Lebanese Citizens Renting out ‘Rocket Launcher Rooms’ in Their Homes for Hezbollah, Ex-Israeli PM Claims

From nypost.com

Lebanese citizens are being paid to rent out their homes to Hezbollah to set up special “rocket launcher rooms,” Israel’s former prime minister has claimed.

Naftali Bennett, who has called on the IDF to step up its military action in Gaza, accused civilians in Lebanon of working together with Hamas to build up its terror infrastructure along the border as he defended a massive Israeli barrage that killed hundreds on Monday.

“Many Shiites in Lebanon have a unique revenue stream: In their home they have a special ‘Rocket Launcher Room,’” Bennett wrote on X.

Israel fired a massive missile barrage on Monday targeting 300 allegedly Hezbollah sites in Lebanon. AFP via Getty Images

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett claimed Lebanese residents rent out their homes for Hezbollah to set up rocket launchers. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

“They’re paid monthly rent by Hezbollah to host this launcher and be prepared to shoot rockets at Israel communities on demand,” he added.

Bennett claimed he witnessed the outcome of such alleged deals while he served as a company commander fighting against Hezbollah decades ago.

Despite reports that civilians were caught in Monday’s large-scale attack, Bennett said it was necessary to destroy Hezbollah’s “death machines” that have been firing at Israel since Oct. 8.

“Any one man who turns his home into a death launchpad puts his family in severe danger, and ONLY he is responsible for the consequences,” Bennett said. “Enough is enough.”

Smoke billows in the Lebanese village of Zaita on Monday morning. AFP via Getty Images

Bennett’s claim echoed IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, who said video of secondary explosions during Monday’s strikes proved that the Israeli missiles did hit Hezbollah weapons depots.

“Every home we struck, there are rockets, drones, missiles, which were intended to kill Israeli civilians,” Hagari said.

The IDF targeted 300 sites on Monday, with the blasts killing hundreds and leaving more than 1,000 others wounded, according to Lebanon’s ministry of health.

Monday’s strike killed nearly 300 people and left more than 1,000 others wounded. AP

The barrage was the first time during the nearly year-long conflict that the IDF issued a warning in southern Lebanon for residents to evacuate in the face of “extensive strikes.”

“Israel’s war is not with you,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement to Lebanon. “It’s with Hezbollah.

“For too long, Hezbollah has been using you as human shields,” he added. “It placed rockets in your living rooms and missiles in your garage.

Rescue workers shift through the rubble of a destroyed building in Beirut. AP

“Those rockets and missiles are aimed directly at our cities, directly at our citizens. To defend our people against Hezbollah strikes, we must take out these weapons.”

Netanyahu urged those living in southern Lebanon to take Israel’s warning seriously, with reports emerging Monday of a mass exodus in the region.

“Please, get out of harm’s way now,” Netanyahu said. “Once our operation is finished, you can come back safely to your homes. source

Are the Lebanese stone crazy?? Did they not learn anything  from the exploding pagers?

Well, they’ve been warned.

Their blood will NOT be on the hands of the IDF!

MARANATHA!!!

Zelensky the proxy stooge comes to America with singular mission: Draw U.S. more directly into his protracted war with nuclear-armed Russia

From Leohomann.substack.com

Zelensky will seek more weapons and a longer leash so he can recklessly use US missiles to strike Russian cities and infrastructure. A recipe for World War III? You bet!

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky began his visit to the United States in Pennsylvania with a stop Sunday at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, where he thanked American workers producing the 155mm artillery shells Ukraine uses to kill Russians in a nasty border war with its fellow slavic neighbor to the east.

I wonder how those American workers feel making weapons for the leader of perhaps the most corrupt country in the world, Ukraine, which is being used by a corrupt Washington Unitparty to poke the Russian bear in the eyeball. Maybe they’re not aware of the geopolitical ramifications of their work. I doubt many are or they would be looking for other, less provocative jobs.

But Zelensky is a master at spinning lies and clever propaganda, playing Westerners who fall easy prey because of their lack of knowledge about the history of the Ukraine-Russia dispute. Even the BBC, in a March 2022 article, acknowledged Zelensky’s speeches are appear crafted to “shame” Western parliaments into giving him more money and weapons.

“It is in places like this where you can truly feel that the democratic world can prevail,” Zelensky posted on X, praising the Pennsylvania factory, which has boosted production to try to meet Ukraine’s endless needs for more shells. “Thanks to people like these — in Ukraine, in America, and in all partner countries — who work tirelessly to ensure that life is protected.”

That statement is utterly laughable as life is being destroyed every day in Ukraine and in Russia because of a senseless and bloody war that no politicians seem to want to end.

Zelensky the dictator wants you to think he represents freedom and democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. He has remained in office well past his term’s experation date and refuses to hold elections. He’s shut down all media that criticizes the war, and he’s banned all opposition political parties.

