“UNRWA and Hamas are indistinguishable” | Caroline Glick

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The United Nations as the eight front of war against Israel.

An excellent summary of UN-UNRWA and Hamas links, by the equally excellent reporter Caroline Glick. The full report is above; the UNRWA bit starts here. 

Caroline summarises why it is that UNRWA is unique among refugee agencies. To perpetuate their status as displaced people not to solve their problems, as are all other refugee agencies in the world. 

I check my own blog, this one, and find that I was calling out UNRWA fifteen years ago. When I’d learned about the schools they run, all schools in Gaza — run together with Hamas — where they teach violent, murderous Jew hatred to kindergarteners. With wooden AK-47s. This is not hidden or denied because they’re proud of it. 

The UNRWA piece by Caroline comes after she’s given new information in the original whistleblower of Biden family corruption, Gal Luft. Who’s now to be extradited to the U.S. on gun-running charges, which Luft claims are bogus. Caroline has the full story, above. 

From the vid introduction:

In February 2023, Israeli-American journalist Gal Luft published an extraordinary post on X revealing the Biden family’s alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence. Since then, Luft has been arrested, released and rearrested. Meanwhile, the bombshell allegations were never investigated.

100 planes out; 100 planes back: Israel pounds Iran

 

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Israel's IAF sent out 100 fighter jets to attack Iran. They destroyed Tehran's air defences in total. its drone caches and nuclear-weapon related facilities. By all accounts completely successful.  

100 planes went out. 100 returned safely. Well done to the IDF.

TBN Israel's Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas & Hezbollah War. Pinto reports that Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed revenge against Israel after airstrikes critically damaged the Islamic Republic's military infrastructure. In Lebanon, the IDF continues to dismantle Hezbollah positions as terrorists are reportedly abandoning the ranks. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.

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Men, Jews, Billionaires and Muslims rushing To Trump

An Occasional Reader sent me an article by Scott Galloway which is an "Endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris". Which argues that men ought to be voting for Kaaaah'mla. 

I find Galloway's arguments unpersuasive. Though I've checked out Galloway, someone new to me, and found that he has a lot of sound views on the world  -- which is to say, that he agrees with me. Or... I agree with him. 

But not on this. Not that men ought to endorse Harris. In fact, they're not endorsing her, as the second article, at bottom, shows. 

Which I guess is the reason for Galloway's piece, from a man who clearly is a "Blue no matter Who" kinda guy who has noted the mass defection of men from the increasingly feminised Democratic party. Not surprising that when you keep saying men have "toxic masculiniity", that they desert your party. 

Even Dem uber-lord, Van Jones, he of CNN fame, has said "When you insist that all white people are racist, that all men are toxic, that all billionaires are evil, don't be surprised when they desert your party". 

Another Dem uber-lord and CNN commenter, David Axelrod, has commented that Harris goes all "Word Salad City" in her public appearances. Yes, we know! And men don't like this. They prefer clear answers, even if they may not agree. CNN are critical. 

Then, this guy, Galloway, says this: 

This election is — or should be — a referendum on two related things: women’s bodily autonomy and the future of men in the U.S

Really? That's the main reason America should be choosing the leader of the world's most important country? Abortion? The MAIN reason?? 

Good god almighty, that's the craziest take I've seen on the election. And from a prominent New York intellectual. But then, as George Orwell noted: "Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them".

So.. Abortion should drive the vote. And young men's tender feelings should drive the vote. 

Not the economy? Not inflation? Not border security? Not crime? Not DEI policies? Not the Trans radical agenda? Not foreign policy? Not how the new leader will handle foreign threats? Not how the new leader will handle the current wars in the Middle East and Ukraine? Not how he/she will handle NATO and other allies? 

No, none of these according to our good intellectual Scott Galloway. It ought to be about Abortion. And how men feel about themselves. We can't treat Galloway as a serious peson on this issue, if that's his stance. I'm sorry, but we can't. 

Then, coincidentally, I came across the counter argument, by Alex Gutentag & Michael Shellenberger, both of whom I do know and link below. Which of course is my argument. And it saves me the hassle of making it. Young men should be voting for Trump. So should Jews. And billionaires. And Muslims. 

As already we know young Black men are trending Trump. And so should other minorities. And so should we all. For his policies were better in his first term and will be better than Harris' in his second. 

Trump is sounder on the economy. He is sounder on squashing inflation. Better on controlling crime. Better on stemming the border invasions. And better too, for Israel and to get out of the Ukraine war. All of these are debatable, but to me, the debate is won. And won by the Orange man. 

The counter argument to Galloway: Toxic Femininity And Wokeism Are Driving Men, Jews, Billionaires, and Muslims Away From Harris To Trump

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Michelle Obama gave a dark and angry speech in support of Harris, which basically amounted to berating men for not voting for a woman of colour. DEI, much?

