The ongoing “white and iron” dzud in Mongolia has reached a “critical” level, with over 90 per cent of the country facing high levels of risk from the unique weather phenomenon, UN agencies have reported. | About 190,000 herder households are struggling with inadequate feed, skyrocketing prices and heightened vulnerabilities, according to the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Mongolia. Herding and livestock have traditionally been integral to Mongolia’s economy, culture and way of life. Estimates indicate that there are over 64 million livestock this winter season in Mongolia. “The increasing severity of weather conditions further exacerbates the crisis, underscoring the urgent need for humanitarian assistance and sustainable solutions to support Mongolia's rural communities and traditional livelihoods,” the Office said in an update this week. This is the second year in a row that the country has faced these severe conditions. Last winter about 70 per cent of the country was affected.

■ Mongolia: Severe Winter - Iron Dzud 2024 (As of 6 February 2024) (reliefweb)
■ The Dangers of Dzud, Mongolia’s Lethal Winters (National Geographic)

In 2024, billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates is planning to spend more money than ever before on new health "innovations" for the world's poorest countries, some of which are already receiving shipments of his latest malaria "vaccines." | At the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Gates was asked by reporters about his plans for the coming year, which include unleashing not only new malaria injections but also jabs for tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and even the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). ● Around the same time, Cameroon launched the world's first malaria vaccination program using Gates' injections. Reports indicate that the shots are only about 13 percent effective, but can supposedly reach a 90 percent effectiveness rate when used in conjunction with mosquito nets and malaria tablets. ● Worded more accurately, the shots themselves are useless, and the nets and tablets are what does all the actual work. This was shown in tests where prophylactic doses of malaria drugs all on their own are already 90 percent effective at preventing malaria.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is calling on global governments to censor individuals deemed to be “anti-vaxxers.” | Gates says he’s outraged that fewer people are taking his vaccines. According to Gates, the general masses are starting to refuse the experimental mRNA injections because of “misinformation about vaccines.” ● He insists that “anti-vaxxers” must be stripped of their free speech rights because they are “associating certain people, like myself or Fauci having malign intent, with vaccines.” ● Gates claims that citizens raising concerns and questions about the shots has led to a surge in “vaccination hesitancy.” He warns that the same concerns have also triggered a loss of trust in his various “public health” initiatives. Gates is now demanding government intervention because he claims the public won’t be “ready for the next pandemic” if they refuse to comply with the mass vaccination agenda.

■ Bill Gates’ Conversation With His Daughter Clotilda (Walter Gelles)
■ The covid booster cancer time bomb (Professor Angus Dalgleish)

Israeli shelling has again targeted the Nasser Hospital, which has been besieged for days, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported. | On the 118th day of Israeli aggression on Gaza, numerous Palestinians were killed and several others sustained injuries. Local Palestinian media outlets reported that the western region of Gaza City, including the Remal neighborhood and Tal al-Hawa, witnessed Israeli invading forces launching missiles, gunfire, and shelling, resulting in casualties. Concurrently, ambulances faced challenges reaching the affected areas to transport the injured to al-Shifa Hospital. In addition, casualties occurred when Israeli warplanes targeted two houses in al-Zeitoun neighborhood.

■ Israeli invading forces burning Gaza homes to make Strip uninhabitable (Al Mayadeen)
■ Thousands of displaced Gazans lack food, water in Khan Younis, Health Ministry warns (aNews)
■ “Israel” Likely Dropped 1,000-pound Bomb on UK Doctors in Gaza (Alahed News)
■ UN: Israeli war renders Gaza ‘uninhabitable;’ restoration will take ‘decades’ (PressTV)

■ Hossein Askari | Only criminally insane minds can cause so much panic in Gaza | Israeli rulers, even those considered rather moderate, have been seeking a plan to depopulate Palestinians from their motherland. Probably the October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel provided the ill-wishers in Israel with an excuse to go ahead with the plan more speedily and more cruelly. ● Punishing an entire 2.3 million people in the Gaza Strip for the October 7 attack has no justification. Only mad persons and those who formulate vicious plots in their minds can cause so much tragedy for hundreds of thousands of people.

