Recent news snippets show a trend toward compassion for Palestine
The following news items may show which way the political wind is blowing in America. The proliferation of campus protests seems unstoppable despite the frequent arrests.
Speaker Mike visits Columbia, says stop the hate and embrace genocide! Quick scurries away to duck questions
Threatens to bring in the National Guard (remember Kent State)
Does this resonate with you as a voter? Does Mike Johnson look like a strong principled leader?
Opposing genocide can make a candidate a winner
Have you noticed? The term “far left” is no longer a pejorative. It now means the candidate is a human being with a heart.
How will the pro-Palestine stance affect electability in November? Is Donald Trump prepared to stop hating on starving Gazan kids?
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What’s interesting is that while the Biden regime tries to persuade Israel to ease up on the genocide, the US regime keeps focusing on stopping the protests, NOT the genocide!
Our thanks to JS for this:
Pro-Palestinian protestors set up encampment at Northwestern
ABC 7 Chicago, Apr 25, 2024
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pro-palestinian-protestors-set-encampment-131139867.html
No compassion allowed!
Where have the protests spread?
Emory University: Students filmed and photographed Georgia State Patrol officers pinning protesters to the ground and escorting others away after clashing on campus. Emory's student-run newspaper, the Emory Wheel, reported that tear gas was used, but it could not confirm with police.
Emerson College: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators want the college, located in Boston, to support “Palestinian liberation” and had set up tents in an alley off Boylston Street on Monday. The school canceled classes on Thursday after 108 protesters were arrested.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Students gathered to protest MIT having research ties with the Israeli military.
Tufts University: On Tuesday, a small group of students started to set up encampments on campus in support of Palestinians.
University of Texas at Austin: Hundreds of students gathered to protest in support of Palestinians. University officers, and Texas state troopers were called to the scene and arrested dozens of people who refused to leave the area.
University of Minnesota: Nine students were arrested hours after they started an encampment on campus.
New York University: Protests at New York University in Manhattan turned chaotic Monday night as police tried to disperse the growing crowd at Gould Plaza at the school’s request. Police said they arrested about 150 people, including NYU students and faculty, who refused to disperse, though police said a final tally had not yet been completed.
Yale University: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators reunited for protests again on Tuesday, just a day after at least 45 protesters, who’d staged an encampment at Beinecke Plaza on campus since Friday night, were arrested Monday morning on trespassing charges.
California State Polytechnic University: The Northern California university's campus was closed through Wednesday after protesters took over a building on campus.
University of California, Berkeley: Demonstrators set up what they call a “free Palestine encampment” in Sproul Plaza, one of the campus’s central areas.
University of Michigan: An encampment of about 20 tents was set up on the main quadrangle Monday, prompting the school to boost its security on campus, NBC News reported.
Harvard University: The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee was suspended and threatened with expulsion if the group didn’t “cease all organizational activities for the remainder of the Spring 2024 term,” according to the Harvard Crimson.
University of Southern California: Hundreds of protesters gathered on campus Sunday in support of the school’s class of 2024 valedictorian, Asna Tabassum. Officials had told Tabassum earlier this month that she was barred from speaking at this year’s graduation ceremony, citing safety concerns due to her pro-Palestinian social media posts. More than 90 protesters were arrested on Wednesday.
Protesters march in support of USC Class of 2024 valedictorian Asna Taba...
Hundreds of protesters gathered at the University of Southern California in support of Class of 2024 valedictorian
The following campuses are holding protests:
Here’s your air strike update for April 25, 2024 (next 4 items)
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25 April 2024, 21:18
The Russian army continues to attack the life support facilities of the Kiev formations
In response to attempts to attack our infrastructure, the Russian Army continues to attack facilities that serve the needs of the Kiev formations. Explosions in Nikolaev. According to some reports, an ammunition depot was hit.
In this video, Dnepropetrovsk oblast, Sinelnikovo railway station, a large logistics hub of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A military train was destroyed there by high-precision weapons
Footage of the consequences of the attack on a military unit in Odessa in the area of Gorbaty Bridge also appeared on the Internet. It is reported that equipment, air defense and electronic warfare systems were repaired at the facility. The hangars, the repair area with all its contents, and the fuel depot were destroyed.
And a report from the Ministry of Defense on the situation at the front: Russian troops have occupied more advantageous positions in several directions. Equipment was destroyed, including several American and one British howitzer, combat vehicles of the HIMARS and Vampire systems. Mercenaries from the so-called “foreign legion” were hit.
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https://ria.ru/20240425/udar-1942242924.html?ysclid=lvflvvs6k2278268243
25.04.2024
The Ukrainians did not expect this. Now we know what kind of blow the Russian Armed Forces dealt against the Armed Forces of Ukraine
MOSCOW, April 25 – RIA Novosti. The Russian military surprises the Ukrainian Armed Forces with double strikes with Iskander missiles, inflicting heavy casualties, the YouTube channel Defense TV reported.
