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Israel Launches Preemptive Strike on Hezbollah Before Major Terror Attack


The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced early Sunday morning local time that it had launched a preemptive strike on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon to thwart a major imminent attack by the Iran-backed terror group.

Residents of northern Israel were advised to enter bomb shelters and “safe rooms” in their homes in anticipation of a response by Hezbollah. Israel’s missile defense system, notably the Iron Dome, was said to be intercepting rockets.

Israel’s Army Radio reported that residents were being advised to take shelter even in cities relatively far from the northern border, such as the port city of Haifa, which is in the north of the country but typically safe from rockets.

The Home Front Command prohibited public gatherings of over 130 people, from the Tel Aviv region northwards.

In a statement in Hebrew, IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that the military had detected that Hezbollah was about to fire a large barrage of rockets and missiles into Israel. Therefore, he said, the Israel Air Force (IAF) had taken preemptive action. A response was expected from Hezbollah, and therefore he said that residents of the north should enter safe rooms for at least ten minutes. He stressed that Israel’s defenses were “not hermetic.”

Israel’s Army Radio reported that Hezbollah acknowledged that it had been about to attack, but claimed that it had, in fact, done so, prior to the Israeli airstrikes.

A more comprehensive briefing was expected.

Update: Hagari said in a public statement that the IDF would attackHezbollah “throughout Lebanon,” not just in the south as necessary. He repeated the restrictions on public gathering, and added that the Home Front Command had said people should not go to work in the northern region if they were far from a bomb shelter. “The defense is not hermetic, and therefore you should continue to listen to instructions from the Home Front Command,” he said.

Hagari concluded by saying that the IDF would do whatever was necessary to defend the citizens of Israel.

He added that Ben-Gurion airport had been closed but would reopen at 7 a.m. local time. He said that it would close again if necessary.

Asked whether the U.S. had provided intelligence that led to the preemptive strike, Hagari did not answer directly but said that Israel was cooperating with the U.S., and noted the arrival in the region Saturday of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman U.S. Air Force General Charles Q. Brown.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he would convene his security cabinet at the “Kirya,” the main IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, at 7:00 a.m. Defense minister Yoav Gallant said that he had spoken with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and agreed on the need to avoid a broader regional escalation (presumably, involving Iran.)

This story is developing.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of “”The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days,” available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of “The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency,” now available on Audible. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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Fascism 2.0 – Globalism & The Subjects Of Interest
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Fascism 2.0 – Globalism & The Subjects Of Interest

Authored by Paul Lancefield via Off-Guardian.org,

This is Part 2 of Paul’s “Fascism 2.0” series, part one can be read HERE.

In this second article in a series of three, I’m going to set the developments we have seen regarding Social Media censorship in the context of globalist power structures and suggest there is growing evidence the narrative manipulation we information consumers have been witnessing is in service to a globalist cause.

It’s important, I think, when having this kind of a discussion, to avoid falling into the trap of talking about a conspiratorial nebulous “they” without adequately defining who “they” are because such thinking leads to imprecise and ill justified reasoning and can, quite rightly, lead to the accusation of conspiracy theory style thinking. So I will define exactly what I mean by globalism and globalists. Your own definition may differ, but this is what I mean.

Globalists possess extreme wealth, typically in the billions, and can live anywhere in the world they choose. They have diversified international business interests, often shared with other globalists, and frequently receive invitations to events like Davos from the WEF.

The people we are speaking of inhabit a rarified and incestuously small community. Additionally with the arrival of the Internet, Globalism has been transformed, with the opportunity for ad-hoc co-opting of the powerful greatly enhanced. As the world has shrunk, the most influential power brokers have drawn closer together, breaking down barriers of geography and physical location.

Globalists are in the enviable position that they, unlike the common citizen, are able to leverage tax and legislative competition between countries. So for example Ireland’s GDP leapt after Ireland in 2003 quite deliberately introduced the EUs most competitive corporation tax rate (12.5%). The influx of tech businesses to Dublin brought an immense boost to the Irish economy and boosted Irish GDP to enviable levels. Globalists can pick and choose where they do business.

