ROARING WITH LAUGHTER AS MINARET TUMBLES TO GROUND (00:08): Israeli sappers scream like hyenas while they blast mosque to RUINS in unverified vid above.
Latest act of IDF barbarism as Israeli soldiers love to chuck flashbangs into mosques during prayers – when they’re not demolishing places of prayer in brutal airstrikes…
By JEFF PAO viaAsia Times
Chinese President Xi Jinping gives a speech to 400 American business people and officials at a dinner in San Francisco on November 15, 2023. Photo: China’s Foreign Ministry
China has no intention to fight a hot war with anyone or to challenge the United States or to unseat it, the country’s top leader told hundreds of elite American at an event in San Francisco.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met an audience of around 400 business leaders, government officials and academics at a gala dinner on Wednesday evening. The event was attended by Apple’s Tim Cook, BlackRock’s Laurence Fink and Pfizer’s Albert Bourla.
“Whatever stage of development it may reach, China will never pursue hegemony or expansion, and will never impose its will on others,” Xi said in his speech. “China does not seek spheres of influence and will not fight a cold war or a hot war with anyone.”
He said China “never bets against the US” and “has no intention to challenge the US or to unseat it.” He added that China is “ready to be a partner and friend of the US.”
Xi also unveiled a five-year plan to invite 50,000 young Americans to China on exchange and study programs. He said Beijing welcomes US politicians and people from different sectors to visit China.
One of Xi’s key missions in this US trip is to encourage American businesses to increase their investment in China, some commentators said.
“The US leadership has made clear that they do not want decoupling to happen,” Bruce Andrews, chief government affairs officer at Intel Corp and former US Deputy Secretary of Commerce, told China’s state media in an interview.
“We work with a broad range of technology companies, including autonomous vehicles, auto-manufacture and healthcare companies. We see all of their great innovations taking place,” he said. “We believe there is an important and a valuable opportunity for Intel to work with Chinese companies and partners.”
Xi and US President Joe Biden on Wednesday spent four hours at Filoli estate, an historical site in San Francisco, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ meeting. They held a two-hour meeting but key matters, such as Taiwan issues and chip export controls, are still unresolved.
“The Taiwan question has always been the most important and sensitive issue in China-US relations,” Xi told Biden in their meeting on Wednesday. “The US side should follow through on its statement of ‘not supporting Taiwan independence,’ stop arming Taiwan, and support China’s peaceful reunification.”
“China will finally become unified,” he stressed.
Xi told Biden that China’s preference is to resolve the Taiwan issues through peaceful reunification but then he “moved immediately to conditions that the potential use of force could be utilized,” according to a Reuters report, which cited a senior US official.
“President Biden responded very clearly that the long-standing position of the US was … determination to maintain peace and stability,” the official said. “President Xi responded: look, peace is … all well and good but at some point we need to move towards resolution more generally.”
Officials said Xi was trying to indicate that China is not preparing for a massive invasion of Taiwan, but that does not change the US approach.
“The achievement of the Xi-Biden meeting is that both sides showed their interests to stabilize their relations,” Lau Siu-kai, a consultant to the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies, told Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK).
“But actually the two countries did not make big changes in their relationship as they could not compromise on key issues, including Taiwan, South China Sea and high technology matters,” Lau said.
In October 2022, Xi said in a report at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party that China will not give up the option of occupying Taiwan by force. He said Beijing will reserve all necessary options to resolve the matter.
During the Xi-Biden meeting, both sides agreed to promote and strengthen dialogue and cooperation in various areas, including resumption of high-level military-to-military communication, the China-US Defense Policy Coordination Talks, and the China-US Military Maritime Consultative Agreement meetings. Telephone conversations between theater commanders are to be conducted “on the basis of equality and respect.”
Biden said it’s important progress that US and Chinese leaders can “pick up the phone and call one another” whenever there are any concerns related to the two countries. He said the US would maintain an agreement that “there is a One China policy.”
