tried in Switzerland; Italian Terrorists arrested; Palestinians protest at Holocaust Museum<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Syrian president's uncle to stand trial in</span></h1><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Switzerland for crimes against humanity</span></h1><p class="t-content__chapo" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 22px 16px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="t-content__chapo" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 22px 16px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the Syrian president, will stand trial in Switzerland for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity that decades ago earned him the nickname "The Butcher of Hama".</span></p><div class="t-content__dates t-content__dates--reading-time" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: center; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; display: flex; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px 22px 32px; padding: 0px;"><p class="m-pub-dates" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616972; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; flex: 0 1 auto; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="m-pub-dates__date" style="margin-inline-end: 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Issued on: <time datetime="2024-03-12T12:11:06+00:00" pubdate="pubdate">12/03/2024 - 13:11</time></i></span></span><span class="m-pub-dates__date" style="margin-inline-end: 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Modified: <time datetime="2024-03-12T12:09:32+00:00">12/03/2024 - 13:09</time></i></span></span></p><div class="a-reading-time" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-flex: 1; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: center; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616972; display: flex; flex: 1 0 auto; gap: 5px; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-svg a-svg--picto-clock" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,<svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"2179 -3523 24 24\"><path fill=\"%23616972\" d=\"M2190.99-3521a10 10 0 1 0 10.01 10 10 10 0 0 0-10.01-10zm.01 18a8 8 0 1 1 8-8 8 8 0 0 1-8 8z\"/><path fill=\"%23616972\" d=\"M2191.5-3516h-1.5v6l5.25 3.15.75-1.23-4.5-2.67z\"/></svg>"); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; display: inline-flex; height: 20px; overflow: hidden; text-indent: -999999px; width: 20px;" title="Reading time"></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">3 min</i></span></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaRNsrtVxXANZwNRIbXxymklzX2syN5RVRUftCBB2hJdAQRfKybJUGfXxB0oOoa-PoMFmSiwca5rhkeZQA-CZq8eC9tmMW2VuGTuNoKatcQQJvSqrdTeLsdJL6vRivkARBLXORZri17wcsYY0f8KnG8DvsEYP2KymUTa8qTmSAnTlKt5QIOaWssatGyaE" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="1085" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaRNsrtVxXANZwNRIbXxymklzX2syN5RVRUftCBB2hJdAQRfKybJUGfXxB0oOoa-PoMFmSiwca5rhkeZQA-CZq8eC9tmMW2VuGTuNoKatcQQJvSqrdTeLsdJL6vRivkARBLXORZri17wcsYY0f8KnG8DvsEYP2KymUTa8qTmSAnTlKt5QIOaWssatGyaE=w640-h306" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="t-content__main-media" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 22px 40px; padding: 0px;"><figure class="m-figure m-figure--16x9" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption class="m-figure__caption" style="padding: 8px 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="a-media-legend" style="color: #616972; line-height: 1.4;">This file photograph taken in 1986 shows then Syrian President Hafez al-Assad (R) with youngest brother Rifaat (L) attending a reception in London.</span> <span class="a-media-legend" style="color: #616972; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 2px;">© AFP</span></i></span></figcaption></figure></div><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i style="color: #616972; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">By: </i><a class="m-from-author__name" data-tms-tr="" href="https://www.france24.com/en/news-wires" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; display: inline !important; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="NEWS WIRES"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>NEWS WIRES</i></span></a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The office of <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/switzerland/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Switzerland</a>'s Attorney General (OAG) said it was charging the former Syrian vice president and former Syrian army officer with a long list of crimes committed in February 1982, during a notorious clash between the Syrian military and Islamist opposition in the town of Hama in western Syria.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">There was no immediate official reaction from <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/syria/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Syria</a> nor from <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/rifaat-al-assad/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Rifaat al-Assad</a>, who is believed to be in Syria.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The uncle of Syria's current president <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/bashar-al-assad/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Bashar al-Assad</a> was being "charged with ordering homicides, acts of torture, cruel treatments and illegal detentions", the OAG said in a statement.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">His alleged "war crimes and crimes against humanity", it said, were committed "in his capacity as commander of the defence brigades ... and commander of operations in Hama", in central Syria.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">They took place "within the context of the armed conflict and the widespread and systematic attack launched against the population of the city of Hama", it said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJVlhIurY5OYY8DDZwlWKoCr2EhVlSbo9_XxAOj-DRcyic5B5u0p8i2vALwbRwYd9su3i4QtLzavYE9jfLSlWDj35xq2pH2lsU2ChmGZ-yTknj9ITCPG3T_hTo8iKcNfWBGrPSpK7YyaoxdAnvFALl1-z5oU4jt7UZphz9Q4tM_oCAiz48YKGe8kUSICU" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1600" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJVlhIurY5OYY8DDZwlWKoCr2EhVlSbo9_XxAOj-DRcyic5B5u0p8i2vALwbRwYd9su3i4QtLzavYE9jfLSlWDj35xq2pH2lsU2ChmGZ-yTknj9ITCPG3T_hTo8iKcNfWBGrPSpK7YyaoxdAnvFALl1-z5oU4jt7UZphz9Q4tM_oCAiz48YKGe8kUSICU=w640-h436" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p></p><h2 style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">Executions, torture</span></h2><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Syrian security forces deployed to Hama in early February 1982 to suppress an insurrection by the Islamist opposition, and the operation allegedly ended at the end of the same month.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The OAG highlighted that the defence brigades "were purportedly the main forces in charge of the suppression".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"In this context, several thousands of civilians were allegedly victims of different abuses, ranging from immediate execution to detention and torture in specifically-created centres," it said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">According to the indictment, the armed conflict in question is estimated to have caused between 3,000 and 60,000 deaths in Hama, most of them civilians.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The criminal proceedings in Switzerland were initiated under so-called international jurisdiction, which allows countries to prosecute alleged crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide regardless of where they were committed.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The initial Swiss complaint against Rifaat al-Assad was filed in 2013 by TRIAL International, a rights group that works with victims and pushes Switzerland to prosecute alleged international criminals.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"It's another step for <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/justice/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">justice</a> for the Syrian people!" TRIAL chief Philip Grant said in a statement celebrating the indictment.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Along with several other past and ongoing proceedings in France and Germany, the new trial, he said, would help examine "the responsibility of the highest Syrian officials" and shed "light on the crimes committed by the al-Assad's clan against its own people during the past decades".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The organisation also quoted one of three victims who will serve as civil plaintiffs in the case hailing the proof "that such powerful persons can be brought to justice".</span></p><h2 style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">Exile</span></h2><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The attorney-general's office had already in 2021 requested permission to issue an international arrest warrant for the now 86-year-old, but the justice ministry initially balked, arguing Switzerland did not have jurisdiction to pursue him.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">But a year later, a Swiss court overruled the justice ministry position, highlighting that Rifaat al-Assad had been staying at a Geneva hotel when Swiss prosecutors first launched their investigation in 2013.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; 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max-width: 100%;" width="300" /></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“3 Palestinians arrested in Italy on terrorist plot suspicion,” <a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/1710157493-3-palestinians-arrested-in-italy-over-terrorist-plot-suspicion" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">i24News</a>, March 11, 2024 (thanks to <a href="https://thereligionofpeace.com/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">The Religion of Peace</a>):</i></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Italian police arrested three Palestinians suspected in plotting terrorist attacks, including a suicide attack, against civilian and military targets “on a foreign soil.”</b></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The operation was carried out in L’Aquila in central Italy at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of L’Aquila – District Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, in coordination with the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office….</span></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiv2ltmzW2SrxjGBtUBF_SyKHAUfWmzG8uUmWQfS9OeB8Dsqr2eGq_4pLthpudWzRORj492MeeX6CX1690Xx6JKEQVFBrJ0JEHGaTtnz4Q_OmFonN5-BxhCj5B-x2hX4AqFw71WqtZC5CGCGVfgcDFHvf0LVXhmkaeooTG-7MH_qxSSVWl8PTPQX0lizUM" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="884" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiv2ltmzW2SrxjGBtUBF_SyKHAUfWmzG8uUmWQfS9OeB8Dsqr2eGq_4pLthpudWzRORj492MeeX6CX1690Xx6JKEQVFBrJ0JEHGaTtnz4Q_OmFonN5-BxhCj5B-x2hX4AqFw71WqtZC5CGCGVfgcDFHvf0LVXhmkaeooTG-7MH_qxSSVWl8PTPQX0lizUM=w640-h256" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #f96e5b; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-322594" decoding="async" height="232" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amsterdam-pro-hamas-protest-300x174.jpg" srcset="https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amsterdam-pro-hamas-protest-300x174.jpg 300w, https://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Amsterdam-pro-hamas-protest.jpg 700w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 40px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The protest leaders emphasized they were against the Israeli president’s presence, not the museum.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The Netherlands opened the National Holocaust Museum on Sunday with a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose presence prompted protest because of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The museum in Amsterdam tells the stories of some of the 102,000 Jews who were deported from the Netherlands and murdered in Nazi camps, as well as the history of their structural persecution under German World War II occupation before the deportations began.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The museum “gives a face and a voice to the Jewish victims of persecution in the Netherlands,” the Dutch King Willem-Alexander said in the address at the inaugural ceremony on Sunday. It also “shows us the devastating consequences that antisemitism can have,” he added.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“That is why we must continue to be aware of how things began and how they went from bad to worse,” the king said. Earlier, the king and the Israeli president visited Amsterdam’s famous Portuguese Synagogue….</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered amid tightened security at the Waterloo Square in central Amsterdam, near the museum and the synagogue, waving Palestinian flags, chanting “Never again is now,” and demanding an end of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and an immediate cease-fire in Gaza….</span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVslIl_aEpkipgBv0DaFEHWeuBKcDHzNDgNThcFdWYS2A_D0y2RpQCiLdiDmX0_S2kpRmtouT7UUnrh50hJC6VxXLxTFazW-t-Q20NMlV9AITwSA7pCszcYyqIyZ9r212b-KZA08biPrA8HMzIKycabFxnpSBOE5tc41_Bl6By2Vki5slrA70Rw9BlpMY/s785/Amsterdam,%20NL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="785" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVslIl_aEpkipgBv0DaFEHWeuBKcDHzNDgNThcFdWYS2A_D0y2RpQCiLdiDmX0_S2kpRmtouT7UUnrh50hJC6VxXLxTFazW-t-Q20NMlV9AITwSA7pCszcYyqIyZ9r212b-KZA08biPrA8HMzIKycabFxnpSBOE5tc41_Bl6By2Vki5slrA70Rw9BlpMY/w640-h262/Amsterdam,%20NL.