At one stage she accused people of "demanding higher standards of Harris vs Trump".  But they've also said Trump is Hitler. As in literally. So what is she saying? That people are demanding Harris have higher standards than Hitler?! Oh, dear; your slip is showing....

Which party is the most serious?

At Rallies:

The Democratic party: Eminem, Usher, Beyonce, Megan Thee Stallion. 

All celebrities. And none performed. They were paid ($10 million for Beyonce), to turn up and read off the teleprompter. 

The Republican party: Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramiswami, Robert Kennedy Jnr, Alina Habba, Byron Donalds, Dr Phil. 

All politicians or business people or lawyers. All of whom wrote their own speeches. 

Which one is more serious?

I mean, really. 

Tulsi and RFK Jr at the Madison Square Garden rally

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Powerful speeches by Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr, at last Saturday night's Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, NYC.

Hong Kong twilight

Looking South, to Kowloon, from the ferry to DB

I know more than Barry about why Black men are not voting for Kamala | Black YouTubers

("Barry" being Barack Obama)

Who recently lectured "the brothers" about how they were not coming out in enough numbers for his candidate Kamala Harris -- the one who will give him his Fourth Term --  because, he said, they were being misogynist. The didn't like the idea of a woman in power, and that's just not right. He lectured. 

It didn't go over well with the Brothers. 

Mainly because the reasons they're not liking on her is because they don't like her border policies. The unchecked immigration is flooding poor parts of America -- where young Black men disproportionally live -- and are taking up living space and reducing employment opportunities. 

The also don't like her soft-on-crime policies ("defund the police") and believe that the economy was better handled by Trump '45. 

It seems Barry doesn't know this. Or doesn't want to admit it. 

But I did know it. For a long time, I've known it. 

Why?

Because I follow a number of Black YouTube channels, by smart young Black folks (more correctly, in today's terminology, from Black and Brown people). They've been talking about this issue for ages. And going to the places where the problems are. And reporting from there. 

Here are a few:

• Amala Ekpunobi
• Amir Odom
• Barry Cunningham
• Black Conservative Perspective. (Greg Foreman)
• Christian Watson
• Coleman Hughes
• Devory Darkins
• Glenn Loury
• I am coach Colin
• Nate the Lawyer
• PBD Podcast (Patrick Bet-David)
• Professor Nez
• Vivek Ramaswamy

Me, following these online, social media, real down-to-earth, actual people on YT channels, me, I have a better idea of why young Black men are not voting for Kamala, than does the ex president Barack Obama. Or, at least, as far as he is willing to admit. Which is only to blame them for misogyny. 

Point being: these are real problems. Real issues. They, these young Black men, really are concerned about the influx of illegal immigrants. They really are concerned about the increase in crime and the defunding of the police. They really are concerned that their economic outlook is worse under Harris-Biden-Obama that it was under Trump 45. I guess that's all too close to the bone to admit. 

Nonetheless, it's true.

"The Atlantic" sullies itself with more made up nonsense

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I've been a long time subscriber to The Atlantic magazine. Always readable and refreshingly liberal. 

Until it was bought by Steve Jobs' widow and it became an unrecognisable propaganda samizdat. 

But still I subscribe. 

The latest has a story by Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg about how Trump allegedly stiffed the family of a Mexican-American soldier killed by a fellow soldier. The story is in the above video by Greg Foreman. 

The family has denied the story. They say Trump treated them with sympathy and respect. 

The person who was in the Oval office when the remarks were allegedly made, Mark Meadows, says Trump never said what is alleged in the article. 

Despite which the people in the video above, all with severe TDS, being told these denials, carry on as if nothing was said, and the story still true. They're like "why don't people believe us?". Answer: because you're always doing crap like this. 

As Glenn Greenberg reminds us, Jeffrey Goldberg was the guy who gave us the nonsense "Saddam Hussein is allied with Al-Qaeda", which sounded nonsense even then, and proved so subsequently, but which helped to justify a war that killed hundreds of thousands ("mass death").

More at Glenn's X post here

And it was Goldberg who gave us the nonsense story of Trump saying that veterans were "losers". That was debunked by none other than John Bolton, who was there when it was allegedly said, but who denied that Trump ever said it; this from Bolton, a major Trump-hater. 

So, this is the "October surprise". A BS story, retailed as BS, and printed is a BS propaganda outlet. 

‘Conservation’ projects to drive human traffic? Only in Hong Kong | Tom Yam

Lantau Island

Letter in today’s South China Morning Post, from long-time Occasional Reader Tom Yam

The government’s proclaimed plan for Lantau is “Development in the North; Conservation for the South”. Two proposals to develop South Lantau make a mockery of that promise of conservation and sustainability.

