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The Tennessee Funeral Directors Association has publicly acknowledged the existence of white fibrous clots in corpses, with 64% of embalmers and funeral directors attending its Convention reporting sightings of the clots in the first half of 2025. The clots were found in an average of 17% of all corpses.
In addition to the white rubbery clots caused by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, 70% of respondents reported signs of micro-clotting, and 39% observed an increase in infant deaths in 2025.
Former USAF Major Tom Haviland joined Nicholas Hulscher on the Focal Points podcast to discuss the first state-level acknowledgement of the white fibrous clots at a meeting of the Tennessee Funeral Directors Association.
#US / Thomas Friedman: self-serving meets redundant
There are so many silly things in Thomas Friedman’s column it’s difficult to choose a highlight. Maybe one indication he’s delusional in an old-fashioned colonial way would be this particular advice he dispenses to the #Trump administration, right after suggesting gifting Israel with even more bombs, now adding B-2s: “Recognize Palestinian right to self-determination while requiring them to develop credible, corruption-free leadership.” Thomas Friedman, clearly a genius, is asking the most corrupt regime in U.S. history to demand corruption-free leadership from the Palestinians.
Disregarding the colonial arrogance (the Palestinians’ right to self-determination is not dependent on Trump’s goodwill), but what about looking in the mirror first? When Friedman indulges in ideas like “coercive diplomacy,” he basically admits he’s an imperialist, or rather an imperialist wannabe. It’s a euphemism for imperialism, not a philosophy and not diplomacy. It’s the opposite of diplomacy, in fact. He says the U.S. has the right to dictate terms to sovereign nations, that American interests should drive regional solutions, and that military threats are legitimate diplomatic tools when used by the dominant power.
But the cherry on top is this:
[…] “But the Israeli Jews have no Belgium. They are as indigenous to their biblical homeland as the Palestinians, no matter what ‘anticolonial’ nonsense they teach at elite universities. Therefore, you will never out-crazy the Israeli Jews. If push comes to shove, they will out-crazy you.”
Never mind Friedman’s evangelical orientalism mixed with a familiar populist tone—I believe he was always an opportunistic coward—but maybe someone should remind him that Romania (where his grandfather was born) was never part of Palestine. Most of the Russian Jews who started exploring colonization in Palestine in the second half of the 19th century barely survived the first year, and most ran back home. So much for indigeneity, I guess.
But honestly, when I see him gushing over ideas Dennis Ross came up with, I’m thinking maybe it’s time the White House should hire fewer Jewish “special advisers,” negotiators, and envoys to the Middle East and add a couple of Palestinians to the mix? It’s becoming absurd.
Actually, I’m not sure why he’s using #Belgium and the #Congo as his reference point. Why not stick with #Britain? After all, they eventually left Palestine too. They also refused to implement the partition plan—or any plan, for that matter—that wasn’t acceptable to both communities: the Arab majority and the Jewish minority, which consisted mostly of non-indigenous people who had arrived in Palestine illegally.
Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting
But the real problem is even dumber
-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes -is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes -will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup -will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too
I don't think she believes it, I think she's just having fun and making money being an outrageous liar. But, if she does believe it, I'd like to hear the story of how she got that way.
Israel has imposed a strict censure on any news relating to the Iranian strikes. No intl journalists allowed and Israelis get arrested if they share clips of the strikes. So this is a good analysis if you wish to have an idea of what's really happening. From min 7:37 you can see the Israeli air defence in the centre of Tel Aviv (talk about human shields) and Iranian missiles landing. So...
Jon Elmer, contributing editor, reports on the first week of the war with Iran launched by Israel on the morning of 13 June 2025. Your gift supports The Elec...
