Sometimes everything is exposed, and you see the whole theater scene in full light with the actors standing there blinking in the clear spotlight. This happened now because the new Sunni regime in Syria has initiated a small ethnic cleansing of Druze, Shia, Alawites, Christians, and Kurds last week.
The films are terrible – mass murder, torture, old and children murdered, and laughing and singing men holding up severed heads and praising the gods for the opportunity to show what they are made of.
Religious leaders for Druze and Christians appeal in anguished statements for help to stop the ethnic cleansing, and films are broadcast from religious premises being demolished where the priest lies in a pool of his own blood.
Terrorists travel from Europe to participate in this festive genocide; if you miss this, you are not a real man.
ISIS atrocities back with a bang, therefore, only steel cages and gasoline plus the occasional slave market are missing.
All the usual suspects remain silent, those who scream every day about Israel’s genocide in Gaza say nothing at all.
Europe is at a loss – I must say that this was the most expected outcome of all, and Europe welcomed Al Jalani, gave him billions in aid, only to turn around, which was quite naive – but that word is starting to become very worn out.
If they had read Johan No.1, they would have known because we wrote about this when it happened, and I still cannot understand why the Alawites and the Christians on the coast did not hold the mountain range, which is an easily defensible fort. They did not lack militias, military fled there, they had the equipment, and knew who the opponents were – sprung from ISIS. For example, the Kurds did not make that mistake and fought their way to a sensible position in the northeast, and then they had both Al Jalani’s henchmen and Turkish regular forces to contend with.
The Peshmerga are tough, and their women’s battalions were the only ones ISIS feared because if you die by a woman’s hand, you do not go to heaven. It is a bit unclear why one goes to heaven if one collects severed heads and grills prisoners in steel cages, but they say faith is the last to die, and it is necessary for them to die to make them understand where they have ended up.
The Druze have lived in symbiosis with the regime in Damascus and live within a larger area in southwestern Syria on the border with Israel.
Yes – I think Israel has gone too far in Gaza, but unfortunately, there are hawks and hardliners in Israel as well who never let a good crisis go to waste. However, one must not forget that October 7 was a Russian influence operation, and the only reason Gaza is suffering today is because Russia initiated this.
I have posted the evidence before – Russian weapons, Chinese-built tunnels, HAMAS in Russia in the spring of 2023, large money transactions, and last but not least, Russian voices in some films from the October 7 attack.
Israel has tried to combat the flood in Syria as best they could, and the Druze are quite tough – it is called toxic masculinity, but right now, it is helping women, children, and the elderly avoid genocide, so maybe it can be forgiven just this once?
They have survived round one and avoided a coastal massacre like the Alawites and Christians had a while ago, which also passed by relatively unnoticed.
First point – we are showered with films on the Druze genocide, and in the case of Gaza, we are showered with statements that are not backed by film, and in between, films can be decided to be created rather than filming an event.
But yes – things are happening there too, absolutely, but serious readers understand the point I am trying to make, which is not to diminish Gaza but to show that the ethnic cleansing of the Druze should evoke the same will to stop it with demonstrations as Gaza does.
Second point – this entire PR machine that started in 2015 and has been going since October 7, where parliamentarians, political parties, public debaters, demonstrators, and “broad popular layers” demonstrate against genocide, is completely absent in the case of the Druze, isn’t it?
They were also not seen when the Yazidis were exterminated, the Kurds have not had much help from them, and they were not interested in the coastal massacre of the Alawites and Christians.
However, these demonstrations for Palestine have now also embraced Iran as a victim that must be demonstrated for, and not infrequently, Hamas or ISIS flags are waved in the demonstrations.
Now I really want to clarify this before anyone gets upset – I am not saying that the situation in Gaza is not precarious, but the point is not to belittle it but to show that the Druze murder is also commendable, and the demonstrators should have been inclusive – and all serious readers understand this.
So, I want to highlight the phenomenon of Russian subversive activity now when we have an excellent example to discuss.
Yasir Arafat was created by Russia, which essentially created the conflict in the MENA region between Israel and the other states, and Russia has fueled it over the years when needed, just like on October 7, 2023, when things started to calm down, and there was a risk of peace.
