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Israel at standstill as massive wildfires keep raging across occupied territories

Wildfires are raging near al-Quds (Jerusalem) and in other Israeli occupied territories for the second day as the number of settlers who have been forced to evacuate surpasses 10,000.

Press TV

Massive fires continued to blaze across areas surrounding occupied al-Quds for the second day in a row on Thursday.

Major roads were closed and thousands of people were evacuated from several settlements. Reports said dozens had suffered injuries, including burns and smoke inhalation.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared the situation an emergency, warning that the wildfires could reach the city if containment efforts fail.

Netanyahu said in a statement on Thursday that 18 people had been arrested on suspicion of arson.

“We’re holding 18 people at the moment who are suspected of arson, one of whom was caught in the act,” Netanyahu said,

Despite Netanyahu’s claims, police sources told Hebrew media that only three people have been detained on suspicion of arson. The sources said that the three are suspected of trying to set other fires and are not involved in the massive fires near occupied al-Quds.

In response to accusations of arson, Ramy Abdu of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said, “Israeli propaganda has chosen to blame its failures on Palestinians.”

A vast part of occupied land has been engulfed by flames and thousands of acres of land have been destroyed and several areas are still ablaze.

The Israeli regime appealed to several countries, including Greece, Cyprus and Italy for urgent firefighting support.

The blaze, which authorities described as one of the largest in the regime’s history, erupted on Wednesday and has rapidly spread due to dry conditions and strong winds. According to the Israeli media, the cost of post-fire reconstruction could climb into the millions of dollars.

Video from last summer when Israelis built a catapult to start wildfires in Lebanon: https://x.com/i/status/19177232754817...

The Israeli regime has been accused of taking the threat of wildfires lightly over the past years. Tel Aviv has been accused of ignoring years of warnings about its lack of preparedness to deal with the threat of wildfires.Dov Ganem, chairman of Israel’s Fire and Air Rescue Association, told the Walla news outlet that 18 years of warnings about a lack of preparedness to deal with wildfires have been met with “indifference” from policymakers.“It was the NF fund that decided to plant non-native trees unsuited to the climate – solely to cover up the traces of the Nakba,” he said, referring to the New Israel Fund, based in the US, which is dedicated to helping settlers.

Nakba is an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe” and refers to Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine, its exiling of Palestinians and its attempt to erase Palestinians from their homeland in 1948.

“It was Netanyahu who chose to spend millions on his private luxury jet, the ‘Wings of Zion,’ instead of investing in a Supertanker firefighting aircraft. It is the settlers who are repeatedly caught committing arson – racist acts of fire terrorism targeting Palestinian land, homes, and livelihoods,” he added.

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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/01/747205/Israel-Palestine-Benjamin-Netanyahu-

Here’s why Trump’s foreign policy is calculated, not chaotic

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House on April 25, 2025 in Washington, DC © Getty Images / Getty Images

Dmitry Trenin

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency have sparked a wave of commentary portraying him as a revolutionary. Indeed, the speed, pressure, and determination with which he has acted are striking. But this view is superficial. Trump is not dismantling the foundations of the American state or society. On the contrary, he seeks to restore the pre-globalist republic that the liberal elite long ago diverted onto a utopian internationalist path. In this sense, Trump is not a revolutionary, but a counterrevolutionary – an ideological revisionist determined to reverse the excesses of the liberal era.

At home, Trump benefits from Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. Legal challenges to his policies – particularly on downsizing government and deporting illegal immigrants – have so far made little progress. Accustomed to media attacks, Trump continues to hit back hard. The recent story alleging that top officials debated strikes on Yemen over Signal has not gained political traction. If anything, it reinforces Trump’s image as a president who acts decisively and without fear of scandal.

Trump’s economic course is clear: re-industrialization, tariff protectionism, and investment in cutting-edge technologies. He is reversing decades of globalist integration, pressing allies to pool financial and technological resources with the US to rebuild its industrial base. Tactically, Trump applies pressure early, then offers retreats and compromises to lure competitors into negotiations favorable to America. This approach has been effective, particularly with Washington’s allies. Even with China, Trump is betting that Beijing’s reliance on the US market, and America’s influence over EU and Japanese trade policy, will yield strategic concessions.

In geopolitics, Trump embraces a realist doctrine grounded in great-power competition. He has defined his global priorities: secure North America as a geopolitical fortress from Greenland to Panama; redirect US and allied power toward containing China; make peace with Russia; and consolidate influence in the Middle East by supporting Israel, partnering with Gulf monarchies, and confronting Iran.