Now we know who Globalists are, I’m going to provide a particular definition of Globalism distinct from the old-world brochure-wear version: The old version runs something like this: Globalism is the activity of engaging in Economic Integration, Cultural Exchange, Multilateral Cooperation, Migration and Mobility policy making and Technology and Information exchange. And it is true it does involve these things, but in my opinion, the more revealing way to view globalism is by looking at the subjects and policy areas in which Globalists show greatest interest. And those are:

  • Environment: Man-Made Global warming

  • Global Health Security (World Health)

  • Banking and International Finance

  • Central Banking Digital Currency and Digital Identity

  • Regional economic development

  • Defence (arms manufacture and supply)

  • Population and migration

We know these interests because the WEF website and agenda over the years, has revealed them to us, over and over. Look carefully at this list. Do you notice a common thread?

One consequence of the pandemic period was that people began to wake-up to the fact government policy can be implemented at the drop of a hat that will hand billions trillions of dollars to corporations owned by those who are already the wealthiest in the world. Through pandemic policy, the extent of the handover was so fast, so brazen, so deeply affecting of our lives, it could hardly be missed.

According to a report by Oxfam, during the pandemic, the world’s wealthiest individuals saw their fortunes rise dramatically, with the ten richest men doubling their wealth from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. This surge highlights a broader trend where the wealthiest 1% gained $1.4 trillion.

Meanwhile, the world’s poor and middle classes, including small and medium-sized businesses, collectively lost around $1.3 trillion due to economic disruptions.

Just consider the local shops people were no longer visiting during lockdown. Instead, of course, they were buying from Amazon.

And pharmaceutical firm revenues were also a part of the redistribution. The revenues, all mandated by government, were mind boggling (even where there were no government mandates and private healthcare, the vaccines were purchased with tax money). Pfizer alone saw revenues of over $150 billion through government vaccine and other mandated pharmaceuticals purchase. And now people are increasingly aware this was off the back of the products that were always unsafe, ineffective and rushed to market.

Text messages between EU Commission President, Ursula Von Der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, reveal in secret Von Der Leyen agreed to purchase 4.6 billion doses of the Pfizer, vaccine, or ten shots shots per man woman and child living in the EU. Ten!

To some it has become clear, at best, it can be said that for Pfizer, safety took a second seat to a money grab of epic scale. To others, they are corporate psychopaths of the highest order. And Pfizer, we should not forget, have been subject to the second largest corporate fine – $2.3 billion – for criminal malfeasance ever paid in the pharmaceutical industry. Further during Covid, together with the CDC, Pfizer attempted to use the courts, to hide the vaccine trial data for 75 years. Re-analysis of their own trial data (only possible because they failed in their attempt to hide it) has since shown the vaccines were never safe.

Through these recent events (and helpfully nudged along by podcasters like Joe Rogan and Russel Brand), many have begun to wake-up to how the globalist money-grab works and how it has been operating similarly, if less obviously, across a number of sectors for years.

The common thread in these globalist topics is that each represents a vast, policy-driven market worth billions or trillions.

In the brochure-ware version of the list, each of these subject areas involves moral imperatives. The moral imperatives dictate that the actions and policies implemented by governments around the world, are important to ease fulfilment of virtuous objectives (like preventing global warming).

In practice, like with the vaccines during the pandemic, the value of these policy endowments to global business is so vast that the likelihood of avarice and self-interest cannot be ignored – indeed, I would argue, it becomes inevitable.

The scale of these policy-driven markets is so vast, it’s difficult to fully grasp in a single article. The many ways in which they take money from you and me without the policies first having been produced through a clear democratic process are legion. When you start to break it down, the “scam” is so vast, it’s difficult to grasp it all. So I won’t try to do that in a single article.

Instead I will point to one company which also ties-up an important point I want to make about the nature of globalist finance. Globalists cross-invest. When people become that wealthy, though they usually made the bulk of their money from one sector, they quickly start to diversify.

Cash is for ad-hoc spending and is only ever a tiny fraction of asset value. Cash loses out on interest payments. Investment asset value in multi-billions is almost always represented by shares in business interests or funds, essentially less liquid financial instruments than cash.

So almost by definition when you have billions, you have investments in many things. And what you have invested in will overlap with the investments of other globalist billionaires. Through hedging, you end up owning a little bit of pretty much everything out there that is significantly profitable, and there will be a special focus on business in those preferred policy driven sectors I listed above because, as I have indicated, the revenues there can be assured; the playing field tilted.

The important point to understand is that as well as spreading the risk, the number of areas in which you have an interest is multiplied and, just as importantly, the number of globalist billionaires with whom you share an interest is also increased. The result is a highly diversified, ultra powerful financial unit (a cabal if you like) who hold in common to a massive degree, interest in lobbying for broadly the same policies and ensuring they are applied in the broadly the same policy-driven markets.