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> </span></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-21477126578829628372024-03-12T16:14:00.001-07:002024-03-12T16:14:43.319-07:00European Politics and Military Madness > France doing exactly the wrong thing for Ukraine; Portugal politics moves to the right<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> </span></p><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">French PM Attal warns of 'tipping point'</span></h1><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">in Ukraine war</span></h1><p class="t-content__chapo" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 22px 16px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="t-content__chapo" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 22px 16px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Tuesday told parliament that Ukraine's fight against the Russian invasion had hit a "tipping point", warning of "real, tangible dangers" for France should Russia defeat Kyiv's forces.</span></p><div class="t-content__dates t-content__dates--reading-time" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: center; border: none; 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text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Attal issued a stark view of the risks of failing to support Ukraine ahead of a symbolic vote in parliament on President <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/emmanuel-macron/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Emmanuel Macron</a>'s Ukraine strategy, as domestic tensions rage in the run-up to June's European Parliament elections.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Macron's camp has been seeking to hammer home the importance of greater support for <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/ukraine/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Ukraine</a>, which is running out of ammunition, insisting that <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/europe/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Europe</a>'s security is at stake.</b></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47;">Which is not the least bit true, but France24, like almost all of the world's major papers, leans far to the left and would certainly never challenge a statement like that.</span></i></b></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Following a debate, the National Assembly lower house will hold a non-binding vote on the government's Ukraine strategy, including a bilateral security agreement signed by Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"Ukraine is watching us, waiting for the confirmation and signal of our unity behind them," Attal told lawmakers as he opened the debate. </span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">He added that "<i><b>we are at a tipping point</b></i>" in the conflict and that <b>a Russian victory had "<i>real, tangible dangers</i>" for "<i>everyday life for the French people</i>".</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47;">And, what would those be? Again, France24 doesn't challenge this absurd statement. What real, tangible dangers could come from Russia to France? It's ridiculous. They are in far more danger from supporting Ukraine than if Ukraine loses. </span></i></b></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47;">The continuation of support for Ukraine means there will be little left of it when they are done and Russia will be able to take over the entire county if it so desires. Right now, that is not their desire, they only want control over the Russian-speaking people, in my humble opinion. Not trying to negotiate a settlement now is a criminal attitude that benefits only the war industry.</span></i></b></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #202427;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">'Flee responsibility' </span></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">With the symbolic parliament vote, Macron is forcing political parties to take a public stance on the conflict as <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/russia/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Russia</a>'s invasion of Ukraine stretches into its third year.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The far-right National Rally (RN), which leads Macron's alliance by a wide margin ahead of the European elections, said it would abstain, while the far-left France Unbowed party (LFI) said it would vote against.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">With the support of the conservative Republicans party (LR), the outcome of the vote could still offer backing to Macron's strategy.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Targeting the RN, Attal said that "to abstain is to flee before your responsibility to history and to betray what is dearest to us".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">He signed off his opening speech with the Ukrainian battle cry of "Slava Ukraini", leaving party chiefs to speak ahead of the vote expected around 8:00 pm.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The upper house, the Senate, was set to hold similar debates on Wednesday.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">LFI said it would vote "against war" and the possibility of Ukraine joining <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/nato/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">NATO</a> and the European Union in the future.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Speaking for the RN, party figurehead <b><a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/marine-le-pen/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Marine Le Pen</a> attacked Macron's "warlike announcements", in reference to his not ruling out the sending of Western troops to Ukraine.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">She also condemned <b>European sanctions on Russian exports, <i>"some (of which) have considerably weakened our economies"</i>, and rejected the possibility of Ukraine becoming a member of NATO and the EU.</b></span></p><h2 style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">'No to war with Russia' </span></h2><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i><b>The vote was designed so that "either we're in favour of Macron, or we're accused of being pro- (Russian President Vladimir) Putin,"</b></i> Le Pen charged, accusing the government of "hijacking, exploiting and instrumentalising a major international crisis for a short-term electoral agenda".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Allies of Macron at the weekend lambasted the RN at the launch of their European election campaign, accusing the far-right party of flirting with the <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/kremlin/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Kremlin</a> and betraying the interests of France and Europe.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">But <b>public support for France's continued aid for Ukraine is waning,</b> according to some pollsters.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">An Elabe poll released on Sunday showed that <b>39 percent of French people support France's continued economic and financial aid for Ukraine, 11 percentage points down from June 2023.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Just 14 percent of French people believe France should ramp up military aid for Ukraine</b> according to the study.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Macron emphasising that his ruling party is prepared for war with <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/russia/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Russia</a> is a "risky bet" ahead of the elections, the Eurointelligence think tank said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">It added that Macron's "narrow focus" on the RN made his party an "easy target" for others.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Macron's hardened stance represents a turnaround for a leader who had for years sought to position himself as a top mediator between Russia and Ukraine.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Speaking to French broadcaster BFM TV on Monday, Ukrainian leader Zelensky said there was no need for French ground troops in his war-torn country as long as "Ukraine holds".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"Your children are not going to die in Ukraine," he said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: #fce5cd;">(AFP) </em></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">==========================================================================================</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div><p></p><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Portugal's centre right claims victory in election</span></h1><h1 class="t-content__title a-page-title" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: none; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 22px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; 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background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; display: inline-flex; height: 12px; overflow: hidden; text-indent: -999999px; width: 11px;"></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Follow</i></span></a></div></div><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The result marks another advance for the populist <a class="gtm-add-suggested-tag" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/far-right/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">far right</a> in Europe, where they already govern -- often in coalition -- in countries such as Italy, Hungary and Slovakia, or are steadily gaining, as in <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230827-french-interior-minister-darmanin-warns-of-risk-of-le-pen-victory-in-next-election" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">France</a> and <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230703-german-far-right-party-afd-scores-another-electoral-victory" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Germany</a>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Near-complete official results showed early Monday that the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) captured 29.49 percent of the vote in Sunday's poll, just ahead of the Socialists, with 28.66 percent.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">That would give the AD 79 seats in the 230-seat parliament against 77 for the Socialists, who have been in power since 2015.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Chega, led by former priest trainee and television football commentator Andre Ventura, captured 18 percent of the vote, giving it 48 seats, up from just 12 in the last election in 2022.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Even with the backing of new business-friendly party Liberal Initiative, (IL) which won 8 seats, the AD would still need the support of Chega to reach a majority to pass legislation.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"Chega asked to become the centrepiece of the political system and it achieved this result," Ventura said late Sunday in an address to his supporters who chanted "Portugal, Portugal".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"We want to give <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/portugal/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Portugal</a> a stable government," he added.</span></p><h2 style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">Tapping into immigration concerns </span></h2><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Chega has said it would demand to be part of a rightist coalition government in exchange for parliamentary support, but during the campaign AD leader Luis Montenegro repeatedly ruled out any post-election agreement with the anti-establishment party branded as xenophobic by its critics.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">He will now likely come under considerable pressure from his own party to reach some sort of agreement with the far right.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"The Portuguese have spoken and they said they want a change in government, of policies," Montenegro told supporters early Monday after the results were known.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The AD had campaigned on promises to boost economic growth by cutting taxes, and to improve unreliable public health services and education, which have been hit by strikes by teachers and school workers over pay.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Like other populist far-right parties in Europe, Chega has tapped into concerns about crime and rising <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/immigration/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">immigration</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">With one of Europe's most open immigration regimes, Portugal has seen its foreign-born population double in five years and hit one million last year -- one-tenth of the country's population.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Chega, which means "Enough", calls for stricter controls over immigration, tougher measures to fight corruption and chemical castration for some sex offenders.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Just five years old, Chega picked up its first seat in Portugal's parliament in 2019. It was the first far-right party to win representation in the assembly since a military coup in 1974 toppled a decades-long right-wing dictatorship.</span></p><h2 style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202427; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 40px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: medium;">'Better future' </span></h2><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">There are still four seats left to be assigned representing Portuguese who live abroad, but those results will not be known for days. They have traditionally gone mostly to the centre-right.