■ Gaza war lays bare the immorality of the Western world (Tehran Times Editorial) The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, claimed that the Hamas attack of October 7 did not happen in a vacuum. If not in a vacuum, what was in that space? ● Israel’s 80 years of Zionist cruelty began with the confiscation of land and other property and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with no compensation who were also prohibited from ever returning to their homes; a settler rule that is aptly characterized by inhumanity, random incarceration, torture and murder; with Gaza the largest prison in the world, holding 2.3 million Palestinians, isolated from the rest of the world; and administered by Israel, an apartheid state with three sets of laws—one for Israeli Jews, another for Israeli Arabs and yet another for non-Israeli Palestinians. The perfect definition of apartheid and arguably worse than what we witnessed in South Africa as claimed by the late Archbishop Tutu.

Alex MacDonald | As a number of Israel's allies cut funding to the refugee body, MEE looks at its turbulent history with the international community | Claims by Israel that 12 employees of the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (Unrwa) took part in the 7 October attack on southern Israel have prompted a number of countries to pause funding to the agency. ● The nine donors, namely the US, UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Australia, and Canada, cut off support for the agency on Saturday following the allegations, prompting warnings from the body that it will lose the ability to provide aid to the 2.2 million people that use its services after February. ● It has long been a claim of Israel's that Unrwa - first established in 1949 to accomodate the Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced from their homes during the creation of the state - is effectively a hub for Palestinian militancy.

According to the report, the building was allegedly sheltering displaced persons who had fled the fighting | A school run the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), located in the Rimal District west of Gaza City, came under fire by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Al Jazeera television reported. ● According to the channel, at least ten people were killed in the strike. The building was allegedly sheltering displaced persons who had fled the fighting in other sections of the embattled Gaza Strip. ● Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 240 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Hamas described its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ aggressive actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.

■ Day 115 in Gaza: 26,637 killed, 65,387 others injured (Al Mayadeen)

Several United Nations officials have released statements condemning the move to defund UNRWA, saying it heightens suffering among Palestinians. | The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, affirmed in a post on X that the decision of some countries to suspend funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza is a form of collective punishment that puts Palestinians in more dire situations amid the genocide. Albanese slammed the countries partaking in this move, and accused them of "violating their obligations under the Genocide Convention."

■ Iran condemns Israel’s 'malicious' move against UNRWA staff in Gaza (PressTV)
■ Norway, Ireland support UNRWA in defiance of other western donors (TRT World)
■ UNRWA’s lifesaving aid may end due to funding suspension (UNRWA)

🇯🇵🇵🇸 Japanese politician, Akiko Oishi, speaks up for Palestine at Japan’s House of Representatives.

“If this is not a genocide, what is?” pic.twitter.com/3WDK328CS4

— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) November 23, 2023

The US and its allies are pushing Kiev towards increasingly reckless steps, Russia’s foreign ministry has said | The shelling by Ukraine of the Russian city of Donetsk on Sunday, which claimed the lives of at least 25 civilians and wounded 20 others, was “a barbaric terrorist act” carried out with the support of the West, Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said. Sunday's bombardment of a busy market in the capital of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic was inflicted with weapons supplied to Kiev by the US and its allies, the ministry said in a statement. 💬 “This again confirms [the West’s] direct involvement in the conflict and makes it complicit in the criminal acts of the Zelensky regime, which has once again displayed its inhumanity and hatred towards innocent people,” it said.

■ Blood of Killed Donetsk Civilians on Those Sending Weapons to Kiev - Lavrov at UNSC (Sputnik News)
■ Kremlin condemns Kiev’s deadly attack on Donetsk market as 'monstrous act of terrorism' (TASS)
■ Donetsk Market Massacre: A Local’s Account (Sputnik News)
■ UN condemns Ukrainian attack that killed 27 civilians in Russian city (RT.com)

A speaker at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland has called on globalist elites to push for farming to be labeled a “serious crime.” | Speaking from the WEF’s summit at the luxury Swiss ski resort, “Stop Ecocide Now” founder Jojo Mehta argued that fishing and framing should be considered equal to “genocide.” Mehta insisted that fishing and farming for food should be a “serious crime” while arguing that it is immoral to make money from these industries. “We have this cultural, very ingrained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage to people or property,” she told world leaders, bureaucrats, and corporate elites at the event. She continued by claiming that farming, fishing, and presumably hunting, are “mass damage and destruction of nature.”