And if you want a good example of kind just how diverse these investments get, you only need to look at the worlds largest fund management company, Blackrock.

Fortunately for us, a Blackrock executive recently committed to video insight into how the system works. He didn’t mean to. It was a sting. But the video is fascinating. Additionally presidential candidate RFK Jr has also given some great video summary overviews of how the system works.

So first, let’s examine the video of Blackrock executive Serge Varlay.

In it we are informed, “Blackrock manages $20 trillion in asset value, it’s incomprehensible numbers. […] All of this is beyond an normal persons understanding.”

Well I have news for Mr Varlay. No it isn’t. For many of us it stands out like a flashing red-light. But I accept it may be the case that most people are not aware of what Varlay has to say.

“How do they run the world?” The undercover interviewer asks (who Serge seems to be under the impression is a date).

“You acquire stuff. You diversify. You acquire, you keep acquiring. You spend whatever you make in acquiring more. And at a certain point your risk level is super low. Imagine you’ve invested in 10 different industries from food to drinks to technology. If one of them fails it doesn’t matter, you have nine others to back you up. The risk money is inherently in just about everything.

You own a little bit of everything, and that little bit of everything gives you so much money on a yearly basis, that you can take this big f**k-ton of money, and then you can start to buy people.”

“It’s not the president,” he says, presumably referring to who they own, though on this point weather he is talking literally or illustratively on this point is unfortunately not made clear, “it’s who is controlling the wallet of the President.”

And on campaign financing we are told, “Yes you can buy your candidates. First there’s the Senators. These guys are f**king cheap. For $10 grand you can buy a Senator. I could give you [meaning a senator] like $500k right now, no questions asked. Are you gonna do what needs to be done?”

The interviewer asks “Does everybody do that? Does Blackrock do that?”

“Everybody does that. […] The hedge funds, Blackrock, the banks. These guys run the world.”

“It doesn’t matter who wins. They are in my pocket at this point.”

The (presumably hot) date then asks, “Do you have any thoughts on the Ukraine Russia War?”

Ukraine is good for business. You know that right. I’ll give an example. Russia blows up Ukraine’s grain silos. The price of wheat is going to go mad up. The Ukrainian economy is tied very largely to the global Wheat market; price of bread, you know, literally everything, goes up and down. This is fantastic if you’re trading. The volatility creates opportunity to make profit. War is real f**king good for business.”

This last point, we should note, applies equally to all the wars waged by the West for the last 23 years (and more) and backs up the claims by presidential candidate RFK Jr that elements of the US establishment are incentivised to commit the West to a policy of assured “forever-wars” for financial gain. Remember the thread connecting the list of Globalist interests above. The revenues are policy driven. This is not a free market.

In another online video presidential candidate RFK Jr sums up how effectively Blackrock “launder” money.

“The entire budget for EPA is $12 billion. That’s all we have for the environment in this country. We are giving 12 times that to Ukraine in one year and that’s just the beginning because even if the Ukraine war ended today we’re still going to spend half a trillion there rebuilding the country. The contracts to rebuild the country are even bigger than the war contracts.

So [Senator] Mitch McConnell was asked in March, because the Republicans are supposed to be concerned about budget deficit, ‘can we really afford 113 billion’ he was asked, he said ‘Don’t worry. It’s not really going to Ukraine. It’s going to US military contractors so it’s good for our country.’

He just admitted exactly what we’ve all been saying. It’s all just a money laundering scheme by Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing and Lockheed. Who do you think owns every one of those companies?

Blackrock.”

These videos offer critical insights and are essential viewing for anyone seeking to understand the depth of globalist influence.

There is so much to talk about in relation to policy driven markets and we haven’t even begun to look at climate change and the 2030 agenda which involves yet more astronomical sums (just a little on that later), but I have presented enough to establish the principle these markets afford very substantial special forms of protected revenue – and those revenues are most usually at the expense of the taxpayers and middle classes.

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Tropical Storm Hone Public Advisory


000
WTPA31 PHFO 250238
TCPCP1

BULLETIN
Tropical Storm Hone Advisory Number  11
NWS Central Pacific Hurricane Center Honolulu HI   CP012024
500 PM HST Sat Aug 24 2024

...TROPICAL STORM HONE STEADILY MOVING WESTWARD TOWARD HAWAII...
...TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE BIG ISLAND...