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The election was called after Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Costa, 62, unexpectedly resigned in November following an influence-peddling probe that involved a search of his official residence and the arrest of his chief of staff.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Though Costa himself was not accused of any crime, he decided not to run again.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">On his watch, unemployment has dropped, the economy expanded by 2.3 percent last year -- one of the fastest rates in the eurozone -- and public finances have improved.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">But surveys indicate many voters feel Costa's government squandered the outright majority it won in 2022 by failing to improve public services or to address a housing crisis that has sparked large street protests in what remains one of Western Europe's poorest countries.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Adolfo Cesar Pereira, a 23-year-old financial services worker, said the AD's win "raised hopes for a better future".</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Young people "really struggle to find well paid jobs with good conditions. There are lots of problems with housing," he told AFP at the AD's headquarters in Lisbon.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tag/socialism/" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a7e3; flex: 0 1 auto; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Socialists</a>' new leader, 46-year-old former infrastructure minister Pedro Nuno Santos, had warned that the right would have to slash pensions and other social spending to finance its promised tax cuts.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: #fce5cd;">(AFP)</em></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #32383d; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix9WoLsnxlUmwP5jwwbuZYm7QpU_ouO5aNlTgPq0Gos6ov5-dJA4Sw48fyPWM6ZjgvA8SPjNsg8dFemX1Rdn3ZlV8-i0SBGM0K_XJz6VlZczB46j8S_o1HIH843Hdig6-jaicxvtqTZ_h1xl3Uzv9oCS2C4WfsA4fnpXKy4kgkc6A-ND6dVBeV6VKE8us/s553/Portugal,%20jpg.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="553" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix9WoLsnxlUmwP5jwwbuZYm7QpU_ouO5aNlTgPq0Gos6ov5-dJA4Sw48fyPWM6ZjgvA8SPjNsg8dFemX1Rdn3ZlV8-i0SBGM0K_XJz6VlZczB46j8S_o1HIH843Hdig6-jaicxvtqTZ_h1xl3Uzv9oCS2C4WfsA4fnpXKy4kgkc6A-ND6dVBeV6VKE8us/w640-h452/Portugal,%20jpg.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p></p></div><div class="m-from-author" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-flex: 0; align-items: center; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616972; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; flex: 0 1 auto; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; gap: 5px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="m-from-author__by-label" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-1940600885042445492024-03-11T17:06:00.002-07:002024-03-11T17:06:55.364-07:00The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - A reanalysis of the autopsy x-rays<p> </p><div class="post-header" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: #f5fcff; color: #3e5b67; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";"><h1 class="post-title unpublished" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, var(--font-family-title))); font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: var(--line-height-36); margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy:</span></h1><h3 class="subtitle" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_secondary, var(--print_secondary_on_web_bg_color, var(--print_secondary, var(--color-secondary)))); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, var(--font-family-title))); font-size: var(--font-size-18); font-weight: 400; line-height: var(--line-height-24); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--size-12);"><br /></h3><h3 class="subtitle" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_secondary, var(--print_secondary_on_web_bg_color, var(--print_secondary, var(--color-secondary)))); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, var(--font-family-title))); font-size: var(--font-size-18); font-weight: 400; line-height: var(--line-height-24); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--size-12);"><br /></h3><h3 class="subtitle" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_secondary, var(--print_secondary_on_web_bg_color, var(--print_secondary, var(--color-secondary)))); font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, var(--font-family-title))); font-weight: 400; line-height: var(--line-height-24); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--size-12); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A final analysis</span></h3><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-flexDirection-column pc-paddingBottom-16 pc-reset" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--color-primary-themed); font-family: var(--font-family-meta); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; text-decoration: unset; text-transform: uppercase;"><div class="profile-hover-card-target _profileHoverCardTarget_ooez6_45" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; display: inline-block;"><a class="pencraft pc-reset _decoration-hover-underline_13a18_295 _reset_13a18_1" href="https://substack.com/@rwmalonemd" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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text-transform: uppercase;">MAR 11, 2024</div></div></div></div></div><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-16 pc-paddingTop-16 pc-paddingBottom-16 pc-justifyContent-space-between pc-alignItems-center _flexGrow_1o6bj_209 pc-reset _border-top-detail-themed_1o6bj_52 _border-bottom-detail-themed_1o6bj_55 post-ufi" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-detail-themed); border-top: 1px solid var(--color-detail-themed); display: flex; flex: 1 1 1px; font-size: 19px; gap: 16px; justify-content: space-between; list-style: none; padding-bottom: 16px; 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--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: center; background: 0px 0px; border-radius: calc(var(--size-40)*.5); border: var(--border-default-themed); box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: var(--size-8); cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex: 0 0 auto; font-family: var(--font-family-text); height: var(--size-40); min-width: var(--size-40); padding: 0 var(--size-12); text-decoration-line: none; user-select: none;"><svg class="icon" fill="#000000" height="20" role="img" stroke-width="2" stroke="#000" style="height: 20px; width: 20px;" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="20" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><svg class="lucide lucide-message-circle " height="24" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M7.9 20A9 9 0 1 0 4 16.1L2 22Z"></path></svg></g></svg><div class="label" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><br /></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">A new book has been published entitled: “</span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-President-John-Kennedy-Headshots/dp/B0CXLN1PX1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3S7FVUZ4XEO0Q&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xmUfZvkUBWvL8fFQnzgqqhr8BQ1jQwQ5yrC9OWSG4Dk4YheF9JQ8wn73lEcAMDAhj_KLqbTZdgsukF596IRHiU6mNxVJ2d__3jQLr0lUhzY2_b1q4V5NQKXyo5KPzavyVqxbJfckMkwXmp7z2qm7qcI8X68tS9dW7g7PAPX5vjhd4oEXZSK9MOk3Tf_-_aK4tUQ562F2ApXQiDCXYrmJDqBQ8fkUTO7iIb7fHc5iAoY.xhTX0nXqVVNldOn1hOqLb24epQi4xHmlyD9LlribA_M&dib_tag=se&keywords=corsi+jerome&qid=1710167953&s=books&sprefix=corsi+jerome%2Cstripbooks%2C139&sr=1-1" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Final Analysis: Forensic Analysis of the JFK Autopsy X-Rays Proves Two Headshots from the Right Front and One from the Rear</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">” by David W. Mantik M.D., Ph.D and Jerome R. Corsi Ph.D. Dr. Mantik has a PhD in physics and is an radiation oncologist. At the heart of this book is a re-analysis of the original radiographs from JFK’s autopsy. The re-evaluation of the original forensic evidence of President John F. Kennedy Assassination using modern pathologic techniques should send shock waves through the world.</span></p><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-left: var(--size-4) solid var(--background_pop); margin: var(--size-20) 0; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="http://dr.%20mantik%20has%20a%20phd%20in%20physics%20and%20is%20an%20radiation%20oncologist./" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">: The Final Analysis presents indisputable forensic evidence that two shots fired from the front and one shot fired from the rear killed the president in a Dealey Plaza crossfire—exposing a sixty-year coverup by the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, and the Secret Service.</span></strong><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;" /></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);">In this decisive analysis of the JFK assassination, medical expert Dr. David W. Mantik and New York Times bestselling author Jerome R. Corsi definitively validate the observations of the physicians at Parkland Hospital, who recognized immediately that the wound in JFK’s throat and the massive, avulsed blow-out in the back of his head both involved frontal shots.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;" /><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">What distinguishes this book from the myriad of books written on the JFK assassination is that </span><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Dr. Mantik’s optical density measurements of the JFK skull X-rays in the National Archives leave no doubt the X-rays were altered to disguise evidence of the two frontal shots.</strong><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> With over four decades of experience reading X-rays, Dr. Mantik has examined the JFK assassination materials more than anyone else.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;" /><strong style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Mantik and Corsi present overwhelming testimonial and documentary evidence that proves the Bethesda surgeons performed pre-autopsy surgery on JFK’s head to remove evidence of the forehead bullet, as well as to gain access to his brain and thus “sanitize the crime scene” by removing bullet fragments and bullet tracks in the brain tissue.</strong></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;" /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">“The world is starving for objective science. This book contains objective forensic science for which the world will never be ready. If the X-rays were doctored, the CIA, the FBI, and the US Secret Service have some questions to answer. The public deserves the final analysis of these issues.”</span></b></div><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-left: var(--size-4) solid var(--background_pop); margin: var(--size-20) 0; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20); text-align: center;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><i><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">—James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge</span></b></i></span></p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">This book exposes how our government had to have murdered a US president in cold blood (who else could have done it?), lied to the American people about the assassination and then the USG created a massive cover-up story, which included framing an innocent man for the murder and most likely ordered his execution. </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">For over sixty years, our government has not only covered up this murder, they created an alternate reality of facts that have been presented as truth to the entire world. This may be the first concrete example of psywar on the American people. Being conducted by multiple agencies and may even be in collusion with one or more of the following US presidents.</p></div></div></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">The assassination of JFK marked the coup by Deep State (read: The Military Industrial Establishment) in America. They have been running the country ever since although they struggled for a little under Trump.</span></i></b></p><p><b>===============================================================================================</b></p><p><br /></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-47228885519759207482024-03-11T16:14:00.000-07:002024-03-11T16:14:06.722-07:00Corruption is Everywhere > Boeing raises it to a new level<p> </p><h1 class="l-article__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">50 people injured by ‘strong movement’</span></h1><h1 class="l-article__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">on Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner</span></h1><div class="c-byline l-article__byline" id="article-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; display: flex; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.51008px; padding: 0px 0px 24px;"><div class="c-byline__text" style="align-self: flex-start; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center;"><div class="c-byline__attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25rem;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="c-byline__attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25rem;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">By Staff</span> <span class="c-byline__source c-byline__source--noName" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem;"> The Associated Press</span></i></div><div class="c-byline__datesWrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="c-byline__dates" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--pubDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); display: flex; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Posted March 11, 2024 5:12 am</i></span></div><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate is-expandable" id="bylineDateUpdated" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; overflow: hidden; transition: visibility 0s ease 0.3s, height 0.3s ease-out 0s; visibility: visible;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Updated March 11, 2024 8:02 am</span></i></div><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; visibility: visible;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1 min read</span></i></div></div></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://globalnews.ca/video/10277018/faa-head-says-boeings-oversight-system-is-not-working/" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="910" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIc4CVDTIlGzubnOSDqoGwKQGJvwyAQcBlFf2oYLCHzKCwlvjeqswbt9YXKwrAQho4nSF0_NQvcVF02f1gw74yBo0LIjioGeX_7gIpXg17K2BZKL_-tKXlt0Gy0FcfiwnzXB-4x4_Rw92Dpa3ghjPjz-I5yaENwQ8ggbrXmk7FhzeYBcGIcfC7NmdhW78=w640-h354" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">At least 50 people were injured Monday by what officials described as a “strong movement” on a <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/boeing" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Chilean plane</a> traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand.