SENATOR WARREN/JOHN DEATON DEBATE

SCRUTINIZE THE CRYPTO SCAMMER'S COMMENTS.... 

DEATON SHOULD HAVE BEEN FACT CHECKED!

 

MUST WATCH FOR THE DETAILS! 

JOHN DEATON BLABBERED ABOUT THE SENATE MAJORITY THAT COULD 

PASS A NATIONAL ROE BILL.....COMMENTED THAT A SENATE MAJORITY 

OF 51 COULD PASS THE LEGISLATION...EXCEPT HE SAID IT AFTER 

CRITICIZING THE PUSH TO ELIMINATE THE FILIBUSTER THAT REQUIRES 

60 VOTES FOR CLOTURE.... 

JOHN DEATON HAS A SUPERFICIAL COMPREHENSION OF TOO MANY 

THINGS.... 

CRYPTO IS A SCAM! 

CHINA & OTHER NATIONS HAVE BANNED CRYPTO....BUT CRYPTO HAS 

FUNDED JOHN DEATON'S CAMPAIGN. 

WARREN BUFFETT CALLED CRYPTO: RAT POISON SQUARED! 

2 FDIC INSURED BANKS SO FAR HAVE FAILED DUE TO CRYPTO.... 

CRYPTO NEEDS TO BE REGULATED TO PROTECT CONSUMERS!

STEWARD HEALTH CARE IS IN BANKRUPTCY....THEY CLOSED 2 HOSPITALS 

AND NORWOOD HOSPITAL IS NEXT..... 

NORWOOD HAS NUMEROUS AUXILIARY SITES THAT WILL CLOSE AS WELL. 

JOHN DEATON WANTS TO SPEW THE RIGHT WING RHETORIC ABOUT 

IMMIGRANTS & BLAME THEIR FUNDING ON THE STEWARD FIASCO THAT'S 

UNTRUE.......HE DOESN'T LIKE TO BOTHER WITH THE DETAILS.... HE ATTENDED 

A SINGLE MEETING, PRONOUNCED HIMSELF AN EXPERT..... 

JOHN DEATON IS INCAPABLE OF STICKING TO A SUBJECT....DID YOU NOTICE? 

KEPT TOSSING IN UNRELATED ISSUES.... 

JOHN DEATON VOTED 3 TIMES IN 20 YEARS....IT SHOWS! 

JOHN DEATON RAISED THE ISSUE OF JPMORGAN CHASE INVOLVEMENT 

WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN & QUOTED AN INACCURATE AMOUNT...

GUESS HE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT JPMORGAN CHASE 

WAS THE BANK THAT BERNIE MADOFF USED AS WELL.... 

JPMorgan’s Settlements Reach $365 Million Over Civil Claims It Banked Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking of Minors; Criminal Charges Could Lie Ahead

MAYBE JOHN DEATON SHOULD HAVE READ SOME OF THE COURT 

TRANSCRIPTS ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN SEALED....

JOHN DEATON THROWS UNRELATED MUD AT THE WALL WHEN FACTS 

ARE AVAILABLE...JOHN DEATON DIDN'T READ THE BOOK...

excerpt:

In addition to exploring Trump’s ties to the KGB, American Kompromat also reveals: • How Jeffrey Epstein and Trump jostled for influence and financial supremacy for years. Epstein became a millionaire in part with the help of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father—media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who allegedly served as a spy and likely gave Epstein a sum between $10 and $20 million before his death in 1991. • How the Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking operation provided a source and marketplace for sexual kompromat. • How the Epstein-Maxwell ring helped enable young women with possible ties to Russian intelligence to gain access to the highest levels of Silicon Valley and the worlds of artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and the internet. This, at a time when Vladimir Putin has asserted, “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere [artificial intelligence] will become the ruler of the world.” • How John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Mar-a-Lago’s Palm Beach County, says he acquired 478 videos confiscated from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, fled to Moscow, became only the fourth American to win asylum in Russia, and immediately gained access to Putin’s inner circle, showing the ongoing power that comes from kompromat and how its value is highest before it is “used.”  

https://www.amazon.com/American-Kompromat-Cultivated-Related-Treachery/dp/0593182537  

 

Top News: Biden (Finally) Threatens to Halt Arms to Israel

 

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A photograph from September 2022 shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

 (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

'This Is BS': Green Critics Slam Google's Bid for Nuclear-Powered AI Future

Google's venture into nuclear-powered AI data centers follows Microsoft's push to reopen Three Mile Island to power its own.

Google announced on Monday that it had signed a deal to purchase energy from a set of yet-to-be-built small nuclear energy plants in order to power artificial intelligence.

Google signed a power-purchase agreement with Kairos Power, a California-based startup that will build four small modular reactors (SMRs) by 2035 for the Big Tech company's exclusive use.

AI data centers use astonishingly high levels of electricity, and Big Tech firms, which have made net-zero pledges, have recently been turning to nuclear power as a potentially carbon-free power source.

