In the early morning hours of March 26, 2024, the container ship MV Dali lost all power and steering as it attempted to depart the Port of Baltimore, heading to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Drifting with the current of the Patapsco River, and influenced by inertia, the massive ship rammed the southern support tower holding up the Francis Scott Key Bridge (also known as the “Key Bridge”). The impact resulted in the more or less instantaneous collapse of the bridge’s main span onto the ship’s bow, and causing several highway maintenance workers (working the night shift to repair potholes on the bridge) to fall into the frigid waters; tragically, although two of the workers were rescued, another six are missing and presumed dead, as of this writing (March 29). There is conjecture as to whether anyone else went into the water, as there may be other vehicles under the wreckage.

Given that less than ninety-six hours, as of this writing, have elapsed since the incident, very little hard information is available concerning the details of what actually happened. From all appearances, however, it appears that the crew and the harbor pilots aboard were caught completely by surprise. Given that, they appear to have done everything they could to try and mitigate the disaster; the ‘Mayday’ call issued by one of the harbor pilots almost certainly saved dozens of lives, by getting Maryland law enforcement and transit authorities to lock the US Highway I-695 toll booths prior to the impact.

The MV Dali is a container ship of middle size, as international cargo carriers go, being rated for just under ten thousand Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEU); in practical terms for the layman, this equates to carrying the equivalent of about 5,000 semi-truck trailers as cargo; in contrast, the EVER GIVEN, which grounded and blocked both directions of the Suez Canal almost exactly three years ago, on March 23, 2021, is one of the largest container ships in the world, clocking in at over 20,000 TEU’s. The Dali is homeported in Singapore, but is currently under lease to the MAERSK line, one of the leading shippers in the world, and was operating with a crew of 22 from India. Despite very ugly comments from certain sectors, nothing appears to have been wrong with the crew’s performance. Similarly, the ship was in good repair, having been inspected at previous ports of call, as well as in the Port of Baltimore itself. Singapore is very careful about keeping vessels it has granted a flag to, to maintaining a high standard of operations and repair.

Perhaps inevitably, the sun had barely risen over the accident scene before speculation began to run wild online, with breathlessly frenetic claims ranging from insurance scams to cyber hacking, to an attack by “Insert Foreign Entity Here”, to a “Black Swan”/“false flag” event sparked by “Insert Portion of the US Government Here”. While many, if not most, such ideas border on the demented, given the events of the preceding two or three decades – depending on where the counting begins – they do need to be looked into, at some realistic level.

That is what we will now proceed to.

Conspiracy – or Accident?

The first thing to understand is that maritime accidents happen all the time. The Dali itself had a docking accident in 2016, and there is the EVER GIVEN incident referenced above. There was actually a ship grounding in 2022 in Baltimore…things happen all the time and sometimes, they happen in the worst possible places.

This incident is almost certainly just as it appears: a devastating and tragic accident, occurring at precisely the worst place and time…

However…People jumping to a conspiratorial view of this incident are not necessarily kooks and weirdoes – although there are, of course the obligatory “occult” explanations that are…”inventively creative” is probably the best term.

There seems to have been nothing wrong as the Dali was towed away from the dock by Port of Baltimore tugboats. The ship was escorted by tugs to make a tight U-Turn as it left dockside, and began to build up speed; this is a completely normal procedure for most large vessels when leaving port. Neither was its acceleration to c.8 knots (9 mph/15 kph) unusual for its position in the Patapsco River’s channel. Likewise, the tugboats disconnecting as the Dali completed its U-Turn unusual; again, this is completely normal procedure for leaving port.

The problems begin as the ship neared the bridge. Videos of the ship approaching the bridge clearly show its lights shutting off, followed it beginning to drift. The Dali displaces nearly 149,000 tons, is nearly 1,000 feet in length, and stands nearly 100 feet from the surface to its highest point. Losing power to engines, steering or both, renders ships of this size completely at the mercy of both wind and current, as is shows by the ship immediately beginning to drift in the current. The crew apparently tried an emergency restart on the ship’s generators, producing the cloud of smoke seen in the video, and a momentary restoration of power…By then, however, it was too late, as the power failure occurred as the ship was less than a mile from the bridge – ships this large cannot stop on a dime, and by the time power was restored, it was far too late to correct the drift.