</b></p><img alt="" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; height: 1px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; position: absolute; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 1px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>LATAM Airlines</b> said in a statement that <i><b>there was “a technical event during the flight which caused a strong movement.”</b></i> It did not elaborate on what happened.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Passengers were met by paramedics and more than 10 emergency vehicles when the flight touched down in Auckland.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; 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line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #aeacac; font-family: roboto-mono, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; text-transform: uppercase;">0:48</span></div><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-align: justify; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">US Department of Justice opens criminal investigation over Alaska Airlines mid-flight door blowout</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>About 50 people were treated at the scene for mostly mild injuries, with 13 taken to a hospital, </b>an ambulance spokesperson said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">One patient was believed to be in serious condition.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Passengers said a number of people were not wearing seatbelts when flight LA800 suddenly dropped.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="1" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_10344732_65ef868a04444" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="10344732" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10344732/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_10344732_65ef868a04444" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; 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color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“LATAM regrets the inconvenience and injury this situation may have caused its passengers, and reiterates its commitment to safety as a priority within the framework of its operational standards,” the airline said.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">It will be interesting to find out what kind of technical event occurred and whether it was a pilot error or a fault with the plane.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">‘Baffling’: B.C. murderer who killed</span></h1><h1 class="l-article__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">university student granted day parole</span></h1><div><div class="c-byline__attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25rem;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><div class="c-byline__attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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letter-spacing: 0.51008px;"><div class="c-byline__dates" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--pubDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); display: flex; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Posted March 9, 2024 2:42 pm</i></span></div><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; visibility: visible;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1 min read</span></i></div><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; visibility: visible;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; 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color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The man who was convicted of murdering a University of Victoria student in 1987 has been granted day parole.</b></p><img alt="" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; height: 1px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; position: absolute; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 1px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In January 1987, UVIC student Marguerite Telesford went missing. Her body was never found, but evidence led to the conviction of Scott Mackay for her murder. Mackay is serving a life sentence for his conviction.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The convicted killer is <b>also a person of interest in another unsolved homicide case and has been convicted for two attacks on sex trade workers.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Now, <b>Mackay has been granted six months of day parole</b>, after six unsuccessful applications, <b>despite the parole board saying Mackay has a high risk for “violent reoffending.”</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Victim rights advocate Dave Teixeira is calling the decision “baffling.”</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><i><b>“He has not demonstrated remorse, or cooperation, in the long term to bring closure to this family and it seems in many cases, parole boards and review boards lean towards letting someone out after a certain amount of time because they’ve ‘earned it’ and it proves their systems are working,”</b></i> Teixeira told Global News.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“It seems to be another instance that a parole board is disregarding the safety of Canadians.”</b></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #741b47;">Exactly, who is going to take responsibility for the first girl he murders?</span></b></i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The board said it found that Mackay would not present an undue risk to society while on day parole, referencing his 25 years of sobriety and completion of programs.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Mackay has numerous conditions including a 10 p.m. curfew and a ban from consuming alcohol and drugs. He also must report all relationships and friendships with women to his parole supervisor.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: #fce5cd;">As to where Mackay will be released, it is unclear as that information was redacted from the decision.</b></p></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Wow! That should give him a head-start in selecting his next victim. Good grief! Canada's justice system is soooo criminal centric and so completely ignores the safety of women and girls in society.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUzkYMbJiJnMe0yMA41RYvdeBTa4DvjW2sotzj-s6Zi0s95Bvv6g4Q5ST5BMf13sO1mRk5VbMsjxrIojCXKCMh2VnbptT_S0TRMn_gbnj-yTPadHw1Sr2KDYfEAhznC9YryXalt0YowB2k8YKS0RFRSGTaln1p_DnWd0ImRhheDTYXZf6S0ea46E4UHsM/s843/Victoria%20BC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="843" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUzkYMbJiJnMe0yMA41RYvdeBTa4DvjW2sotzj-s6Zi0s95Bvv6g4Q5ST5BMf13sO1mRk5VbMsjxrIojCXKCMh2VnbptT_S0TRMn_gbnj-yTPadHw1Sr2KDYfEAhznC9YryXalt0YowB2k8YKS0RFRSGTaln1p_DnWd0ImRhheDTYXZf6S0ea46E4UHsM/w640-h282/Victoria%20BC.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div><div class="c-byline l-article__byline" id="article-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; display: flex; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.51008px; padding: 0px 0px 24px;"><div class="c-byline__images c-byline__images--single" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-shrink: 0; margin-right: 16px; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="c-byline__text" style="align-self: flex-start; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center;"><div class="c-byline__attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25rem; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></div><div class="c-byline__datesWrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="c-byline__dates" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-align: justify; visibility: visible;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); font-size: 0.875rem; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; visibility: visible;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-51688681289515808542024-03-10T14:19:00.000-07:002024-03-10T14:19:00.782-07:00Military Madness > Pope Francis is Right! I can't believe I said that; Turkey ready to host negotiations between Ukraine and Russia<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i>It's not all that often that I agree with Pope Francis, but the old dodderer is right-on here with regard to the weapons industry and the Ukraine war.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><div class="container mt-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 3rem !important; max-width: 1170px; padding-left: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); padding-right: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); width: 1170px;"><div class="row" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: calc(var(--bs-gutter-y) * -1);"><div class="col-md-12 col-lg-7 col-lg-mod-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 682.5px;"><h1 class="headline lato bold" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Vatican responds to criticism after Pope Francis</h1><h1 class="headline lato bold" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">says Ukraine should raise white flag</h1><div class="row author-social d-flex align-items-center ta_th" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; align-items: center !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px;"><div class="col-xl-6 col-lg-5 col-md-5 col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 341.25px;"><div class="author lato semi-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #707375; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><i>By <a href="https://www.upi.com/author/Adam-Schrader/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;">Adam Schrader</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1170px; padding-left: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); padding-right: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); width: 1170px;"><div class="row" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: calc(var(--bs-gutter-y) * -1);"><div class="col-md-12 col-lg-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 682.5px;"><div class="slide-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-size: 16px; max-height: 455px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 658.5px;"><img alt="Pope Francis celebrates the Urbi et Orbi in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Christmas Day, Monday, December 25, 2023. In his annual message to the world, the Pope deplored the weapons industry as it fuels wars while calling for peace between the Palestinians and Israel and the continuing conflict in Ukraine. File Photo by Stefano Spaziani/UPI" height="533" src="https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/upi/8181710082974/2024/1/fe72aaacc30e98f1ab0dd9de384a44fc/Vatican-responds-to-criticism-after-Pope-Francis-says-Ukraine-should-raise-white-flag.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 430px; vertical-align: middle; width: 658.5px;" title="Pope Francis celebrates the Urbi et Orbi in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Christmas Day, Monday, December 25, 2023. In his annual message to the world, the Pope deplored the weapons industry as it fuels wars while calling for peace between the Palestinians and Israel and the continuing conflict in Ukraine. File Photo by Stefano Spaziani/UPI" width="800" /></div><div class="stph_caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 15px; text-align: center;">Pope Francis celebrates the Urbi et Orbi in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Christmas Day, Monday, December 25, 2023. In his annual message to the world, <b><i>the Pope deplored the weapons industry as it fuels wars </i></b>while calling for peace between the Palestinians and Israel and the continuing conflict in Ukraine. File Photo by Stefano Spaziani/UPI | <a href="https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/lp/fe72aaacc30e98f1ab0dd9de384a44fc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">License Photo</a></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span class="story_dl" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>March 10 (UPI)</i> --</span> <b>The Vatican has responded after politicians and religious leaders reacted with incredulity after <a class="tpstyle" href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Pope_Francis/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> indicated during an interview with a Swiss broadcaster that <a class="tpstyle" href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Russia-Ukraine-War/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="War in Ukraine">Ukraine</a> should surrender to Russia to end the war.