In one proposal, 8.5km of pristine coastline in South Lantau, from Pui O to Shui Hau, will be developed into an “eco-recreational” destination. This includes Cheung Sha, the longest sandy beach in Hong Kong, which is to become a “recreational hub” with campsites. Lower Cheung Sha’s 2km beach will feature a new water sports centre and a barrier-free walkway, with catering and equipment rental facilities. A hillside in Upper Cheung Sha will be an “adventure” playground, with ropeways, chairlifts and lodgings.

The Development Bureau estimates that upon completion of the proposed projects, an additional 4,000 to 6,000 visitors will descend on South Lantau during holidays, on top of the current 2,700. This must be the only “conservation” project in the world where the aim is to triple the amount of human traffic in a pristine natural environment.

The second proposal is even more egregious: that a long tunnel is to be built across Lantau, from south to north, via Discovery Bay, with the tunnel entrance at Silvermine Bay Beach in Mui Wo. This lovely public beach is not only popular with residents and visitors, but also a valuable habitat for wildlife. Such large-scale development threatens the coastal ecology – the wetlands and mangroves around the proposed site are home to marine and bird species, not to mention Lantau’s famous feral buffaloes.

As a huge traffic circle connecting south and north Lantau, Mui Wo would see its village character destroyed. Picturesque old villages near the tunnel entrance would have to be demolished. This historical area dates back to at least the 13th century – legend has it that the last Song emperor took refuge briefly in a Mui Wo village after fleeing from invading Mongols. More of Hong Kong’s heritage would be erased.

Under the government’s principle of conserving South Lantau, 8.5km of beautiful coastline is to become a theme park, Silvermine Bay Beach to become the mouth of a vehicular tunnel, and another historical corner of Hong Kong to vanish. With “conservation” like this, who needs development?

Tom Yam, Mui Wo

abrogation

It’s the ultimate escape cause. No matter what is said, later on it can be “abrogated”. Just as Islam itself abrogated Judaism and Christianity. Both of which are said, by Muslims, to be Muslims. Just that they “lost their way”. That’s how it works. The Great Reverse Takeover. Hmmm.... 

The West should know this

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Caroline Glick talks to Moriel Bareli. 

This is important to know about Islam's world view. Their belief that everyone is a Muslim. Even Jews and Christians who lived before the foundation of Islam in the 7th Century. I first knew of it back in 2001, when I read the Koran. And I thought "holy shit". If this is what we're dealing with we're in real trouble. As indeed we were and are. 

But how can it be??

Basically it's like this:

Jews and Christians: "We were here thousands of years ago". 

Muslims: "No, you weren't. You were Muslims then. You just deviated from the correct path, until Mohammad came along to steer you to the right path."

Jews and Christians:. "errm...."

There's not answer to that claim. It's unfalsifiable. Yet believed by all Muslims. I call it the Reverse Takeover gambit. As if you come on the market with a new product and claim that it's actually all the products before it, just better. 

From the intro:

Forget what you thought you knew about mainstream Arab and Muslim culture. Moriel Bareli is here to explain how Jews and the West have it totally wrong when it comes to understanding Islam’s war against Israel and its perception of Jews.

What’s even more unexpected is the way Bareli managed to connect to everyday Arabs, as he explains in his new book, "When a Jew and a Muslim Talk."

Bareli's website can be found here: https://moriel-bareli.co.il/en/book-eng/

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Kamala: a “Duck-billed platitude” | Scott Ritter on CNN

For Aussie readers' enjoyment.

(The reference is, of course, to the duck-billed platypus)

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33 Reasons to vote for Trump | Bill Ackman

A lifetime Democrat, Bill Ackman, talks of the logical reasons to vote for Trump, this time.  

Omer Adam Sings With IDF Special Needs Group

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Why Israel is so special. 

Also: Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Pink Floyd, on Zion Square, Jerusalem, by the Breslev Brothers

“Inside the utter devastation where Hamas despot Yahya Sinwar met his demise in Gaza” | Douglas Murray

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Douglas Murray has been a fearless and fair reporter on the Gaza war. He has been in Israel or Gaza for most of the last year since the October 7th massacre. I admire his guts and grit and clear moral compass. Like me, he’s atheist, non-Jew, but strongly pro Zionist and philo-Semitic. I am all of those to a high degree of obsession. “But… but don’t you care for the plight of the poor Palestinians?”. No, I do not. They’ve had numerous chances to have their own independent state. They’ve rebuffed all. Because their aim is not a state, or a two-state solution. Their aim is the annihilation of all Jews. Worldwide. I have zero empathy, zero sympathy, zero thought for people who announce clearly and often that their sole purpose in life is to kill Jews. I don’t.…

Douglas’ article above comes from the death chair of arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar. Ironic/Iconic.

