veteranstoday--2020-08-13--Dissecting the Beirut coverup: Ammonium nitrate not explosive and Lebanon was nuked before

We start with the text below in response to a Russia Today video where a so-called explosives expert explained Beirut .
RT has become quite unreliable for the past year , a distinct pro-Israel bias , has repeatedly attacked Syria ’ s President Assad and is backing racist-supremacist elements in the US .
RT cleaned this off , which reports the Israeli bombers at 30 seconds onward : We also burn Rick Sanchez as a fake anti-Zionst who went to RT because of equally fake media prosecution .
We recognize the “ OP , ” which we believe Snowden is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under the blanket of Google/YouTube-Facebook disinformation and censorship , the selling of a fake narrative has become so reliable that nuclear terrorism is becoming a “ go to ” for Israel , Saudi Arabia and , of course , the US .
We begin by debunking ammonium nitrate with a detailed explanation from a mining engineer explaining how the cover story is absurd .
Simply put , you can ’ t make ammonium nitrate by itself explode , it simply burns .
And this is what a fireworks explosion looks like : The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate .
From here we cover issues of the use of tactical nuclear weapons and present a reasonable assertion that Lebanon was nuked in 2006 .
We begin with a mining demolition engineer with decades of experience : “ Now listen carefully , it takes a TNT detonation to initiate or ignite a load of Anfo , Hanfo or Magnafrac .
What I mean by that is that for Anfo to detonate , it needs the violence of a TNT initiation before it itself will actually detonate .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and burn numerous times .
It won ’ t explode , it will just burn .
And if doesn ’ t have the diesel fuel mixture it won ’ t even do that .
Ammonia Nitrate is a commercial fertilizer .
The company employees were each given two twenty Kilo bags of Ammonia Nitrate every spring to fertilize their lawns .
It will quite literally turn a brown lawn a vibrant green over night… ” He next describes listening to an interview on the Beirut warehouse fire where he became ‘ spin ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me to create a new word , ‘ spincious ’ .
“ I have to say I disagree with this gentleman .
The moment he hesitated to answer the very first ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ question posed to him when asked if a match tossed on a pile of ammonia nitrate would initiate a catastrophic explosion , he hesitated for a few seconds before answering and I knew immediately that whatever he was going to say was maybe a bit cloudy and opaque .
I ’ ve worked in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a surveyor and a blasting technician .
For my last two years at a large open pit coal operation in the British Columbia foothills , my job was designing the blast patterns and deciding which explosive product to load into the drill holes .
We used ANFO , a mixture of ammonia nitrate and diesel fuel .
The AN stands for ammonia nitrate and FO stands for fuel oil or diesel fuel .
We used a product called HANFO or what is called heavy anfo .
It was called heavy anfo because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fuel in it ’ s mixture , hence the term Heavy anfo .
Both anfo and heavy anfo have to be used in dry holes .
If the holes are wet , the diesel component would wash out and the ammonia nitrate by itself would not ignite .
In those instances we would line the drill holes with plastic liners and then load the anfo or heavy anfo into the plastic liners .
If it still proved too wet , we went to a very expensive product called Magnafrac .
It was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less water proof , but still , if left to sit too long , the slurry would decompose and fail to ignite .
Heavy anfo has a higher power factor than regular anfo .
That means more bang for the buck or more explosive energy .
The name of the game was always to blast the most amount of rock with the least amount of actual product loaded .
This is called the powder factor .
The lower you can keep the powder factor and still break the host rock , the cheaper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , more expensive , Magnafrac very expensive which drove the powder factor up .
The goal was to maintain a balance .
I ’ ve handled all of these products , loaded them , helped the blast crew tie the pattern in with DET cord and basically pulled the trigger .
We used blasting wire connected to a blasting machine like you see in the old movies where the bad guys are trying to blow up railroad tracks .
In the early 90 ’ s , the wire and blasting machine was replaced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called non-electric blasting .
There was no electric charge produced to run down the yellow blasting wire to the DET cord and initiate the blast .
What was used was a product called ‘ shock tube ’ .
It was a small diameter hollow plastic tubing about 3 or 4 millimeters in diameter that had a very small powdery dusting of an explosive called ‘ pentlandite ’ a type of your basic TNT .
It was called shock tube for a reason because it was non-electric.It is basically a fundamental shock wave generator @ @ @ @ @ @ @ air-driven or detonation-driven ) .
It produces a ‘ blast shock wave ’ .
This is the lead shock wave that then in turn initiates the DET cord , then the explosive .
To initiate the detonation there was a small , for lack of a better word , I will say clacker , that you could step on .
The non electric energy released when the clacker was stepped on was sufficient to ignite the very minute amount of powdered explosive in the shock tube that ran and initiated the DET cord @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hole filled with the actual explosive product used in the blast pattern itself .
Now here is where the rubber meets the road .
Up until now we are talking inert elements and components that combined or by themselves couldn ’ t blow up a box of Kleenex .
The key to all this were the 500 gram TNT detonators placed at the bottom of each drill hole at the bottom of the explosives .
We generally used 2 500 gram TNT detonators per hole .
That is where the ignition took place @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a TNT detonation to initiate or ignite a load of Anfo , Hanfo or Magnafrac .
What I mean by that is that for Anfo to detonate , it needs the violence of a TNT initiation before it itself will actually detonate .
I ’ ve watched Anfo catch fire and burn numerous times .
It won ’ t explode , it will just burn .
And if doesn ’ t have the diesel fuel mixture it won ’ t even do that .
Ammonia Nitrate is a commercial fertilizer .
The company @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bags of Ammonia Nitrate every spring to fertilize their lawns .
It will quite literally turn a brown lawn a vibrant green over night .
That practice was discontinued in about 1993 , at least at the mine I was employed at during that time span .
An automobile or truck perhaps running at speed , exploding and slamming into a mound of anfo etc .
might be able to deliver the explosive force necessary to detonate the explosive product .
Or the shock wave required .
( or a missile or bomb @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nitrate prills off mine site at a facility that was used by the explosive company that provided all the explosive product to our site .
This is a huge , explosive company that is global in scope .
And I will add that in all my time working with them and handling the various products , they/we used , they had a stellar safety record .
I ’ ve probably missed a lot and/or left out some information but this is all that I can recall to mind without having to refer to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were there pumps , in this storage facility , was there fuel oil saturating the ammonia nitrate that gradually was absorbed over time ?
Absolutely no disrespect meant or directed to Mr. Basulto or Mr. Sanchez.
” VT : Israel hit Hezbollah with an advanced tactical nuclear weapon in 2006 according to Russian military experts .
Today Russia sides with Israel and is suspected of running Donald Trump as a shill .
While Israel bombs Syria daily , Netanyahu prances around Moscow like a Czar .
TruPublica : A thermonuclear weapon weighing little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) can produce an explosive force comparable to the detonation of more than 1.2 million tons of TNT. A nuclear device no larger than traditional bombs can devastate an entire city by blast , fire , and radiation .
Nuclear weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction , and their use and control has been a major focus of international relations policy since their debut .
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons , commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT , is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology , to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy , and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament .
Five states have signed up to NPT , the US , UK , Russia , France and China .
Between them , they have declared 22,000 nuclear weapons in stock .
These five Nuclear Weapons States ( NWS ) have made undertakings not to use their nuclear weapons against a non-NWS party except in response to a nuclear attack .
India , Pakistan and N.Korea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Israel is widely known to have nuclear weapons but does not declare it and has therefore not signed up to the NPT treaty .
As of 2009 , only the US is known to have provided nuclear weapons for sharing .
Germany , Belgium , Netherlands , Italy and Turkey are still hosting U.S. nuclear weapons as part of NATO ’ s nuclear sharing policy .
Canada and Greece withdrew and no longer participate .
However , the USA sticks to the old policy that goes back to 1945 – to monopolise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ making their non-proliferation part of international law in combination with new restrictive measures against others .
In his book Towards a World War III Scenario : The Dangers of Nuclear War Michel Chossudovsky tells us about the interconnection between the Pentagon and US corporations .
The book says the US Congress okay ’ d the use of tactical nuclear weapons in non-conventional wars in 2003 .
According to congressmen , it was quite “ safe for civilians ” .
In intensive warfare conditions , up-to-date tactical nuclear weapons can create an illusion of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ together with conventional weapons .
For instance , according to Russian military experts , nuclear munitions of a new generation were used in Lebanon in 2006 during the operation against the Hezbollah .
The soil samples taken from craters had traces of enriched uranium .
At the same time , there was no gamma radiation and isotope of caesium 137 resulting from radioactive decay .
The radiation level was high inside the craters but went down approximately by half at the distance of just a few meters away .
According to U.S. military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nuclear weapon against another country since 1945 took place approximately 11 miles east of Basra , Iraq sometime between February 2 and February 5 , 1991 .
By then , Iraq ’ s former capitol had been declared a “ free fire on zone ” – open to carpet-bombing by high-flying formations of eight-engine B-52s .
“ Basra is a military town in the true sense , ” military spokesman General Richard Neal told the press .
“ The infrastructure , military infrastructure , is closely interwoven within the city of Basra itself.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ claimed there were no civilians left in Basra , the city was actually sheltering some 800,000 terrified residents .
In direct violation of Article 51 of the Geneva Protocols , which prohibits area bombing , the B-52s commenced saturation grid-bombing of the city .
Mixing fuel-air bombs with shrapnel-spraying cluster bombs , the bombers levelled entire city blocks , the Los Angeles Times reported , leaving “ bomb craters the size of football fields , and an untold number of casualties.
” [ Washington Post Feb 2/91 ; Los Angeles Times Feb 5/91 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to gigantic explosions and engulfed in “ a hellish nighttime of fires and smoke so dense that witnesses say the sun hasn ’ t been clearly visible for several days at a time , ” a 5-kiloton GB-400 nuclear bomb exploding 11 miles away under the desert attracted no notice .
Under the cover of massive Depleted Uranium tipped bombs that raised dirty mushroom clouds in thunderous explosions that rained radioactive dust over Jalalabad and nearby villages , the first nuclear bombs dropped since Basra in 1991 were detonated by American forces in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their field tests were concluded , United States forces would explode four 5-kiloton GBU-400 nuclear bombs in Tora Bora and other mountainous regions of Afghanistan and was so powerful that it actually created an earthquake there .
The use of such lethal weapons by US military , which is a gross violation of the Geneva Convention , has been sanctioned by both US presidents Bush and Obama ; thus they should be prosecuted for war crimes , as it is nothing less than a nuclear war .
The classification of DU munitions as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 1st Protocal additional to the Geneva Conventions .
Their use is a war crime .
The US military contends that “ mini-nukes ” are “ humanitarian bombs ” which minimize “ collateral damage ” .
According to scientific opinion on contract to the Pentagon , they are “ harmless to the surrounding civilian population because the explosion is underground.
” The B61-11 is a bon fide thermonuclear bomb , a Weapon of Mass Destruction ( WMD ) in the real sense of the word .
Military documents distinguish between the Nuclear Earth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mini-nuke ” , which are nuclear weapons with a yield of less than 10 kilotons ( two-thirds of a Hiroshima bomb ) .
The NEP can have a yield of up to a 1000 kilotons , or seventy times a Hiroshima bomb .
This distinction between mini-nukes and the NEP is in many regards misleading .
In practice , there is no dividing line .
We are broadly dealing with the same type of weaponry : the B61-11 has several “ available yields ” , ranging from “ low yields ” of less @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and up to the 1000-kiloton bomb .
In all cases , the radioactive fallout is devastating .
Moreover , the B61 series of thermonuclear weapons includes several models with distinct specifications : the B61-11 , the B61-3 , B61- 4 , B61-7 and B61-10 .
Each of these bombs has several “ available yields ” .
The latest in the series , the B61-12 is classed by many as the most dangerous nuclear weapon ever due to it being the first guided missile with dial-in yields making proliferation a real threat .
What @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use is the “ low yield ” 10 kt bomb , two-thirds of a Hiroshima bomb .
What allows it to happen is the disinformation and propaganda issued that these weapons are somehow not really nuclear weapons – they are .
Depleted uranium has a half-life of 4.5 billion years and has thus earned the title “ The silent killer that will never stop killing ” .
These weapons are called ‘ micro-nukes ’ as if somehow that makes it better or legal .
We know that tactical nuclear weapons or mini-nukes are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were cleared for use in the conventional war theatre by the US Senate in 2002 .
Rather bizarrely , these weapons can be used without the approval of the Commander in Chief .
As prof. Chossudovsky from Global Research asserts “ the “ evidence ” of a nuclear attack against Yemen ( see video ) remains unconfirmed , the use of mini-nukes against countries in the Middle East has been on the Pentagon ’ s drawing board for almost 20 years .
In 1996 under the Clinton administration , the B61-11 tactical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the US in an attack against Libya.
” Nuclear weapons will now proliferate as a direct result of American use .
It is known that Israel enjoys the luxury of around 80 nuclear weapons , deliverable with great precision to any spot in Iran from land , air or sea .
This is especially so considering it is not a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty .
As the conflict in Syria rages on , concerns emerge as a result of the use of depleted uranium shells ( DU ) in Iraq .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Raqqa in Northern Syria , are concerned over the long-term impact of the growing number of strikes by Coalition forces on their city and nearby villages .
In a report to the United Nations on DU , the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) warned that : “ in a post-conflict environment , the presence of depleted-uranium residues further increases the anxiety of local populations ” .
The collective experience of communities grappling with the public health and environmental legacy of conflict , and the known or suspected presence of radioactive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can have a lasting psychological impact on the memory of people .
These concerns have now spread to Syria .
It appears that Israel has used DU rounds as widely reported in Jamraya , Syria .
It is just a matter of time before we find out which other country has been contaminating Syria .
So awful are these weapons the international community has tried , in vain , towards an outright ban of their future use .
The collapse of Russia ’ s relationship with the West in the last five years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ non-proliferation as the super-powers intend on upgrading and increasing their weapons systems and nuclear arsenals .
Pakistan is now deploying short-range battlefield nuclear weapons designed to deter Indian tank columns .
Only four months ago , General Khalid Kidwai , the former director of Pakistan ’ s powerful Strategic Plans Division , the country ’ s main nuclear planning body , declared that Pakistan ’ s nukes “ are not seen as separate weapons ” , but are “ very much integrated ” with conventional forces .
To recap – nuclear weapons , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uranium munitions , ‘ mini-nukes , ‘ bunker busters ’ are quite simply nuclear weapons that leave a legacy of long-term death and destruction .
The UN used nuclear weapons in Libya HERE – The use of Depleted Uranium in Libya has been certified by a group of independent scientists .
Nuclear weapons use and it ’ s deadly effects HERE .
Nuclear weapons use in Iraq is already devastating families experiencing profound congenital birth defects HERE and HERE NATO itself , refuses to cooperate with investigations of war crimes and indiscriminate use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Type “ congenital birth defects nuclear weapons Iraq ” into Google images for a truly horrific gallery of misery emerges .