SUMMARY OF 500 PM HST...0300 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...18.0N 154.4W
ABOUT 125 MI...205 KM SSE OF HILO HAWAII
ABOUT 320 MI...520 KM SE OF HONOLULU HAWAII
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...65 MPH...100 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...W OR 280 DEGREES AT 14 MPH...22 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1000 MB...29.53 INCHES


WATCHES AND WARNINGS
--------------------
CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:

None.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:

A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for...
* Hawaii County

A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are
imminent or occurring somewhere within the warning area.

Interests elsewhere in Hawaii should monitor the progress of Hone.

For storm information specific to your area, please monitor
products issued by the National Weather Service office in
Honolulu Hawaii.


DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
----------------------
At 500 PM HST (0300 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Hone was
located near latitude 18.0 North, longitude 154.4 West. Hone is
moving toward the west near 14 mph (22 km/h) and this motion is
expected to continue into Monday, with slight slowing expected 
after the weekend.

Maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph (100 km/h) with higher
gusts. Modest strengthening is expected over the next 24 to 36 
hours, with Hone peaking just below hurricane intensity Sunday into 
Monday.

Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 125 miles (205 km)
from the center.

The estimated minimum central pressure is 1000 mb (29.53 inches).


HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND
----------------------
Key messages for Tropical Storm Hone can be found in the Tropical
Cyclone Discussion under AWIPS header TCDCP1 and WMO header WTPA41
PHFO, and on the web at hurricanes.gov/text/HFOTCDCP1.shtml.

WIND: Tropical Storm conditions are expected on the Big Island
tonight through early Sunday. Winds are expected to be strongest
downslope of higher terrain, over headlands, and through passes.

RAINFALL: Hone is expected to produce storm total rainfall of 6 to
12 inches over mainly windward and southeast facing slopes of the
Big Island, with locally higher amounts possible. Rainfall totals
of 2 to 4 inches will be possible over portions of the smaller
islands, mainly windward.

SURF: Surf associated with large swells generated by Hone will
continue through Sunday as Hone continues westward. Expect
dangerous conditions with life-threatening surf and rip
currents.


NEXT ADVISORY
-------------
Next intermediate advisory at 800 PM HST.
Next complete advisory at 1100 PM HST.

$$
Forecaster Powell

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WTPA21 PHFO 250237
TCMCP1

TROPICAL STORM HONE FORECAST/ADVISORY NUMBER  11
NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI   CP012024
0300 UTC SUN AUG 25 2024

NOTICE... LAND-BASED TROPICAL CYCLONE WATCHES AND WARNINGS ARE NO
LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TROPICAL CYCLONE FORECAST/ADVISORY...(TCM).
CURRENT LAND-BASED COASTAL WATCHES AND WARNINGS CAN BE FOUND IN THE
MOST RECENTLY ISSUED TROPICAL CYCLONE PUBLIC ADVISORY...(TCP).

TROPICAL STORM CENTER LOCATED NEAR 18.0N 154.4W AT 25/0300Z
POSITION ACCURATE WITHIN  20 NM

PRESENT MOVEMENT TOWARD THE WEST OR 280 DEGREES AT  12 KT

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE 1000 MB
MAX SUSTAINED WINDS  55 KT WITH GUSTS TO  65 KT.
50 KT....... 60NE   0SE   0SW  50NW.
34 KT.......110NE  50SE  50SW 110NW.
12 FT SEAS..270NE  90SE 120SW 270NW.
WINDS AND SEAS VARY GREATLY IN EACH QUADRANT.  RADII IN NAUTICAL
MILES ARE THE LARGEST RADII EXPECTED ANYWHERE IN THAT QUADRANT.

REPEAT...CENTER LOCATED NEAR 18.0N 154.4W AT 25/0300Z
AT 25/0000Z CENTER WAS LOCATED NEAR 17.9N 153.8W

FORECAST VALID 25/1200Z 18.4N 156.2W
MAX WIND  55 KT...GUSTS  65 KT.
50 KT... 60NE   0SE   0SW  40NW.
34 KT...100NE  70SE  50SW 100NW.

FORECAST VALID 26/0000Z 18.8N 158.4W
MAX WIND  60 KT...GUSTS  75 KT.
50 KT... 55NE  10SE  10SW  45NW.
34 KT...100NE  65SE  40SW  90NW.

