Apologies for the bold

Posted by: Menz | Oct 21 2024 6:50 utc | 204

c freedom that predates October 7, which seeks to silence critical discussions about Israel and to label any academic activity, including teaching and scholarship, that criticizes Israel as antisemitic and therefore illegitimate, and illegal.
Posted by: Menz | Oct 21 2024 6:50 utc | 204
This is a good thing.
Let them strangle themselves with the laws they weave out of their own lies.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 6:55 utc | 206

Posted by: Passerby | Oct 21 2024 6:19 utc | 200
Posted by: BD | Oct 21 2024 5:53 utc | 197
UPDATE: I found that I had the VPN activated, disconnected it to try, and now I can access the sonar21 website.

Posted by: BD | Oct 21 2024 7:06 utc | 208

By the way Moonie here’s another vid where Hamas drones penetrated the armour of a Merkava and took out its engines.
https://x.com/CalibreObscura/status/1710595943664329027
I don’t go out of my way to look for these things but videos like these are widespread enough you find them just from exploring random links.

Posted by: Autumn | Oct 21 2024 7:14 utc | 210

Re: Cyprus
Cyprus is a well known hub of money laundering and tax cheats.
Hmmmm

Posted by: Exile | Oct 21 2024 7:26 utc | 212

Re: Merkavas ?
The deniers need to tell us of the more than 900 Merkavas attacked; how many are damaged and how many are destroyed ? The deniers also need to explain how the 2 stage Yassin 105 can not overwhelm the Trophy active armor.
My current tally is:
237 destroyed
681 approx damage

Posted by: Exile | Oct 21 2024 7:31 utc | 214

“So you are suggesting, Oct7th was at least ignored by israeli gov, it not worst. To play victim and go straight to gaza extermination.”
@ mry | Oct 20 2024 15:05 utc
I say it outright. Similar to 09/11
I also wonder why nobody has mentioned any action from Intelligence Control Division, nicknamed Ipcha Mistabra, and known to Hollywood movie goers as tenth man.

Posted by: necromancer | Oct 21 2024 8:13 utc | 216

“I didn’t steal America from the natives. I didn’t sell any slaves. None of the people living in America did.”
Posted by: Tichy | Oct 20 2024 15:29 utc | 32
What brilliant logic! So any country could genocide you right now with a carpet bombing of nuclear bombs, as long as they ask someone on their death bed to press the button. “N-none of the people living did it”

Posted by: Michael A | Oct 21 2024 8:34 utc | 218

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 20 2024 22:52 utc | 139
I must say, the name you ‘contribute’ under suits you well.
Speaking of these, however, I’ve no more than a thought on which of the two leading US ‘sockpuppet’ candidates is more befitting of the role of a public punching bag, by taking the blame for future Israeli actions upon themselves – let alone possibly actively supporting them instead of just taking the verbal heat.
This is in the case it’s true a military response is being purposefully delayed up until after the election, so the Jews can have both a bureaucratic shield to hide behind and a weapon-lending hand in one.
They won’t do anything without a sufficient excuse, though given the Zionists’ nature it’s all a theatre with many yet thinly veiled curtains – hence also my interest in these events.
And it seems there already is an active US deployment on Israeli soil taking place – it should be clear the Zionists cannot accomplish anything unless their enemy is weaker than themselves, hence all the civilian bombing sessions and well-poisoning activities.
But another thought in regards to this is that both US & EU military production and might has been crippled heavily, thanks to other Jews and their policies.
It sounds strange for them to cripple the benefactors they’d otherwise depend on, but then again if evil were competent, it’d be over a long time ago.
So, even in case these thoughts come to pass, I don’t see a future where the Israeli state continues to exist – they are like a rabid dog that cannot be put down by anything else than a fatal blow to the head.
But all this is still in the future and for now I observe and wonder.

Posted by: Arctaroll | Oct 21 2024 8:46 utc | 220

“Indeed and I studied this for a long time. I know for a fact that it look them between 5-10 years to make that bomb. Ritter’s a fucking shithead…..I don’t know what to say. I can’t help if I’m smart and educated and you all are stupid and ignorant. Not my fault.”
Posted by: Robert Lindsay | Oct 21 2024 8:49 utc | 222
You are a bombastic Fool ; your considerable ‘output’ is but Intellectual Profanity (TM) is but sound and fury signifying nothing.