This article, of the dozen or so VT has done on the nuclear attack on Beirut, was erased from the VT site with 8 others by hackers…from Russia.
Why? Is this why? VT was attacked today around the world including on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, at best a disgusting shopping guide level rag.
Running scared with the ammonium nitrate lie, or rather Scotts Turf Builder, a great fertilizer. It can’t burn, it can’t explode but in Beirut we are told it blew a 594 foot crater 40 feet deep in solid granite, something only done once before, by a hydrogen bomb. That hole is not so far from Las Vegas.
We start with the text below in response to a Russia Today video where a so-called explosives expert explained Beirut. RT has become quite unreliable for the past year, a distinct pro-Israel bias, has repeatedly attacked Syria’s President Assad and is backing racist-supremacist elements in the US.
RT cleaned this off, which reports the Israeli bombers at 30 seconds onward:
We also burn Rick Sanchez as a fake anti-Zionst who went to RT because of equally fake media prosecution. We recognize the “OP,” which we believe Snowden is as well, certainly Wikileaks but, under the blanket of Google/YouTube-Facebook disinformation and censorship, the selling of a fake narrative has become so reliable that nuclear terrorism is becoming a “go to” for Israel, Saudi Arabia and, of course, the US.
We begin by debunking ammonium nitrate with a detailed explanation from a mining engineer explaining how the cover story is absurd. Simply put, you can’t make ammonium nitrate by itself explode, it simply burns.
And this is what a fireworks explosion looks like:
The massive Chinese explosion was an explosive slurry, not fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate. From here we cover issues of the use of tactical nuclear weapons and present a reasonable assertion that Lebanon was nuked in 2006. We begin with a mining demolition engineer with decades of experience:
“Now listen carefully, it takes a TNT detonation to initiate or ignite a load of Anfo, Hanfo or Magnafrac. What I mean by that is that for Anfo to detonate, it needs the violence of a TNT initiation before it itself will actually detonate. I’ve watched Anfo catch fire and burn numerous times.
It won’t explode, it will just burn. And if doesn’t have the diesel fuel mixture it won’t even do that. Ammonia Nitrate is a commercial fertilizer. The company employees were each given two twenty Kilo bags of Ammonia Nitrate every spring to fertilize their lawns. It will quite literally turn a brown lawn a vibrant green over night…”
He next describes listening to an interview on the Beirut warehouse fire where he became ‘spin’ suspicious, or if you will allow me to create a new word, ‘spincious’. “I have to say I disagree with this gentleman. The moment he hesitated to answer the very first ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question posed to him when asked if a match tossed on a pile of ammonia nitrate would initiate a catastrophic explosion, he hesitated for a few seconds before answering and I knew immediately that whatever he was going to say was maybe a bit cloudy and opaque. I’ve worked in the open pit mining industry all my life as a surveyor and a blasting technician. For my last two years at a large open pit coal operation in the British Columbia foothills, my job was designing the blast patterns and deciding which explosive product to load into the drill holes. We used ANFO, a mixture of ammonia nitrate and diesel fuel. The AN stands for ammonia nitrate and FO stands for fuel oil or diesel fuel. We used a product called HANFO or what is called heavy anfo. It was called heavy anfo because it had a higher concentration of diesel fuel in it’s mixture, hence the term Heavy anfo.
Both anfo and heavy anfo have to be used in dry holes. If the holes are wet, the diesel component would wash out and the ammonia nitrate by itself would not ignite.
In those instances we would line the drill holes with plastic liners and then load the anfo or heavy anfo into the plastic liners. If it still proved too wet, we went to a very expensive product called Magnafrac. It was a slurry based emulsion that was more or less water proof, but still, if left to sit too long, the slurry would decompose and fail to ignite.
Heavy anfo has a higher power factor than regular anfo. That means more bang for the buck or more explosive energy. The name of the game was always to blast the most amount of rock with the least amount of actual product loaded. This is called the powder factor. The lower you can keep the powder factor and still break the host rock, the cheaper the cost. Anfo cheapest, hanfo, more expensive, Magnafrac very expensive which drove the powder factor up. The goal was to maintain a balance.
I’ve handled all of these products, loaded them, helped the blast crew tie the pattern in with DET cord and basically pulled the trigger. We used blasting wire connected to a blasting machine like you see in the old movies where the bad guys are trying to blow up railroad tracks. In the early 90’s, the wire and blasting machine was replaced with a much more efficient system we called non-electric blasting.
There was no electric charge produced to run down the yellow blasting wire to the DET cord and initiate the blast.
What was used was a product called ‘shock tube’. It was a small diameter hollow plastic tubing about 3 or 4 millimeters in diameter that had a very small powdery dusting of an explosive called ‘pentlandite’ a type of your basic TNT. It was called shock tube for a reason because it was non-electric.It is basically a fundamental shock wave generator, (shock tubes) either compressed air-driven or detonation-driven). It produces a ‘blast shock wave’. This is the lead shock wave that then in turn initiates the DET cord, then the explosive.
To initiate the detonation there was a small, for lack of a better word, I will say clacker, that you could step on. The non electric energy released when the clacker was stepped on was sufficient to ignite the very minute amount of powdered explosive in the shock tube that ran and initiated the DET cord which of course ran into each drilled hole filled with the actual explosive product used in the blast pattern itself.
Now here is where the rubber meets the road. Up until now we are talking inert elements and components that combined or by themselves couldn’t blow up a box of Kleenex. The key to all this were the 500 gram TNT detonators placed at the bottom of each drill hole at the bottom of the explosives. We generally used 2 500 gram TNT detonators per hole.
That is where the ignition took place. Now listen carefully, it takes a TNT detonation to initiate or ignite a load of Anfo, Hanfo or Magnafrac. What I mean by that is that for Anfo to detonate, it needs the violence of a TNT initiation before it itself will actually detonate. I’ve watched Anfo catch fire and burn numerous times.
It won’t explode, it will just burn. And if doesn’t have the diesel fuel mixture it won’t even do that. Ammonia Nitrate is a commercial fertilizer. The company employees were each given two twenty Kilo bags of Ammonia Nitrate every spring to fertilize their lawns. It will quite literally turn a brown lawn a vibrant green over night. That practice was discontinued in about 1993, at least at the mine I was employed at during that time span.
An automobile or truck perhaps running at speed, exploding and slamming into a mound of anfo etc. might be able to deliver the explosive force necessary to detonate the explosive product. Or the shock wave required. (or a missile or bomb)
We used to make the ammonia nitrate prills off mine site at a facility that was used by the explosive company that provided all the explosive product to our site. This is a huge, explosive company that is global in scope. And I will add that in all my time working with them and handling the various products, they/we used, they had a stellar safety record.
I’ve probably missed a lot and/or left out some information but this is all that I can recall to mind without having to refer to my various texts and notes.
So were there pumps, in this storage facility, was there fuel oil saturating the ammonia nitrate that gradually was absorbed over time? Absolutely no disrespect meant or directed to Mr. Basulto or Mr. Sanchez.”


