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Saturday, April 26, 2025

The UN World Food Program (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks in Gaza as Israel continues to block the entry of all humanitarian aid into the enclave, home to over two million people. WFP delivered its last remaining supplies to kitchens preparing hot meals. For weeks, hot meal kitchens have been the only consistent source of food assistance for people in the Warsaw Ghetto of the Middle East. Despite reaching just half the population with only 25% of daily food needs, they have provided a critical lifeline. When victims die of purposeful neglect, untreated wounds, starvation, or unchecked disease, this is called 'NHI' or 'No Humans Involved.' When Mother Nature kills off these sick or starving Palestinians, Israel can argue that no humans were involved in their deaths. read more


The NYT reports: "The pardon of the executive, Paul Walczak came less than two weeks after he was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution, for tax crimes that prosecutors said were used to finance a lavish lifestyle, including the purchase of a yacht." read more


A new round of heavy rain will target some of the same areas of the central US that were swamped by flooding multiple times earlier in April. Historic rainfall occurred over portions of the Tennessee, Ohio and middle Mississippi valleys. Runoff from that rain is just now surging through the lowest portion of the Mississippi River and will lead to moderate to high flood levels in some areas, including Baton Rouge, LA. read more


1) Russian losses in the meatgrinder since brutally invading Ukraine: 948,720 personnel, 370 aircraft, 335 helicopters, and 10,719 tanks. 2) Russian ambassador booed at WWII commemoration event in Germany after showing up uninvited: img.pravda.com 3) Russian security services tortured Ukrainian journalist; 30 still held by the Kremlin. 4) Trumpf and President Zelensky conferred in Rome; no details of the meeting available at this time. 5) Aeroflot still sanctioned from US despite rigorous Russian lobbying. 6) The Dotard's favorite restaurant, McDonald's, registers its trademark in Russia. read more


Friday, April 25, 2025

According to sources, the US is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion. Trumpf is to make the official announcement during his visit to Riyadh in May. In his first term, Trumpf celebrated weapons sales to Saudi Arabia as good for US jobs (meaning the salaries and bonuses of the CEOs heading the military-industrial complex). Here is the quid pro quo: The US bombs the Houthis for Muhammad bin Salman and Benjamin Netanyahu, Trumpf returns with good news about the mammon-sized defense contract. Footnote: In Feb 2024, France President Emmanuel Macron pushed MBS to purchase Rafale stealth fighters and other weapons. read more


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