FORECAST VALID 26/1200Z 19.0N 160.6W
MAX WIND  60 KT...GUSTS  75 KT.
50 KT... 50NE  15SE  10SW  40NW.
34 KT...120NE  60SE  40SW  90NW.

FORECAST VALID 27/0000Z 19.2N 162.7W
MAX WIND  55 KT...GUSTS  65 KT.
50 KT... 35NE  15SE  10SW  35NW.
34 KT...105NE  60SE  40SW  80NW.

FORECAST VALID 27/1200Z 19.4N 164.6W
MAX WIND  50 KT...GUSTS  60 KT.
50 KT... 40NE  15SE  10SW  35NW.
34 KT...100NE  55SE  40SW  80NW.

FORECAST VALID 28/0000Z 19.7N 166.4W
MAX WIND  45 KT...GUSTS  55 KT.
34 KT... 80NE  45SE  25SW  70NW.

EXTENDED OUTLOOK. NOTE...ERRORS FOR TRACK HAVE AVERAGED NEAR 150 NM
ON DAY 4 AND 200 NM ON DAY 5...AND FOR INTENSITY NEAR 20 KT EACH DAY

OUTLOOK VALID 29/0000Z 20.5N 169.6W
MAX WIND  35 KT...GUSTS  45 KT.
34 KT... 80NE  35SE  20SW  60NW.

OUTLOOK VALID 30/0000Z 21.4N 172.9W
MAX WIND  30 KT...GUSTS  40 KT.

REQUEST FOR 3 HOURLY SHIP REPORTS WITHIN 300 MILES OF 18.0N 154.4W

INTERMEDIATE PUBLIC ADVISORY...WTNT31 PHFO/HFOTCPCP1...AT 25/0600Z

NEXT ADVISORY AT 25/0900Z

$$
FORECASTER POWELL


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WTPZ22 KNHC 250233
TCMEP2

HURRICANE GILMA FORECAST/ADVISORY NUMBER  28
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL       EP072024
0300 UTC SUN AUG 25 2024

HURRICANE CENTER LOCATED NEAR 17.8N 131.8W AT 25/0300Z
POSITION ACCURATE WITHIN  20 NM

PRESENT MOVEMENT TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST OR 285 DEGREES AT   8 KT

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE  955 MB
EYE DIAMETER  10 NM
MAX SUSTAINED WINDS 110 KT WITH GUSTS TO 135 KT.
64 KT....... 30NE  25SE  20SW  30NW.
50 KT....... 50NE  40SE  40SW  50NW.
34 KT.......100NE  90SE  80SW 100NW.
12 FT SEAS..180NE 120SE 180SW 180NW.
WINDS AND SEAS VARY GREATLY IN EACH QUADRANT.  RADII IN NAUTICAL
MILES ARE THE LARGEST RADII EXPECTED ANYWHERE IN THAT QUADRANT.

REPEAT...CENTER LOCATED NEAR 17.8N 131.8W AT 25/0300Z
AT 25/0000Z CENTER WAS LOCATED NEAR 17.7N 131.4W

FORECAST VALID 25/1200Z 17.9N 133.1W
MAX WIND 110 KT...GUSTS 135 KT.
64 KT... 25NE  20SE  20SW  25NW.
50 KT... 50NE  40SE  40SW  50NW.
34 KT... 90NE  80SE  80SW  90NW.

FORECAST VALID 26/0000Z 18.1N 134.9W
MAX WIND 100 KT...GUSTS 120 KT.
64 KT... 25NE  20SE  10SW  25NW.
50 KT... 40NE  30SE  30SW  40NW.
34 KT... 80NE  70SE  70SW  80NW.

FORECAST VALID 26/1200Z 18.3N 136.6W
MAX WIND  90 KT...GUSTS 110 KT.
64 KT... 20NE  20SE  10SW  20NW.
50 KT... 40NE  30SE  20SW  40NW.
34 KT... 80NE  70SE  60SW  80NW.

FORECAST VALID 27/0000Z 18.5N 138.5W
MAX WIND  80 KT...GUSTS 100 KT.
64 KT... 20NE  15SE  10SW  20NW.
50 KT... 40NE  30SE  20SW  30NW.
34 KT... 70NE  60SE  50SW  70NW.

FORECAST VALID 27/1200Z 18.7N 140.4W
MAX WIND  70 KT...GUSTS  85 KT.
50 KT... 30NE  20SE  10SW  20NW.
34 KT... 70NE  50SE  40SW  70NW.