veteranstoday--2020-08-13--The Land of Hansel and Gretel, Maybe Not a Good Place

People That Got Lost in the Wilderness , Not Space Health Editor ’ s Note : People can get so lost that their brains can not function to help them find their way .
Maybe you have found yourself in a room at your house and can not remember why you went there and what you intended to get from or do there .
At least you are safe in your house .
Here are a few cases of when people have gotten so lost , in America , that they lost all sense of where they were .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wilderness ’ cases occurred before GPS , even more recently , in the GPS world , people can become hopelessly turned around and lost .
Sometimes how people overcome being lost depends on the kindness or unkindness of strangers they meet along the way .
We can only hope this does not happen to us….Carol ATTENTION READERS Due to the nature of independent content , VT can not guarantee content validity .
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People That Got Lost in the Wilderness, Not Space
Every so often, people get utterly lost, so lost that they scramble their brains along with their bearings. https://t.co/LxrCMqzEB2 — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) August 12, 2020
Health Editor’s Note: People can get so lost that their brains cannot function to help them find their way. Maybe you have found yourself in a room at your house and cannot remember why you went there and what you intended to get from or do there. At least you are safe in your house. Here are a few cases of when people have gotten so lost, in America, that they lost all sense of where they were. While many of these ‘lost in the wilderness’ cases occurred before GPS, even more recently, in the GPS world, people can become hopelessly turned around and lost. Sometimes how people overcome being lost depends on the kindness or unkindness of strangers they meet along the way. We can only hope this does not happen to us….Carol
Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues. Carol’s Archives 2009-2013


veteranstoday--2020-08-13--Idiot: Trump Admits to Sabotaging Post Office to Rig Election

Daily Beast : President Donald Trump has come out and admitted what many have already accused him of—that he ’ s blocking federal aid for the U.S .
Postal Service in an attempt to sabotage mass mail-in voting during November ’ s presidential election .
Congressional Democrats have demanded that a coronavirus relief bill include money to help post-office officials prepare for a presidential contest during the raging pandemic that has killed more than 165,000 Americans .
In an interview with Fox Business Network on Thursday morning , Trump proudly admitted he was blocking the aid .
“ If we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that means they can ’ t have the money , that means they can ’ t have universal mail-in voting , ” he said .
“ It just can ’ t happen.
” Trump has repeatedly raged against the idea of mail-in voting , claiming with no evidence that it would make the election open to fraud .
Joe Biden has previously said it ’ s obvious Trump is trying to “ indirectly steal the election by arguing that mail-in ballots don ’ t work.
” And from the Guardian : “ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accusations that Louis DeJoy , the new postmaster general and a major Republican donor , is making cuts at the agency to intentionally slow down the mail .
There are reports of severe mail delays in places across the country and the Washington Post and other news organizations published internal USPS documents last month saying there was a blanket ban on overtime and that workers were being told to leave mail behind if it will delay them on their routes .
A USPS spokesman denied there was a blanket ban on overtime , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ employees were being told to leave the mail behind .
A slower mail service could have a big impact this fall because an unprecedented number of Americans are expected to vote by mail and many states require a ballot to arrive at an election office by election day , regardless of when it was put in the mail , in order to be counted .
At least 65,000 ballots were rejected during the 2020 primaries because they arrived too late .
‘ If we don ’ t make a deal that means they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That means they can ’ t have universal mail-in voting .
They just can ’ t have it .
Sort of a crazy thing , ’ Trump said on Thursday .
Andrew Bates , a spokesman for Joe Biden , the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee , said in a statement Trump was attacking the US economy and democracy .
‘ The president of the United States is sabotaging a basic service that hundreds of millions of people rely upon , cutting a critical lifeline for rural economies and for delivery of medicines , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their fundamental right to vote safely during the most catastrophic public health crisis in over 100 years , ’ he said .
”

Daily Beast: President Donald Trump has come out and admitted what many have already accused him of—that he’s blocking federal aid for the U.S. Postal Service in an attempt to sabotage mass mail-in voting during November’s presidential election.
President Trump admitted in an interview he plans to block additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service in order to prevent increased voting by mail. https://t.co/5y70Hr7ikO
Congressional Democrats have demanded that a coronavirus relief bill include money to help post-office officials prepare for a presidential contest during the raging pandemic that has killed more than 165,000 Americans. In an interview with Fox Business Network on Thursday morning, Trump proudly admitted he was blocking the aid.
https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1293910464884219911?s=20
“If we don’t make the deal, that means they can’t have the money, that means they can’t have universal mail-in voting,” he said. “It just can’t happen.” Trump has repeatedly raged against the idea of mail-in voting, claiming with no evidence that it would make the election open to fraud.
Trump admits to politicizing the Post Office to steal an election conducted by mail https://t.co/IszgYHo5Yc — Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 13, 2020
Joe Biden has previously said it’s obvious Trump is trying to “indirectly steal the election by arguing that mail-in ballots don’t work.” And from the Guardian:
“The president’s comments also come amid accusations that Louis DeJoy, the new postmaster general and a major Republican donor, is making cuts at the agency to intentionally slow down the mail. There are reports of severe mail delays in places across the country and the Washington Post and other news organizations published internal USPS documents last month saying there was a blanket ban on overtime and that workers were being told to leave mail behind if it will delay them on their routes. A USPS spokesman denied there was a blanket ban on overtime, but did not address questions about whether employees were being told to leave the mail behind.
Trump says he'll block funding for the Post Office in an effort to prevent voters from casting ballots by mail https://t.co/s3m31HZPk7 — TIME (@TIME) August 13, 2020
A slower mail service could have a big impact this fall because an unprecedented number of Americans are expected to vote by mail and many states require a ballot to arrive at an election office by election day, regardless of when it was put in the mail, in order to be counted. At least 65,000 ballots were rejected during the 2020 primaries because they arrived too late.
New: Federal judge in Pennsylvania orders Trump campaign & GOP to produce any evidence of vote-by-mail fraud in the state by Friday. The order, in a high-profile case about vote-by-mail, forces campaign to back up Trump’s false claims about massive fraud in postal voting. — Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 13, 2020
‘If we don’t make a deal that means they don’t get the money. That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting. They just can’t have it. Sort of a crazy thing,’ Trump said on Thursday.
The truth comes out. He's trying to steal the election by withholding funding from @USPS & obstructing vote by mail. This is a direct attack on the foundation of our democracy—free & fair elections. The American people decide elections. Not Donald Trump. https://t.co/1id2wHLEw0 — Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) August 13, 2020
Andrew Bates, a spokesman for Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said in a statement Trump was attacking the US economy and democracy.
‘The president of the United States is sabotaging a basic service that hundreds of millions of people rely upon, cutting a critical lifeline for rural economies and for delivery of medicines, because he wants to deprive Americans of their fundamental right to vote safely during the most catastrophic public health crisis in over 100 years,’ he said.”


