Welcome to The Now

  He was 100 .  OK...Marc Lamont Hill has more: An here's RJ Eskow and Professor Richard Wolff: 

 Always nice to see these two team up: The sad thing is instead of learning their lesson about conducting proxy wars, the US is trying to pivot to recreating the Ukraine/Russia dynamic with Taiwan and China (but the Israel-Palestine conflict is getting in the way). 

  Apparently there are still holdouts : In early November, drone video surfaced online appearing to show a targeted strike blowing up three antennas on the roof of an apartment block. The Ukrainian drone commander who posted it claimed to have destroyed a Russian Pole-21 electronic warfare system on the eastern front near Donetsk. Ukraine is already racing to catch up with Russia when it comes to electronic warfare. This attack also shows how Kyiv is rushing to destroy Moscow’s technology on the battlefield – a sign of how important it may be for the future of the war. Electronic warfare, or EW, involves weapons or tactics using the electromagnetic spectrum. It is being employed by both militaries in this conflict, predominantly through electronic jammers that throw off GPS guided targeting systems, causing rockets to miss their targets. After almost six months of Ukraine’s slow and grinding counteroffensive, it’s clear Russia has not just built up physical defenses but formidable ...

 I'm sure Barak Obama was not expecting s omeone from his State Department getting arrested for going off on a New York street vendor , but here we are: Scary to think that people who think like Stuart Seldowitz does have been influencing America's foreign policy. 

  Very odd story :

 I'm pretty sure it has been up for awhile, but they have a new URL now .

 

 

 Lee Camp (via Breakthrough News) explains:

 Claiming to have a "higher support solution" than doctors to treat "obesity-care management," WeightWatchers will soon push pills .

  Project 2025 is real and coming to an administration near you. 

 Because the police is becoming more and more militarized, even peaceful protestors need to be prepared. Dangerous Ideas provide some tips:

  I imagine that the mainstream media will be saying " Hannibal Directive " more in about six month or so, but people need to hear about it now.

 In an emotional (yeah, there's some swearing) and informative clip, the two activists push back against one congressperson's propaganda:

In addition to begging the Us for more weapons (and money), Ukraine's leader is dealing with a reduction of manpower:  On the global stage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been consistently on message: In visits to Washington and other Western capitals, he has focused on keeping Kyiv supplied with more advanced arms, ammunition and financing. At home, however, he faces a human resources problem. The war is approaching the end of its second year, and Ukraine’s military needs more manpower to sustain a bloody war of attrition against Russia, a country with more than three times the population of Ukraine. In a recent essay, Ukraine’s top military commander, Valery Zaluzhny acknowledged that training and recruiting troops was becoming a serious challenge. “The prolonged nature of the war, limited opportunities for the rotation of soldiers on the line of contact, gaps in legislation that seem to legally evade mobilization, significantly reduce the motivation of citizens to se...

 

  Not something you want to read if you've been a patient in the last two years : Nearly 450 patients at a hospital in Massachusetts could have been exposed to hepatitis and HIV due to improper administration of IV medication within the past two years, according to hospital officials. The possible exposure at Salem Hospital affected patients who were seeking an endoscopy, a type of procedure where a doctor inserts a tubelike instrument into the body for examination, the hospital said in a statement Thursday. The hospital did not provide further details about how the possible exposure may have occurred. Salem Hospital has notified all patients who may have been exposed and tested people for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV, which are “standard tests for a potential exposure of this kind,” a hospital spokesperson told CNN in an email. “There is no evidence to date of any infections resulting from this incident,” the hospital said in the statement. “We have determined that the infecti...

 

 

You know about how the "Hamas" Hospital is somehow some base of operations , right? Of course you do. But there's more to this story than you think. First, let's hear about the history of the Shifa Hospital : The idea that one of Hamas’ main command bunkers is located beneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza City is one of the worst-kept secrets of the Gaza war. So why aren’t reporters in Gaza ferreting it out? The precise location of a large underground bunker equipped with sophisticated communications equipment and housing some part of the leadership of a major terrorist organization beneath a major hospital would seem to qualify as a world-class scoop—the kind that might merit a Pulitzer, or at least a Polk. So why isn’t the fact that Hamas uses Shifa Hospital as a command post making headlines? In part, it’s because the location is so un-secret that Hamas regularly meets with reporters there . On July 15, for example, William Booth of the Washington Post wrote that the hosp...

So there's been a story that Hamas is operating in a hospital, and to support this theory, video was shared of what looked like a chart of terrorist activity.  Come to find out that it was really an Arabic Calendar:

 RBN reviews: 

 Of course the question of why did CT need pandemic funds for education instead of just asking for money specifically for education should be asked.

 From The Times of Israel : Dozens of pictures and videoclips have emerged over the past week showing IDF soldiers abusing and humiliating Palestinians apprehended in the West Bank, often while they are blindfolded and handcuffed. In one of the most brutal videos, which has been blurred, IDF soldiers filmed themselves as they abused seven West Bank laborers who were caught as they attempted to enter Israel without a permit, in an area south of the South Hebron hills. The footage shows the Palestinian men stripped naked or half-naked, blindfolded and handcuffed, and screaming in pain. One of them is being dragged on the ground. A screenshot from the video shows a soldier stepping with his boot on the head of one of the Palestinians, while another is pointing a weapon at him. The Whole World Is Watching.

 Looks like the original stated list of casualties (in terms of who and who was responsible) was not quite accurate:

 Lee Camp goes over this surreal story:

 Apparently, only his aides and donors thought he was in it for the long haul .

 

  Whether it's ex-GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough complaining about Jill Stein, or CNN letting Democrat Congressman James Clyburn write a piece claiming that because third partis haven't won people shouldn't support them , the mainstream media is all in for discouraging voters from supporting candidates and/or parties that are outside the duopoly.  

 

 The wildly successful musician who happens to be of Palestinian decent has not talked at all about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (the attacks, the bombings, the comments/takes surrounding everything) and he is being called out for it . 

 Apparently, the fact that many people in the world see the retaliatory actions in Palestine as at best disproportional is lost on some .

 Simon Ateba talks to Jimmy Dore about what those White House briefings don't show/tell the public:

Status Coup covers the fail and flip: Just a reminder that unless you're at least a millionaire, watching financial shows are a waste of time and energy.

 Al Jazeera shares a video .

 As she should, especially considering that Turner's group has some heavy Act Blue (read: Democratic Party) affiliations:

 Lee Camp reviews:

 Rachel Blevins reports:

 In particular, his most recent stances:

 Apparently the former Prime Minister of Israel understands what an actual objective media means:

 From a PR, military and economic perspective: Israel's campaign against Hamas (which has become a campaign against virtually all of Palestine) is not going as planned.  Hezbollah's leader has just finished giving his first speech since the 10/7 Hamas attack, and it boiled down to: if the West wants to play stupid games, they will win stupid prizes. One prevailing theme is that despite their bravado, the Israeli military cannot survive with out Western (read: United States) aid. Of course, Israel issued a pre-speech warning to Hezbollah .  With the speech still cooling off and this conflict touching many sensitive nerves, it may take some time to link to more credible stories. UPDATE: here's at least one .

 Lee Camp shows us how America's National Security spokesperson feels about the loss of Ukrainian lives versus the loss of Palestinian lives:

 Mintpress News has the breakdown (but you'll need to log on to YouTube):

 Hint: it's not something organic.

 When you get praise from Lindsey Graham , change course.