■ Klaus Schwab: ‘All Humans’ Will ‘Have Implant in Their Brains 10 Years from Now’ (NewsAddict)

Eight rodents infected with the pathogen 'surprisingly' died within eight days. Critics of the study said: 'This madness must be stopped before [it is] too late' | Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100 percent lethal in mice — despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic. Scientists in Beijing — who are linked to the Chinese military — cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice. ● The mice had been 'humanized', meaning they were engineered to express a protein found in people, with the goal being to assess how the virus might react in humans. Every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as 'surprisingly' quick. ● The team were also surprised to find high levels of viral load in the mice's brains and eyes - suggesting the virus, despite being related to Covid, multiplies and spreads through the body in a unique way. Writing in a scientific paper that has not yet been published, they warned the finding 'underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans'.

Washington's increased military activities in the South China Sea could potentially destabilize regional peace and stability, as Manila is influenced and urged by the US to follow the path of confrontation. | Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has told the armed forces to seek the support of foreign militaries as it shifts focus from internal security to maritime defense. The Philippines is a key US ally in the region and hosts its military bases, used during US wars in Vietnam and Korea. But in recent times, Washington has shifted towards "great power competition" with China, co-opting Manila as a tool in its quest to "contain" Beijing.

■ ‘Refrain from playing with fire,’ China warns Philippines over Taiwan (aNews)

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reports that Israel is impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. | Israel is obstructing the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). ● Egypt has not closed the Rafah border crossing since the outbreak of the war on Oct. 7, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told Egyptian news channel Al-Qahira Wal Nas on Sunday. ● The world is witnessing the killing of innocent Palestinians by the Israeli killing machine, which did not spare any human, stone, or even animals, he added. [...] According to the UN, 85% of the population of Gaza is already internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure is damaged or destroyed.

■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

Lawyers from Chile seeking ICC action against Benjamin Netanyahu, his War Cabinet, military chief for ‘genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes’ | - Lawyers from Chile seeking ICC action against Benjamin Netanyahu, his War Cabinet, military chief for ‘genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes’. Case aims to ‘apply universal justice, penal justice’ to punish Israeli officials, also seeking compensation for victims, group’s representative Nelson Hadad tells Anadolu. ‘The evidence is so clear. It’s not a matter of discussion ... and we are appealing to the moral conscience of humanity,’ says Hadad.

■ EXPLAINER – What is South Africa’s genocide case against Israel? (Anadolu)
■ Israel 'dismally failed' to refute genocide charges at ICJ: South Africa (The Cradle)
■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

200 professors and experts in international law, most of them from prestigious American universities, have announced their support for a lawsuit filed by the South African government before the International Court of Justice against the government of “Israel” for violating the 1948 Genocide Convention. | The lawsuit said “As scholars and practitioners in international law, genocide studies, international studies, and similar fields related to global justice, we support South Africa’s application before the International Court of Justice as a step towards a necessary ceasefire in Gaza, and achieving Justice in Palestine. ● It is noteworthy that the Republic of South Africa began its procedures before the International Court of Justice on December 29, 2023, against “Israel”, as it asked the court to recommend temporary measures to stop the genocide committed by “Israel” against the Palestinian people.

■ Will ICJ rule 'Israel' guilty of Gaza genocide? Let the hearings begin (Al Mayadeen) [...] South Africa is urging the court to promptly enforce "provisional measures" and instruct "Israel" to stop causing harm, both physical and mental, and to cease killing Palestinians in Gaza. The filing also specifies that "Israel" should be directed to refrain from deliberately imposing conditions intended to lead to the destruction of Palestinians as a group. Additionally, the filing calls for measures to prevent and penalize incitement to genocide and to put an end to restrictions on aid and evacuation directives.