In perhaps the most vicious action, Zelensky’s government has persecuted the Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Church, seizing its churches and monasteries and throwing many of its priests in jail.

With all the pleasantries aside, the dictator Zelensky’s primary mission in the U.S. begins tomorrow when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly’s annual gathering in New York City and shares his so-called “Plan for Victory” while saving the granular details for his meeting with Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday.

“The U.S. president will be the first to see it in full,” Zelensky said in a video address before leaving Kiev. “Of course, I will also present the Plan for Victory to all leaders of partner countries who, like President Biden, are world leaders and can become leaders of peace by helping us.”

Note the Orwellian language. “Leaders of peace” while they push forward with endless war, making no attempt to end it.

“The victory plan is a plan that swiftly strengthens Ukraine. A strong Ukraine will force Putin to the negotiating table. I’m convinced of that,” Zelensky told the New Yorker in an interview last week while invoking more Orwellian doublespeak.

This war has done anything but “strengthen Ukraine.” It has dealt the Ukrainian people a crushing blow.

Zelensky said more Western support will lead to a diplomatic end to the war. Does he honestly believe that?

Force Putin to the negotiating table? This is a big lie that most of the ignorant American masses will swallow whole.

Truth is, Putin was already sitting and waiting for a partner at the negotiating table one month after the war started, in April 2022. He reportedly was willing to pull back his troops under two very reasonable conditions. Ukraine needed to guarantee it would not join the NATO military alliance and stop shelling Ukrainian towns and villages that are populated with mostly Russian-speaking Ukrainians. In other words, stop threatening Russia with Ukrainian NATO courtship and stop using your military in an aggressive manner.

The corporate media won’t tell you that. They want you to think Putin is the aggressor in charge of an expansionist Russia. Putin, they say, wants all of Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic states and more. He wants to re-assemble the old Soviet empire.

They have no evidence of that. NATO, on the other hand, keeps pushing eastward in obvious expansion mode for well over 20 years now. That’s the dirty little secret no Westerner is supposed to know about, and if they do, they mustn’t share it in public for fear of being branded a Russian asset. We’re not allowed to look at facts, and we’re certainly not allowed to have an opinion that doesn’t match up with the Washington warmongering Uniparty.

We are not pro Putin. We are anti-war and pro peace. But our puppet politicians are way out of touch with their constituents. They don’t represent us. They work for their friends in the military-industrial complex.

Zelensky is delusional if he thinks there are any plans for a “diplomatic end of the war,” as he claimed in his interview with the New Yorker.

At this point, even if Russia pulled all of its troops out of Ukraine, I doubt that Washington and London would allow Zelensky to stop fighting Russia. They would still be encouraged to shoot long-range missiles into Russian territory.

That’s because this war isn’t about Ukraine or its bizarre form of freedom and democracy. It’s about attacking Russia and using Ukriane to destabilize Russia to the point of delivering a regime change to Ukraine’s masters in Washington and London.

The Examiner notes that “it’s been five days since Ukraine used a wave of homegrown drones to destroy a complex of weapons storage warehouses near Toropets, about 300 miles inside Russia, and Western intelligence agencies are assessing the damage from the strike and two others that followed, which will have a noticeable impact on Russian military operations.”

Those drones could not have reached their targets inside Russia without NATO intelligence and targeting expertise.

If forcing Putin’s hand to lash out and defend his sovereign territory is not a “noticeable impact,” I don’t know what will be. That’s exactly what Washington and London are hoping to provoke by launching drones and missiles deep into Russia. And when the inevitable blowback occurs, they will again have all their lapdogs in the corporate media shout it from the housetops that Putin is an aggressive imperialistic leader akin to Adolf Hitler in 1938. And the only way to “rescue Europe” is for American troops to pour into Ukraine and finish the job the Ukrainians started. From that point on, we are living on borrowed time before missiles start slamming into U.S. cities.

I believe the strategy is to use Zelensky to slowly bleed Russia while using this time to gradually build up Western forces and the Western industrial output that will be needed for World War III. I don’t know that it will succeed, but that’s the likely plan. Western leaders such as Lindsey Graham and others have all but admitted it. They are so insane that they apparently don’t consider the fact that if Russia gets too weak to defend itself conventionally, it will turn to its nuclear arsenal. Putin and his regime spokespersons have repeatedly and clearly warned they will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons if they feel an existential threat from the West.

But our leaders in Washington and London are so blinded by bloodlust that they refuse to take Putin at his word. He will defend his soverign terrritory. That’s why he invaded Ukriane to begin with, because Ukraine was on a path to join NATO and was becoming a vassal state of Western imperialist leaders, who were building a proxy military force on Russia’s border. It would be like Mexico receiving medium and long-range missiles from Russia and getting training from Russian officers in how to use them aggressively against the U.S. If the U.S. attacked Mexico under such circumstances, would that make the U.S. the aggressor? I think not.