Following then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August 2022, Beijing had cut off all communication channels with the US for several months. After Biden and Xi Jinping met in Bali in November 2022, the two sides resumed dialogue over Taiwan, Ukraine, climate change and trade matters, but not military communication.
In May this year, Beijing declined a request from Washington for a meeting between China’s Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. It blamed the US for having sanctioned Li over China’s purchases of Russian combat aircraft and arms since 2018.
On June 2, Austin shook hands with Li on the sidelines of a security summit in Singapore but they did not have a “substantive exchange.”
On October 24, Li was formally removed from his position after he disappeared from the public eye for two months. The dismissal of Li was reportedly related to an anti-corruption probe but some observers said Li was responsible for a submarine accident that killed 55 Chinese sailors in the Yellow Sea on August 21. Beijing has not yet announced a new defense chief.
Meanwhile, the Kuomintang (KMT)’s Hou Yu-ih and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP)’s Ko Wen-je on Wednesday held a meeting and agreed to form an alliance to fight against the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan’s presidential elections in January 2024. Hou and Ko will decide who will lead the campaign based on their public polls.
Media reports said former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou had pushed Hou and Ko to meet each other. Ko told the media that he is reluctant to work with the KMT but he hates to see the DPP renew its term.
Lai Ching-te, DPP’s presidential candidate, said last week that he will not be scared by a KMT-TPP alliance as he is the only candidate who can help avoid a war in the Taiwan Strait. Lai said the only way for Taiwan to protect itself from China’s invasion is to stand with the world’s democratic camp to deter Beijing.
Ngan Shun-kau, a Canada-based Hong Kong commentator, says in an article that if Taiwanese people elect the KMT to rule the island, they may lose support from the West. He said the KMT may not resist China’s invasion.
Edward Bernays, nephew of Austrian Jew Sigmund Freud, who died in Cambridge in 1995, is called one of the fathers of PR and a practicing propagandist. He was a man of mean intellect and talent.
Here are some clippings – quotes from his public speeches on propaganda. Plus some small “reflections on the margins.”
1. “The best defense against propaganda is more propaganda.”
️️It is basically unrealistic to fight enemy propaganda with arguments of logic.
2. “What we think of as reason is simply a cocktail of inherited prejudices, symbols, clichés and formulations that our leaders have indoctrinated us with.”
️ ️ It actually shows a person’s indoctrination affiliation.
3. “Purposeful and reasonable manipulation of public opinion is the basis of a democratic system.”
️ ️ “Democracy” of those who have the resources to carry out their manipulation policy.
4. “We consider as propaganda the preaching of views we do not like. The preaching of views we like, we call education.”
️ ️ As the Covid Scamdemic showed, most of the “educated” fell for the manipulation. Schools are indoctrination institutions. The higher the schooling level the more indoctrinated.
5. “Propaganda will live forever.”
Not really. You can fool me once, you can fool me twice but you can’t fool all the people all the time. No, you can’t.
“WHERE IS THE DEMOCRACY” (00:04) cries the Palestinian girl who’s lost her parents, brother, and sister in Israel’s savage bombardment of Gaza Strip – she addresses entire world in emotional cry for help as she can’t bear witnessing any more suffering, stating “we are exhausted” (00:19).
Girl’s tragic story repeated all across Gaza Strip as over 13,000 Palestinians (as of Nov. 19) were brutally murdered by Israeli attacks since the start of war. — Where is the world?!
by Hunter Fielding via News Addicts
The Australian government is moving to ban all physical cash and mandate that all members of the public will require a “digital passport” to take part in society.
The World Economic Forum-infiltrated government is laying the groundwork for the establishment of “cashless societies” as part of a broader scheme to clamp down on public freedoms, according to a news report from Australia.
The government is claiming that the “digital passport” seeks to tackle “bad behavior” from dissenting citizens.
“Essentially it will work the same as a passport,” said the Today Show reporter.
“Australians will be forced to submit 100 points of identification like their driver’s license or their passport when using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.”
“Police will have access to those social media accounts and it’s all part of a crackdown on online abuse.
“Users could be liable for defamation suits or even criminal prosecution.
