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Iran-US talks enter critical phase amid hope and caution

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By Alireza Akbari

In the third round of indirect talks on Saturday in Muscat, Tehran and Washington engaged in a more serious atmosphere, delving into detailed and technical discussions on nuclear issues.

After two previous rounds of indirect nuclear talks in Muscat and Rome, respectively, described by both sides as “constructive,” the latest round of talks involved more detailed and technical discussions.

Iranian Foreign Minister and lead negotiator from the Iranian side, Abbas Araghchi, told media persons after the end of talks on Saturday afternoon, remains “hopeful but cautious.”

Held behind closed doors for nearly five hours, the latest round saw the presence of experts for the first time, a notable difference from the previous two rounds, which had taken place primarily at the senior diplomatic level with the mediation of Oman.

Araghchi, leading the Iranian delegation, met and held talks with his Omani counterpart, Badr Al Busaidi, before the third round of talks on Saturday, with both discussing issues related to the talks.

On the American side, US envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow on Friday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, before traveling to Oman on Saturday to join the discussions.

The third round of high-level indirect talks was led by Araghchi for Iran and Witkoff for the US, with technical teams supporting both sides for the first time.

Iran’s technical delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht-Ravanchi and Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi.

On the US side, Michael Anton, head of policy planning at the State Department, was tasked with leading the technical discussions, according to US media reports.

After the conclusion of the talks, which lasted slightly longer than the previous two rounds, Araghchi expressed gratitude to the Omani government and Foreign Minister Al Busaidi for facilitating the indirect discussions in a calm and constructive environment.

“This round of negotiations was much more serious than before, and we gradually entered into some more detailed, technical, and specialized discussions,” Araghchi told mediapersons.

He characterized the atmosphere of the negotiations as “a completely serious and work-focused environment,” noting that the two sides had moved from general discussions into more intricate details.

However, the top Iranian diplomat emphasized that the ongoing discussions do not mean that differences have been resolved. “Differences still exist both on major issues and on details,” he said.

He underlined the need for “further reviews” by both Tehran and Washington over the coming week to examine ways to reduce those differences, before they reconvene for the next round of talks.

According to Araghchi, the seriousness and determination shown by both sides during the third round created an environment that made the Iranian delegation “hopeful for progress” in the negotiations.

At the same time, he cautioned that “there are issues on which general understandings must first be reached, and only then can negotiations on the details be conducted,” signaling that Tehran’s hopefulness remains tempered by caution.

Looking ahead to the next phase, Araghchi said the next round will likely be on Saturday (May 3), noting that further details would be arranged and announced by Oman as mediators.

He also explained that the fourth round would continue in the same format as the third, with the presence of experts, Witkoff accompanying the US delegation, and Araghchi leading Iran’s team.

“As we gradually move from generalities into more detailed and specialized discussions, the necessary experts are similarly added,” he said in response to a question regarding the composition of Iran’s technical delegation in the third round of talks.

“In this session, we had economic experts with us who, for the first time, participated in our expert team. Their presence was very useful,” Araghchi added, noting that from the next session, experts from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran should also be added to the team composition.

According to the foreign minister, as negotiations move forward and depending on the topics on the agenda, the relevant experts will be incorporated into the Iranian delegation accordingly.

Addressing speculation over the framework and topics under discussion, Araghchi clarified that the Islamic Republic would solely engage on issues related to its nuclear program and sanctions relief — a framework that, according to him, “has been fully respected by both sides” so far.

“I say clearly that the subject of our discussions is solely nuclear (program), and we are not negotiating on any other issue. Of course, when we say nuclear, it means confidence-building regarding Iran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions,” he said.

Araghchi referred to his earlier description of the third round’s atmosphere as “serious,” explaining that “it means that both sides demonstrated their will for progress.”

“Will alone does not guarantee success. In any case, success must be achieved when the views and demands of both sides are met, and each side reaches a level of satisfaction within the negotiations. This is something that certainly takes time,” he stressed.

“We are hopeful, of course, that we can move forward quickly,” the head of the Iranian delegation said, pointing to “past experiences” as a factor that makes the process of negotiations smoother and faster.

Araghchi also expressed satisfaction with how the negotiations have developed and the pace at which they are moving, saying, “The negotiations are proceeding well and satisfactorily.”

“It is a good atmosphere; there is seriousness on both sides. I believe that the will also exists on the other side. We certainly have the will. I am hopeful, but very cautiously so,” he added.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei posted on X that the Iranian delegation remains determined to protect “the legal and legitimate rights of the Iranian nation to use nuclear energy.”

He added that lifting of “illegal sanctions” against the Iranian nation remains a priority for the Iranian negotiating team in these indirect discussions with the American side.

Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), said Iran-US talks “identified a shared aspiration to reach agreement based on mutual respect and enduring commitments.”

According to al-Busaidi, “core principles, objectives and technical concerns were all addressed,” and he added that the next round of high-level talks, set for May 3, would continue next week.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump also signaled confidence in clinching a new pact with the Islamic Republic, which would replace the one reached during the Obama administration.

Speaking earlier aboard Air Force One en route to Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, Trump also expressed cautious optimism.

“The Iran situation is coming out very well,” he said. “We have had a lot of talks with them and I think we are going to have a deal. I would much rather have a deal than the other alternative. That would be good for humanity.”

These talks come amid heightened tensions sparked by Trump’s war-mongering rhetoric, under the influence of the Israeli lobby groups in Washington, which experts see as imprudent.

Iranian leadership has vowed to respond to any military adventure decisively with the same determination and conviction that they are currently engaged in diplomacy with the US.

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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/04/27/746940/more-serious-than-before-iran-us-talks-critical-phase-hope-caution

Crisis of Motherhood Part II – Opting Out of Married Life

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Crisis of Motherhood

The Crisis of Motherhood Part II

Press TV (2025)

Film Review

https://www.presstv.ir/doc/Detail/2025/01/26/741635/Crisis-Motherhood-Decline-Birth-Rates-Europe-East-Asia-Family-Growth-Future-Generations-Documentary-PressTV

Part II focuses on social and ideological factors impacting lower fertility rates. It blames the developed world’s current demographic crisis (insufficient young workers to support a ballooning retired population – see The Crisis of Motherhood Part I – How Countries Face the Crisis of Declining Birth Rates) on decades of global neocapitalist dominance. This has led policy makers to focus exclusively on profits to the exclusion of human needs.

At present media coverage influences women to associate motherhood with suffering and stress, as opposed to joy and fulfillment.  Two examples

  • Pain of childbirth – responsible for massive increase in unnecessary Caesareans. In the US, one-third of babies are delivered by Cesarean (50% of them unnecessary). The rate in the UK is 24%. The World Health Organization alert the rate should be 15% or less. Cesarian deliveries subject mother to a significant in complications, including wound infections and nerve damage. Moreover Infants delivered by Cesarean are more prone to allergies and asthma, as they lack the robust bacterial microbiome most infants acquire from the birth canal.
  • Obstacles to career advancement – owing to widespread perceptions will interfere with a woman’s emotional commitment to her job. For mothers of young children, the inability to work over time and finding childcare when kids are sick can be real career busters.