The Obama-Harris-Biden administration was strongly against the IDF entering Rafah. If they’d listened to that advice, Hamas would be still alive and viable, still led by Sinwar. Neither of those is true now. Of 24 Hamas garrisons 23 have been destroyed by the IDF. With minimal civilian casualties. The last garrison is being worn down and killed. Israel is winning. That drives many on the Left, the Hamas-nicks, utterly crazy. The Jews winning! 

Booh-shucks to Obama. The one responsible for all this. For unrestraining the Islamic Republic of Iran and its “ring of fire”. For enabling the “3-H” — Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi. All that on the say-so of Barack. Obama is now in the end days of his Third Term, but hoping for a Fourth Term. No, no, say a majority of Israelis, who support Trump: Israel’s strongest presidential supporter since … well, I’ll just say in the 21st century. 

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Nuclear energy in Australia

Malcolm Turnbull, failed politician: 

"Nuclear energy for Australia is dangerously stupid".  "Nuclear Gamble", by 4-Corners, Australia, ABC.

Elon Musk, successful businessman, with major investments in renewable energy: 

"Nuclear energy is now so safe that if you tried to create a meltdown, you couldn't. There is no need to do anything with the waste, other than store it on site. It's perfectly safe.". And a lot more. 

Which one should we believe? The Four Corners folks at the  ABC of Australia, want us to belive the scare stories about nuclear. That it's unsafe, that it will take too long to build and that it's too expensive. 

All nonsense. 

But they deny that their objections are ideological. They claim they're science based. 

For the more authoritative word on this, between the two above, I'm going with Elon.

Another look at what Australia's doing with its energy. Cutting gas and coal only to have to import gas. Putting in so much of renewables that the cost of energy will go up, because of the cost of transmission, lines and poles. And of storage. Australia already has amongst the most expensive electricity in the world. And it's only going to get worse. With the policies of Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese.

This happened to California. But Australia is going ahead anyway. With the same mix of failed policies. 

My Big Announcement at Donald Trump's NC Rally

Tulsi Gabbard registers as Republican.

The party of freedom. The party of peace. The party of common sense. The party of the People. 

The party that was established to fight and end slavery.   

A moving short speech. From an American hero. Who servied twice in Iraq. And then as governor of Hawaii. Always as a Democrat. Now as a Republican. 

Which is the serious party in the US elections?

Primary focus of... 

The Democratic Party: Allow More Abortion 

Democrats are onsewith this. Up to time of birth even, No longer Bill Clinton’s “Safe, legal and rare”, but “let’s celebrate abortion”. 

The Republican Party: Reduce National Debt

Elon Musk: the only way to control governmentspending is to reduce the size of government and make it more efficient. Getting rid of government waste is a “target rich environment”. In a Trump government Elon will head a Department of Government Efficiency. More at Farzad.

Dave Rubin and Elizabeth Pipko talk Trump.  

"I'm Lovin' It, Trump" | Brett Cooper

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The gorgeous Brett Cooper, full on, all-in, Trump. And his wonderful stint as a fry-cook at McDonalds.

The MSM have gone bananas over this. All of CNN, MSNBC, etc... getting bent out of shape. Crapping all over it, when it's about the most successful campaign stunt of all time. People love it. There were 7000 people outside that McDonald's in Pittsburgh. 

Successful Troll, by the master troller, Donald Trump.

The Lotus Eaters guys have their say. 

McDonalds: "We are not Red or Blue. We are golden." In a note telling us that both Kamala and Tim Walz had been invited to do the same as The Don, but declined. Still, the left media has melted down over this. "It's a stunt!" Well, duh! Of course it's a stunt. Like kissing babies, only more fun. Like Tim Walz going on a "pheasant shoot". Or, are we to assume he was just out on a shoot, and the cameras happened to be there. To catch him fumbling with the loading of a shotgun.... Heh!

Nick Johnson was at Trump's Mc Donald's Rally. Note the guy who does 900 miles a week, saying that all the lawn signs he sees are Trump/Vance. Except in the rich parts of the city. So it's a clear rich-poor divide. 

IDF now attacking and destroying Hezbollah banks | TBN Israel

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Good. Smart warfare. 

Doggy Dreams

“When heaven and earth are in your heart and mind

Your words have the power of thunder”

China vs US. Which society do you prefer?

 

One like this... 

... or one like this?

One where the crowd has to clap in unison?

Or one where the meme-merchants on YouTube can make total fun of the major candidate for the US presidency, himself an ex-president?

American and its elections allows the most amazing, most extreme, most rude, most... just most... of anything. You can make any sort of fun of your opponent. At the end of the day, this is good. Good for people to get it all out there. 

Here's a lovely video of Benny Johnson pumping gas for people in a Blue part of FA. Check it out. Nowhere else would we do this. 

How to save America | Elon Musk

 

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Two hours of Elon Musk answering all sorts of questions from all sorts of folks. 男女老少 Nánnǚ lǎoshào. “Man woman young old”. In the swing state of PA. Very inspiring. To me, at least.

