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    Seems to be a malfunction with some of the equipment:


    Quote Channel 14 reported that the US THAAD missile defense system failed—for the second time in a week—to intercept the missile launched from Yemen.

    The Israeli Arrow (Hetz) system reportedly succeeded in downing it. The incident has raised serious questions about the reliability of US defense support in the region.

    Former Israeli War Minister Avigdor Lieberman expressed disbelief at the situation, stating, “It’s unbelievable that after a year and seven months of war, millions of Israelis are still running to shelters.”

    Yes, it's unbelievable that a place would be able to perpetrate these acts and still assume multiple daily casual flights from Germany.

    I'm not even sure Yemen has damaged much of anything, since the known hits have been "in the vicinity of" but not actually *on* anything significant. They say they do. I think there would be more leaks if it did. So, yeah, it's the "shelters" thing and the overall economic disruption that are more at play than physical attrition.

    I don't know if the "Arrow" really worked or not, but I would tend to believe THAAD is relatively ineffective in the scenario.

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    The British press recently ran another of those false-flag preparatory headlines bringing to mind what the former intelligence operative Annie Machon shone some light on many years ago particularly with reference to UK homeland events - her 2006 Chicago presentation as a part of the 911Truth series here in the library for anyone interested (starts at 06:15). Note: her reference to section G9-B as it was called back then which was focused on Iranian activity, and the subsequent false-flag that occurred shortly thereafter (at around 28:10). One may skip to the Craig Murray article immediately below and skip back if one has time:



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    "You have to ask, “cui bono?”. Iran has shown tremendous restraint in avoiding being dragged into a wide war over Gaza in face of continued attacks, and is in the midst of a tense negotiating process over its nuclear programme. The idea that, at this moment, it would attack the Israeli Embassy in London is crazed.

    However, the narrative very strongly serves the UK interest, as support for the Genocide in Gaza dwindles further, especially among Labour Party supporters, and of course such an attack, or even the allegation of a planned attack, also boosts the perpetual Israeli narrative of victimhood. MI5’s arrangement of this fake plot now is totally predictable; in fact I have been predicting false-flag operations since the genocide started."
    - Craig Murray

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    MI5’s Fake Terror Plots
    Author: Craig Murray
    Date: May 10, 2025
    Back in the “War on Terror” days, the UK security services fabricated multiple fake terror plots. There was, for example, the 2009 Easter Bomb Plot in Manchester, taking entire front pages of newspapers. Gordon Brown as PM hyped it as a “very big terror plot”. It was a total fabrication, nobody was convicted and it eventually emerged that the trumpeted “bomb-making ingredient” the police confiscated from kitchens was sugar – in normal quantities.

    The Great Ricin Plot in in 2003 was again kitchen obsessed, and the media that ran screaming headlines about the discovery of ricin did not bother to later report that the amounts the police announced they had discovered turned out to be the almost undetectable trace which might be found in any kitchen.

    The propaganda was the purpose, all ramping up Islamophobia to justify the Western destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. When the Manchester Arena attack eventually did happen, it turned out that MI5 had been the perpetrator’s sponsor and he and his father had been ferried from Libya by the British armed forces. Sponsorship of terrorism abroad is always likely to result in blowback at home.

    The propaganda is now being ramped up again to promote the Islamophobia intended to drive public support in the UK for the Genocide in Gaza and a forthcoming attack on Iran.

    MI5 Head Ken McCallum is arguably the most prolific and sustained liar in the history of the UK public service. He has not yet generated the deaths with his lies that Alistair Campbell caused, but give McCallum time for his Goebbels-like repetition to pay off. McCallum has a much more compliant media landscape to work with than existed a quarter of a century before.

    I have to remind myself that my continued outrage at the destruction of millions of very real and ordinary people in the Middle East from 2003 onwards, to secure hydrocarbons for rich and evil men and based on total lies about Iraqi weapons, is something extremely vivid and fundamental to me, but the average university student was not even born at the time.

    The myth of a “good” West continually self-propagates. The media distracts and obfuscates in a constant and prolonged process of attrition of the truth; it is tempting to believe that the Genocide in Gaza has awoken a public consciousness which may be a historic break of the system. But it is already becoming harder to access true news from Gaza. Fewer images are available as the murder of countless citizen journalists and the throttling of internet in Gaza takes effect.

    Social media suppression of the reach of pro-Palestinian accounts and massive boosting of Zionist accounts are reinforced by systematic state persecution of pro-Palestinian voices.