In the military sphere, Trump is pursuing greater American strength by purging the armed forces of “gender liberalism” and accelerating strategic nuclear modernization. Despite his public peace overtures, he has continued airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen and has warned of devastating retaliation against Iran should negotiations fail.

His approach to Ukraine reflects strategic pragmatism. Trump aims to end the war quickly, not out of sympathy for Russia, but to free US resources for the Pacific theater and to reduce the risk of escalation into a nuclear conflict. He expects Western Europe to assume more responsibility for its own defense.

Importantly, Trump does not see Russia as a primary adversary. He views Moscow as a geopolitical rival, but not a military or ideological threat. Rather than pushing to sever Russia from China, he aims to re-engage Russia economically – in areas like energy, the Arctic, and rare earths – with the expectation that greater Western economic engagement will reduce Moscow’s dependence on Beijing.

In fact, outreach to the Kremlin has become the centerpiece of Trump’s foreign policy in his second term. His goal is not to divide Moscow and Beijing outright, but to lay the groundwork for a new global balance of power in which Russia has options beyond the Chinese orbit.

In sum, Trump is not tearing down the American system but striving to restore it. His counterrevolution is aimed at reversing liberal-globalist distortions, reinforcing sovereignty, and returning realism to international affairs. It is this mission – not chaos or confrontation – that is defining his presidency.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/616578-trumps-foreign-policy-calculated/

Columbia student activist rebukes Trump after release from ICE detention

Alex Woodward

A Columbia University student who was arrested at his citizenship interview and hauled off in handcuffs had some words for Donald Trump’s administration after a federal judge in Vermont ordered his immediate release.

Mohsen Mahdawi, holding up two “peace” signs, was greeted by cheering supporters as he walked out of the courthouse Wednesday.

“To President Trump and his cabinet,” he said. “I am not afraid of you.”

Mahdawi, a lawful permanent resident and Palestinian who has held a green card for at least 10 years, was anticipating a scheduled interview as part of his citizenship process on April 14. Instead, hooded federal agents walked him into a car and drove off.

On Wednesday, District Judge Geoffrey Crawford determined that Mahdawi, who hasn’t been charged with any crime, can be released on bail while his legal challenges continue.

Mahdawi — who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, where he lived until moving to the United States in 2014 — is among dozens of student activists marked for removal by the Trump administration over campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

He is among the first of those activists to successfully secure his release while challenging the constitutionality of his arrest and detention in federal court as well as a parallel case in immigration court.

That same Vermont court is also presiding over the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University who remains in a Louisiana detention center.

“This is what justice is. And for anybody who’s doubting justice, this is a light of hope, a hope and faith in the justice system in America,” Mahdawi said outside the courthouse.

“We are pro-peace and anti-war,” he added. “To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering, and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”

An image taken from a video provided by Christopher Helali shows Mahdawi being detained at a Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont, on April 14 (AP)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked hundreds of student visas over campus activism, leading to several high-profile arrests of international scholars who are now awaiting deportation hearings, including in remote jails across the southern United States.

After taking office, Trump signed an executive order that declares U.S. policy is to “ensure” noncitizens “do not … advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.” Another executive order pledges “immediate action” to “investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities” with a promise to “deport Hamas sympathizers and revoke student visas,” according to a fact sheet from the White House.

With Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, who has been jailed in an ICE detention center in Louisiana for more than a month, Mahdawi helped organize the Palestinian Student Union. Mahdawi’s attorneys describe him as a “committed Buddhist” who “believes in non-violence and empathy as a central tenet of his religion.”

Attorneys argue his arrest and detention is retaliatory and in violation of his First Amendment rights, “indisputably and solely for engaging in lawful, constitutionally protected speech,” ACLU of Vermont legal director Lia Ernst told reporters Tuesday night.

Mahdawi helped “eased tensions on campus, not increased them” and “builds bridges and cultivates understanding across differences,” according to Ernst.

“Look at this record we have amassed and look at the mere absence of record [from] the government,” she added.

“His detention is part and parcel of the Trump administration’s attempt to condition liberty on political views,” according to Shezza Abboushi Dallal, a staff attorney at the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) Project, among the groups defending Mahdawi.

