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We know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? How do your chances of surviving the explosions, radiation, and nuclear winter depend on where you live? The past year’s unprecedented nuclear saber-rattling and last weekend’s chaos in Russia has made this question timely. It’s important to note that huge uncertainties remain, so the actual humanitarian impact could be either better or worse – a reason to proceed with caution. A recently launched $4M open research program will hopefully help clarify public understanding and inform the global policy conversation, but much more work is needed, since most of the research on this topic is classified and focused on military rather than humanitarian impacts. It’s easy to feel powerless, but the good news is that there is something you can do to help: please help share this video! The fact that nuclear war is likely to start via gradual escalation, perhaps combined by accident or miscalculation, means that the more people know about nuclear war, the more likely we are to avoid having one.

In the biggest election defeat since coming to power 21 years ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's conservative Islamist party was trounced in municipal elections that took place across the country on Sunday. The center-left Republican People's Party, Turkey's oldest political party and Erdoğan's longtime rival, scored a stunning victory by winning ballots in Turkey's largest cities, including Istanbul, Europe's biggest metropolis with 16 million residents, and Ankara, the capital. The party even managed to pick up gains in more conservative inland provinces seen as Erdoğan strongholds. The political landscape in Turkey shifted dramatically after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's party was thumped in municipal elections. But the strongman in Ankara is unlikely to change course after the stunning loss. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/mphyz59n

Israeli law doesn’t impose service in the IDF on Israeli Arabs, who make up some 20% of the total population. Yet, throughout the years, some members of the community have served. In recent years, however, more and more Israeli Arabs have opted for the military. While in 2018 and 2019, only 436 and 489 Arabs served in the IDF, respectively, in 2020 more than 600 wore the uniform. By 2021, the number of Arab soldiers had reached over a thousand, including in combat units, while the raging war in Gaza has given another boost to the numbers. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/bdd84cae

“Now we have the problem with the pro-Palestine who are actually given Hamas cover. They are participants in the crime. In fact since October 7 I personally don't differentiate between Hamas and so-called Palestinians because there are actually no so- called Palestinians, there are tribes,” Yousef states while Zaynab, mouth gapes open in shock at what he is saying. Yousef claims that if the different tribes did not have a common enemy of Israel, they would be fighting each other.

June 10 marks the 25th anniversary of the end of NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was launched 25 years ago by the US-led NATO without the approval of the UN Security Council and lasted 78 days. NATO acted as an offensive, instead of a defensive force, acting against their own NATO Treaty and was never held accountable. NATO bombed Yugoslavia.... to bring peace. NATO bombed schools, radio stations, hospitals and churches and was never accused of committing war crimes. NATO dropped globally banned clusterbombs. NATO dropped a total of 22,000 tons of bombs, including 15 tons of depleted uranium. NATO killed thousands of civilians without being brought to justice. NATO is an alliance of sophisticated men and women with their hands bloody with innocent blood. NATO tried to play the same game in Ukraine, with the dirty work done by their proxies, but this time they miscalculated the strength of Russia. Read more HERE: https://tinyurl.com/2xc4r8n5

During a vehicle inspection at Ubylinka, a border crossing between Russia and Latvia, the FSB and border guards discovered that a cargo of Orthodox icons and other church goods originating in Ukraine were in fact disguised bomb materials. Four improvised explosive devices, along with 10kg of high-yield industrial plastic explosives, 91 electronic detonators, and parts of a RPG-7 warhead were found in the shipment, the FSB said. The items had traveled from Ukraine through Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia before arriving at the Russian border. All six countries are members of NATO and the EU, which have backed Kiev in the conflict with Moscow.

A common claim in news reports, viral videos, and even in official statements by world leaders and public figures, is that the Gaza Strip is the most densely populated place in the world, or at least one of the densest. We set out to factcheck this claim. Bottom line? Not true. This would not be the first – or even the most commonly reiterated – fallacy propagated in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, yet for the sake of accuracy, one has to acknowledge the facts that shape the discussion on this claim. While the Gaza Strip is certainly a densely populated area, it does not even crack the top 100 most densely populated areas or cities in the world. Population density is measured according to population size relative to the area of a given territory. In the Gaza Strip there are approximately 2 million residents, in an area that spans 365 square kilometres. Quick calculations peg Gaza’s population density at 5,479 people per square kilometre – roughly the density of London. Is London being presented as one of the most densely populated places on earth? Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3b76bpvm

The Hamas massacre of Israelis was a function of pure hate. We need to fight antisemitism globally.. The Hamas massacre that took place on October 7th, 2023 was not the result of decades of “occupation.” Israel left Gaza in 2005, uprooting families and wrenching the country into an impassioned debate along the way. Not a settler, nor single IDF soldier, nor any type of Israeli personnel has remained in the Gaza Strip. No, this massacre was a function of hate—the kind of toxic intolerance in its purest form. It was years in the making, and just as it took sophisticated military and logistical planning, it also took years of ideological planting—sowing seeds of antisemitism. Indeed, one cannot look at what Hamas did without understanding their thinking about Jews. Hamas and its co-conspirators in the Muslim world had been vilifying Jews for decades, starting with their founding charter, which is full of antisemitic bile. They constructed an entire architecture of antisemitism that spanned the world and spanned spheres from academia to religion, politics and culture. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/5f64xzx8