</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Francis recorded a full interview Lorenzo Buccella of the Radio Télévision Suisse show "Cliché" in early February that will air on March 20. In a portion of the interview released Saturday, <b>Buccella asked him about calls whether Ukraine should have the courage to wave the "white flag."</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><i><b>"I believe that the stronger one is the one who sees the situation, who thinks of the people, who has the courage of the white flag, to negotiate.</b></i> And today, negotiations are possible with the help of international powers," Francis said, noting that Turkey has offered to mediate an end to the war.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The Vatican was forced to clarify the pope's remarks after backlash started rolling in, with Holy See spokesman Matteo Bruni pointing to the fact that the language of the "white flag" -- the universal symbol of surrender used by Francis -- had been first used by Buccella.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">"The pope uses the term white flag, and responds by picking up the image proposed by the interviewer, to indicate a cessation of hostilities, a truce reached with the courage of negotiation," Bruni said. "Elsewhere in the interview, speaking of another situation of conflict, but referring to every situation of war, the Pope clearly stated: <i><b>'Negotiations are never a surrender.'</b></i>"</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs was among those <a href="https://twitter.com/edgarsrinkevics/status/1766716424725107050" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">who had expressed their criticism</a> of Francis's language choice.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">"My Sunday morning take: One must not capitulate in face of evil, one must fight it and defeat it, so that the evil raises the white flag and capitulates," Rinkēvičs said.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">President <span style="letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Rinkēvičs has unfortunately misidentified the real evil at play here. Pope Francis does not, as he is quoted in the image caption above, the weapons industry feuls war! The Ukraine war was not started by Russia but by NATO and America in their determination to surround Russia's west and southwest borders with NATO countries against the promises they made after the collapse of the Soviet Union.</span></span></i></b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church, <a href="https://ugcc.ua/data/glava-ugkts-u-nyu-yorku-odne-skazhu-vid-narodu-z-ukrayny-nikomu-y-na-gadku-ne-spadae-zdatysya-4521/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">met with the Ukrainian community</a> in New York City on Saturday where he stressed that <i><b>"Ukraine is wounded, not conquered."</b></i></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><i><b><span style="color: #741b47;">So, Ukraine will not negotiate peace until it is completely destroyed - driven back to the 16th century with more than half its population dead or gone. What madness! </span></b></i></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><i><b>"Ukraine is exhausted, but it stands and perseveres! Believe me, no one even thinks of surrendering, even where hostilities are taking place today,"</b></i> he said.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">Certainly, no-one in Europe or America thinks about surrendering, not as long as there are inventories of munitions that need to be moved.</span></i></b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Francis has been supportive of Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24, 2022, and in his <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/angelus/2024/documents/20240310-angelus.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Angelus prayer on Sunday</a>, the pope expressed concern and sorrow for the "grave crisis" afflicting Haiti amid a new escalation in the ongoing violence and political turmoil gripping the country since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlen41ExwGZgsPM_mjnG_EuGBExtcDvLeaDMYaUVj__ZZIWXf-VWVjRUIQY1pxPdAbS99w77540cElVy8e2PcsExp9RFcOXLRmDGUvcNMuOAIojpj-HaFDbDE7UZDMr6xITznlUP-8qGFM-nJynCK00mrTZ71_S1tZlt58xqEAVYlPhtLtrtcSGIzqog/s882/Ukraine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="882" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlen41ExwGZgsPM_mjnG_EuGBExtcDvLeaDMYaUVj__ZZIWXf-VWVjRUIQY1pxPdAbS99w77540cElVy8e2PcsExp9RFcOXLRmDGUvcNMuOAIojpj-HaFDbDE7UZDMr6xITznlUP-8qGFM-nJynCK00mrTZ71_S1tZlt58xqEAVYlPhtLtrtcSGIzqog/w640-h328/Ukraine.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><br /></article><article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><br /></article><article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><br /></article><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i>And yet, there may be a glimmer of hope</i></b></span><br /><div class="container mt-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-size: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 3rem !important; max-width: 1170px; padding-left: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); padding-right: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); width: 1170px;"><div class="row" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: calc(var(--bs-gutter-y) * -1);"><div class="col-md-12 col-lg-7 col-lg-mod-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 682.5px;"><h1 class="headline lato bold" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Erdogan: Turkey could host peace talks</h1><h1 class="headline lato bold" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">between Ukraine, Russia</h1><div class="row author-social d-flex align-items-center ta_th" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; align-items: center !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px;"><div class="col-xl-6 col-lg-5 col-md-5 col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 341.25px;"><div class="author lato semi-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #707375; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><i>By Mike Heuer</i></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-size: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1170px; padding-left: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); padding-right: var(--bs-gutter-x, .75rem); width: 1170px;"><div class="row" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: calc(var(--bs-gutter-y) * -1);"><div class="col-md-12 col-lg-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 682.5px;"><div class="slide-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 455px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 658.5px;"><img alt="Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shake hands prior to their talks in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday. The Turkish leader revealed afterwards he has offered to host peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/EPA-EFE" height="532" src="https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/upi_com/6621709998756/2024/1/791a681ff4fa106cce9b9e537c3cbd95/Erdogan-Turkey-could-host-peace-talks-between-Ukraine-Russia.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 430px; vertical-align: middle; width: 658.5px;" title="Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shake hands prior to their talks in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday. The Turkish leader revealed afterwards he has offered to host peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/EPA-EFE" width="800" /></div><div class="stph_caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 15px; text-align: center;"><i>Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shake hands prior to their talks in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday. The Turkish leader revealed afterwards he has offered to host peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/EPA-EFE</i></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span class="story_dl" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>March 9 (UPI) </i>--</span> <b>Turkish President <a class="tpstyle" href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Recep_Tayyip_Erdogan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Recep Tayyip Erdogan">Recep Tayyip Erdogan</a> says he is willing to host a summit between <a class="tpstyle" href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Russia-Ukraine-War/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="War in Ukraine">Ukraine</a> and Russia in the interests of reaching a "fair peace" in the ongoing conflict.</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b>Erdogan announced Turkey's preparedness to host peace talks during a <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8u448u" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">joint news conference</a> with Ukrainian President <a class="tpstyle" href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Volodymyr-Zelensky/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Volodymyr Zelensky">Volodymyr Zelensky</a> on Friday after the two met at the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul.</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b>=================================================</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b><br /></b></p></article></div></div></div></article></div></div></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-71857122647622655802024-03-10T11:10:00.001-07:002024-03-10T11:10:56.561-07:00Islamic Insanity > 4 Islamic extremists arrested in Sweden; Houthis attack USNavy Destroyers; Gaza aid airdrops kill 5 kids, injure 10 others<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Swedish police arrest four suspected of</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>'Islamist extremism'</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>By Ehren Wynder</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwXUcD0bXz-RGrIYNoIRz0yrcSwp9-VUV2EV2hbDtt13BgAupvdRxBYljMvAZL6njZLVzn48sYT0o59acH6ud_VvD1TWxR1MUiSvn5JaHMjWm3ec0WPbnBmGZ0j4dr7mq894Rj5WJNR-WuBBD7g-fsLfld4MDel6zZSfHjFFWwQDesvFeJyF08nBLH4OU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwXUcD0bXz-RGrIYNoIRz0yrcSwp9-VUV2EV2hbDtt13BgAupvdRxBYljMvAZL6njZLVzn48sYT0o59acH6ud_VvD1TWxR1MUiSvn5JaHMjWm3ec0WPbnBmGZ0j4dr7mq894Rj5WJNR-WuBBD7g-fsLfld4MDel6zZSfHjFFWwQDesvFeJyF08nBLH4OU=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></i></div><i><br /><br /></i><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>March 7 (UPI) </i>-- <b>Swedish police forces said Thursday they arrested four people connected to "violent Islamist extremism" in the Stockholm area.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to a statement, Sweden's Security Police and the Swedish Police Agency <b>suspect the four people of <i>"preparation for terrorist offenses and serious weapons offenses."</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Security Police said it also suspects connections to "<i><b>serious organized crime.</b></i>"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Swedish government last August raised its terror threat level from "elevated" to "high" due to an increased <i><b>"threat of attacks from actors within violent Islamism"</b></i> over the past year.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>"High" is the fourth level threat on a five-level scale. This was the first time it had reached that level since 2016.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The new terror threat level is based on a strategic assessment of terrorist actors' <i>"intention and ability to commit terrorist attacks against Sweden,"</i></b> government officials said.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The adjustment follows tensions caused by Swedish demonstrators burning or otherwise desecrating the Koran. The incidents led to Iraq last summer expelling Sweden's ambassador and accusing the Swedish government of "repeated permission for burning the Koran, insulting Islam and burning the Iraqi flag."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>On Thursday, Sweden officially became the 32nd member of NATO.</b> The country asked for admittance in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but the process was stalled in part by Turkey, which was concerned by the Swedish government's response to Islamophobic demonstrations in the country.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">Sweden is a big piece in the puzzle of surrounding Russia on their western and southern borders, for NATO. It is madness, of course, but it sells a lot of munitions - NATO's new </span></i></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><i>raison d'être.</i></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXPVOqjWViz6TqNyvSCu_4kcy8jKgApXU4dE-4__2313yeLc3WrXlARVX96BWRqzd48hrljqa0VYOnQOYteVxhB_O0V_wOaitBheaZmeK0qkWRhbArv6crwiNbbmDzNIRAm3-tT5Ew3SzNOorN5rMC-_SRbMhDa3QhULb4SHuEzQcTAi4djG35hYjMV8/s897/Sweden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="897" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXPVOqjWViz6TqNyvSCu_4kcy8jKgApXU4dE-4__2313yeLc3WrXlARVX96BWRqzd48hrljqa0VYOnQOYteVxhB_O0V_wOaitBheaZmeK0qkWRhbArv6crwiNbbmDzNIRAm3-tT5Ew3SzNOorN5rMC-_SRbMhDa3QhULb4SHuEzQcTAi4djG35hYjMV8/w640-h330/Sweden.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="headline lato bold" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Houthis escalate Red Sea attacks;</span></h1><h1 class="headline lato bold" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #050505; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">target Singapore-flagged commercial vessel</span></h1><div class="row author-social d-flex align-items-center ta_th" style="--bs-gutter-x: 1.5rem; --bs-gutter-y: 0; align-items: center !