Opting Out of Married Life

Japan

As in many Western countries, Japan’s death rate exceeds the birth rate, which has been falling for 37 years. The government compensates by aggressively recruiting foreign workers. The marriage rate is also declining, with two-thirds of young Japanese choosing to remain single. With so many people living alone, Japan faces a crisis of loneliness as well as a fertility crisis.  In Japan single people can rent friends or hang out together at cafes or pet kennels.

US

Two decades ago 5% of Americans lived alone. The current figure is 27%.

Sweden and Germany

In Stockholm 58% of residents live alone with the percentage nearly as high in Germany.

Third World

Although fertility rates are somewhat higher in developing countries, they don’t have sufficient industry attract immigrants. This means they ultimately face a worse demographic crisis, ie too few young people to support a large cohort of senior citizens.

Kiev Regime Mulling Forced Conscription of Women

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Drago Bosnic

In my previous analysis, I touched upon the pointlessness of sending young Ukrainian pilots to certain death in aging (but still extremely overhyped) US-made fighter jets. However, soon after publishing, news came in about the Kiev regime’s intention to adopt the “Israeli model” for its crumbling armed forces. Namely, now that NATO’s Neo-Nazi puppets have effectively killed over a million Ukrainian men, it seems the time has come for entire generations of women to also be wiped out.

The deputy head of the Kiev regime’s presidential administration Colonel Pavel Palisa wants to implement forced conscription for women, citing the “Israeli model” as his inspiration. He argues that military service should be “a national obligation for all men and women” and that “this is where current discussions on recruitment should focus”.

“If a citizen claims to support the state, job, education, I don’t know, in general, to claim some payments from the state budget, they should serve… there is a minimum contract, let it be annual,” Palisa stated.

He also wants to limit access to state benefits to anyone who hasn’t served in the Neo-Nazi junta forces. Palisa added that “the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a lot of different jobs and no matter how wild it sounds now, maybe we need to learn the experience of Israel in this”. Obviously, comparisons with Israel are rather inadequate, to say the least, as the IDF isn’t fighting a global military superpower next door. In addition, the nature of the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict is completely different from the one in the Middle East. Namely, while Israel has near-total air superiority in the region (particularly after the NATO-backed destruction of sovereign Syria), which is why the IAF is the primary tool of its power projection, fighting in Ukraine largely comes down to artillery dominance over a clearly delineated frontline.

In practice, this means that manpower is largely limited to playing the role of cannon fodder, an extremely unfaltering role that has already taken the lives of over 1,000,000 Ukrainians, mostly people between the ages of 20 and 50 (i.e. the most productive and economically most important demographic). Despite the already inevitable economic downturn because of this alone, the Kiev regime seems to be determined to exacerbate the already disastrous situation by forcibly conscripting women. The catastrophic demographic consequences of this decision cannot possibly be overstated, especially when taking into account that former Ukraine has long been a “dying nation”, as its fertility rates have plummeted to just 0.9 children per woman. Thus, forcibly conscripting women will only exacerbate this massive issue.

What’s more, at the moment, the legal conscription age stands at 25 (after being lowered from 27 in 2024). The United States and NATO have long insisted that it be lowered to 18, as it’s simply unacceptable for the political West that so many young Ukrainians are still alive and well. Even if the Neo-Nazi junta decides to keep the forced conscription age at 25, including women would still affect the demographically most important segment of the general population. Needless to say, going for 18-year-olds would be much worse, as it would kill off the entire population of young Ukrainians (late teenagers and people in their early 20s, while hundreds of thousands of those in their 30s, 40s and 50s have been virtually wiped out). “Conspiracy theorists” would think precisely this is “almost” the intention of the Kiev regime.

The widespread practice of kidnapping regular people in the streets might have temporarily boosted the number of available troops, but it has also forced hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into hiding, while many have fled abroad. The practice of kidnapping civilians and forcing them into service of the NATO-backed Neo-Nazi junta is disproportionately affecting the working class, as those with enough money have either left or are still paying exorbitant amounts of money to remain “under the radar”. A regular Ukrainian male is effectively imprisoned in his own country, as it’s virtually impossible to leave legally. If this practice is suddenly extended to women, it would create total chaos, as many children who have been left fatherless would also likely lose their mothers and be forced to fend for themselves.

Unfortunately, this practice is nothing out of the ordinary for the war criminals running the Kiev regime, as they’ve previously also targeted Ukrainian women, including pregnant ones. All this has only exacerbated manpower shortages, as even people who naively supported the NATO-backed regime have now become disillusioned. The suicidal way the Neo-Nazi junta forces are (ab)using regular troops makes millions unwilling to go anywhere near a recruitment post in all parts of former Ukraine. Even the mainstream propaganda machine stopped denying the practice of forced conscription, as there are hundreds of videos circulating online, showing the infamous TCC/TCK violently grabbing Ukrainian men going to work, supermarket, taking their kids to/from school, running, walking their pets, etc.

For those who don’t know, the acronym stands for Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support (TCR and SS or sometimes just TCR). However, this monstrous organization is better known as the TCC/TCK. Their violent practices regularly cause severe injuries to the recruits and oftentimes even death. This has accelerated the emergence of resistance groups, particularly in the ethnically Russian Odessa oblast (region).

Family members of forcibly conscripted soldiers are now even retaliating against TCC/TCK henchmen. In one recently uncovered case, a woman in Odessa blew herself up when her son was killed after being kidnapped and sent to the frontline. Elsewhere, prominent Nazis have been assassinated. Resistance groups or disgruntled and vengeful individuals will only grow in number if women are targeted next.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/neo-nazi-junta-mulling-forced-conscription-women/5884627

Welcome to the Palantir World Order

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Derrick Broze

How does a company with CIA ties and two steering committee members of the secretive Bilderberg Group as founders end up in the White House?

This question should be on the minds of every free-thinking person regardless of political affiliation or lack thereof. The answer to this question cuts to the heart of understanding the future direction of the American experiment, and the impact it will have on the rest of the world.

Starting in 2019 I began warning that we were witnessing the creation of a Technocratic State, with Big Tech CEOs amassing exorbitant wealth and unfathomable data about the world. This collection of financial wealth and data has allowed these Technocrats to gain power equivalent to many nations, and beyond that of smaller nations. Palantir is a perfect example of the merging of corporate and state power.

Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, long before they were made Steering Committee members of the secretive Bilderberg Group. Karp and Thiel launched Palantir with seed funding from the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. The CIA aimed to use Palantir to relaunch the controversial post-9/11 program known as Total Information Awareness. TIA would be shuttered after public outcry and concerns around surveillance. However, after Thiel and Karp began meeting with intelligence officials they helped Palantir to do privately what the government could not get permission from the American people to do publicly.

Over the last 120 days of the 2nd Trump administration it has become clear that Palantir is on the way to becoming the U.S. government’s new favorite Military Industrial Complex contractor of choice. A quick search reveals numerous headlines detailing the recent rapid rise of Palantir’s stock.