One underhanded and disingenuous tactic used by various “conspiracy theorists” (as opposed to “conspiracy analysts”) is to make assessments based on sped-up versions of the video. This kind of gaslighting warps the perspective of the unwary and/or inexperienced viewer; it is very much the kind of behavior that gives “independent researchers” a bad name.

But…the timing of the power loss is frankly suspicious, as it occurred at precisely the worst possible moment, where the crew and pilots would have essentially no way of diverting – much less stopping – the vessel, preventing an impact with the bridge.

Likewise, there is nothing unusual about the ship being able to knock the bridge down. The Francis Scott Key Bridge began construction in 1972, and opened in 1977. Commercial ships were far smaller in those days, but even so, a large vessel ramming the bridge supports head-on – deliberate or not – would almost certainly cause a catastrophic collapse; this would be the case with most bridges in the world, then as now. If there was a serious fault in the bridge’s design, it was in the near-total lack of protective “dolphin” barriers to protect the bridge supports, which certainly allowed the Dali to strike the support tower directly.

Comments have questioned what appears to be a “dynamite charge” exploding at the moment of impact, directly above the bow of the ship. In reality, this was a power cable running along the top of the bridge girders snapping, throwing off a shower of sparks as it separated…It was not an explosive, nor was it a thermite [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite] charge – that is not how those things work…

…Still, the timing remains highly questionable. Based on the notion that this was a deliberate act of sabotage, we will now look at potential “Who’s” and “Why’s”.

Who?

Assuming that this was a deliberate act, one in which the ship’s control systems were hacked or sabotaged in some other way, the first question to ask is “Who” would carry out such an attack?

The number of groups around the world with the capacity to hack a commercial vessel at precisely the right time and place to cause significant damage is almost too large to calculate. At the same time, such a “hostile foreign entity” would have to have very precise and highly detailed intelligence on the vessel and the Port of Baltimore in order to carry out their attack effectively. While certainly difficult, such a potentially hostile foreign entity could well have such a capability.

The next potential culprit, unfortunately, consists of any number of factions within the power structures of the United States Government, itself. This is, sadly, a significant possibility, given the relentless exposure of the openly hostile and highly illegal actions carried out by various groups within the US Government over the course of the last seventy-odd years, if not more, actions that range from COINTELPRO, to Project Megiddo, to the Library Awareness Program, to any number of operations carried out in the aftermath of the 9-11 Attacks.

Why?

The next question to answer – or at least try to puzzle out – would be “Why?”

For a hostile foreign actor – whether a state like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, etc., or some flavor of terror group – shutting down a major US oceanic port for one or two months (the initial estimate of the time needed to clear the channel of debris to allow the Port of Baltimore to reopen), especially given the presence of a four-ship squadron of the Department of Transportation’s “Ready Reserve Fleet” (RRF) which supports the US Navy around the world, is definitely attractive. At the same time, while certainly a serious situation for strategic operations, this is actually not that critical of a problem, as there is redundancy built into the RRF for such situations.

What is much more serious, is the effective closure – even if temporary – of one of the busiest commercial ports in the world. Currently, projected losses are estimated at some $15 billion dollars per day, as well as closing access to the largest port importing cars into the United States. Added to this is the potential impact on the jobs of some 8,000 people in Baltimore, if not more. Overall, this is not a blow that Baltimore can easily deal with, as the port has been the only economic engine keeping the city financially above water.

Clearly, these results are highly desirable for any foreign actor.

Conversely, there is the notion of a deliberate act engineered by factions within the US government. While this possibility cannot be reasonably dismissed out of hand, it is difficult to see what they gain would be.

