what drove those young men to burst the gates of Gaza?

Thank you to Lew Rockwell for this video interview between Russell Brand and Norman Finkelstein.  

Israel imposed a brutal economic blockade in 2006 on Gaza.  The effect of that blockade was that nothing could go into Gaza, and nothing could come out of Gaza; no person could go into Gaza, and no person could leave Gaza without Israel's permission.  Israel imposed in the course of that blockade a regime of starvation plus a diet on the people of Gaza that literally calculated the caloric intake of the people of Gaza and then allowed food to enter Gaza at a starvation-plus level.  Gaza has suffered from among the worst economic deprivation, in particular, unemployment in Gaza.  Among Gaza in general, it's about 50% of the population.  Among youth, namely the people who burst the gates of Gaza, the unemployment is at a level of about 70%.  About 97% of the water in Gaza is poisonous; it can't be drunk by the people.  Now, if you add up all of these factors what do you get?  And I really just skimmed the surface I haven't mentioned that half the population of Gaza comprises children.  I haven't mentioned that 70% of the population of Gaza comprises refugees who were expelled from Israel in 1948 and their descendants I haven't mentioned that Gaza is among the most densely populated places on God's Earth I haven't mentioned that the young people who burst the gates of Gaza.  Most of them were born into that place, which suffered from this economic blockade since 2006.  So what do we get when we put all these factors together?  Well, we take your own former British Prime Minister David Cameron, who now I understand is your Foreign Secretary.  David Cameron described Gaza as an open-air prison.  If you take Israel's senior security establishment officials he was the head of Israel's National Security Council, his name is Giora Eiland.  And in March 2004, Giora Eiland  described Gaza as "a huge concentration camp."  And so what you saw on October 7th was young men who had been born into a concentration camp and had lived for 20 years of their lives in that concentration camp.  But that's only half the story.  The other half of the story is Israel periodically "mows the lawn" in Gaza.  And what is "mowing the lawn"?  "Mowing the lawn" is these high-tech massacres that Israel launches against Gaza.  And a lot of people nowadays express the opinion that if Israel is conducting such massive death and destruction in Gaza, it's because of what happened on October 7th.  Well it is true, it is true that the quantitative magnitude of the death and destruction in Gaza is at a new level.  I wouldn't argue with that.  No sane person would argue with that.  But it's not true that the methods that Israel is employing in Gaza are new or that they suddenly emerged after October 7th.  So I asked your colleagues to just print out, you have in front of you, a list taken from not a human rights report, not from the United Nations, but just random testimonies of Israeli soldiers who fought in Operation Protective Edge in 2014. Now I want you to bear in mind that this list comprises not soldiers who are peacenicks, not soldiers who feel guilty or remorseful about their actions; on the contrary, these soldiers just randomly describe what they did in Gaza.  And I want to reiterate for your listeners, this is before October 7th.  This is Standard Operating Procedure for Israelis each time they "mow the lawn" in Gaza.  So I'm going to ask you, Russell, because by profession you're an actor, so you have a much better voice than me.  Just for each testimony I'm going to ask you to go Soldier.  Read one soldier, read the next because I think it's important for listeners to understand what drove those young men to burst the gates of Gaza, and, we have to be honest, committed atrocities.  So if you don't mind, just read it for the listeners.

9:02.  Reading page 219 from This Is How We Fought in Gaza: Soldiers Testimonies' and Photographs from Operation Protective Edge 2014, Breaking the Silence.  I'll be asking you with the oppositional of you to everything that we are discussing here is you know when people say that Israel is the only country that has ever shown any sort of clemency to Palestine that there never was a nation of Palestine free 1947 all all of the common arguments so that we can even if that come up so that we can even have a conversation that has some tenacity and integrity to it these are the sources that Norman has requested that I use it.

Soldier 18: When we left after the operation, it was just a barren stretch of desert.  We spoke about it a lot amongst ourselves, the guys from the company, how crazy the amount of damage we did there was.  I quote, "Listen man, it's crazy what went on in there.  Listen man, we really missed them up, fuck, check it out, there is nothing at all left . . . , it's nothing but desert now.  that's crazy."

When OWS turned over the organizational charts, they shocked everybody because the top organization that had managed OWS was not HHS, which is a public health agency. It wasn't CDC or NIH or FDA. It was the NSA, a spy agency.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. details how the NSA was in charge of Operation Warspeed's COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, the history of the United States bioweapons program, and why Anthony Fauci is the highest-paid government official in history:

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It was a pretense for clamp down totalitarian control.

The weird thing about the pandemic was this constant involvement by the CIA and the intelligence agencies, and by the military.  When Operation Warspeed made its presentation to FDA, to the committee they call the (VRBPAC) Committee, Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, (VRBPAC) asked for the organizational charts which were classified up to that time.  When OWS turned over the organizational charts, they shocked everybody because the top organization that had managed OWS was not HHS, which is a public health agency.  It wasn't CDC or NIH or FDA.  It was the NSA, a spy agency.  That was the top agency, the lead agency on Operation Warp Speed on the pandemic. And the second agency was the Pentagon.  The vaccines weren't developed by Pfizer or Moderna.  They were developed by NIH.  The patents were owned 50% by NIH.  Nor were they manufactured by Pfizer or Moderna.  They were manufactured by military contractors.  And basically, Pfizer and Moderna were paid to put their labels on the vaccines as if they came from the pharmaceutical industry.  This was a military project from the beginning.

