Biden to Iran, planning an attack on Israel: “Don’t”.
Iran: attacks Israel with 400+ missiles and drones. Aimed at the civilian population.
Biden: Right. I warned you. Now you face massive retaliation.
Biden to Israel, considering its retaliation: “Don’t".
Israel: Counter attacks Iran.
It’s true.
As long as you don’t call for Hong Kong independence, you’re fine. That call was a redline since 1997, very clearly so.
In Spain, as a bit of Whataboutism, you’re jailed if you demand Basque or Catalonia independence. And has happened.
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At its heart, the disinformation panic is becoming a textbook example of how a "solution" can do more harm than the problem it is designed to address. Educated campaigners such as Clare Melford may think they are doing the world a service, but in fact they are acting as intensifying agents, lending legitimacy to a conspiratorial world view in which governments and corporations are in cahoots to censor political expression. Unless something is done to stop them, they will continue to sow paranoia and distrust — and hasten us towards an increasingly radicalised and divided society.
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The Black vote is critical to the Democrats. It’s always been a Black Wall. No longer. It’s crumbling. From near zero, the support for Trump from the Blacks community is around 30%. That gives Dems the heebie-jeebies.
Not to mention the upset of working class Blacks in sanctuary cities like Chicago and New York, being forced out of housing and civic centres, by immigrants. Not a good look. There’s plenty out there.
This is a newly happening thing: Black folks, on YouTube, attacking Democrats.
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I wrote about UNRWA years ago. There’s a long documented history of corruption and support of Hamas. But it’s widely ignored.
There are links in the video above to what the schools paid for by the United Nations, in Gaza and the West Bank, are teaching. But you can also go to MEMRI and find many more. They’re weird and scary because they simply demonise Jews and it’s all that young Arabs imbibe with their mother’s milk.
There’s no fixing UNRWA. It needs to be disbanded and replaced. But it won’t be, as long as Hamas exists.
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Sam Harris talks to Noem Dworman with clear and correct moral position on the war in Gaza.
Snippets:
“We love death more than infidels love life”. Say the jihadists. And they mean it.
This is the most scrutinised, the most carefully watched war in history. And it’s to Israel’s disadvantage, because there’s such a clear bias. Israel can do nothing right. No matter what they do to minimise civilian deaths.
Simply in the act of defending itself, Israel is viewed as having “committed a war crime”.
Israel is being held to a higher standard that any other country ever has been.
Jihadist must be defeated. For the sake of the civilised world.
This “Media Watch” is supposed to be the ABC’s top-notch fact-checking program.
Lookie here.
The food convoy was hit by a precision Israeli drone attack on 1 April, killing 7, including one Australian.
Israel immediately apologised and said it would carry out an investigation. It did that by 6 April.
The report here, by the ABC was out on the 9th. Yet nothing reported of what was learned in the report.
The ABC says it’s “inexcusable”. Yes, it was, and Israel did not excuse it. Not even for one minute.
The ABC says the food convoy was clearly marked on the roof. Yes it was. But this was nighttime and they had no night vision, only thermal imaging, which doesn’t reveal the signage.
The ABC fails to mention that the IDF were working together with the World Central Kitchen and had been for months.
They fail to mention that the IDF tried to contact the WCK staff, numerous times by phone, but failed to get through.
They fail to mention that there was a Hamas gunman on the roof of the WCK truck, firing into the air, to draw fire. That the convoy had gone into a warehouse for reasons unknown and come out, half an hour later, with that Hamas gunman on the roof.
None of this mentioned, but Australia’s “Most trusted news source”. Misinformation by Omission.
What is most revolving about this, not just the poor job here, showing how anti-Israel the ABC is, but the fact that the ABC is always lecturing us about how we have to be careful about Misinformation. Yeah, right, ABC, look in the mirror.
What hypocrisy to hammer Israel for the accidental death of an Aussie aid worker in Gaza. Israel has apologised and already done an investigation. There is no way in which this is being “excused” by them.
Not to mention: Australia, the US, Britain, every country that has been in a war has been involved in a “friendly fire” incident. Australia even in cases where it has failed to take responsibility. It’s the grossest hypocrisy to attack Israel over it, and demand that Israel accept an Australian investigator.
Penny Wong is a shocker.
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Penny Wong and her Prime Minister Anthony Albanese now talk about Israel, in language and tone, as if it is our enemy, not our ally.
Wong, our Foreign Affairs Minister, speaks with open hostility, directing scorn at Israel, an inclusive, modern, liberal, democratic state surrounded by apocalyptic religious regimes, under persistent siege from radical murderous Islamic terrorists.
Wong’s distaste for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is palpable, her hatred raw. In this regard, most of her Labor colleagues, and our Government, agree. It’s not about Israel, they will say privately, it’s Netanyahu, a monster, and his right-wing party, Likud. We are not anti-Semitic, we only hate some Jews. Mostly the ones who refuse to surrender to the demands of the righteous Palestinians, and their terrorist army of rapists and hostage-takers, Hamas.
With disdain and deliberate visceral disgust, Wong, from the comfort and safety of her office in the Adelaide CBD, spits out orders to Israel, in the grip of yet another lonely existential war they didn’t ask for: “We say to Mr Netanyahu, you must change course.” More...