In 1967, the Soviets tricked Syria into believing that Israel was about to attack them, and to survive, they had to attack first – which the Syrians did and received a thorough beating. Israel had no plans to attack, and the Soviet evidence was falsified.
In 1973, the Soviets helped Syria and Egypt to attack Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday (similar to being attacked on Christmas Day or Midsummer Day), and with the latest Soviet weapons, they were dangerously close to succeeding in overpowering Israel that time.
The Syrians were shut down, and Israel loosened up – as an old mech soldier, I understand why they got beaten, and for those who are not old mech legends, you can try running around the house with a pillowcase over your head to understand too.
The Soviets managed to get the USA to remain passive, but Israel managed to turn the war around so that they ended up at the Suez Canal on the wrong side, and Sadat panicked when the hunter became the hunted.
So, the Soviets, along with the USA, agreed that Israel should not be allowed to deliver any consequences to Egypt or Syria – the countries had to withdraw and lick their wounds in peace, a second chance for peace.
And of course, everything was Israel’s fault, even though they had a genuinely feminist government unlike all the others – Golda Meir was a tough cookie, chain-smoking with frizzy hair who took no prisoners in cabinet meetings.
This PR apparatus that kicks in always does so when Russia wants it – no, not everyone is paid pro-Russians, and many in the demonstrations are passionate about Gaza, but Russia controls which way they go and what they should demonstrate for.
It is in these few unique moments that we can see it so clearly because it always takes a while before new orders come out, so the entire PR apparatus continues to scream about Israel while a serious attempt at genocide unfolds, which they should have jumped on instead, or simultaneously demonstrated for, but the silence echoes in the squares because no one is there.
Completely silent.
All those who tear up their university diplomas, hold a Palestinian flag so they get arrested, boycott, spend time every day supporting Palestine, go there by boat or in other ways demonstrate against Israel and for Palestine.
They don’t lift a finger, yawn and fall asleep when the Druze jump from rooftops or when the elderly in wheelchairs get a liter of gasoline poured over them and set on fire in front of the cameras.
Yes, we have had a few major demonstrations around Europe in the last few days, but they are in support of the genocide, not against it. They are spontaneous expressions of joy, not condemnations.
I don’t know what more you would need to understand how this all fits together. I have followed the Cold War for a long time and knew this already, but now you have experienced it for yourselves and documented it – you can form your own opinion based on the information you now have without taking the shortcut through the media and getting a pre-packaged narrative that is incorrect.
By the way, Nixon had Watergate to deal with just as the Yom Kippur War broke out, even though no one can be accused of serving Soviet interests there, and I have really checked, so it all came quite conveniently in hindsight. The war was planned long in advance, so Watergate was the moving part. The echoes of fate resound, but there is no evidence that I have been able to find at least.
Another occasion was the USA and the Vietnam War. In the USA, a formidable grassroots movement formed against the Vietnam War, which essentially ended with the USA being forced to abandon South Vietnam – it became politically too contagious.
North Vietnam started the war – South Vietnam was innocent. Have you ever heard that or just that everything was the fault of the USA?
The USA intervened to try to prevent South Vietnam from being overrun, and of course to prevent communism from advancing in the world.
Yes, the USA is not our friend and is not driven by noble and noble purposes at all, but that is not the point I am trying to make, and again I hope all serious readers understand that.
The war went so-so, and North Vietnam was guilty of more atrocities than the USA in the war overall, even though the USA made efforts with all sorts of terrible weapons such as napalm, white phosphorus, herbicides, and nerve gas.
Almost on the day the war ended, the protests in the USA quieted down, and calm settled on the universities and squares.
South Vietnam was then invaded by North Vietnam as they immediately broke the ceasefire they had agreed upon with the USA for them to leave – which the USA had anticipated.
The universities and squares were eerily silent.
North Vietnam then initiated a reign of terror in the south, and the boat refugees in the 80s were never as I thought due to US involvement in Vietnam but because the aftermath became a bloody story where North Vietnam was harsh in the south.
Throughout that period, the universities and squares were silent and calm.
Several million murdered South Vietnamese later, Vietnam is now a decent country but still a dictatorship.