veteranstoday--2020-08-13--Blockbuster: New irrefutable proof Lebanon was attacked by Israel, Google and Facebook (new update/E

Blockbuster: New irrefutable proof Lebanon was attacked by Israel, Google and Facebook (new update/English translation)

If there had been fertilizer in the warehouse , the Israeli jets wouldn ’ t have needed to attack once they started the fire .
They would have gotten far away .
Israel , as we can see , they dropped a bomb on an empty warehouse with a 6 kiloton bang .
Watch it now , in this Tweet , then again frame by frame to see the planes and hear attack , just like the hundreds did in Beirut now being silenced by Facebook and Google on behalf of their attackers .
At 1:12 the planes dive in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , terrifying those taking the video .
At 1:53 one of them pulls up after releasing the weapon and turns off into the cloud .
Stills below but catch it yourself as well .
And , the last thing you see is a nuclear attack .
Here is another view .
VT : Since the Israeli nuclear attack on Beirut , a ban has been put on the hundreds of videos Lebanese civilians took of the F 16s we now know dropped the tactical nuke on the port of Beirut .
Watch CC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , further down you can see the whole attack , get the entire experience , sound , see the planes and enjoy the devastating explosion so many treat as a joke but that devastated Lebanon .
[ Editor ’ s Note : We need a translation of the Arabic conversation as more evidence .
It is very important .
Please post in the comments please , or let me know you can do it and I will email you directly .
We need a translation to parallel the video action .
VT has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worldwide network of contributors , our readers and commenters .
Thank you… Jim W. Dean ] WeAreTheMighty.com : This is how Israel modified F-16s for its unique needs Were Israel to drop any other weapon , they would use the F15E rather than their fleet of specially modified F 16s which are their choice for nuclear delivery .
Videos are coming into VT now , that and witness statements .
In every case , they were removed from Facebook and Google ’ s YouTube while both organizations have , from the first moments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fireworks .
We have evidence that both Sergei Brin of Google and Zuckerberg are operational assets at the highest level of a rogue CIA-Mossad operation to bring down both the Middle East and the United States .
The same folks who rig the elections now rig the wars as well .
Both banned VT over 5 years ago .
Try posting a VT link on Facebook .
Prove it to yourself .
Our story : The couple who filmed and submitted this video are brave and lucky .
As the Israeli plane dives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out the plane and she screams as the missile is released .
Video here and at the Twitter post below .
You can hear them , you can hear the plane and missile and watch them take alarm seconds before anything happened .
The Israeli F 16 you will hear is seen on the video at 1:53 to 1.54 but heard approaching at 1:12 and releases its missile at 1:21 The planes the ‘ hasbara ’ claimed were birds , now filmed from a rooftop , are F 16s , yes , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” and very noisy ones .
We have some questions now .
If we have fake missile videos , they had to have been created by a security agency , Israel for sure , with much of the work done in advance and a network of trolls putting them out .
Here is why I ask this , we have eyewitnesses now of a missile from an Israeli plane and , below , the sound of that plane and missile recorded from a Beirut rooftop .
When Meissan said this was a new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ referring to a plane launched suicide drone type weapon or a hybrid glide bomb .
What we do hear at 1:21 is an F16 ( single-engine/also seen and identified ) enter a dive directly over the target , as heard easily from a rooftop in this audio masterpiece .
And then we had these witnesses as well from another location but with no media .
“ My dear brother , I was in the church during the time of the explosion praying .
The doors and windows were all closed .
The number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ psalters sang loud .
I first heard the sound of two small explosions after which the sound of a launching missile went off .
It was no more than three seconds after that that the ground began to shake and the explosive storm that ensued immediately after that ripped off the doors and the windows and tossed them within the church .
Shattered glass was strewn all over the floor .
A huge missile had exposed nearby .
According to my estimates , the explosion occurred about 5 kilometers from the church and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experiencing shock over all of this and that fact that the explosion sent my already sick wife ( whose situation has gotten worse ) flying within our home with glass everywhere certainly didn ’ t help .
“ ( original text in Greek below ) Comments wanted .
We have more videos but there is no place we can host them safely thus far .
This video and the Russian ( and Lebanese govt , which is in the wrong format ) , show a smaller missile , or a “ glide bomb.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Beirut , the ‘ city of video fakers ’ and fertilizer hoarders… And watch a Russian video expert do his thing…

If there had been fertilizer in the warehouse, the Israeli jets wouldn’t have needed to attack once they started the fire. They would have gotten far away. Israel, as we can see, they dropped a bomb on an empty warehouse with a 6 kiloton bang. Watch it now, in this Tweet, then again frame by frame to see the planes and hear attack, just like the hundreds did in Beirut now being silenced by Facebook and Google on behalf of their attackers.
At 1:12 the planes dive in, you hear them buzz close by, terrifying those taking the video. At 1:53 one of them pulls up after releasing the weapon and turns off into the cloud.
Stills below but catch it yourself as well.
And, the last thing you see is a nuclear attack. Here is another view.
VT: Since the Israeli nuclear attack on Beirut, a ban has been put on the hundreds of videos Lebanese civilians took of the F 16s we now know dropped the tactical nuke on the port of Beirut. Watch CC tv of pedestrians pointing at the planes, further down you can see the whole attack, get the entire experience, sound, see the planes and enjoy the devastating explosion so many treat as a joke but that devastated Lebanon.
CC tv of pedestrians watching F 16s descend over Beirut harbor. pic.twitter.com/oNAFjL3Bg9 — Gordon Duff (@gpduf) August 12, 2020
[ Editor’s Note: We need a translation of the Arabic conversation as more evidence. It is very important. Please post in the comments please, or let me know you can do it and I will email you directly. We need a translation to parallel the video action. VT has always been a team effort of our worldwide network of contributors, our readers and commenters. Thank you… Jim W. Dean ]
WeAreTheMighty.com: This is how Israel modified F-16s for its unique needs
Were Israel to drop any other weapon, they would use the F15E rather than their fleet of specially modified F 16s which are their choice for nuclear delivery.
Videos are coming into VT now, that and witness statements. In every case, they were removed from Facebook and Google’s YouTube while both organizations have, from the first moments, pushed conspiracy theories about fertilizer and fireworks.
We have evidence that both Sergei Brin of Google and Zuckerberg are operational assets at the highest level of a rogue CIA-Mossad operation to bring down both the Middle East and the United States.
The same folks who rig the elections now rig the wars as well. Both banned VT over 5 years ago. Try posting a VT link on Facebook. Prove it to yourself. Our story:
The couple who filmed and submitted this video are brave and lucky. As the Israeli plane dives in, you can hear them point out the plane and she screams as the missile is released. Video here and at the Twitter post below.
You can hear them, you can hear the plane and missile and watch them take alarm seconds before anything happened.
The Israeli F 16 you will hear is seen on the video at 1:53 to 1.54 but heard approaching at 1:12 and releases its missile at 1:21
The planes the ‘hasbara’ claimed were birds, now filmed from a rooftop, are F 16s, yes, they are birds, “Fighting Falcons, ” and very noisy ones.
We have some questions now. If we have fake missile videos, they had to have been created by a security agency, Israel for sure, with much of the work done in advance and a network of trolls putting them out.
Here is why I ask this, we have eyewitnesses now of a missile from an Israeli plane and, below, the sound of that plane and missile recorded from a Beirut rooftop. When Meissan said this was a new Israeli weapon, he may have been referring to a plane launched suicide drone type weapon or a hybrid glide bomb.
What we do hear at 1:21 is an F16 (single-engine/also seen and identified) enter a dive directly over the target, as heard easily from a rooftop in this audio masterpiece.
And then we had these witnesses as well from another location but with no media.
“My dear brother, I was in the church during the time of the explosion praying. The doors and windows were all closed. The number of parishioners was few, but the psalters sang loud. I first heard the sound of two small explosions after which the sound of a launching missile went off.
It was no more than three seconds after that that the ground began to shake and the explosive storm that ensued immediately after that ripped off the doors and the windows and tossed them within the church. Shattered glass was strewn all over the floor.
A huge missile had exposed nearby. According to my estimates, the explosion occurred about 5 kilometers from the church and my home.
We are all still experiencing shock over all of this and that fact that the explosion sent my already sick wife (whose situation has gotten worse) flying within our home with glass everywhere certainly didn’t help. “(original text in Greek below)
Comments wanted. We have more videos but there is no place we can host them safely thus far.
This video and the Russian (and Lebanese govt, which is in the wrong format), show a smaller missile, or a “glide bomb.”
Turn up the speakers and listen to Beirut sing of attack pic.twitter.com/bKbyUhi1mb — Gordon Duff (@gpduf) August 12, 2020
These are piling up from half of Beirut, the ‘city of video fakers’ and fertilizer hoarders…
And watch a Russian video expert do his thing…


veteranstoday--2020-08-13--NY Times: True COVID Toll in the US has already Surpassed 200,000 dead

NY Times : Across the United States , at least 200,000 more people have died than usual since March , according to a New York Times analysis of estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
This is about 60,000 higher than the number of deaths that have been directly linked to the coronavirus .
As the pandemic has moved south and west from its epicenter in New York City , so have the unusual patterns in deaths from all causes .
That suggests that the official death counts may be substantially underestimating the overall effects of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus as well as by other causes linked to the pandemic .
When the coronavirus first took hold in the United States in March , the bulk of deaths above normal levels , or “ excess deaths , ” were in the Northeast , as New York and New Jersey saw huge surges .
The Northeast still makes up nearly half of all excess deaths in the country , though numbers in the region have drastically declined since the peak in April .
But as the number of hot spots expanded , so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other parts of the country .
Many of the recent coronavirus cases and deaths in the South and the West may have been driven largely by reopenings and relaxed social distancing restrictions .

