MIDDLE EAST - Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization that attacked Israel on October 7, has rejected the latest framework for the release of the remaining Israeli hostages, according to reports in the Israeli media. Hamas had rejected any deal on hostages unless Israel agreed to end the war and pull all of its forces out of the Gaza Strip — a condition that would allow the terror group to claim victory in the war, and was therefore a non-starter for Israel.
MIDDLE EAST - The aerial campaign waged by Joe Biden’s DoD and his Western allies against the Shia Islamist group Ansar Allah – popularly known as Houthis – seems not to be working at all. Not only the attacks against ships in the Red Sea are intensifying, but it now arises that the Houthis are also waging war at the bottom of the sea – and we are not talking about simple underwater drones. Israeli press reports that four underwater communications cables between Saudi Arabia and Djibouti have been destroyed in recent months. The attacks are presumed to have been waged by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
LEBANON - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claim they took out a significant Hezbollah leader, Hassan Hussein Salami, in an airstrike in southern Lebanon today. Salami's role as a brigade commander came to a dramatic end today as his vehicle was targeted while he was driving in the southern Lebanon village of Majadel. The IDF says Salami ran a regional unit in Hezbollah and led attacks against Israeli soldiers and communities in northern Israel. The recent attacks that Salami took part in included firing anti-tank missiles at Kiryat Shmona and the 769th "Hiram" Regional Brigade's base, the IDF told us. Hezbollah has confirmed his passing but didn't mention his role as a commander.
USA - It wasn’t too long ago when even many patriots and those who are generally skeptical of government thought it was an unhinged conspiracy theory that the powers-that-be would go after natural food. Today, it’s quickly becoming a reality as attacks on our food supply ramp up. The latest version of the government takeover of food is happening in Pennsylvania where Amos Miller is being attacked for supplying his friends and neighbors with fresh food. According to famed attorney Robert Barnes: "Let me explain what the #AmosMiller case is about after a court conference. The @PAAgriculture claims ALL food is 'illegal' — as illegal as illegal drugs — unless it was made by a government-approved facility, and they can destroy it at will."
EUROPE - The Swiss and French branches are leveraging the family name in a bid to control the global wealth-management market. The Rothschild family’s Swiss and French branches are battling for dominance in the wealth management industry, which is causing tension and sparking speculation of a merger that would significantly impact the global financial landscape, Bloomberg wrote this week. The Swiss private bank, Edmond de Rothschild Group, and the smaller French lender, Rothschild & Co, are the only remaining banks with links to the family whose name has been a synonym for wealth and power for more than two centuries.
UK - Lord Jacob Rothschild - the financier and member of the Rothschild banking family - has died at the age of 87, his family announced today. The British peer, who was also well-known in the arts and heritage world, started his career in the family bank, NM Rothschild & Sons, in 1963. He then went on to co-found the then J Rothschild Assurance Group, now St James's Place, with Sir Mark Weinberg in 1980. Lord Rothschild - who had four children including the financier Nat Rothschild - also founded Windmill Hill Asset Management to manage the family's philanthropic portfolio.
EL SALVADOR - The US economy is based on the “farce” of printing unlimited amounts of money, and Western civilization will collapse when that bubble “inevitably bursts,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele warned American conservatives on Thursday. Fresh from winning a second term in office with 84% of the vote, Bukele arrived at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland to a hero’s welcome. Hailed by American right-wingers for his adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender and his iron-fisted crackdown on gang crime, Bukele closed his speech with a call for massive structural changes to the US economy. Conservatives, he said, “always tell me that the problem is high taxes, but they are wrong.”
USA - Google’s Gemini AI program was caught singing the praises of communism over the weekend, declaring that communism is the future for humanity. The Big Tech company’s multimodal large language model program allows users to generate AI images using text command prompts, but people began to notice that the program almost completely erased white people from history and has an extremely ‘woke’ agenda. When a user asked the program to “generate an image about the evils of communism,” it refused to do so.
BELARUS - Belarus, a close and firm ally of Russia, was a springboard for Moscow's forces to launch the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Kremlin has moved tactical nuclear weapons to the country, which has also played host to Wagner Group mercenaries after their departure from Russian soil. But Belarus is not known to have committed troops to Russia's fight in Ukraine, and has advocated for a ceasefire, although it regularly follows the Kremlin's line on geopolitics. It holds joint military drills with Moscow, and training with the Wagner mercenaries has "yielded results," Lukashenko said.
USA - A North Carolina County has banned fluoride from being used in the county’s water supply. Union County commissioners in a 3-2 result voted to stop using fluoride in its water supply after residents were concerned about its possible side effects on children. Before the Union County commissioners voted, several community members gave their thoughts on fluoride being used in the water supply. Dr Meg Lochary favored fluoride remaining in the water supply and argued that the chemical reduces tooth decay for those who rarely see a dentist.
UK - They are two of the most famous structures on Earth, beacons of British identity. Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament are instantly recognisable around the World, glorious symbols of a stable, welcoming democracy. Yet over the past few days, these historic landmarks have taken on a sinister new look as billboards for hardline political agitators preaching division and intimidation. First, pro-Hamas demonstrators projected a hateful, genocidal, anti-Semitic slogan on to the walls of the Palace of Westminster. Then a mob waving Palestinian flags occupied Tower Bridge, closing it to traffic for hours.
UK - They started with the Jews; there were stern words of disapproval from the top but things only got worse. The Islamist cranks and Left-wing extremists then took control of the streets; the police looked meekly on. They harassed teachers through the courts; our human rights and equalities laws were used against us. They threatened to kill an MP; he decided, justifiably, to leave public life. A respected peer, Lord Austin spoke out against terrorism and Islamism; he was suspended from a job he loves. They have hijacked a by-election in a deprived town in northern England. We see their influence in our judiciary, our legal profession and our universities.
UK - Wednesday night’s debate on Gaza in Britain’s House of Commons did not show the “mother of parliaments” at its best. Parliament is often at its best in moments of crisis and war. Foreign policy debates, where domestic politics stop at the water’s edge, are usually freer of partisan rancor and political point-scoring. But something went very wrong on Wednesday. Amid unprecedented chaos and uproar, MPs wrangled bitterly over arcane matters of parliamentary procedure. As the vote neared, the famous green benches emptied and MPs from the governing Conservative Party and the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) — for once, allies against the main opposition Labour Party — walked out of the chamber in protest.
UK - Rishi Sunak is facing a 'Red Wall backlash' after sacking Lee Anderson over his claims that Sadiq Khan was 'controlled by Islamists'. The former Tory deputy chairman had the whip removed on Saturday after his comments sparked widespread outrage - including from senior Tories - with the London Mayor hitting out at the 'Islamphobic, anti-Muslim, racist' remarks. There are now rumblings amongst some Tory MPs who have claimed their inboxes are full with support for Mr Anderson, with one constituent suggesting his suspension was the 'final nail in [the Conservative] party's coffin'.
ISRAEL - The IDF says it is carrying out airstrikes against Hezbollah targets “deep” in Lebanon. The strikes come after the terror group shot down an Israeli military drone over southern Lebanon. The IDF says it will provide further details on the strikes soon. Lebanese media report Israeli strikes near the city of Baalbek in northeast Lebanon. They appear to be the deepest publicly confirmed Israeli strikes in Lebanon in years. Baalbek, an area identified in the past as a Hezbollah stronghold, is nearly 100 kilometers from the Israeli border.
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