Something that had been the No. 1 reason for demonstrations until the day the USA left Vietnam became completely uninteresting the same day the USA left – even though Vietnam’s population was murdered even more than before.
So what is the point I wanted to make with this extensive digression – do not underestimate the explosive power of Russian, former Soviet, subversive activities because they win wars.
The pro-Palestinian demonstrations you see today are controlled by Russia, and they also control the UN, Amnesty, and many other organizations together with China for a very simple reason.
The West has financed all these organizations, but Russia and China have, for a fraction of that cost, directly bought the loyalty of these organizations.
These protesters and organizations have also occasionally been passionate about other injustices – such as disarmament and not using landmines or cluster weapons. As if by chance, they have never demonstrated against Russia, which unlike us, has retained all its landmines and cluster weapons that they have effectively used against Ukraine.
During an entire war in Ukraine, you have hardly heard Amnesty and the UN criticize Russia, but they scream every day about Israel’s genocide.
For a while, they got it completely wrong and started accusing Ukraine of the genocide instead, but Russia quickly understood that it wouldn’t fly and adjusted the narrative a bit before the damage became too great, and now it’s forgotten.
They are completely silent about the Druze’s final battle because it is not in Russia’s or China’s interest at all to allocate resources to that.
This turned out a bit longer than I intended, tomorrow there will be a post about Russian subversive activities.
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“Overnight on July 22, Russia launched 42 Shahed drones and decoys from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and occupied Crimea. Ukrainian air defense shot down or suppressed 26 drones; another 7 were disrupted by EW systems.”
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lujtrtnwek2r
The fact that the Druze have not received the attention they deserve and that there are no demonstrations for them probably has several natural explanations.
1. The Scope. It is estimated that nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7th. When it comes to the number of civilians, the figures vary from anywhere between 50-80%. This does not include those who may have died indirectly from starvation, deficiencies in healthcare, etc. caused by the war. The number of Israelis killed is under 2,000, most of whom died on October 7th. What is happening in Gaza is therefore (so far) on a completely different scale.
2. The Diaspora The conflict between Israel and Palestine has been ongoing for a long time with many people fleeing from there. It is estimated that out of all the world’s Palestinians, around 14.5 million, only half live in Palestine. Approximately 1.6 million live in the Western world. It is more difficult to find numbers regarding Sweden, but I found an estimate that there could be between 30-40,000. There are therefore many people in the Western world who have a direct interest in what is happening in Palestine and they have, of course, been able to influence others in the countries they have settled in for a long time, by sharing their experiences as refugees to spreading pure propaganda. The Druze are a much smaller group and have not spread in the West in a similar way. There are therefore significantly fewer people with a direct connection and thus even fewer who are willing to go out and demonstrate.
Trying to portray pro-Palestinians as having double standards because they do not simultaneously demonstrate for the Druze feels very strange. Those who demonstrate for Ukraine may also have double standards because they do not simultaneously demonstrate to stop the wars and killing of civilians in Sudan, Yemen, Ethiopia, etc.?
Those who are passionate about the Druze should take action themselves and organize demonstrations, rather than criticize those who demonstrate for other causes?
By the way, I don’t see any major demonstrations from the right-wing side for Israel or the Druze, maybe because the sympathies on that side only extend to words and not so much action. How do you reason about that? Is it morally better not to demonstrate for anything at all? 😉
Those who publicly shout about genocide in Gaza might consider shouting about all genocides around the world? Otherwise, one might get the impression that they believe there is a difference between people.
I am completely sure that if there wasn’t a war down there, they would keep their mouths shut.
An example is the festival in Österlen that gladly shows its “sympathy” with Gaza.
If one truly believes that a demonstration in Sweden makes a difference, they should take an interest in more than just what benefits their own agenda, as it could make the world a better place. Since they know it doesn’t help at all, they continue with their “pet issues” that benefit themselves. Virtue signaling and ego masturbation.
I was referring to it being a Russian influence operation and not the conflict itself – do you mean to say that it is not a Russian influence operation?
I am trying to nuance below.
Now this is not the first time – the Yazidis, Alawites+Christians, Kurds, and now the Druze.
How many days did it take after October 7th before the demonstrations started?
How long ago was the Yazidi group exterminated?