    Even as Israeli ministers openly proclaim their Genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, European ministers continue to deny it. I am reminded of Harold Pinter’s great acceptance speech for his Nobel prize, speaking in particular of the lies and atrocities of the Iraq War:
    This is the reality of power. Power does not have to justify itself. Power does what it wants, and the rest of the world is expected to accept it. But there is another reality, one that is rarely reported.

    The reality of resistance. The reality of people who refuse to accept the lies, who refuse to be silenced. In every country where the United States has intervened, there have been people who fought back – not just with weapons, but with words, with ideas, with courage.

    These voices are often ignored by the Western media, which prefers to focus on the narrative of American benevolence. But they exist, and they are growing. From Latin America to the Middle East, people are standing up to imperialism, to exploitation, to lies.
    We are still standing up, but the lies keep coming, the exploitation keeps coming and the murder keeps coming.

    Now let us return on to the arch-propagandist Ken McCallum and his latest invented plot. This is a biggie – the largest state-promoted terrorism scare for twenty years.

    (refer to Richard Sanders X post image embedded above - TQ)

    As usual, there is not any actual evidence. This straight propaganda piece from the Guardian accidentally makes that plain:



    Of course, the weapons the police are searching for may yet magically turn up under the bed. I recall the search of Charlie Rowley’s house after the death of poor Dawn Sturgess. The police searched the home for five days, looking for a small phial of liquid, with no luck. Then it amazingly turned out that the perfume bottle had been sitting in plain sight on the kitchen counter all along!

    That perfume bottle obviously had miraculous qualities and could materialise and dematerialise at will, because it had also sat undetected inside a regularly emptied charities’ donation bin for over three months. I suppose an RPG may yet materialise under the settee in the current search; when the British police and security services are involved, the laws of physics are frequently suspended.

    As usual, Ken McCallum’s “five plots” last year had not resulted in any convictions, or indeed evidence, and in fact the claim was modest for McCallum – who has claimed that MI5 had foiled “twenty plots” since 2022. Even that was not his record.

    McCallum reminds me of the man walking around St. James’ Park scattering rubber bands “to keep the elephants away”. When told there are no elephants, he stated “See, it works, doesn’t it?” McCallum has kept vast amounts of Iranian terrorism at bay in a similar fashion.

    But, unusually, in 2023 one of McCallum’s fictional “Iranian plots” did result in an actual conviction, and I would like you to look at this one as a window into the twisted psyche of the security services.

    In a crowded field, Iran International is probably the world’s dodgiest media channel. A Saudi Arabian-funded niche Farsi language operation, it caters to those Iranians who support Israel, support the restoration of a Shah and support Saudi Arabia.

    As I said, it is very niche.

    Yet this tiny media operation was set up with a Saudi investment of a quarter of a billion dollars. Yes, you did read that properly, 250 million dollars. Just where all that money really went is an interesting question. There have been persistent rumours of money laundering and of ties to Eastern-European-organised crime.

    There was a brief period, after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, when the UK media would print disobliging things about the Saudis. In that short window, this article appeared in the Guardian.



    Iran International, perhaps unsurprisingly, specifically supports a Sunni Arab terrorist organisation operating within Iran: the “Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz” – ASMLA. This is a Sunni ethno-nationalist group conducting armed struggle for the secession of certain Arab districts of southern Iran from the predominantly Persian and Shia state.

    ASMLA has exactly the same covert backers as HTS in Syria: namely, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, Israel, and Western security services.

    In September 2018 ASMLA carried out an attack in Ahvaz which killed over 60 people (ISIS also claimed the attack, but the two organisations are linked). Iran International carried an interview with an ASMLA spokesman which very definitely supported ASMLA, and where he insisted on ASMLA’s right to armed resistance and specifically claimed responsibility for the attack as a victory.

    In an era where Western activists are routinely arrested for supporting “terrorism” if they oppose the Gaza genocide, you might imagine that this would be an offence by Iran International. But supporting Western- and Saudi-backed terrorists is not only tolerated, it is official British government policy, and in response to complaints OFCOM found that Iran International were entitled to interview the advocate of the right sort of terrorism.

    So how does this relate to the single conviction from all of Ken McCallum’s alleged terrorist plots?

    Somebody from Iran International has been convicted of glorifying terrorism, right?

    Don’t be silly. Iran International is pro-Saudi and pro-Israeli, and in December 2023 it opened a second HQ in Washington DC with additional CIA funding. Remember they are on the same side as HTS. Iran International are the “victims of terrorism” here.

    The conviction under the Terrorism Act was for taking photographs of the Iran International HQ building in Chiswick.

    In December 2023 Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, a Chechen with Austrian citizenship, was sentenced to three and a half years in jail for photographing Iran International HQ in Chiswick, which was deemed to be in preparation for a terrorism offence.