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / -2); margin-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 30px;"><div class="col-xl-6 col-lg-5 col-md-5 col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) / 2); width: 341.25px;"><div class="author lato semi-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #707375; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">By Mike Heuer</i></div><div class="author lato semi-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #707375; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></i></div><div class="author lato semi-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #707375; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuQm22NMd3RunegehHegqnTNM13sL1P_fmAQk8sohKYDawFE30RrtCOhmfGvwrbrNTJdPtlJadIqJbzTH9utgaB7j2iMcp_iS1KuOdLiqDXDmhldTqtSDODLKsxbfGPG4KDhyz6zDTRfDDMDCwO-MqklwhjeaOGr4gIp0rDMcEvss7Lf5mKbxg0ku2PCE" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuQm22NMd3RunegehHegqnTNM13sL1P_fmAQk8sohKYDawFE30RrtCOhmfGvwrbrNTJdPtlJadIqJbzTH9utgaB7j2iMcp_iS1KuOdLiqDXDmhldTqtSDODLKsxbfGPG4KDhyz6zDTRfDDMDCwO-MqklwhjeaOGr4gIp0rDMcEvss7Lf5mKbxg0ku2PCE=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><div class="stph_caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 15px; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The Pentagon says U.S. Navy ships on patrol in the Red Sea on Friday conducted a 'self-defense' strike against two truck-mounted anti-ship missiles in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. Photo courtesy U.S. Central Command/<a href="https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1765159620727701682" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;">X</a></i></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><article itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Lato, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="story_dl" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>March 9 (UPI)</i> --</span> <b>Houthis rebels in Yemen claimed on Saturday to have attacked a Singapore-flagged commercial vessel and U.S. Navy ships in the Red Sea as their assaults against maritime traffic escalated.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The Houthis fired <i><b>"several suitable naval missiles"</b></i> against the M/V Propel Fortune <b>as well as launching 37 drones targeting several U.S. Navy destroyers in a separate action,</b> Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said in a <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/yemeni-houthi-group-targets-us-naval-ship-several-destroyers-in-red-sea-gulf-of-aden/3160037" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">statement</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The U.S. Central Command <a href="https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1766304008506130435?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">confirmed</a> <b>the rebels fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles at the Propel Fortune but did not strike the ship</b>, while adding in a update that <b>its forces launched defensive strikes against two truck-mounted anti-ship missiles in Houthi-controlled territories in Yemen.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The Propel Fortune is a Singapore-flagged vessel that is owned and operated by Singapore entities. It was located about 50 nautical miles southeast of Aden when attacked.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">It was built in Japan in 2012 and formerly was a U.S.-flagged vessel named Trans Oceanic before its recent transfer to the current owner and operator in Singapore.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The attacks were done in separate operations by the Houthi militants and "successfully achieved their goals," <a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/212810/Yemen-hits-several-US-destroyers-in-Red-Sea" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Saree said</a>, adding that <b>the drones "successfully hit" targeted U.S. Navy destroyers.</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Later on Saturday <b>CENTCOM<a href="https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/1766510050649022808?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> announced</a> it had shot down a total of 28 Houthi drones during a "large-scale attack" launched by the Houthis</b> against targets in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden from 4 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. Sanaa time Friday.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>The <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/01/03/coalition-houthis-attacks/9121704323588/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Houthi attacks</a> on commercial and military vessels are in support of <a class="tpstyle" href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Hamas/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> in <a class="tpstyle" href="https://www.upi.com/topic/Gaza/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Gaza">Gaza</a> and will continue, </b>Saree said during a weekly rally held Friday in Sanaa, Yemen.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; text-align: justify; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The attacks are escalating, and more than 100 have been reported targeting commercial and naval shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, <a href="https://maritime-executive.com/article/houthis-shoot-at-another-american-ship-saying-attacks-are-escalating" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Maritime Executive</a> reported.</span></p></article><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The solution here is to isolate Yemen from all shipping and air transport. That way, Iran will not be able to supply the Houthis with weapons, and as food runs out, Yemenis will turn against the Houthis and drive them out. That's my theory anyway.</i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYC9tYXT80fLrEigZJJS7WJBF0lYMIdul_EDRPygXbx56gbLmLFvWFFS_TDdntDcy-sk_n2NEfzG3iSJAJH6F-_aJ5XftKeedjybDk9pFcDWMHJMzYagQBlIbVu9tpZGpxWHiVvT4UU2i1rc0HsceYON4va7udT2q0vd099gNROvkiiQZ4DiMf4Vc2BtY/s744/Yemen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="744" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYC9tYXT80fLrEigZJJS7WJBF0lYMIdul_EDRPygXbx56gbLmLFvWFFS_TDdntDcy-sk_n2NEfzG3iSJAJH6F-_aJ5XftKeedjybDk9pFcDWMHJMzYagQBlIbVu9tpZGpxWHiVvT4UU2i1rc0HsceYON4va7udT2q0vd099gNROvkiiQZ4DiMf4Vc2BtY/w640-h376/Yemen.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="l-article__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="color: #231f20;">At least five people </span><span style="color: #741b47;"><i>(all of them children according to another source)</i></span></b><span style="color: #231f20;"><b> were killed and 10 others injured when airdropped aid packages fell on them</b> in the Al Shati camp west of Gaza City, according to Hamas-run Ministry of Health.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; height: 1px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin-bottom: 24px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; position: absolute; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 1px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Footages posted on social media showed <b>a large cluster of aid parcels suspended from parachutes drifting through the sky but appearing to get tangled before one, with its chute deployed but not fully opened, dropped much more quickly than the rest.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The people were in the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, and the incident occurred at around 11:30 a.m. local time.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 16px; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span class="c-caption__desc" style="box-sizing: border-box;">United States Air Force drops humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Saturday, March 9, 2024. </span><cite class="c-caption__cite" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">(AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar)</cite></i></figcaption></div></figure></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The US Central Command (CENTCOM) denied in a statement that the fatalities were not caused by U.S. airdrops.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“We are aware of reports of civilians killed as a result of humanitarian airdrops. We express sympathies to the families of those who were killed. Contrary to some reports, <b><i>this was not the result of U.S. airdrops,</i></b>” CENTCOM said.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhev_PjBY37UQn8vGKjOkH3NEaqukEDR2mh-EeEw7UuuFB58A9SzAaQrkHSdW0nqnow6KwJ1Ts3UYfIqRmn9CHGy9j45_y4b2KOdmqlX8bF4o_OxqA02XeqDOKVWwuRSVFcim3mJ5meA6Tyl8boNBEfgZS9_wDdRhGEqr6cSXI1BKzRJnY4FMiaXk582UM/s779/Gaza.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="779" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhev_PjBY37UQn8vGKjOkH3NEaqukEDR2mh-EeEw7UuuFB58A9SzAaQrkHSdW0nqnow6KwJ1Ts3UYfIqRmn9CHGy9j45_y4b2KOdmqlX8bF4o_OxqA02XeqDOKVWwuRSVFcim3mJ5meA6Tyl8boNBEfgZS9_wDdRhGEqr6cSXI1BKzRJnY4FMiaXk582UM/w640-h354/Gaza.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-45648066528678292152024-03-09T17:44:00.000-08:002024-03-09T17:44:40.793-08:00You need to read this and watch this video if you ever want to know the truth about Big Pharma and Ivermectin<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The EpochTV video below is a must see as this article is a must read. This government ordered study was meant to destroy Ivermectin as an effective tretment for Covid_19. But in spite of their best efforts, the study proved Ivermectin's effectiveness. Nevertheless, the researchers concluded that Ivermectin should not be used against Covid_19. This is another case of a scientific study that had a predetermined outcome. This is what scientific research has come to especially when Big Pharma is involved.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><h1 class="sm:title-bold font-source my-2 text-[25px] font-medium leading-[30px] sm:text-[45px] sm:font-bold sm:leading-[54px]" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: var(--font-source-serif),Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-variation-settings: "wght" 650, "opsz" 40; line-height: 54px; margin: 0.5rem 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">People Who Received Ivermectin Were Better Off</span></h1><h1 class="sm:title-bold font-source my-2 text-[25px] font-medium leading-[30px] sm:text-[45px] sm:font-bold sm:leading-[54px]" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: var(--font-source-serif),Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-variation-settings: "wght" 650, "opsz" 40; line-height: 54px; margin: 0.5rem 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Study Finds</span></h1><div class="my-4 border-y border-[#D3D3D3] pb-4 pt-3 text-[18px] italic leading-[21px] sm:mb-[30px] sm:mt-3.5 sm:pb-2.5 sm:pt-2 sm:text-[22px] sm:not-italic sm:leading-[26px] lg:mb-[16px]" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgb(211 211 211/var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: __Roboto_a782de, __Roboto_Fallback_a782de, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0.875rem; padding-bottom: 0.625rem; padding-top: 0.5rem; text-align: center;">Ivermectin recipients recovered faster than others.</div><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimsv1E1f9U-WGkVrM7sDsMKHJ1v2AUcZz7gadHdOcW6tjtD4zWZFgGxO3tS0OETz2o7d0o8CwP2UQ0jkOIgassklFrcMTdtWd8MvGZ6COv4RdO-dkgJHh-UzVFtq6xsb0CHVS-NqEeuut_-m4tQCjsVT-rhYUyPrww_5_WTivvNtC_3Y3RVl6HqNfzcsE" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-wrap: nowrap;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="post_content" data-post-content="true" id="post_content" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-et-text),Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.42; padding-bottom: 1.5rem; padding-top: 1.5rem;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><b>People who tested positive for COVID-19 and took ivermectin as a treatment recovered faster than a comparison group, a new study found.</b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><b>The time to self-reported recovery was a median of two days faster among the ivermectin recipients</b>, according to the large UK study.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><b>The quicker recovery period was statistically significant.</b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><b>People who received ivermectin were also less likely to be hospitalized or die, with 1.6 percent of ivermectin recipients being hospitalized or dying versus 4 percent of the comparison group,</b> which received typical care, which in the UK is largely focused on managing symptoms.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">I'm not sure why the story isn't focused around this statistic since it states that Ivermectin was 2.5 times more effective at surviving Covid_19.</span></i></b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;">Ivermectin recipients also enjoyed <b>a reduction of severe symptoms and sustained recovery,</b> according to the study.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><b>The paper was published <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(24)00064-1/fulltext" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">by the Journal of Infection</a> on Feb. 29.</b></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px;"><div style="font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); letter-spacing: -0.18px;">The study covered an open-label trial that involved 2,157 ivermectin recipients and 3,256 who received typical care from June 23, 2021, to July 1, 2022. Participants were randomized and reported symptoms and recovery.