This should come as no surprise given the abundant contracts and projects Palantir is reportedly developing with the U.S. government. Here’s a brief look at the ways in which Palantir is becoming more deeply connected to the MIC.

The SpaceX-Palantir Golden Dome Over America

Last week Reuters reported that Elon Musks’ SpaceX, Palantir, and Anduril Industries were the “frontrunners” to win a contract to build President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield. Trump has called for America to have a “dome” defense system similar to that of the Israeli’s “Iron Dome”. Anduril was founded by Trump donor Palmer Luckey with funding from Palantir CEO Peter Thiel.

Sources speaking to Reuters claimed that the 3 companies met with officials in the Trump administration and the Department of Defense in recent weeks to outline their plan to build and launch between 400 and 1,000 satellites to detect missiles and track their movements. This would be combined with 200 “attack satellites” with missiles and lasers to bring down enemy missiles.

Despite these sources telling Reuters that “the SpaceX group is not expected to be involved in the weaponization of satellites”, these plans for a “Golden Dome” would line up with SpaceX’s Starshield program, which TLAV previously reported poses a potential danger to privacy for people around the world.

In late 2024 Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, and OpenAI announced a partnership on U.S. military contracts. The move was the latest effort by the Technocrats to replace the old guard of the Military Industrial Complex — companies like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing.

Palantir Helping Locate Immigrants for Trump Administration

Palantir is diving straight into the business of helping the Trump administration in their efforts to launch a mass deportation program. According to Palantir Slacks and other internal messages, the company is working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to help them locate the physical location of people who are marked for deportation. The messages and relationship was first reported by 404 Media.

The leaked messages highlight how Palantir is working with ICE and local law enforcement to find people slated for deportation and to keep track of “the logistics of Trump’s mass deportation effort”. Palantir is also preparing for push back as the news of their involvement in the deportations reaches the public.

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Akash Jain, the Chief Technology Officer of Palantir Technologies and President of Palantir USG, is quoted as saying that Palantir has “prototyped a new set of data integrations and workflows with ICE” and that the Trump admin’s focus on “leveraging data to drive enforcement operations” has “accelerated” Palantir’s relationship with ICE.

The leaks also highlight an internal Palantir wiki which detailed other components of the company’s relationship with ICE, including a “self-deportation tracking” project aimed at helping ICE better understand how many people voluntarily leave the US.

These new developments build on top of a $95 million dollar contract between Palantir and US Homeland Security Investigations.

Shortly after the Slack messages were leaked Drop Site News reported that ICE has recently awarded Palantir with a $30 million contract to develop a new software platform to expand surveillance and enforcement operations.

The two stories seem related with Drop Site News confirming more details of the ICE-Palantir partnership, including the creation of Immigration Lifecycle Operating System, or simply ImmigrationOS, an operating system that will apparently “streamline the entire immigration enforcement process—from identification to removal”. This use of Palantir’s technology is said to reduce time, labor, and resource costs.

ICE awarded the contract to Palantir without allowing bids from other competitors, arguing that the deal needed to be awarded quickly so a prototype could be ready by September 25.

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Palantir Partners with the IRS

In early April it was reported that Palantir was working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) records. The relationship between Palantir and DOGE was first reported by WIRED.

As WIRED notes, APIs are application programming interfaces which allow different applications to exchange data. It is speculated that the Palantir API could be used to move IRS data to a cloud for direct access.

The report states that Palantir and DOGE held a “hackathon” with “dozens of career IRS engineers” to collaborate on building a “single API layer above all IRS databases”. DOGE has discussed the possibility of an API project accessing all IRS data, including individual’s names, addresses, social security numbers, tax return history, and employer information.

A spokesperson for the US Treasury Department told WIRED that Palantir and DOGE have not signed a contract and “many vendors are being considered, Palantir being one of them.”

“Through this coalition, they will streamline IRS systems to create the most efficient service for the American taxpayer,” the spokesperson stated.

While Trump supporters may have previously been concerned that the Biden Administration planned to hire thousands more IRS employees — an agency which many Americans despite — it seems that under the 2nd Trump administration Palantir will help make the agency more “efficient” than ever. So much for abolishing the IRS.

To be fair, Trump has issued an Executive Order ostensibly aimed at limiting IRS audits of small business and middle class families. Either way, the revelation of a relationship between Palantir and the IRS should be troubling to all Americans.

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Overhauling the U.S. Government’s Payments System

Another non-Palantir but Thiel-connected venture relates to Ramp, a financial company which uses artificial intelligence software for businesses to analyze spending. ProPublica has reported on four private meetings between Ramp executives and Trump’s appointees at the General Services Administration, the federal agency focused on federal contracts.

According to ProPublica, the GSA is looking to partner with Ramp on the U.S. government’s $700 billion internal expense card program, known as SmartPay. Sources told ProPublica that Trump officials at GSA are seeking to have Ramp lead a charge card pilot program worth up to $25 million.

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Blind Support for Israel

Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and Palantir are unrelenting advocates for the Zionist movement. In November 2023, Palantir released a letter to shareholders making it clear they completely support Israel’s attacks on the Palestinian people.

“We are one of a few companies in the world to stand up and announce our support for Israel, which remains steadfast,” Karp wrote in the letter. “Palantir stands with Israel.”

Thiel has also made it clear he will not interfere in Israel’s crimes and has no qualms supplying technology which leads to civilian deaths. First, in January 2024 Palantir announced that it had signed a “strategic partnership” with the Israeli Defense Ministry to supply technology for the genocide.

In May 2024, protesters accused Thiel of complicity in ‘genocide’, blocking his vehicles for over an hour while he was speaking at the Cambridge Union. Over two hundred students gathered outside the Cambridge Union attempting to “drown out” Thiel’s talk.

When Thiel was directly questioned about his support of Israel and their use of AI technology to murder humans, he gave a rambling non-answer.

“Look again . . . I’m not . . . I’m not . . . you know, you know . . . with . . . without, without going into all the . . . you know I’m not on top of all the details of what’s going on in Israel, because my bias is to defer to Israel. It’s not for us to to second-guess every, everything. And I believe that broadly the IDF gets to decide what it wants to do, and that they’re broadly in the right and that’s, that’s sort of the perspective I come back to.”

When Thiel was asked about #Palantir using its artificial intelligence to help the IDF commit genocide: https://t.co/UCnXCNIu4h pic.twitter.com/BhPh9LVBca

— The Last American Vagabond (@TLAVagabond) February 10, 2025

Thiel and Karp’s enthusiasm for the Israeli genocide perfectly align with the fact that Trump’s 2nd cabinet is stacked with former and current associates of Thiel’s who also share this zeal for Zionism and Technocracy.

The DOGE-Thiel Connection

As noted above, Palantir and DOGE are beginning to partner on various projects. This isn’t shocking given Thiel and Musk’s history at PayPal and close financial relationship over the years. However, what less Americans understand are the deep ties between Peter Thiel and the 2nd Trump administration.

As Trump began naming his nominees I reported that at least 10 people in influential positions were directly related to Palantir, Peter Thiel, and his foundations.

