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February 20, 2025

Hearing Elons dad describe how when he sent money from South Africa to America, it had to be laundered through Israel for a 25% fee, is the most Jewish thing I’ve heard today. https://x.com/Uncommonsince76/status/1892090550628548906

World War Now:
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Large-scale build-up of Ukrainian forces in northern Sumy, Ukraine.

Russian sources believe Ukraine could launch an offensive into Russia's Bryansk region. They observe a massive increase in Ukrainian movement and radio communications in northern Sumy region, near Bryansk's border.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- One of Iran's largest and most right-wing outlet, Jomhouri-e Eslami, believes the US-Russia talks could lead to 'Russia sacrificing Iran's interests to get US concessions in Ukraine war'.

The outlet's publishers are directly appointed by Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "We warn the Iranian authorities that Moscow may sacrifice Iranian interests in exchange for concessions from Washington over the Ukraine conflict.

Iran will be drawn into this equation alongside Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Palestine… and Russia will turn a blind eye to any actions the United States may take against Iran.

Russia has failed to support Iranian forces in Syria in the past when Israeli jets targeted their positions and has collaborated with the US and Israel against Iran’s ally, Bashar al-Assad. Russia has in the past prevented the transfer of arms to Hezbollah through Syria." - Jomhouri-e Eslami.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "I believe that this year we will reach a ceasefire. How long and effective it will be is another question," - Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine's Military Intelligence (GUR).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Believe me, neither the Russians nor we will be able to come up with anything radically new and large-scale. Everything has already been worked out [on the front-line]" - Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine's Military Intelligence (GUR).

🇷🇺📞🕎 — Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russian Jewish community leaders and passes the best wishes to Russian-Israeli hostage released last week.

➡️ It comes after Hamas militants released a, Mr. Alexander Troufanov a 29-year-old citizen of Israel and Russia, Sagui Dekel-Chen, a 36-year-old citizen of Israel and the United States and Iair Horn, a 46-year-old citizen of Israel and Argentina, which were taken as hostages after being kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorists from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, 2023.

Jewish leader to Putin:
'We say anyone who saves a life is as if he saved an entire world'

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "US President Trump told his consultants in his reaction to seeing the humiliating return of the bodies of Israeli hostages: I want to see Gaza destroyed, and I do not want to see even one existing building," - Channel 14.

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡- Georgia withdraws from the '3+3 Format', with the ruling party, Georgian Dream, saying they will 'not sit at any negotiating table' as long as 'Russia occupies their lands'.

The '3+3 Format' is a Caucasian regional cooperation platform which includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran and Russia.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡ - The United States has ceased the sale of weapons to Ukraine, according to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada's Defense Committee.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Two buses exploded in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, Israel. No casualties reported.

🇮🇱⚡- The bombs were supposed to have detonated tomorrow morning, when full off passengers, according to Israeli security forces.

🇵🇸🇵🇸❌🇮🇱❗️ — Al-Qassam Brigades - Tulkarm Battalion claims responsibility for the Terror attacks in Tel Aviv!

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Prime Minister Netanyahu sees the extreme severity of the incident of implanting explosive devices on buses, and will be directed to implement strict measures against the armed authorities in the West Bank," - Netanyahu's Press Office.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "We demand the expansion of military operations in the West Bank and the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over it," - Israel's West Bank Speaker.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against Homs, Syria.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸❗️ | Yedioth Ahronoth:
The Israeli army withdraws forces from Tulkarm Refugee camp to prepare for a possible operation in the Gaza Strip in the event of the collapse of the ceasefire agreement.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "An offensive operation against terrorist infrastructures in Judea and Samaria [West Bank] is expected. It is possible that the mega-attack that was prevented tonight changed the order of priorities, first Judea and Samaria [West Bank], and then Gaza," - Yair Altman, Channel 14 military journalist.

The #ECB has recorded the biggest loss in its 25y history. This is the result of its aggressive policy responses to Eurozone crises & surging inflation—1st buying large amounts of bonds & then sharply raising interest rates. As a result, ECB is earning less interest from the bonds it holds than it has to pay to banks for their deposits. https://x.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1892622639392260215
The ECB is performing badly because of climate change. Allegedly. https://x.com/mista98berk/status/1892630632733274416

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Monday Night At The Movies

Please choose which one of the following 8 movies you would like to have screened next Monday, Feb. 24. The theme is "cinema and business."

Please continue to vote after Feb. 24, so that we can determine the runner-up. The runner-up will be screened on March 3.

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸— Earlier today, Palestinian channels claimed Israel dropped these leaflets on Gaza, after the Parade with the coffins of Bibas kids

“To the honorable people of Gaza:

After the events that have transpired, the temporary ceasefire, and before the implementation of Trump’s mandatory plan—which will impose forced displacement on you whether you like it or not—we have decided to address you with a final appeal. To anyone willing to accept our assistance in exchange for helping us, we will not hesitate for a moment to provide aid.

Reconsider your calculations:

The world map will not change if all the people of Gaza disappear from existence.

No one will feel your absence, nor will anyone ask about you.

You are left alone with your inevitable fate.

Iran cannot protect itself, let alone protect you—and you have seen with your own eyes what happened.

Neither America nor Europe cares about Gaza, nor do your Arab nations, which are now our allies, supplying us ...

18 hours ago

https://www.rt.com/russia/613084-zelensky-fooled-trump-rare-minerals/

Of course he did and Trump and envoy took it hook, line and sinker!

January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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