…According to a letter from experts in this field to the Lancet, studies of other wars – most of them far less destructive than Israel’s on the tiny enclave – indicate that between three and 15 times more people are killed by indirect, rather than direct, methods of warfare.
The authors conservatively estimate an indirect death toll four times greater than the direct death toll. That would mean, at a minimum, 350,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza through Israel’s actions.
The reality is likely to be even worse. That is without even mentioning the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been left with horrific injuries and psychological trauma.
Israel’s war planners know exactly how this direct-to-indirect ratio works. Which is why they chose to destroy nearly every home in Gaza, to bomb the power, sanitation and water facilities, to level the hospitals, and to block aid month after month.
They knew this would be the way Israel could carry out a genocide while offering its allies – western governments and its army of lobbyists – a “get out of jail card” for their active complicity.
Donald Trump’s so-called “ceasefire” is just another layer of deception in this endless game of smoke and mirrors. The UN’s child protection agency, Unicef, reports that less than a quarter of aid trucks are getting into Gaza, past Israel’s continuing starvation blockade, despite Israeli commitments agreed as part of the “ceasefire”. Apparently, this doesn’t register as a gross ceasefire violation. It goes unnoticed.
Unicef reports further that in October alone, at the start of the “ceasefire”, nearly 18,000 new mothers and babies had to be hospitalised in Gaza from acute malnutrition.
The genocide isn’t over. Israel may have slowed the rate of direct killings it is committing by bombing Gaza, but the indirect killings continue unabated. And so does the Israeli-engineered “debate” in the West, one designed to obscure and excuse the mass murder of Gaza’s population.
China Vanke Co., the last big survivor of the country’s yearslong property crunch, sent investors an innocuous-looking announcement about a $3.1 billion loan agreement with a state-owned shareholder. But the Nov. 2 statement contained a twist: Shenzhen Metro Group Co., which had given unwavering support to the developer for nearly two years, now set a cap on any further financing. It also demanded that Vanke stump up collateral for its loans — including for the $2.8 billion already drawn down.
The move, which sent a signal that state officials were finally losing patience with Vanke, set off a chain reaction that ultimately pushed the company to ask for more time to pay back some of its debt. Its dollar bonds have lost more than two-thirds of their value, tumbling to as low as 20 cents on the dollar. State-owned banks have scrambled to limit their exposure. Regulators, unwilling to rescue the company, have started making plans to contain the fallout, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bankers and fund managers are now rushing to weigh the damage of what could become one of the biggest corporate restructurings in China’s history, involving over $50 billion of outstanding debt — including more than $7 billion held by lenders and bond investors overseas. They warn that Vanke’s worsening problems will send ripples throughout China’s economy and its financial system, threatening losses for banks and ramping up pressure on the long-struggling property sector.
The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act passed by the U.S. Congress requires that within 180 days of its effective date, the Director of National Intelligence must publish an open report online, comprehensively exposing the financial status of the CCP General Secretary, Politburo Standing Committee members, Politburo members, and their immediate relatives.
The content will include:
• Domestic and foreign real estate
• Overseas bank accounts, investments, and business interests
• High-value personal assets
• Asset chains hidden through proxies, shell companies, and business partners
• Non-public information held by intelligence agencies (to be submitted to Congress as a classified annex)
The bill explicitly states: The scope of relatives is extremely broad, covering spouses, parents, children, siblings, in-laws, grandparents to grandchildren.
This will be the first time the United States systematically and comprehensively publicly discloses the wealth of the CCP’s top leadership and their families.
For years, Democrats ignored Violent and Vicious Crime of all shapes, sizes, colors, and types. Violent Criminals who should have been locked up were allowed to attack again. Democrats were also far too happy to let in the worst from the worst countries so they could rip off American Taxpayers. Democrats only think there is one crime – Not voting for them! Instead of protecting Americans and their Tax Dollars, Democrats chose instead to prosecute anyone they can find that wanted Safe and Secure Elections. Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of TINA PETERS, a Patriot who simply wanted to make sure that our Elections were Fair and Honest. Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the “crime” of demanding Honest Elections. Today I am granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!
Negative side-effects of SSRIs are not included. Written Exposure Therapy is a kind of psycholinguistic engagement and seems to work OK. If people with PTSD can find a way to do FIML, I am confident many will be helped. The biggest obstacle for most people to doing FIML is having a good partner who can and will engage. That right there is the cause for most emotional disorders. If you are reasonably intelligent and have a good partner, do FIML. You both will benefit enormously. ABN
During the Mesolithic, Western Europe was inhabited by a population known as Western Hunter-Gatherers/WHG. This genetic cluster first appears toward the end of the Upper Paleolithic, replacing earlier groups such as the Gravettians, Solutreans, and Magdalenians – populations with whom the WHG shared both close genetic affinity and likely descent.
