Trump had kicked off the week by warning Iran that “bad things” would probably happen if a deal could not be reached. “We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones – the biggest and the best – and we have talks going on with Iran and we’ll see how it all works out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “If we can work something out, that would be great and if we can’t, probably bad things would happen.”
“I’d like to see a deal negotiated. I don’t know that that’s going to happen,” he added. So far, Iran seems a willing participant, though at this point the reality is it has little to lose by risking such direct engagement.
Casualty counts: At least 22 Palestinians were killed and 38 were injured in Israeli attacks on Wednesday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 71,824 killed, with 171,608 injured. Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 556 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 1,500, while 717 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health.
“Palantir is the resurrection of a DARPA project called Total Information Awareness, that was so scandalous when it first was announced that Congress shut it down…then they figured out if they made it a private company no one would care.”
Deputy AG (and Trump’s personal attorney) Todd Blanche is asked directly if anyone who had sex with a minor on Epstein’s island will be prosecuted—and his response is, “It’s not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.” pic.twitter.com/eQF6F6EWgo
Thomas Massie : "Kash Patel's FBI is threatening Thomas Massie’s staff with criminal investigations if they continue speaking up about Israel and the Epstein files."
Ron Paul questions Netanyahu's sixth meeting with President Trump in the US since Trump was reelected:
"Netanyahu is expected to pressure Trump to launch a war on Iran… How can it be that a foreign leader has more say over whether we go to war than Congress?" pic.twitter.com/JDz9KIyZ0c
Epstein worked for the Rothschilds-the same family that funded and founded Israel – A Jewish supremacist network using child rape to blackmail the world leaders pic.twitter.com/et013THjuR
Ana Kasparian: “Do we really want to be allies with a country [Israel] that kidnaps young girls for r*pe, just so they can have dirt on American politicians and control our foreign policy?” pic.twitter.com/6tqQgx7fLX
For the Israeli elite and their global collaborators, the Gaza conflict has become a historic opportunity to seize total control over America and the West