“Strike Forces are almost always focused on massive fraud conspiracies, which is great news for the rule of law, and very bad news for the Russia hoaxers who ran a seditious and treasonous conspiracy against the U.S.”
This sure didn’t age well… an e-mail from Susan Rice to herself on Pres. Trump’s Inauguration Day in 2017.
Pres. Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book.” The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
This was just two weeks after a Jan 5, 2017 meeting in which Obama, Biden, Comey and others discussed “Russian interference,” a classic “cover-your-tracks” memo (after president-elect Trump’s surprising victory, shifting from the Hillary-led fake dossier to the Obama-led witch hunt of Trump using fake Russian collusion). With Gabbard’s release of the documents, we now definitively know what was really going on – the plot, a manufactured narrative, a mass conspiracy to subvert Trump’s presidency even before it began.
“Gaza may well be approaching a real hunger crisis. Shocked to be reading this from me? I don’t blame you.
Let’s break down why, unlike past lies about the situation in Gaza, new research is real cause for concern, and what it means for Israel.
Yesterday, @YannayASpitzer, an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, shared his findings on food prices in Gaza before and during the war. Well aware of the propaganda that Hamas and its international allies have been pumping out of the strip since October 7, Spitzer noted that “the situation [in Gaza] is radically different from everything up to now.”
He goes one step further, suggesting that “without immediate change, a state of mass starvation seems inevitable.”
What makes him think that? He tracked the price of flour, which, as he notes, is “the most essential consumer good.”
In September 2023, flour, which is sold in 25kg sacks, cost around 47.5 shekels ($14 USD) in Deir al-Balah, which until recently was untouched by the IDF and therefore less affected by the war.
Since October 7, according to Spitzer, flour’s price, per 25kg sack, changed as follows:- Jan 2024: Over 300 shekels.- Jan 2025, before the last ceasefire: 500 shekels.- During the ceasefire: It dropped back down to 50 shekels—almost its pre-war price.
Why the volatile prices? That’s war—and while a ten-fold increase in the cost of flour likely indicates a significant drop in supply, it doesn’t necessarily prove widespread hunger, let alone famine.
But here’s why Spitzer is worried. After the last ceasefire ended ,in March, the cost of flour shot back up to 500 shekels by the end of April. It then hit 875 shekels by the 2nd week of May, and 1,750 by the month’s end.
But here’s the worst part. “According to reports from the past few days,” Spitzer wrote, “if the price of a kilogram of flour has indeed reached 150 shekels—meaning 3,750 shekels per sack—we are looking at an 80-fold price increase.”
Essentially, he’s arguing that whatever flour shortage there was in Gaza until now doesn’t even compare to what the strip is currently experiencing. In summary, he writes, “very few households can sustain themselves under such shortages for more than a few days.”
The key question: Is he right? While I can’t force you to believe his report, it should certainly be taken with more seriousness than UN and Al Jazeera’s propaganda.
And herein lies a major problem. Discussing these findings, @TheFP’s @havivrettiggur highlighted Spitzer’s key challenge in convincing Israelis that Gaza is indeed facing a hunger crisis: “It’s hard to convince Israelis of that because literally everything said to them for 22 months on this topic has been a fiction.”
Of course, Jerusalem is tuned into this—and concern over hunger in the strip is one of the key reasons Netanyahu wants a ceasefire. As he has repeated throughout this war, preventing a famine in Gaza—which would see Israel lose even its most strident supporters—is the one essential condition to continuing the war and defeating Hamas.
Speaking of Hamas, what do they make of this? For one, they took their war against humanitarian aid to new heights last night, firing a rocket at the aid distribution center near the Morag Corridor. It landed some 250 meters away.
The sentiment, however, is nothing new. The closer Gazans are to real hunger, the better it is for Hamas, and the less likely it is to cave in ceasefire negotiations. After all, its logic is simple: If Gazans are actually starving, Israel will be forced to end the war anyways, without us having to agree to a deal we don’t particularly like.
Hence Hamas’ gleeful hoarding of food in its warehouses, keeping it far from Gazan civilians and driving up the prices of basic goods—without which the strip would not be facing the current food shortage.
For both Israelis and the ordinary Gazans caught in the crossfire, the result is brutal: When starvation becomes a strategy, peace moves further out of reach.”
Is not our go to position ‘Trump Good’ and ‘Israel Good’? Why should we not hold ourselves to a higher standard? I don’t like propaganda even if it’s for something I believe in. Truth has sufficient power of its own.