So the rate of interception trumpeted by Israel is not what happens in reality. They say most Iranian missiles get intercepted.. Yes, by the ground, because that's where they hit. Haifa has shut down oil + gas facilities. From Al Mayadeen: "Shipping giant Maersk announces stop of shipping to Haifa Port on account of Iranian missiles"
Government buildings, Mossad, the stock exchange, military bases, are just some of the targets hit by Iran. Israelis are getting a taste of their own medicine and they are not allowed to leave the country. Wealthy Israelis have been fleeing by yacht for Cyprus, in a case of 'rats abandoning by boat' Jon Elmer also gives an analysis of the weaponry used by Iran. Incidentally, I've seen on YouTube ...
I've seen on YouTube an Israeli govt funded ad showing the range of Iranian missile, saying that they can hit anywhere in Europe. That's another big fat Zionist lie. Jon Elmer elaborates on the Iranian missile specifications and you'll see that they can reach all of the US military bases in the region but won't get to the UK ... er, no. The Israeli govt is flooding YouTube with made up shit. If you see them, pls block and report.
Risky Medications: The FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to continue sending drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants that the agency had banned.
FDA Secrecy: The agency did not proactively inform the public when drugs were exempted from import bans, and it did not routinely test the medications to ensure they were safe.
A Generic Drug Scandal That SHOCKED Even Us!
Here is yet ANOTHER mind boggling generic drug scandal. The FDA keeps worrisome data under wraps! How trustworthy are your generic drugs?
Still going huh? I'm processing the shock of being so much older than seems reasonable considering the circumstances. Time perception has been flowing fast and slow at the same time.
Fool me three times, there’s a little bit of shame to go around here. Admittedly, maybe I should have caught on to your character by now, but you know, you’re the one doing the fooling. This doesn’t have to be a black-and-white situation.
Fool me four times, I’m big enough to admit that the shame is leaning back towards me. After three times, I really should have been a little more skeptical. You’ve got me there.
Fool me five times, shame is entirely on you again. The only explanation for you fooling me five separate times is that you had some really clever trick that I couldn’t possibly be expected to figure out. Obviously, I don’t know what it was, but it must have been so good, and you should definitely have known better.
Fool me six times, and maybe who gets the shame just isn’t the right framework to think about this anymore. The two of us have a relationship at this point, and it’s clearly dysfunctional. Maybe we should stop trying to figure out who’s to blame and start working on how we can make things better.
Fool me seven times, and you’re not exactly showing me you’re as dedicated to doing the work of improving this relationship as I am.
Fool me eight times and I’ll be like, “Hey, could you maybe stop that?” And then you’ll be like, “Oh, yeah, I’ll stop. I didn’t realize it was bothering you so much.” And I’ll go, “Wait, really?” and you’ll be like “Yeah, totally. Shame on me,” and anyway, that’s a ninth time right there.
Fool me ten times and I’ll be like, “Ohhhhhhhh, you were just fooling me again!” and you’ll be like, “Yeah, obviously. That cannot be a surprise to you at this point.”
Fool me eleven times and you’re probably gonna start wondering if there’s something else going on here. Am I only pretending to be fooled by you? Do I have a secret plan that I’m unfolding underneath your very nose? Are you actually the one being fooled?
Fool me twelve times and, no, it’s definitely not some big plan. I really am getting fooled every time.
Fool me thirteen times, and you start to wonder why you even bother. Are you getting something from continuing to fool me over and over again, or is it just a habit now? Could it maybe be… Love?
Fool me fifteen times and you hope it isn’t love, because it’s getting to be a chore. Has it even been just fifteen times? Or did you lose count?
Fool me sixteen times and you start getting lazy with it. You just say stuff like, “Hey, I’m definitely not about to go to the bathroom,” right before you go to the bathroom. Does that even count? But then I’m like, “HOLY COW, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” and yeah, apparently it does.
Fool me seventeen times and I’m like, “Wait a second…. You’re not trying to fool me, are you?” And for a moment, you think I’ve caught you, and it’s finally over. But then, I’m like, “No, that’s messed up. You wouldn’t do that to me a seventeenth time.” It’s never over.
Fool me eighteen times and something is wrong, with me and maybe also with you. A person shouldn’t be fooled this many times. That’s simply too much shame. This must be destiny. This must be a trap.