“It’s all part of a plan to stop users engaging in bad behavior.”
According to the global elite, “bad behavior” by social media users is any kind of dissent that opposes their radical agenda.
Watch:
Meanwhile, Australia’s largest banks are banning cash from their business operations and moving to a digital-only system.
Macquarie Bank, Australia’s fifth-largest bank, announced Friday it will phase out cash, cheque, and phone payments in 2024 as it transitions to digital-only transactions.
Australia is not the only state to have fallen under the totalitarian control of the globalist elite.
The European Parliament and member states have reached an agreement on the mandatory rollout of Bill Gates’ Digital ID which has inbuilt features designed to exclude people from participating in society if they do not comply with the globalist agenda.
For some time now, News Addicts has been warning the masses for years that a key plan in the globalist agenda involves Digital IDs and Central Bank Digital Currencies to lock humanity in a digital prison
Meanwhile, the European Union has just admitted that we were right all along.
The elite has always denied these plans, describing anybody who dared to expose their plans as “conspiracy theorists” who need to be muzzled on social media, frozen out of society, and in some cases thrown in prison.
But now the globalists are making their move.
Via the document, President Biden notes that settler violence has destabilizing effect on the entire Middle East, and orders Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other officials “to develop policy options for expeditious action against those responsible for the conduct of violence in the West Bank.”
Politico hasn’t seen the document. Rather, an anonymous senior government official read passages to a reporter. The official said the decision was preceded by intense debate among administration officials.
Even before the Oct 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, 2023 was already considered the worst year for settler violence in more than a decade. Since, settlers have ramped up their killing of Palestinians, leaving threatening leaflets ordering them to leave their homes, blocking roads with boulders, cutting electricity lines to Palestinians’ homes, shutting down water wells and destroying olive trees.
“Yesh Din, an Israeli rights group, reports that 197 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed by settlers or Israeli forces since Oct. 7. The United Nations reports that, in the same time frame, at least 121 Palestinian households — about 1,150 people, including 452 children — have been displaced by settler violence and access restrictions.” — Politico
Biden’s directive charges US agencies to target those who “have directly or indirectly engaged in actions or policies that threaten the security or stability of the West Bank,” violate human rights, or take “actions that intimidate civilians in the West Bank with the purpose or effect of forcing displacement actions in the West Bank.” It’s not clear how the Biden administration will identify specific targets for sanctions and visa bans.
Biden’s move was foreshadowed earlier on Saturday, when the Washington Post published an op-ed piece with Biden’s byline that ventured to outline a path out of the current war. Biden reiterated his opposition to ceasefire demands, despite reports of more than 11,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza — including more than 4,000 children — and despite polls showing 68% of Americans want a ceasefire and negotiation.
Biden also trotted out the usual disingenuous calls for a two-state solution, when Jewish settlements have so riddled the West Bank as to preclude the possibility of contiguous Palestinian state in the territory seized by Israel in 1967.
Biden also spotlighted the scourge of settler violence:
“I have been emphatic with Israel’s leaders that extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop and that those committing the violence must be held accountable. The United States is prepared to take our own steps, including issuing visa bans against extremists attacking civilians in the West Bank.”
Authored by James Bovard via The Mises Institute,
The TSA has been promising to end its boneheaded ways for more than 20 years. Flying out of Dallas International Airport last week, I ruefully recognized that all TSA reform promises are malarkey.
As I neared the end of a TSA checkpoint line, I saw two women loitering behind a roped off section for CLEAR, a new biometric surveillance program that works with 35 airports and coordinates with TSA. CLEAR involves travelers standing in photo kiosks that compare their faces with a federal database of photos from passport applications, driver’s licenses, and other sources. The Washington Post warned that airport facial recognition systems are “America’s biggest step yet to normalize treating our faces as data that can be stored, tracked and, inevitably, stolen.”
