WAR CRIMES ARE NOT WAR CRIMES: This pattern of outright lying, hypocrisy and pure arrogance is being repeated on a daily basis. If it’s not the president himself, it is the White House press secretary. When she’s not lying, it’s the Vice President, when he’s not lying it is a GOP Senator, Pete Hegseth, The Secretary of State, and on and on.
Yet they all claim to be God fearing Christians. They’ve even managed to annoy Joe Rogan, who is slowly waking up from his MAGA induced coma.
MEIDAS TOUCH: – Joe Rogan has sensationally split with Trump on his key mass migration policy, slamming the possibility that innocent people could be languishing in a ‘hell on earth’ prison due to an administration error.
The Trump administration’s decision to invoke the wartime Alien Enemies Act in order to send hundreds of suspected gang members to a notorious El Salvadorian prison has sparked lawsuits and protests.
But Rogan’s condemnation of the decision amid reports innocent civilians were wrongly mixed up with criminals could be the biggest blow to the administration yet.
‘It’s horrific,’ he said.
‘You got to get scared that people who are not criminals are getting, like, lassoed up and deported and sent to, like, El Salvador prisons.
‘This is kind of crazy that that could be possible. That’s horrific. And that’s, again, that’s bad for the cause.
‘The cause is: Let’s get the gang members out. Everybody agrees. But let’s not, innocent gay hairdressers, get lumped up with the gangs.’
Rogan’s wildly successful podcast is credited with attracting young male voters to the MAGA movement, after Trump appeared in an episode during his presidential election campaign.
As such, his opinion on the administration’s policies has huge sway with his fanbase.
He has largely supported Trump’s sweeping acts in his first two months back in the White House, but Rogan drew the line during his Saturday episode with Konstantin Kisin.
There have been reports that some of the 238 immigrants who were swept up in the mass raids were wrongly identified.
One such case allegedly involves a gay man working as a barber, who arrived in the United States legally.
A Time Magazine report from the prison noted: ‘One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.”
The reporter said: ‘I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected – he wasn’t a tattooed monster.’
Referencing the article, Rogan said: ‘How long before that guy can get out? Can we figure out how to get them out? Is there any plan in place to alert the authorities that they’ve made a horrible mistake and correct it?’
Rogan said he was disappointed in the current political climate, which appeared to be a case of: ‘never admit your fault. Never admit you’re wrong.’ – Brittany Chain for DM.
Maybe Joe is finally starting to feel the heat. The MeidasTouch podcast has usurped his throne as the most popular pod. They actually report on what’s happening, not enabling the administration the way Joe has been doing for months now. Getting too big for your boots hey Joey boy, time to stop being a tool of the regime and being played for a fool.
TURNING A BLIND EYE: – The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.
Eight of the 14 bodies recovered Sunday from the site in the southern Rafah area were identified as members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), five as civil defense, and one as a UN agency employee, PRCS said in a statement. One PRCS medic remains missing.
The body of a fifteenth person, a civil defense worker, was recovered last Thursday from the site, after PRCS said they were initially denied access to the area. CNN has reached out to the Israeli military.
Last week, PRCS said nine of its emergency medical technicians had been missing since March 23 following an incident in which Israeli forces fired on ambulances and fire trucks in southern Rafah.
In response to the initial incident, the Israeli military said it had fired on the ambulances and fire trucks because they were being used as cover by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants.
Aid organizations and the UN have expressed outrage over the attacks, which the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent said were the “single most deadly” for IFRC workers in almost a decade.
“This massacre of our team is a tragedy not only for us at the Palestine Red Crescent Society, but also for humanitarian work and humanity,” PCRS said in its statement, calling the targeting of its medics “a war crime” punishable under international law.
The attacks come amid Israel’s renewed assault on the enclave and as its complete blockade of humanitarian aid nears the one-month mark.
OCHA, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the bodies were recovered after a “complex, week-long rescue operation” that involved using bulldozers and heavy machinery to unearth the victims and their battered vehicles from under sand.
“Health workers should never be a target. And yet, we’re here today, digging up a mass grave of first responders and paramedics,” Jonathan Whittall, the head of UNOCHA in the occupied Palestinian territories, said from the site.