I find it very interesting that nothing seems to be Israel’s fault. It’s either Hamas or the UN to be blamed for the long term food crisis in Gaza. During this conflict Gazans have protested against Hamas and paid a high price for it. And still we do not help them, but keep them pinned in like prisoners. People do not starve over night. It takes a long sustained effort of the nature that we are currently funding in Israel. Why are we continuing to fund this? Who here actually supports what we are doing in Israel? Is it possible that our congress is more representative of Rep. Randy Fine (#starve away) than it is of us who actually care about the reputation of our Christian faith and what we are actively supporting at home and abroad?
“Many sources are far more dishonest than others. Those mentioned here have a terrible track record, thus making them untrustworthy. ”
I don’t entirely agree. Those sources were all speaking of the starvation in Gaza when such talk was being ignored altogether by more conservative sources. And yes, I am aware that those sources were all over ‘Russia collusion’. But that just demonstrates that there will never be a substitute for good judgement and the willingness to suspend judgement until more facts are known. And that is true regardless of your source. :–)
It is heartening to see the suffering in Gaza being taken seriously. And also the acknowledgement that there are Christians caught in the middle. This is their homeland too, you know.
“Starlink Satellites will be able to broadcast direct to your mobiles. There will be no deadzone anywhere in the world for your cell phone. Your phone will still work even if there are no cell towers.”
“Right there with you, Maria! I don’t know if people understand what it was like to have 99.9% of the people in media *viciously* attacking the few of us who fought their Russia collusion hoax groupthink. So glad we won. Every last one of them should leave in disgrace.”
“All the liars, the useful idiots and the uninformed who attacked me as I pursued truth and broke all of this in 2017 & 2018 should be ashamed of themselves I reported this first so long ago every detail but you tried so hard to attack me for pursuing truth. I knew karma wd come for you and know that I could not be happier to see it 🇺🇸”
“Of the $100 million raised at the celebrity “Fire Aid” concert, none actually went to LA fire victims. Instead the money went to nonprofits, many having nothing to do with fire relief.
I’ve asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to open an investigation.”
Israel has violated the sovereign borders of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon,and Iran. And that’s just in the last 60 days. They want the world to believe they can’t get that aid delivered to the hungry in their own occupied lands??
For shame! Perhaps there is more than a little truth to the claim that Israel has been known to shoot into crowds therefore the UN is afraid to deliver it ?
At least two weeks ago, I was reading articles telling me that Hamas was finished. Yet now I’m told that Hamas has enough firepower to hold back aid to the Palestinian people? The right wing media can’t have it both ways.
The UN employs Palestinians to deliver food to Gaza. Distribution points have been fired upon as Israel doesn’t distinguish between UN workers, “ordinary” Palestinians and Hamas. According to Israel and the media, they are one and the same thus legitimising Israel shooting at them. Picking up food aid has been described as a real life hunger games.
Wandering Views 
“Strike Forces are almost always focused on massive fraud conspiracies, which is great news for the rule of law, and very bad news for the Russia hoaxers who ran a seditious and treasonous conspiracy against the U.S.”
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1948142679650648072?t=3YkYWKL5Qvm9hTUxjAxwGQ&s=19
https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1948139213628592566?t=uPXYCTMH9mnC6yhoPmveuQ&s=19
“Justice Department Announces Formation of Strike Force to Assess Evidence Publicized by ODNI”
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This sure didn’t age well… an e-mail from Susan Rice to herself on Pres. Trump’s Inauguration Day in 2017.
Pres. Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book.” The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
This was just two weeks after a Jan 5, 2017 meeting in which Obama, Biden, Comey and others discussed “Russian interference,” a classic “cover-your-tracks” memo (after president-elect Trump’s surprising victory, shifting from the Hillary-led fake dossier to the Obama-led witch hunt of Trump using fake Russian collusion). With Gabbard’s release of the documents, we now definitively know what was really going on – the plot, a manufactured narrative, a mass conspiracy to subvert Trump’s presidency even before it began.
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“Gaza may well be approaching a real hunger crisis. Shocked to be reading this from me? I don’t blame you.
Let’s break down why, unlike past lies about the situation in Gaza, new research is real cause for concern, and what it means for Israel.
Yesterday, @YannayASpitzer, an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, shared his findings on food prices in Gaza before and during the war. Well aware of the propaganda that Hamas and its international allies have been pumping out of the strip since October 7, Spitzer noted that “the situation [in Gaza] is radically different from everything up to now.”
He goes one step further, suggesting that “without immediate change, a state of mass starvation seems inevitable.”
What makes him think that? He tracked the price of flour, which, as he notes, is “the most essential consumer good.”
In September 2023, flour, which is sold in 25kg sacks, cost around 47.5 shekels ($14 USD) in Deir al-Balah, which until recently was untouched by the IDF and therefore less affected by the war.