A simple insurance scam is rather pointless, as is the idea that delaying the ship’s cargo delivery to Sri Lanka is of such importance that it would require crippling a large vessel and blocking a major port. Similarly, staging such an incident to divert attention away from any number of ongoing political, legal, military or social issues currently plaguing the United States is hard to grasp, as even the “alternative media” is still talking about many issues besides this disaster…

Follow-throughs…?

…In both circumstances – a foreign enemy or an internal one – the telling question is the lack of “follow-on” attack[s]. When the Imperial Japanese Navy completed its raid on the US military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, it did not stop there. The Japanese military capitalized on its devastating strike, and launched a series of massive offensive operations throughout China and the Western Pacific region simultaneous to their attack. This is common throughout history – one does not commit to a major attack on a location without an immediate follow-up attack, singly or in quantity. The expenditure of assets – financial and military – simply is not worth the effort is there is no follow-on operation to capitalize on a successful strike.

Conclusion

This last point is really the best argument in favor of this entire affair being a simple, tragic accident, one that is having an impact far outside its mechanical circumstances.

There are conspiracies aplenty in the modern world. It is important to carefully examine sudden events to see if ulterior motives are factors, and spell out such motives if they are identified…at the same time, it is equally important to not assume that a conspiracy exists where it does not. That requires careful and sober examination of the incident in question.

However, just because a conspiracy is not immediately evident, that does not prevent such a situation from being exploited by the unscrupulous…as has happened before.

Forewarned is forearmed.

FREEDOMIST INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR

Presents

MINDFUL INTELLIGENCE ™

TUESDAY JANUARY 23, 2024

editor Paul Collier

A sitrep of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
with breaking news added at the time of publication (released weekdays by 10AM eastern time).

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(News recap from 6a January 22 to 6a January 23)

“(Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. “ – 1 Corinthians 13:6

LAWFARING 2A AGAIN, SCOTUS UNPROTECTS TEXAS, PUTIN’S ALASKA, DELETEGATE, AMBIENT POWERING

TOP STORIES

U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES FOREIGNERS CAN SUE AMERICAN GUN MANUFACTURERS – A Boston-based U.S. Appeals Court ruled against American liberty, including the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution, when it ruled that a foreign power, Mexico, can sue American gun manufacturers over crimes committed with guns they made. The ruling is intended to price gun manufacturing out of the market through lawsuits such as these. The fact that the treasonous judges on this court are so desperate to destroy our right to bear arms they are willing to empower foreign governments to do so should get these judges not only disbarred, but arrested and tried for treason.

Yet should civic authority fail to do its duty, then we can only surmise these judges are a righteous judgment on a land that rejected God. The lawsuit is for $10 billion, a figure intended to bankrupt American gun manufacturers, something these seditious judges seem more than willing to facilitate as they serve the party, the DNC-CCP, not the republic.

SCOTUS RULES TEXAS CANNOT PROTECT ITS OWN BORDERS – The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the state of Texas cannot defend its borders even when the Federal government is not doing so. The ruling not only prevents Texas from defending its borders, but it also empowers the Federal government to do what they’ve been doing, aiding and abetting criminal activity as they continue to encourage illegal immigration.

This writer doesn’t know the full legal details of the justification for this ruling, so I will reserve judgment on a ruling that, at least on its face, seems blatantly unconstitutional. If Texas were to determine that it is, in fact, blatantly unconstitutional, then this writer encourages Texas to defy SCOTUS. If it isn’t, Texas needs to pass whatever laws it needs to that might give it power to defend its borders against all enemies, foreign and domestic, which would have to include the Biden administration at this point.

PUTIN DECREE SEEMS TO CLAIM ALASKA IS NOW RUSSIAN – Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, decided to poke America by announcing the funding of a project to assess the value of Russian property, both at home and abroad, including territory previously in the Russian Empire, which includes Alaska. The declaration seems to be Ukraine times a thousand as Russia may have just announced plans to annex Alaska and most of Eastern and Central Europe.