1. Scope
– Are 40,000 together with dead Hamas soldiers or not? Yes, it is many anyway but it should be correct.
In a larger perspective – how does the number of dead compare to Congo, Syria, Iraq, and other conflicts that have not been demonstrated for on our streets?
– Is Gaza a war or not and how much of what is going on is a violation of the laws of war or not, after all, that is what counts in that case?
2. The Diaspora, so what you are highlighting is then that one side of the conflict has a fairly large ability to influence how we perceive the conflict?
They do not care about other conflicts and what then comes up on the political agenda is that we should engage in their conflict?
Maybe we can’t blame them for that, but our politicians must make sure to choose their words carefully in that case.
So I wrote five times – “the point is not to diminish Gaza but to highlight Russian subversive activities, which all serious readers will understand” 😀
If I understand your comment correctly, do you then believe that there is no Russian subversive activity involved in these demonstrations?
Well, I do believe that the Russians are involved in poking and reinforcing, but I think there would have been demonstrations regardless, and they have certainly helped HAMAS.
Actually, I was mostly trying to explain why there are no demonstrations for the Druze in the same way and emphasize that I don’t think it’s about double standards.
1. Didn’t I write that estimates are between 50-80% civilians? So 20-50% are HAMAS.
2. I didn’t perceive it at all as you diminishing Gaza, I used the numbers as part of the explanation for why there are demonstrations for them and not for the Druze.
One aspect I didn’t mention was also the timing. Gaza has been going on for a long time, what is happening to the Druze now is fresh, and it takes a while before enough people become aware of it and start to react. If they do, there are very few Druze in Sweden, as far as I understand.
Yes, you actually wrote that 😶
Why didn’t you write between 8000-20,000 dead civilian Palestinians instead?
When you write 40,000 dead Palestinians, it sounds like more than 8000-20,000.
The Druze are recent but the Alawites+Christians, Kurds, and others are years old for this keeps coming back regularly.
The Druze are a small peaceful ethnic group living in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
When Hezbollah attacked Israel, the first thing they did was launch missiles at a football field full of Druze youths.
There is a plan from Hamas and Hezbollah to involve the Druze in the war.
This is not left versus right, this is left against peace.
“Putin’s peace negotiator Vladimir Medinsky is behind hate campaigns against Sweden.
He has been dismissed as insignificant and a cheating fake historian – and failed to qualify for the TV quiz show ‘Jeopardy’.
But an international investigation now shows a completely different image of the man – whom the EU has forgotten to put on the sanctions lists.”
“https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/varlden/vladimir-medinskij-ligger-bakom-hatet-mot-sverige-/”
Trump
“Donald Trump seems to have a new tactic: to focus on all sorts of issues that engage the Maga movement in an attempt to divert attention from the yet unpublished Epstein documents.
In recent days, his statements have consisted of new criticism of the 2016 Russia investigation, attacks on political opponents, a fake AI video of Barack Obama, demands for sports teams to change their names, and the release of Martin Luther King documents.
At one point, he even published a compilation of 25 videos, including one showing a woman catching an attacking cobra.
But the tactic is not working well, writes NYT.”
https://omni.se/trumps-taktik-hemmavideor-och-maga-favoriter-ska-ta-fokus-fran-epsteinfallet/a/8qywWd
Have you seen the cobra woman 😳
absolutely incredible tough, catching it right in the act in a chokehold
“Russian terror continues. A FAB-250 bomb hit a residential building in Kramatorsk, killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring 8. Russian forces also dropped two air bombs on Sloviansk’s residential areas, injuring 4 more civilians.”
Kramatorsk 🧐
RU intends to pick them up and has started bombing
Thanks alot johan! Amazing analyse/info! Youre the best! Please keep updating us and macrons wife etc, min 1/week if possible?
Thank you for your kind words David, now there is a reason to look happy at work 👍
oh dear, yes now Macron has even more problems – coming soon
Ukrainian fiber optic winged FPV drone with distance of 50km.
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1947608292974596514?s=46
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Clean bumkerbustern 😳
Russia’s largest car manufacturer Avtovaz, which owns the brand Lada, may shorten its workweek to four days. The company announced this on Tuesday, according to Reuters. The state-owned car manufacturer is struggling to find buyers and signaled a sales drop of 25 percent last month. The company blames, among other things, high interest rates.
