At this point, I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of news about the “exploding pagers” allegedly launched Israel against Hamas. We’ve covered it. Everyone has covered it. But there’s a big part of the story that almost no one is covering, and I want to discuss that right now. My first thought when I first saw this story is “who uses pagers in 2024?” Anyone else wondering that? I honestly didn’t even know anyone still manufactured them. So that’s odd. But I think it might tie into the part of the story no one is talking about, except my friend the Health Ranger (Mike Adams). Here’s Mike’s take and I think it’s spot on: To anyone saying that the pagers in Lebanon were outfitted with extra explosives, that’s the COVER STORY to try to make people believe that lithium ion batteries themselves can’t explode. But they do indeed explode quite readily, which is exactly why it’s illegal to ship lithium… — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) September 17, 2024 To anyone saying that the pagers in Lebanon were outfitted with extra explosives, that’s the COVER STORY to try to make people believe that lithium ion batteries themselves can’t explode. But they do indeed explode quite readily, which is exactly why it’s illegal to ship lithium ion battery items by air. Because they would catch on fire, explode and bring down aircraft. But an even bigger question: Even if you assume the pagers were outfitted with explosives, how do you know YOUR OWN PHONE doesn’t also have explosives in it? Have you checked? Would you even know what a 4-gram packet of explosives looks like? Probably not. And I bet you’ve never even opened your phone enough to check the main circuit board anyway. If you are carrying a phone, you are carrying an explosive device, pure and simple. The question is: WHO CONTROLS THE REMOTE TRIGGER? It’s not you. It’s your government. Let that sink in. You are essentially a non-consenting government-controlled suicide bomber. And if you happen to venture into some area where they want an explosion to occur, they’ve got your number. You see, Mike is suggesting this wasn’t some unique retrofit of the pagers to make that blow up, but rather something that can be done remotely, basically just with software, so force the lithium ion batteries to overheat and explode. VERY SCARY! And I think that’s why they used pagers. Because they wanted all of us thinking “that’s just over there in the Middle East” and “that’s just using pagers”.  That can’t happen here!  That would never happen here! Except….according to Mike, it very well could. He continues: The people celebrating this pager detonation attack are outright FOOLS. They are celebrating the fact that a government can intercept shipments of consumer products from Taiwan, plant explosives in them, distribute them to consumers and then remotely detonate those explosives to… — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) September 18, 2024 The people celebrating this pager detonation attack are outright FOOLS. They are celebrating the fact that a government can intercept shipments of consumer products from Taiwan, plant explosives in them, distribute them to consumers and then remotely detonate those explosives to injure or kill thousands of people. Do these idiots not realize that such concentration of power in the hands of government – ANY government – will eventually be turned against the people? Everything Israel did to Gaza, the U.S. regime in power plans to do to the American people. All the tech weaponry deployed by Israel is just the TEST RUN of those same technologies being deployed against We the People. Anyone celebrating this government-run remote detonation technology is celebrating their own extermination at the hands of evil, satanic, anti-human governments that are at war with liberty and LIFE. Before you applaud the Israeli government carrying out a mass detonation wave of consumer electronics carried by people in civilian areas, you should look in the mirror and ask how long you have left before your own devices, electric vehicles, or phones are similarly targeted by a government gone rogue. He’s right. You are an absolute FOOL if you trust your government at this point. I know I don’t! More here: Everybody needs to pay attention to Gerald Celente on this. If governments can turn pagers into explosive devices, they can also do the same with mobile phones, tablets, laptops, electric vehicles, refrigerators, home appliances and anything connected to the internet. The… https://t.co/Xrok5cGNV0 — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) September 18, 2024 Now imagine some nefarious group or government decides we want to explode only devices carried by conservatives. Or only MAGA. Think they could do that? I do: Now that it’s confirmed two-way radios are being remotely detonated in Lebanon (https://t.co/PBIW9t8t1A), the question becomes: Which other electronics already have small explosive charges planted in them? Mobile phones? Laptop computers? Tablets? Home appliances that connect to… — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) September 18, 2024 Watch this for more: BREAKING! CONFIRMED – Your government can REMOTELY DETONATE electronic devices in your possession https://t.co/pCOaDHlUdY — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) September 18, 2024 Phones come next: Is it now PHONES, too? The list of electronic devices that are exploding keeps growing… https://t.co/Jsn3Iom4Oy — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) September 18, 2024 RELATED REPORT: PAGING HEZBOLLAH: Second Wave of Devices Are Exploding Across Beirut (CRAZY VIDEO!) Israel has scored another hit against it’s foe to the north.  Just a short time ago the sound of explosions started going off across Beirut as A SECOND WAVE OF DEVICES were remotely blown up. This is video of a funeral being held for Hezbollah fighters who were killed in yesterday’s attack on encrypted pagers recently purchased and used by Hezbollah in Lebanon.  In a completely unexpected plot twist, a DIFFERENT set of devices was just targeted by Israel! Hezbollah funeral footage, much better quality. There are at least 100 casualties at this location alone, excluding everywhere else. pic.twitter.com/MJM7g0Nq6m — ???? ???? ♛ ︎ (@NiohBerg) September 18, 2024 Check out this breaking news clip put out by Fox News when the story first started to come across the wires: It has been a bad couple of days to be a Hezbollah operative. If you don’t want your pager blown up, maybe don’t join Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/FW12hTmhBc — Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) September 18, 2024 Initial reports are saying that two-way radios (walkie talkies) were the particular devices that were just blown up.  