Russia has plenty of sympathy generally from right-leaning factions in America. This decree, however, might cause Russia to lose at least some support among the right, none of which would likely be keen on seeing Alaska turned back off to the Russians.

PELOSI’S DELETEGATE GETS WORSE – Quisling former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently masterminded the deletion of files, exculpatory files, in the January 6 rigged kangaroo court hearings in which she used her tax-paid platform to spread vicious lies about the DNC-CCP’s political opponents.

Before the Republicans took over, she is alleged to have deleted 117 files containing “critical information.” One can assume that deleted information would have countered their fabricated “insurrectionist” narrative they have used to justify arresting and imprisoning scores of Americans for merely exercising their right to doubt the outcome of elections, let alone Mass Mailer elections, which are no elections at all.

DRAWING POWER FROM MAGNETIC FORCES – A sensor developed by MIT researchers creates its own power by drawing from magnetic forces around it. Wherever there are magnetic forces at work, like, say, in a car engine, these sensors can be used without need of batteries and without interfering with the performance of the engine whose magnetic forces are creating power for the sensor.

“This is ambient power — energy that I don’t have to make a specific, soldered connection to get. And that makes this sensor very easy to install,” says Steve Leeb, the Emanuel E. Landsman Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Leeb is a member of the team and senior author on the paper the team produced.

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HEADLINES

TRENDING (M-F)

FEDS GIVE SCHOOL TEACHERS AGITPROP “TRANS-AFFIRMING TOOLKIT” – The Federal government that is the Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee decided is was wise to use taxpayer dollars to send a trans-fascist ideological “toolkit” training teachers to identify and groom children who might be willing to become guinea pigs in their trans-fascist dystopian fantasies.

The toolkit tells teachers lies like gender is a social construct, encouraging teachers to identify potential trans kids and send them down the path of genital and chemical mutilation, all to serve their trans god, the Moloch of the 2st century. As usual, they pull out their white devil trope to justify their insanity, stating, “Gender binary is a colonial and white supremacist structure rather than a natural and indisputable truth.”

COMMIES ARE GOING BROKE – The Democratic Socialists of America, the real party of anti-American activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her cohorts of seditionist House representatives (called “The Squad) is apparently going bankrupt as funds have been drying up for the anti-American terror group.

They pleaded to their “supporters,” “We will cut $500,000 from staff-related expenses. We will first ask for volunteers from both director-level and bargaining unit staff to have their position cut and receive severance. If necessary, we will then explore initiating lay-offs according to the DSA union’s contract.”

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WORLD (M-F)

EU CONTINUES TO PUSH FOR PALESTINIAN STATE – Despite Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu making it clear to anyone interested in listening that the state of Israel cannot afford to support a Palestinian state, the European Union is still insisting that a Palestinian state must be created in order for there to be peace in the Middle East.

That state, given the current culture of the Palestinian people, would exist for one reason and one reason only, to purge the entire land, from the river to the sea, of Jews. One doubts anyone would welcome giving a neighbor state power and authority who has made it clear they intend on murdering you the first chance they get.

SATELLITE PHOTOS SHOW NORTH KOREA MOVING ARMS TO RUSSIA – Satellite photos from the UK Defense department show North Korean arms being shipped to Russia. The photos were released as part of an overall report on North Korea’s efforts to sell Arms to Russia in support of their war against Ukraine. The report asserts “Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale.”

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U.S. POLITICS (M-F)

BIDEN FAMILY CITED NUMEROUS TIMES BY CIA FOR “CONFLICT OF INTEREST” – Apparently there are still some Americans left in the CIA, as can be evidenced by the fact that between January 2021 and May 2023 there were no less than 32 “form 202 conflict of interest referral notifications” filed by CIA operatives against the Biden family. None of these filings were followed up with, as the CIA and DOJ are, from the top, corrupted with anti-American activists who put the DNC-CCP’s interests over the American republic.