This includes Vice President J.D. Vance; Elon Musk, head of DOGE; David Sacks, AI and Crypto Czar; U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Ken Howery, US Ambassador to Denmark; the aforementioned Jacob Helberg; and Michael Kratsios as a science adviser and director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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In late February, the New York Times began revealing names of DOGE employees. That report mentions a man named Akash Bobba as one of the young coders working with Musk. Bobba formerly interned with Palantir. Business Insider also reported on a DOGE employee working at NASA.

Business Insider revealed that 26-year old Riley Sennott was listed as a “senior advisor” in an internal NASA directory. Business Insider was also able to access Sennott’s public Google Calendar which included several meetings with Thiel associates. A March 2024 meeting showed a Zoom call with Founders Fund. The calendar also highlighted a May “recruiter call” with Palantir, and an April meeting titled “Anduril Opportunity Chat.” The calendar also showed 2024 meetings with Thrive Capital, the VC firm run by Jared Kushner’s brother and funded by Peter Thiel.

Shortly after this, Bloomberg continued the revelations on the connections between Peter Thiel and Trump’s admin. Much of this was covered in my previous report, but Bloomberg does identify a few additional Thiel acolytes. These include:

– Anthony Jancso, former Palantir employee now at DOGE
– Clark Minor, a former software engineer at Palantir and now serving as Chief Information Officer at HHS
– Colin Carroll, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, formerly of Anduril
– George Cooper, recruiter for DOGE, formerly at Palantir
– Gregory Barbaccia, Chief Information Officer at the Office of Management and Budget, formerly Palantir
– Luke Farritor, recruiter for DOGE, former Thiel Fellow
– Patrick Witt, chief of staff, DOD’s office of strategic capital, received political donations from Thiel
-Ryan Wunderly, working with DOGE in Treasury Department, formerly Anduril

This means the total number of Thiel acolytes working within Trump’s cabinet and DOGE is at least 18 people.

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Via https://tlavagabond.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-palantir-world-order

 

 

Automakers Freeze Imports As Thousands Of Cars Suddenly Stuck At US Ports

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Automakers Freeze Imports As Thousands Of Cars Suddenly Stuck At US Ports

By Brad Anderson

  • Overflowing US ports reveal how automakers are bracing for major tariff consequences.
  • Audi and Jaguar Land Rover have paused US shipments amid growing import tax fears.
  • Some carmakers are rerouting imports to bonded warehouses to delay tariff payments.

The trade war may have started as headline fodder, but its ripple effects are now parked—literally—at ports across America. Triggered by President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy, the fallout hasn’t just rattled the stock market with unpredictable spikes and dives; it’s also forced automakers to seriously reconsider how they operate in the USA.

Although the President hit pause on his sweeping “reciprocal” tariff hikes for 90 days in dealings with many countries, the separate 25% tariff on automobiles and car parts remains firmly in place. For carmakers, that’s a red flag they can’t afford to ignore.

Many brands have adopted a ‘wait-and-see’ strategy, well aware that the President can change his tune quickly and unexpectedly. Now, thousands of newly-imported vehicles are being held at ports across the United States, while many brands have paused shipments to the US entirely, eager not to pay any unnecessary tariffs.

Cars Are Stuck, Ports Are Full

Speaking with The Financial Times, unnamed executives from the logistics and automotive sectors say imported cars are piling up at US ports, with some close to full capacity. Companies such as Aston Martin, Audi, and Jaguar Land Rover have temporarily suspended shipping to the US in the hope their current inventories will last until long-term resolutions are reached with the country’s trading partners.

Understandably, car manufacturers are trying every trick in the book to avoid paying the hefty new tariffs. In addition to holding vehicles at US ports before importers need to pony up for the tariffs and get the cars on the roads, some brands want to shift imported vehicles to US bonded warehouses. These facilities will allow car companies to store their new cars without being charged tariffs.

Confusion about the issue has also caused concern. While Trump recently imposed a blanket 25% tariff on all imported cars last week and promised to impose taxes on foreign-made car parts from May 3, many details remain fuzzy.

A German car executive told the FT that it wasn’t clear what constitutes a car part: “Is a part an engine, or is it each screw in the engine?”. Now, that’s a good question. Until there’s official guidance, domestic car owners could find themselves stuck without access to vital components—bad news for anyone needing repairs, and worse for service centers that might end up with cars they can’t fix.

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Via https://www.carscoops.com/2025/04/us-ports-are-chock-full-of-new-cars-as-automakers-await-trumps-final-decision-on-tariffs/

RFK Jr. Is Playing Political Chess—And Some of the MAHA Crowd Can’t Even Find the Board

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Let’s Stand with Bobby. Expose the traitors. And stop Big Pharma from stealing this movement right out from under us. Be sure to read and share this Substack.

The most dangerous place in the country right now? Standing between Big Pharma and their bottom line. And RFK Jr. is squarely in that line of fire.

But some of our MAHA brothers and sisters don’t seem to get it. They’re demanding absolute ideological purity from Bobby Kennedy while he’s under siege from every direction—media hit jobs, political sabotage, financial strangulation, and assassination attempts (oh yeah, actual ones). They want him to go nuclear in every speech, torch every bridge, and expose every inconvenient truth… even if it means getting obliterated before he ever has a chance to lead.

Let’s get something straight: Bobby is attempting to execute a long-term, strategic takedown of the most corrupt and captured elements of our federal government—especially the cartel known as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

And here’s the thing: Kennedy’s not playing checkers. He’s not playing tic-tac-toe. He’s playing 4D chess… on a board surrounded by snipers. If you can’t see that, then maybe you’re not paying attention. And now he’s being lambasted because of the viral post that triggered a minor meltdown (in the MAHA crowd) in which he stated that the measles vaccine (MMR) stops the spread of measles.

Spoiler alert: It does.

Well-known influencers screamed, “Judas!” They shouted, “See! He’s sold out!” But did he? Or did he just play the only card on the table without flipping it over and losing the entire hand?

Let’s be very clear: a clever man never has to lie. That statement about the MMR vaccine is technically true. It does prevent measles infection. But at no point did RFK Jr. say people should get the shot. He didn’t endorse it. He didn’t call it “safe.” He didn’t dismiss any connection with autism. He simply stated a fact—because, in that moment, that was the surgical move required to keep the scalpels away from his throat.

Why? Because he’s not in a comment thread on social media. He’s in the lions’ den. And unlike most of us, if he makes a single misstep, he’s eaten alive. What most people don’t know is that Kennedy’s nomination wasn’t just opposed by the usual suspects on the Left. Nope. The real knife in the back came from inside the tent.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy—who played the part of the “reasonable Republican” by voting “yes” on RFK Jr.’s nomination—was already cutting a backroom deal with Big Pharma while the ink was still drying. Cassidy used his “yes” vote to build clout with the MAHA movement—appearing open-minded, bipartisan, and diplomatic.

But behind the scenes? He was angling for more power inside the Senate Health Committee. And once he landed that committee role, guess who came knocking?

  • $5,800 from Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla
  • $5,000 from Eli Lilly CEO David Rick
  • $2,900 from Bristol Myers Squibb CEO Giovanni Caforio
  • $2,500 from Biogen CEO Christopher Viehbacher

These aren’t random checks. These are personal donations from board members of Big Pharma—the most powerful lobbying group in the medical-industrial complex.