Video shared by the UNOCHA showed a bulldozer digging through dirt and moving debris as emergency responders used shovels to reach the victims. Several bodies were seen being pulled from sand, some wearing PRCS vests and showing signs of decomposition. – By Kareem El Damanhoury, Ibrahim Dahman and Sophie Tanno, CNN
Instead of condemning Israel for their countless war crimes, the Regime is choosing to arrest students protesting on behalf of Palestinians that are being slaughtered like wild animals. America is losing its soul right in front of our very eyes.
UPDATE – 5 April. CAUGHT RED HANDED: Mobile phone footage has emerged that appears to contradict Israel’s account of why soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck on March 23, killing 15 rescue workers.
The video, published by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), shows the vehicles moving in darkness with headlights and emergency flashing lights switched on – before coming under fire. The PRCS said the video was obtained from the phone of a paramedic who was killed.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) initially denied the vehicles had their headlights or emergency signals on.
But in response to the new video, the IDF told the BBC: “All claims, including the documentation circulating about the incident, will be thoroughly and deeply examined to understand the sequence of events and the handling of the situation”.
A surviving paramedic previously told the BBC that the ambulances were clearly marked and had their internal and external lights on. The latest video, which the PRCS said had been shown to the UN Security Council, shows the marked vehicles drawing to a halt on the edge of the road, lights still flashing, and at least two emergency workers stepping out wearing reflective clothing.
The windscreen of the vehicle being filmed from is cracked and shooting can then be heard lasting for several minutes as the person filming says prayers. He is understood to be one of the dead paramedics. The footage was found on his phone after his body was recovered from a shallow grave one week after the incident.
The bodies of the eight paramedics, six Gaza Civil Defence workers and one UN employee were found buried in sand, along with their wrecked vehicles. It took international organisations days to negotiate safe access to the site.
Israel claimed a number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants had been killed in the incident, but it has not provided any evidence or further explained the threat to its troops.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar earlier this week echoed the army account, saying “the IDF did not randomly attack an ambulance”.
The IDF promised to investigate the circumstances after a surviving paramedic questioned its account. – Dan Johnson BBC Correspondent
Reporting from Jerusalem.
UPDATE 10/4: – LIES AND MORE LIES. Israeli troops fired more than 100 times during an attack in which they killed 15 emergency workers in Gaza, with some shots from as close as 12m (39ft) away, a forensic audio analysis of mobile phone footage commissioned by BBC Verify has found. Two audio experts examined a 19-minute video authenticated by BBC Verify, showing the incident and the moments leading up to it near Rafah on 23 March.
The findings support a claim made by the Palestinian Red Crescent that the workers were “targeted from a very close range”. On 5 April an Israeli army official said aerial footage showed troops opening fire “from afar”.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declined to comment on the analysis directly when approached by BBC Verify.
A spokesperson said it was investigating the attack and repeated claims that six of the people killed were linked to Hamas, without offering evidence. The Palestinian Red Crescent rejected the allegation, as did a ninth paramedic who survived and was detained by the IDF for 15 hours.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said the full video was recovered from the phone of a medic killed and buried in a shallow grave by the IDF. Video filmed by medic Rifaat Radwan who was killed in the incident showed the convoy driving at night, using headlights and flashing emergency lights. At least one medic can be seen wearing a high-vis jacket.
Faced with this, the Israeli army changed its account, admitting that its initial statement that the convoy approached “suspiciously” with its lights off was inaccurate.
Experts told BBC Verify they used sound waveforms and spectrograms to measure the distance of the gunfire from the microphone of the mobile. Shortened time gaps indicate that the distance between the microphone and the gunfire decreased as the video progressed. They concluded that the first shots were fired from around 40m to 43m away. But towards the end of the video, gunfire came from around 12m away.
At a briefing on 5 April, an IDF official told reporters that surveillance showed the troops were at some distance when they opened fire, adding: “It’s not from close. They opened fire from afar.” One military expert told BBC Verify that any engagements under 50m to 100m would be considered as being within close range.
Robert Maher, an audio forensics expert at Montana State University, said towards the start of the footage one firearm is discharged about 43m away from the mobile phone. Mr Maher and another expert, Steven Beck, independently corroborated one another’s view that in the final few moments of the audio, shots are fired as close at 12m away. – BBC –
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