“Mohsen is a ray of light in his communities, and we are so relieved that today he walked out those courtroom doors and back into the arms of his loved ones,” attorney Luna Droubi said in a statement Wednesday.

The government’s “claims and actions are baseless, without evidence, and are a disgrace to the U.S. Constitution. We will keep fighting until Mohsen is free for good,” she said.

In a filmed interview with Vermont Democratic Senator Peter Welch inside an ICE detention center last week, Mahdawi said Rubio’s invocation of a rarely used provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to target people who are perceived as threats to foreign policy is conflating “being anti-war as antisemitic.”

“How could that be possible when my partners, most of my partners at Columbia’s campus, and beyond, are Jews and Israelis? My work has been centered on peacemaking,” he said. “My hope and my dream is … to see an end to the war, an end to the killing, and to see a peaceful resolution between Palestinians and Israelis. How could this be a threat to anybody except the war machine that is feeding this?”

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Via https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-orders-release-columbia-student-145816766.html

Mae Brussell in Santa Cruz

Mae Brussell in Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz (1987)

Film Review

This video is based mainly on a presentation by assassination researcher Mae Brussell at Santa Cruz university. The main purpose of her 1987 lecture was to demonstrate that most information about illegal and treasonous activities by the US government was publicly available in mainstream books and newspapers.*

Among other “secrets” she reveals in this presentation (along with her sources):

Naval Intelligence springing Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky from the penitentiary to work for US intelligence during World War II.German Nazis making plans to go underground (in South America, US intelligence and private) as early as May 16, 1943, as well as the Luftwaffe making regular fights from Germany to Argentina between 1943 and 1945.A Wall Street journal article about the appointment of former Nazi officials to leadership positions in major European corporations.Articles from 1987 about the Air Force wanting to upgrade their pilots by requiring them to undergo surgical implantation of brain chips and the Department of Justice spending $4.2 billion to install a phone system enabling to eavesdrop on congressional phone calls.A 1960 book on Operation Paperclip** by contributing LA Times editor Annie Jacobsen.Numerous articles exposing US involvement in illegal biological warfare research.

Brussell’s lecture is supplemented by interviews with friends who assisted in her research. The filmmaker has also inserted two totally unrelated new clips, one captioned “America Under Attack” from September 11, 2001 and the other a 2002 news clip regarding Morgellon’s Disease.*

Brussell first began researching the Kennedy assassination when the Warren Commission issued its 26-volume report in 1964. She would be the first to identify the so-called “Nazi connection” to the JFK assassination.

She also did extensive research into

the “underground” network formed by Nazi war criminals after World War II, with many of them emigrating to the South America (where they became involved in fascist dictatorships the US installed under Operation Condor and various illicit drug cartels), as well as the US, where they were given jobs in the Pentagon, intelligence and the aerospace industry.into criminal intelligence activities, including the assassinations of many rock stars under Operation Chaos.

Followers worldwide subscribed to cassette tapes of her weekly World Watchers programs carried on KLRB FM in Santa Cruz. These can be ordered in DVD format from the May Brussell website https://maebrussell.com/

She also collaborated with John Judge in publicizing their JFK assassination research prior to her death from breast cancer in 1988. One of Lee Harvey Oswald’s doubles “Don Norton” attended one of their presentations and came back to Brussell’s home for tea. Following his visit, both Judge and Brussell came to agree with Oswald’s mother that the man arrested and shot in the basement of the Dallas jail was one of the doubles. See https://jfkcountercoup2.blogspot.com/2014/04/john-judge-mae-brussell-and-don-norton.html

*Widespread Internet access wasn’t available until 1995.

**Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians were smuggled into the US following World War II. 

The First 100 Days, the Method Behind the Madness in the Court Challenges

Jonathan Turley

The first 100 days of the Trump administration have been described in the same way on sites ranging from the ACLU to Vanity Fair: Chaos.

It seems like the Justice Department is battling everywhere on everything at the same time.

It is indeed chaos, but it is not necessarily as random or as reckless as it may seem to the naked eye.

I have been critical of a number of legal moves by the Trump administration, including policies that undermine free speech values. Yet there is a type of legal chaos theory behind all of these actions. In science, chaos theory suggests that, even in a system of seemingly random actions, there can be patterns and interconnections.

The hyperkinetic litigation around the country reflects two realities.

First, Democratic state governments and groups have a massive war chest to challenge any and every new policy of President Trump. In California, the Democrats actually pre-approved a litigation fund before the inauguration to do precisely that.