Translation: Big Pharma bought Cassidy like a cheap hooker.

Senators like Cassidy have real power to block Kennedy’s appointments — deputy, chief counsel, you name it. That means Bobby needs to keep moving forward, not blow himself up with rhetorical grenades that make his mission impossible before it even begins. He’s doing political triage—on a patient hemorrhaging from 50 years of corruption—and the only way the patient survives is if Bobby’s blade stays precise.

It’s not ideal. No one said it was. But that’s why strategy matters. And if you still think he should go full scorched-earth right now, maybe ask yourself: what happens when the only guy with the guts to take on the machine gets incinerated in the process?

From Secretary Kennedy’s X Account: “In Seminole, Texas, with Jake and Tina Fehr whose 2-year-old daughter, Helena was just discharged after three weeks in the ICU, Peter and Eva Fehr whose daughter, Kayley, 6, passed in February, and Pete and Eva Hildebrand whose daughter, Daisy, 8, we buried this afternoon.”

Case in point: The little girl in Texas they claimed died of measles? She had mono and tonsillitis for two months before measles even entered the chat. She showed up at the hospital post-measles with a tonsil issue, and from there, things spiraled—sepsis, treatment refusals, and medical protocols that reek of COVID-era malpractice. This is a case of institutional failure, not a cautionary tale about vaccine hesitancy. And Bobby knows that. But if he says that out loud right now, he’s crucified in the press, stripped of all credibility, and they’ll never let him get a foothold in the political arena again.

During his CBS interview, Kennedy was asked about the current measles epidemic and vaccines. He announced that new vaccine safety trials are now underway. He stated:

“We don’t know the risks of many of these products… They’re not adequately safety-tested… Many of the vaccines are tested for only 3-4 days with NO placebo group… I’ve always said … I’m not going to take people’s vaccines away from them… I’m going to make sure that we have good science so that people can make an informed choice. We are doing that science today.”

Let’s also be real: Kennedy is taking fire from all sides because he’s in the fight. He’s not watching from the bleachers with the rest of us throwing popcorn and purity tests. He’s out there, bloodied and bruised, still swinging. Still standing. He doesn’t get to say everything we want him to say—not yet. But maybe, just maybe, that’s because he’s trying to win.

If we give him a year and support him instead of sabotaging him, he can lay out the whole truth. But right now, he’s doing battlefield surgery. And we’re whining about our stubbed toes. So, let’s stop complaining, and let’s stop pointing fingers at Bobby.

Here’s a novel idea: instead of shooting Bobby in the face while he’s in our foxhole, maybe we could offer some cover fire. Maybe we could speak the truth that he’s strategically withholding just long enough to stay alive politically. And maybe—just maybe—we stop demanding he shoulder the entire movement on his back while we sit in judgment from the peanut gallery.

This is not the time for purity tests. It’s the time for unity. It’s time to cut through the noise. The real enemy isn’t RFK Jr.—it’s the billion-dollar Big Pharma puppeteers and their D.C. lapdogs like Bill Cassidy. They want the MAHA movement to turn on RFK Jr. They want you to be distracted by carefully placed outrage bait and emotionally triggered by social media whisper campaigns. Because the longer you scream at Bobby, the less you watch what Cassidy is doing behind the curtain.

They’re terrified of a man who won’t sell out, who knows their playbook, and who has the guts to call them out by name. Bobby Kennedy is in the arena, taking hits from all sides, not because he’s weak—but because he’s a threat. And that’s precisely why we need to stand with him now more than ever. This is a war for truth, for health freedom, and for the future of our children. If we don’t rally around the one man willing to take on the machine, we’ll lose this fight before it even begins.

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Collateral Inhalation: Grave Health Consequences of Gaza Bombing on Israeli Civilians

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By Dennis Kucinich

Gaza is suffering the most intense bombing, per capita, of anywhere on earth, ever.

Over 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, an area slightly smaller than the City of Detroit, Michigan, resulting in the recorded deaths of at least 60,000 Gazans and injuries to hundreds of thousands.¹

It is impossible to overstate the effects of the abominable bombing war on Gazans, their lives, their families, their health, and their communities.

What has escaped attention up until now is the undeniable environmental and health effects of the bombing of Gazans on Israelis, as well as on citizens of neighboring states, and the potential harm to U.S. military personnel in the region.

A study of explosion physics based on declassified Department of Defense data, as well as blast temperature data and consequent emissions; a review of wind patterns, together with publicly available data of health effects from 9/11, as well as data gathered from U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War, yield a shocking conclusion.

Israel, in executing the unprecedented bombing attack on Gaza, is, in effect, bombing itself, with grave consequences for the public health of its people.² What is being visited upon Gaza does not stay in Gaza.

The sustained bombing of Gaza pulverizes stone, heavy metals, and the human body. The vaporizing of human beings under extreme heat and pressure combines with dust, water vapor, and metallic particles the size of microns, all blasted upwards, aerosolized, wind-driven across borders, into Israel and surrounding countries.³

The unlimited bombing of Gaza has created an unparalleled ecological and biomedical feedback loop. Israel exhales death in Gaza and inhales the Gaza it has vaporized.

Israel, in bombing neighboring Gaza, is breathing in its own fallout, along with the vaporized remains of its declared enemies. The external consequences of violence becomes internalized. The substance of the oppressed communes with the oppressor.

On a clinical level, breathing in bioaerosols can compromise human immune systems.⁴ Breathing in ultrafine particles from non-biological war dust can cross the blood-brain barrier and contribute to neurodegenerative disease.⁵

Israel and the Palestinians share a common atmosphere. They inhale the same war dust, from bomb materials, carbon soot, and the fine particle remains of vaporized Gazans.

Human cremation occurs at temperatures between 1,400°F and 1,800°F.⁶ The blast temperatures of the bombs identified as being dropped on Gaza—MK-84 bombs: 4,496°F; GBU-39s: 4,892°F; BLU-109s: 3,632°F—far exceed this range.⁷ In comparison, blast furnaces used to melt steel operate at 2,500°F to 2,800°F.⁸

People at the epicenter of such bombings in Gaza are instantly turned into dust. This is a factor confounding the determination of exactly how many people have perished in Gaza since October 2023. How can an accurate body count be achieved if bodies have been turned to smoke and ash?

Let’s look at 9/11. The total confirmed dead: 2,753. Almost 40% of the victims were never identified, as their bodies were fragmented or vaporized, reduced to dust.⁹

When a bomb hits its target—for example, a tent city—the high-temperature explosion can vaporize a person so thoroughly that microscopic particles of DNA and loose molecules are suspended in air, mingling with dust and smoke as bioaerosols.¹⁰

These biologicals—DNA and fat in human tissue—turn to carbon, black dust, and smoke. The minerals of bones and teeth, skeletal dust, go airborne. Fragments of cells can float in the air, bubbles holding fat, bone, and broken DNA strands travel with the wind and are breathed in dozens of miles from the blast site.¹¹

It is not only the superheat that destroys the human body. The explosive force of a bomb, in terms of pounds per square inch (psi), can produce vaporization at the blast site, an impact equivalent to a plane plunging into the earth at high speed.¹²

As 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped in Gaza, the matter destroyed takes a different form, as toxic pollutants carried aloft in gas, dust, vapor, and particulates.