Clear message: support common-sense policies. Secure borders, safe cities, limited effective government, economic growth through deregulation, support the constitution, especially 1A and 2A. He asks people to sign a petition in support of 1A and 2A. And one signer per day will be randomly selected to win a $1 million cheque. The first is in the vid above. 

The Kamala Puppet Regime is bringing in illegal immigrants, sending them to swing states. Giving them free smart phones, free money, free accommodation and free medical care. So they will vote Democrat. 

This is no conspiracy theory. It is happening in front of our eyes. Assisted by “no Voter ID” laws. If we are not careful, America will become a one-party State, just as California has become a one-party state. Only it will be worse because now you can escape California if you don’t like what it’s doing. But if all America becomes Blue, there’s no escape. To see how that works out just go to San Francisco. Or LA. Or Oakdale. Or Portland. Or Seattle. All cities that have been ruined by extreme Democratic policies. Sanctuary cities. Soft on crime. Soft on criminals. Soft of drugs. (I used to be a “legalise drugs” guy. No longer, after seeing what these policies have led to, in places like San Francisco). Their downtowns are “Walking Dead” hellscapes. Thank you George. Thank you Kamala. 

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Even the Amish. In PA. Who don't normally vote. Are now voting and according to this video, they're doing so at 100% Trump/Vance. 

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	Yisrael official 🇮🇱 🎗 ⁦‪@YisraelOfficial‬⁩ 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Kamala "studied the maps" and warned Israel to not dare enter Rafah. Netanyahu ignored her and hostages were found in Rafah. Sinwar was eliminated in Rafah. Kamala makes a statement taking credit for the elimination of Sinwar. She said, and I quote, "And I will say… pic.x.com/vVrYeACLWc   20/10/2024, 6:20 PM

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the handsomest dog of all?…

How Do I Cheat Thee? Let me count the ways (to voter fraud)

I found out how easy it was for me — an Aussie living in Hong Kong, and NOT a U.S. citizen — to vote in the forthcoming U.S. election. Because I did so. Fraudulently. 

Here's a thing: if you're really an American living overseas, you MUST HAVE a PASSPORT. You are literally not allowed to travel overseas without one. 

 
So why doesn't the system require you to show a PDF or JPEG of the front page of your passport?? Instead there's a drop-down menu choice of "I don't have an ID at this time". 

 
There is ONLY ONE REASON to allow that: so that you can cheat. "Voter suppression" does not fly (as they trot out all the time domestically), because everyone one of the overseas Americans has to have this basic form of ID. 

 
Elon Musk has been talking about Voter Fraud, at a rally in PA. Says the only way to ensure against it is in-person paper voting with ID required. The same as pretty much every other democracy has. Including my own country of Australia. 

 
And yet, the Dems are insistent on holding on to a system that is so plainly flawed, and un-auditable. "It's weird", says Elon. 

In possibly the worst "fact check" of all time, CNN says Elon is wrong about voting machines being hackable, by quoting… who? … the voting machine company itself! That's right, CNN said Elon was spreading … what? … "disinformation", of course! By quoting the Dominion voting machine company, saying it's not hackable. It would be laughable if not so serious. 

 
The Dems insist that the GOP sign on to saying that the elections are "free and fair", in advance, when everyone knows just how flawed the system is. 

And let's not forget how many Dems have themselves claimed voter rigging. To this day Hillary Clinton claims the 2016 election is "illegitimate". As does Stacy Abrams about the Georgia elections. 

 
Scott Adams talks about the ways of vote rigging,  (1) before (2) during and (3) after an election. @ 30:25  .

Yahya Sinwar is dead! Yah! Ya!

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Israel ELIMINATES Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza Strike | Erick Stakelbeck.

The head of Hamas is dead. The guy who masterminded October 7th. The guy who was released from Israeli jail in one of those ill-advised exchange deals, where ONE Israeli hostage in Gaza was swapped for over a thousand of jailed terrorists. Including this monster. Who had been given Israeli medical treatment including brain surgery. But his hatred for Jews was just too much. He had to mass murder them. 

I, for one, celebrate the death of a mass murdering terrorist. As do young Israelis. The world is better off without him.

Note that if Netanyahu had listened to the feckless advice of Biden, Harris, Starmer, Macron & Co, this would not have happened. Sinwar would still be head of a viable terrorist organisation, Hamas.

 But Bibi ignores them and the result is degrading of both Hamas and Hezbollah. 

Ya, ya, ya

Yahya: bye bah 👋

A warning to the “Free” world | Alex Armstrong on X

	Alex Armstrong ⁦‪@alexharmstrong‬⁩ The President of El Salvador, ⁦‪@nayibbukele‬⁩, has sent a chilling warning to the west. He's not wrong. pic.x.com/NrmEhYHEuT   17/10/2024, 4:05 PM

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"What if Palestinian had been Chinese"? | Post from 20 February 2010

Reposting from 20th February 2010 post.  

