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From Habsora to Lavender – The Israeli AI ‘Machines Hunting Down People’ In Gaza
By Robert Inlakesh
Attention has recently been refocused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by the Israeli military to help them kill Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
This has come after renowned Hollywood actor, Mark Ruffalo, retweeted an article written for the MIT’s Technology Review about the subject.
Since November of 2023, when +972 Mag published its investigative article entitled “A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza”, the extent to which the Israeli military is relying on AI technology in conducting its assault on the Palestinian territory has been public knowledge.
From The Gospel to Lavender
The piece revealed that Israel had been using a specific Artificial Intelligence program eerily called Habsora (The Gospel), in order to auto-generate targets at a speed which would not be humanly possible without it.
NATO “Youth Summit” Tells Viewers to Get Ready for War
By David Swanson
The recent NATO “Youth Summit,” even on double speed, is over an hour and a half on Youtube. I couldn’t watch it all, as it just made me feel old — so old that I can remember when people could feel shame about profiteering from mass killing or promoting world wars likely to end in nuclear apocalypse.
The summit’s “youth” participants appear to have met some requirement of being roughly younger than either Biden OR Trump — and there may have been as many as tens of them participating. Mostly they let us know how hip and with-it NATO is.
From the History of Israeli−Palestinian Conflict: The First Palestinian Intifada against the State of Israel (1987−1993) and its Political Consequences
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
The meaning of intifada
The Arabic word intifada means “shaking off” but in the political language as a term, it means “uprising”. More precisely, this term refers to the two Palestinian uprisings on both territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. These two territories were occupied by Israel during The 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and the coalition of the Arab states in the region of the Middle East.[1] Both intifadas lasted from 1987 to 2000.[2]
The First Intifada
The First Intifada was, in fact, the spontaneous uprising in 1987 which lasted until 1993. It began as a revolt of the Palestinian youth throwing stones against the forces of the Israeli occupation but soon became a widespread movement involving civil disobedience with periodic large-scale demonstrations supported by commercial strikes. Usually, it is considered that the beginning of the First Intifada was a response to:
- The realization that the Palestinian Question in the Middle East together with the Arab-Israeli conflict was not seriously taken into consideration by the Governments of Arab states.
- The fact that the Palestinians in the so-called Occupied Territories (after The 1967 Six-Day War) should have to take matters into their own hands.
How to Avoid Reporting That a University Is Lying About Police Violence
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan exiting Pavilion VI
is confronted by students protesting his decision to break
up an anti-war demonstration, Thursday, May 9, 2024.
By David Swanson
I’m old enough to remember a video of a New York Times reporter who let slip that she’d been instructed never to say the president of the United States had lied, even if he (George W. Bush) was just blatantly lying. Not that she objected to the policy. It made perfect sense to her. Now I can’t find that video because the internet is so weighted down with accounts of Trump and Biden lying.
But I was quite pleasantly surprised when the only local daily here in Charlottesville, the Daily Progress, printed a straightforward report on the president of the University of Virginia recently lying about police violence against students protesting genocide. I was less excited about the following chart from the local weekly, the Cville Weekly.
Plastic Pollution Mortality Facts: It is in Your Veins, Causing Cancer, Heart Attacks, Strokes, and Death
by Tracy Turner
Plastic has been in use for over a century. It was first created in the mid-19th century, with the invention of celluloid in 1869, and it is considered the first actual plastic. The widespread commercial production of plastics began in the early 20th century.
"Despite its deep roots, plasticulture is often overlooked in mainstream discussions of sustainable agriculture (mainly because of its non-visibility in the public eye), but researchers are increasingly discovering the practice poses real threats to the future of food security.
Late last year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued A Call for Action concerning the long-term impact of plasticulture on terrestrial and aquatic environments and human health. The FAO found that in 2019 alone, 12.5 million tons of plastic products were used in plant and animal production, and another 37.3 million tons in food packaging. Most of those plastics are single-use and replaced annually, if not seasonally. Often possessing little recycling value, millions of tons end up in landfills or are incinerated, releasing microplastics into food, fields, air, and water all along the way." FAO/Sierra Club.
How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza
Employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an
Israeli air strike on their vehicles in the central Gaza Strip.
(Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
JAMES BAMFORD
Because it isn’t so much the bombs that kill but the list that puts civilians in the way of the bombs.
Glilot Junction, in the Israeli city of Ramat HaSharon, is a crossroad where the Trans-Samaria Highway bisects the Coastal Highway. It is also a key crossroad for Israel’s human and technical spies. On the east side of the highway is Hertzog Camp and to the west is Dane Camp. Together, the 462 acres of land make up Camp Moshe Dayan‑the most secret military base in the country.