Posted by: canuck | Oct 21 2024 9:39 utc | 222

Posted by: Robert Lindsay | Oct 21 2024 9:23 utc | 230

Program (problem?) is we probably don’t have peace. We probably have an apocalypse.

So Israel and the IDF are a kind of parasites that desperately need all kinds of hosts for them to act as if they’re accomplishing anything – when it’s either another party doing it for them, or it’s, bluntly put, bullshit they fall for themselves while poisoning the well with it everywhere else.
Now these very same parasites have, in the recent decades, crippled US and the EU so that our own military related ‘fruits’ are just like them – a pretense of functionality at best.
Now, Israel finds itself acting like a rabid dog, begging for the gullible owners to throw them something to chew on – the owners whose limbs’ they crippled, so they cannot – all while their own glorious military activities consist of.. ..bombing civilians and taking over playgrounds. Perhaps it’s the only kind of targets these kikes can take on without instantly soiling the diapers their armed forces wear.
If the rabid dog isn’t put out ASAP, they’ll do something stupid if even by chance, provoke further retaliatory measures, do something even more stupid than last time – and, perhaps, spiral out of control..
..but putting the rabid dog out now may provoke them also, given the parasites’ dominance over the American theatre and the support of the long since drugged and drunken audience.
It’s an utterly shit-tier conundrum.
But never mind me partaking in the shit flinging over on-the-ground capabilities by attention hungry journalists and armchair generals, let alone trolls obsessed with identities while serving no food, not even for thought; the potential resolution to this conflict of interests may, indeed, be of a severity the world hasn’t yet seen – so I think the potential ends overshadow the rest.
But this is yet to be observed – for now what concerns me is what the Israelis will make once the theatrical shield otherwise known as the US president has taken it’s designated place.
The rabid dog cannot function without a scapegoat. That is all.

Posted by: Arctaroll | Oct 21 2024 9:54 utc | 224

Oh, no, I’ll allow myself one more post for the time being and then rest – it’s as if “Outraged” underwent mitosis and the other cell called itself “Robert Lindsay”.

Posted by: Arctaroll | Oct 21 2024 10:03 utc | 226

Because he’s an alarmist spammy clickbait blog-whoring narcissistic fool who’s been wrong forever now?
LOL! So this is why all you boys are blowing loads all over your keyboards? You’re cumming to the thought of Tel Aviv getting nuked. I hate Israel as much as anyone, but I’d oppose that until the end of time. Knock it off genocidists.
Posted by: Robert Lindsay | Oct 21 2024 9:26 utc | 232
– “Alarming” is not “Alarmist”, and what he talks about is alarming indeed and if you’re not alarmed by it there’s something wrong with you.
– Spammy? Does he invade your mailbox every morning with unsolicited commercial email? No. You have no obligation to listen to him. The vast majority of humanity hasn’t heard of the man.
– Yes, I’d cum over my keyboard at the thought that just once in history a bunch of child murdering Nazis got a face full of neutrons at a million degrees Celsius.
Why not? After you’ve seen what the reptilians who run Tel Aviv have done to Palestinian children what greater pleasure could there be than to see them cop a worse fate?
By all means, break out the lube. The day those fuckers roast in radioactive hellfire I’ll be beating off to the kosher mushroom cloud!

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 10:08 utc | 228

Because he’s an alarmist spammy clickbait blog-whoring narcissistic fool who’s been wrong forever now?
LOL! So this is why all you boys are blowing loads all over your keyboards? You’re cumming to the thought of Tel Aviv getting nuked. I hate Israel as much as anyone, but I’d oppose that until the end of time. Knock it off genocidists.

Posted by: Robert Lindsay | Oct 21 2024 9:26 utc | 232
Now, answer this riddle – which kind is it that accuses another of what they themselves are, as if it’s all they have ever known?
Can someone put this rabid kike down? Thanks.

Posted by: Arctaroll | Oct 21 2024 10:13 utc | 230

There’s more odd socks on this blog than in my sock drawer.

Posted by: Giyane | Oct 21 2024 11:19 utc | 232

Robert Lindsay@849
Any individual who claims to be “smart and educated” is displaying his level of inculcated ignorance.

Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 21 2024 11:44 utc | 234

Id 248
Scumbags

Posted by: Giyane | Oct 21 2024 12:09 utc | 236

Ritter, Iran and Nuclear Weapons
I don’t know exactly what Ritter’s words where, but his predictions aren’t that good or the Ukraine war would have been long over.
You can find a bunch of recent estimates on this. This on is typical.
“The analysis below reflects the status of Iran’s enrichment program as of August 17, 2024, the date of the latest estimates provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).”
“Iran’s nuclear program has reached the point at which, within about one week, Iran might be able to enrich enough uranium for five fission weapons. For that uranium to pose a nuclear weapon threat, however, it would have to be processed further, and the other components of a successful weapon would have to be ready to receive the processed uranium. Weaponization activities could take anywhere from several months to a year or more, although the timeframe is uncertain.[1] Some of these activities could be done in parallel with the fissile material production and could take place on a laboratory scale, which would make them difficult to detect.”
https://www.iranwatch.org/our-publications/articles-reports/irans-nuclear-timetable-weapon-potential
Another
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/how-quickly-could-iran-make-nuclear-weapons-today

Posted by: Ed4 | Oct 21 2024 12:11 utc | 238

Kamhoe Harris is a brought and paid for Soros devotee, fully committed in every single way to the agenda of her mentor.
You may not like DJT, but that matters not. He is far the superior candidate over the semi-moronic Harris and her word salads………
So you replace a demented 81 year old senilic Joementia with a moron………..?

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 21 2024 12:20 utc | 240

Media propaganda not to affect Iran’s nuclear doctrine
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) – Media propaganda would not affect Iran’s nuclear doctrine as it’s based on the fatwa issued by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the country’s foreign ministry spokesman said.
Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks while speaking to reporters on Monday at his first presser after being appointed as Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson.
“The main policy [of the Islamic Republic of Iran] is that weapons of mass destruction have no place in the defense doctrine, and this is a very specific fatwa from a high-ranking official of the country, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution,” he stressed.
Media propaganda would have no effect on changing our nuclear doctrine, the senior Iranian diplomat added.
In a meeting with senior managers of American media outlets in New York in September, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that according to the Fatwa issued by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution (which bans any possession and use of weapons of mass destruction), the construction of nuclear weapons has no place in Iran’s defense and security doctrine, and in a situation where some countries were falsely accusing Iran country of trying to acquire nuclear weapons, the country was under strict inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran has repeatedly said that it is not seeking nuclear weapons, stressing its nuclear technology is solely for civil purposes. Also, there is a Fatwa by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution which bans any possession and use of weapons of mass destruction.

Posted by: JB | Oct 21 2024 12:27 utc | 242

I don’t know exactly what Ritter’s words where, but his predictions aren’t that good or the Ukraine war would have been long over.
Posted by: Ed4 | Oct 21 2024 12:11 utc | 251
I’ll never understand, for the life of me, why people expect predictions from Ritter, or anyone else.
Ritter, Doctorow, Crooke, Mirandi, McGregor, Martyanov, Hossein, Magnier, Mercouris, Christoforou, Nixon etc. all provide information and interpretation, they give their own guess at the future but you’re individually all meant to use your own intelligence and capacity to think (?) and draw your own conclusions.
These guys will provide experiential knowledge nobody else could have acquired, or interpretation and perspectives unique to their professions and training.
That is the true value of their contribution and that is gold, in my opinion.
The predictions are in the end up to us individuals.
None of these men claimed to be Cassandra. None of them could since nobody has the capacity to predict the future.
All of them stated their caveats up front.
Que Sera Sera.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 12:47 utc | 244

“During the conference, workshops are being given on how to build settlements without government permission.” Government officials, including Smotrich, are going to attend and give advice to illegal settlers on how to break the law.
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Far-right Israeli activists hold Gaza ‘resettlement’ conference
Right-wing and ultra-nationalist Israeli activists have gathered in southern Israel near Gaza for a conference on re-establishing Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip.
During the conference, workshops are being given on how to build settlements without government permission as organisers hope to establish their first settlement in the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza. The area was set up by Israeli forces during the war and has split northern Gaza from the south.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is scheduled to address the conference while Netanyahu’s Likud Party will be represented by 10 of its 32 members of parliament, Israeli media reported.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/21/live-israel-destroying-north-gaza-through-death-and-displacement-un-says
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Posted by: teri | Oct 21 2024 12:58 utc | 246