Mark it down. The missiles will be incoming in a matter of months unless Trump or someone steps in who is willing to sit down and negotiate with Putin.

Could this be why they are so intent on stopping Trump? I’m not a big Trump fan. I think he’s pompous and often says things that are better left unsaid. I think he exercises really bad judgment in who he allows into his inner circle, with neocon warmongers like Mike Pence, Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley and John Bolton among them. But he does claim to want to end the war in Ukraine. That makes him a marked man.

Microsoft deal would reopen Pennsylvania nuclear plant, site of 1979 partial meltdown, to power AI

Brethren – this should make you shudder.

Any sentence which has these three words in it:

MICROSOFT, NUCLEAR PLANT AND AI  is more than a bit Disturbing!!

From foxbusiness.com

Constellation Energy Corporation working to open new plant on Three Mile Island

A new agreement between Microsoft and Constellation Energy Corporation to provide power to the tech giant’s data centers for artificial intelligence is paving the way for the restart of a nuclear reactor on Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, the site of a 1979 partial meltdown.

The Baltimore-based Constellation on Friday announced that the 20-year deal it has struck with Microsoft will create the “Crane Clean Energy Center and restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1, which operated at industry-leading levels of safety and reliability for decades before being shut down for economic reasons exactly five years ago today.”

“Under the agreement, Microsoft will purchase energy from the renewed plant as part of its goal to help match the power its data centers… use with carbon-free energy,” Constellation said.

Three Mile Island, located near Middletown — just south of Pennsylvania’s capital of Harrisburg — is the site of a partial meltdown of its Unit 2 reactor in March 1979, which prompted mass evacuations.

CLEAN TECH, AI BOOM IS STRAINING US ENERGY SUPPLY 

Three Mile Island in 1999

Three Mile Island in March 1999. The damaged Unit 2 reactor is seen in the foreground. (John S. Zeedick/Getty Images / Getty Images)

“This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public,” the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says.

Constellation is now hoping to get the Crane Clean Energy Center at Unit 1 online by 2028 and secure a license that will allow it to extend plant operations until at least 2054.

“The Unit 1 reactor is located adjacent to TMI Unit 2, which shut down in 1979 and is in the process of being decommissioned by its owner, Energy Solutions. TMI Unit 1 is a fully independent facility, and its long-term operation was not impacted by the Unit 2 accident,” the company said.

Three Mile Island map

A map showing the location of Three Mile Island near Middletown, Pennsylvania, (FOX Business)

“To prepare for the restart, significant investments will be made to restore the plant, including the turbine, generator, main power transformer and cooling and control systems. Restarting a nuclear reactor requires U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval following a comprehensive safety and environmental review, as well as permits from relevant state and local agencies,” it added.

Constellation expects to spend $1.6 billion reviving the plant and for the review process to be completed by 2027, Reuters reports.

Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania

The front entrance of the Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant is pictured in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in May 2017. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri / Reuters)

“It’s up to Constellation to lay out its rationale for justifying restart, so we’re prepared to engage with the company on next steps,” Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesperson Scott Burnell told Reuters.

The company has not yet filed an application with federal nuclear regulators to bring the plant back online, the news agency adds. 

Constellation cited a study commissioned by the Pennsylvania Building & Construction Trades Council that found that the new Crane Clean Energy Center will create 3,400 jobs, add more than 800 megawatts of carbon-free electricity to the grid and bolster Pennsylvania’s GDP by $16 billion.

Three Mile Island Pennsylvania map

Three Mile Island is located near Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. (FOX Business)

“This agreement is a major milestone in Microsoft’s efforts to help decarbonize the grid in support of our commitment to become carbon negative,” Bobby Hollis, Microsoft’s vice president of energy, said in a statement.

Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania

The Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant is seen in the early morning hours in March 2011. (Jeff Fusco/Getty Images / Getty Images)  

“Powering industries critical to our nation’s global economic and technological competitiveness, including data centers, requires an abundance of energy that is carbon-free and reliable every hour of every day, and nuclear plants are the only energy sources that can consistently deliver on that promise,” added Constellation President and CEO Joe Dominguez. “Before it was prematurely shuttered due to poor economics, this plant was among the safest and most reliable nuclear plants on the grid, and we look forward to bringing it back with a new name and a renewed mission to serve as an economic engine for Pennsylvania.” source

KEEP PRAYING. KEEP LOOK UP. KEEP TRUSTING THE LORD!

MARANATHA!!

Several East Coast Beaches Close When Needles and Other Medical Waste Wash Ashore (VIDEO)

From breitbart.com

This is the beach we’ve gone to most of all.  I have a sinking feeling that this was not accidental.