Specifically, toxic quantities of cadmium, nickel, lead, mercury, and arsenic are released into the air, together with dioxins, furans, PCBs, (polychlorinated biphenyls); PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and VOCs (volatile organic compounds).¹³

One calculation indicates that 100,000 tons of bombs, exploded in a densely populated area of Gaza, can generate between 800,000 to 1.2 million tons of pollution.¹⁴

Add to this the dust of Gazans’ human remains and you have extreme airborne consequences carried by the wind, directly into Israel, particularly the central and northern regions, and far beyond.

There are relevant comparisons for the health effects of a tremendous explosion in an urban area. A month after 9/11, people in Manhattan began to develop chronic coughs.

A longitudinal study of members of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) revealed that after six months, firemen began to suffer from chronic bronchitis; others saw the onset of pulmonary fibrosis.¹⁵

Two years after 9/11, a higher incidence of thyroid, prostate, breast, and other cancers arose among those exposed to 9/11 contaminants. Early-onset neurodegenerative, Alzheimer’s-type symptoms presented after five years or longer.¹⁶

Based on epidemiological data from studies of those near the people and buildings destroyed on 9/11, certain health effects can be anticipated in Israel.

The people of Sderot, Netivot, Be’er Sheva—all within a short distance of Gaza—are at high risk of long-term health effects of the bombing. Ashkelon and Tel Aviv have been exposed to environmental consequences, as has northern Israel and even Jordan.

While Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection operates air-monitoring stations at sites proximate to Gaza, it would be instructive, given the intensity of the bombing, to see if the effects of war-related pollution are being fully disclosed to the Israeli public.¹⁷

Given the unprecedented levels of bombing in Gaza, the types of bombs used, their explosive power, the extent of physical destruction, the extraordinary number of casualties, the creation of large plumes of black smoke containing the genetic material of burned and vaporized Gazans, the people of Israel—on the other side of the Gaza boundary—will likely experience increased levels of respiratory illness, asthma-like and other pulmonary diseases, and a sharp increase in cancer as a direct result of being exposed to toxic airborne substances present at a microscopic level.¹⁸

Added to this direct hazard is the ongoing recirculation of wind across the vast hellscape to which Gaza has been reduced. That, too, will sweep up and redistribute the contaminants from the over 50 million tons of debris from the land of Gaza to the land of Israel.

At this point, the calamity which has befallen Gaza as a result of incessant bombing will visit, in various forms and degrees of harm, southern and central Israel, western Jordan, the northeast Sinai Peninsula, northern Egypt (Delta and Cairo), Lebanon, Cyprus, southwestern Syria, northwestern Saudi Arabia, southeastern Turkey, Crete, Greece, Sicily, and Malta. Additionally, sea spray can carry aerosolized particles clear across the Mediterranean Sea.¹⁹

The United States has a substantial number of Naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean, including two aircraft carriers, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Gerald R. Ford, as well as numerous other assault ships.²⁰

U.S. military installations are present at Incirlik, Turkey, Naples, Italy, Cyprus, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. All face “war dust” pollution hazards as a result of the bombing of Gaza.²¹

I know well the adverse health consequences suffered by US servicemen and women who served in the Persian Gulf War, 1990–1991.

Veterans of that war came to my congressional office complaining of constant pain, neurological, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms, all of which were ignored or covered up by the Department of Defense.

As a Member of Congress, over the objections of the Department of Defense, I took up the cause of veterans who suffered what came to be known as Gulf War Illness, a multi-symptom condition still affecting, to this very day, nearly 245,000 veterans of the Persian Gulf War.²²

Bernie Sanders and I worked together in Congress to obtain funding for research into GWI, which is now a medically recognized, war-related condition.²³

When you see the measurable, catastrophic effect which war environments can have on those who serve, and the measurable catastrophic effect of those proximate to the 9/11 attacks, and the indefensible obliteration bombing of Gaza and its people, you may come to an understanding of the wholly fallacious notion of the containment of war and why I assert Israel is bombing itself.

The bombing of Gaza has created a human health crisis which cannot be ignored any longer.

There must be an immediate cease-fire on humanitarian and ecological bases.

  • The UN must urgently address the collapse of the Palestinian public health system, including the implications of the war for respiratory diseases and cancers among survivors.
  • The UN must lead a Transboundary Environmental and Human Health Assessment of the Immediate and Long-Term Implications of War Dust, which will include transboundary assessments of the toxic environmental effects of the war.
  • Monitoring stations must be set up. The people of the world have a right to know what is in the air they breathe.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-dust-israel-breathes-gaza-dust/5885321

Israel’s Top Politicos Warn of Impending Civil War

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Robert Inlakesh

Netanyahu’s war is not just on Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq – it is on Israel’s own institutions, opposition parties, and the last shreds of internal dissent. Now, the occupation state’s most senior political veterans are warning of a full-on Civil War.

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims to be leading his people to “total victory,” aimed at “changing the face of the Middle East,” he is instead steering the state into autocracy and fueling a domestic collapse.

“We are preparing for the next stages of the war – on seven fronts,” stated the Israeli premier back in early March, prior to abandoning the Gaza ceasefire. Yet he overlooked the internal battleground brewing at home – one with no clear exit.

Simultaneously on trial for corruption, Netanyahu has worked to centralize authority by purging dissent and placing government structures under personal control. This has escalated tensions with Israel’s intelligence community and military establishment, igniting internal unrest that rivals the external war fronts.

A judicial coup 

Before the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October 2023, Netanyahu’s ruling coalition had pushed hard for judicial “reforms” aimed at neutering Israel’s Supreme Court. With no formal constitution, Israel relies on the Supreme Court as a final check on executive overreach. Dismantling this institution was a central goal for Netanyahu and his far-right allies.

At the time, President Isaac Herzog was already warning that a civil war was approaching. Weekly protests erupted in Tel Aviv and occupied Jerusalem. Demonstrators feared a theocratic redefinition of the state that would erase its secular character.

Even Israeli intelligence and military personnel joined in opposition, and in March 2023, the Histadrut – the occupation state’s top labor union – endorsed a general strike. Many soldiers even refused to serve.

Though the war on Gaza temporarily sidelined this internal crisis, Netanyahu swiftly revived his power grab once public scrutiny shifted, blaming intelligence chiefs for operational failures while reinstating his purge of rivals.

Power consolidated through crisis

The Israeli judicial reforms, which split Israeli society down the middle in 2023, were aimed at curbing the powers of the Supreme Court. Israel has no Constitution and instead modeled its system on that of the previous British Mandate and Ottoman forces governing Palestine.

The Supreme Court had therefore long stood as a means of preventing politicians in ruling coalitions from fundamentally changing the nature of the State, acting as a balancing force for the government.