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In the early post-48 establishment of Israel, and after the failed attack on the new state by the Arab League, some of Israel’s neighbours indicated willingness to deal with the new state. These included Jordan, Lebanon and even previously belligerent Egypt. What happened?  The Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Huseini organized assassination of these moderate elements. Al-Huseini went on to mentor Yasser Arafat and his murderous reign, so disastrous for the Palestinians. (See “Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the rise of Radical Islam”)....

Think about what could have been if al-Huseini had not terrorized these acceptors of Israel into radicalism. Think of Hong Kong, where I live.

Here in Hong Kong, I contemplate the fact that the Communists in China killed millions on their way to the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949, sixty years ago last October. Many more millions fled to Taiwan and Hong Kong. That was pretty unfair too, just as the establishment of Israel was unfair on hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. That also involved massive expropriation of property, just as it did for Palestinians.  [ADDED, 17 Oct 2024: The "expropriation" was not because the Jews, aka, new Israel, kicked them out. The Israel Declaration of Independence says that it welcomes all ethnicities, religions and cultures. No, the reason they were kicked out was because surrounding Arab states told them to leave, so that the Arab armies could destroy Israel and kick all Jews into the sea. That's the truth of what happened.]

But what did these Chinese refugees do? Did they hunker down in a victimhood mentality, and fire rockets over the border to China?  They did not.  They got on with creating one of the most vibrant, tolerant, successful and wealthy economies in the world.  Part of a region that is now discussing the potential for a regional currency: will it be the Chinese Yuan, or should there be an Asian “Euro”?

Gaza is about the same size as Hong Kong. Think what they could have done with that land alone, or what they could have done with Gaza and the West Bank together, if they hadn’t attacked Israel in ’67 and if they hadn’t been mired in the victimhood mentality all these years; or even if they had used the hand-back of Gaza for some confidence building, rather than rocket launching, which could have led to the consideration of handing back the West Bank. Think of the possibilities if there had been one whit of recognition of Israel and its right to exist.

Had the “exiled” Palestinians done as the exiled Chinese did, would we debating the rights and wrongs of a nuclear weapons policy for Iran? We would not. We – or rather they, Israel and Iran, and Lebanon and Syria and Egypt – would be arguing about the details of the Middle East Economic Union and what to name the regional currency….

SpaceX Does it! The capture of the Starship booster | Elon Musk

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This is historical, but nothing from the MSM and no congratulations from the Biden administration, to Elon Musk, because they hate him -- used to love him but now hate him, because he got pissed off with the sharp leftward tilt of the Democratic party, which he'd always voted for, and went All-in Trump. 

But, he goes agains the tide and continues to achieve. 

Just before this triumph, he'd unveiled the RoboTaxi car and his latest iteration of the Tesla Robots. 

A man for all seasons. A man of the ages. The world's best entrepreneur. I feel privileged to live at the same time as the Musk era. 

Here's what he's doing in Texas, with a whole city growing up to house his Tesla, Gigafactory, Boring Company, SpaceX and X. 

Musk, the Da Vinci of the 21st Century:

Joe Macchi: "Elon Musk is an African-American who's white. He's a nerd who sleeps with models. He has 12 children but he's not poor." 

The Biden Crime Family | Miranda Devine

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Here are the dots. Feel free to join them up.This is going back to the second Obama term, so around 2012-16.

• Burisma is a Ukrainian energy company. Widely believed to be the most corrupt company in a very corupt country. 
• New Ukraine government attempts to tackle corruption so it can join NATO.
• Appoints clean-skin Viktor Shokin as prosecutor.
• Shokin goes after Burisma. Remember: the most corrupt company in a corrupt country. 
• Burisma puts Hunter Biden on its Board and pays him and his partner Devin Archer, $2 million pa, while Joe Biden is Veep to Obama in charge of most foreign affairs including Ukraine. 
• Burisma demands Hunter ask his father to call off prosecutor Shokin — and demands a phone call with Joe, which Hunter arranges.
• Joe visits Kiev, demands Shokin be fired, holding back $1 billion in aid as a threat. 
• Shokin gets sacked.
• Burisma is happy
• White House is not happy. Because it's not a good look.
• They cook up a story that it was Europe wanted the sacking of “corrupt” prosecutor Shokin 
• Western media swallows the story.
• Biden, father and son, get away with it. 

Does Biden get impeached ? No, he does not. Does Hunter get punished? No, he does not.

President Trump tries to find out what was going on. Makes phone call to new Ukraina president Vladimir Zelensky.

Trump gets impeached for his troubles. Gets impeached for trying to find out about Biden corruption which is itself impeachable. 

Hah! 