DISCLAIMER: Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, current events or actual situations, is purely coincidental. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his associates spent almost two months in a bunker after the outbreak of the conflict with Russia, instead of the planned two weeks, and underwent significant hardships, The Times has reported. The Ukrainian government “immediately” descended into a secure shelter under the president’s office on Bankovaya Street in central Kiev when Russia’s military operation was launched on February 24, 2022, the British newspaper reported. The secrecy around the bunker was so high that those who accompanied the head of state underground had to sign a special non-disclosure agreement. According to the document, they were banned from revealing any details about the shelter’s design, location, amenities, or even the food that they were given. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3vaxz664

The Lockdown files show Boris Johnson feared Britain's second lockdown because he knew the death data was ‘very wrong'; he also wanted to lift the restrictions, but the public ‘wasn't ready'. They also reveal that masks in schools were introduced to avoid an argument with Nicola Sturgeon, that care homes were neglected, and the inhumane rules that kept married couples apart were discussed but, despite their devastating effects, were kept anyhow. Why? Because there was no one to challenge the power-hungry government machinery that was out of its depth. Rules of six were introduced without evidence, but ministers went ahead anyway - it was easier to communicate than a rule of seven, eight or nine. It was clear that these policies were being made on the hoof, but a silence of science meant they essentially went unchallenged. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/bdffwsdv

On March 17, 2023 the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, introduced an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Llova-Belova. The warrant, which accused Putin and Lolva-Belova of conducting the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a “network of camps” across the Russian Federation, inspired a wave of incendiary commentary in the West. US Sen. Lindsey Graham, perhaps the most aggressive cheerleader in Congress for war with Russia, proclaimed: “The ICC has an arrest warrant for Putin because he has organized the kidnapping of at least 16,000 Ukrainian children from their families and sent them to Russia. It is exactly what Hitler did in World War II.” Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/5xpvzx95

Those who have the power to enforce the rule of law, to hold our war criminals to account, to atone for our war crimes, direct their moral outrage exclusively at Putin's Russia. "Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime," Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, condemning Russia for attacking civilian sites, including a hospital, three schools and a boarding school for visually impaired children in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. Though all those civilian targets automatically turned into military objects when Ukrainian forces used them as cover to avoid Russian attacks on “civilian” objects. "These incidents join a long list of attacks on civilian, not military locations, across Ukraine," he said. Beth Van Schaack, an ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, will direct the effort at the State Department, Blinken said, to "help international efforts to investigate war crimes and hold those responsible accountable." This collective hypocrisy, based on the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves, is accompanied by massive arms shipments to Ukraine. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3tjmyw4m

The window of opportunity for a settlement has closed. There’s a notion floating around the Internet that the current conflict in Ukraine is going to remain a static war of attrition that will bleed the Russian army dry. So what if it decimates Ukraine’s society and eradicates most of its population? At least the dreaded Russian war machine will have been ground to a halt in the killing fields of Ukraine. Those believing this narrative are living in a fantasy. Fact is, the Ukrainian military is drained, the Western supply chains are strained, and the NATO stockpiles of critical weapons and ammunition are depleted. The war is transitioning, therefore, into a conflict in which the Russian side will enjoy several critical advantages. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/yc5cck32

The "Valued West" is in the process of preparing an overthrow of the current government in Georgia in favor of a pro-Western regime. The scenario is similar to the "Maidan Revolution" in Ukraine, which was significantly financed by the "Valued West". For some time, Georgia has had serious problems with the activities of some foreign-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In an attempt to curb their activities, the government of Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili passed a law requiring organizations that receive at least 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register with the authorities. The government in Tbilisi was guided in this law by guidelines in force in the U.S. with similar provisions. so far, everything would not be a problem, but now comes the big "but." Some of the NGOs in Georgia are primarily financed by the well-known and notorious protagonists from the USA. Of course, they now see their invested capital in danger. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/356yvz5f

The largely unknown story of the first Ukrainian refugees in Britain - an entire Waffen SS division composed largely of Ukrainians who arrived in 1947, with many later emigrating to Canada - the 14th Waffen SS Division Galizia. Why did the British Government permit them to settle, and why are they today considered national heroes in Ukraine? Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/cprr9ekj

Nepal’s brave and fierce warriors, the Gorkhas, are joining Wagner Group, Russia’s private military company. Higher pay and the end of recruitment to the Indian Army because of the Agnipath scheme is luring the youth to the mercenary outfit despite grave threats.