Second, and more importantly, Trump promised sweeping changes from immigration to transgender policies to education reforms.

If you know that you are going to be challenged, it is better to get into court as soon as possible to move critical cases through the legal system. What you need is finality. Even if you lose cases, you need to know what authority you have.

Immigration wins

This is an administration in a hurry. Trump learned in his first term that you need to move as fast and as far as possible in the first two years of a presidential term.

With the midterm elections looming, Trump knows that reforms may end and investigations and impeachments will begin if the Democrats retake the House in 2026.

Despite some losses, the Justice Department has succeeded generally in reaffirming its authority to seek the reduction of government and to root out waste. It has also made real progress in other areas.

Take the area of greatest success for the Trump administration: Immigration.

One thing that was clearly established in the first 100 days is that the entry of millions of unlawful immigrants was a choice made by the Biden administration and the Democrats. They could have stopped most of these entries at any time, but elected to leave the southern border effectively open for four years as millions poured over.

In a matter of weeks, Trump effectively closed the border. In February, there were just 8,326 southern border encounters, down from 189,913 in February 2024. Daily encounters this week declined 97% from Biden.

As many of us stated during the Biden administration, Democrats could have shut down the border, but clearly did not want to. Now with millions in the country, Democrats are calling for “pathways to citizenship” by arguing that there is no way to process so many illegals allowed in under Biden.

In the meantime, the public overwhelmingly favors deportations and elected Trump on his pledge to carry out such removals. Polling shows that 83% of Americans support deportations of immigrants with violent criminal records and roughly half support mass deportation of all undocumented persons.

A new CBS poll shows that, after the first 100 days, 56 percent approve of President Donald Trump’s “program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.”

National injunctions

To carry out that policy, Trump is seeking to use new expedited systems. For the worst individuals, he has turned to the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act, a little-used act that presents a series of novel, unresolved questions.

Even with this smaller subset of detainees, individual hearings and appeals could make Biden’s decision to allow millions into the country a permanent reality. Many immigrants have been given initial court dates that extend beyond the Trump term.

Trump also pledged to reduce trade barriers for American exports and he is pushing existing laws to the breaking point on tariffs. He is right on the merits.

Even our closest allies impose unfair barriers to our goods and Trump sought to change the status quo with sweeping tariffs issued under his own authority.

Democrats have challenged that authority in various courts and, again, there are good-faith arguments that must be hashed out in court.

It is too early to tell how successful these cases will prove. However, a district court injunction (or even a dozen injunctions) a crisis does not make.

The Supreme Court is about to hear arguments on limiting the use of national injunctions and some of these district court decisions are highly challengeable on appeal.

There is no question that Trump is moving at a lightning speed and the Justice Department has to move at the same pace as the president.

There is also no question that it would better to slow down to avoid some of the unforced errors in the first 100 days.

However, Trump knows that time is of the essence. If he is going to realign the markets and make progress on issues like deportations, he has to put points on the board before the midterm elections. Ronald Reagan lost 26 seats in the House in his first midterm, Bill Clinton lost 54, and Barack Obama lost a breathtaking 63 seats.

The greatest problem for the Justice Department is that the White House and the political team appear to be largely dictating these moves. Political aides see these hills as worth dying on. Even if they lose in court, fighting to remove criminal aliens or to reduce certain foreign aid remains popular with voters.

Don’t alienate judges

The frenzy, however, can come at a cost. That includes alienating justices on the Supreme Court. The resistance to court orders and hyperbolic rhetoric seems to be wearing thin with members like Chief Justice John Roberts.

Trump will need these votes when they really count on big-ticket items like his inherent authority to act in areas ranging from markets to migrants.

Fights over Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia are burning time and effort. If he was simply returned as ordered by a court, Abrego Garcia could be promptly and correctly deported right back to El Salvador. He has no cognizable basis for remaining in the United States.

Richard Carlson, a Bay Area psychotherapist, famously wrote a book titled “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff … and it’s all Small Stuff.” Fights like Garcia are small stuff.

Of course, much of what presidents do is “big stuff” and you have two years to make those things happen. In a curious way, the Trump administration is fortunate to have many of these issues in court early to gain greater finality on the lines of authority. However, it needs to focus on the big stuff . . . and a short calendar.

Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University and the author of best-selling book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

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Via https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/30/the-first-100-days-the-method-behind-the-madness-in-court-challenges/

On Free Speech, Trump as Bad as Biden

By Jack Hunter

In September, candidate Donald Trump vowed, “I will bring back free speech in America…I will sign an executive order banning any federal employee from colluding to limit speech, and we will fire every federal bureaucrat who is engaged in domestic censorship under the Harris regime.”

Trump was addressing the clear danger that Democrats posed to the First Amendment.

The Republican presidential nominee was talking about the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, who had once threatened to sic the Justice Department on social media platforms that “profit off hate.” In 2022, her choice for running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, said that “there’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” In 2021, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the government needs to figure out how to “rein in the media environment.” The Biden administration had not only proposed a new federal agency that would regulate citizens’ speech, but was revealed to have pressured private social media companies to censor users’ speech, as revealed by the Twitter Files.

All of these anti-First Amendment actions, among many others, were not at all controversial to Democrats. In their blind hatred for Trump, the party had become one that began to see government censorship and regulation of speech as a positive good in their efforts to defeat or at least contain MAGA. As Hillary Clinton put it one month before the 2024 election, allowing free speech on social media was too dangerous because it means “we lost control.”

Luckily free speech mostly prevailed during that time period, but Clinton was right: The free flow of news and ideas coming from populist social media and alternative podcast worlds would end up helping to defeat Democrats in 2024.

Democracy prevailed, despite Democrats being so eager to suppress it.

Now, President Donald Trump is behaving like these Democrats.

The ACLU’s Allegra Harpootlian writes, “On March 25, [Rümeysa Öztürk] was planning to go to an iftar dinner with friends. Instead, while walking near her apartment, she was approached and then grabbed by a hooded man. Other figures soon closed in, including several wearing face coverings and dark clothing. Finally, one officer flashed a badge…”

Öztürk has not been charged with a crime. By all of the available evidence, she is seemingly being held for being a co-author of an op-ed that was critical of the Israeli’s government’s actions in Gaza.

Öztürk is but one of a number of those in the United States on student visas who have been arrested without charge for criticizing Israel’s government. Secretary of State Marco Rubio now brags that he has revoked over 300 student visas. “It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day,” Rubio said at a press conference in March.

“Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,” he said.

You’re a “lunatic” if you criticize Israel’s government?

Rubio continued, “At some point, I hope we run out because we’ve gotten rid of all of them, but we’re looking every day for these lunatics that are tearing things up.”

They should be charged with vandalism if they are literally tearing this up. But it was not clear that physical destruction or violence is what Rubio meant.

“We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not become a social activist that tears up our university campuses,” he added. “And if we’ve given you a visa and you decide to do that, we’re going to take it away.”

To note, the Supreme Court decided long ago that anyone in the United States has First Amendment protections, citizen or not.

Rubio would add, “We don’t want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country. But you’re not going to do it in our country.”

The Trump administration framing the suppression of free speech as a matter of non-citizens’ rights vs. those of citizens is a cheap way of ignoring the First Amendment, no different than the Biden administration holding up the supposed threats of “misinformation” and “disinformation” in the name of doing the same.

Republicans and Democrats have created spectres supposedly so threatening to convince enough people that the First Amendment no longer applies.

Bullshit.

So many Republicans right now argue that criticizing Israel’s government is inherently anti-semitic, which is about as ridiculous as arguing that every conservative talk host who criticizes the United States government is anti-American.

And if they genuinely were anti-semitic, that’s still protected by the First Amendment.

“Hate speech” is protected speech. Do Trump Republicans now agree with Biden-Harris Democrats like Tim Walz that there are no First Amendment protections for hate speech?

Apparently they do.

With Trump’s speech precedent, it’s not hard to imagine a future President Harris targeting conservative college students who challenge DEI or trans ideology. Leftists could argue—and do—that speech against minorities or LGBTQ members constitutes violence and therefore, somehow, falls outside of First Amendment protections.

So many of the Republicans who defend the arrest and deportation of those who criticize Israel’s government sound pretty much like identity politics-driven lefties. Their subjects are different but the logic is the same. Safe spaces, all around.

There are other examples of where the Trump administration has reneged on his free speech promises, and now just offers mirror images of Joe Biden’s censorship regime. I’m just focusing on one aspect.

One glimmer of hope is that while Democrats appeared to have reached a consensus over the last decades that censorship is a positive good, there is a loud and growing debate on the right over Trump’s affronts to free speech, with some of the most high profile personalities pushing back.