Intriguing indeed. https://voxday.net/2024/10/21/an-intriguing-escalation/

Posted by: UnknownAlabamian | Oct 21 2024 13:17 utc | 248

Some forces have an interest in raising the bar for any speech so high that no speech is permissible or deemed adequate. Only for others of course and not applicable to themselves.
Just another way of trying to make people stop talking about anything they find important.
Twin brother of spouting as much garbage as you can manage to try to drown everyone else out.
If someone haven’t they can look back at the last forty years of what was meant to amount to public discourse with only these two things in mind and they’ll notice how prevalent it is.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 21 2024 13:29 utc | 250

@ Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 12:47 utc | 257
Stop making sense! You’ll piss off the bar clientele. 😉😁

Posted by: malenkov | Oct 21 2024 13:49 utc | 252

Stop making sense! You’ll piss off the bar clientele. 😉😁
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 21 2024 13:49 utc | 264
Right. I’ll pull out my old copy of the TPoLEoZ.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 13:59 utc | 254

@Posted by: Moonraker | Oct 20 2024 13:40 utc | 13
Thanks for the link. I have only just started reading the article
and will have to finish some time later today.
Found a convenient archive link:
https://archive.ph/dDofD
Posted by: librul | Oct 20 2024 13:46 utc | 13

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Moonraker, thanks again.
Very mixed reviews on the linked article, but I did cull some interesting bits, thx.
Predictably, the article contained plenty of attrocity porn, painting once
again the Zios as victims.
Most predictably, it stressed the Zio excuse for LIHOP/MIHOP that was created **before** October 7th
(see: Posted by: librul | Oct 20 2024 13:13 utc | 5)
I put effort into grabbing lots of snippets on other additional angles, but the post would have gotten
extremely long if I had treated each one in a single post.
I am probably done with the article, but maybe not.
Here is one section for now,
It begins ironically with the words “this misguided belief”

This misguided belief is the only thing that can explain why even a detailed Hamas attack plan, which the secret services had obtained more than a year prior to the attack, and which was followed almost down to the last detail on October 7, wasn’t taken seriously. Instead, the army even significantly reduced the number of soldiers stationed in the border area.
“For us, it wasn’t a question of if, it was a question of when it would happen,” says the former soldier Omer Kinam of a possible attack. In the initial months of her service, she says, her father would regularly bring food to the base for her on the sabbath because the rations there were so poor. Several weeks before October 7, she asked him to stop doing so: “Because I was afraid that he would be here when they came.” Among themselves, the scouts had joked about who would be on base when the attack happened, says Liri Ofek: “We assumed that the fence would hold or that the army would quickly stop the attack.”
Kinam says she figured that a few Hamas fighters would make their way through a tunnel in an attempt to kidnap a couple of soldiers. “But we were certain that an attack helicopter would eliminate the intruders.” She never imagined, she says, “that I would be printing stickers with the faces of my dead friends.”

And what was “this misguided belief”?
(As if the barflies of MoA don’t already know.)
‘Hamas had lulled Israel into complacency.’ Even though the captured detailed Hamas attack plan
said that Hamas wanted to trick Israel into complacency.

The scouts were like Cassandra from ancient Greek mythology warning of a catastrophe, but they were ignored.
Because apparently, there was something more important than their warnings: The concept that the government,
the secret services and the military had been clinging to for the last several years, despite indications to the contrary.
That concept held that Hamas had learned its lesson in the last, brief war in 2021 and was no longer interested in escalation. The Israeli government allowed millions of dollars to be transferred each month from Qatar to the terror organization – despite the fact that Hamas had driven the more moderate Fatah out of the Gaza Strip in a violent 2007 overthrow. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during an internal meeting of his Likud party that the support for Hamas was a decisive element of his efforts to prevent a Palestinian state. The Israelis thought they were safe – also because the border fence had been modernized just two years before at a cost of around a billion euros and was considered unbreachable.
This misguided belief is the only thing that can explain why even a detailed Hamas attack plan, which the secret services had obtained more than a year prior to the attack, and which was followed almost down to the last detail on October 7, wasn’t taken seriously. Instead, the army even significantly reduced the number of soldiers stationed in the border area.