Fool me nineteen times, because you can’t escape from it any more than I can. You can’t stop fooling me just as I can’t stop being fooled. You are caught in a web of lies, and you are the one spinning them.
Fool me twenty times and you feel yourself unraveling. This is your Hell. Your shame. I will never release you. I will never see through your lies. And you will never stop lying.
SARS-CoV 2 was discovered at the end of 2019. That's why it's called "COVID 19" not "COVID 20" And it spread worldwide in January of 2020. So March has nothing to do with its birthday.
I both love and hate that you keep updating it. The fact you've kept it going is incredible, and it's still funny, but also a steady reminder that we live in the worst timeline 😩
ffs, I was literally in the 'palpable and rising discomfort' stages of worry for my own mortality when I picked up the phone to distract myself from the missed-bus dread of it all. And then this. The year 2000 was 8 years ago, and that's final, bucko.
an arbitrary 180 days beyond halfway between two other arbitrary values? With a graph mentioning a 4th value _and_ an odd ratio I can’t see any of these 4 fitting?
...d the U.S., focused on humanoid robots for tasks like household chores.
Clearly inspired by by Westworld & Silent Hill.
Ah yes, I’ve always wanted a skin walker to do my laundry.
I wonder if ...
« Ce n’est pas juste une fuite, c’est l’ébauche d’une exploitation de masse, s’inquiètent les chercheurs en cybersécurité. Avec plus de 16 milliards d’identifiants exposés, les cybercriminels ont désormais un accès sans précédent à des données personnelles qui peuvent servir à dérober des comptes, usurper des identités et lancer des campagnes de phishing très ciblées. »
Travaillons-nous plus ou plutôt moins aujourd'hui que nos lointains ancêtres ? Les chasseurs-cueilleurs s'en sortaient souvent avec peu d'efforts, ce n'est qu'avec l'agriculture et le travail industriel que les heures de travail ont explosé.
"Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves upon the ruin of this Country."
-- Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution." Source: November 20th, 1772, the Votes and Proceedings of the Town of Boston were printed in the 'Boston Pamphlet' and sent to each Town stating the Rights of the Colonists. libertytree.ca/docs/The-Boston…
#meta #whatsapp #instagram #google Oui, et ce n'est pas un scoop, des vidéos ont tourné des visions par #drones avec les comptes des smartphones apparents, dans une voiture, sur un piéton, etc, ensuite le tir est déclenché,... l' #israël a commit le premier #génocide assisté par #IA grâce à l'aide de #Google, #microsoft, #meta...
“A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.”
~ Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator
"A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacan…
alright lads i got all my parts plasma cut yesterday, today i need to get them cleaned up and do a few bends, and at least weld prep, and hopefully welding
Rewatching #JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle and Holy fecking Shit! the amount of #ProductPlacement going on in this #movie is insane! I get that it's a #Sony picture, but does every single fucking thing in a scene need to be a Sony #product?
Never really noticed before until now because until now I was more caught up in the #story but this morning I'm just looking to kill some time, kick back, and relax a little.
And I can't stop noticing all the damn product placements for Sony products! Frankly they're distracting.
“It was the Republican Party that demolished the shining city on the hill my father built. It was the Republican Party that was 100 percent responsible for the end of the Reagan Revolution...[T]he Republican Party abandoned the trail leading to that shining city on the hill to become itself a quasi-Left-wing organization which looks at the Democrats’ welfare programs and says ‘me too’.”
~ Michael Reagan son of former president Ronald Reagan
"It was the Republican Party that demolished the shining city on the hill my father built. It was the Republican Party that was 100 percent responsible for the end of the Reagan Revolution...
As expected, amid the war with #Iran, settler violence and criminal activity are escalating. Northeast of #Ramallah, #settlers are accelerating their land grabs through the establishment of new outposts, roadblocks, arson attacks on fields, and the uprooting of trees - all under the protection of the army and in line with official government policy. Land is being looted in broad daylight, while the state turns a blind eye.
