By Al Mayadeen English

The Yemeni Armed Forces detain an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea in the latest escalation against the Israeli occupation in light of its genocide in Gaza.

The Yemeni Naval Forces managed to capture an Israeli ship in the depths of the Red Sea, sources familiar with the matter told Al Mayadeen on Sunday.

Reportedly, 52 people aboard the Israeli ship, presumably a vehicle carrier, were detained, Al Mayadeen‘s sources added, revealing that the Yemeni Armed Forces were working on revealing their identities and nationalities.

The ship is called the Galaxy Leader. It is Bahamian-flagged but owned by an Israeli businessman.

“Await what will warm your hearts,” a Yemeni military source said, confirming the authenticity of the news Al Mayadeen reported.

Reportedly, the Yemeni Armed Forces used a helicopter and hovered with it over the Israeli ship before rappelling down to the deck and taking control of it, NBC News reported.

Commenting on the situation, the Yemeni Armed Forces said they would release a statement on the matter within a few hours.

“It seems that the ship captured by the Yemenis is owned by Israeli businessman Rami Ungar,” Israeli media said in the wake of the incident. “The ship was carrying vehicles, as it was making its way from a port in southern Turkey to a port in Western India.”

An Israeli occupation forces spokesperson described the event as “a very dangerous development.”

Ansar Allah threatened and fulfilled its threats against “Israel”, Israeli media said.

Earlier on Sunday, Ansar Allah spokesperson Yahya Saree said the army would target all ships owned or operated by Israeli companies or ones bearing the Israeli flag, calling on countries to withdraw their citizens operating on such ships.

In the same context, a Yemeni military source revealed to Al Mayadeen earlier the Yemeni Armed Forces’ readiness to target any Israeli vessel, whether in the Red Sea or any other place unexpected by the enemy.

“Our armed forces are set to target all Israeli ships, whether they are heading to occupied Palestine or not,” the source said.

The Yemeni Armed Forces launched on Tuesday a salvo of ballistic missiles at various targets of the Israeli enemy in the occupied Palestinian territories.

At the time, Saree confirmed that the Yemeni Armed Forces targeted sensitive sites in “Eilat”, built on the ruins of the Palestinian Um al-Rashrash, just 24 hours after another military operation.

He added that the Yemeni Armed Forces would begin implementing directives in terms of taking the appropriate measures against any Israeli vessel in the Red Sea. Furthermore, he underlined that the Yemeni Armed Forces would not hesitate to target any Israeli ship in the Red Sea “or any place within our reach.”

Yemen has also launched long-range cruise missiles and attack drones on several occasions, as well as ballistic missiles at “Eilat” located in the southernmost region of occupied Palestine.

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Via https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2023/11/20/yemeni-armed-forces-capture-israeli-ship-in-red-sea-exclusive/

Etruscan Temple of Jupiter in Rome

Episode 3 Who Founded Rome?

The Mysterious Etruscans

Dr Steven L Tuck (2016)

Film Review

In this lecture, Tuck lays out the case that the Etruscans most likely built the city of Rome.

During the 8th century BC when Rome was founded, Etruscans were city-bui;ders, while  the Latin-speaking people south of the Tiber were farmers living in mud huts.

Among other arguments, Tuck asserts

• The city of Rome was built on hills, which were walled-off individually, just like Etruscan cities.
• Rome is oriented on an east-west axis, just like Etruscan cities.
• Two of Rome’s famous hills were named for Etruscans – Calium and Vasces Tuscus (translated Etruscan quarter).
• According to the historian Tacitus, Rome allied with the Etruscans (prior to the 3rd century BC) instead of continually warring with them, as with their Greek and Phoenician rivals.
• The last three Roman kings were Etruscan.
• The Etruscans introduced the triumphal procession and the quaduingo (ceremonial four-horse chariot) to Rome.
• The last Estruscan king (Tarquin the Proud*) began construction of the Cloaca Maxima (translation “big drain”) and the Temple of Jupiter (where the senate met) on the Capitoline Hill.
• The Etruscan kings began the tradition of asking rich oligarchs to pay for important buildings (the senate, meeting halls, coliseum). They also built a number of sewers, water projects (draining surrounding swamps and enabling the city to expand into the lowlands)
• The Etruscans introduced the Tuscan column** to Rome.
• Between 509-493 BC most of Rome’s senate-appointed dictators were Etruscan.
• The augury used in laying out Roman cities was borrowed from the Etruscans.
• A grid-based road layout, associated with uniform square houses appeared around the same time in Rome as in Etruria.***

The conventional belief is that the Trojan Aeneas, son of the goddess Diana, founded Rome after the Greeks sacked Troy (in Asia minor). However there’s no evidence that any Asia Minor languages or customs took root in southern Italy a a result of this migration. The Latin language spoken in Rome originated in Latium, the region around the Tiber River.

