Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Saudi Arabia on December 6, having wrapped up his trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). What signal does Putin's Mideast tour send to the world? | President Putin embarked on a Middle Eastern tour on Wednesday to meet with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the UAE and ruler of Abu-Dhabi, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud. ● The Western press were quick to point out that the trips to Abu-Dhabi and Riyadh were Putin's first visits to the Mideast since the beginning of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine. The tour has clearly demonstrated that the West's efforts to smear and isolate Russia failed miserably, international observers say. ● Why Mideast Players Didn't Buy Into West's Ukraine Narrative: According to Carnelos, the "Global Rest" did not buy into the West's oversimplified narrative of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict — which was presented as a clash between 'an aggressor and a victim', ignoring the broader historical context of NATO's eastward expansion and Kiev's sabotage of Minsk Agreements. But at last the truth has come out.

■ Putin arrives in Saudi Arabia (RT.com)
■ Diplomacy in desert: Putin recognizes UAE's environmental stewardship (TASS)
■ The resurrection of Russia and the multipolar world prevented the New World Order (Cesare Sacchetti)

Israel cut off internet and phone signals in the Gaza Strip as it pummeled areas across the Strip. Israeli forces have surrounded Kamal Adwan hospital in the north, shooting “at anything that moves.” | Key Developments:

●  Palestinians were cut off from the internet and phone signals for the fourth time since Israel began bombing the Gaza Strip on October 7.
●  108 Palestinian martyrs were killed and arrived at the Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza Tuesday morning. Medical staff warned of an imminent Israeli raid into the hospital and the lack of supplies to perform surgeries, Al-Jazeera reported.
●  400 wounded people traveled through the Rafah crossing to Egypt in order to receive medical treatment on Tuesday, according to the Director General of the Ministry of Health.
●  Israeli forces are planning to pump seawater into Gaza’s tunnels to force Hamas out, according to a report by Wall Street Journal, despite the fact that it’s believed some Israeli captives are being held inside them.
●  President of the UN General Assembly, Dennis Francis: “I’m deeply alarmed and saddened by the resumption of hostilities in the Middle East.”
●  Israel concluded that Hamas spent years planning the surprise attack on October 7, and drew up detailed maps of the military bases and settlements based on information passed by spies.
●  Muhammad Yousef Hassan Manasra, 25, was killed and his brother was arrested when Israeli forces stormed the Qalandia refugee camp, on Tuesday.
●  The Israeli-controlled municipality of Jerusalem is blocking Palestinian children freed from Israeli prisons as part of the hostage exchange deal, from returning back to school.

■ srael-Palestine live: Gaza living in 'utter, deepening horror', UN says (MEE)
■ There’s Nothing You Can Say To Make Me Accept The Murder Of Thousands Of Children (Caitlin Johnstone)
■ ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza (Yuval Abraham)
■ Scott Ritter: Israel Headed for Strategic Defeat in Gaza

“Today you will get to see the data that nobody wants you to see. FINALLY. No State or country has ever released record-level public health data on any vaccine.” (Steve Kirsch) | Executive summary: Today you will get to see the data that nobody wants you to see. FINALLY. No State or country has ever released record-level public health data on any vaccine. Privacy is not the reason for this; the data can be easily obfuscated (which we did on this data) so that no record entry would match that of any person, living or dead. The reason the data is kept secret is simple: it would expose the fact that the COVID vaccines are unsafe, as well as all the vaccines that I have been able to get record-level data on. Today, thanks to a courageous whistleblower who works at the New Zealand Ministry of Health, we have record-level information from a large population of all ages and are making it public for the first time in history.

■ New Zealand ARRESTS Government Database Admin for Revealing 24% DEATH RATE for certain COVID Vaccine Batches (12/03/23)

A new study detected a sharp uptick in trading activity on Tel Aviv and US stock exchanges before October 7 | Some traders may have been informed about the Hamas plan to attack Israel on October 7 and used that knowledge to make millions of dollars by short-selling Israeli securities, a study by US researchers published on Monday suggests. ● Law professors Robert Jackson Jr. from New York University and Joshua Mitts of Columbia University examined trading in exchange-traded funds that invest in Israeli companies, as well as short-selling activity on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and options activity around Israeli firms traded on US exchanges. ● Short-selling is aimed at making a profit on an asset that is expected to drop in price. The seller "borrows" a security and sells it on the open market with the goal of buying it back later at a lower price and pocketing the difference. Researchers found significant short-selling of shares leading up to the attacks that triggered the Israel-Hamas war.