Posted by: librul | Oct 21 2024 14:04 utc | 256

I agree with JB @ #260. The people are for Palestinians but ‘leaders’ are for USrael. We must compel the change we seek.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 21 2024 14:14 utc | 258

Jabalia, northern Gaza notes from today. In response to all of the below, the US has decided to send yet another $5.2 billion to the Israeli nazis. Sorry for the length, but this is unrelenting.
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ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTRY:
Israel is set to receive $5.2 billion in emergency US aid to bolster air defenses.
The US aid will be used to strengthen the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and a laser system under development.
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Targeting a gathering of citizens near Abu Rashid Pool in the middle of Jabalia camp, resulting in the death of six martyrs
The occupation artillery shells the residents who were forced to leave Jabalia camp towards a passage that they claimed was safe leading to Jabalia town.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Medical sources: 41 martyrs in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 33 of them in the northern Gaza Strip
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Western diplomats say they are having difficulty gathering field information in northern Gaza Strip. [Duh. There is a reason the Israelis won’t let any journalists in.]
This morning, the Nazi occupation army set fire to the top floor of the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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What is Israel doing to north Gaza?
Israel launched the assault in northern Gaza on October 6, claiming it aimed to stop Hamas from regrouping. […]
Israel demanded the evacuation of civilians from large swaths, including Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon, calling on residents to flee south, including to the already overcrowded “humanitarian zone” in al-Mawasi. […]
“Bodies are left in the streets. They’ve become food for dogs.”
Rescue efforts in the north have been hampered by a communications blackout and road obstructions due to the siege.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army released footage showing dozens of Palestinians being rounded up near the Indonesian Hospital, where many had taken shelter – people in wheelchairs are seen among those detained.[…]
UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Thursday warned Israel that “any forcible transfer of a large part of the population of North Gaza would amount to a war crime”
.Analysts say Israel’s evacuation orders in Gaza indicate that those who cannot, or choose not to, leave are being considered military targets, with “evacuation areas” treated as “kill zones”.[…]
No food aid has entered the north since October 2, the UN’s acting under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief said in a report on Wednesday, adding “all essential supplies for survival are running out”. […]
Israel has killed at least 450 people in north Gaza since it besieged it on October 6, according to medics who spoke to Al Jazeera. […]
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/21/as-israels-siege-on-north-gaza-continues-how-are-people-coping
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Thousands of displaced people leave Jabalia shelters, rescuers barred from entering strike areas: Civil defence.
Gaza’s civil defence told Al Araby TV that the Israeli army forced thousands of displaced Palestinians to leave their shelters in Jabalia, northern Gaza by using force “to force them to leave with no safe place [to go to]”.
The civil defence added that the Israeli army is not letting rescuers reach the areas that are being hit, and that tens of killed and injured are currently under the rubble.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/thousands-displaced-people-leave-jabalia-shelters-rescuers-barred?nid=402086&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=535156
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Israeli forces are raiding shelters for displaced people, arresting men from each shelter
Israeli artillery shelled Palestinians leaving the Jabalia refugee camp, on a street it had deemed safe for them to use
The Kamal Adwan Hospital has run out of shrouds used to cover dead bodies
Israeli forces have bombed the entrance to the Qleibo school, which houses displaced people in the Sheikh Zayed area in northern Gaza
Several Palestinians were killed and injured by Israeli forces as they were trying to fill water in Jabalia al-Balad
The Israeli army targeted a group of Palestinians in the vicinity of Jabalia’s al-Yaman al-Said Hospital, killing at least four people
Al Jazeera Arabic reports that Israeli forces destroyed all homes and infrastructure in Block 2 of the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/updates-jabalia-northern-gaza?nid=402086&topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&fid=535156
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[…] Sources on the ground cited by Al Jazeera said Israeli quadcopters equipped with speakers sounded orders for families inside the shelter to evacuate. The sources said Israeli artillery struck a large group of displaced who gathered outside the shelter following the order. 
At least another six were killed as civilians were filling up water bottles in the Jabalia al-Balad area, according to WAFA news agency. […]
https://thecradle.co/articles/siege-of-north-gaza-intensifies-as-israel-massacres-dozens
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Israeli occupation forces are forcing displaced people in Jabalia camp to move toward a checkpoint, targeting those who deviate with drone and artillery fire.
Even those following orders are not spared from the attacks. A massacre is unfolding in northern Gaza, with bodies in the streets and more wounded than medical teams can handle.
Kamal Adwan Hospital has run out of shrouds, prompting a call for fabric donations to wrap the bodies of the dead.
https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1848317008464826589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1848317008464826589%7Ctwgr%5E2c465aece541f61ee513507b2bd7c13bd0c97157%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthecradle.co%2Farticles-id%2F27361
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Posted by: teri | Oct 21 2024 14:16 utc | 260

A problem is that a lot of people like Ritter who work in the media space tend to use clickbait titles and exaggerated claims
Posted by: Autumn | Oct 21 2024 13:59 utc | 265
I’ve never seem Ritter use a clickbait title. I suspect your claim here is more exaggerated than anything Ritter has output.
Regardless, going back to what I said:

… they give their own guess at the future but you’re individually all meant to use your own intelligence and capacity to think (?) and draw your own conclusions.
These guys will provide experiential knowledge nobody else could have acquired, or interpretation and perspectives unique to their professions and training.
That is the true value of their contribution and that is gold, in my opinion.