Netanyahu’s proposed amendments to this system, more accurately described as an overhaul of the judiciary, would enable his coalition to re-legislate laws, influence how Supreme Court justices are chosen, and drastically limit the powers wielded by the court to strike down laws.

An example of this was the “reasonableness bill,” initially passed in July 2023, that sought to prevent the Supreme Court from cancelling government decisions deemed “extremely unreasonable.”

In all, the Israeli far-right coalition government, composed of extremist religious parties, was perceived as seeking to utilize the judicial overhaul to usher in a series of laws that would make Israel a theocratic state.

Naturally, many Israelis within the army, intelligence agencies, political parties, and financial elite were worried about such foundational changes to the nature of their country and its institutions, thus triggering the robust backlash against Netanyahu.

At the beginning of the genocidal war on Gaza, Israel had formed an emergency war government, which included a range of senior officials from across the political divide. Left in shock by the sudden defeat of Israel’s Southern Command and fixated on what was to follow, the legal reform issue sank into irrelevance for some time.

However, tell-tale signs suggested the domestic crisis was not over, as Netanyahu quickly jumped to blame his own intelligence community leaders for the 7 October failure, triggering infighting that his belated apology could not contain.

By June 2024, opposition figure Benny Gantz and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot had resigned from the cabinet, collapsing the fragile unity government. This cleared the path for Netanyahu to reassert his power agenda – first initiated under the guise of judicial reform.

In November 2024, fellow fugitive defense minister Yoav Gallant, who had repeatedly clashed with Netanyahu, was forced to resign. He was replaced by Israel Katz, a long-time loyalist with limited experience. Meanwhile, former rival Gideon Saar was brought in as foreign minister – a strategic co-opting of dissent.

Reshaping Israel’s command

That same month, two senior aides to the Israeli prime minister were indicted for compromising state security by funneling classified information directly to Netanyahu and bypassing official channels. These revelations stemmed from the so-called “Bibi Files” scandal – a trove of damaging material suppressed for months under a gag order imposed on Israeli media.

According to Haaretz, “Netanyahu’s inner circle is up to its neck in investigations.” The report detailed how the prime minister insulated himself from direct liability through a tightly controlled layer of loyalists, creating what the outlet described as “a zone of immunity for himself – a layer of aides and advisors who separate him from the latest suspicions.”

With Shin Bet’s inquiries confined to selective leaks and the Israeli police effectively neutralized by the looming shadow of extremist, right-wing Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Netanyahu has remained untouchable. Ben Gvir had briefly stepped down during the lull in Gaza operations, only to reappear as Netanyahu’s standoff with Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar reignited.

Amid this institutional deadlock, Netanyahu handed responsibility for ceasefire and prisoner negotiations with Hamas to his close confidant Ron Dermer. The move stripped Israel’s Mossad and Shin Bet of their traditional roles in such talks, effectively turning the prime minister’s office into the epicenter of all high-stakes diplomatic engagement. It marked a quiet coup – Netanyahu’s latest maneuver to concentrate power.

He then replaced the outgoing military chief of staff with Eyal Zamir, a long-time ally who previously served as his military secretary. Upon taking office, Zamir initiated sweeping personnel changes in the Israeli army’s high command, restructuring it to better align with Netanyahu’s “seven-front” war doctrine.

Not long after, army spokesperson Daniel Hagari – one of the few public officials to retain widespread trust – was pushed out. Hagari had clashed with the prime minister during the war in Gaza. By November 2023, polls showed just four percent of Israelis trusted Netanyahu, while 73.7 percent placed confidence in Hagari. Despite ongoing hostilities, the spokesperson’s popularity remained consistent – ultimately sealing his political fate.

The intelligence war

On 21 March, Netanyahu attempted to sack Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, intensifying his power struggle with domestic intelligence chiefs. The dismissal – issued amid growing scrutiny over the “Bibi Files” leak scandal – sparked mass protests and was temporarily blocked by the Supreme Court.

Bar, for his part, has argued that his dismissal was not ordered on legitimate grounds, yet the government has stated a “lack of trust, one which doesn’t create the space for a productive work environment,” was indeed grounds for firing the intelligence chief.

Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara later ruled that the firing of Bar constituted a “conflict of interests,” leading to her own dismissal. In response, the chairman of the Israeli Bar Association, Amit Becher, demanded that Justice Minister Yariv Levin halt the sacking process.

Bar’s ousting coincided with the resurfacing of the “Qatargate” scandal, first reported by Haaretz journalist Bar Peleg. The affair centered on Netanyahu aides allegedly paid to run a pro-Qatar PR campaign while working inside the PM’s office – yet another sign of corruption eating away at the state’s core.

When the Supreme Court stepped in to delay Bar’s firing, it reignited anti-court rhetoric among Netanyahu’s far-right coalition. The long-running campaign to neuter Israel’s judiciary was back on the agenda.

Road to authoritarianism

Netanyahu’s strategy is now clear: purge dissent, install loyalists, and consolidate power through chaos. As Israeli journalist Uzi Baram puts it, there is a “battle for Israel’s soul.” Former PM Ehud Olmert issued an even graver warning, predicting that “hooligans,” emboldened by Netanyahu’s rhetoric and armed by Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, may soon storm television studios just as they have threatened the judiciary.

“Slowly and quietly,” warned another former prime minister, Ehud Barak, “Netanyahu is leading Israel to the point of no return. The point of democratic collapse will come without us being able to predict it in advance – and at a point when we can no longer stop it.”

Opposition leader and former PM Yair Lapid is now warning of political assassinations inside Israel. Last week, he warned ominously:

“I now want to issue a warning based on unequivocal intelligence information: We are on the way to another disaster. This time it will come from within. The levels of incitement and madness are unprecedented. There will be political murder here. Jews will kill Jews,”

Meanwhile, around 100,000 Israeli reservists are refusing to show up for duty. The broader public mood reflects deep unease – according to Maariv, 60 percent of Israelis now believe civil war is a real danger.

Hundreds of Mossad veterans, army reservists, and ex-officials have signed a letter demanding a prisoner exchange with Hamas. It is a last-ditch effort to arrest the descent into authoritarianism. Netanyahu’s loyalists are issuing orders to fire these veterans.

As war rages abroad, Netanyahu’s fiercest battle is now at “home” – against the very institutions that once defined the occupation state.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/israels-top-politicos-warn-of-impending-civil-war/

China’s Nuclear Energy Breakthrough

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By Hua Bin

As the world is spellbound by the zigzagging tariff war drama launched by reality TV star Donnie Trump and people marvel at the sheer destructiveness of a stupid mad man, a truly momentous event just happened in China.

In early April, Chinese scientists achieved a milestone in clean energy technology by successfully adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium molten salt reactor, the first of its kind in the world. The breakthrough signals the arrival of commercially viable thorium nuclear reactor in China’s future energy mix.

Thorium is much safer and more abundant alternative to uranium for nuclear power as it is widely available, cheaper to extract, has higher energy density, and produces far less long-lasting nuclear waste.

It is far safer than uranium as it is not fissile on its own so cannot be weaponized. Nuclear industry experts see thorium as the holy grail for future energy revolution next to nuclear fusion, which I’ll touch on briefly at the end.