Still, Donald Trump campaigned vowing to protect the First Amendment. He’s not delivering. Quite the opposite.

He should do what he promised, not just be another Joe Biden.

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Via https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/on-free-speech-trumps-as-bad-as-biden/

As WEF Pushes Digital ID, NIH Happily Complies by Building Health Data Platform Linking Medical Records

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Recently, the WEF confirmed that Klaus Schwab has resigned as chair and that it has launched an investigation into the man and his wife Hilda due to allegations of misconduct using organization funds to buy a luxury mansion, private, in-room massages at hotels, and luxury holiday travel.

Schwab was the founder and 50-plus-year uncontested head honcho of the WEF which started as a $6K startup but morphed into a $390-million-a-year business  hell-bent on acquiring divine powers, hacking humans, using sound waves for mind control, ending free-will, infiltrating and destroying democratically controlled governments and infiltrating cabinets, depopulating the earth, recalibrating free speech, and most importantly, emulating their beloved China.  Source

The WEF peaked at the height of the COVID era with global narratives like ‘The Great Reset‘, ‘build back better,’ ‘sustainability,’ inclusivity, equity, and coherence using digital ID as the linchpin at the center of a global digital panopticon devised under the auspice of the UN’s global public-private partnership ‘regime.’” (Go here for a live webinar tonight on what Real ID means for your medical privacy)

Its annual DAVOS meeting has been a virtual requirement for hungry elites with dreams of taking over the world.

The WEF appears to have fallen from grace; however, due to being a fanatical political organization masquerading as a neutral entity demanding $3.5 trillion a year (60% of the annual U.S. federal budget) to ‘decarbonize’ the planet, to ‘reach net-zero and restore nature.’ Rather than admitting that “climate change” measures  have actually hurt the environment and people, or apologizing for tracking and censoring people, pushing wars and deadly mass “vaccinations” that were ineffective but have been linked with more adverse reactions and death than any vaccine in the history of VAERS, this out of touch group naively believes it can build trust out of thin air.

And now, Schwab’s replacement as been revealed:

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe WEF Interim Chairman

Letmathe, former CEO of Nestle the largest food and beverage empire on earth, has stated that water should not be a human right.  He appears to be a perfect WEF fit:

Nestle is one of the largest users of water in the food and beverage industry and in 2023 withdrew 95.6 MN/m3 of water globally of which 37% was from water-stressed areas.  Half was used in their operations and half was dumped back into the environment. They have also taken water from indigenous lands in Canada in areas where locals couldn’t even get clean drinking water.Nestle has been draining aquifers dry and then selling it back to consumers for profit in plastic bottles which damage the environment. (https://substack.com/home/post/p-162411666)WEF Pushes Biometric Digital ID as Core of Global Control Grid: ‘Essential’ for Access to Banking, Benefits, and Society

Dystopian vision frames digital ID as the gateway to participation in society, controlled by governments and corporations. From Jon Fleetwood:

In a recent article, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is openly pushing digital public infrastructure (DPI)—anchored by digital ID systems—as the foundation of a “connected future.”But their own words reveal a future where governments and corporations will track, control, and commodify nearly every digital interaction under the banner of equity, security, and innovation.

If your digital ID is the key to banking, benefits, and daily life, then falling out of line with the globalist agenda means they can shut you out with a single click.

For years, the WEF has advocated for a future in which citizens worldwide will “own nothing” and “be happy” about it, and in which the United States is no longer the world’s leading superpower.

The Forum’s programs are currently advancing the climate change narrative, as well as the idea that China will be the next world superpower, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts, and population management.

The globalist group, founded in 1971, accomplishes this by partnering with top politicians from around the world, as well as international corporations, legal systems, political activist groups, and the so-called scientific community.

Important excerpts:They want systems that are “AI-compatible,” “XR-enhanced,” and ready for “quantum computing advancements”—meaning your ID will be plugged into and shaped by emerging surveillance technologies.The WEF also admits: “Private sector innovation has been the first mover for widely adopted digital identity systems.” Translation: Big Tech is in the driver’s seat. 

**Comment** Do not be fooled.  WEF wants a centralized control grid that has nothing to do with inclusion.  It’s a tool of exclusion for anyone who puts up a fuss.