If your critical thinking faculties are engaged, as they always should be, then you’ll be able to see directly through the marketing required to push a message through the morass of modern social media and directly to the essence of the message.
I mean, are you seriously going to skip a video or article by a proven expert in a domain because the title is a little too catchy, and Ritter shouts and gets emotional at the fact of Palestinian kids getting blown to bits?
Seriously?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 14:22 utc | 262

Open Minded Thinker frequently runs random war footage in the background of the news. It can also have the occasional clickbait title; something I find extremely irritating.
That said I occasionally get information there before, or that I missed from, other sources.
Scott Ritter does none of those things and provides excellent analysis and usually accurate projections. If he has a flaw, he tends to get a bit too emotional.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Oct 21 2024 14:32 utc | 264

Open Minded Thinker frequently runs random war footage in the background of the news. It can also have the occasional clickbait title; something I find extremely irritating.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Oct 21 2024 14:32 utc | 265
There are at least 5 ‘pirate’ channels that copy Ritters interviews (as well as those of the other usual suspects) and rebrand them from their own channels under clickbait titles.
I think our resident mentally disturbed ‘Journalist’ is unable to discern between a Ritter Original Production and a rewrapped pirate copy.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 14:41 utc | 266

“This is why I made it clear at the United Nations that civilian sites could lose their protected status if terrorists abuse this status.”
— Analena Baerbock (10 Oct 2024)
One wonders if her logic applies universally, or only to Arabs/Palestinians?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 14:45 utc | 268

Oh, too bad.
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After a year of committing genocide in Gaza, more and more Israeli soldiers are quietly refusing orders to return to the strip to fight, saying they are depressed, worn out, psychologically damaged, and unmotivated, according to a report by Ha-Makom magazine published on 20 October. 
The ultra-Orthodox-oriented magazine interviewed multiple soldiers and parents of soldiers who refuse to return to Gaza. When a platoon of 30 soldiers of the Nahal Brigade was recently ordered to enter Gaza for the latest of several tours, only six reported for duty.
“I call it refusal and rebellion,” says Inbal, the mother of one of the soldiers in the platoon.
“They return to the same buildings that they cleaned, each time trapping them anew. They have been to Al-Zaytoun neighborhood three times already. They understand that it is futile and pointless.”
Although they had only a fifth of their personnel, the commander still insisted they enter Gaza.
“Because they were a small team, they couldn’t go out on missions. They just stayed there and waited for the time to pass. It was even more unnecessary.”
In addition to battling Hamas fighters, Israeli soldiers have been demolishing residential buildings with explosives, sniping children, shelling hospitals and schools housing displaced people, and destroying Gaza’s water and electrical infrastructure.
One parent of a soldier in Nahal said that according to her son, “The wards are empty. Everyone who is not dead or injured is mentally damaged. There are very few left who returned to fight. And they’re not quite right either.”
After Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon, in which many soldiers have already been killed and injured, her son told her, “I don’t know what army they’re thinking of entering Lebanon with, but I’m not going back to the battalion.”[…]
Ha-Makom added, “After 12 consecutive months of a war that goes nowhere, the soldiers are ‘black.’ In military slang, this means that they are depressed, worn out and unmotivated.” […]
https://thecradle.co/articles/everyone-not-dead-or-injured-is-mentally-damaged-israeli-army-hit-by-silent-crisis
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Posted by: teri | Oct 21 2024 14:52 utc | 270