And that’s just Ukraine. There’s also China and Romania. Where Hunter is the face of the Biden Crime Family. The Bag Man. For “The Big Man” (Joe). The Big Man who is due 10% of every deal that his son Hunter does while his dad is Vice president. 

Aussie star reporter for the New York Post, Miranda Devine has a new book about it. “The Big Man”. Talks to ex Mumford & Sons banjo man Winston Marshal.  “it’s a rip-roaring story in itself. The lack of curiosity by the legacy media is amazing”. 

When will Israel attack Iran? | Caroline Glick

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It has to be soon. Otherwise the advantage of the winning momentum is lost. 

I've criticised Obama's Middle East policy before. I've called it the "be nice to Iran and they'll be nice to us" strategy. Kind of like the “cross your fingers and hope” strategy. Which of course is not a strategy, coz “hope is not a strategy”. 

Despite the ongoing, clear, unequivocal, catastrophic failure of this “be nice to Iran” strategy, from it beginning to its end, from soup to nuts, it still grips the Biden-Harris administration. This is best explained by assuming that Biden-Harris is really the Third Obama Presidency. Obama being the OG of the Democratic Party. Godfather Barry. 

The Dems can’t give up this “be nice to Iran” strategy in part because they can’t give up the idea of a “Two State Solution”. Which I also used to believe in, but no longer do, after finally realising the Levantine Arabs (aka “Palestinians”) don’t want it and never did want it. All they’ve wanted all along is to drive the Jews out of Arabia. They’ve been crystal clear about stating this aim, but we, the west -- China included -- have not listened. We’re still not listening. At least the Obama-Biden administration is not listening. 

And then there's the Trump (45) policy: which was to ignore all the received "wisdom" of the decades past, about the need to ensure Palestinian solution first, and went for a deal with the Sunni States against the expansionist, theocratic, Shia state of Iran. 

Caroline Glick has a better summary. Along the same lines, but better. More succinct. 

• The Obama-Biden Middle East strategy: Make nice with your enemies to squeeze your friends. (In the belief that a stronger enemy will be nice to us in return. Kind of like the "Unicorns in our back garden" strategy...).

• The Trump Middle East strategy: Make nice with your friends, to defeat your enemies. Hence the Abraham accords. Which could have (under Trump 45), or still could (under Trump 47), expand to include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE. 

It is the Trump strategy that is the truly inventive and the truly practical and the truly achievable. 

As Sir Richard Dearlove, ex head of Britain's intelligence services, points out in Caroline's podcast above, the Sunni states like Saudi and Jordan are quietly cheering on Israel in its war with theocratic Shia Iran; whatever the might say in public. 

Why Israel stands alone | Bernard-Henri Lévy

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One of the world’s most famous public intellectuals, Bernard-Henri Lévy, committed Zionist, philo-Semite. Has met every Israeli PM. Talks to Jonathan Tobin.

Gets a lot of things right.

Like, it’s not enough to say “Israel has the right to self defence”. Every country has the right to self defence. 

Israel has to have the right to Win.

The west must support Israel. The rights Israel is fighting for are the rights the west cares about (or, should care about and used to care about). The rights won over a long enlightenment. 

Hamas and Hezbollah are medieval death cults and we much be clear about that. They embody none, zero, of western liberal progressive ideals. 

Gets some things wrong. 

Like — towards the end — his belief that “Palestinians” can “change their minds and Hearst” to learn to accept Jews in the Levant. He compares it to how Germans changed after the war. But the German never had the cradle to grave immersion in Jew-hatred supported by Allah, mosque to kindergarten, school to mosque. 

And: says “who would have guessed, when Gaza was handed back to Palestinians in 2005, that we would have an October 7th?”  Answer: Benjamin Netanyahu did! He had resigned from the Knesset when Ariel Sharon pushed ahead with the de-jewification of Gaza. Bibi “guessed”,  Bibi knew it would be a disaster and a threat.

Bibi called it, the mistake of handing back Gaza. That’s who “would have guessed it”, professor.. Which is maybe why Lévy hates Bibi….

ADDED: Who would Bernard-Henri Lévy suggest take over from Bibi? Answer has he none. He just says something like “Well, Israel has always found a strong and visionary leader when the times demanded it”. Hope is not a strategy, professor!

I’m impressed by Jonathan Tobin. He’s well read and fair. A good interlocutor.

Dems have said they plan to hack the Overseas vote. What to do?

ADDED: The Dems have made clear that they want to increase the votes of overseas voters. They skew heavily to the Dems, seems to be the story. That was certainly the case with Philadelphia in the 2020 election, which Trump had won, by votes to the evening of voting day, but which got overturned by incoming overseas ballots, which were heavily Democrat. 