Since October 7, according to Spitzer, flour’s price, per 25kg sack, changed as follows:- Jan 2024: Over 300 shekels.- Jan 2025, before the last ceasefire: 500 shekels.- During the ceasefire: It dropped back down to 50 shekels—almost its pre-war price.
Why the volatile prices? That’s war—and while a ten-fold increase in the cost of flour likely indicates a significant drop in supply, it doesn’t necessarily prove widespread hunger, let alone famine.
But here’s why Spitzer is worried. After the last ceasefire ended ,in March, the cost of flour shot back up to 500 shekels by the end of April. It then hit 875 shekels by the 2nd week of May, and 1,750 by the month’s end.
But here’s the worst part. “According to reports from the past few days,” Spitzer wrote, “if the price of a kilogram of flour has indeed reached 150 shekels—meaning 3,750 shekels per sack—we are looking at an 80-fold price increase.”
Essentially, he’s arguing that whatever flour shortage there was in Gaza until now doesn’t even compare to what the strip is currently experiencing. In summary, he writes, “very few households can sustain themselves under such shortages for more than a few days.”
The key question: Is he right? While I can’t force you to believe his report, it should certainly be taken with more seriousness than UN and Al Jazeera’s propaganda.
And herein lies a major problem. Discussing these findings, @TheFP’s @havivrettiggur highlighted Spitzer’s key challenge in convincing Israelis that Gaza is indeed facing a hunger crisis: “It’s hard to convince Israelis of that because literally everything said to them for 22 months on this topic has been a fiction.”
Of course, Jerusalem is tuned into this—and concern over hunger in the strip is one of the key reasons Netanyahu wants a ceasefire. As he has repeated throughout this war, preventing a famine in Gaza—which would see Israel lose even its most strident supporters—is the one essential condition to continuing the war and defeating Hamas.
Speaking of Hamas, what do they make of this? For one, they took their war against humanitarian aid to new heights last night, firing a rocket at the aid distribution center near the Morag Corridor. It landed some 250 meters away.
The sentiment, however, is nothing new. The closer Gazans are to real hunger, the better it is for Hamas, and the less likely it is to cave in ceasefire negotiations. After all, its logic is simple: If Gazans are actually starving, Israel will be forced to end the war anyways, without us having to agree to a deal we don’t particularly like.
Hence Hamas’ gleeful hoarding of food in its warehouses, keeping it far from Gazan civilians and driving up the prices of basic goods—without which the strip would not be facing the current food shortage.
For both Israelis and the ordinary Gazans caught in the crossfire, the result is brutal: When starvation becomes a strategy, peace moves further out of reach.”
https://x.com/AmitSegal/status/1948355138852208812?t=IiyCR55CTEaxk4EvzUxPWw&s=19
Aj
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@8:30 Which is why it’s far better not to trust dishonest sources like The Guardian, CNN, Reuters and the BBC.
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Most sources have some dishonesty about them. But at some point you have to acknowledge where there is some truth, even if it’s unpleasant.
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Many sources are far more dishonest than others. Those mentioned here have a terrible track record, thus making them untrustworthy.
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It seems there is something to the reports of Gazans starving.
However those reports all blame Israel, when it’s Hamas hoarding food from the people causing most of it.
But Hamas plays the world press like a fiddle, and like with Trump, Israel Bad too is their go to position.
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Is not our go to position ‘Trump Good’ and ‘Israel Good’? Why should we not hold ourselves to a higher standard? I don’t like propaganda even if it’s for something I believe in. Truth has sufficient power of its own.
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More….
With video you should watch.
https://x.com/ariel_oseran/status/1948362129821618498?t=vKm7-1dIT_KtPD5S8qt5nw&s=19
“The UN: “Gaza’s hunger crisis has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation.”
Also the UN: Refuses to collect and distribute 800 humanitarian aid trucks, already inside Gaza, containing food and aid.”
https://x.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1948374906715975697?t=Fxp-Ss_MNKpilol-N0f5gg&s=19
“The UN has abandoned any pretext of humanitarianism to become a terrorist PR agency at the expense of Gazan civilians.”
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Is this video of the food Hamas is hoarding? Who is guarding this food to keep it from the people?
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I find it very interesting that nothing seems to be Israel’s fault. It’s either Hamas or the UN to be blamed for the long term food crisis in Gaza. During this conflict Gazans have protested against Hamas and paid a high price for it. And still we do not help them, but keep them pinned in like prisoners. People do not starve over night. It takes a long sustained effort of the nature that we are currently funding in Israel. Why are we continuing to fund this? Who here actually supports what we are doing in Israel? Is it possible that our congress is more representative of Rep. Randy Fine (#starve away) than it is of us who actually care about the reputation of our Christian faith and what we are actively supporting at home and abroad?