■ Day one of the ICJ genocide hearing against Israel: Key takeaways (Al Jazeera)
■ The West Will Stand in the Dock Alongside Israel at the Genocide Court (Jonathan Cook)
■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

Bill Gates’s former vaccine scientist has come forward to blow the whistle on a deeply disturbing depopulation agenda. | The health carnage thus far seen from the COVID-19 vaccine campaign is only the first round in a series of horrors that are still soon to come. ● Former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation scientist and vaccine expert Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche has blown the whistle to investigator Steve Kirsch and made horrifying predictions of looming population losses. ● Bossche is warning what the world can expect soon as the general public continues to increasingly suffer major health complications related to the Covid mRNA injections. 💬 “The mutations are no longer restricted to spike protein, which indicates enhanced activity of CTLs (cytotoxic T cells) to diminish viral infectiousness,” Bossche told Kirsch about the most recent mutations being detected. “And that CTL activity is responsible for the decline of T cells that in fact boost the neutralizing antibodies that prevent virulence.” [...] “Ultimately, this evolution would inevitably lead to the emergence of a highly virulent variant that would cause waves of hospitalizations and severe disease in highly vaccinated countries – of course, always the same, only in highly vaccinated countries,” Bossche stressed. [...] “In my humble opinion, what we will see is something completely, completely unprecedented in terms of the magnitude of the wave of morbidity and unfortunately mortality that we will see.”

A group of nearly 100 Chilean lawyers, mostly of Palestinian descent, has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | The complaint alleges crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes committed in Gaza. Led by former ambassador Nelson Hadad, lawyer Rodolfo Marcone, and academics Roberto Mayorga, Juan Banderas, and Hassan Zeran, the group presented the complaint on December 22 in The Hague, with assistance from criminal lawyer Juan Carlos Manriquez. ● The complainants, who belong to the largest Palestinian community outside of the Palestinian State, are demanding an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and other individuals responsible for these alleged crimes. Nelson Hadad stressed that these crimes have been ongoing for nearly 90 days, with indiscriminate bombings targeting the population of Gaza and destroying entire residential neighborhoods, without distinguishing between civilians and combatants.

Probably you’ve read about the joys of DPI while browsing the websites of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other benevolent reservoirs of international altruism dedicated to creating a safe, convenient, equitable, inclusive, and extremely sustainable world. | If we remove the extraneous word salad from the above blockquotes, the driving philosophy behind DPI can be summarized as: Cattle-tags aren’t just safe and convenient, they’re a human right. I am pointing this out because Vladimir Putin announced at November’s G20 summit that “the development of digital public infrastructure” was a “priority” for the Russian Federation.

The outline of the massacre’s initial falsification and suppression, followed by its eventual disclosure, is cobbled from My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness (Oxford, 2017), a thorough retreatment of the infamous Vietnam War atrocity by Howard Jones, | Has the voluminous, careful study in the literature devoted to the My Lai massacre left something out? It’s not a matter of omissions, the historian argues, but that the record is replete with conflicting interpretations. To tell the “full story” required Jones to reorder events in their “proper sequence,” he says. His other reasons for taking us back to Pinkville are equally vague, and casually embedded among several floating asides in the author’s Acknowledgments. His debts are many, but foremost among them Jones recognizes his Vietnamese-American graduate assistant who “emphasized the importance of incorporating the Vietnamese side into the narrative and remaining objective in telling the story.”

Seoul [South Korea], January 5 (ANI): South Korea's military said North Korea fired some 200 artillery shells into waters off its western coast on Friday morning, Yonhap News Agency reported. | After North Korea's move, an emergency evacuation order for civilians on the South Korea's border islands of Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeong was issued. Furthermore, the South Korean military conducted live-fire artillery drills. ● The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the artillery firings from Jangsan Cape, north of South Korea's Baengnyeong, and Deungsan Cape, north of South Korea's Yeonpyeong, from 9 am to 11 am (local time). ● The shells crossed into the maritime buffer zone north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto maritime border. The buffer zone was set under an inter-Korean military accord signed on September 19, 2018, in order to reduce border tensions, according to Yonhap News Agency report.