    The prosecution case was specifically that Dovtaev was operating on behalf of the Iranian Government.

    This is the important bit. No evidence of any kind was presented in court of connections between Dovtaev and Iran. There was nothing on his phone and nothing from surveillance. He had not spoken to any Iranians or mentioned Iran.

    The prosecution argued – and I kid you not – that Dovtaev was Chechen, which is in Russia, which is geopolitically allied to Iran, and therefore he was probably acting on behalf of Iran. That was it. It really, really was.

    This ultra circumstantial argument is a reach enough anyway, but ignores several individual factors.

    Dovtaev is a Sunni, therefore not aligned to Iran. He is definitely not one of those Chechens allied to Russia. His family arrived in Austria as refugees from the Chechen war of Independence and he is an anti-Russian Chechen nationalist and an Austrian citizen. He was actually wearing Chechen Independence gear when caught photographing the building.

    The prosecution argument, that Dovtaev must be working for Iran because of Russia’s links to Iran, is therefore complete and utter nonsense. But it fits the official anti-Iranian narrative we are being force-fed. And it was rammed down the throats of the jury.

    I might add that the evidence that Dovtaev was indeed casing the joint for some ulterior purpose was very strong, and I do not doubt it. But there was no evidence of any kind that it was for Iran, or for terrorism, as the prosecution alleged. The judgment is not published, which is why I do not link it.

    That is the one conviction for Iranian terrorism for all McCallum’s false claims – and no connection at all to Iran was shown.

    Which leads me to the only other actual arrest – though not yet conviction, until this week – in all of McCallum’s so-called Iranian terrorist plots. Two young Romanians were extradited from Bucharest to London for stabbing in the leg an employee of … you guessed it, Iran International.

    Nandito Badea, age 19 and George Stana age 23 were arrested for stabbing in London the Iran International presenter Mr Pouria Zerati. The assault was captured on CCTV.

    Now, you might remember that I said at the beginning that there are alleged links between the dodgy finances of Iran International and Eastern-European-organised crime? Well, the story reported from Bucharest is that the defendants admit to the stabbing but say it was a warning with regard to a business debt. Which, when you think about it, makes far more sense. The CCTV shows that the attackers could have killed the victim, but stabbed him in the leg instead. That is a gangland warning, not a state operation.

    The notion that Iran is hiring random teenage Romanians to slightly wound people is a nonsense. Furthermore, does not the “business dispute” narrative make infinitely more sense in the case of Dovtaev, who had no links to Iran? The gangster scenario would fully explain why he would keep his lips firmly sealed about who really hired him and what he was doing, even at the cost of a harsher “terrorism” sentence.

    So that is all the concrete evidence, or lack of it, in existence about McCallum’s multiple Iranian terrorist plots. This is now, of course, augmented by this new screamed narrative about a planned Iranian attack on the Israeli Embassy in London.

    As the Gaza genocide proceeds, you could write a long essay about the ethics of attacking an Israeli Embassy (and Israel has not shown restraint in attacking other nations’ diplomatic premises, but I shall let that pass as not relevant to the current case).

    You have to ask, “cui bono?”. Iran has shown tremendous restraint in avoiding being dragged into a wide war over Gaza in face of continued attacks, and is in the midst of a tense negotiating process over its nuclear programme. The idea that, at this moment, it would attack the Israeli Embassy in London is crazed.

    However, the narrative very strongly serves the UK interest, as support for the Genocide in Gaza dwindles further, especially among Labour Party supporters, and of course such an attack, or even the allegation of a planned attack, also boosts the perpetual Israeli narrative of victimhood. MI5’s arrangement of this fake plot now is totally predictable; in fact I have been predicting false-flag operations since the genocide started.

    My guess is that there is probably an agent provocateur operation at the base of this, where some poor young men have been entrapped into agreeing with wild statements or a fantasy plan. Alternatively, as usual it will prove to be a complete propaganda invention to influence public opinion at a key moment.

    It is worth noting that the United States has this last few days currently concentrated four B-52 and six B-2 bombers on Diego Garcia. This is an extremely rare concentration and indicates preparedness for a major operation; Iran is the most likely target. This kind of force is very much greater than anything deployed against Yemen to date. This anti-Iranian propaganda is not being ramped up right now to no purpose.

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    🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel's Foreign Minister threatens those who recognize a Palestinian state

    Ahead of US President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar this week, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar notes that “there have been talks about an initiative to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state,” and warns that “such initiatives are not constructive, but counterproductive.”