After settlers, with the help of the army, succeeded in expelling most of the Palestinian shepherd communities and clusters from the east and northeast of Ramallah, in the last few days they have accelerated the seizure of agricultural land belonging to the residents of the villages of Al Mughair and Duma all while attention is focused on the events with Iran.
Over the past two weeks, two new outposts have been established at the entrances to the villages of Al Mughair and Duma. In Al Mughair, the outpost was set up along the eastern access road, which the army blocked immediately after the outbreak of the war. In Duma, the new outpost now controls the village's only remaining access road, after the settlers and the army blocked the other two. Back in July 2023, we published a post about a checkpoint that was placed east of the village of Al Mughair, warning that its purpose was to prevent landowners from accessing their lands that are located east of the village - paving the way for settlers to seize them. Unfortunately, we were right. Link to the post from July 2023 is in the comments.
As far as we understand, these two new outposts are essentially extensions of the main outpost established in the area about a decade ago inside an abandoned military base, known as "Malachei Hashalom". This outpost is one out of ten outposts that the racist and corrupt Israeli government decided to "legalize" on February 12, 2023. Link to the government decision in the comments. The outpost of Malachei Hashalom serves as an eastern extension of the settlement of Shiloh and its violent outposts. Through a network of outposts that were established since the late 1990s, settlers have succeeded in taking control over nearly the entire area between Shiloh and the Jordan Valley. Now, they are working to consolidate their grip towards the north and the south along the Alon Road, while the army, under the authority of the Apartheid Central Command Major General Avi Blot, allows them to run wild.
About a week ago, it was reported that the army had declared 800 dunams in the area surrounding the outpost of Malachei Hashalom as "state land". However, we have yet to see the official declaration and the accompanying map, nor have we found any signage on the ground, which is the usual procedure in such cases. What we did receive, however, is an unusual document in Arabic, unlike anything we have seen before. Signed over two months ago on April 9, 2025, the document announces an intention to hold a “hearing" prior to either declaring roughly 825 dunams of land or registering it in the land registry as "state land" . The attached map shows that the targeted area is surrounding the outpost of Malachei Hashalom. Link to the document is in the comments.
Meanwhile, settlers in the area are taking over agricultural land along the Alon Road. The goal is to establish a chain of outposts and agricultural land seizures stretching between the outpost of Malachei Hashalom and the isolated and notoriously violent settlement of Kochav Hashahar. East of the village of Al Mughair, you can witness large swaths of farmland that have been set ablaze by settlers in order to block Palestinians from accessing their land. In recent days, an olive grove with dozens of trees northeast of the village of Al Mughair was uprooted. Along the Alon Road, several spots already show signs of settlers plowing, clearing, and cultivating the land.
This is what looting in broad daylight looks like under the racist and corrupt government and the most powerful army in the Middle East.
#KeremNavot - Naboth’s Vineyard Naboth’s Vineyard (Kerem Navot) is an Israeli NGO established in 2012, which monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the #WestBank.
»Ella Greenberg: „Ich schließe mich keiner israelischen Armee an, die Genozid begeht“ Die Israelin Ella Keidar Greenberg ist 18, trans, links – und verweigert den Kriegsdienst. Dafür saß sie zuletzt in einem Militärgefängnis ein. Wie es ihr dabei erging und wie das israelische Militär mit trans Soldatinnen umgeht« #Israel #kriegsdienstverweigerung #Genozid #Gaza freitag.de/autoren/hanno-hauen… (Paywall)
»Kriegsdienstverweigerung wird weithin nicht nur als Gesetzesbruch, sondern auch als moralischer Verrat betrachtet. Ella Keidar Greenberg gehört zu den sehr wenigen jungen Menschen in Israel, die sich dem öffentlich widersetzen. Am 19. März diesen Jahres erschien sie in einem Rekrutierungszentrum bei Tel Aviv – und erklärte vor laufender Kamera ihre Weigerung, Israels Armee beizutreten. Wenig später wurde sie verhaftet und in ein Militärgefängnis gebracht.«
» „Wenn unsere Enkelkinder eines Tages fragen, was wir während dem Genozid in Gaza getan haben, weiß ich, was ich antworten werde“, sagte Greenberg vor ihrer Verhaftung. „Ich habe verweigert.“«
»Prinzipiell ist die Antwort einfach: Es findet ein Genozid statt – man schließt sich keiner Armee an, die einen Genozid begeht.«
It makes a great argument. I think the term values is fraught, because it carries the implicit meaning of “good.” But they no one is going to resolve the terminology in one video.
