The United States deployed the Ohio-class nuclear submarine to the Middle East amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the US Central Command revealed in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Iranian Defense Minister Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani warned the US that if it does not secure a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, it will be “hit hard.” Previously, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with Hamas’ senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran to discuss the development of the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. According to Iranian media, Khamenei reiterated his support for the Palestinian people, accusing Israel of committing crimes with the direct assistance of the US. NN: Call me stupid. 2 aircraft carriers now a nuclear powered submarine deployed to the middle east. Sounds like escalation to me..
Israeli officials say inspectors uncovered oxygen concentrators for tunnels used by Palestinian terror groups inside truck carrying aid to Strip
Hamas tried to sneak its fighters out of the Gaza Strip in ambulances that evacuated dozens of wounded Palestinians to Egypt earlier this week, a senior Biden administration official said Friday. Hamas had compiled a list of the seriously wounded that it wanted to evacuate from Gaza for treatment in Egypt, along with thousands of foreign nationals looking to flee the enclave. The list was then vetted by Egypt and the United States, which found that a third of the names on it were of Hamas fighters, the administration official said, adding that the list was rejected and none of the 76 wounded Palestinians who were ultimately evacuated in ambulances out of Gaza were members of the terror group. “These weren’t for use in the hospitals, but below them. That’s why they were smuggled among boxes of cookies,” one of the senior Israeli officials said, adding that the entire truck in which the oxygen concentrators were found was barred from entering Gaza. Meanwhile, two senior Israeli officials told The Times of Israel that Israeli inspectors earlier this week uncovered, hidden in an aid truck, several oxygen concentrators meant to aerate the tunnels operated by terror organizations in Gaza.
Guterres ‘horrified’ by Israel’s ambulance attack
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he is “horrified” by Israel’s attack on an ambulance convoy outside the Al Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip. He said that the targeting of Palestinian civilians “must stop” and called for a humanitarian ceasefire. “International humanitarian law must be respected. Civilians and civilian infrastructure, including humanitarian and medical workers and assets must be protected. Civilians must also not be used as human shields. Essential supplies and services and unimpeded humanitarian access must be safely allowed into and across Gaza at a scale commensurate with this dramatic situation. All those with influence must exert it to ensure respect for the rules of war, end the suffering and avoid a spillover of the conflict that could engulf the whole region,” Guterres said. NN: Are we to believe that he does not know Hamas uses the basements of hospitals as their supply and command centers, And ambulances as Uber terrorists transportation services.
GOP Rep. Gallagher Calls TikTok ‘Digital Fentanyl’ Brainwashing American Youth Against ‘Israel,’ ‘Jews,’ and ‘the West
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, excoriated TikTok for brainwashing American youth against “Israel,” “Jews,” and “the West” in a scathing op-ed for The Free Press. According to Gallagher, the Chinese-owned social media app is in large part responsible for the fact that 51% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 believe that Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli civilians was justified according to a Harvard University/Harris poll.
“TikTok is not just an app teenagers use to make viral dance videos. A growing number of Americans rely on it for their news,” began Gallagher for the online outlet under the headline: “Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok.”
“Today, TikTok is the top search engine for more than half of Gen Z, and about six in ten Americans are hooked on the app before their seventeenth birthday. And it is controlled by America’s foremost adversary, one that does not share our interests or our values: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” added the Wisconsin Republican. He went on to argue that “the application’s algorithm is exquisitely tuned to prioritize polarizing outrage and addictive, brain-numbing nonsense (at best) and dangerous propaganda (at worst). Put differently, ByteDance and the CCP have decided that China’s children get spinach, and America’s get digital fentanyl.”
Gallagher continued:
If you doubt that the CCP would introduce bias—against Israel, against Jews, against the West, or anything else—into apps under its de facto control, consider that on October 31 The Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese web platforms Baidu and Alibaba have wiped Israel off the map—literally. The two most widely used mapping programs in China show the outlines of Israel’s territory but do not label it as Israel, and may not have for some time.
Analyses have shown that since Hamas’ attack on October 7, TikTok has been inundated with expressions of support for the Palestinian cause and disdain for Israel.