One of the sites inhabited by WHG groups during the Mesolithic was Star Carr in North Yorkshire, England, dating to around 9300-8500 BC. It is one of Britain’s most important prehistoric sites, as exceptional preservation allowed organic materials – wood, bone, and antler – to survive. Excavations uncovered Britain’s oldest known structure, numerous antler tools, and the famous red deer stag-skull headpieces, which may have been used for ritual or hunting. Other finds include barbed bone points, wooden artifacts, and a decorated shale pendant – one of the earliest known examples of Mesolithic art in the UK.
WHGs were Protoeuropoid, with robust cranial structures and stocky builds, averaging about 165 cm in height for males. Many lacked the skin-lightening genes typical of modern Eurasian populations, yet they also lacked the skin-darkening variants common in equatorial groups. WHG almost universally carried alleles associated with blue eyes, reflecting their small and bottlenecked founder population. Modern Europeans can trace up to around 30% of their total autosomal ancestry to WHG groups.
I believe the out-of-Africa hypothesis has been thoroughly debunked by modern gene analyses.
Recreations like this one involve considerable talent and artistry.
They help us imagine the distant past, and are especially valuable today since there has been so much DEI-style lying about Europe’s past (and not just Europe’s). ABN
Israeli government officials, along with their state aligned partners, are commissioning the Sunday School literature, shaping the small-group curricula, and guiding the theological education of American evangelicals. Pastors are bribed, congregations are mapped, young believers are digitally targeted, and study materials are packaged as discipleship while promoting the interests of a foreign state. The American church has become a delivery system for narratives conceived in government offices overseas. What began as emotional support for Israel has evolved into a pipeline of influence that reaches straight into the pulpit and the classroom. The deepest scandal is simple. Evangelicals thought they were blessing Jews. Unbelieving Jews, instead, have been discipling them.
The Israeli government has spent years building this disciplined influence system that reaches from cabinet offices in Jerusalem to the Sunday school classrooms of the American church. From curated pastor tours to geofencing campaigns, it’s all because a foreign state has learned how to speak fluent evangelical. Sadly, key Christian leaders have become accomplices.
Ask a typical American evangelical why they support Israel and you will hear the same script every time. It is about the Bible. It is about blessing Abraham. It is about standing with the people of God. They imagine their loyalty rose naturally from their reading of Scripture and from a vague sense of shared morality. They picture it as a grassroots conviction, not as the end product of a coordinated program. In their minds there is no architect. There are only sincere believers, grateful Israelis, and a relationship that just happened.
What I’m about to reveal to you at Insight to Incite is that behind the sentimental language lies a set of institutions that treat evangelical support as a strategic asset. The Israeli state does not look at tens of millions of politically engaged Christians and see only prayer partners. It sees a voting bloc that can make or break policies in Washington. It sees donors, influencers, university boards, and megachurch networks that can normalize whatever Israel needs normalized in American life. They’ve built an influence infrastructure in America that’s astounding, once you see it.
It’s no surprise a foreign government wants to influence us. What’s so astounding is the way that planning reaches directly into American churches. The engine sits inside the government, not on the fringe. The messaging is not primarily run by romantic Christian tourists with a love for the Holy Land. It is guided by cabinet level offices, national ministries, and government aligned entities that track evangelical sentiment and adjust tactics when support starts to slip.
For years the church has been told to think about Israel in prophetic terms. What it has not been told is that Israel thinks about the church in strategic terms. That asymmetry is exactly what this series is meant to expose. To do that honestly, you cannot start with famous pastors or emotional trips to Jerusalem. You have to start at the top. I’ll put the words, names, and titles in bold that you need to remember.
In replies to this Grok analysis, Ethical Skeptic says: With each new confirmation, comes the thrill of a successful model prediction – and then follows the existential reality that it makes this tin-foil hat theory, not only plausible, but a looming possible reality.
The U.S. intelligence community should monitor global supply chains as part of a sweeping goal to decouple the nation’s economy from foreign adversaries and advance American economic interests, according to the Trump administration’s newly published National Security Strategy.
Published late on Thursday, the 33-page strategy document adds to Trump administration direction to federal agencies to treat economic policy as a national-security matter.
U.S. spy agencies “will monitor key supply chains and technological advances around the world to ensure we understand and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats to American security and prosperity,” the strategy reads.
Security and defense agencies have long monitored or sought to bring awareness to supply-chain issues to ensure operational security and the protection of U.S. forces; more comprehensive monitoring would require vaster efforts to discover and track where American companies and foreign rivals ship, produce and stockpile their goods and services around the world.
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