Insurance company of the drunk driver that hit my car back in March is now sending me annoying "we need to fill out our report" letters. My insurance company already got full reimbursement so it's just corporate bullshit. Anyway, I'm using ChatGPT to send annoying letters in response to prolong this for them.
🇵🇸 #genocide à #gaza : pendant qu’Israël attaque l’Iran, les massacres se poursuivent
Alors que le début du conflit entre #Israel et l’#Iran concentre l’attention publique, l’Etat sioniste continue d'orchestrer la famine et les massacres des Palestiniens.
Si le début du conflit par tirs interposés entre Israël et l'Iran a catalysé l'attention publique et médiatique ces derniers jours, le génocide des palestiniens se poursuit dans la bande de Gaza.
Der aktuelle Gesetzesentwurf zur erneuten Aussetzung des Familiennachzugs verletzt das grund- und menschenrechtlich garantierte Recht auf #Familie.
Zudem ist der Familiennachzug das Gegenteil illegaler #Migration: Denn wer seinen engsten Angehörigen legal nachfolgen darf, wird nicht gezwungen, über gefährliche Fluchtrouten nach Deutschland zu kommen.
(Sorry #NGIForum25 two floors below, no time for you today 😌)
We haven't started yet and the room is still empty, but I'm hoping we'll discuss how #Windows is abused to dominate other markets, by aggressively nudging users to #Edge, #Xbox, #OneDrive, #ChatGPT, etc.
The "regulatory dialogue" with the Commission, according to #Linkedin's competition director, was a way for the company to "mature and progress in our DMA journey."
It's not a "journey", it's a law that creates legal obligations and prohibitions for the company. Get over it and get it down already. 😠
After a lengthy statement by the #Linkedin rep, read out from paper with a machine-like voice, first questions from the audience:
Consumer org @beuc wants to know whether Linkedin's A/B testing for compliance solutions have been neutral and if the test results will be published. Super important for compliance #transparency!
Again, Linkedin refuses to share actual data of how users interact with consent screens, only speaking of "non-minimal numbers" of European users who opted out.
So funny how the #Windows lawyer starts off by dissing competitor #Apple by highlighting how Windows has always been an open platform where users can install apps from wherever they want without having to ask for permission 🔥
Haha this conversation with #Windows lawyers is so wild I don't even find time to post here about it.
So, I asked them how it's legal under the #DMA's Art 5(2) data cross-use prohibition to automatically sign up Windows users with #OneDrive and thereby sharing my personal data (login credentials) with the service.
The lawyers confirmed that this is what they do and argued strangely this was legal because "there are many ways to sign in to Windows". Local accounts anyone? 🤥
More evidence is likely this weekend of the devastating impact of climate change, all the more obvious as this time its not some distance country, but is hitting the SE of England, where our political class spend a lot of their time....
Will, this perhaps push them to take become more serious about climate policy, rather than continually adopt their continuing inadequate delaying stance?
Of course not; they've got air conditioning & shady gardens
« Vos décisions quotidiennes sont examinées au travers de : Est-ce que ce choix me rend plus ou moins libre ? Est-ce que ce choix me rend plus ou moins autonome ? »
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s first mission to the International Space Station now has a name: εpsilon. The mission name and patch were announced today at the Paris Air Show by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Sophie Adenot, who joined remotely from the United States, where she is training for her spaceflight.
Sophie Adenot is one of the five astronauts selected from ESA’s most recent astronaut class of 2022. Following the successful completion of their basic training in spring 2024, Josef Aschbacher announced during the Space Council in Brussels that Sophie and fellow graduate Raphaël Liégois had been assigned their first missions to the International Space Station, currently planned for 2026.