But according to Nioh Berg, there are actually many different devices that almost simultaneously blew up! Incomplete list of Hezbollah-held items that exploded today: • Smartphones• Radios (including car radios)• Laptops• Walkie talkies• Home intercoms• Home solar energy systems• Batteries pic.twitter.com/xWnSjUy4WG — ???? ???? ♛ ︎ (@NiohBerg) September 18, 2024 That likely dispels the misinformation put out yesterday (I see what you did right there, Mossad), which attempted to blame the pager explosions on physical explosives hidden inside the pagers during the manufacturing process in Taiwan. I had a feeling that was a ruse in order to potentially score another point with the same trick shot somewhere down the road — I just didn’t think it would happen the very next day!  Somehow, the Israeli security services have skillfully developed a way to simultaneously turn the batteries in a multitude of devices into explosives. And if that list shared by Nioh is true, it begs the question: was the attack waged via simple cellular signals as was initially understood to be the case after yesterday’s attack?  Or is there something more flashy going on with the delivery system in order to cause the “boom”?  Unless everything on that list operates using cellular data… we may be looking at something even more novel than it seems on first glance — and that’s saying something!  Direct satellite to ground technology?  We can only guess, at the moment. Here’s Fox News with details that are just now being reported: A senior U.S. official has confirmed to Fox News that Israel is behind the explosions of pagers used by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon as fresh blasts are being reported in Beirut. Near-simultaneous detonations of pagers used by those belonging to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group killed at least 12 people, including two children, and wounded nearly 3,000 on Tuesday. The development comes as multiple blasts were heard in Beruit on Wednesday during a funeral for Hezbollah members and a child that were killed in Tuesday’s explosions, according to The Associated Press. Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV reported explosions in multiple areas of Lebanon, which it said were the result of walkie-talkies detonating. An American official told the AP that Israel briefed the United States after Tuesday’s attack, in which small amounts of explosives hidden in pagers were detonated. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the information publicly. BREAKING: Video emerges of Hezbollah-owned electric devices exploding in a building in Beirut one after another. Incoming reports of thousands new explosions and hundreds more of wounded and killed Hezbollah terrorists pic.twitter.com/wLWfFSQl6q — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 18, 2024 Hezbollah is having a really bad day. pic.twitter.com/MhaCLB6wRR — Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) September 18, 2024 Having witnessed the “golden age” of drones used in warfare in Ukraine and Russia recently, I can only imagine this must be similarly terrifying.  The only difference is you can often HEAR the drone coming — which is itself part of what is reportedly so terrifying about them.  But… what if you couldn’t hear the explosion coming? That seems to be the predicament of Hezbollah at the moment.  Or… any and all of Israel’s foes (Iran? Etc?), at the present moment. I can almost certainly guarantee you that Ali Khamenei (the Iranian Supreme Leader) or their newest President, Masoud Pezeshkian, are definitely NOT chillin’ on the couch, scrolling Instagram reels. I wonder if they’re afraid to change the channel, or use the automatic ice dispenser? A trip to the bathroom could be a doozy… if you have one of those newfangled snazzy “smart” bidets. It appears from social media postings that Hezbollah and their Iranian handlers are taking serious steps because of these latest developments. BREAKING! WATCH Hassan Nasrallah’s first reaction to the “pager attack” that struck thousands of Hezbollah fighters yesterday. pic.twitter.com/RbaN4W8rKu — Canary Mission (@canarymission) September 18, 2024 All joking aside (temporarily), it seems likely to me from this IDF briefing that Israel still hasn’t played all it’s cards, and likely has more surprises in store for Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, etc. Israeli Chief of Staff on Lebanon attacks: “We still have many capabilities,at every stage we operate we are already 2 stages ahead. At every stage the price in Hezbollah should be high.We will make it so that terrorists will be afraid of going to the toilet & even eating food.” pic.twitter.com/Rd1OHoZ7fa — Baba Banaras (@RealBababanaras) September 18, 2024 Here is CNN reporting on these attacks, and the tactical impact it will likely have on Hezbollah’s ability to wage warfare: Most of the people who carried the devices that exploded were probably field officers, the local linchpins for cells of fighters who make up the backbone of Hezbollah’s forces. And now perhaps two thousand, or more, have been temporarily knocked out of commission, or worse. The communications network of which the pagers and walkie-talkies were a key part is almost certainly offline. Hezbollah’s intelligence officers must be desperately trying to figure out how all this happened. Even if a decision is taken to retaliate against Israel, how will the order be passed down the line, and who will – or even can – carry it out? There can only be one option now: LEAKED blueprint of the next Hezbollah communications device after their pagers and walkie-talkies remotely detonated. pic.twitter.com/cue3qso2eW — Rep. Brian Mast (@RepBrianMast) September 18, 2024

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Following thousands of pager explosions yesterday,  killing 12 and injuring more than 3,000, a second wave of deadly device explosions, including two-way radios and solar systems, have killed at least 3 and injured more than 300 across Lebanon today.  

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