And then you have 20 different simulations that I uncovered, virus and pandemic simulations, that started in 2001 right before the Anthrax attacks.  And the CIA was sponsoring them all.  The last one was Event 201 in October 2019.  And the participants in there are Avril Haines, the former Deputy Director of the CIA, who's been managing cover-ups her entire life.  She managed Guantánamo Bay, lying on the Senate.  She is now the Director of DNI, Director of National Intelligence, which makes her the highest-ranking officer at the NSA that managed the pandemic.  So you have a spy who is convening these pandemic simulations and each of these simulations going back 20 years, they're not simulating a public health response  They're not doing things like,

"How do we stockpile vitamin D?" 

"How do we get people outdoors, get them to lose weight, get them doing exercise?"  

"How do we develop an information grid with all of the 15 million doctors, frontline physicians, all over the world?" 

Who are going to be encountering their situation so that we can get what they're doing that works, what doesn't work, and put together a model, here are the repurposed drugs that worked, here are the treatments that worked.  None of that happened.  It was an incredible opportunity to manage a pandemic in a way that was intelligent and sensitive and devastating to the disease but we didn't do any of those things.  It was all about how you use the pandemic to clamp down on censorship.  How do you use it to force lockdowns?  

Bill Gates & Pierre Omidyar wanted to target India's poor populations because they're considered unbanked

Up front, I cannot stand Russell Brand. Not like that matters, but I do like some of his guests, like Max Blumenthal, Founder, editor-in-chief, and reporter at The Gray Zone.  

Thanks to Ginny Garner @ Lew Rockwell.  

     

The virus was more virulent in the beginning with Delta, which attacked the lungs, and then onto Omicron, which was much milder.  A new mechanism of control comes in: the vaccine passport.  I want to say that the vaccine was the passport: get it, and you could travel.  Don't get it, and now's you can'ts leave.  The blueprints for the vaccine passports had been laid well before the pandemic.  I mean there'd been a plan for a digital ID well before it.  The World Bank had ID 4D.  It had invested over a billion dollars into this concept of digital ID.  Bill Gates had been pushing digital ID in India and Africa.  And you want his pal, Nandan Nilekani, who runs the digital ID testing system, Aadhar.  It's been tested on a majority of Indians, and basically you register your irises, your iris scans and your fingerprint scans and [these] give you access to government services.  

And we saw what happened in India as the result of large parts of the population being forced into a system of digital ID and total panopticon style control.  In the province of Jharkhand, which is a poor rural province, in 2017 when the system started failing and backfiring, people were unable to access basic government subsidies, like rice, and they were starving and dying because their retina scans were not working because they didn't register with the locals, or there was a corrupt local authority.  People were dying across Jharkhand, and this was widely reported in Indian media.  This is the population that figures like Bill Gates, or the tech billionaire, Pierre Omidyar, wanted to target because they're considered unbanked.  In other words, they are rural populations of poor people, in Africa or India, who don't have credit.  They're not in the credit system; they're not in debt.  They're not paying with electronic payment systems, and they're not identified, and so by bringing them in to your system, you reap massive profits.  That's the target with all of this.  And so, with the rise of . . . with the impetus for everyone to get vaccinated in this call to vaccinate the world that provides the momentum to identify the world, and get the world into digital identity, and so you had the vaccine passport.  The vaccine passport is unscientific because the COVID vaccines that were produced under Emergency Use Authorization don't prevent transmission or infection.  We can see that with double-boosted Fauci getting it, double-boosted Biden getting it, double-boosted Jill Biden getting it.  So, it doesn't make sense to exclude people who are unvaccinated.  First of all, it was about control.  That's why Novak Djokovic, the best tennis player in the world, is being excluded from the U.S. Open because he's unvaccinated.  Whereas any unvaccinated Americans can walk across the U.S. border from Tijuana or enter by airplane?  It doesn't actually make sense.  First, it's about control.  It was also a way to break the social solidarity that we saw rise up during the Occupy Movement and continue through 2019 by creating another false division within the 99% between the vaccinated and unvaccinated and painting the unvaccinated in Joe Biden's words, "people who believe they have the freedom to kill you," a massive public health threat and then to demonize them as such.  And in the minds of many who supported Biden, people more to the left, the unvaccinated represent the figure of Trumpism and are right-wing, when, in fact, here in Washington D.C., 40% . . . 50% of black youth have not taken the COVID vaccine and they will be prevented from going to school this year, according to Mayor Muriel Bowser unless they do so.  Everyone 12 or older has to do that [get vaccinated].  So, it's also about coercion, intimidating people into accepting a government demand at the price of being socially excluded.  So, what does that amount to?  It amounts to social credit, a kind of social credit system that conditions obedient behavior on your cooperation in society is something that should not be allowed in any democracy, but we have allowed it to come in through the pandemic restrictions and vaccine passports and it will move to digital ID ultimately as Bill Gates mapped out in his ID 2020 organization and agenda.