The εpsilon name and patch reflect the power of small, yet impactful contributions and how multiple parts unite to create a whole. In mathematics, “ε” represents something small. In the extensive collaborative effort of space exploration, involving thousands of participants, all roles, including the astronaut's role, stay small yet meaningful.
During her εpsilon mission, Sophie will perform numerous scientific experiments, many of them European, conduct medical research, support Earth observation and contribute to operations and maintenance aboard the International Space Station.
@zephyrotv Quando omni flunkus, moritati. When all else fails, play dead.
If you've never watched Red Green, you're missing out. All episodes are on Youtube. Get yourself a couple rolls of the handyman's secret weapon, a cold fizzy drink and enjoy.
« Le temps est transversal, il se trouve partout dans notre vie. Pour en devenir maître, il faut une philosophie du temps écologique qui ne provoque pas de souffrances quand on l’applique. »
Wenn die Union damit durchkommt, ist das ein epochaler Skandal. Man kann mitten in einer eskalierenden Katastrophe nicht Gelder,die zur Bekämpfung der Katastrophe eingeplant sind, stattdessen zur Beschleunigung der Katastrophe einsetzen.
»The number of malnourished children in the Gaza Strip is rising at an alarming rate, with 5,119 children between 6 months and 5 years admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition in May alone.
Acc. to data received from the UNICEF-supported nutrition centres across the Gaza Strip, this represents a nearly 50% increase from the 3,444 children admitted in April 2025 and a 150% increase from February when a ceasefire was in effect and aid was entering the Gaza Strip in significant quantities.«
For Lior Sternfeld, a historian of modern Iran, Israel's regime change fantasies ignore realities inside the Islamic Republic and risk repeating historic mistakes.
"They were waiting for me when I got off the plane. Officer Martinez intercepted me before I entered primary processing and took me immediately into an interrogation room in the back, where he took my phone and demanded my passcode. When I refused, I was told I would be immediately sent back home if I did not comply. I should have taken that deal and opted for the quick deportation. But in that moment, dazed from my fourteen-hour flight, I believed C.B.P. would let me into the U.S. once they realized they were dealing with a middling writer from regional Australia. So I complied.
Then began the first “interview.” The questions focussed almost entirely on my reporting about the Columbia student protests. From 2022 to 2024, I attended Columbia for an M.F.A. program, on a student visa, and when the encampment began in April of last year I began publishing daily missives to my Substack, a blog that virtually no one (except, apparently, the U.S. government) seemed to read. To Officer Martinez, the pieces were highly concerning. He asked me what I thought about “it all,” meaning the conflict on campus, as well as the conflict between Israel and Hamas. He asked my opinion of Israel, of Hamas, of the student protesters. He asked if I was friends with any Jews. He asked for my views on a one- versus a two-state solution. He asked who was at fault: Israel or Palestine. He asked what Israel should do differently. (The Department of Homeland Security, which governs the C.B.P., claims that any allegations that I’d been arrested for political beliefs are false.)"
« Une légende urbaine véhicule l’idée que nous n’utilisons que 10 % de notre cerveau. C’est faux : nous utilisons bien l’intégralité de ce fascinant organe… mais sans chercher à l’exploiter correctement. C’est probablement pour cette raison que nous n’utilisons correctement que 10 % de notre temps… et c’est ce que nous allons changer ensemble. »
au 7ème jour de la guerre entre l’Iran et Israël, avec une plongée au coeur de la société iranienne, prise en étau entre leur dictateur et leur agresseur, en...
Sky's Special Correspondent Alex Crawford presents a documentary about British doctors working on the frontline of the war in Gaza.Doctor Victoria Rose and T...
All that modern Republican presidents seem capable of is destroying the economy, stripping rights from vulnerable people, and getting us into wars in the Middle East. The party is worthless, its members corrupt, and a large number of its voters seem to be delusional ignoramuses.