DID CONGRESS PASS ITS SPENDING ACT ILLEGALLY? – The U.S. government is on trial in Texas for allegedly passing a $1.7 trillion package illegally. A court in Lubbock, Texas will consider a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).

He alleges the House passed the final version of the bill without the required quorum, passing it with only 203 members present. The vast majority of the votes were cast through proxies, which Paxton asserts does not a quorum make. You can’t meet a quorum with anything less than the physical presence of the lawmaker, his lawsuit asserts.

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EDITOR’S CHOICE (T & F)

ALARM-PULLING CONGRESSMAN WANTS WHITE PEOPLE TO PAY BLACK PEOPLE $14 TRILLION – Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) made the racist claim that white people should essentially pay black people $14 trillion because ‘we wuz slavez.” The black supremacist and anti-American activist congressman claimed he could get the government to pay this money to black people without raising taxes.

“Who says the $14 trillion needs to be paid out in one shot?” said Bowman. “It might be possible for it to be paid out over 5 or 10 or 20 years. You could take that $333,000 and break it up into monthly checks over X amount of time. There are creative ways to do the right thing and do what needs to be done.”

OKLAHOMA STATE SENATOR INTRODUCES COMMON-SENSE JOURNALIST-CONTROL BILL –  Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm has introduced a bill called the “Common Sense Freedom of Press Control Act” that is clearly meant as a larp and an example to the seditious left of how ridiculous their “common sense gun control” laws are. Common sense here is illustrated as a dog whistle of “overt violation of Americans’ constitutional rights.”

Publications like the Daily Kos have been writing pieces on this legislation as if it were a serious proposal, not realizing how they’re being trolled into illustrating through their rightful assaults on such a dangerous violation of our constitutional rights just how unconstitutional their “common sense” gun control laws really are.

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SCI-TECH (T & F)

THIS NUCLEAR BATTERY COULD POWER DRONES FOREVER – CCP-controlled Chinese company Betavolt New Energy Technology is claiming it has developed a tiny nuclear-powered battery that can power your cell phone for 50 years without needing a new charge. They also claim their small batteries could enable light drones to fly “forever.”

PIG-LIVER DIALYSIS FOR HUMAN? – Researchers out of the University of Pennsylvania used a genetically modified pig liver to clean the blood of a human in what could amount to life-saving temporary treatment for people suffering from acute liver failure. The liver was connected to a human body. That human who, while alive, was ruled brain dead, making them “eligible” for the experiment.

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MSM/ALT MEDIA NEWS AGGREGATION:

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agitprop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agitprop intended to undermine American liberty values. The agitprop is not always revealed in the headlines alone.

from www.economist.com – Why politicians are obsessed with mythical Chinese land grabs

from uk.news.yahoo.com – Report Claims Inflation Woes Driven Largely By Corporate Greed

from www.politicususa.com – Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Biden And Hands Greg Abbott Border Defeat

from www.dailykos.com – Yep, all that ‘inflation’ is largely corporate greed

from crooksandliars.com – Marjorie Taylor Greene Thinks Patriot Front Is A ‘Fed Front’

from www.salon.com – Trump’s criminal rebrand of the Republican Party is complete

from www.vice.com – Former Pentagon UFO Investigator Is Pissed Because Congress Believes In Conspiracy Theories

from trendingpoliticsnews.com – Joy Reid Gets Obliterated By A Mother On Her Show, Melts Down: ‘I’m Interviewing You!’