Though it doesn't emit greenhouse gases during operation, nuclear power comes with high risks and produces long-lasting radioactive waste; scientists and experts are divided on the wisdom of its use, and many environmental and justice-oriented groups are adamantly opposed.

Reinhard Uhrig, a climate and energy expert at WWF Austria, decried the new deal, arguing that renewable energies such as wind and solar are the best way to reduce emissions.

"This is BS, Google," Uhrig wrote on social media, citing an "unproven design."

The Google-Kairos deal calls for one 50-megawatt reactor to be online by 2030 and three more 75-megawatt reactors to be operational by 2035. That's far less than a typical conventional nuclear reactor, which produces about 1,000 megawatts of power.

The United States currently gets about 19% of its electricity from nuclear power. Tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act have spurred growth in the sector, with Big Tech showing a particular avarice for nuclear energy.

Last month, a deal was announced to reopen Three Mile Island to power Microsoft's AI data centers. Three Mile Island, which sits on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history when a reactor partially melted down in 1979, for which final cleanup efforts are still ongoing. The plant shuttered in 2019 but, pending regulatory approvals, is scheduled to restart operations in 2028.

Renowned political activist Jane Fonda responded to news of the Three Mile Island reopening by declaring, in an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, that her "heart sank" and that nuclear is "not a good climate solution."

Google's nuclear play is more experimental than Microsoft's. There are only three operational SMRs in the world—the first opened in China in 2021—and none in North America. SMRs use molten fluoride salt as a coolant, rather than water.

Google and Kairos didn't release any financial details about the deal and the sites for the SMRs haven't been chosen yet. Kairos formed in 2016 with the backing of the U.S. Department of Energy. Google says the SMRs will provide "clean, round-the-clock" energy.

Google, which is owned by Alphabet, lost a major antitrust case in August and faces further federal scrutiny for acting as a monopoly.

COMMON DREAMS

 BLINKEN LIED! 

BLINKEN IS AN INCOMPETENT, UNQUALIFIED BOOB WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN 

REPLACED LONG AGO! 

LLOYD AUSTIN .....DEFENSE SECRETARY? FAILED TO COMPREHEND THE CONSEQUENCES OF CORRUPT NETANYAHU'S WAR EXPANSION? 

THE U.S. CANNOT ALLOW NETANYAHU'S LUNACY TO DRAG US INTO AN 

ENDLESS WAR!

U.S. President Joe Biden (C) presides over a Cabinet meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L), Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and others at the White House on September 20, 2024 in Washington, D.C.

 (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden (Finally) Threatens to Halt Arms to Israel Over Gaza Carnage

"We should not wait 30 days," one group argued. "U.S. law requires ending the weapons NOW."

After a year of outrage over U.S. support for Israel's devastating assault on the Gaza Strip, multiple media outlets reported Tuesday that the Biden administration threatened to cut off U.S. weapons if the Israeli government does not take "urgent and sustained actions" to improve humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian territory within 30 days.

The October 13 letter from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is addressed to Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer. Axios reporter Barak Ravid published images of the letter on social media and The Washington Post reported that its "authenticity was confirmed by U.S. and Israeli officials."

Blinken and Austin noted requirements under federal law—which critics of the war have often cited in arguments that continuing to provide Israel with weapons is illegal—and National Security Memorandum 20, which President Joe Biden issued in February. NSM-20 directs the secretary of state "to obtain certain credible and reliable written assurances from foreign governments" that they use U.S. arms in line with international humanitarian law and will not "arbitrarily deny, restrict, or otherwise impede, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance."

The U.S. secretaries wrote that "to reverse the downward humanitarian trajectory and consistent with its assurances to us, Israel must, starting now and within 30 days, act on the following concrete measures. Failure to demonstrate a sustained commitment to implementing and maintaining these measures may have implications for U.S. policy under NSM-20 and relevant U.S. law."

The letter calls on the Israeli government to "surge all forms of humanitarian assistance throughout Gaza," with a list of specific actions. It also demands that Israel "ensure that the commercial and Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) corridors are functioning at full and continuous capacity" and "end the isolation in northern Gaza."

While acknowledging concerns about Israel's unverified allegations that a small number of staff from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East were involved in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack, Blinken and Austin also expressed alarm about the Knesset's potential adoption of UNRWA legislation that "would devastate the Gaza humanitarian response at this critical moment and deny vital educational and social services to tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which could have implications under relevant U.S. law and policy."

As CNN reported Tuesday:

Israel appears to already be responding to the letter, at least indirectly. Just one day after the letter was sent, COGAT, the Israeli agency that manages policy for the Palestinian territories and the flow of aid into the strip, tweeted photos of aid going into Gaza.

"30 trucks entered northern Gaza through the Erez Crossing earlier today. Israel is not preventing the entry of humanitarian aid, with an emphasis on food, into Gaza," COGAT said in a post on X. "Israel will continue to allow the entry of humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza, while simultaneously destroying Hamas’ military and governance infrastructures."

However, since Sunday, Israel has also continued killing civilians in Gaza, bombing a hospital complex and refugee camps—actions that have led progressive U.S. lawmakers to call on Biden to stop "this evil genocide."

