🇮🇱🇵🇸 CBC visual investigation uses satellite imagery showing IDF clearing bombed Gaza neighborhoods with heavy machinery, then building military bases on the sites — while bodies remain buried.

This is an erasure of war-crimes evidence.

Forensic Architecture documented thousands of similar incidents.

Families say they were never contacted about remains.

An Oxford law professor noted this is only legal if bodies are collected, identified, and evidence preserved.

The ICJ ordered Israel to preserve evidence of alleged Genocide Convention violations in 2024.

IDF says clearing is for "tactical necessity" and complies with international law.

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🇳🇱🇪🇺🇨🇳 The EU's most valuable company is making zero profit in Europe

A top executive at ASML Holding NV, said it isn’t selling any of its chipmaking machines on the continent and that the region risks getting left behind as the US, China and India invest heavily in developing their domestic semiconductor industries.

“We’re not selling anything at all in Europe. That’s because Europe isn’t investing and because no chip factories are being built there,” ASML Executive Vice President Frank Heemskerk, who is responsible for global public affairs, said at an event in Amsterdam late Monday.

ASML is a linchpin in the semiconductor supply chain as it’s the only maker of the sophisticated lithography equipment crucial to producing cutting-edge chips. Its machines are used by customers including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. to print intricate patterns of transistors on silicon wafers and have been key to powering the global artificial intelligence boom.

The European Union is overhauling its Chips Act, which came into effect in 2023 in response to the semiconductor shortage during the Covid-19 pandemic and was intended to boost the continent’s share of global production. However, the law largely failed to stimulate investment in new chip plants. The bloc’s auditing body said last year that the EU is unlikely to meet its target to double its market share by 2030.

The chip equipment maker is also being aggressively courted to expand its presence in the US, China and India, according to Heemskerk.

“We need to scale up our production. We aren’t doing that solely in the Netherlands,” he said. “There is a fierce competitive battle to get us to do it somewhere else. What’s important for ASML is that Europe steps up to the plate.”

China and India “roll out the reddest of red carpets for me and they say, ‘come invest here, too, and set up your factory here,’” Heemskerk said. “We conduct a quarter of our research in the US and they say, ‘can’t that be half?’

Europe contributed nothing to ASML’s net system sales in the second quarter. That compares with a 1% slice represented by Europe, Middle East and Africa in 2025.

🔗 https://archive.ph/2xEf6

🇪🇺 EU Commission calls on countries to cut energy demands as costs surge

The European Commission has told capitals to reduce demand for gas and electricity in a bid to tame prices amid a global energy crunch.

"In the context of constrained global supply and high price volatility, demand reduction can be an effective tool to contain prices," EU Commissioner for Energy and Housing Dan Jørgensen wrote in a letter to EU ministers, dated Sept. 25 and seen by POLITICO.

In the letter, Jørgensen invites ministers to take measures to reduce demand for gas and electricity "for as long as necessary." He argues that while the situation is "challenging", there are "currently no immediate risks to security of supply."

Gas storage levels in Europe are currently at historic lows as the war in Iran disrupts global gas flows, which could set up the continent for an expensive winter.

Storage levels currently sit at 68% of capacity, which is well below the 71% measured at the same period in 2021 — just before the start of a historic energy crisis in the wake of Covid-19 and the start of the war in Ukraine.

The EU has a baseline target to have gas storage filled to 90% by the start of November, but some flexibility was granted on this in March, allowing countries to aim for 80% this year to avoid panic buying and alleviate costs.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-calls-for-gas-electricity-demand-cuts/

✡️ Jewish political commentator and biggest advocate for the 3rd Gulf War, Mark Levin, says the Democrats are to blame for the high gas prices felt by U.S. consumers and not U.S. president, Donald Trump's decision to attack Iran and wreck havoc on the global energy market.

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✡️ Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro are begging Americans to vote Republican in the Midterms warning that if Democrats would come to power, things would be worse than they were under Joe Biden.

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✡️ Ben Shapiro agrees with Mark Levin when he says that the Iran War is not considered important by the American people and thus whatever happens regarding Iran will not affect the Republican vote.

🔗 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews)

✡️⚔️🇮🇷 Using the previous opinion poll which claimed the Iran War is a "non-issue" for Americans, Levin and Shapiro agree with each other that president Trump should restart the war with Iran and bomb Kharg Island and the South Pars gas fields.

The only thing keeping us from "victory" is "decision-making," Shapiro says (i.e., making the decision to bomb Kharg).

"If the economic numbers continue to boom… and inflation drops… Republicans will do fine in the midterms…"

Iran has said repeatedly they'll respond to the destruction of Kharg Island by blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the region and plunging the world into a global depression.

Both Shapiro and Levin (who also urged Trump to bomb Kharg Island earlier in this show) know this—but it's a risk they're willing to take (with our military).

🔗 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews)

🇮🇱🇦🇪 Netanyahu asks UAE leader to deny Oct. 7 warning report during secret visit: Report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to deny reports that he had warned Netanyahu of a looming Hamas attack before Oct. 7, 2023, during a secret visit to Abu Dhabi on Sunday, The Associated Press (AP) reported.

"Netanyahu asked Sheikh Mohamed to deny the report," a person told the Associated Press (AP), who has firsthand information about the meeting.

Netanyahu's office has denied receiving any such warning.

The visit comes about a month before Israel's Oct. 27 election, in which responsibility for the Oct. 7 security failures has become a central campaign issue.

No Emirati official has publicly denied that the warning call took place, and other sources have confirmed it, Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 reported.

One said the talks focused on a Haaretz report published earlier this month that the Emirati leader had warned Netanyahu about a looming Hamas attack.

According to reporting by Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to act on the warning, but the prime minister responded with relative calm.

The Emirati leader reportedly said he feared the attack would cause bloodshed, destabilize the region, and damage the 2020 Abraham Accords.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, citing officials in an Arab government, that Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel called Netanyahu in early October 2023 to warn of an attack from Gaza after two earlier Egyptian warnings went unanswered.
Netanyahu's office said he "did not meet and did not speak with Abbas Kamel."

The Atlantic reported recently that Kamel flew to Israel 11 days before the attack to warn that Hamas appeared to be preparing a major assault.

The recent reports on the Oct. 7 warning add to mounting pressure on Netanyahu, who has blocked an independent state commission of inquiry into the failures.

🔗 https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/netanyahu-asked-uae-leader-to-deny-oct-7-warning-report-during-secret-visit-report-3229146

🚀 🇺🇸 🛰 From concept to reality.

SpaceX has successfully deployed Starlink V3 satellites into Earth’s orbit and made contact with them for the first time.

At scale, one Starship carries 60 V3 satellites, the same network capacity as about 20 Falcon 9 launches.

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📖 🇺🇸 🚀 Earlier: Liftoff of Starship Flight 14 from Starbase, TX.

The first orbital launch attempt for the program.

Seen from 4 miles (6.4 km) away.

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🚀 🇺🇸 🛰 Starship just had a soft landing after its first orbital flight.

Another major milestone for SpaceX.

Tower catch next?

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