NY Times: Across the United States, at least 200,000 more people have died than usual since March, according to a New York Times analysis of estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is about 60,000 higher than the number of deaths that have been directly linked to the coronavirus.
200,000 more people have died in the U.S. since March than would be expected in a normal year. This number, about 60,000 higher than the number of deaths that have been directly linked to the coronavirus, may be the true toll of the pandemic so far. https://t.co/5FuLORgOWZ — The New York Times (@nytimes) August 13, 2020
As the pandemic has moved south and west from its epicenter in New York City, so have the unusual patterns in deaths from all causes. That suggests that the official death counts may be substantially underestimating the overall effects of the virus, as people die from the virus as well as by other causes linked to the pandemic.
When the coronavirus first took hold in the United States in March, the bulk of deaths above normal levels, or “excess deaths,” were in the Northeast, as New York and New Jersey saw huge surges.
The Northeast still makes up nearly half of all excess deaths in the country, though numbers in the region have drastically declined since the peak in April. But as the number of hot spots expanded, so has the number of excess deaths across other parts of the country. Many of the recent coronavirus cases and deaths in the South and the West may have been driven largely by reopenings and relaxed social distancing restrictions. ref: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html


veteranstoday--2020-08-14--Dissecting the Beirut coverup: Ammonium nitrate not explosive and Lebanon was nuked before


veteranstoday--2020-08-14--The Beiruit Nuke: Scintillation and Flash and Rampage (updated)

When Israel ’ s new nuclear tipped Rampage missile , launched from the IAF ’ s specially modified F 16s , was tested a week ago on Beirut , Iran saw how a tactical nuclear weapon could zip past Syria ’ s S300 defenses .
The first test was inside Syria but nuking Beirut and crashing her government was a big win for Tel Aviv .
Keeping secrets is hard , even for monsters .
From the hundreds of comments on the Iran interview : This is where we began so long ago and it all turned out to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ true and a nightmare for the decent people of Lebanon .
This is what the Rampage is for and why it was used on Beirut at the same time Hezbollah and Iran are marshaling forces to retake Golan , or so Israel believes or , more appropriately , says it believes .
When we had the missile from every direction on video and FLIR , Israel ’ s army of trolls aided by Brin and Zuck did their best .
Iran ’ s response has been what is either an empty threat or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Then came the delightful video of the planes zooming in and launching , inexorable , totally visible as they zoom up and away at 450 knots .
They are “ birds , ” just very very big and extremely fast .
The missile was a bird too .
Now experts are telling us that the missiles are real , and that the planes and missile were over the target simultaneously , which only Israel ’ s superb pilots could do .
Examination of evidence will confirm whether ordnance from an F 16 was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or how the attack was coordinated .
Thus far it seems to be both an atrocity and a masterpiece of planning as with 9/11 .
Israel ’ s F16 ’ s carry the Rampage nuclear tipped missile that , according to their animation , hits targets just like this .
Any similarity between the real video frame and the Israeli military animation is purely coincidence .
We had some questions about the Beirut nuclear attack .
We have since proven that even if fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate existed at the site , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exploded .
We had already made a good case for there being no fertilizer at all but even that means nothing .
Ammonium nitrate isn ’ t explosive at all but can be used to make explosives .
Now , after exposing this using real explosive experts from the mining business , our Israeli friends are now trying to claim that , while the Israeo-Russian fake ship was docking , it rained fuel oil that day .
We wish them good luck with that and , of course , the full support of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can there be a nuclear explosion with no scintillation : Jeff Smith : Yes scintillation is based on neutron / gamma radiation flux density.The smaller the nuke the closer you half to be to see scintillation .
Little nukes produce less radiation than big nukes so you must be closer to see it .
If it is a ground penetration burst you will see no or very little scintillation .
The same if it is detonated inside a building such as on 911…..Jeff… .

By Gordon Duff with Jeff Smith
When Israel’s new nuclear tipped Rampage missile, launched from the IAF’s specially modified F 16s, was tested a week ago on Beirut, Iran saw how a tactical nuclear weapon could zip past Syria’s S300 defenses. The first test was inside Syria but nuking Beirut and crashing her government was a big win for Tel Aviv.
Keeping secrets is hard, even for monsters. From the hundreds of comments on the Iran interview:
This is where we began so long ago and it all turned out to be more true than we knew, too true and a nightmare for the decent people of Lebanon.
#Israel Air Force successfully used #Rampage for first time. Due to the danger of #Syria Air Defense Force's S-300PM-2s, #Israel Air Force had to use the rocket to target a rocket/ ballistic missile factory + weapon warehouses of #IRGC proxies in #Masyaf, #Syria on 13/04/2019: https://t.co/4YjD7ySZ5O — Babak Taghvaee – Μπάπακ Τακβαίε – بابک تقوایی (@BabakTaghvaee) April 14, 2019
This is what the Rampage is for and why it was used on Beirut at the same time Hezbollah and Iran are marshaling forces to retake Golan, or so Israel believes or, more appropriately, says it believes.
When we had the missile from every direction on video and FLIR, Israel’s army of trolls aided by Brin and Zuck did their best. Iran’s response has been what is either an empty threat or warning in this highly disturbing Tweet:
Then came the delightful video of the planes zooming in and launching, inexorable, totally visible as they zoom up and away at 450 knots. They are “birds,” just very very big and extremely fast.
The missile was a bird too.
Now experts are telling us that the missiles are real, and that the planes and missile were over the target simultaneously, which only Israel’s superb pilots could do. Examination of evidence will confirm whether ordnance from an F 16 was employed, such as a B61, or how the attack was coordinated.
Thus far it seems to be both an atrocity and a masterpiece of planning as with 9/11.
This last frame would be when the motor shut off after a supersonic burn which accounts for the nose cone heat signature.
Israel’s F16’s carry the Rampage nuclear tipped missile that, according to their animation, hits targets just like this. Any similarity between the real video frame and the Israeli military animation is purely coincidence.
We had some questions about the Beirut nuclear attack. We have since proven that even if fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate existed at the site, it would have burned and could never have exploded.
We had already made a good case for there being no fertilizer at all but even that means nothing. Ammonium nitrate isn’t explosive at all but can be used to make explosives. Now, after exposing this using real explosive experts from the mining business, our Israeli friends are now trying to claim that, while the Israeo-Russian fake ship was docking, it rained fuel oil that day. We wish them good luck with that and, of course, the full support of Brin and Zuck.
The question, can there be a nuclear explosion with no scintillation:
Jeff Smith: Yes scintillation is based on neutron / gamma radiation flux density.The smaller the nuke the closer you half to be to see scintillation. Little nukes produce less radiation than big nukes so you must be closer to see it. If it is a ground penetration burst you will see no or very little scintillation. The same if it is detonated inside a building such as on 911…..Jeff….


veteranstoday--2020-08-13--“Beirut Massacre by a Missile!” Lebanon President and Italian Military Expert said “Thermal rings th

“Beirut Massacre by a Missile!” Lebanon President and Italian Military Expert said “Thermal rings the proof”