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The ideal society has almost reached a 6-hour workday so…
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😄 Sounds like it’s time for the left-wing party members to move to Russia?
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Extra fun that it’s just blamed on the STEER rate
The tariffs have some positive effects in the USA, we’ll see how many will move there. Negative for the EU of course.
“Several non-American large companies are considering expanding their production to the USA to mitigate the damage from Donald Trump’s tariffs, writes Reuters. On the list is Astra Zeneca, which yesterday announced that the company wants to invest $50 billion in the USA, including in a facility in Virginia.”
https://omni.se/a/rPqLBR
Does this mean that American voters haven’t died of the plague?
We were promised that, right?
There is probably enough time before companies have had time to establish themselves, it’s not done in the blink of an eye.
Then we don’t know if they will close down somewhere else. If they move production from China to the USA, prices are likely to go up.
Of course, it is most likely that it will be shut down (or not established anew) here in Europe.
It must be particularly pleasing for all Trump fans!
Has Average Joe had a better or worse 2025 compared to 2024 – it’s not entirely clear to me 😀
Not me either.
Can’t answer whether we in Sweden have gotten better or worse compared to last year either.
Many factors play a role in being able to assess that, and it will probably take quite a while before the effects of the various measures have fully taken effect.
The tariffs are not yet negotiated, for example.
And how do you measure things that can arise if, for example, the poorer people can’t afford healthcare? These are effects that may take a few years before any statistics show, and my guess is that it’s not something the current government will even care to measure, so we probably won’t know.
What percentage of the drug price is the manufacturing cost, 10%?
It’s probably very different. For established medications that have been around for a long time and where the licenses have expired, the manufacturing cost is probably a larger proportion as prices drop due to competition.
If it didn’t have much significance, so much production wouldn’t be outsourced to low-wage countries.
For Astra’s part, it’s probably not as crucial as in other areas (especially if they refrain from building a similar factory in Europe).
However, if you shut down a functioning factory to build one in the USA, you probably have a lot of investment costs that will take a long time to recoup, or you raise prices.
ASTRA develops new drugs and as far as I know does not deal with generics.
So for their part, it shouldn’t be very high.
“The death toll among Swedish volunteer soldiers is on the rise. That’s according to soldier Christofer Forsbäck, who has been fighting for Ukraine since 2022, to SvD. – There are more Swedes dying now than before. Most of them are new and untrained, says Forsbäck. Forsbäck says he has seen a number of Swedes go to Ukraine right after their military service. He says they often have a “romanticized image” of war and do not give them a greater chance of survival than untrained soldiers.”
Very boring 😐
If they have still completed their military service, it must be a very poor grade for their training. Ukraine seems to quickly train new soldiers in just a few months. And it would be tactically foolish to deploy inexperienced soldiers without specialized skills on missions where they struggle quickly. It should be possible to initially rotate them in a bit away from the front line.
If I understand correctly, Zelensky can veto it, the question is whether that might still be the best option.
“The EU Commission is concerned about the new law in the field of corruption that Ukraine passed today. Spokesperson Guillaume Mercier told several Ukrainian media outlets. Two important anti-corruption authorities, NABU and SAPO, are in practice losing their independence.”
https://omni.se/a/MnVR7K
I have seen other posts where it is suggested that it was an ammunition depot.
“A bombhot utlöste en luftslarm nära det ockuperade Melitopol i Zaporizhia Oblast. Detta följdes av höga detonationer, rapporterade ExileNova+. Det är fortfarande oklart vilket ryskt mål som attackerades.”
“Russia recruits children into drone programs through games, education incentives, media reports”
One is slightly affected by cognitive dissonance when reading what is written in Expressen about the fallen Swedish soldier, but despite his reprehensible political affiliation, etc. he gave his life for Ukraine’s freedom and for that he should be honored.
No links.
Would be a separate…
I had planned to write about the same thing and link. But OK refrains from the link.
They lack shame in their bodies. (In expressen)
Yes, completely unnecessary to bring that up, especially when he has already fallen.
Only benefits Russia and their propaganda.