from www.politicususa.com – Elise Stefanik Humiliates Herself Trying To Spin Trump’s Cognitive Decline

from www.msn.com – Biden expands abortion & contraception protections on Roe anniversary – msnNOW

from www.huffpost.com – Trump Goes On Another Unhinged Tirade Against E. Jean Carroll After Trial Gets Delayed – HuffPost

from www.politicususa.com – Florida Newspaper Rips Ron DeSantis After He Quits And Endorses Trump

from www.salon.com – “It will cost him”: Experts warn new E. Jean Carroll filing signals bad news for Trump

from crooksandliars.com – Matt Gaetz Heckled At Trump Event For (Maybe) Dating Underage Girls

from www.dailykos.com – Trump uses court delay to attack E. Jean Carroll more than 3 dozen times

from floridaphoenix.com – ‘Bad bills’ in the FL Legislature threaten free expression; some are ‘blatantly unconstitutional’

from www.kentuckytoday.com – Most U.S. adults respect religious diversity as hate crimes rise, poll finds | Baptist Life

from europeanconservative.com – Leftists Claim ‘Neo-Fascism’ on the Rise, but Can’t Be Bothered to Attend Debate ━ The European Conservative

from www.truthdig.com – How Twitter Turned Journalism Into a High School Cafeteria

from amp.scmp.com – Opinion | ‘Gutter talk’: is Manila overcorrecting its China policy post-Duterte? 

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TRENDING

from japantoday.com – Suspect in killing of 8 people in suburban Chicago has fatally shot himself in Texas, police say

from www.thesun.co.uk – Navy Seal Christopher Chambers leapt into sea to help comrade Nathan Gage Ingram before pair died on Houthi arms mission

from www.thecollegefix.com – HOAX: ‘Black feminist theory’ PhD student raised $40K on false assault claim, police say

from www.bizpacreview.com – Consumers’ Research urges parents to be alert for ‘woke’ toys, ‘extreme LGBTQ agenda’

from www.usatoday.com – Washington, D.C. sees spike in killings as homicides decline elsewere.

from www.express.co.uk – Ukraine’s frontlines plagued by rodent epidemic as gory diseases among soldiers surge | World | News

from republicangazette.com – Panera Bread Faces Lawsuits Over Highly Caffeinated Charged Lemonade Drinks Linked to Deaths

from globalnews.ca – China landslide leaves dozens missing as rescuers battle snow, frigid cold – National

from www.dailywire.com – Harvard Slammed For Choosing Prof Who Called Israel ‘Apartheid State’ To Co-Chair Anti-Semitism Task Force

from www.washingtontimes.com – U.S. Jewish schools see 47% increase in security costs since Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel

from www.thestar.com – Top religious leaders in Haiti denounce kidnapping of nuns and demand government action

from www.chicagotribune.com – Possible Trump testimony in sex abuse defamation trial postponed due to juror illness

from amp.theguardian.com – Powerful earthquake hits China-Kyrgyzstan border | China

from amp.cnn.com – Fed’s Barkin: March rate cut isn’t out of the picture. ‘You make the call when you get to the meeting’

from www.breitbart.com – Democrat-Run Oakland Loses In-N-Out Burger Due to Crime

from www.heraldpalladium.com – In this Oklahoma town, most everyone knows someone who’s been sued by the hospital | National

from redstate.com – Supreme Court Agrees to Take Up Major Death Penalty Case – RedState

from www.cbsnews.com – Ron DeSantis announced his campaign’s end with a Winston Churchill quote — but Churchill never said it

from www.cbsnews.com – CBS News team has close call in Gaza as fierce fighting continues

from learningenglish.voanews.com – Panama Cuts Canal Traffic as Water Levels Drop

WORLD

from news.yahoo.com – Ukraine’s Defense Ministry calls for Russia to relinquish nuclear weapons in post-war negotiations

from www.dhakatribune.com – Myanmar junta bolsters forces in Rakhine amid ongoing war

from – Strikes, explosions seen in Yemeni capital of Sana’a as US and UK target Houthis – video – The Guardian US

from www.usnews.com – Ecuador Police Capture Leader of Colombian Dissident Rebel Group – U.S. News & World Report

from www.applevalleynewsnow.com – Netanyahu again rejects Palestinian sovereignty amid fresh US push for two-state solution | World News

from amgreatness.com – Zelensky’s Ukraine is ‘Increasingly Autocratic’ and ‘Moving in Wrong Direction’ › American Greatness

from time.com – Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Demands Palestinian State