According to Tuck, there is no reference to Troy in Roman literature until the 3rd century BC when Rome was preparing to launch a series of wars on its neighbors.

*Tarquin the Proud 534-509 BC

**Like the Doric column with smooth sides.

***Tuck associates this orthogonal approach to city planning with a wave of democratization and increased social equality that swept the Mediterranean in the sixth century BC.

Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/239710/239615

Dr Eddy Betterman

Dr. Robert Malone made an appearance this week at an “Injuries Caused by COVID-19 Vaccines” hearing led by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), at which he revealed how Moderna’s own patent shows that its Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “vaccine” vials contain billions of DNA fragments and other contaminants linked to birth defects and cancer.

At the hearing, Dr. Malone spoke about how Moderna acknowledges in its own patent that RNA in preferable to DNA in vaccines because of the risks involved, but that the company’s mRNA injection, which was administered to tens of millions of people, is contaminated with the latter.

“Moderna has a patent on the use of RNA for vaccines,” Dr. Malone stated. “And in that, Moderna explicitly acknowledges that RNA is superior to DNA for vaccine purposes because problems, including the possibility of insertional mutagenesis that could lead to the activation of oncogenes or the inactivation of tumor suppressor genes.”

“FDA says they’re not aware of any concerns, but Moderna in its own patent lays out exactly the same concerns that exist about DNA in insertional mutagenesis and genotoxicity. So, Moderna knows it – DNA is a contaminant. It is left in because the way they make it … they use DNA to make RNA, and then they degrade the DNA, and then they have to purify the degraded DNA away from the RNA, and the process they are using is apparently not that good.”

Pfizer’s mRNA jab for COVID also contaminated with cancer-causing DNA fragments

Scientists from the United States and Canada were able to get their hands on unopened vials of Moderna’s COVID jab, with a clear chain of custody, and sampled them. This is their expertise, just to be clear: they do deep sequencing on samples and relay their findings for the public good.

What they discovered were large numbers of DNA fragments in the RNA preparation, to which they applied standard reconstruction tools to see what the circular plasmid DNAs looked like – none of this was disclosed to the public, by the way.

The documentation suggests that there are certain DNA sequences present in the vials that are normally not allowed in anything that is going to go into humans, “not the least of which is an antibiotic resistance gene,” Dr. Malone explained.

“They include these sequences from Simian Virus 40 – not the whole virus, but highly active promoter sequences – which is exactly the thing that the FDA in their older regulations said must be avoided because it confers even more risk for insertional mutagenesis.”

It turns out that Pfizer’s mRNA injection for COVID contains the same contaminants. Documentation was provided by the company to regulators in the U.S., Europe and Canada. These regulators actually deleted the little notation about SV40 sequences in an apparent attempt to hide it from the public.

“The FDA didn’t take the raw DNA sequences, reconstruct those plasmid maps, and look at them themselves,” Dr. Malone clarified. “They just took for granted what Pfizer had given them. And now this is all coming out because of what these researchers found.”

“High-level people at both Moderna and Pfizer had to have known about this,” Dr. Malone said, the potential consequences for jab recipients being “anything that is associated with DNA damage, i.e., birth defects and cancer being the most notable ones.”

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2023/11/20/moderna-admits-mrna-covid-vaccines-cancer-dna-fragments/

The Palestinian Resistance has inflicted major losses on the Israeli occupation forces, destroying dozens of Israeli military vehicles in just our days.

The Resistance fighters in Gaza are still defending the strip and confronting the invading Israeli forces in Gaza City on numerous fronts as they continue to invade from the west of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun in the north, al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson Abu Obeida said on Friday.

Abu Obeida revealed that 62 Israeli military vehicles had been destroyed in four days, including the flagship Israeli Merkava tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and bulldozers, using the Yassin 105 tandem anti-tank RPGs and IEDs.

Al-Qassam Brigades used improvised explosive devices, small arms, and sniper rifles to target gatherings of Israeli soldiers or infantry forces shielding themselves in residential buildings.

Al-Qassam killed at least nine Israeli soldiers who were outside their IFVs in two separate operations that took place three days ago, the spokesperson revealed.