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice over its yearlong assault on Gaza—which, according to local officials in the Hamas-governed enclave, has killed at least 42,344 Palestinians and wounded another 99,013, with thousands more missing.

Responding to the new letter in a Tuesday statement, Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now, said that "however long overdue, this official warning that Israel must stop blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza or face a suspension of U.S. military aid is an important and unprecedented signal that Israel has crossed even the Biden administration's permissive red lines."

"We now need the Biden administration to show action, not just words, in enforcing U.S. laws, which prohibit aid to Israel given not only its relentless obstruction of humanitarian relief but deliberate starvation and incessant bombardment of Gaza's civilians," she added.

The Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project noted on social media that the United States Agency for International Development and the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration "recommended ending weapons to Israel months ago for these violations."

"Blinken ignored them and lied to Congress about their findings," the group said. "We should not wait 30 days. U.S. law requires ending the weapons NOW."

Georgia state Rep. Ruwa Romman (D-97), who is Palestinian American, agreed. She declared: "Do it now! There's 370 days of evidence. The hundreds of thousands of people being starved in Gaza won't survive 30 more days."

Outgoing Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.)—who lost his June primary to a pro-Israel candidate backed by lobbyist money—also argued Tuesday that "30 days is too long to wait and see if we will impose an arms embargo."

"How many more Palestinians are we going to allow Israel to murder in 30 days?" he asked. "How many more children and families and generations? We need an arms embargo NOW!"

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Palestinian student Sha'ban al-Dalou, 19, was burned alive along with his mother and others in an October 13, 2024 Israeli airstrike on a refugee tent encampment on the ground of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Palestine.

Palestinian Seen Burning Alive in Israeli Tent Massacre Identified

Sha'ban al-Dalou, 19, was a software engineering student who had survived an Israeli airstrike on a mosque that killed 20 people last week.

Warning: Contains images of death.

The Palestinian photographed while burning alive in a Gaza City tent encampment bombed by Israeli forces on Monday has been identified.

Sha'ban al-Dalou, was a highly promising 19-year-old software engineering student at Gaza's al-Azhar University, which was destroyed by an Israeli bombing last November, two months after he began studying there. Al-Dalou, his parents, and siblings sought shelter in the courtyard of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza after being forcibly displaced multiple times by Israel's onslaught, for which the U.S.-backed nation is on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice.

"In this barbaric starvation war, we have [been] displaced five times so far," al-Dalou said in an undated video shared on social media.

"I'm taking care of my family, as I am the oldest," the teen explains as an Israeli drone can be heard hovering nearby. "I have two sisters and two little brothers and my parents. We left in... very hard circumstances, suffering... homelessness, limited food, and extremely limited medicine, and the only things between us and the freezing condition is this tent that we constructed by ourselves."

The teen was reportedly receiving treatment at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital after surviving an Israeli strike on a Deir al-Balah mosque that killed more than 20 people earlier this month.

"Yesterday they bombed in front of al-Aqsa Hospital and I was there sleeping," al-Dalou wrote to his brother after the attack, according toThe Siasat Daily, a major Indian newspaper. "I saw death in my eyes. They took me out of the rubble; I was unconscious, bleeding, injured—all like a dream."

"I'm injured in my head; I got 11 stitches behind my ear," he added. "If it was stronger, I'd be dead by now. I've also got an injury in my lung... it really hurts so much."

Al-Dalou, his mother, and at least two other people were killed early on Monday when Israel bombed the hospital's courtyard as they slept, sparking an inferno that tore through the tent encampment there. Video and photos showed al-Dalou burning alive, screaming for help, with an intravenous drip still attached to his arm.

In March, al-Dalou wrote:

I used to have big dreams, but the war has ruined them. It's taken a toll on me, making me physically and mentally sick. I suffer from depression and hair loss because of the constant trauma we face. Time feels like its stopped in Gaza, and we're stuck in a never-ending nightmare.

Responding to the grisly images of al-Dalou's death, Waleed Shahid, a U.S. progressive strategist who worked for lawmakers including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), said on social media that "the image of hospital patients, tethered to IVs as American-supplied Israeli bombs ignite fires around them in Gaza, may well stand as the defining image of this horror," much as the photo of so-called "Napalm Girl" Phan Thị Kim Phúc does for the Vietnam War.

Al-Dalou, his mother Alaa al-Dalou, and the other victims of Monday's bombing are among the at least 42,289 Palestinians—most of them women and children—killed by Israel's 375-day assault on Gaza, according to officials there, United Nations agencies, and international human rights groups. Nearly 100,000 others have been injured, and at least 10,000 people are missing and presumed dead and buried beneath the rubble of bombed-out buildings. Millions more Gazans have been forcibly displaced, starved, and sickened.

On Tuesday, multiple media outlets reported that the Biden administration last week warned Israeli leaders that they must take "urgent and sustained actions" to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza within 30 days or risk losing billions of dollars in military aid from Washington.

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