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"This tactic, known as 'double strike,' involves firing multiple missiles at the same time at a specific target. The strategy involves launching strikes one after the other, strategically calculated to maximize the impact on Ukrainian forces. These strikes reportedly caught Ukrainian forces by surprise, leading to an increase in losses, especially when Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers gather in one place in the target area,” the publication notes.
The observer also warned that Russia has significantly increased the production of missiles of this type, which is why the Russian military will increasingly use them in the special military operation zone.
On April 7, in the “Military Acceptance” program, the General Director of the High-Precision Complexes holding (part of Rostec) Oleg Ryazantsev announced that the missiles of the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system were modified based on the experience of the SMO, their accuracy in hitting targets was increased .
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April 25, 2024
Video of Russian missile strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces echelon published
Footage of a missile attack on a Ukrainian Armed Forces railroad echelon in the Dnepropetrovsk region appeared
Footage of a Russian missile attack on a railway echelon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) has appeared on the Internet. The video was published by the Telegram channel “Ukraina.ru”.
Video link is embedded in article linked here
“A video of a missile attack on a Ukrainian military train at the Sinelnikovo railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region has appeared online,” the publication says.
It is noted that the video was filmed on April 19. According to experts, the footage probably captured the arrival of an air-to-surface missile or the consequences of the operation of the Iskander operational-tactical missile system.
Earlier it became known about explosions in the Cherkasy region. This happened against the backdrop of an air raid warning in the central regions of Ukraine.
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https://aif.ru/politics/world/v-harkove-konec-sveta-i-gaza-armiya-rf-rushit-energosistemu-ukrainy?ysclid=lvfn2xi393980352685
04/25/2024 13:11 Viktor Sokirko Estimated reading time: 4 minutes 6541
No more electricity and gas in Kharkov. The Russian army is destroying the energy system of Ukraine
Launch of the Iskander OTRK missile / Press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense / RIA Novosti
The geography of night Russian missile strikes in Ukraine changes periodically.
Now fuel and energy complexes have come under attack not only in the usual “facilities” - Odessa, Kharkov, Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, but also in the city of Smela in the Cherkasy oblast. In general, if there is a goal, then it is in sight. Even if it is a train with ammunition and weapons.
To Kharkov
Outwardly, Kharkov looks quite peaceful, but there is definitely no visible destruction in the city center, and there is no visible destruction in the residential areas on the outskirts. However, aside from the landmark destruction of the TV tower that was used to guide Ukrainian missiles into the Belgorod oblast, [Belgorod is a Russian city near the border with Ukraine that is subjected to frequent terror attacks that kill civilians. Most of these attacks are launched from Kharkov oblast, which is why Russia seeks urgently to liberate this oblast] Kharkov is unable to generate its own electricity due to severe damage to its energy infrastructure. As Mayor Terekhov notes, as a result of the attacks, all transformer substations and thermal power plants were destroyed. The lights in Kharkov have gone out. Accordingly, the remaining enterprises of the military-industrial complex have stopped, and military units have to use diesel generators, the power of which is not enough to maintain the combat readiness of air defense systems. Kharkov's energy supply is provided by other oblasts, but deficits in the city's energy system remain.
A Krypton (Kh-31 missile) demolished the Kharkov Tower. The situation in the Northern Military District following the results of April 22
In some areas of Kharkov, the gas supply has been cut off due to a broken gas pipeline, which also paralyzes the work of enterprises producing defense products.
Yesterday, Russian high-precision missiles destroyed a dormitory on a campus, which was used to house Ukrainian military personnel and foreign mercenaries. The strike was accurate and the neighboring houses were not damaged.
According to military expert, reserve colonel Gennady Alyokhin, the Russian military carried out several targeted strikes on Kharkov and nearby populated areas. In particular, these are the settlements of Liptsy and Dergachi, which were hit by attacks that caused a double detonation. The expert also notes that after the destruction of the Kharkov television tower 540 kilometers away, the television signal is completely absent - the effect of a direct hit makes itself felt.
An interesting detail is that Geran Russian attack drones affect the SIM cards of a Ukrainian cellular operator, helping locate and confirm target hits, and transmit information about areas where GPS signal jamming or spoofing is occurring.
UAV Geran
The "Geran" case. The “furrow” was plowed from Kharkov to Odessa
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A locomotive was trashed in Smela [alternate names, Smila and Smela, one of which is Russian, the other Ukrainian]
The city of Smila in the Cherkasy oblast also suffered a serious blow last night. According to the local oblastal military administration, a critical infrastructure facility was damaged. The extent of destruction is not specified, but it must be understood that this city is the largest railway junction that connects the entire central part of Ukraine. Through it, weapons are supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Western Ukraine, where Western military equipment arrives through the territory of Poland.
Also in Smela there is an electromechanical plant that repairs electrical machines for the needs of railway transport, as well as a car-building plant for the production of railway locomotives and rolling stock. With a high degree of probability, these enterprises, like the railway station itself, became targets for Russian missiles.