Yuval Noah Harari, Jewish top advisor and ideologist at Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, boldly states that in the 21st century there will be no place for the ‘useless class’ or poorly educated people. The future is to develop ever more sophisticated technologies, like artificial intelligence [and] bio-engineering, so you won’t need that many, useless, people anymore. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3hmsufj6

This year’s “all ages” Toronto Pride Parade included something you don’t often see in public: adult men on bicycles wearing helmets but no pants. A dozen naked men, some wearing body paint, rode slowly along the parade route Sunday before stopping and waving to the cheering crowd, which included children, as shown on video. Some of the bikes had signs attached that said, “Challenge Body Shame/Build Self Esteem” and “Pride for Every Body.” Elsewhere, a few naked adult men cooled off in a public water fountain as young children played nearby, as shown on video. “Their genitalia is fully-exposed as they cool themselves off and wash each other down with water.” Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/mr3589bw

HOW DARE THEY How dare people blame the unvaccinated for recent outbreaks. FACT: Fully vaccinated people can still contract COVID-19. FACT: Fully vaccinated people can still spread COVID-19. So would someone please tell me how they can possibly determine who exactly was responsible for the spread? They can’t. But it’s easy to blame those who are trusting their own immune system. Vaccine passports and blaming the un-vaxxed for the uptick in cases is irresponsible. While so many so-called experts, doctors and scientists are pro-vaccine, there are those in those same professions who are against it because of it not being tested properly or having not been given approval. Those are the people we’re not being allowed to hear from. They are being muffled and threatened with losing their jobs if they dare speak out. Can you really be that naive if you don’t question why? If people want to jump to get the shot, that’s their choice, but don’t put your fear on everyone else’s shoulders. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/55vhm9jr

Police in Germany disbanded pro-Palestinian rallies as Middle East tensions intensify. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations took place in Berlin and several other German cities. Thousands of people joined the demonstrations in Germany against Israel's bombardment of Gaza. There were some isolated clashes with police reported in Berlin. Similar protests took place in several cities around the world.

Ukraine is so desperately in need of fighter jets, that their pilots started an initiative “Buy Me A Fighter Jet!” to raise funds to buy them the necessary aircraft. Allegedly one new MiG-29 aircraft costs about $ 20 million. The reported scheme was that the Russian pilots who agreed to the deal would imitate being intercepted by Ukrainian fighters at low altitude and then be guided to an airfield under Ukrainian control. Reportedly any concerns about the plane’s navigator could be dealt with by giving him a sedative prior to the flight. Russia claimed that Kyiv was interested in Su-24M, Su-34, and Tu-22M3 warplanes but supposedly the plan was thwarted when Russian pilots informed the FSB. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3c768cdf

NATO members under US leadership don’t appear to have any plans to end the current war between Russia and Ukraine. NATO seems to be more interested in antagonizing Russia, than finding a peaceful way to resolve the problem. At a recent NATO conference held in Madrid, it was announced that in response to Russia’s aggression, the military alliance will shortly put 300,000 troops on high alert. We claim that this is nothing but a bogus agenda of NATO. Wondering why? Let us substantiate our claim by putting forward some key points. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3nmzu2b3

The Russian Embassy in Spain released a video, mocking the West and its sanctions imposed on Russia. The clip published on the embassy’s Twitter account, called “Time to move to Russia,” promotes Russia’s cultural values. “This is Russia,” a narrator speaking English with a Russian accent says in the ad. “Delicious cuisine, beautiful women, cheap gas, rich history, world-famous literature, unique architecture, fertile soil, cheap electricity and water, ballet, cheap taxi and delivery, traditional values, Christianity, no cancel culture, hospitality, vodka.” Russia’s economy, “can withstand thousands of sanctions,” continues the voiceover. “Time to move to Russia. Don’t delay, winter is coming, ” the ad concludes.

Time and again, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its global collaborators have “predicted” the future with stunning accuracy, sometimes years in advance, and then when the predictions come true they pretend as though they had nothing to do with it. It’s worth remembering, then, that WEF founder Klaus Schwab, during the May 2022 meeting in Davos, clearly stated that the future doesn’t just happen, it is “BUILT — by us,” referring to himself and the other attendees in the room. So, make no mistake, they truly believe they have the right to decide the fate of the world, and that you and I have no say in the matter. That fate was in June 2020 formally announced under the banner of “The Great Reset,” by Schwab himself. This “build back better” scheme involves the complete reorganization and restructuring of all parts of society, including finance, industry, education, “social contracts,” the energy sector and the food system. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3bktm6nf

During the Cold War, the U.S. Stationed B-61 nuclear bombs in Turkey, among other NATO countries. Formally, the U.S. controlled the weapons during peacetime, but the host countries’ forces trained and equipped planes so they could drop the bombs with U.S. support in the case of war. The idea was to deter Soviet ground forces and reassure U.S. allies by making clear that the U.S. would be willing to risk nuclear war to block a Soviet invasion of a country hosting the bombs. In addition, in the years before the U.S. developed intercontinental ballistic missiles, they presented a way for NATO to demonstrate it could act quickly to respond to a Soviet attack. The 50 bombs still at Incirlik Air Base, in southern Turkey – and others in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands – are the last nuclear remnants of that Cold War strategy. The U.S. Began pulling nuclear bombs out of NATO countries after the Cold War ended, and since 2000 has removed 40 bombs from Turkey. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/cex39khe