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I don’t know what this is
I saw the video that got him arrested (it’s still publicly up on the Grayzone’s YouTube channel), and while I in no way support Israel’s arrest of Jeremy Loffredo, I can see what got him arrested. In Nevatim he visits the an area containing the wreckage of the first stage of a Fattah-1 ballistic missile, and in Tel Aviv he goes to view the crater of the missile that hit near Mossad HQ, gives its exact co-ordinates, and reveals the location at which GPS is jammed near the HQ building itself, even showing how the GPS jamming changed his estimated location. That’s the difference between what he did and what ABC and PBS published.
While I appreciate his service to the field of journalism and his integrity, it was inevitable that Israel would be arrest him given the attitudes of the Israeli state towards the press.
Yeah I’m not a fan of releasing insects to disturb events either, though releasing the crickets to the wild could mess up the local ecosystem if they’re not native to it.
When I had my pet tarantula (I updated my initial comment to include that information) I had to keep the crickets alive before feeding him. The crickets were smarter than you would think in terms of socialisation, but they were also really foolish and unhygienic at times, definitely not clean insects, at least in captivity. They’d eat anything though, from fruit and vegetable waste, to sometimes eating the egg carton structures in their enclosure even when food was available (see what I mean about them being foolish lol). They liked moist foods like apple cores and pieces of uncooked carrot. The crickets looked a bit freaky after moulting though, their exoskeletons were completely transparent at first. They also only usually stay alive for a month or two before dying, even with adequate food and water.
It is unnecessarily cruel, but if they got them from a pet store they were likely to be hunted and then eaten by someone’s pet tarantula or lizard, which is also a pretty gruesome fate.
I know this because I had a pet tarantula for a few years, unfortunately it was a male, and once male tarantulas reach sexual maturity they can’t really moult anymore due to their “equipment” that’s used for mating, which means they usually die within a year or so. Mine just stopped eating or drinking, and died about a year after their final moult.
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