Gaza: Israel Attacked Palestinian Fertility Clinic
April 17th, 2024Via: Reuters:
When an Israeli shell struck Gaza’s largest fertility clinic in December, the explosion blasted the lids off five liquid nitrogen tanks stored in a corner of the embryology unit.
As the ultra-cold liquid evaporated, the temperature inside the tanks rose, destroying more than 4,000 embryos plus 1,000 more specimens of sperm and unfertilized eggs stored at Gaza City’s Al Basma IVF centre.
The impact of that single explosion was far-reaching — an example of the unseen toll Israel’s six-and-a-half-month-old assault has had on the 2.3 million people of Gaza.
The embryos in those tanks were the last hope for hundreds of Palestinian couples facing infertility.
“We know deeply what these 5,000 lives, or potential lives, meant for the parents, either for the future or for the past,” said Bahaeldeen Ghalayini, 73, the Cambridge-trained obstetrician and gynaecologist who established the clinic in 1997.
At least half of the couples — those who can no longer produce sperm or eggs to make viable embryos — will not have another chance to get pregnant, he said.
Violent Home Invasion and Suicide in Newport Beach
April 16th, 2024This looks like a botched assassination.
According to Newport Beach Police, “We know that there is a relationship between the two suspects and the victims.”
One of the suspects killed himself before he could be arrested.
Via: Fox:
New York: Warehouse Distribution of Stolen Goods
April 16th, 2024“What does it tell you about the people who make the laws here?”
Easy: They’re in on it.
Mafia State: “In politics, a mafia state or pakhanate is a state system where the government is tied with organized crime to the degree when government officials, the police, and/or military became a part of the criminal enterprise.”
Actually, New York sounds a lot like the U.S. Government.
It’s turtles all the way down.
Via: Cash Jordan:
New York: Hundreds of Migrants Protest Against Being Moved to Shelters Instead of Luxury Hotels
April 16th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
New York City could be on the cusp of social unrest as hundreds of migrants have flooded the grounds of City Hall in Lower Manhattan to protest the scaling down of their luxury hotel accommodations (funded by us, the taxpayers).
The Babylon Bee’s Ashley St. Clair posted on X a disturbing photo of migrants “flooding NYC City Hall to protest being moved to shelters instead of the luxury hotels.”
UAE’s Cloud-Seeding Operation Floods Dubai
April 16th, 2024Update: Dubai Grinds to Standstill as Cloud Seeding Worsens Flooding
Via: Bloomberg:
Torrential rains across the United Arab Emirates prompted flight cancellations, forced schools to shut and brought traffic to a standstill.
The heavy rains that caused widespread flooding across the desert nation came after cloud seeding. The UAE has been carrying out seeding operations since 2002 to address water security issues, even though the lack of drainage in many areas can trigger flooding.
The Gulf state’s National Center of Meteorology dispatched seeding planes from Al Ain airport on Monday and Tuesday to take advantage of convective cloud formations, according to Ahmed Habib, a specialist meteorologist.
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Via: ZeroHedge:
Thread of best videos I've been sent of the current situation in Dubai from the storm. pic.twitter.com/sK6aRL6Jdu
— Charles Read (@chatwithcharles) April 16, 2024
More: Dubai Struck By Year’s Rainfall In A Day
Russia’s Military Is Bigger Than Before Ukraine Invasion
April 16th, 2024Via: Antiwar:
A top US general told Congress last week that Russia’s military is 15% bigger today than it was before the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, an acknowledgment that the goal of “weakening” Russia has failed.
“The army is actually now larger — by 15% — than it was when it invaded Ukraine,” Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the head of US European Command, told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
Cavoli said that over the past year, Russia had increased its “front-line troop strength from 360,000 to 470,000,” which he said was due to Russia raising the maximum age of conscription from 27 to 30.
“In sum, Russia is on track to command the largest military on the continent,” he said. “Regardless of the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russia will be larger, more lethal, and angrier with the West than when it invaded.”
Lockheed Martin Wins $17BN Interceptor Contract
April 16th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
With one massive war in Eastern Europe grinding past two years and with another potential major war brewing in the Middle East, Western defense contractors are perhaps the only ones with a smile on their faces while much of the rest of humanity suffers.
On Monday the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced that Lockheed Martin has been awarded a new US government contract worth $17 billion, to develop the next generation of missile interceptor systems that would safeguard the homeland against intercontinental ballistic missile attack.
California: Speedboat Full of Illegal Immigrants Crashes Onto Beach in Carlsbad
April 16th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
In a scene reminiscent of the Chuck Norris film Invasion USA, a speedboat loaded with at least a dozen illegal immigrants ripped through the waters just off the coast of Carlsbad, California, nearly slamming into bathers and surfers as they landed and sprinted across the beach.
Some migrants raced to nearby waiting vehicles which sped away, the rest walked off in broad daylight to mix with the surrounding tourists. Locals who filmed the migrants claimed police were called but didn’t show up.
California Auditor Finds Homeless Council Can’t Account For Money Spent
April 16th, 2024Imagine my shock.
Via: Epoch Times:
…we have no idea even where most of the money is going.
Germany’s Transport Minister Threatening to Ban Driving on Weekends to Meet Climate Goals
April 16th, 2024Via: Politico:
Germany’s transport minister is threatening to ban driving on weekends to meet climate goals if the ruling coalition does not pass reforms to the Climate Protection Act by July.
“The fact that the amendment is still not in force leads to considerable legal and factual uncertainties,” liberal politician Volker Wissing wrote in a letter to the parliamentary group leaders of the coalition, German outlet BILD reported Thursday.
“This serves neither the climate nor the reputation of the federal government,” he said.
A reduction in traffic to help meet the climate goals would only be possible through measures that are difficult to communicate to the public, such as “comprehensive and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays,” Wissing added.