from hornobserver.com – Al-Shabaab storms UAE-trained soldiers’ camp in Mogadishu

from www.rfi.fr – Liberia’s new president Boakai vows to tackle graft as he takes the helm

from english.ahram.org.eg – EU sanctions firms backing Sudan warring rivals – War in Sudan – War in Sudan – Ahram Online

from www.wsws.org – Papua New Guinea government intensifies emergency crackdown

from time.com – Poland’s Tusk Arrives in Ukraine to Reset Frayed Ties

from www.timesofisrael.com – Today’s rocket barrage was fired from Gaza area from which IDF troops recently withdrew – The Times of Israel

anwire – from www.tehrantimes.com – Iranian capital mourns advisors assassinated by Israel

from amp.theguardian.com – Sunak’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda receives first parliamentary defeat | Immigration and asylum

from www.thesun.co.uk – Support the Ukraine invasion or lose your HOUSE, Putin ally threatens in chilling echo of Stalinist witch-hunts

anwire – from www.nbcnews.com – Hostage families storm Knesset hearing; Netanyahu says ‘no real proposal’ from Hamas

from en.royanews.tv – Turkey imposes economic sanctions on “Israel”

from amp.theguardian.com – Middle East crisis live: Relatives of Israeli hostages storm Jerusalem parliament session; Israeli troops ‘arrest medical staff’ – The Guardian

from www.thesun.co.uk – Houthi rebels ‘ask Iran for more weapons to step up Red Sea attacks’ as UK warns militants are ‘playing dangerous game’

POLITICS

from www.washingtontimes.com – Ron DeSantis’ exit leaves Donald Trump with 19 points over Nikki Haley in latest New Hampshire poll

from www.wicz.com – Nikki Haley sweeps 6-person midnight vote in New Hampshire – WICZ

from www.wsj.com – Buy My Vote! A Startup Is Letting Shareholders Sell Their Proxies – The Wall Street Journal

from legalinsurrection.com – ‘Devout Catholic’ Biden Wants to ‘Strengthen Access’ to Abortion, Contraceptions

from freebeacon.com – Bob Menendez Spent Thousands To Retain Dem Super Lawyer Marc Elias and Hunter Biden’s Firm

from www.usatoday.com – Taylor Swift gets young voters out to the polls, affects elections

from www.blacklistednews.com – Government’s Cancel Culture Efforts to Censor, Ostracize & Shun Politically Unpopular Viewpoints on the Rise!

from www.thenation.com – President Biden Needs to Go to Congress for Authorization on Yemen

from www.washingtonexaminer.com – Doug Burgum will not run for third term as North Dakota governor

from www.kake.com – Republican AGs back Texas and Florida social media regulations at US Supreme Court

from time.com – Johnson At Risk of Becoming a SINO: Speaker In Name Only

from www.dailysignal.com – Memo Spells Out Why Biden Should Have Known Austin’s Location

from www.politicususa.com – Investigation Opened Into Voter Suppression Effort Against Democrats Using Fake Biden Robocalls

from www.usacarry.com – Alaska Proposes ‘Safe Schools Act’ Mandating Concealed Carry on Campus

from emeatribune.com – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: Biden Needs To Be More ‘Blunt’ About Abortion – EMEA Tribune, Breaking News, World News, Latest News, Top Headlines

from blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com – Hawaii Bill Would Reform Civil Asset Forfeiture Process, Opt State Out of Federal Program

from cardinalnews.org – (VA) General Assembly committees advance bills to limit assault-style weapons

from theindependent.sg – Nikki Haley after DeSantis’ drop: “May the best woman win”, conservatives fear she may start wars if she wins … – The Independent

from themessenger.com – Tickets to Nikki Haley Wall Street Fundraiser Going for as Much as $33,000

from www.cbs58.com – Biden campaign puts reproductive rights front and center as it plans to tie Trump to abortion bans