</span></div><h2 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 2.375rem; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Researchers Say Findings Don’t Support Using Ivermectin</span></h2><div style="font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); letter-spacing: -0.18px;">The authors, including <b>Christopher Butler</b>, a University of Oxford professor and joint chief investigator of the trial, <b>downplayed the positive findings in part because the hazard ratio of 1.14 was lower than what authors pre-specified as a meaningful ratio, or 1.2. </b>Hazard ratios are a way to determine whether a treatment is beneficial.</span></div></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;">The authors also focused on the lack of differences in the number of days participants felt sick in the previous two weeks, impact on work, and likelihood of using the health care system at 3, 6, and 12 months following treatment.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><i><b>“Overall, these findings, while evidencing a small benefit in symptom duration, do not support the use of ivermectin as treatment for COVID-19 in the community among a largely vaccinated population at the dose and duration we used,”</b></i> the authors said.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">I wonder if the results were turned around and mRNA vaccines were compared to Ivermectin as the base, would the results show that mRNA vaccines should be supported as treatments? What would their hazard ratio be?</span></i></b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">Please watch this video. Your security system may try to block it, calling it dangerous, but it is only a danger to the incredible lies of Big Pharma and governments that supported them. </span></i></b></p><div class="shortcode mx-auto" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><div class="lazyload-wrapper " style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b>Funding for the research came from the UK government.</b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b>Conflicts of interest included one researcher receiving grants from pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, and other authors receiving grants from the University of Oxford.</b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">The University of Oxford teamed with AstraZeneca to produce one of the first mRNA vaccines.</span></i></b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;">The trial, known as PRINCIPLE, was touted by investigators as <i><b>“the world’s largest clinical trial of possible COVID-19 treatments for recovery at home and in other non-hospital settings.”</b></i></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px;"><div style="font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); letter-spacing: -0.18px;"><i><b>“Ivermectin is readily available globally, has been in wide use for many other infectious conditions so it’s a well-known medicine with a good safety profile, and because of the early promising results in some studies it is already being widely used to treat COVID-19 in several countries,” </b></i><b>Dr. Christopher Butler, a University of Oxford professor and joint chief investigator of the trial, said </b>when it was announced ivermectin would be assessed. “By including ivermectin in a large-scale trial like PRINCIPLE, we hope to generate robust evidence to determine how effective the treatment is against COVID-19, and whether there are benefits or harms associated with its use.”</span></div><h2 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 2.375rem; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Doctors Weigh In</span></h2><div style="font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); letter-spacing: -0.18px;"><b>Dr. Pierre Kory</b>, an American physician who was not involved in the trial, said that <b>the authors wrongly downplayed how ivermectin improved recovery from COVID-19.</b></span></div></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify;"><i><b>“PRINCIPLE was a profoundly positive study that was instead analyzed and written up as a negative one,”</b></i> Dr. Kory, who has long promoted ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, wrote <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/the-last-of-the-big-seven-fraudulent" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">in an essay</a>.</div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b>He accused the authors of undertaking “statistical chicanery” by coming up with the pre-specified hazard ratio (HR), noting that no such level was used in other parts of the PRINCIPLE trial.</b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><i><b>“A hazard ratio does not need a pre-specified level. If the HR is > 1.0, and it is statistically significant, it is a robust finding,”</b></i> he said.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;">The positive findings should also be interpreted in the context of recipients only receiving one dose per day across three days and being directed not to eat food before ivermectin, Dr. Kory said.</p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify;">Dr. Butler and his co-authors <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24460059-principle-protocol" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">said</a> <b><i>“no food should be taken two hours before or after administration”</i></b> <b>despite previous research <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://accp1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1177/009127002237994" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">finding</a> that taking ivermectin with food increases plasma concentration.</b></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify;"><b>Participants also received ivermectin a median of five days after symptom onset, a period of time considered by some to be too late to have much of an impact.</b> <b>Ivermectin works best when applied within 24 hours of symptom manifestation, according to <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://c19ivm.org/meta.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">a meta-regression</a> of ivermectin studies.</b></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b>Dr. Butler did not respond to a request for comment.</b></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify;">There have been <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/fda-says-ivermectin-doesnt-work-against-covid-19-but-points-to-studies-that-show-it-does-4903968" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">additional studies</a> that found ivermectin worked against COVID-19. The drug, commonly used for purposes such as combating malaria, has divided scientists since 2020, when doctors around the world began using it to treat COVID-19.</div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify;">Some other research, including <a class="article-hover-class" href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2801827" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">a U.S. trial</a>, has found that ivermectin did not improve time to recovery.</div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">It's so easy to manipulate a study like this to get the desired outcome. Restricting dosages, restricting the times of administration to 5 days after symptoms arrive, are just two ways to fix the results.</span></i></b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">Big Pharma must maintain that Ivermectin is not an effective treatment of Covid_19 in order to validate the emergency use of mRNA vaccines without rigorous clinical trials. </span></i></b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">There is so much money at stake here that I am beginning to suspect that Big Pharma had something to do with the release of Covid_19 in Wuhan.</span></i></b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">================================================</span></b></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: __ETText_60823e, __ETText_Fallback_60823e, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.18px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse; word-break: break-word;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span></i></b></p></div></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-15767561473454165272024-03-09T13:46:00.002-08:002024-03-09T13:46:19.095-08:00Biden's SoU Heckler Father of Marine Killed in Kabul withdrawal. Marine's brother suicided in grief.<p> </p><div class="single__header" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="article-header" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--wp--preset--color--gray-b); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1.25rem; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="headline headline--single-fallback" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--black); font-family: neue-haas-grotesk-display, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.05; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;">Gold Star dad arrested after heckling Biden</span></h1><h1 class="headline headline--single-fallback" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--black); 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box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Published </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 8, 2024, 12:53 a.m. ET</span></i></div><div class="date--updated__item" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--black); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="date--updated__item" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--black); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-wrap: nowrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="date--updated__item" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The heckler who shouted at President Biden during his State of the Union address Thursday night was identified as the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/these-are-the-us-service-members-killed-in-kabul-airport-attack/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">father of a fallen Marine</a> — and was later arrested over the disruption.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“America’s safer today than when I took office,” Biden, 81, was in the middle of saying before he was interrupted from the chamber’s balcony.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/26/kabul-airport-suicide-bombing-over-13-dead-us-soldiers-injured/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Abbey Gate!</a>” Steve Nikoui yelled down at the president. “Second Battalion, First Marines!”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Capitol Police escorted Nikoui, 51, out of the chamber around 10:15 p.m. and took him into custody.</b></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVbyON6EbssZPPMuuzuIQCeE8v3E6B0nRwVZjHtPWBLaFhRn_mlHFJy6re4xH4JgxjO_VThzyBgRuyxS9AoXZaxjw-vjCAA1dffxpqs3I8NQLxRZiEqzluivhg5qXN2i9FXBh2doHS8h7z3XyF50wVzOmk8TsAzAoZWQo-WgukqYfhR0o0C142UwQz9zU" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1536" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVbyON6EbssZPPMuuzuIQCeE8v3E6B0nRwVZjHtPWBLaFhRn_mlHFJy6re4xH4JgxjO_VThzyBgRuyxS9AoXZaxjw-vjCAA1dffxpqs3I8NQLxRZiEqzluivhg5qXN2i9FXBh2doHS8h7z3XyF50wVzOmk8TsAzAoZWQo-WgukqYfhR0o0C142UwQz9zU=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #585858; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.16px;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">He was charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding Congress, a misdemeanor that typically results in the offender’s release after paying a $50 fine.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) invited Nikoui to the State of the Union and <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1765975558121205917" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">helped coordinate his release</a> in the early hours of the morning from the custody of the House Sergeant at Arms.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“Mr. Nikoui lost his son due to Joe Biden’s incompetence, and lost another son to grief over his brother being killed,” Mast told The Post in a statement, referring to Dakota Halverson, who <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/service-for-dakota" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">committed suicide</a> on Aug. 9, 2022.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap;"><a href="https://youtu.be/PkrjqRBbmfE" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="901" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJVIWmYef2wM7Bt5_z2MH2IxN1oo5YYN6hxetGbEy1OXxmv-5sVLy8yeDSRT8rEd2qy9T3ME29aPbGx7H-39gqaHPTmf6oZU0VjiFd9owisOBFUF6Z3hn8Oatgy8LQ187jyJhLHD4tm5Qc7aa3P4OK90TOuhZyqygvUMSems-lp6waKonIANzZw7_p_Yw=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.16px;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“This man and his family have given America more than I could personally bear and to attack him with a BS charge of “demonstrating” is a disgrace.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Nikoui’s son, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/these-are-the-us-service-members-killed-in-kabul-airport-attack/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui</a>, was killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul’s international airport while trying to process evacuees from the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Twelve other US service members were also killed in the blast.</span></p><figure class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large" style="--slideshow-modal--icon--background-color: var(--wp--custom--color--brand-secondary); --slideshow-modal--icon--color: var(--wp--custom--color--brand-secondary-complement); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var(--wp--preset--color--black); display: table; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1.25rem auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 5 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="2" data-slideshow-slides-total="5" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/heckler-who-shouted-at-biden-during-state-of-the-union-identified-as-gold-star-father/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20240308?