« After that kind of mushroom-shaped cloud that is very reminiscent of nuclear explosions , the so-called “ thermal rings ” are visible in the videos in the following moments , which develop into an explosion only when it is caused from top to bottom and not when it is a simple blast from the ground .
This makes it very probable that the explosion in the port of Beirut was caused by a bomb or a missile » .
This statement was made by a retired Carabinieri officer who , for obvious reasons , wants to remain anonymous .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , has the NBCR ( Nuclear Bacteriological Chemical Radiological ) emergency patent , and above all he has worked for a long time in missions in the Middle East .
Not only does it reveal this technical detail that supports the thesis of a missile with a small nuclear charge dropped on the port of the Lebanese city that has made more than 130 dead , 5 thousand injured and 300 thousand displaced .
But he adds other details that corroborate the thesis of the military attack that was carried out with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as to make Mossad , the Israeli counterintelligence , the number one suspect .
On the Beirut disaster , Lebanese President Michel Aoun supports this possibility , even with all the caution that diplomacy requires .
As reported by the Lebanese broadcaster MTV , the Lebanese head of state said that « the cause of the explosions has not yet been determined , since there is a possibility that external interference has been produced through a missile , a bomb , or any other action » .
« A statement of extreme relevance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ during the meeting with Emmanuel Macron , he asked France to provide Lebanon with aerial images of the explosion .
“ If they do not have them , we will ask other countries to determine if it was an external attack ” , concluded the Christian leader , once again making clear Beirut ’ s desire not to stop with an unnecessary investigation » writes a report by InsideOver , the Italian and English geopolitical site of the newspaper Il Giornale .
So far all the media , especially in Europe , have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tons of ammonium nitrate seized a few years ago in a foreign freighter in a warehouse in the center of a city .
But those who do it do not really know the economic situation of Lebanon , devastated by the US sanctions issued for no reason , only because Hezbollah is allied with the Pasdaran , the Guards of the Islamic Revolution of Iran , and undermined by continuous insurrections that appear to be piloted by CANVAS , the self-styled anti-biolence center , which was actually used by the American counterintelligence of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the bloody coups in Lebanon ( Revolution of the Cedar , 2005 ) , in Georgia ( Revolution of the Roses , 2003 ) and in Ukraine ( Revolution orange , 2004 and then 2014 ) which the same organization boasts on its official website .
In such context it is not easy to transport and secure so much explosive material that , moreover , in a port it is easy to transport abroad for Hezbollah which , it should not be forgotten , despite being a paramilitary organization declared terrorist by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contribution to the Syrian president Bashar Al Assad in defeating ISIS , as they are of Shiite Muslim confession like the government of Damascus and therefore are enemies of the Islamic extremist Sunni Salafist terrorists .
It is therefore evident that in the hypothesis of a missile attack , some Lebanese have betrayed their homeland , enticed by the very generous engagements of the Israeli Mossad .
There is in fact another detail in the dynamics of the explosion always highlighted by our military source .
« When an explosion occurs in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ trigger for sympathy ” » he explains .
It is a domino effect .
Each explosive charge ignites another in just a few seconds so as to produce a single explosion .
Why in Beirut did a fire break out first , and only after the explosive explosion with a thermal effect following the ignition and then a mechanical effect , the one that devastated buildings for kilometers ?
The explanation can only be the one already supported by Gospa News on the basis of the intelligence revelations reported by Veterans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may have been launched outside the warehouse to cause the bang , the fire and the first giant cloud of smoke .
The second was thrown into the warehouse to create the disaster .
Because ?
To enable the whole world to make videos .
If there had been a single gigantic explosion , there would have been no time to film the explosion and therefore the terrorist effect would not have been effective .
This is similar to what happened for the “ planes ” against the Twin Towers of the World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ draw the attention of the whole world to the disaster so that we could witness the explosion triggered by micro nuclear charges , as the military experts of Veterans Today claim , and lawyers for the victims .
Too bad that the West is so entangled with the Lobby of the Weapons of the Zionists ( descendants of the Ashkenazi and not of the Israelites , as we have repeatedly written ) that it can not afford to make a serious investigation into their criminal acts .
Therefore Lebanon will be left alone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Easter 2019 attacks .
So goes this evil world .
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio © COPYRIGHT GOSPA NEWS for VETERANS TODAY only no reproduction without authorization – Versione originale in Italiano

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean
Versione originale in Italiano
«After that kind of mushroom-shaped cloud that is very reminiscent of nuclear explosions, the so-called “thermal rings” are visible in the videos in the following moments, which develop into an explosion only when it is caused from top to bottom and not when it is a simple blast from the ground. This makes it very probable that the explosion in the port of Beirut was caused by a bomb or a missile».
This statement was made by a retired Carabinieri officer who, for obvious reasons, wants to remain anonymous. But he is an expert in explosives, has the NBCR (Nuclear Bacteriological Chemical Radiological) emergency patent, and above all he has worked for a long time in missions in the Middle East.
The explosion that causes the atom-like fungus and then the thermal rings – VIDEO
Not only does it reveal this technical detail that supports the thesis of a missile with a small nuclear charge dropped on the port of the Lebanese city that has made more than 130 dead, 5 thousand injured and 300 thousand displaced. But he adds other details that corroborate the thesis of the military attack that was carried out with a malice, precision and skill so refined as to make Mossad, the Israeli counterintelligence, the number one suspect.
On the Beirut disaster, Lebanese President Michel Aoun supports this possibility, even with all the caution that diplomacy requires.
As reported by the Lebanese broadcaster MTV, the Lebanese head of state said that «the cause of the explosions has not yet been determined, since there is a possibility that external interference has been produced through a missile, a bomb, or any other action».
Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the scene of the disaster (center with mask)
«A statement of extreme relevance, given that Aoun himself confirmed that during the meeting with Emmanuel Macron, he asked France to provide Lebanon with aerial images of the explosion. “If they do not have them, we will ask other countries to determine if it was an external attack”, concluded the Christian leader, once again making clear Beirut’s desire not to stop with an unnecessary investigation» writes a report by InsideOver, the Italian and English geopolitical site of the newspaper Il Giornale.
So far all the media, especially in Europe, have accused Hezbollah for keeping the approximately 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate seized a few years ago in a foreign freighter in a warehouse in the center of a city.
But those who do it do not really know the economic situation of Lebanon, devastated by the US sanctions issued for no reason, only because Hezbollah is allied with the Pasdaran, the Guards of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, and undermined by continuous insurrections that appear to be piloted by CANVAS, the self-styled anti-biolence center, which was actually used by the American counterintelligence of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) for the bloody coups in Lebanon (Revolution of the Cedar, 2005), in Georgia (Revolution of the Roses, 2003) and in Ukraine (Revolution orange, 2004 and then 2014) which the same organization boasts on its official website.
In such context it is not easy to transport and secure so much explosive material that, moreover, in a port it is easy to transport abroad for Hezbollah which, it should not be forgotten, despite being a paramilitary organization declared terrorist by the US, has given a fundamental contribution to the Syrian president Bashar Al Assad in defeating ISIS, as they are of Shiite Muslim confession like the government of Damascus and therefore are enemies of the Islamic extremist Sunni Salafist terrorists.
It is therefore evident that in the hypothesis of a missile attack, some Lebanese have betrayed their homeland, enticed by the very generous engagements of the Israeli Mossad. There is in fact another detail in the dynamics of the explosion always highlighted by our military source.
«When an explosion occurs in a deposit of flammable material, there is a “trigger for sympathy”» he explains. It is a domino effect. Each explosive charge ignites another in just a few seconds so as to produce a single explosion.
Why in Beirut did a fire break out first, and only after the explosive explosion with a thermal effect following the ignition and then a mechanical effect, the one that devastated buildings for kilometers?
The explanation can only be the one already supported by Gospa News on the basis of the intelligence revelations reported by VT: two missiles.
The first may have been launched outside the warehouse to cause the bang, the fire and the first giant cloud of smoke. The second was thrown into the warehouse to create the disaster. Because? To enable the whole world to make videos.
If there had been a single gigantic explosion, there would have been no time to film the explosion and therefore the terrorist effect would not have been effective. This is similar to what happened for the “planes” against the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, as they served to draw the attention of the whole world to the disaster so that we could witness the explosion triggered by micro nuclear charges, as the military experts of VT claim, and lawyers for the victims.
Too bad that the West is so entangled with the Lobby of the Weapons of the Zionists (descendants of the Ashkenazi and not of the Israelites, as we have repeatedly written) that it cannot afford to make a serious investigation into their criminal acts. Therefore Lebanon will be left alone like Syria and Sri Lanka after the Easter 2019 attacks. So goes this evil world.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
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veteranstoday--2020-08-15--Late Cretaceous ‘Terror Crocodile’ Ambushed Dinosaurs

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She also shares her life with husband @ @ @ @ @ , and two rescue pups .

Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues.