“So long as TikTok—and control of its algorithm—remain in the grip of the Chinese Communist Party, we are ceding the ability to censor Americans’ speech to a foreign adversary,” concluded Gallagher. “Time for Congress to take action. Time to ban TikTok.”
The United States Air Force revealed early on Thursday that a Space Launch Delta 30’s test launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile failed “due to an anomaly.” “The test launch program helps the command evaluate the Minuteman III and gather data to keep the system effective. The command learns lessons from every test launch. Gathering data from the launch allows AFGSC [Air Force Global Strike Command] to identify and correct any issues with the weapon system to ensure the Minuteman III’s continued reliability and accuracy,” the Air Force added. The statement emphasized that anomalies during test launches can be attributed to either the operational platform or the test equipment and underscored the importance of conducting analysis to determine the cause of these anomalies.
‘North Korea slams US Minuteman III test launch
North Korea slammed on Friday the United States test launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), calling it a “provocation,” according to the country’s state news agency. “On Nov. 1, the United States conducted the test-fire of ICBM Minuteman III at the Vandenberg space force base, in the presence of a puppet South Korean military delegation. The launch came to failure, but the test-fire, resumed in seven years with the participation of puppet South Korean military gangsters as part of a demonstration of its ‘extended deterrence commitment,’ clearly shows who is the target of the US nuclear and strategic weapons,” the agency added. NN: This is rich rocket man in N.Korea calls the minute man missle test provocation. We should stop pussy footing around and let them we will nuke them to the stone age.
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that his powerful militia is already engaged in unprecedented fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border and threatened a further escalation as Israel’s war with Hamas nears the one-month mark. In televised remarks — his first since the Palestinian militants’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel — Nasrallah stopped short of announcing that Hezbollah would fully enter the war, a move that would have devastating consequences for both Lebanon and Israel. The United States, Israel’s strongest backer, has warned Hezbollah and its patron Iran against entering the fray and has sent warships to the Mediterranean, a move Nasrallah said “will not scare us.” Hezbollah is prepared for all options, he declared, “and we can resort to them at any time.” The fighting would “not be limited” to the scale seen so far, he added. In recent weeks, Hezbollah has fired rockets across the border daily, mainly hitting military targets in northern Israel, but it has a substantial arsenal capable of hitting anywhere in Israel and thousands of battle-hardened fighters. Nasrallah’s speech had been widely anticipated throughout the region as an indication of whether the Israel-Hamas conflict would spiral into a regional war. “Some say I’m going to announce that we have entered the battle,”
Nasrallah said Friday. “We already entered the battle on Oct. 8.”
He argued that Hezbollah’s cross-border strikes have pulled away Israeli forces that would otherwise be focused on Hamas in Gaza. Celebratory gunshots rang out over Beirut as thousands packed into a square in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital to watch Nasrallah’s speech broadcast via video-link on a massive screen.
NN: Is this war in Israel going to spread Judge fo yourself. Here the word from the head mullah in charge of Hezbollah in Lebanon. He looks Iranian to me.
Rising geopolitical risk means oil traders have been paying premiums for crude cargoes from the Middle East loading next year.
While geopolitical risk has added a premium in annual deals, front-month oil futures have fallen back to levels last seen before Hamas attacked Israel.
The Federal Reserve’s decision not to increase interest rates should have provided some support to prices, but WTI and Brent were down on Thursday.
Crude traders have been paying premiums for oil cargoes from the Middle East loading next year as geopolitical risks spiked in the past month, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing trading sources.
The Hamas-Israel war has increased not only the volatility in crude oil prices but also the risk of a wider conflict, leading to traders willing to pay up for crude supply from Oman and Abu Dhabi in their annual deals that were mostly concluded by late October, according to Reuters’ sources.