&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=638bdd6f29502d4f4607fdab&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts#" style="background-color: #fce5cd; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Open a slideshow of all 5 article images."><img alt="Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, was killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul's international airport in 2021." class="wp-image-31128597" decoding="async" height="590" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?w=795" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 2330w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=233,300&quality=75&strip=all 233w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=768,989&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=795,1024&quality=75&strip=all 795w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=1193,1536&quality=75&strip=all 1193w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=1591,2048&quality=75&strip=all 1591w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=551,709&quality=75&strip=all 551w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=194,250&quality=75&strip=all 194w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=457,589&quality=75&strip=all 457w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=385,496&quality=75&strip=all 385w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=70,90&quality=75&strip=all 70w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=500,644&quality=75&strip=all 500w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=381,491&quality=75&strip=all 381w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=219,282&quality=75&strip=all 219w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=300,386&quality=75&strip=all 300w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=160,206&quality=75&strip=all 160w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=72,93&quality=75&strip=all 72w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=55,71&quality=75&strip=all 55w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=155,200&quality=75&strip=all 155w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=231,297&quality=75&strip=all 231w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=322,415&quality=75&strip=all 322w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=45,58&quality=75&strip=all 45w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=121,156&quality=75&strip=all 121w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=150,193&quality=75&strip=all 150w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/undated-photo-released-1st-marine-18571285.jpg?resize=39,50&quality=75&strip=all 39w" style="aspect-ratio: 0.776271 / 1; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0 3px 0 0 var(--wp--preset--color--white),0 7px 0 0 var(--wp--custom--color--brand-secondary); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-height: 36.875rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="458" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon" style="border: 1px solid var(--slideshow-modal--icon--background-color); bottom: 1.6875rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--slideshow-modal--icon--color); left: 1.4375rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3125rem 0.375rem; position: absolute; transform: skew(-10deg); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon-text" style="border: 2px solid var(--slideshow-modal--icon--color); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0.0625rem 0.1875rem; transform: skew(10deg); vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-slideshow-modal="count" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">5</span></span></span></a></div><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-e); display: table-caption; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-e); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui was killed by a suicide bomber outside Kabul’s international airport in 2021.</span></div><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-e); display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">AP</span></span></figcaption></figure><figure class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large" style="--slideshow-modal--icon--background-color: var(--wp--custom--color--brand-secondary); --slideshow-modal--icon--color: var(--wp--custom--color--brand-secondary-complement); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var(--wp--preset--color--black); display: table; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1.25rem auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a aria-controls="nyp-slideshow-modal" aria-label="Open a slideshow of all 5 article images." data-slideshow-modal="trigger" data-slideshow-slide-number="3" data-slideshow-slides-total="5" href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/heckler-who-shouted-at-biden-during-state-of-the-union-identified-as-gold-star-father/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20240308?&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=638bdd6f29502d4f4607fdab&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts#" style="background-color: #fce5cd; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Open a slideshow of all 5 article images."><img alt="Shana Chappell is pictured with her sons Kareem Nikoui (right) and Dakota Halverson, who later took his life next to a public memorial to his younger sibling." class="wp-image-31128595" decoding="async" height="590" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?w=944" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 2000w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=277,300&quality=75&strip=all 277w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=768,833&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=944,1024&quality=75&strip=all 944w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=1416,1536&quality=75&strip=all 1416w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=1888,2048&quality=75&strip=all 1888w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=654,709&quality=75&strip=all 654w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=231,251&quality=75&strip=all 231w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=543,589&quality=75&strip=all 543w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=457,496&quality=75&strip=all 457w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=83,90&quality=75&strip=all 83w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=576,625&quality=75&strip=all 576w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=440,477&quality=75&strip=all 440w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=260,282&quality=75&strip=all 260w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=300,325&quality=75&strip=all 300w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=180,195&quality=75&strip=all 180w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=86,93&quality=75&strip=all 86w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=65,71&quality=75&strip=all 65w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=184,200&quality=75&strip=all 184w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=322,349&quality=75&strip=all 322w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=53,58&quality=75&strip=all 53w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=144,156&quality=75&strip=all 144w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=150,163&quality=75&strip=all 150w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/older-brother-took-life-august-17559511.jpg?resize=46,50&quality=75&strip=all 46w" style="aspect-ratio: 0.922034 / 1; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0 3px 0 0 var(--wp--preset--color--white),0 7px 0 0 var(--wp--custom--color--brand-secondary); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-height: 36.875rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="544" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon" style="border: 1px solid var(--slideshow-modal--icon--background-color); bottom: 1.6875rem; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--slideshow-modal--icon--color); left: 1.4375rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0.3125rem 0.375rem; position: absolute; transform: skew(-10deg); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="nyp-slideshow-modal-image__icon-text" style="border: 2px solid var(--slideshow-modal--icon--color); box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0.0625rem 0.1875rem; transform: skew(10deg); vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-slideshow-modal="count" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">5</span></span></span></a></div><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-e); display: table-caption; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-e); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Shana Chappell with her sons Kareem Nikoui (right) and Dakota Halverson, who later took his life next to a public memorial to his younger sibling.</span></div><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-e); display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Facebook / Shana Chappell</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Two other Gold Star fathers told The Post in an interview before Biden’s speech that the president should expect harsh words over the catastrophe.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“There’s been other people that have confirmed that information that Biden knew — damn good and well — that Afghanistan was going to fall,” said Mark Schmitz, the father of Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, calling the withdrawal “a totally epic screw-up.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“I suspect tonight, there’s gonna be a lot of heckling,” he added.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told The Post he has offered private meetings with several Gold Star families to the White House but been rebuffed.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Public polling shows Biden’s approval rating dipped underwater beginning in August 2021 — and has never returned to net positive.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Two federal reports have <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/biden-admin-blasted-for-abrupt-and-uncoordinated-afghanistan-pullout/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">since faulted</a> the administration for its “abrupt and uncoordinated” pullout, which <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/30/biden-admin-failed-to-plan-for-disastrous-afghanistan-exit-officials/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">gave locals the impression</a> <b><i>the US “was simply handing Afghanistan over to a Taliban government-in-waiting.”</i></b></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">For Gold Star families, however, the reports disappointingly failed to assign responsibility for the deaths of their loved ones.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“It’s despicable. I’m not holding my breath at all that we’re gonna get [it],” Schmitz said.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">He didn’t care. And he left all the munitions behind at Bagram [Airfield],” he added, referring to $7 billion worth of US military equipment that was still in Afghanistan when the Taliban took it over.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“They have every right to say, ‘Where is that explanation?'” Issa said of the Gold Star families. “‘Where is that apology? Where is the legitimate investigation so it doesn’t happen to somebody else’s family?’</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">“That’s why we’re honored to have them here. It’s why we want them in the audience,” he added, expressing hope that “by some miracle, [Biden] says something that they feel at least meets them halfway.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The president did not refer to the Afghanistan pullout at any point during his 68-minute speech.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>==================================================================================</b></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--gray-g); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><br /></b></span></p></div></div></div></header></div>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296369316037401893.post-28223540588752568652024-03-09T13:11:00.001-08:002024-03-13T10:53:53.111-07:00Ozzone 9-12 > Sometimes God will seem like an unnatural Father, or an unkind Friend, but He is not!<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNqNoXWQHBD1WsPcyB-wuyqrDRY_3S32-ckfdnDRSm0Gy9k4lNxrMhvIHfVzTncblK0BP83B5YWH7BGjdMKUAX_BtHHcuwk8CkrirbBODIHwnQG-65affW_1L4FL6AGs77gKL6vgaHEE51FrGrq66FzcsvNrgXw_2CHyaDKXZxNxkxZRz8H1OKJyGrODA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="866" height="637" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNqNoXWQHBD1WsPcyB-wuyqrDRY_3S32-ckfdnDRSm0Gy9k4lNxrMhvIHfVzTncblK0BP83B5YWH7BGjdMKUAX_BtHHcuwk8CkrirbBODIHwnQG-65affW_1L4FL6AGs77gKL6vgaHEE51FrGrq66FzcsvNrgXw_2CHyaDKXZxNxkxZRz8H1OKJyGrODA=w640-h637" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">See also: <a href="https://northwoodsministries.blogspot.com/search?q=Ozzone+7-16" target="_blank">Ozzone 7-16</a>. Remember, we look at answered, or seemingly unanswered prayer, from our own perspective. We never see the full consequences of God answering our prayers and how they may effect many people whom we don't even know. God has to take myriad possibilities into account before answering our prayers. Never demand that God answer your prayers. </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;"><br />King Hezekiah prayed pitifully for God to extend his life and the Lord gave Him 15 more years. Had Hezekiah known the consequences of his extended life, he would never have prayed for it.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47;"><br /></span></i></b></div><p></p>Gary Wm Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949985397491287397noreply@blogger.com0