It is very difficult to ascertain Israel’s actual war front status owing to the exceptional levels of military censorship, to say nothing of the outright murder of journalists in Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank and even in Israel itself. Also, a paucity of information on outbound emigration of both people and money, real time financial status and most important state of armaments. Some pundits predict that Israel is rapidly moving to an irremediable situation (with others indicating they are already there). US/UK are essentially bankrupt – US sends billions in aide (not one THAAD but two!) which is not sustainable for a country which now spends one trillion in debt interest alone. With accession of BRICS’ emphasis on use of local, non dollar currencies and replacement of the SWIFT system, dedollarization will accelerate at high speeds. Count on serious blow back from the “deplorables” when hyperinflation ensues, unemployment spirals to double digits and public services such as public safety, health care and education erode to exceptional levels of non service. When the big hegemon and the little hegemon are destroying themselves at break neck speed, none of the Axis of Resistance are going to give both hegemons what they most need – World War III which distracts from the horrific war crimes being committed in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and Syria; gives opportunity for financial “reset” under the guise of war time economy and pivots to austerity for all. Finally, under a war time footing, civil liberties can be suspended, never to return. Quoting many wise heads – “Be careful what you wish for.”

Posted by: abierno | Oct 21 2024 14:55 utc | 272

What brilliant logic! So any country could genocide you right now with a carpet bombing of nuclear bombs, as long as they ask someone on their death bed to press the button. “N-none of the people living did it”
Posted by: Michael A | Oct 21 2024 8:34 utc | 219
Couldn’t you find any better way to support your virtue signaling than that silly straw man? Let me put it in a simpler way. The Jews of Israel are morally responsible for the genocide in Gaza. They are, however, not responsible for the murder of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago.

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 15:25 utc | 274

Some positive action taken by Australia – Europe must follow suit.
“A former Israeli diplomat and senior advisor to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to appear in court over his latest comments about the Tel Aviv regime’s bloody war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
According to Australian investigative journalist Peter Cronau, opening statements have been heard at the private prosecution of Mark Regev at a court in Melbourne.
“Regev is being charged with Advocacy for Genocide, section 80.2D of the Australian Criminal Code, for public comments advocating for Genocide of the Palestinian people” during an interview with Australia’s public broadcaster ABC Radio earlier this month, Cronau wrote in a post published on his X account on Monday.
He noted that the former Israeli diplomat’s remarks inciting genocide by advocating starvation to be inflicted on the residents of Gaza were made on October 10.
Cronau further said that Regev was served in the Israeli-occupied territories a few weeks ago with the charge sheet and summons.
The case against Netanyahu’s former senior advisor was filed by Aboriginal Australian activist Robbie Thorpe and lawyer Daniel Taylor.”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/21/735689/Former-Netanyahu%E2%80%99s-advisor-to-appear-in-court-over-Gaza-genocide-comments

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 21 2024 15:29 utc | 276

@Giyane 278
Do you consider the Russian Communist Workers Party right-wing trolls on US koolaid?
Unity of front and rear in Capitalist Russia

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 15:39 utc | 278

https://x.com/Palestine001_/status/1847590812441260301
Posted by: Menz | Oct 21 2024 6:36 utc | 201
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Thanks for this.
Also the link to the advertisement in Metro North train stations.
Brilliant!!!

Posted by: Jane | Oct 21 2024 15:59 utc | 280

Some positive action taken by Australia – Europe must follow suit.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 21 2024 15:29 utc | 277
I wouldn’t say it was taken by “Australia.” It was taken by one Aboriginal Australian and his lawyer. The chances of the genocidal cunt appearing in court are 0.001%.

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 15:59 utc | 282

@ Menz | Oct 21 2024 6:50 utc | 204
Oops. Happens. We are all but merely human, well, overwhelming majority. :))
Thanks again for all your curated posts. Valued.
Peace
@ Arctaroll
Clarity, effective communication ? ‘Tis a reason for nic, not reflective of demeanor/composure for very many long years. ‘They’, play a role/part, one does temporarily, occasionally, now and then, also, to draw’em out. Cheers.
Hm, long time, no posts ? 😉
@ Giyane | Oct 21 2024 11:19 utc | 233
Sadly so.
Saalam
@ Barrel Brown | Oct 21 2024 12:22 utc | 242
Incorrect. RL is(was) Unique, long term, below the radar, since 2019. Jake Blanchard is one of SeanAU/Debbie(X)/Complicated/ personas.
Cheers
@ Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 12:47 utc | 245
@ malenkov | Oct 21 2024 13:49 utc | 253
Quote so. Have never understood otherwise rational, intelligent peoples need for an omnipotent Dog/Oracle figure, to literally worship. Bizarre.
Excellent take-downs. Prost!
Still Steel
@ Tichy | Oct 20 2024 20:40 utc | 103
Outright, blatant, fabricated falsehoods. Have a lovely day. 🙂
PS Too much booze :-/ ??? O_O
@ canuck | Oct 20 2024 21:39 utc | 123
You’ve been dishing your, ‘Awards’ out for weeks. Cannot tolerate same in return, even once/twice/three times, deservedly, given your apparent, ‘criteria’, yourself ? Disappointing.
@ canuck | Oct 21 2024 10:45 utc | 232
Copy-pasta. No cancer, no mitosis. Two deranged ‘narcicists’ ?
So says self appointed, as above, judge. It (RL), & I are absolute polar opposites. Sigh.
@ DebbieX(Sock) | Oct 21 2024 0:14 utc | 159
SeanAU, always with the self projection & abuse. Obsessed. Pitiable. So Sad.
@ Moonie | Oct 21 2024 4:21 utc | 185
One of us ‘may’ be a sock or AI, yet, t’aint me. 😉
@ Robert Lindsay | And archived posts, Erased.
Goodby to bad rubbish.