That was the shittiest 😐
You lead with the word Nazi and then the rest is secondary.
No military training is also mentioned but he has been fighting since 2022 and may well be considered a very competent soldier by 2025?
He was also captured and later found dead as a murdered prisoner of war.
In other media, it’s just a small note, let’s see if they pick up on the narrative.
Fun for the family to have to read insensitivity like this…
Not even ETC went that far.
Extremely boring to read.
Hopefully, they will soon realize that it’s time to give up and release the hostages. Unfortunately, I believe they are reasoning as we suspect Putin does. If they give up, they know they are done for.
“Hamas is undergoing its worst financial and administrative crisis ever. This is reported by a number of Israel- and Hamas-related sources to the Washington Post. According to Oded Ailam, a former senior Israeli intelligence officer, Hamas can no longer afford to pay salaries to its combatant members.
Sources close to Hamas also confirm to the newspaper that the terror-classified group can no longer pay police officers and government officials in Gaza, where they have been in power since 2007.”
https://omni.se/a/gwq7o9
Hamas leaders in Qatar are allowed to sell some private jets so that they can raise funds for salaries now that they can’t sell the aid they received through UNRWA.
Well they are probably good for 5 million usd per herbivore or something
All claims of being filthy rich come from pro-Israeli sources, but no evidence has been presented whatsoever.
Considering Israel’s skilled intelligence service, they should be able to trace and disprove any form of ownership.
The only evidence is that they live quite luxuriously.
Quite luxurious 🤣🤣
Arafat was top 5 among billionaires when he died, why would they be worse?
He ran a construction company, then he was an engineer, and there we have learned from Johan that they can afford private chauffeurs and other luxuries. Then he married into a banking family and received the Nobel Prize.
Above all, he probably didn’t need to share any money.
Joking aside.
I’m not saying they’re not billionaires, I’m saying there is no evidence and that those who claim they are rich have an agenda which affects credibility.
Like when pro-Russians claim that Zelenskyy owns luxury villas in Italy.
If you claim that Arafat is a top 5 billionaire of all, feel free to provide sources.
Israel’s intelligence estimated his wealth at 1.3 billion USD and the highest estimate I can find is 3 billion. He probably wasn’t even among the top 500 in the world when he died.
When they (Hamas) can’t capitalize on the aid from UNWRA, it’s like a money tap running dry. Food and supplies controlled by the USA/Israel are probably not desirable in Hamas’ eyes.
Is the Israeli army really shooting at people standing in food queues? I may be naive, but why would they do that? Hamas, on the other hand, has motives to stop such aid. If this aid is stopped, the pressure increases for assistance via UNWRA, which they can (have been allowed to) control and capitalize on.
You have a point there, but if the situation is as bad as described, they should also start to be in need of necessities.
Although they may have stocked up so that they can manage on their own for a long time.
One reason for Israel to shoot could be that they suspect there are Hamas supporters among those trying to get hold of necessities.
Regardless, as usual, it is the civilian population who suffer. They have indeed not done enough to achieve a more sensible government than Hamas, so to some extent, they have their own responsibility, but on the other hand, it is probably not easy to stand up against them either, since they have the power and the weapons.
Just like the Russians who are against the war but no longer dare to do anything and previously didn’t care much about letting Putin rule.
I have saved a post from social media where it is now confirmed that Israel has FPV drones that they tape explosive charges filled with nails to and then detonate above groups of Palestinians in food queues.
It is simply impossible that this would be widespread or something Israeli soldiers amuse themselves with.
Why then?
All of Israel knows that their reputation is currently at its lowest and that they are one decision away from a total boycott.
Every damn unit that has contact with civilian Palestinians undergoes a review every morning that basically sounds like this: “Anyone who even aims their weapon at a civilian will go to prison for six months, have their pension forfeited, and be dismissed with a grade of one.”
However, we have the gray zone – Hamas hides among civilians and provokes shootings or drives these drones.
I believe that the second thing the Israeli soldiers now hear every morning is “not even if you are shot at from within crowds can you aim weapons at them, instead duck.”
However – if Hamas starts having existential problems, wouldn’t it be best if Israel retreated and left them alone?