■ South Korea Orders Evacuation on Yeonpyeong Island Over North's Shelling (Sputnik News)
■ Biden White House Eyeing 'Another Firefight' in Asia With ROK-US Decapitation Drills (Sputnik News)

More than 50 people were reported missing Thursday as Japanese rescuers battled to reach hundreds still cut off from help three days after a devastating earthquake left at least 78 dead. | As the frantic search for survivors continues, more than a dozen communities remained isolated by landslides and blocked roads in central Japan, where the 7.5-magnitude quake struck on Monday. The powerful main tremor, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, injured at least 330 people, local authorities said. ● Authorities also published a list on Thursday of 51 people whose whereabouts could not be confirmed. ● Further scenes of destruction were seen by AFP in the coastal town of Anamizu, including cars crushed under crumbling concrete and whole facades torn off three-storey structures. ● Thousands of soldiers, firefighters and police officers from across Japan combed through the rubble of collapsed wooden houses and toppled commercial buildings for signs of life.

■ Death toll climbs to 78 in Japan earthquake, 51 still missing (Yeni Şafak)

The contamination had not been disclosed by the manufacturers during the regulatory process | Early in 2023, genomics scientist Kevin McKernan made an accidental discovery. While running an experiment in his Boston lab, McKernan used some vials of mRNA Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines as controls. He was ‘shocked’ to find that they were allegedly contaminated with tiny fragments of plasmid DNA. ● McKernan, who has 25 years’ experience in his field, ran the experiment again, confirming that the vials contained up to, in his opinion, 18-70 times more DNA contamination than the legal limits allowed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ● In particular, McKernan was alarmed to find the presence of an SV40 promoter in the Pfizer vaccine vials. This is a sequence that is, ‘…used to drive DNA into the nucleus, especially in gene therapies,’ McKernan explains. This is something that regulatory agencies around the world have specifically said is not possible with the mRNA vaccines. ● Knowing that the contamination had not been disclosed by the manufacturers during the regulatory process, McKernan raised the alarm, posting his findings to Twitter (now X) and Substack with a call-out to other scientists to see if they could replicate his findings.

From Jeremy Corbyn, WikiLeaks, Afshin Rattansi, Max Blumenthal, Jonathan Cook, Scott Ritter, Vijay Prashad, Glenn Greenwald, Tariq Ali, Matt Kennard and Roger Waters. | Meanwhile, the U.S. mainstream media is so far silent on Pilger’s passing. The New York Times on Monday ran an obit on the comedian Shecky Greene but not a word on Pilger, who wrote several opinion pieces for the Times.

■ Investigative journalist John Pilger dies aged 84. (12/31/23)

Sasha Latypova | Overall characterization of what is going on: the federal and most of the state governments are gone and captured. Whatever is running the federal gov agencies (e.g. HHS) really intends to kill you, or at least substantially injure you, damage your reproductive capacity and repossess your assets in the process. The aim is to reduce the population and terrorize the survivors enough to establish a totalitarian control over much of the world’s territory. Nobody is coming to save you, your survival and that of your children is in your hands only. Do not comply.

■ American Domestic Bioterrorism Program (Katherine Watt)
■ COVID-19 vaccine-associated mortality in the Southern Hemisphere (Denis Rancourt et al.)

The UK is preparing to release "unprecedent" joint statement with the US and other Western countries in coming hours as a "final warning" to Sanaa. | The UK is preparing to join the United States and other Western countries to launch a series of air aggressions on Yemen or Yemeni-affiliated targets in the Red Sea, The Times reported on Sunday. According to the newspaper, an "unprecedented" joint statement is set to be released in the coming hours, issuing a warning to Sanaa to halt its operations or face a military response. This comes after a Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson announced earlier today that a number of the country's naval units were martyred in a US helicopter attack while "carrying out their duty" toward Palestine in the Red Sea.