Tucker Carlson talks with Catherine Fitts about a secretive institution with sovereign immunity that can move trillions without oversight.Want video and phot...
My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.
Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.
Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.
Bangladesh has proposed the formation of a dedicated platform involving South Asian countries and China to jointly address the increasing threats posed by climate change in the region.
"South Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. We need a common platform, with the cooperation of China, to tackle this in a sustainable way," said Ruhul Alam Siddique, acting foreign secretary of Bangladesh.
He made the remarks at the 9th China-South Asia Exposition and the 29th China Kunming Import and Export Fair yesterday.
CE QUI M'A ÉTÉ DIT VA ARRIVER EN IRAN Le plan de bataille initial pour une nouvelle guerre Seymour #HERSH (19 juin 2025) :
Voici un rapport sur ce qui va très probablement se passer en #Iran, dès ce week-end, selon des sources israéliennes et des responsables américains en qui j'ai confiance depuis des décennies. Cela impliquera de lourds bombardements américains. J'ai vérifié ce rapport auprès d'un responsable américain de longue date à Washington, qui m'a dit que tout serait «sous contrôle» si le guide suprême iranien Ali Khamenei «disparaissait». On ignore toutefois comment cela pourrait se produire, à moins d'un assassinat. On a beaucoup parlé de la puissance de feu américaine et des cibles à l'intérieur de l'Iran, mais, pour autant que je sache, peu de réflexions concrètes ont été menées sur la manière de destituer un chef religieux vénéré qui bénéficie d'un immense soutien populaire.
Je couvre depuis des décennies, à distance, la politique #nucléaire et étrangère d'Israël. Mon livre publié en 1991, The Samson Option, raconte l'histoire de la fabrication de la bombe atomique israélienne et la volonté des États-Unis de garder ce projet secret. La question la plus importante qui reste sans réponse concernant la situation actuelle est celle de la réaction du monde, y compris celle de Vladimir #Poutine, le président russe qui est un allié des dirigeants iraniens.
Les États-Unis restent le plus important allié d' #Israël, même si beaucoup, ici et dans le monde entier, abhorrent la guerre meurtrière que mène Israël à #Gaza. L'administration #Trump soutient pleinement le plan actuel d'Israël visant à débarrasser l'Iran de toute trace de programme nucléaire, tout en espérant que le gouvernement dirigé par les ayatollahs à Téhéran sera renversé.
J'ai appris que la Maison Blanche avait donné son feu vert à une campagne de bombardements intensifs en Iran, mais les cibles ultimes, les centrifugeuses enfouies à au moins 80 mètres sous terre à Fordow, ne seront pas frappées avant le week-end, à l'heure où j'écris ces lignes. Ce report est dû à l'insistance de Trump, qui souhaite que le choc du bombardement soit atténué autant que possible par l'ouverture de la Bourse de Wall Street lundi. (Trump a contesté ce matin sur les réseaux sociaux un article du Wall Street Journal affirmant qu'il avait décidé d'attaquer l'Iran, écrivant qu'il n'avait pas encore décidé de la marche à suivre).
Fordow abrite la majorité des centrifugeuses les plus avancées d'Iran qui, selon les derniers rapports de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique, dont l'Iran est signataire, ont produit 900 livres d'uranium enrichi à 60 %, soit à deux doigts du niveau requis pour la fabrication d'armes nucléaires.
Les dernières frappes aériennes israéliennes contre l'Iran n'ont pas cherché à détruire les centrifugeuses de #Fordow, qui sont stockées à au moins 80 mètres sous terre. Il a été convenu mercredi que des bombardiers américains équipés de bombes capables de pénétrer à cette profondeur commenceront à attaquer le site de Fordow ce week-end.