FORECAST VALID 28/0000Z 18.9N 142.4W
MAX WIND  60 KT...GUSTS  75 KT.
50 KT... 20NE  10SE  10SW  20NW.
34 KT... 60NE  40SE  30SW  60NW.

EXTENDED OUTLOOK. NOTE...ERRORS FOR TRACK HAVE AVERAGED NEAR 100 NM
ON DAY 4 AND 125 NM ON DAY 5...AND FOR INTENSITY NEAR 15 KT EACH DAY

OUTLOOK VALID 29/0000Z 19.6N 146.5W
MAX WIND  45 KT...GUSTS  55 KT.
34 KT... 50NE  30SE  30SW  50NW.

OUTLOOK VALID 30/0000Z 20.3N 150.8W...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW
MAX WIND  30 KT...GUSTS  40 KT.

REQUEST FOR 3 HOURLY SHIP REPORTS WITHIN 300 MILES OF 17.8N 131.8W

NEXT ADVISORY AT 25/0900Z

$$
FORECASTER KELLY


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Hurricane Gilma Public Advisory


000
WTPZ32 KNHC 250233
TCPEP2

BULLETIN
Hurricane Gilma Advisory Number  28
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL       EP072024
500 PM HST Sat Aug 24 2024

...GILMA RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING...


SUMMARY OF 500 PM HST...0300 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...17.8N 131.8W
ABOUT 1460 MI...2350 KM W OF THE SOUTHERN TIP OF BAJA CALIFORNIA
ABOUT 1530 MI...2460 KM E OF HILO HAWAII
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...125 MPH...205 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...WNW OR 285 DEGREES AT 9 MPH...15 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...955 MB...28.20 INCHES


WATCHES AND WARNINGS
--------------------
There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.


DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
----------------------
At 500 PM HST (0300 UTC), the center of Hurricane Gilma was located 
near latitude 17.8 North, longitude 131.8 West. Gilma is moving 
toward the west-northwest near 9 mph (15 km/h). A westward motion at 
a faster forward speed is expected during the next several days.

Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 125 mph (205 km/h) 
with higher gusts.  Gilma is a category 3 hurricane on the 
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Some additional strengthening 
could occur through tonight. Gradual weakening is forecast to begin 
on Sunday, but Gilma is expected to remain a hurricane into early 
next week. Steady weakening will then continue through the middle 
of the week.

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles (55 km) from the
center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 115 miles
(185 km).

The estimated minimum central pressure is 955 mb (28.20 inches).


HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND
----------------------
None


NEXT ADVISORY
-------------
Next complete advisory at 1100 PM HST.

$$
Forecaster Kelly

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Giga-Vaxxed Fauci Somehow Contracts Ultra-Rare West Nile Virus On Heels Of COVID-19 Infection
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Giga-Vaxxed Fauci Somehow Contracts Ultra-Rare West Nile Virus On Heels Of COVID-19 Infection

Talk about bad luck!

Former NAIAD Director Anthony Fauci – who outsourced risky COVID gain-of-function research to a shoddy Chinese lab, and was then put in charge of handling a COVID pandemic that broke out down the street from said lab – has somehow contracted the ultra-rare West Nile virus right on the heels of a nasty COVID infection.

Fauci, 83, was hospitalized for six days and is now at home recuperating from the mosquito-borne disease, the Washington Post reports.

“Tony Fauci has been hospitalized with a case of West Nile virus. He is now home and is recovering. A full recovery is expected,” said a spokesperson.

According to the report, Fauci has no idea how he got West Nile – a mosquito-borne illness that can cause fever, body aches, diarrhea and rash – and for which there is no vaccine or treatment.

Amazingly, there have been just 216 human cases of West Nile reported across 33 states so far this year, according to the CDC. Last year, 1,800 people were sent to the hospital with West Nile, which killed 182 people.

Earlier this month, the 83-year-old revealed that he caught COVID for a third time despite having been “vaccinated and boosted six times.”

So in late September / early August, Fauci catches COVID. Then he somehow catches the ultra-rare West Nile virus and is hospitalized. What are the odds?

In 2021, Fauci famously said “If you get vaccinated, you are protected,” and “When people get vaccinated, they can feel safe that they are not gonna get infected.”

What are the chances a guy who’s clearly comfortable lying… is lying again?