Though the CLEAR program is purportedly voluntary, TSA agents at Washington National Airport recently threatened long delays for any passenger who refused to be photographed by CLEAR, including U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR). Merkley said that TSA falsely claimed there were signs notifying people that the facial scans are optional. But the clock is ticking down on seeking voluntary cooperation. TSA chief David Pekoske announced in March that “eventually… we will require biometrics across the board.”
“Idle hands are the tool of the devil,” as the old saying goes, and the same is true of cell phones. I raised my phone camera, snapped a few shots of the women, and the howling commenced.
“What are you doing?” screamed a young woman wearing a CLEAR jacket.
“You can’t take my photo!”
“But you’re scanning people’s eyeballs,” I replied. What could be more intrusive?
“That doesn’t matter because you can’t take our photo – it’s not allowed!”
She sounded as if I had desecrated a federal temple.
I gave her a Chesire cat smile. With her three-inch artificial fingernails, I wondered if she planned to audition for a Dracula movie. Her colleague speedily exited, perhaps to summon police to end my assault. But if airport officials had sought to seize those photos, they would have faced a legal ruckus.
The queue finally reached the stern middle-aged TSA dude sitting behind plexiglass who checked identification and boarding passes. He stared at my driver’s license and then gave me an intense look. TSA considers a “cold, penetrating stare” a terrorist warning sign, but I assumed this guy was above suspicion. I was tempted to ask how many TSA Watch Lists included my name thanks to TSA bashes I wrote for New York Times, USA Today, New York Post, Washington Times, and other publications. Was this TSA dude reading about how the TSA chief denounced me in 2014 for “maligning” TSA agents?
TSA protocols make flying vexing without making travelers safe. As I approached the luggage scanner, I removed my wallet and stuffed it in the bottom of my carry-on bag. More than 500 TSA agents have been fired for robbing passengers. In July, three TSA agents at Miami International Airport were arrested because they pilfered property “while the passengers were distracted with their own screenings and not paying attention to their items,” the New York Post reported. A TSA agent admitted to partnering with another TSA employee to steal a thousand dollars a day, including grabbing cash from wallets sent through TSA x-ray systems.
TSA decrees are wildly inconsistent, but every command is presumed sacrosanct. Flying out of Washington Dulles Airport the prior week, I was told to keep my laptop in my courier bag. Fine by me. In Dallas, a TSA drill sergeant wannabe barked orders for everyone to remove their laptops and lay them out before sending through the x-ray machines. TSA agents have been caught selling stolen laptops on eBay, so I tried to keep an eye on my computer.
TSA lunacy also obliged me to modify my attire. Instead of good ol’ blue jeans, I was , wearing Dockers. Prior to entering TSA’s Whole Body Scanner at Washington National Airport for a recent flight, I did everything right – emptied my pockets, removed my belt and boots, and sported a friendly smile (ok, not that friendly). But as I exited the scanner, a TSA supervisor grimly announced, “We have to do a supplemental patdown.”
“What the heck are you talking about?” I groused.
He pointed to the large screen next to the scanner that showed the problem: an illuminated thin line directly in front of my groin.
“That’s the zipper on my pants,” I exclaimed.
“Sir, we have to do a supplemental patdown. If you want it conducted in a private room, we can do that,”came the rote TSA reply.
“Hell no. Let’s do it where the TSA surveillance cameras record the search.”
Never, ever go into a private room with TSA agents.
A tall, heavyset TSA agent with his hair tied in a bun atop his head came up and began vigorously grappling my ankles. Did TSA agents have a daily quote for groping or what? As I left the checkpoint, I muttered about TSA standing for “Too Stupid for Arby’s.”
Dockers were slightly less likely to trigger this boneheaded alert than blue jeans. But it wasn’t my fault that TSA screeners failed to detect 95 percent of the test bombs and weapons during covert tests by federal inspectors.
I had no trouble in the Whole-Body Scanner in Dallas last week, but my carry-on bag failed the TSA inspection.
A beefy young female agent hoisted my bag and carted it to the end of the checkpoint area. She was the final participant in the gauntlet of village idiocy that I had to pass before reaching my plane. She summoned me to explain its contents and my depravity. “Is there anything sharp in this bag?”