Odessa strikes
In Odessa, as a result of night strikes, a warehouse of automotive equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was damaged. This fact is confirmed by the press service of the Defense Forces of southern Ukraine, which notes that there were no Ukrainian military personnel at the scene of the explosion. Well, some trucks were hit. At the same time, representatives of the Odessa underground say something different - the explosions occurred at the storage site of foreign armored vehicles - German Marder infantry fighting vehicles and American Bradleys, which were being prepared for transfer to the front line. There were no lorries.
Let us recall that the day before, the Russian military in Odessa attacked a Ukrainian military air defense unit in the Gorbaty Bridge area, as reported by the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev. Presumably, there were American missiles for the launcher of the American MIM-23 HAWK anti-aircraft missile system. After the rocket explosion there followed a “smart” [secondary] detonation.
Gorbaty [Humpback] Bridge in Odessa.
The special express train staff was caught at the station
Another strike from the missile army came last night against a train of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was liquidated at the Sinelnikovo railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk oblast. Its defeat involved Su-34 front-line bombers, which used air-to-surface missiles. However, experts do not rule out that such a strike could have been carried out by Iskander missiles.
As the Ukraina.ru Telegram channel notes, this is not the first time that the Russian army has attacked trains with military equipment supplied to Kiev by the West. Their location is promptly conveyed to the Russian army by local underground fighters - the special express entered the station, and the “signal” went to its destination.
As the Chief of the Defense Staff of the British Armed Forces, Admiral Tony Radakin, quoted by the Financial Times, notes, “it must be recognized that Russia has managed to deliver more effective long-range strikes than last year.” Well, the Russian Ministry of Defense is also aware.
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WARNING! Satan's Holocaust: Horrendous images and chilling videos of Israeli-US atrocities in Gaza from the Christian website Gospa News. When words fail, only images and videos can speak.
In the cover image: a dead child and the Führer of Zionists Bibi Netanyahu
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Read this report by a sane man before sanity is banned
Thu 4/25/2024 9:22 AM
Rishi Sunak has money for war but won't feed the poor
He has put the UK on a "war footing" without asking anyone
APR 25
Without consulting parliament or the public, Rishi Sunak has declared the United Kingdom is on a “war footing” at a time when we don’t have enough soldiers to fight a war without conscription. It seems no coincidence that Sunak chose Poland to make his World War III announcement in which he conjured up £75bn for the “defence” budget out of thin air. I’m old enough to remember when the £55bn investment pledges in Labour’s last manifesto were “totally unaffordable”.
Sunak insisted money for bombs was the best way to secure our prosperity, but said the commitment would be funded, in part, by cutting 72,000 civil service jobs to save £2.9bn. Grant Schapps said this is “very reasonable”.
The equivalent of a packed football stadium is about to be thrown on the scrapheap when a one-off wealth tax could raise £262bn, just so we’re clear on where Sunak’s priorities lie.
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Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the ‘liquidation of all untruths’
Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s detention confirms what the BDS movement has long argued: Israeli universities are first and foremost instruments of the state and agents of Zionism’s project of dispossession and apartheid rule.
BY DAVID LLOYD APRIL 24, 2024 0
The Israeli security state’s malicious cat-and-mouse game with internationally renowned feminist scholar Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian continues.
Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested at her home in occupied East Jerusalem last Thursday, April 18, on charges of “serious incitement against the State of Israel” and held in a Jerusalem police station. According to her family, while in detention there she was shackled and subjected to severe interrogation under torture for hours, incarcerated in a freezing, urine and cockroach-infested cell, prevented from sleeping, yelled at and intimidated, and denied essential medication. Anyone who followed the torture debates around Guantanamo, Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, or Abu Ghraib in Iraq will recall precisely what the function of such methods of sensory deprivation is: to reduce the prisoner to a psychological state of terror such that they will confess to whatever their interrogator wishes them to admit.
As Shalhoub-Kevorkian has herself documented, such violence is the norm in Israeli jails. Fortunately, an Israeli court declared on Friday that her arrest was unlawful and that the police had failed to find “substantial evidence to support the severity of the accusations or to indicate [her] involvement in further offenses.” Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian was released, but her ordeal is far from over. The terms of her release stipulated that in addition to paying a bond, she would have to “attend” a further interrogation. That interrogation will take place tomorrow Thursday, April 25, behind closed doors and without legal representation.
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May 4, 1970 Kent State, Ohio 4 student anti-war protesters killed, 9 injured as President Nixon ordered National Guard troops to crush dissent against his Vietnamese genocide policy. This event lead to Nixon's downfall: Watergate.
Genocide Joe Biden may soon be faced with a similar decision amidst the anti-genocide upheaval on College and University campuses today. Will Biden use the 'Defense' Department against Americans for exercising their Free Speech rights peacefully? If he does, can Huntergate be far behind?