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Genocide Over?
‘Gaza has won’: Social media users react to ceasefire with mix of relief, joy https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/15/740983/Gaza-won-Netizens-react-Hamas-Israel-ceasefire-genocide
Israel loses Gaza war—and its PR war https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/israel-loses-gaza-warand-its-pr-war
Palestinian journalist, a Sobh Media Festival awardee, killed in Gaza hours before truce https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/16/740998/Palestinian-journalist-Abu-Rous-Israel-strike-Gaza
Israel kills 204th journalist in Gaza since October 2023 https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/14/740903/talmas-gaza-journalist
Trump’s Mideast Envoy Forced Netanyahu to Accept a Gaza Plan He Repeatedly Rejected https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-13/ty-article/.premium/trumps-mideast-envoy-forced-netanyahu-to-accept-a-gaza-plan-he-repeatedly-rejected/00000194-615c-d4d0-a1f4-fbfdce850000 https://archive.md/Iiexh#selection-525.0-1475.277
Israel’s Far Right Now Realizes Trump Isn’t the Savior They Imagined (Haaretz) https://archive.is/8yZM2#selection-521.11-525.68
Resistance Victory
Retaliation rages: Yemeni missile strikes Israeli war ministry in Tel Aviv; over a dozen injured https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/14/740874/Yemeni-forces-carry-out-missile-strike-against-Israeli-ministry-of-military-affairs-in-Tel-Aviv
Blinken Says New Hamas Recruits Have Nearly Replaced War Losses https://archive.is/OssKQ
Fire Investigations
“Conspiracy Theories” Spreading Like Wildfire https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14277681/LA-wildfire-conspiracy-theories-flooding-internet-P-Diddy.html
Were California fires set by Direct Energy Weapons? Probably not, but here’s why the idea is going viral https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-11-25-analysis-california-fires-set-by-direct-energy-weapons.html
Power lines? Old embers? Arson? Investigators, experts, amateurs look for cause of L.A. fires https://www.yahoo.com/news/power-lines-old-embers-arson-003209287.html
More Investigations
JFK Assassination Tape Surfaces Featuring Clifton Carter “Confession” https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1879312259349930294
War on China
China Trade Surplus reaches $1 Trillion; US Trade Deficit reaches $773.4 billion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-13/chinese-exports-rise-to-record-ahead-of-looming-trump-tariffs
American Pravda: China vs. America https://www.unz.com/runz/america-vs-china-a-comprehensive-review-of-the-economic-technological-and-military-factors/
War on Russia and Iran
Russia and Iran to sign partnership treaty this week https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-and-iran-to-sign-partnership-treaty-on-january-17/
Washington’s Proxies Attack TurkStream While Trump Takes Credit for Ceasefire https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/washingtons-proxies-attack-turkstream-while-trump-takes-credit-for-ceasefire/
Does the Madman Theory Actually Work? Trump likes to think his unpredictability is an asset. https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/07/madman-theory-international-relations-unpredictability/
Madness of Musk
Debunking Elon Musk’s Grooming Gangs Hoax https://muslimskeptic.com/2025/01/10/debunking-elon-musks/
Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’ https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-bannon-condemns-elon-musk-164957078.html
Censorship Flaps
CFPB Proposes Stronger Protections Against Debanking: How will the Trump administration react to the CFPB’s new rules to protect consumers from censorship? The next fight over censorship could be against the banks. https://www.leefang.com/p/cfpb-proposes-stronger-protections
IDF Invades Columbia U., Attacks and Expels Prof for Noticing (NYT) https://archive.is/nNW1O
Antisemitism Watch
JTA admits Jewish groups pushed Meta to crack down on hate speech, and oppose its ending censorship https://www.jta.org/2025/01/13/united-states/jewish-groups-pushed-meta-to-crack-down-on-hate-speech-now-the-company-is-reversing-course
Jews Are the Problem https://www.unz.com/article/jews-are-the-problem/
Nearly half the world’s population holds antisemitic beliefs (and the other half isn’t paying attention) https://www.politico.eu/article/nearly-half-the-worlds-population-holds-antisemitic-beliefs/
ADL head Greenblatt threatens “antisemites” implying he will murder them with exploding electronic devices https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1879242791093772504