The numbers of Americans overseas is between 5 and 9 million. About 3 million are eligible to vote, by the latest stats. On average, by the Median, about 10% of them vote, about 300,000. Even this number could affect a swing state. Let alone that Dems have said they plan to increase the vote from overseas. I've even seen numbers up to 9 million, which would be crazy. 

In any case, the numbers are significant in a close election and they are eminently hackable. Which I have proved myself, by registering to vote in the election, though I'm Australian and not at all American. 

That's the point of the email copied below, to someone who the GOP heavies seem to listen to. It's my little effort to see if I can in any way help the election to be fairer. Heh...

ALSO: Greg Foreman on election denialism on both sides. Especially the Dems. 

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Hi xxx, 

This needs to be got to Lara Trump, even if it’s doubling up on what she already knows. You’re a conduit, Scott. 

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I’m here in Hong Kong, Australian, not citizen of the US, but I got online and registered to get a Ballot for the November US election, in about ten minutes. Though the Home page of the voting site said I needed ID,  either a Social Security number or a Driver licence, when I got to the last page, there was a drop-down menu with a third choice; “I don’t have an ID at the moment”!  Click that and I’m good to go. 

To be clear: I did NOT get the actual Ballot because I didn’t want legal jeopardy of signing an Affirmation that I was who i said i was (coz I wasn’t). But it was clear that the next step of getting the Ballot form and sending it in — by email or post — would have been super easy for anyone not worried about the arm of US law. Like, say, Call Centres in Asia. 

I registered to get a Ballot for the county of Dauphin in Philadelphia since this is a Swing State. It has 69 counties. 

By contrast, I wanted to vote in the Australian Referendum last year, but was not able to do so because I’ve not been living in Australia in the last three years, and could not have proved that. Offshore voting in Australia is tightly controlled; offshore voting in the United States is scandalously easy. 

It strikes me — as it does you — to be super easy for Overseas voting to be hacked. You’ve expressed the worries around this. I calculated that 10,000 people in overseas Call Centres — easy to find in the Philippines, India, indeed anywhere in Asia — could fill out 7 million Ballots in a week. And it’s super easy, via the system in place right now, to ensure that those votes are Democrats. (or largely so; you wouldn’t want it to look like the results of a North Korean election…).

“What now?”

A few ideas. Some may be glimpses of the obvious. Some may be easier said than done.

1. Challenge the legal basis for the Overseas Voting sites, that are private and tacked onto the US government Electoral system. I used "Vote from Abroad" and "US Vote Foundation”, but there are others. 

2. Demand the right to see the IP address of all those Ballot requests run through those OS voting sites. If there’s a concentration of IP addresses from one area or one computer that’s a prima facie case for claiming fraud. 

3. Demand the right to observe ALL the incoming Ballots by post. Check the source of them. If many coming from one area, that ought to be prima facie evidence of fraud. 

4. Demand the right to observe ALL the incoming Ballots by email. Check the source of them, by checking the IP addresses. If many come from one area, that ought to be prima facie evidence of fraud. 

5. Have GOP observers in all counties of all Swing States, focused on the Overseas ballots issue. This is a huge ask, as in just one Swing State, PA, there’s 69 counties. It could be focused on those counties that are the most Swing, and this is easily known (i can find it myself, from here in Hong Kong). 

You’ve said that Lara Trump has a much bigger operation than the GOP has in the past, with many lawyers and volunteers. This area of the likely cheating on overseas voting should lead Lara to focus a team on this. They need a War Room-type team onto it. It’s super important. (I realise you know this). 

e. g. From Wikipedia, re 2020 vote:

Because of the way [Pennsylvania] counted in-person ballots first, Trump started with a wide lead on election night. However, over the next few days, Biden greatly closed the margin due to outstanding votes from Democratic-leaning areas, most notably Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, as well as mail-in ballots from all parts of the state which strongly favored him.

It’s only got worse since, and Dems are openly talking of what basically amounts to cheating. It’s why they’ve pushed for no voter IDs. 

Something else crazy: PA allows some overseas postal votes (those who say they plan to return to the US), up to the 12th November. A full week past voting day! This is crazy!  

This needs to be got to Lara Trump, even if it’s doubling up on what she already knows. You’re a conduit, xxx. 

Added: I know you don’t like to click links in emails, but just in case, here’s what I wrote in detail about my recent experience in applying for a US election Ballot form. 

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Israel: the war is “far from over” but Israel is winning | Col Richard Kemp

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Yishai Fleisher talks to multi-decorated British Colonel Richard Kemp. The Colonel has spent most of the last year since October 7th in Israel talking to all sides, in civic society and the armed forces, the IDF. 

There’s always a “fog of war”. Col Kemp helps us peer through the mist and have see some of what’s going on. 

There are many people in the west, especially on social media, hugely critical of Israel. But they are a very loud minority. The majority still support Israel. 

On the hostages issue. I’m inclined to side with Yishai. Watch out for the discussion on this about two-thirds way through.