Ce délai donnera aux forces militaires américaines présentes au #Moyen-Orient et en Méditerranée orientale (il y a plus d'une vingtaine de bases aériennes et de ports navals américains dans la région) le temps de se préparer à d'éventuelles représailles iraniennes. On suppose que l'Iran dispose encore de certaines capacités balistiques et aériennes qui figureront sur la liste des cibles américaines. «C'est l'occasion de se débarrasser une fois pour toutes de ce régime», m'a déclaré aujourd'hui un responsable bien informé, «alors autant voir les choses en grand». Il a toutefois précisé qu'il ne s'agirait pas d'un «tapis de bombes».
Les bombardements prévus ce week-end auront également de nouvelles cibles : les bases des Gardiens de la révolution, qui ont contré ceux qui font campagne contre les dirigeants révolutionnaires depuis le renversement violent du shah d'Iran au début de 1979.
Les dirigeants israéliens, sous la direction du Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu, espèrent que ces bombardements fourniront «les moyens de créer un soulèvement» contre le régime iranien actuel, qui a fait preuve de peu de tolérance envers ceux qui défient les dirigeants religieux et leurs édits. Les commissariats de police iraniens seront frappés. Les bureaux gouvernementaux qui abritent des dossiers sur les dissidents présumés en Iran seront également attaqués.
Les Israéliens espèrent apparemment aussi, si j'ai bien compris, que Khamenei fuira le pays et ne résistera pas jusqu'au bout. On m'a dit que son avion personnel avait quitté l'aéroport de Téhéran tôt mercredi matin à destination d'Oman, accompagné de deux avions de chasse, mais on ne sait pas s'il était à bord.
Seuls deux tiers des 90 millions d'Iraniens sont persans. Les minorités les plus importantes sont les #Azéris, dont beaucoup ont des liens secrets de longue date avec la #CIA, les Kurdes, les Arabes et les Baloutches. Les Juifs constituent également une petite minorité. (L' #Azerbaïdjan abrite une importante base secrète de la CIA pour ses opérations en Iran).
Le retour du fils du shah, qui vit actuellement en exil près de Washington, n'a jamais été envisagé par les stratèges américains et israéliens, m'a-t-on dit. Mais il a été question, au sein du groupe de planification de la Maison Blanche, dont fait partie le vice-président J.D. Vance, d'installer un leader religieux modéré à la tête du pays si #Khamenei était destitué. Les Israéliens se sont vivement opposés à cette idée. «Ils se fichent complètement de la question religieuse, mais exigent une marionnette politique pour contrôler le pays», a déclaré un haut responsable américain de longue date. «Nous sommes divisés avec les Israéliens sur ce point. Il en résulterait une hostilité permanente et des conflits futurs à perpétuité, Bibi essayant désespérément d'attirer les États-Unis comme allié contre tout ce qui est musulman, en utilisant le sort des citoyens comme appât propagandiste.»
Selon mes informations, les services de renseignement américains et israéliens espèrent que des éléments de la communauté azérie se joindront à une révolte populaire contre le régime au pouvoir, si une telle révolte venait à se développer pendant la poursuite des bombardements israéliens. Certains pensent également que certains membres des Gardiens de la révolution pourraient se joindre à ce qui pourrait être, selon mes informations, «un soulèvement démocratique contre les ayatollahs», une aspiration de longue date du gouvernement américain. Le renversement soudain et réussi de Bachar #al-Assad en Syrie a été cité comme un modèle potentiel, même si la chute d'Assad est intervenue après une longue guerre civile.
Il est possible que les bombardements massifs menés par Israël et les États-Unis plongent l'Iran dans un état de défaillance permanente, comme cela s'est produit après l'intervention occidentale en Libye en 2011. Cette révolte a abouti au meurtre brutal de Mouammar Kadhafi, qui maintenait sous contrôle les tribus disparates du pays. L'avenir de la #Syrie, de l' #Irak et du #Liban, tous victimes d'attaques extérieures répétées, est loin d'être réglé.
Donald Trump# veut clairement une victoire internationale qu'il pourra mettre en avant. Pour y parvenir, lui et #Netanyahu entraînent les #États-Unis dans une voie inédite.
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Happy Birthday COVID! Officially 5 years old today! The time has flown by and a lot has happened.
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