Hamas wants to take care of the distribution 🤔
Exactly
That’s what the whole media frenzy is about and everyone just goes along without a hint of questioning. Objective and impartial reporting as usual….
Hamas’ goal is to wipe out Israel, Gaza’s civilian population is just a commodity to them.
They want to control the food deliveries, then they can both buy loyalty and make money for themselves.
Hamas has won the propaganda war, they will lose the other war, but the biggest losers are the Palestinian people.
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Amen, Jan W.
I hope everyone has also learned to recognize when Hamas spreads lies about “hundreds of dead” in various alleged events? – Not a single mobile video, that can be understood, emerges. Everyone has smartphones, truly everyone, and filming atrocities is a reflex without cultural deviations. Tearful interviews = probably lies.
The number of civilian deaths in Gaza is likely significant, but not anywhere near what is claimed.
The whole thing with demonstrations in support of Hamas/Gaza is the Western hatred among large groups in the West. All kinds of groups, with nothing in common, unite in this. The demonstrations will continue until they are stopped… As No.1 points out, there are strong interests fueling them because they have a destabilizing and divisive effect on the society where they occur.
Quite early in the war, it was that terrible “bombing of the hospital in Gaza” that Hamas screamed about 500 dead, but it was probably Hamas’ own missile that malfunctioned and fell on the hospital’s parking lot.
Israel uses overwhelming force, that’s clear enough, but the casualty figures coming from Hamas-controlled sources are probably greatly exaggerated
Apparently it was Israel-Palestine today but it’s also fine 😀
Now I have read through the comments and according to MXT, Hamas is starting to have existential problems?
Isn’t the fastest way to permanent peace to permanently eradicate Hamas?
So the right way forward is a short but violent end for Hamas?
A lot of Palestinian clans (larger families) have promised to take responsibility for their area in a fair way and to recognize Israel, for example.
And the average Palestinian is more than tired of Hamas – they demonstrate all the time but the media never shows it.
Perhaps there is an end in sight if the West holds back the money to UNRWA and Israel can make the final push?
By the way, this is EXACTLY what I said when it started in a post, Israel will have hell with fighting in the area and it will take years when someone wrote that it would be over in months.
I think everyone would be relieved if this ended soon.
It would now be smart of Israel to reach an agreement with these clans/families to clear their areas of Hamas in exchange for gaining control over the area.
And then to communicate this widely to the Palestinian population so they know what is happening.
And that Israel will clear the areas that the clans/families cannot handle and then over time return them.
If Israel can get all these militia groups + civilians in Gaza on board, it could probably happen very quickly?
Yes, according to commentators in the media, it is the gathering places for the civilian Palestinians that are considered “concentration camps”, so Hamas probably has control of the plans and is running the propaganda at full speed. Swedish media uncritically swallow it as usual.
I actually might have thought that the discussion would turn into Russian subversive activity 😐
I will make a new attempt tomorrow.
Important discussion, but thin on facts to start from!?
Well, actually we should keep the discussion about the damn Russians! 😄
Off-Topic, Climate
Imagine that, there is hope!
“Fossil fuels have reached the end of the road and renewable energy is on the verge of a breakthrough. That was the unusually positive message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a speech on Tuesday, as reported by The Guardian. – The sun rises on an era of clean energy, he says. He refers to the fact that over nine out of ten renewable energy projects in the world are now cheaper than fossil alternatives. Solar power costs around 41 percent less than the cheapest fossil alternative, and wind power is more than half as cheap as fossil fuels, according to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena).”
https://omni.se/a/alVP1A
However, how are we going to deal with the stability of the electricity grid if electricity is to come almost exclusively from intermittent sources such as wind and solar.
Regarding Swedish wind power:
The total loss for the years 2017-2022 amounted to 13.5 billion SEK, with a loss margin of -39.4%. 58% of wind power companies in Sweden operated at a loss during 2017-2022, and 69% of wind turbines were owned by companies operating at a loss.
https://www.affarsvarlden.se/kronika/varfor-ar-vindkraften-sa-olonsam
Impressive loss margin. If I remember correctly from previous reports, it works somewhat in the south, but is a disaster in the north.
My personal, perhaps biased, opinion is that Guterres is not much of a witness to the truth.
Not familiar with Irena.