    “They will only serve as a prize for Hamas’s terror,” he says during a press conference with his German counterpart in Jerusalem.

    He adds that any attempt to unilaterally recognize Palestinian statehood “will only harm future prospects for a bilateral process – and will push us to unilateral actions in response.”

    https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1922100080842309698

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    Is this US???? Krystal discusses Hasan being detained and interrogated by CBP at the airport.

    Hasan Piker INTERROGATED At Airport Over Israel Criticism


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    From the substack of Alexandra Bruce


    Donald Trump to Announce US Recognizes Palestinian State, Gulf Diplomatic Source Claims
    Forbidden.News - May 13, 2025

    "WITHIN 48 HOURS, WE WENT FROM THE MOST PRO-ISRAEL PRESIDENT TO THE MOST PRO-ARAB PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME"





    On May 10th, The Jerusalem Post reported that President Trump would announce that the US recognizes the Palestinian State during the Gulf Summit being held this week, for which the President boarded Air Force One on Monday evening to Saudi Arabia.

    The Jerusalem Post's headline was altered since its initial publication, which is seen in the background of this TikTok video posted by Ethan Bates, aka @ethanlevinscz.



    The original headline was changed from: "Donald Trump to Announce US Recognizes Palestinian State, Gulf Diplomatic Source Claims" to: "Gulf Diplomatic Sources Debate if Trump Will Announce US Recognition of Palestinian State".



    Is this why Qatar offered to loan their luxury 747 to Donald Trump, as an alternate aircraft to the 40+-year-old Air Force One after Boeing has stalled on their delivery of the replacement plane commissioned by Trump several years ago?



    Is this why the new President of Syria is calling for the construction of a "Trump Tower" in Damascus, a city bombed repeatedly by Israel in recent months?

    Ethan Bates says, "Trump is going to recognize Palestine. Essentially, a complete 360 twist on our views in the Middle East. Within 48 hours, we went from the most pro-Israel president to the most pro-Arab president of all time."

    If so, what will become of the right wingers, who have endlessly complained about Trump's "Make Israel Great Again" policy? What will become of the left wingers, who have endlessly rioted across the US?




    Talk about flipping the script. Talk about "Saving Israel for last"!





    TRANSCRIPT

    Ethan Bates:
    As a part of the Saudi deal, Trump will be recognizing the state of Palestine. Yes, this is real life.

    A day after cutting ties with Israel, a diplomat close to President Trump has come out and said that he's planning on recognizing the Palestinian State, all to further his agenda of peace in the region.

    It all started with Trump's deals with Saudi Arabia, when Israel was demanding the Saudis recognize them as a country during the US-Saudi negotiations. This is when Trump essentially called Netanyahu and said, "Why are you involved in this?"

    We don't know what Netanyahu said back to the President, but we know after that phone call, communications were cut, ties were cut, and even Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense canceled his trip to Israel.

    Israel then responded saying they're going to "Defend themselves alone in the region".

    And then now today, 24 hours after all of that, Trump is going to recognize Palestine. Essentially a complete 360 twist on our views in the Middle East. Within 48 hours, we went from the most pro-Israel president to the most pro-Arab president of all time.


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    🇺🇸🤥🇺🇸Trump never fought al- Quaeda

    https://x.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1922575733240529215



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    Who could have predicted that a US president, a convicted felon, standing side by side with a prince, who ordered the killing & chopping of body parts of a journalist, and a renowned Syrian Terrorist leader.

    The world is indeed changing.
    America can no longer preach to anyone.

    https://x.com/cecild84/status/1922608379295396223



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    How is this even happening?

    I don't care where anyone is geopolitically but standing next to a terrorist who was well known in Al Qaeda for chopping off heads.

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    Strange wire today:


    Trump: I told US companies I want cheap drones like Iran’s—they’re very good, fast, lethal, and terrifying



    We can't make anything cheap. The cost of living has priced us beyond anything reasonable. That's aside from any need of using imported stuff to make it. What do we need a lethal drone fleet for? To go along with our new thermonuclear bombs?? What kind of extravagant waste is this?

    So much savings to be had, by drawing down the military and ending foreign interference, and, let's say, reducing the cost of living. But, there's weapons that haven't been made yet...

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    What is happening in Gaza.. is a shame for humanity, that tolerates this genocide... it is also a shame for our civilization... lately .. you even can not mention the word genocide in this context..

    Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 84 as ceasefire talks continue



    More than 100 people killed in Gaza in past 24 hours | BBC News

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    The wife of Qatar’s Emir was quite touchy-feely with Elon Musk.

    Scandal of the day in the #MiddleEast

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