Some of the Oman cargoes and Abu Dhabi’s Murban cargoes with 0.5% operational tolerance in annual contracts—the volume that the buyer or seller can adjust at loadings depending on demand—were sold at $0.30-$0.35 per barrel above their official selling prices (OSPs). Traders are also paying premiums in deals with a lower operational tolerance of 0.2%, although the premiums for Omani crude and for Abu Dhabi’s Murban and Das grades have been lower, at between $0.01 and $0.12 per barrel over the OSP for the various grades, Reuters’ sources said. Meanwhile, the front-month oil futures have erased the gains since the Hamas attack on Israel in early October, and Brent Crude traded at around $85 per barrel early on Thursday. Markets rose after the Fed skipped an interest rate hike again, as widely expected. “We may have underestimated the balance sheet strength of households and small businesses, and that may be part of it,” Fed chair Jerome Powell said at the press conference after the latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday. “The hawkish tone remains in the accompanying statement,” Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey, strategists at ING, commented on Thursday on the Fed decision and commodity markets. “Lower crude oil inventory in the US and Europe also continued to be supportive of crude oil prices,” they said. NN: No less then 6 countries are are shooting rockets at each other, Including the worlds largest oil producer, The puppet master of the savages of Iran are having a never ending orgasm over the human pain and suffering. The worlds largest aircraft carrier and a extra one plus their support vessels, for good measure are on station. All the worlds super powers have a dog in the hunt. And they would have you believe this is not a big AWH shit. Well i know where i am placing my bet. And no less then three holy books of the worlds major religions predicted a world war starting in this region.
The prices of oil futures surged on Thursday as tensions in the Middle East escalated, with worries over the supply of crude growing. Earlier, Israel announced that it had reached the center of northern Gaza and is currently carrying out its ground operations there. Meanwhile, the demand for oil could have been boosted due to both the United States Federal Reserve and the Bank of England deciding to maintain their key interest rates, with traders seemingly hoping that the tightening cycle has come to an end despite Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s warnings. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for deliveries in December jumped 2.56% at 1:22 pm ET and went for $82.55 per barrel. At 1:24 pm ET, Brent for January 2024 settlements surged 2.54% to sell for $86.83 per barrel.
The Yemeni Armed Forces said on Wednesday that it had launched “a large batch of drones during the past hours” against Israel. According to the statement issued by the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree Qasim, “the attack was carried out against several targets” within the Israeli territory, reaching “their goals.” The spokesperson added that Houthi forces in Yemen will “continue to carry out their military operations in support” of the Palestinian people and “against the occupation of Palestine.” At the moment, Israel has not issued any statement regarding the attack. NN: The savages are at the gate. Its a battle against the civilized world against the savages and freaks. Israel is at the forefrontoif the battle for civilization. The savages say from the river to the sea. Meaning the Jordon river to the Mediterranean sea; As usual they got their coordinates wrong. Its from the Mediterranean sea to to the red sea. The boundaries that Bible believers was ordained by GOD. I frankly don’ give a shit. Like the civilized people have done through history we take the land from the savages and turn it into productive resources. .
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that “Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities.” He stressed at a press conference that “calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas … to terrorism… to barbarism.” Netanyahu pointed out that “Israel will fight until this battle is won” and that “this is a time for war … for our common future.” Ground operations the Israeli military is carrying out are putting “pressure” on Hamas and could provide a “possibility of getting our hostages out” as the group would not set them free without being pressured, the prime minister noted. He reiterated that Gaza civilians should move to safe zones in the southeastern part of the enclave and that Hamas should allow them to do so. BlaskMask Blog:
Four missiles struck the Al-Asad airbase in Al-Anbar Governorate in western Iraq, an Al-Arabiya correspondent reported on Monday. The complex hosts troops from the United States. Earlier in the day, an unnamed senior US defense official told US media that its military personnel and facilities have been attacked 23 times in the Middle East since October 17. Nine attacks took place in Syria, while the remaining 14 occurred in Iraq, according to the official.
Israeli tanks on the outskirts of Gaza City
Tanks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were seen on the outskirts of Gaza City as a major road was cut off, Hamas spokesperson, Hazem Qasem, confirmed in an interview with Al Jazeera on Monday. According to Qasem, “the Palestinian resistance attacked the Israeli tanks in Salah Al Deen road,” which passes roughly north-south through Gaza, adding that the tanks also invaded an area in the southeast. The development follows several nights of heavy fighting. Israel continues its new stage in the war, as it tries to balance ground operations in Gaza, the West Bank and the Lebanese border with international pressures