For those of us who do not use fossil fuels to any great extent (other than a few days a year), it is not so relevant (although it’s still good if prices drop), but there are still many countries that burn both coal and oil.
So far, we are managing reasonably well with the mix we have because nuclear power and hydropower compensate, and we are supposed to get more nuclear power, so until then we have to manage, and if we didn’t have the wind power we have, we would have problems.
Vattenfall had a profit of 33 billion last year. They are the winners because they can manage their reservoirs when it’s windy and electricity is cheap. Previously, there was talk of shortage and prices soared when there was unusually little rain.
So, it’s a pretty skewed setup as it is right now. It would have been best if Vattenfall had been responsible for all wind power.
Then they would have made a profit of 20 billion, and everything would have been peace and joy.
Ideally, of course, we would have refrained from shutting down functioning nuclear power plants, but as it looks now, we actually need wind power.
I wish there was also a focus on expanding hydropower, although it doesn’t go far enough, I think I saw that it could be increased by 5-10%.
Wind power is needed too. But one should not ignore its potential environmental problems. But then it’s not possible to rely solely on that. We reasonably need more nuclear power as well. (Very smart to shut down.) As for hydropower, permit reviews are ongoing. Some will probably be shut down. Maybe not a lot, but in a situation where we need more, it may not be so wise.
Sweden and the EU should of course continue the path towards net zero. The question is at what speed.
Wind power combined with hydropower, with reservoirs, works well, as long as the share of wind power does not become too large, because then it affects the electricity price too much.
Like here in Finland, where we have about 2000MW of hydropower and 8000MW of wind power installed. It’s difficult to achieve profitability when the price approaches zero when the wind blows at about 8m/s.
Without the return of CO2 to the atmosphere through, for example, the combustion of fossil fuels or cement production, the level of CO2 would monotonically decrease towards zero (apart from volcanic activity). At 150 ppm, practically all vegetation would die off.
So, my question then is, why do large parts of the world want to return to this monotonous decrease of CO2 with a 100% guaranteed extinction of all vegetation as the expected outcome?
It makes the flagellants seem like pure hedonists…
Hm. In the last ice age, co2 was around 180ppm. And had then risen to about 280ppm before industrialism. So it rose without us burning a lot of fossil fuels. The carbon cycle has long been functioning reasonably well without our impact. However, it may happen that when the volcanic activity ceases, more carbon may stay in the ground, resulting in cooling. However, this is not likely to happen for many millions of years.
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The plant life did just fine before humanity even existed, and even after we showed up, things were fine. It’s only in the last ~150 years that we’ve managed to mess things up with too high PPM.
Before that, PPM has varied greatly between ~180 and ~280 PPM. At 180, we had an ice age.
We are in a warm period where we have been at ~280ppm up until now.
The idea that our burning of fossil fuels and cement production would be necessary in order to prevent CO2 from dropping to 150 ppm has absolutely no basis in reality.
We have gone from a normal 280-285 ppm to 430 ppm in ~150 years, and that’s what we’re trying to address.
The goal is modest, to stop further CO2 emissions, to prevent adding more, to stop the increase.
Where did you get the idea that we should aim to reach 150 PPM?
The measures taken so far are hardly noticeable at all, you don’t need to worry about experiencing any 150PPM in your lifetime or in the lifetime of your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on.
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“Polen har uppmanat sina medborgare att lämna Ryssland så snart som möjligt med alla tillgängliga medel”
https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3lukwblsjjc2c
Those of you who have read the thread know what’s going to happen 😀
Off-Topic, Epstein
They are resorting to all means to avoid releasing the files. It wasn’t long ago that Mike clearly stated that he wanted the files to be made public. One can only guess who has influenced him to change his mind.
Shut down and send people on a five-week vacation, well spent taxpayer money!
“US Republican Speaker Mike Johnson is shutting down the House of Representatives until September to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein investigation, according to American media reports. The previously scheduled summer break is aimed at avoiding ‘political games,’ the speaker said according to the New York Times.”
https://omni.se/a/qPqL2m
https://levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-sends-in-his-fixer
https://levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-sends-in-his-fixer
Concerning that there are no counterattacks at Pokrovsk.