Moreover, Abu Obeida said the Palestinian Resistance forces attached two Israeli military jeeps using anti-armor shells on Thursday morning northwest of Beit Lahia.

The Palestinian Resistance on Thursday also successfully destroyed a home in Beit Hanoun that was being used as a military site by Israeli occupation forces using anti-armor and anti-infantry shells, which led to numerous casualties.

The Palestinian Resistance is inflicting heavy losses on the Israeli occupation forces by hunting down and destroying any military vehicle they see, which is forcing them to withdraw on some fronts and axes, as well as changing their entire trajectories at times, he said.

The Resistance, according to Abu Obeida, has prepared itself “for a lengthy, dynamic, and ongoing defensive operation that could take place on all fronts.”

Losses to continue mounting

“Every minute the occupation forces spend in Gaza will be met with resounding and paramount failures,” he added, revealing that the al-Qassam artillery forces were attacking all mobilized Israeli forces within Gaza.

The artillery forces “continue to bomb all of the enemy’s forces in the invaded area and gatherings in Gaza and its parameters using small-range rockets and mortar shells while still launching rockets at Tel Aviv and Askalan.”

“We have documented and shared plenty of scenes showing our destruction of Israeli military vehicles and targeting of its soldiers, and we will continue to share footage down the line,” he added.

Abu Obeida touched on the crimes committed by the occupation against hospitals in the Gaza Strip, emphasizing that it seeks to “prove baseless lies and imaginary command centers” through these actions.

“The Nazi occupation forces barged with tanks into a medical complex to showcase strength and control is the biggest evidence of its failure, as well as a disgrace to the international institutions of human rights and international law,” he stressed.

Multi-front fight

Furthermore, he praised the people of the West Bank and “the fighters of our Ummah who rushed to engage in Operation al-Aqsa Flood,” urging them to escalate against the enemy on all fronts and in all forms.

He addressed the Israeli settlers, who are “deceived by their fascist government,” telling them that the casualties among the occupation army soldiers in the field are “much more than you expect, and you will receive news of them, sooner or later.”

Regarding the Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip, Abu Obaida explained that the resistance “wanted this issue to be a humanitarian one,” reminding that the “motivation for Operation al-Aqsa Flood is your government’s extremist and criminal attack on our prisoners in the jails.”

“We have proposed reaching a prisoner exchange deal since the start of the operation, and we have tried and are fighting to preserve the lives of your captives. We were successful at times, and we did not at others due to your army’s brutal bombing campaigns,” he concluded.

For example, earlier in the day, al-Qassam revealed that Israeli captive Aryeh Zalman Zedmanovich, whose ID number is 0010185791, was recently taken to a care center because of the habitual panic attacks he would suffer due to the repeated Israeli bombings where he was being held.

Zedmanovich was receiving medical attention in captivity, with al-Qassam sharing footage of him before his death, wherein medical personnel were tending to him.

He kept having panic attacks until they got too much and he wound up dying because of one.

Demonstrations took over “Tel Aviv”, on Tuesday, as families of the Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip took to the streets, escalating pressure on the government of Israeli occupation government’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding answers amid conflicting news regarding a possible exchange deal with the Palestinian Resistance, mediated by Egypt and Qatar and with a US blessing.

The settlers protesting Netanyahu’s government, carrying pictures of their children who are being held captive in the Strip, demanded “Netanyahu and the government give us answers and measures,” stressing that they “no longer have the strength.”

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Via https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/62-israeli-military-vehicles-destroyed-in-4-days–abu-obeida

Fire Burns Through U.S. Military Equipment At Iraqi Air Base After 56th Drone Attack (Videos) by Islamic Resistance (IRI)

On November 17 morning, a large fire broke out at hangers housing United States military aircraft and equipment in al-Harir US Air Base in the Erbil province of the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan after a drone attack.

[Note: All reprisals by Islamic Resistance groups (IRI) are described in Western Media as ‘IRANIAN ATTACKS’]

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), a coalition of armed militias, which includes fighters of Shiite armed groups that fought against terrorists of the Islamic State terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the attack on the air base, saying in a statement that it was carried out “in response to the crimes committed by the enemy [Israel] against people in Gaza.”

The group formed a special operations room to support Palestinian armed factions following the October 17 Al-Ahli Arab Hospital massacre.

The ongoing attacks obliged the U.S. to reinforce its bases in the Middle East with more than 1,200 troops and a dozen air defense systems. Nevertheless, Washington continues to provide Israel with unconditional support.