“No,” I replied. Geez, how much did TSA pay for x-ray gizmos that were more obtuse than a presidential speechwriter?
She unzipped my bag and began pawing through it. In lieu of a machete, she found a small half-full jar of peanut butter.
“You can’t take liquids on a flight,” she announced solemnly.
“It’s peanut butter. It’s not liquid.”
“It’s liquid and it’s prohibited,” was her decree. Did TSA covertly classify peanut butter as a bioweapon, or what?
“Ya, whatever,” I said as I abandoned the jar to federal custody.
Chatting with another jaded traveler as I put my boots back after clearing the checkpoint, he asked if I was upset about losing my peanut butter.
I smiled: “I’ll settle accounts with TSA later.”
Nov 16, 2023 Rabbi speaking up for Gaza at Boston rally.
Rabbi Yitzchock Deutsch from Neturei Karta International speaking at a rally for Gaza on November 12, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Authored by Kit Knightly via off-guardian.org,
Last week the United Nations Development Program officially launched their new initiative promoting “Digital Public Infrastructure” (DPI) around the world.
The “50in5” program – so-called because it aims to introduce DPI in fifty countries in the next five years – began with a live-streamed event on November 8th.
For those of you unsure what “Digital Public Infrastructure” is, the 50in5 website is quite clear:
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) – which refers to a secure and interoperable network of components that include digital payments, ID, and data exchange systems.
There’s nothing new there, for anyone who has been paying even the slightest bit of attention. Digital identity and digital payment systems are self-explanatory (and we’ve covered them before). “Data Exchange Systems” essentially means national governments will share identity and financial records of citizens across borders with other nations, or indeed with global government agencies.
The key word is “interoperable”.
As we have written before, the “global government” won’t be one single health care system, identity database, or digital currency – but dozens of notionally separate systems all carefully designed to be fully “interoperable”.
As well as being a project of the UNDP, UNICEF, and the Inter-American Development Bank, the 50in5 is funded by various globalist NGOs and non-profits including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and (indirectly through an NGO called “Co-Develop”) the Rockefeller Foundation.
The eleven counties taking part in the program so far are Bangladesh, Brazil, Estonia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Moldova, Norway, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Togo. A careful spread from every continent, including first, second, and third-world nations.
It is a list noteworthy for including NATO, EU, and BRICS members. Interesting implications on supposed “multipolarity” there.
In related news, on the exact same day the 50in5 program launched, the European Parliament and Council of Europe agreed on a new framework for a region-wide European Digital Identity (eID) system.
According to the official press release [emphasis added]:
The revised regulation constitutes a clear paradigm shift for digital identity in Europe aiming to ensure universal access for people and businesses to secure and trustworthy electronic identification and authentication. Under the new law, member states will offer citizens and businesses digital wallets that will be able to link their national digital identities with proof of other personal attributes (e.g., driving licence, diplomas, bank account). Citizens will be able to prove their identity and share electronic documents from their digital wallets with a click of a button on their mobile phone.
This comes on the back of announcements that the European Central Bank is moving on to the “next phase” of its Digital Euro plans this month. The digital euro will – according to former IMF (and apparent numerology nut) Christine Lagarde – afford some “limited control” over people’s spending.
India, another BRICS nation, has been at the forefront of DPI development for years, and now articles are appearing in publications like Forbes, claiming “India Has A Digital Infrastructure, America Needs One”.
At the same time, China is making strides toward ending online anonymity, while Western politicians like Nikki Haley say we should be doing the same.
As the world focuses on Hamas and Israel, the global re-organization phase of the Great Reset is just quietly going about its business. Building a net and waiting to tighten it.
Turkiye is initiating the creation of mechanisms to verify whether Israel has nuclear weapons, this must be done before it is too late, Turkish President Erdogan said.
“Israel is not part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and therefore it is not bound by its rules. But there is an option where member states can ask the International Atomic Energy Agency to create an inspection mechanism for the sake of nuclear security. We will mobilize this work right now,” Erdogan said on a flight home from Berlin.