Surrounded by a variety of intrusion-prevention devices and high steel fences topped with barbed wire, Camp Dayan is home to a number of highly sensitive military intelligence instillations, including its central training base; the advanced Targeting Center; Unit 81, a secret technology unit attached to the Special Operations Division; and the IDF Signals Intelligence College.
Hidden Story About Reality In Kosovo: Who Was Suppressing Whom?
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Southern Serbia’s autonomous province of Kosovo and Metochia (KosMet) has been subject to a gradual, but permanent change in its demographic content during the time of Titoslavia (Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945−1991). Three principal factors were crucial to the drastic demographic change in this Serbian province in favor of ethnic (Muslim) Albanians and at the expense of ethnic (Christian Orthodox) Serbs and Montenegrins.
Demographic explosion
First and the most important has been the demographic explosion, due to the enormous birth rate of Albanians. In the situation when this trend on the global scale was in the opposite direction, with even African countries diminishing their birth rate, the only European regions with breeding out of all proportions, have been Albania and KosMet. In a comprehensive article in Newsweek,[1] entitled “Demographic Bomb Is No Longer As It Used To Be”, it has been estimated that by 2050 the only regions with more than 2 children per woman will be the Caribbean Islands, Pakistan, Eastern Guinea, and African countries (except for North and South Africa). And one region in Europe - KosMet.
Analyzing the world situation, the author writes:
“If the figures are correct, they signify that almost half of the world population lives in the countries whose demographic regime is situated below the replacement level: comments Ebershtadt”.
NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons, Energy, and Risk
By David Swanson
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty declares that NATO members will assist another member if attacked by “taking action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” But the UN Charter does not say anywhere that warmaking is authorized for whoever jumps in on the appropriate side.
The North Atlantic Treaty’s authors may have been aware that they were on dubious legal ground because they went on twice to claim otherwise, first adding the words “Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.” But shouldn’t the United Nations be the one to decide when it has taken necessary measures and when it has not?
Israel and Unit 8200: The Powerhouse of Intelligence
By Tracy Turner
The Legacy of Unit 8200 - When browsing Yandex Images, looking for artistic renderings of Zionism, it is expected to see either an Octopus strangling the Earth or an Octopus strangling the Rotunda Dome in Washington, D.C. The legacy of Unit 8200 is to infiltrate and control world events while simultaneously play-acting innocence and plausible deniability. The Mossad has slices of all pies: Universities, Police Departments, K-Street in Washington, The Departments and Bureaus of State Troopers, sheriff departments, FBI Agents, Political Offices of all types, banks, stock trading houses globally, the list is too long to etcetera or et al.
Talpiot Program Unit 8200 - The Talpiot program requires applicants to pass a stringent selection process to be accepted. They are in the top grades in their academic classes, with an emphasis on Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Information Technology (A.I.). They must also pass two-day exams that measure psychologically appropriate time acceptance, social dynamics, I.Q., and group tasks. Candidates must pass stringent security clearance exams and follow task instructions for military personnel. Each fifty to sixty applicants are selected from a pool of ten thousand top scorers.
Does Every Person in Israel Deserve to Die?
David Swanson
I fervently hope, dear reader, that you do not agree that every person in Israel deserves to die. But I know some of you do, and I hope to suggest a better way of looking at it. I know that you’re even more unlikely to agree with me that nobody ever anywhere “deserves to die.” But the closer you can get to agreeing with that, the better!
Have you heard people calling the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel a “success,” despite the perfectly predictable results piling up in mass graves? You can quickly search and find that claim, not just from Iranian militarists quoted in Israeli media, but also from former UN inspectors, and hip leftist revolutionaries all over social media and all over the world.
In fact, I recently participated in an online debate on whether war can ever be justified. The moderator asked whether it wasn’t obviously counterproductive in terms of halting NATO for Russia to have invaded Ukraine and in terms of liberating Palestine for Hamas to have attacked civilians on October 7th. The answer on both points seems to be a clear yes. You can agree with me that NATO and the West are largely to blame for problems in Ukraine, including for preventing a negotiated agreement to end the war, as well as for not supporting adherence to the previous agreement of Minsk 2, and still — mirabile dictu — recognize that nothing has benefitted NATO more than the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as — for godsake — a RAND report advocated for creating for just that reason. And you can recognize that many in the Israeli government have been passionately drooling for an excuse to genocide Gaza for years, and still think it was counterproductive to hand them that excuse. You can recognize how many lies and exaggerations have been told about what happened on October 7 and still think it was counterproductive to hand them that excuse.