Two more attacks against U.S. forces were reported after the Pentagon’s update. A salvo of rockets hit the Conoco Mission Support Site in the eastern Syria governorate of Deir Ezzor late on November 14.

Another rocket attack targeted the Ayn al-Assad Air Base in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbat on November 15 morning.

United States forces have been attacked 55 times in Iraq and Syria since October 17, the Pentagon revealed on November 14…. southfront.press/ The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has not yet commented on the recent attacks on al-Harir, Ain al-Assad and Tell Beydar base

MH-47G Chinook and MH-60M Black Hawk helicopters as well as MQ-1C Gray Eagle combat drones of the U.S. elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment are usually deployed in al-Harir Air Base, right near the hangars which were set on fire by the drone attack

Iraq military bases: US pulling out of three key sites – BBC News The US army is pulling out of al-Qaim and two other key military bases in Iraq in the coming weeks. For years Iraq and Syria have been demanding US forces leave their countries.

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A few hours after the attack on al-Harir, the IRI announced that it had hit two other bases hosting U.S. troops with suicide drones, Ain al-Assad Air Base in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar and Tell Beydar base

Realistically the US bases in Syria have little future if it finally leaves its illegal and attacked bases in Iraq. The excuse that it’s there to fight ISIS resurgence is like a self fulfilling prophecy. The US is also the hated author of the continuing Caesar Act Sanctions, a kind of ‘sour grapes punishment’, stupidly and cruelly condemning the population (and Lebanon) to continued blockade and penury, even as Syria is readmitted as an Arab partner State.

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Late news:

The US is reportedly pulling out of 3 of its main Iraqi bases as drone and missile attacks in Syria and Iraq reach over 60 (18/11)23) amid worldwide anger at their support for Israeli Genocide in Gaza.

The US has recently been reinforcing its repeatedly attacked main El Beyder base in Hasakah and flying aggressive air sorties over Syria.

The US is also being attacked in their one base in their one southern Syria, al-Tanf base, dubbed as an ‘ISIS Training Center’, and in their Deir Ezzor Bases (Omar,Green Village)..in the Arabic tribal area south of Hasakah in Syria, where they are always accused of Trump’s boast of stealing Syrian oil, and are forcing the SDF to act as their reluctant police force.

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The IRI formed a special operations room to support Palestinian armed factions in Gaza and began launching attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and neighboring Syria following the October 17 Al-Ahli Arab Hospital massacre.

So far, the Pentagon admitted that 58 attacks have targeted U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, ‘lightly wounding’ more than 50 troops.

The CENTCOM launched several retaliatory strikes against targets linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor in an attempt to deter the IRI. However, the number of attacks on U.S. forces appears to be increasing.

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Via https://thefreeonline.com/2023/11/18/us-to-pull-out-of-3-key-bases-amid-dozens-of-attacks-in-iraq-and-syria-due-to-ongoing-us-backing-of-gaza-genocide-threat-to-rojava-sdf/

Dr Eddy Betterman

The latest excuse from the establishment for rising rates of heart attack and stroke is “extreme heat waves spawned by climate change.”

A new study, we are told, links a surge in cardiovascular deaths to really warm temperatures, which apparently hurt people who are black and old at disproportionately higher rate than other demographics.

Instead of addressing the elephant in the room – Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “vaccines” – the paper instead talks a whole lot about the weather and “greenhouses gas emissions” as being responsible for about 5,500 excess cardiovascular deaths every year.

Even if the United States adopts many of the extreme global warming impositions being pushed by the globalists right now, it will only trim about 1,200 excess deaths off that figure, still leaving 4,300 excess deaths per year due to weather-related heart problems, the study insists.

According to the researchers involved with the study, everyone except white people – of course – bear the highest risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke due to bad weather, which means something has to be done to give them special treatment.

“The public health impact of climate change is falling on individuals who live on the margins of our society,” claims Sameed Khatana, a cardiologist and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Perelman School of Medicine.

“Any policy action or mitigation efforts really need to be tailored towards individuals who are most vulnerable.”

Is it extreme heat or COVID jabs that are killing the human heart?

An earlier model put together by Khatana and his colleagues at Penn claims that deaths from heart attack and stroke rise in direct relation to the number of “extreme heat days” that occur in a given year.

“Extreme heat days,” by the way, is defined as having a heat index – a measure of apparent temperature that is a product of ambient temperature and relative humidity – that is at or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Using data collected from all 3,108 counties in the contiguous U.S. between the years of 2008 and 2017, the team claims to have found that the more really hot days there are, the more people are dying from heart issues.