veteranstoday--2020-08-15--Avoiding World War III in the Caucasus

Avoiding World War III in the Caucasus

“ The Caucasus is Ground Zero in the New Cold War between the U.S. and Russia.
” I wrote that several years ago , and it ’ s still true , particularly after Christian Armenia decisively repulsed a mid-July attack by Muslim Azerbaijan .
Perhaps dozens of Azeris died in the battles , including a major-general , colonel , and two majors .
Armenia reported far fewer deaths and captured a new defensive position , even though Azerbaijan possesses a bigger arsenal , quadruple the GDP , and more than triple Armenia ’ s population .
Azerbaijan attacked Armenia ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before .
Typically , though , Azerbaijan attacks Artsakh ( Karabagh ) , the de facto-independent Armenian-majority region that voted some thirty years ago for freedom from Azerbaijan , which rejects that vote .
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin deceitfully annexed Artsakh and the ancient Armenian region of Nakhichevan to Azerbaijan in the 1920s .
Far from being ancient itself , Azerbaijan was invented only in 1918 .
Why should any of this matter to the rest of the world ?
• Major gas and oil pipelines originate in Azerbaijan .
They cross Georgia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Europe and elsewhere .
Georgia and Azerbaijan are thereby linked to the West .
These pipelines are at risk as they pass only about 12 to 30 miles from the July fighting and from Artsakh .
• The Caucasus is the US/NATO/EU ’ s doorway ( via Turkey ) into the energy-rich Caspian Sea Basin and then into Russia ’ s vulnerable Turkic-Muslim underbelly in Central Asia .
Russia regards this as an existential threat .
• Armenia enjoys excellent relations with the US/NATO/EU .
But for security reasons it aligns itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia .
In sympathy with its Turkic Azerbaijani ally , Turkey has closed its border with Armenia since 1994 .
Armenia , therefore , has become the geopolitical pivot point for whoever wishes to dominate the Caucasus .
• Turkey has long threatened Armenia , and has placed itself squarely on Azerbaijan ’ s side in the recent conflict .
That may produce a Turkish confrontation with Russia , in addition to those in Syria and Libya .
• Azerbaijan is threatening to bomb Armenia ’ s Metsamor nuclear power plant .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Georgia , Iran , Turkey , and elsewhere .
Armenian-Western relations go back thousands of years .
The US/NATO/EU ( we ’ ll term it the “ Western Bloc ” ) has been very friendly to Armenia and Artsakh and aided them economically for decades .
Landlocked Armenia , however , depends on Russia for most of its gas and weapons .
Moscow also controls much of Armenia ’ s energy network .
Armenia ( pop .
3 million ) , nevertheless , remains under threat from Azerbaijan ( pop .
10 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million ) since the USSR ’ s dissolution in 1991 .
Turkey committed genocide against Armenians in 1915-23 .
The Armenian Highlands and everything else Armenian , particularly in what are now eastern and southern Turkey , were destroyed or confiscated .
Azeris joined in that genocide in the Caucasus .
The Armenian Genocide isn ’ t mere history .
The threat of Genocide 2.0 always looms .
Turkey and Azerbaijan ( motto : “ two countries , one nation ” ) won ’ t come to terms with Armenia ’ s existence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Armenia should be part of Azerbaijan — without Armenians , of course .
The July 19 cover of the Turkish newspaper Diriliş Postası ( Resurrection Post ) , headlined “ Karabagh or Death , ” portrays Azerbaijan as encompassing Artsakh and southern Armenia .
Turkey is still enamored with pan-Turkism , just as during WWI and the Armenian Genocide .
Turkey envisions leading a federation that includes Azerbaijan and the Turkic-Muslim countries of Central Asia ( Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan ) — all the way to China ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military drills last year wore arm patches depicting such a pan-Turkic entity .
Participants in recent worldwide anti-Armenian demonstrations flashed the Grey Wolves ( Bozkurtlar ) hand signal .
Grey Wolves is a neo-fascist , pan-Turkist organization responsible for hundreds of assassinations and murders .
While the European Allies ( and , implicitly , America ) militarily opposed Ottoman Turkey ’ s pan-Turkism in WWI , the Western Bloc implicitly supports pan-Turkism today .
Armenia is a geopolitical impediment to pan-Turkism .
That ’ s a key reason Russia needs Armenia .
Russians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
However , Russia has increasingly been cozying up to Azerbaijan and Turkey .
Therefore , despite the Armenian-Russian mutual defense treaty and a Russian base in Armenia near the Turkish border , Armenia isn ’ t always certain of Russian support , particularly against Azerbaijan .
Azerbaijan has violated the ceasefire agreement between it and Armenia/Artsakh thousands of times since 1994 .
Armenian forces are in defensive mode .
They have little reason to violate the ceasefire .
Azerbaijan rejects proposals for installing autonomous gunfire-detection equipment on the line of contact .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Artsakh , a stable democracy .
That ’ s hardly a recipe for peace .
Armenia is democratic and reformist .
Azerbaijan is autocratic .
It imprisons journalists and human rights activists at an astonishing rate .
Europe ’ s Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project ( OCCRP ) named Aliyev its 2012 “ Organized Crime and Corruption Person of the Year.
” U.S. diplomatic cables described him as a mafia-like figure .
In 2004 , Azeri serviceman Ramil Safarov axed to death an Armenian lieutenant in his sleep at a NATO exercise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life and imprisoned .
Hungary eventually released him to Azerbaijan which welcomed him as a national hero .
Armenian civilians have been tortured and beheaded by invading Azeri soldiers .
To ‘ prove ’ Armenians never lived in Nakhichevan , in 2005 the Azerbaijani military used pickaxes and dump trucks to destroy thousands of iconic headstones in a ninth century Armenian cemetery .
It was caught on video .
During the twentieth century , Azerbaijan emptied Nakhichevan of its Armenians and was doing similarly in Artsakh before Armenians put a stop to it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never again submit to Azeri rule .
Turkey was set to invade Armenia in 1993 during a coup against Russian President Boris Yeltsin led by Ruslan Khasbulatov , the pro-Turkish Chechen and Supreme Soviet speaker .
Fortunately , the coup failed .
In 1993 , Turkish President Turgut Ozal threatened Armenia “ in case they had not learned their lesson in 1915.
” Turkish President Erdogan recently menaced Armenia using a backhanded reference to the 1915 Genocide : “ We will continue to fulfill this mission , which our grandfathers have carried out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Turkey is supplying Azerbaijan with Bayraktar drones ( based on Israeli designs ) , T-129 ATAK helicopters , and TRG-300 Tiger rocket systems .
Turkey has sent F-16 jets to Azerbaijan for joint military exercises .
Yet the Western Bloc has said and done nothing to restrain Turkey .
Turkey denies reports it will send jihadists to fight for Azerbaijan .
In the past , however , Turkey has sent its Grey Wolves , and Azerbaijan has recruited Afghan/Pakistani/Chechen mujahedin , to battle Armenians .
President Aliyev once compared Azerbaijan–Israeli relations to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is below the surface.
” Israel sells Azerbaijan billions in advanced weapons ( many used against Armenia and Artsakh ) while Israel gets 40 % of its oil from Azerbaijan and facilities to spy on and counter Iran .
Azerbaijan ’ s “ lobby in the U.S. , ” revealed Aliyev , “ is the Jewish community.
” The American Jewish Committee ’ s Executive Director David Harris ( aka Jews ’ “ foreign minister ” ) , for instance , received Aliyev ’ s “ Order of Friendship ” award .
Numerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Still , the Israeli- Azerbaijani alliance has induced many Jewish/Israeli writers to gleefully malign Armenia .
Examples include Brenda Shaffer and Nurit Greenger .
It ’ s reminiscent of how Jewish American organizations — ADL , AIPAC , AJC , and others — have colluded with Turkey and Israel ( in friendlier days ) to hypocritically deny/diminish the Armenian Genocide and defeat Armenian Genocide resolutions in Congress .
Thus , the Azerbaijani-Israeli-Jewish axis is a clone of the disreputable Turkish-Israeli-Jewish one .
Under relentless pressure and against all odds , Armenia and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actors who wish to deny them their very existence .
Regardless , from a practical , if not moral , standpoint , the Western Bloc and Russia should rein in Azeri and Turkish aggression unless they wish to see the region explode .
Much of the author ’ s work can be found at www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/David_Boyajian