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“Many sources are far more dishonest than others. Those mentioned here have a terrible track record, thus making them untrustworthy. ”
I don’t entirely agree. Those sources were all speaking of the starvation in Gaza when such talk was being ignored altogether by more conservative sources. And yes, I am aware that those sources were all over ‘Russia collusion’. But that just demonstrates that there will never be a substitute for good judgement and the willingness to suspend judgement until more facts are known. And that is true regardless of your source. :–)
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Clearly, those sources weren’t exactly telling the truth, as we see even from this thread. Better to suspend judgment until more facts are known…
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It is heartening to see the suffering in Gaza being taken seriously. And also the acknowledgement that there are Christians caught in the middle. This is their homeland too, you know.
And off to work I go. More later.
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Now that he no longer works for Trump and taxpayers, he’s back to once again doing what he does best.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1948162127010955398?t=W0vp30lTnPHZtNOh5Ozwww&s=19
“Starlink Satellites will be able to broadcast direct to your mobiles. There will be no deadzone anywhere in the world for your cell phone. Your phone will still work even if there are no cell towers.”
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“ICE just arrested 243 illegal aliens in Denver, Colorado.
Among them: murderers, child rapists, human traffickers, drug dealers, thieves, and Tren de Aragua members.
In our hearing in March, Denver Mayor Johnston defended them multiple times.”
https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1948137998534766706?t=hpdbI12zefnFA_a0gUVD5g&s=19
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Correct!
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1948334570400547165?t=X-TMS5cwC9G_u1NrGnIelg&s=19
“Right there with you, Maria! I don’t know if people understand what it was like to have 99.9% of the people in media *viciously* attacking the few of us who fought their Russia collusion hoax groupthink. So glad we won. Every last one of them should leave in disgrace.”
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https://x.com/MariaBartiromo/status/1948220515815985638?t=xlEhMJ7X_MZSgqNkfAAJ7w&s=19
“All the liars, the useful idiots and the uninformed who attacked me as I pursued truth and broke all of this in 2017 & 2018 should be ashamed of themselves I reported this first so long ago every detail but you tried so hard to attack me for pursuing truth. I knew karma wd come for you and know that I could not be happier to see it 🇺🇸”
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The USAID scam ain’t the only one they’re running….
https://x.com/KevinKileyCA/status/1947831369872072807?t=KhWEzFMP9SeRRGyVHfBvpg&s=19
“Of the $100 million raised at the celebrity “Fire Aid” concert, none actually went to LA fire victims. Instead the money went to nonprofits, many having nothing to do with fire relief.
I’ve asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to open an investigation.”
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“Today, the IDF invited dozens of international journalists to the Kerem Shalom crossing inside Gaza, to see for themselves.
Hundreds of aid trucks have entered Gaza with Israel’s approval, but the supplies are standing idle, undelivered.
The reason?
The UN refuses to distribute the aid.
Hamas and the UN prevent the aid to reach the civilians in Gaza. The world deserves to know the truth.”
https://x.com/IsraelMFA/status/1948401395511550427?t=iycPUvtw6dbZYwuNuBj0vQ&s=19
Again, with video……
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Correction, that’s the one with pic, not the video.
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Israel has violated the sovereign borders of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon,and Iran. And that’s just in the last 60 days. They want the world to believe they can’t get that aid delivered to the hungry in their own occupied lands??
For shame! Perhaps there is more than a little truth to the claim that Israel has been known to shoot into crowds therefore the UN is afraid to deliver it ?
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At least two weeks ago, I was reading articles telling me that Hamas was finished. Yet now I’m told that Hamas has enough firepower to hold back aid to the Palestinian people? The right wing media can’t have it both ways.
The UN employs Palestinians to deliver food to Gaza. Distribution points have been fired upon as Israel doesn’t distinguish between UN workers, “ordinary” Palestinians and Hamas. According to Israel and the media, they are one and the same thus legitimising Israel shooting at them. Picking up food aid has been described as a real life hunger games.
hrw
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Or perhaps it’s Hamas they fear.
And unlike Debra’s unsubstantiated claims about Israel firing into crowds, with video.
https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1948050925769126274?t=CXED4ogYfy1vhZEtQ04d2Q&s=19
“So what happens when the UN does decide to distribute just one aid truck, out of over 950 delivered by Israel, to the middle of Gaza???
Watch, and let the world see for themselves. “
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