By the year 2019, the so-called “experts” say, there were 54 extreme heat days per year, on average, resulting in about 1,651 climate-related deaths every year.

Keep in mind that this is a very small proportion of the overall number of cardiovascular deaths that occur in the U.S. every year. It is a mere drop in the bucket, relatively speaking, and points to an agenda that has been on the rise in recent years ever since Operation Warp Speed.

To keep a lid on the flood of heart-related deaths that have occurred ever since COVID jabs were unleashed, “science” is desperately seeking some other alternative excuse to cover for this mass pharmaceutical genocide.

Warm weather has existed since the beginning of time. Not only that, but the world appears to be in a cooling phase right now rather than a warming one, so the “extreme heat” excuse is not all that compelling.

According to the climate-pushing media, extreme heat is an “unacknowledged disaster,” causing more deaths each year in the U.S. than any other weather-related event. Is this actually true, though?

Their proposed solution is to create new “heat officer” positions to patrol the streets in search of heart-destroying hot weather. These heat officers will then be tasked with communicating to the public the alleged risks involved with exposing oneself to hot days

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2023/11/19/media-blames-heart-attacks-strokes-climate-change/

By Chimausem Nwosu

Germany’s automotive, mechanical engineering, and industrial goods companies are prioritizing moving less complex processes overseas to secure their business futures. Berlin’s chances of reversing such a trend are in doubt, as companies have expressed disappointment in the current government’s actions to forestall their departure.

Consultancy firm Deloitte reports that two out of three German companies have partially relocated their operations abroad due to ongoing energy issues in Germany.

Previous reports indicated that nearly half of the country’s small-to-midsized companies were considering moving abroad or ceasing operations. According to Deloitte, 67 percent of German companies have moved some operations abroad, and every third industrial company plans to relocate high-quality areas such as production and preassembly.

Investments in infrastructure, digitalization, and cost-effective energy pricing are essential for securing business locations. The situation is particularly acute in Germany’s mechanical engineering, industrial goods, and automotive sectors, where 69 percent of companies report moderate to large-scale relocation.

Currently, companies are primarily moving less complex aspects like component manufacturing abroad. Florian Ploner, a partner at Deloitte and industry sector expert, remarked, “Deindustrialization is already taking place on a considerable scale here. If the general conditions remain the same, it is very likely that more companies will follow and more and more important parts of the value creation will migrate.”

When considering relocation, one-third of respondents focus on high-value areas like general production (33 percent) and preassembly (34 percent). Currently, companies are relocating evenly across the EU, Asia, and the US, with only 10 percent of companies planning to move to other Asian countries and eight percent considering returning to Europe from Asia.

Germany’s prospects for reversing this trend seem slim. Companies suggest that increased subsidies and reduced bureaucracy might encourage them to stay, but they have little faith in the current government’s actions to prevent their departure. While this trend concerns Berlin, it offers some positives for Brussels, as companies plan to move their manufacturing processes within the European Union.

From the companies’ perspective, reducing bureaucracy and ensuring competitive energy prices are practical measures to enhance location attractiveness, with 69 percent in favor. In contrast, state support for key technologies (45 percent) or simplified immigration of qualified specialists (43 percent) are less critical.

Dr. Jurgen Sandau, a Deloitte partner and supply chain expert, notes that, “The pressure on companies is enormous… Nevertheless, a hasty move rarely makes sense. Companies in this country are well advised to make their capacities flexible over the next five years with the help of platforms and networks. After all, factors such as legal certainty and stability in Germany as a business location are essential for entrepreneurial success.”

Companies not currently relocating are focusing on alternative suppliers and expanding multisourcing. They rely on comprehensive supplier management, collaboration, cross-supply chain data exchange, and risk analyses.

Meanwhile, it should be recalled that the government led by Olaf Scholz, in coordination with the EU and the US, has imposed sanctions on Russia since 2022 due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. This action prompted the German government to cease purchasing Russian energy, which had been the bedrock of its industrial boom. The sanctions also exacerbated the fuel crisis worldwide, with Europe becoming its primary victim.

The situation further deteriorated after the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline system, built to provide gas from Russia to Europe, allowing German industry to use cheap energy.

In addition, the future of European industrial companies is even more bleak considering the US course towards protectionism. The US Inflation Reduction Act, which provides massive subsidies to US businesses in a bid to concentrate manufacturing sites in North America, caused major concerns in the EU, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying it may lead to the deindustrialization of Europe.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20231115/germanys-energy-woes-spark-deindustralization-on-considerable-scale-1114980581.html