Under the auspice of ‘research’ for autism and chronic disease:  https://reclaimthenet.org/nih-aggregates-private-health-data-research-privacy-concerns

NIH Says It Will Build Health Data Platform Linking Health Records, Genomic Profiles, and Smartwatch Data for Medical Research

A sprawling new database blending genomic profiles, insurance claims, and fitness tracker logs is quietly redefining what medical privacy means in America.

By Ken Macon April 23, 2025

The National Institutes of Health is quietly assembling a vast digital mosaic of Americans’ private medical histories, pulling sensitive data from both government-run health systems and commercial sources to support autism research tied to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest project.

The new scheme involves a sweeping plan to integrate diverse streams of health data into a single platform, raising significant concerns about privacy, oversight, and long-term use.

According to NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the data aggregation includes pharmacy transactions, insurance claims, clinical test results, and even personal metrics collected from wearable tech such as fitness trackers and smartwatches.

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Health information from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service is also being funneled in, creating a massive, centralized repository with a wide lens on the US population.

As Bhattacharya told agency advisers on Monday, the objective is to eliminate the fragmentation that currently limits access to existing health data sets. He said the new system would cut down on redundancies and make it easier for researchers to conduct large-scale analysis.

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Via https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2025/04/30/wef-back-in-the-saddle-pushing-digital-id-nih-happily-complies-by-building-health-data-platform-linking-health-records/

Eric Trump: Banks could be extinct in 10 years

Eric Trump speaks during a business conference in Las Vegas on March 19, 2025. ©  Bryan Steffy/Getty Images

RT

Banks could face extinction within a decade if they fail to embrace blockchain technologies, US President Donald Trump’s second son Eric, a crypto entrepreneur, has warned.

In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Eric Trump lambasted what he described as the slowness and inefficiency of the traditional banking system.

“The modern financial system is broken, it’s slow, it’s expensive,” he told the business news channel.

Trump, who launched a bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin in March, said he turned to digital currencies and decentralized finance when he realized that “our banking system favors the ultra-wealthy” and “was weaponized against the vast majority of people in our country.”

Decentralized finance platforms allow individuals to conduct transactions directly with one another, often with low or no fees, something traditional banks rely on to generate income.

Trump has argued that blockchain technology can perform all the functions of traditional banking systems more efficiently.

“I’m telling you, if the banks don’t watch what’s coming, they’re going to be extinct in 10 years,” he said.

In the interview, Trump also criticized the SWIFT interbank financial messaging network as an “absolute disaster,” highlighting the delays and inefficiencies in cross-border transactions.

US President Donald Trump’s family have expanded into the cryptocurrency sector, launching a decentralized finance project called World Liberty Financial. They have also announced plans for a dollar-backed stablecoin.

In 2021, major American financial services company Capital One severed ties with over 300 accounts linked to the Trump family and their businesses. The move came two months after the January 6 Capitol riot, where Trump’s supporters attempted to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential el

Last month, Eric and his brother Donald Jr. filed a lawsuit against Capital One, claiming its decision to close the accounts was an attack on free speech and free enterprise, and a response to their father’s political views.

Once a crypto critic, President Trump has changed his position on digital currencies, attracting significant industry support. Since returning to the White House, he has pledged to make the US the “crypto capital of the world” and to serve as a “crypto president.”[…]Ed Note: Seems like neither CNBC nor Eric got the memo about the new Proof of Stake (POS) technology that makes slow and energy wasting bitcoin mining obsolete. See Ground Breaking Tech Promises to Change the Landscape of  CryptocurrencyVia https://www.rt.com/business/616571-banks-extinct-decade-eric-trump/

DOGE cuts could help Elon Musk companies avoid $2 billion in liabilities: Senate report

By Erin Doherty

A new memo from Senate Democratic committee staff accuses Elon Musk of using his perch on DOGE to “evade oversight, derail investigations, and make litigation disappear whenever he so chooses—on his terms and at his command.”The memo finds that as of Inauguration Day, Musk and his companies were facing at least 65 “actual or potential” actions from 11 federal agencies. Many of those threats are now neutralized.Sen. Richard Blumenthal also sent letters to SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI asking them to provide information on the investigations they faced before the inauguration.The White House rejected any allegations that Musk has used his role in government for “personal or financial gain.”

Elon Musk may skirt more than $2 billion in possible financial liabilities by exercising his influence over the federal government, according to a report Monday from Senate Democratic committee staffers.

Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” has brought sweeping changes to Washington with its slash-and-burn campaign to gut agencies and purge the federal workforce. President Donald Trump has avidly supported Musk’s cuts.

As he appears poised to step back from his DOGE work in the coming weeks, Democrats are accusing the world’s richest person of using his influence to “evade oversight, derail investigations, and make litigation disappear whenever he so chooses—on his terms and at his command.”

The report, compiled by Democratic staff of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, found that on the day of Trump’s inauguration, Musk and his companies were facing at least 65 “actual or potential” regulatory or enforcement actions from 11 federal agencies.

These actions totaled at least $2.37 billion in potential liability, the memo says.

The companies include SpaceX, a space exploration firm, Tesla, an electric vehicle manufacturer; Neuralink, which produces brain implants; The Boring Company, a tunnel construction firm; and the artificial intelligence startup xAI.

According to the 44-page memo, the potential liabilities included $1.19 billion at Tesla for allegedly making misleading statements about its autopilot and self-driving features.

Neuralink faced $281 million in possible liability for allegedly making false statements about risks from its product, per the memo.

Additionally, the company could have been forced to pay $1.59 million in civil and criminal penalties for alleged violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

“The through line connecting many of Mr. Musk’s decisions appears to be self-enrichment and avoiding what he perceives as obstacles to advancing his interests,” reads the memo.

“The truth is that the breathtaking scope and scale of benefits Mr. Musk is gaining from his present position may never be known, and that is by design. The silence is strategic, and it is dangerous,” it says.

In the wake of the memo, the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, sent letters to the five Musk-led companies asking them to provide information on the federal investigations they faced prior to Trump’s inauguration.

CNBC has reached out to the companies for comment.

The letters also request a rundown of the steps each company has taken to keep Musk’s government work separate from those probes. Blumenthal asks the companies to respond by May 11.

The White House sharply rejected any suggestion that Musk has used his role in government for “personal or financial gain,” saying “any assertion otherwise is completely false and defamatory.”

Blumenthal “is clearly suffering from a debilitating and uncurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has wilted his brain,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said in an emailed statement.

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Via https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/elon-musk-doge-trump-legal-liabilities-senate-democrats.html

As manpower crisis plagues IDF, Israel Extends Compulsory Service

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The Cradle

The Israeli army has announced that it will extend mandatory service by four months due to a growing manpower crisis, coinciding with an intensification of battles in Gaza and the resurgence of deadly resistance operations against invading troops.

The additional four months will be classified as reserve duty, allowing soldiers to complete a total of three years of military service.

The military will also cancel pre-release leave for soldiers. Troops will have to serve a full three years before being discharged.

This decision follows months of intense fighting and rising casualties, which have strained troop levels.

The extra four months will provide benefits for the soldiers, given that reserve duty is usually compensated by the Israeli government. The army states that its decision is temporary and aims to help alleviate the current troop shortages.

“At the moment, we are short 10,000 troops, 7,000 of them in combat units,” the army said.

Israel announced on 26 April the death of Staff Sergeant Neta Yitzhak Kahana, an undercover operative with the Southern Border Police, who was killed during clashes with resistance fighters in Gaza.

His death marked the second Israeli soldier to be killed over the weekend. Both were killed in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood.

Israel has said that it will launch a major offensive across Gaza if no progress is made in truce negotiations. According to Tel Aviv, current operations in Gaza – which have seen the army seize at least 50 percent of the strip’s territory – aim to pressure Hamas in talks, not bring about a complete defeat of the resistance group.

An expanded assault on Gaza would include a massive call-up of reservists and operations in new areas of the strip, the army has said.

Last month, Israeli media reported that the army is facing a crisis in its reserves as a growing number of soldiers have indicated a lack of motivation and an unwillingness to serve. A senior commander in the reserves told Haaretz that there are numerous cases of reservist soldiers refusing to report for duty.

According to estimates, the response rate for the upcoming reservist call-up is expected to be no more than 50 percent. This would mark a 50 percent drop since the start of the war in 2023.

The manpower crisis Israel is facing coincides with growing tension between Israel’s political and security establishments.

Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon called for civil disobedience against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following his dismissal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar. This came during a protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday.

Israeli protesters have also taken to the streets to demand an immediate exchange agreement in Gaza, where relentless airstrikes are endangering the lives of captives still held by the resistance.

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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-extends-compulsory-service-as-manpower-crisis-plagues-army