By David Boyajian
“The Caucasus is Ground Zero in the New Cold War between the U.S. and Russia.”
I wrote that several years ago, and it’s still true, particularly after Christian Armenia decisively repulsed a mid-July attack by Muslim Azerbaijan.
Perhaps dozens of Azeris died in the battles, including a major-general, a colonel, and two majors. Armenia reported far fewer deaths and captured a new defensive position, even though Azerbaijan possesses a bigger arsenal, quadruple the GDP, and more than triple Armenia’s population.
Azerbaijan attacked Armenia’s northeastern border and has done so before. Typically, though, Azerbaijan attacks Artsakh (Karabagh), the de facto-independent Armenian-majority region that voted some thirty years ago for freedom from Azerbaijan, which rejects that vote.
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin deceitfully annexed Artsakh and the ancient Armenian region of Nakhichevan to Azerbaijan in the 1920s. Far from being ancient itself, Azerbaijan was invented only in 1918.
Why should any of this matter to the rest of the world?
Why It Matters
Major gas and oil pipelines originate in Azerbaijan. They cross Georgia and NATO member Turkey with fuel bound for Europe and elsewhere. Georgia and Azerbaijan are thereby linked to the West. These pipelines are at risk as they pass only about 12 to 30 miles from the July fighting and from Artsakh.
The Caucasus is the US/NATO/EU’s doorway (via Turkey) into the energy-rich Caspian Sea Basin and then into Russia’s vulnerable Turkic-Muslim underbelly in Central Asia. Russia regards this as an existential threat.
Armenia enjoys excellent relations with the US/NATO/EU. But for security reasons, it aligns itself with the nearest major Christian power: Russia. In sympathy with its Turkic Azerbaijani ally, Turkey has closed its border with Armenia since 1994. Armenia, therefore, has become the geopolitical pivot point for whoever wishes to dominate the Caucasus.
Turkey has long threatened Armenia and has placed itself squarely on Azerbaijan’s side in the recent conflict. That may produce a Turkish confrontation with Russia, in addition to those in Syria and Libya.
Azerbaijan is threatening to bomb Armenia’s Metsamor nuclear power plant. This would spread deadly radiation to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkey, and elsewhere.
Armenian-Western relations go back thousands of years. The US/NATO/EU (we’ll term it the “Western Bloc”) has been very friendly to Armenia and Artsakh and aided them economically for decades.
Landlocked Armenia, however, depends on Russia for most of its gas and weapons. Moscow also controls much of Armenia’s energy network.
Armenia (pop. 3 million), nevertheless, remains under threat from Azerbaijan (pop. 10 million) and Turkey (pop. 82 million) since the USSR’s dissolution in 1991.
Armenia under Siege
Turkey committed genocide against Armenians in 1915-23. The Armenian Highlands and everything else Armenian, particularly in what is now eastern and southern Turkey, were destroyed or confiscated. Azeris joined in that genocide in the Caucasus.
The Armenian Genocide isn’t mere history. The threat of Genocide 2.0 always looms.
Turkey and Azerbaijan (motto: “two countries, one nation”) won’t come to terms with Armenia’s existence. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev says all of Armenia should be part of Azerbaijan — without Armenians, of course.
The July 19 cover of the Turkish newspaper Diriliş Postası (Resurrection Post), headlined “Karabagh or Death,” portrays Azerbaijan as encompassing Artsakh and southern Armenia.
Turkey is still enamored with pan-Turkism, just as during WWI and the Armenian Genocide. Turkey envisions leading a federation that includes Azerbaijan and the Turkic-Muslim countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) — all the way to China’s Xinjiang Province.
Soldiers in Turkish-Azerbaijani military drills last year wore arm patches depicting such a pan-Turkic entity.
Participants in recent worldwide anti-Armenian demonstrations flashed the Grey Wolves (Bozkurtlar) hand signal. Grey Wolves is a neo-fascist, pan-Turkist organization responsible for hundreds of assassinations and murders.
While the European Allies (and, implicitly, America) militarily opposed Ottoman Turkey’s pan-Turkism in WWI, the Western Bloc implicitly supports pan-Turkism today.
Armenia is a geopolitical impediment to pan-Turkism. That’s a key reason Russia needs Armenia. Russians are too proud to admit it though.
However, Russia has increasingly been cozying up to Azerbaijan and Turkey. Therefore, despite the Armenian-Russian mutual defense treaty and a Russian base in Armenia near the Turkish border, Armenia isn’t always certain of Russian support, particularly against Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani Threats
Azerbaijan has violated the ceasefire agreement between it and Armenia/Artsakh thousands of times since 1994. Armenian forces are in defensive mode. They have little reason to violate the ceasefire. Azerbaijan rejects proposals for installing autonomous gunfire-detection equipment on the line of contact.
President Aliyev refuses even to negotiate with Artsakh, a stable democracy. That’s hardly a recipe for peace.
Armenia is democratic and reformist. Azerbaijan is autocratic. It imprisons journalists and human rights activists at an astonishing rate. Europe’s Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) named Aliyev its 2012 “Organized Crime and Corruption Person of the Year.” U.S. diplomatic cables described him as a mafia-like figure.
Aliyev‘s “Azerbaijani Laundromat” bribed European officials and laundered billions.
In 2004, Azeri serviceman Ramil Safarov axed to death an Armenian lieutenant in his sleep at a NATO exercise in Hungary. He was sentenced to life and imprisoned. Hungary eventually released him to Azerbaijan which welcomed him as a national hero. Armenian civilians have been tortured and beheaded by invading Azeri soldiers.
To ‘prove’ Armenians never lived in Nakhichevan, in 2005 the Azerbaijani military used pickaxes and dump trucks to destroy thousands of iconic headstones in a ninth century Armenian cemetery. It was caught on video.
During the twentieth century, Azerbaijan emptied Nakhichevan of its Armenians and was doing similarly in Artsakh before Armenians put a stop to it.
No wonder Artsakh says it will never again submit to Azeri rule.
Turkish threats
Turkey was set to invade Armenia in 1993 during a coup against Russian President Boris Yeltsin led by Ruslan Khasbulatov, the pro-Turkish Chechen and Supreme Soviet speaker. Fortunately, the coup failed.
In 1993, Turkish President Turgut Ozal threatened Armenia “in case they had not learned their lesson in 1915.”
Turkish President Erdogan recently menaced Armenia using a backhanded reference to the 1915 Genocide: “We will continue to fulfill this mission, which our grandfathers have carried out for centuries, in the Caucasus again.”
Turkey is supplying Azerbaijan with Bayraktar drones (based on Israeli designs), T-129 ATAK helicopters, and TRG-300 Tiger rocket systems. Turkey has sent F-16 jets to Azerbaijan for joint military exercises.
Yet the Western Bloc has said and done nothing to restrain Turkey.
Turkey denies reports it will send jihadists to fight for Azerbaijan. In the past, however, Turkey has sent its Grey Wolves, and Azerbaijan has recruited Afghan/Pakistani/Chechen mujahedin, to battle Armenians.
The Azerbaijani-Israeli-Jewish Axis
President Aliyev once compared Azerbaijan–Israeli relations to an iceberg: “Nine-tenths of it is below the surface.”
Israel sells Azerbaijan billions in advanced weapons (many used against Armenia and Artsakh) while Israel gets 40% of its oil from Azerbaijan and facilities to spy on and counter Iran.
Azerbaijan’s “lobby in the U.S.,” revealed Aliyev, “is the Jewish community.”
The American Jewish Committee’s Executive Director David Harris (aka Jews’ “foreign minister”), for instance, received Aliyev’s “Order of Friendship” award.
Numerous principled Jewish/Israeli writers are friendly to Armenians. Still, the Israeli- Azerbaijani alliance has induced many Jewish/Israeli writers to gleefully malign Armenia. Examples include Brenda Shaffer and Nurit Greenger.
It’s reminiscent of how Jewish American organizations — ADL, AIPAC, AJC, and others — have colluded with Turkey and Israel (in friendlier days) to hypocritically deny/diminish the Armenian Genocide and defeat Armenian Genocide resolutions in Congress.
Thus, the Azerbaijani-Israeli-Jewish axis is a clone of the disreputable Turkish-Israeli-Jewish one.
What’s Needed
Under relentless pressure and against all odds, Armenia and Artsakh continue to hold out against foreign actors who wish to deny them their very existence.
Regardless, from a practical, if not moral, standpoint, the Western Bloc and Russia should rein in Azeri and Turkish aggression unless they wish to see the region explode.


veteranstoday--2020-08-14--Gordon and Nader Reporting on Beirut, Iranian National Television (English Farsi Arabic)

Former Lebanese Interior Minister and current MP , Nohad Machnouk in Beirut , Lebanon on 8 May 2017 [ Ratib Al Safadi/Anadolu Agency ] Former Lebanese Interior Minister and current MP , Nohad Machnouk , has become the first senior Lebanese politician to blame Israel for the blast at Beirut Port last week .
During a press conference , Machnouk said Israel was “ clearly ” responsible for the huge explosion which has killed over 200 people and wounded thousands .
“ This operation in Beirut was carried out by Israel in a clear and explicit manner , ” Machnouk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are looking at a crime against humanity , and therefore no one dares to claim responsibility for it.
” The high-ranking politician served as Lebanon ’ s interior minister in 2014 and again in 2016 .
He is a member of ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri ’ s Future Movement , the country ’ s Sunni bloc and opposes the Hezbollah movement .
In the aftermath of the explosion , he said : “ This is the first time since the Phoenician era that we don ’ t have a port in Beirut.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on to describe Lebanon as a “ politically occupied country ” , urging Hariri ’ s supporters to declare political resistance to liberate Lebanon from the “ occupation ” , in reference to Hezbollah which also has representation in parliament , but is the most powerful armed entity in the country .
Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah has rejected accusations that the movement had used the warehouses to store weapons and as with his ally , President Michel Aoun , has not ruled out the possibility of sabotage but both have stopped short @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have also denied involvement .
If Israel were to be determined responsible , Asia Times reports , it would necessitate an equivalent reply from Hezbollah , which would lead to a devastating war which is not in the interests of either side .
Laying blame on Israel would also lead to further investigations into what exactly was being targeted , and raise questions for all Lebanese factions , including Machnouk ’ s , as to how they allowed the port to store such a large stockpile of weapons-grade ammonium nitrate .
READ : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mandate of UN force in Lebanon

Former Lebanese Interior Minister and current MP, Nohad Machnouk, has become the first senior Lebanese politician to blame Israel for the blast at Beirut Port last week.
During a press conference, Machnouk said Israel was “clearly” responsible for the huge explosion which has killed over 200 people and wounded thousands.
“This operation in Beirut was carried out by Israel in a clear and explicit manner,” Machnouk said. “It is clear we are looking at a crime against humanity, and therefore no one dares to claim responsibility for it.”
The high-ranking politician served as Lebanon’s interior minister in 2014 and again in 2016. He is a member of ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s Future Movement, the country’s Sunni bloc and opposes the Hezbollah movement. In the aftermath of the explosion, he said:
“This is the first time since the Phoenician era that we don’t have a port in Beirut.”
READ: Ex-Israel MK declares Lebanon blast as ‘gift from God’
At the press conference, Machnouk went on to describe Lebanon as a “politically occupied country”, urging Hariri’s supporters to declare political resistance to liberate Lebanon from the “occupation”, in reference to Hezbollah which also has representation in parliament, but is the most powerful armed entity in the country.
Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah has rejected accusations that the movement had used the warehouses to store weapons and as with his ally, President Michel Aoun, has not ruled out the possibility of sabotage but both have stopped short of blaming Israel outright. Israeli officials have also denied involvement.
If Israel were to be determined responsible, Asia Times reports, it would necessitate an equivalent reply from Hezbollah, which would lead to a devastating war which is not in the interests of either side. Laying blame on Israel would also lead to further investigations into what exactly was being targeted, and raise questions for all Lebanese factions, including Machnouk’s, as to how they allowed the port to store such a large stockpile of weapons-grade ammonium nitrate.
READ: Israel uses Beirut blast pretext to change mandate of UN force in Lebanon