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 21 2024 16:03 utc | 284

@ Tichy | Oct 20 2024 20:40 utc | 103
Outright, blatant, fabricated falsehoods. Have a lovely day. 🙂
PS Too much booze :-/ ??? O_O
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 21 2024 16:03 utc | 285
A liter. Mine, his? :-p 😉

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 16:07 utc | 286

Re: Lawfare
Those IDF units currently genociding in North Gaza are known. Their members will be known by the groups now combing through millions of documents. At the very least their members will not be able to travel.
This is similar to the 1,000 social media genociders who have been indentfied by name. There will eventually warrants issued for their arrest and trial. Assets seized etc etc

Posted by: Exile | Oct 21 2024 16:12 utc | 288

The ground invasion of #Lebanon has began: Israeli tanks of the division 91 has entered Aita Al Shaab. This is when the real battle will start, bringing the Israeli invaders to a closer vicinity to the resistance.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 21 2024 16:13 utc | 290
First and most urgent question. Will Iran react?

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 16:20 utc | 290

This is similar to the 1,000 social media genociders who have been indentfied by name. There will eventually warrants issued for their arrest and trial. Assets seized etc etc
Posted by: Exile | Oct 21 2024 16:12 utc | 289
That won’t happen until after Netanyuahu has shot himself in his bunker.

Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 16:34 utc | 292

That said, the idea of the October 7 attack was the worst miscalculation of the century, in addition to being a crime in its own right, which is too soon forgotten by Israel’s sworn enemies. Unless Iran could be doing so unthinkable as sending their Arab brothers to the meatfrinder, overpromising and underdelivering. And that said, all this ersatz jingoism about an Iranian nuke is playing into the hands of Iran’s enemies, regardless of whether it is true or not. As for Ritter, he has been open about his financial woes, which does not make him a trustworthy source, let alone give him access to any classified info. He does an admirable job speculating but that’s just it: speculation. The bottomline is a lesson for all: using Gaza’s plight to vent one’s own frustrations with and alienation from one’s own political machinery is going to end up badly, justified though they might be.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Oct 21 2024 17:06 utc | 294

First and most urgent question. Will Iran react?
Posted by: Tichy | Oct 21 2024 16:20 utc | 291
Iran reacted more than two decades ago.
The reaction is called “Hezbollah”.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2024 17:08 utc | 296

Re: Invasion of Lebanon has stated ?
I think a full strength IDF armor division has 300 Merkavas. We’ll see how many the 91st loses over the next couple of days.
Barflies – anyone want to make a guess ?

Posted by: Exile | Oct 21 2024 17:14 utc | 298

That said, the idea of the October 7 attack was the worst miscalculation of the century, in addition to being a crime in its own right, which is too soon forgotten by Israel’s sworn enemies
Posted by: Jonathan W | Oct 21 2024 17:06 utc | 295
The child-murderers can hear, track and detect where all the Hezbollah leaders are and kill them, know all the main leaders of Hamas, know a lot about the weapons storage and other very secret information, but they didn’t detect an attack where thousands of fighters were synchronizing their movements, with a huge preparation to the attack, and then all is a “surprise”….Excuse me, I don’t believe a iota of the child-murderers and their yank puppets, they wanted a “casus belli” to ethnic cleanse Gaza AND West Bank and they get it, also they made the attack even worse by shooting with tanks and choppers to the civilians in general.

Posted by: Dave | Oct 21 2024 17:22 utc | 300