EDITOR’S CHOICE

from www.americanthinker.com – FAIL: Cuba’s economy is collapsing, so communists hike taxes 20%

from www.blacklistednews.com – New Documents Provide More Insights on Moderna’s Online Speech Monitoring Efforts

from www.aljazeera.com – Russian lawmakers to debate seizing property of those who ‘discredit’ army | Russia-Ukraine war News

from www.breitbart.com – Feds Asked Banks to Search Americans’ Records for Gun Retailers

from reason.com – Democratic Attorneys General Ask SCOTUS To Bolster Censorship Powers

from www.weeklytimesnow.com.au – ChatGPT owner OpenAI bans its tools for political campaigning, Microsoft says onus is on users to combat fake news – The Weekly Times

from www.msn.com – Alleged leaked CVS internal documents on DEI sparks violation of Civil Rights Act according to conservatives – msnNOW

from www.foxnews.com – Group calls on Johns Hopkins to eliminate DEI program after post on ‘privilege’ draws harsh criticism: report

from www.washingtontimes.com – Letter to the editor: Christianity is not hate speech – Washington Times

from www.americanthinker.com – The truth about Christian Nationalism

from arstechnica.com – FCC officials owned stock in Comcast, Charter, AT&T, and Verizon, watchdog says

from www.cbsnews.com – New law meant to catch money launderers could catch many small business owners in Colorado off guard

from www.enewspf.com – Toward Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Repeat Gun Offenders

from www.wsj.com – Votes for Sale! A Startup Is Letting Shareholders Sell Their Proxies – The Wall Street Journal

from www.jurist.org – Coalition of US states sues EPA over rule tightening deadline for Clean Air Act implementation plans – JURIST

from thenewamerican.com – Javier Milei at the WEF — Attacking Socialism, Defending Monopolists?

from www.techdirt.com – Florida Has Yet Another Unconstitutional Social Media Bill; Wants To Ban Kids From Social Media

from www.audacy.com – Feds convict Chicago man who sued over Facebook comments

from www.manilatimes.net – Journalists arrested at Guinea press freedom rally

from theintercept.com – EPA Is Backing Down From Environmental Justice Cases Nationwide

SCI-TECH

from uk.news.yahoo.com – Surgeons develop 3D-printed liver models to plan complex cancer surgery

from www.thesun.co.uk – Britain blows up drones with £140m LASER dubbed ‘DragonFire’ in incredible first

from readwrite.com – Donated bodies are powering gene-edited organ research

from www.nanowerk.com – Mini-robots modeled on insects may be smallest, lightest, fastest ever developed

from medicalxpress.com – 3D bioprinting sheds light on why blood vessel curvature may foster brain cancer metastasis

from cosmosmagazine.com – An immune cell can transform itself to control melanoma

from scitechdaily.com – Harvard Scientists Discover Surprising Hidden Catalyst in Human Brain Evolution

from www.unite.ai – Researchers Make Breakthrough in Artificial Muscle Technology

from phys.org – Quantum physicist uses graphene ribbons to build nanoscale power plants

from www.techexplorist.com – Stem cell-derived brain organoids to improve modeling for neurodegenerative diseases

from www.sciencedaily.com – DNA origami folded into tiny motor

from www.wired.com – Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment

from www.sciencedaily.com – Clutch-stack-driven molecular gears in crystals could propel material innovation

from phys.org – Scientists make COVID receptor protein in mouse cells

from www.futurity.org – Newly discovered virus kills ‘sleeping’ bacteria

from www.scientificamerican.com – Long COVID Signatures Found in Huge Analysis of Blood Proteins

from thedebrief.org – Engineers Develop ‘Breakthrough’ Method for Creating Infinitesimally Small Objects Using the Power of Light

from cosmosmagazine.com – COVID waves are causing less severe illness, but one group remains especially vulnerable

from scitechdaily.com – The Hidden Cause of Neuron Death in Alzheimer’s Uncovered

from www.universetoday.com – Astronomers Have Mapped the Milky Way’s Magnetic Fields in 3D

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