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Hamas recruitment up in Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp
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Hamas recruitment up in Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp


Recruitment for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has surged in Ein al-Hilweh, Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee community, as the militant group continues its conflict with Israel. Hamas and Lebanese officials have stated that hundreds of new recruits have joined the organization in recent months.

In an interview with The New York Times, Ayman Shanaa, the Hamas chief for the area of Lebanon where Ein al-Hilweh is located, explained that Hamas is still determined to wage attacks on Israel despite the military difference between it and the Jewish state.

“It’s true that our weapons cannot match our enemy’s,” Shanaa said. “But our people are resilient, and they support the resistance. And are joining us.”

While Hezbollah remains the dominant militant force in Lebanon, Hamas maintains significant influence within Palestinian communities such as Ein al-Hilweh. Although the enlistment of new members in Lebanon does not directly impact the conflict in Gaza, these recruits are playing a role in local governance and have participated in launching rockets into Israel from Lebanon’s southern border.

The New York Times further revealed that secular groups that previously led Palestinians have received less favor, and militant groups like Hamas have grown in popularity. It also showed how Hamas has been marketing towards young boys, displaying a poster in the streets near Ein al-Hilweh that serves as a recruitment advertisement for the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. The poster prominently displays images of smiling young men and boys. The poster also promotes a training workshop for the “Al Aqsa generation,” a reference to Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israeli civilians, known as “Al Aqsa Flood.”

Furthermore, New York Times journalists who entered the community in Lebanon attended a funeral procession of Hamas official Samer al-Hajj who was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Al-Hajj was a senior militant who played a role in attacks being launched from Lebanon to Israel. The journalists reported that crowds at the funeral chanted phrases such as “Our blood and our souls we will sacrifice to you, martyr!” When men fired rounds into the air from their guns, one woman yelled, “No shooting! Save it for the Israelis!”

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Telegram chief Pavel Durov arrested at French airport: officials
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French police arrested Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov on Saturday at an airport near Paris for alleged offences related to the popular messaging app, officials said.

The Franco-Russian billionaire, 39, was detained at Le Bourget airport north of the French capital on Saturday evening, one of the officials told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

He had just travelled from Baku, in Azerbaijan, another source close to the case said.

Durov was expected to appear in court on Sunday.

France’s OFMIN, an agency tasked with preventing violence against minors, had issued an arrest warrant for Durov as the coordinating agency in a preliminary investigation into alleged offences including fraud, drug trafficking, cyberbullying, organised crime and promotion of terrorism, one of the sources close to the case said.

Durov is suspected of failing to take action to curb the criminal use of his platform.

“Enough of Telegram’s impunity,” said one of the investigators, adding they were surprised Durov came to Paris knowing he was a wanted man.



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BREAKING: German police arrest Syrian refugee over ISIS-claimed mass stabbing attack at the Festival of Diversity
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BREAKING: German police arrest Syrian refugee over ISIS-claimed mass stabbing attack at the Festival of Diversity


German police have arrested an individual believed to be the suspect responsible for the mass stabbing in the city of Solingen, Germany that left three people dead and several others critically injured during the Festival of Diversity.

The man in the stabbing was identified Issa al H., a 26-year-old Syrian who came to Germany at the end of December 2022, according to the German news outlet Welt. He had previously applied for asylum in Bielefeld. The suspect turned himself in to police patrol and his clothes were covered in blood at the time of the arrest.

He went into the station and confessed, “I am the one you are looking for,” and had apparently been hiding in his backyard.

The arrest took place after police previously arrested a man at a building housing refugees near the site of the attack who was believed to be connected to the crime. BILD reported that the police stormed the center and placed a 36-year-old man under arrest. However, he was “not the person we had in our sights from the beginning,” said Interior Minister Herbert Reul. “The person we had been looking for all day is now in custody.”

It was previously reported that authorities had also detained a 15-year-old boy who may have had prior knowledge of the attack. Additionally, the US Sun revealed that the attack had been claimed by ISIS, and that the suspect allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” while carrying out the stabbings.

There have been three arrests total made in connection to the stabbings on Friday evening.

ISIS claimed the attack after it happened, writing in a statement, “The perpetrator of the attack on a gathering of Christians in the city of Solingen in Germany yesterday was a soldier of the Islamic State.”

Additionally, “A witness who was injured in the attack stated that the unknown suspect was ‘known from Solingen’ and that he was also a visitor to a local mosque. A witness reported that the suspect shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during his actions,” police wrote in a report about the suspect, reported to be Issa al H.

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