Thorium is found in abundant quantity in earth’s crust all over the world. One single mine in China’s Inner Mongolia, the Bayan Obo mine, has enough thorium deposits to theoretically meet China’s energy needs for the next 20,000 years, while producing minimal radioactive waste.

The most promising technological direction is to use thorium in molten salt reactors. While multiple nations are developing the technology, China is the first to build an experimental thorium molten salt reactor.

The latest breakthrough to add fresh fuel to an operational reactor indicates such technology is ready for sustained commercial deployment.

It marks the first long-term, stable operation of the technology, putting China at the forefront of a global race to harness thorium for nuclear power.

The experimental reactor, located in the Gobi Desert in China’s west, uses molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium as the fuel source. The reactor is designed to sustainably generate 2 megawatts of thermal power.

The development was announced by the project’s chief scientist, Xu Hongjie, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences on April 8. Xu said China “now leads the global frontier for thorium nuclear technology”.

China’s thorium molten salt reactor project began with theoretical research in the 1970s, and in 2009 the CAS leadership tasked Xu with making the next-generation nuclear energy technology a reality.

The project team expanded from dozens of members to more than 400 researchers within two years.

“We learned by doing, and did by learning,” Xu said. The challenges were immense – designing new materials, troubleshooting for extreme temperatures, and dealing with engineering components that had never been built before.

After construction of the experimental reactor started in 2018, most of the scientists involved in the project gave up their holidays – they worked day and night, and some stayed on site for more than 300 days in a year. The Gobi Desert is thousands of kilometres away from the major coastal cities.

By October 2023 it was built and achieved criticality – a sustained nuclear chain reaction. And by June 2024 it had reached full-power operation.

Earlier this year the process of thorium fuel reloading was completed while the reactor was running – making it the only operational thorium reactor in the world.

“We chose the hardest path, but the right one,” Xu was quoted as saying, referring to the drive for a real-world application rather than a purely academic pursuit.

A much bigger thorium molten salt reactor is already being built in China and is slated to achieve criticality by 2030. That research reactor is designed to produce 10 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 10,000 homes for a year.

China’s state-owned shipbuilding industry has also unveiled a design for thorium powered container ship that could potentially achieve emission-free maritime transport.

Meanwhile, US efforts to develop a molten salt reactor remain on paper, despite bipartisan congressional support and Department of Energy initiatives.

Xu said, “in the nuclear game, there are no quick wins. You need to have strategic stamina, focusing on doing just one thing for 20, 30 years.”

In addition to thorium reactors, China is on the leading edge of developing nuclear fusion technology (as opposed to current fission technology) that could lead to carbon-free, almost limitless, and clean energy. Fusion is the way sun powers itself and generates 4 times the amount of energy as fission.

At the heart of this fusion revolution lies the tokamak, a donut-shaped device designed to contain superheated plasma using powerful magnetic fields. By mimicking the sun’s conditions—where hydrogen atoms fuse into helium—tokamaks enable the release of tremendous amounts of energy.

China is at the leading edge in global nuclear fusion development. Most recently, China achieved several key milestones in fusion research, including –

– Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), dubbed as “artificial sun” in China, has set new record in January 2025. The project is based Hefei and run by the China Academy of Sciences (CAS), the world’s leading scientific research institute.

EAST maintained a high-confinement plasma for 1,066 seconds, surpassing previous world record of 403 seconds – a crucial step towards sustained fusion reactions necessary for practical energy generation.

– HL-2M Tokamak, located in Chengdu, is China’s largest and most advanced tokamak. It has achieved first plasma discharge and high plasma parameters, capable of producing plasma temperatures exceeding 200 million degrees Celsius and plasma currents over 2.5 million amperes, essential for efficient fusion reactions.

– HH70 Tokamak, developed by Shanghai-based private company Energy Singularity, stands out for integrating high temperature superconducting magnets made from REBCO (rare earth barium copper oxide). This cutting edge technology dramatically reduces the size and cost of conventional tokamaks, paving the way for more accessible and commercial fusion energy.

Energy Singularity plans to construct a next-gen tokamak by 2027 and a full scale technological demonstrator for fusion nuclear reaction by 2030.

Although commercial viability remains the final frontier, breakthroughs like EAST and HH70 showcase the significant strides towards turning nuclear fusion into a practical energy solution.

[Ed note China is also engaging in a long term project to mine the moon for Helium-3, which would enable them to develop a fusion technology virtually free of harmful radioactive waste products – see https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3647216-china-has-returned-helium-3-from-the-moon-opening-door-to-future-technology/%5D

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Bill Gates Set to Profit Millions From UK’s Decision to ‘Block the Sun’ via Chemtrails

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Bill Gates to profit millions from UK's decision to block the sun.

Sean Adl-Tabatabai

The UK government is poised to approve controversial geoengineering experiments within weeks, costing £50 million, to reflect sunlight away from Earth using chemtrails technology. Backed by Bill Gates, these trials position him to reap millions in profits as the UK pushes to lead global efforts in manipulating the planet’s climate.

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) is spearheading the funding to establish the UK as a pioneer in geoengineering research, according to the Daily Mail and other sources. The initiative aims to advance techniques that alter atmospheric conditions, sparking debate over the environmental and ethical implications of such large-scale interventions.

Modernity.news reports: The reports outline that the experiments will focus on Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), including Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) and Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB).

SAI involves injecting tiny reflective particles, such as sulphur dioxide, into the stratosphere to mimic the cooling effect of volcanic eruptions, while MCB uses ships to spray sea-salt particles into low-lying clouds to enhance their reflectivity.

They cite evidence from emissions on shipping routes and volcanic eruptions, like the 2014 Iceland event, suggesting these methods could temporarily cool the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space.

Professor Jim Haywood from the University of Exeter highlighted the potential of these techniques, noting that ship emissions have historically brightened clouds, creating a dimming effect. However, the 2020 reduction in sulphur dioxide emissions from shipping led to a spike in warming, underscoring the complex balance of such interventions.

Aria’s programme, led by Professor Mark Symes, will include small-scale, controlled outdoor tests to gather critical real-world data. These trials aim to assess whether SRM can prevent catastrophic climate tipping points, such as the collapse of ocean currents or ice sheets. Alongside outdoor experiments, the programme will fund climate monitoring, modelling studies, indoor tests, and public attitude surveys, the report further notes.

Potential side effects of geoengineering include regional droughts, crop failures, or shifts in weather patterns. A 2015 study by the Geomar Helmholtz Centre suggested that even combined geoengineering methods might not prevent temperatures from rising beyond 2°C by 2100, and abrupt cessation could trigger rapid warming, known as “termination shock.”

It’s clear that geoengineering experiments have already been underway for years, now that climate alarmism has been relentlessly pushed for decades, it’s been deemed acceptable to disclose this particular plan to the public.

In the U.S. some States, in addition to Federal government agencies under the Trump administration are seeking bans on such radical geoengineering activity.

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Via https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/bill-gates-set-to-profit-millions-from-uks-decision-to-block-the-sun-via-chemtrails/