There’s another Alabanese: Francesca Albanese, a long-time Israel-hater, employed by the U.N., natch, to write a report on Israel, which concluded, natch, that Israel has carried out “Genocide”. And then posted on X, without a shred of evidence, that the accidental killing of aid workers, was done deliberately by Israel. So many Israel haters. No matter what it does, it will never satisfy the likes of these Albaneses, or Wongs, or others in the Hamas-luvvie community. A depressingly large group.
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It’s not just an EV company: It’s an AI Company, a Robot company and a Renewable Energy company.
The Financial World has not taken account of the Robotaxi opportunity which is in the $Trillions. And in which Tesla has a big lead. A very deep moat. To keep the competition at bay.
There are Tesla Bears out there. Look at this. And make up your own mind.
At Ark Investment, they maintain a price target of $US 2,000 by 2027.
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The three aims Israel had after October 7th, were: (1) to defeat Hamas (2) to bring the hostages back and (3) to ensure that there was never again the same threat to Israel.
All of those aims are now lost.
Bret Stephens who writes for the New York Times has a proposal he’s been banging on about for some time: after driving out Hamas from Gaza, to turn it over to a pan-Arab mandate over the territories. And to keep them there until a generation has been brought up under more moderate leadership.
Stephens notes something rarely admitted by the Hamas-luvvies: that the the surrounding Sunni states all want Israel to destroy Hamas. That includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf States. They may not admit it publicly, but we know that’s what they want. Hamas is too radical, too terrorist-y for them. Why has not such an idea been floated and pushed by the United States?
Others commenting on this in the talk above are: Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane and General H.R. McMaster. They liked the idea; as do I. Much better than the cloud-cuckoo land ideas of “One secular, peaceful, multi-religious, multi-ethnic state of Palestine, from the River to the Sea". Dream on. A ludicrous fantasy; prancing unicorns.
Why would we expect in such a unitary Palestinian state anything different from what’s happened in the region? That is Jews slaughtered or driven out, because what they want, what Hamas, presumably the governing power in this fantasy, want the world to be Judenrein.
All that is moot now. Bibi has caved to Biden and given up. He denies it, but that’s the result. I hope I’m wrong, but likely not.
Hamas will be resurgent. Israel is weakened by this. If it falls, if Hamas and the PA, and Hezbollah attack and take over, “from the River to the Sea”, the will be a second Holocaust, this time at least the number of the Nazis. And then there will be a spread of Sharia Law in the land, and then the spread of Islam, radical Islam, Hamas Jihadist Islam, to the rest of the region and to Europe. That is what they state as their aim, and we need to believe them. Look what they’ve done already. Convinced the world that theirs is the just cause, when they are a murderous, genocidal, apartheid state.
If there was ever a case of being careful what you wish for, this is it.
This is a disgusting outcome. Albeit the luvvies have a “ceasefire”. Where is there even talk of the hostages any more?
ADDED: Benny Gantz, who is in the Israeli War Cabinet, apparently said, when the attacks on Rafah was still being considered, that “you don’t put to 80% of a houefire and hope that the remaining 20% won’t burn the rest of the house down”. Well, that’s what they’re doing now. While still more than 20% of Hamas battalions remain in Rafah. All because Biden had to kneel to the Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Hamas-wing of the Democratic party, up there in Dearborn Michigan, and its concentration of Muslim voters, and where just yesterday they were calling for “Death to America”.
This appeasement can’t turn out well.
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That’s why today Putin’s nuke-rattling is so buttock-tightening. A simple mistake; a simple miscalculation…. And Boom. No more single-planet humans, let alone interstellar humans. All that will remain are the cockroaches.
I remember all this in real time. And maybe some of my older Occasional Readers do too.
I was 10 to 12 over the time Sachs is talking about. We’d just arrived in New York City where my Dad was an Australian Representative to the United Nations. Our first digs were nearby the U.N. at 22nd Street West. Which is where we had our first ever television. It that we’d been too poor to afford a TV: we just didn’t have TV in Canberra until 2 June 1962. Never mind social media, no broadcast television!
Back to NYC: I remember our apartment. And the grainy black and white TV. A wonder! The I Love Lucy show. Daytime television!
And then came the Kennedy-Nixon debate. The first ever presidential debate, September 26 1960, and we watched it on our little bulbous TV. The debate was famous not just for being the first. It was later noted that people who listened on radio thought Nixon had won; those who watched on TV thought Kennedy had won. Why the difference? Kennedy, young, handsome, assured; Nixon sweaty with five-o’clock shadow. The beginning of looks over substance politics, Reagan a Hollywood actor, to Trump the game show host.
A few weeks later at the U.N. Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on the table and yelled “we will bury you”, meaning the west. So there was no paranoia about communism. They were out to rule the world. I still remember my dad coming home and saying “guess what Krushchev did today?!”
Two years later and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Which I leave to David Sachs to describe in the vid above. Which he does so well. Again, I recall my dad being so worried. I didn’t realise then that he was seeing secret diplomatic cables and the dangerous crisis we were in.
In short, thanks for the two K’s: Khrushchev and Kennedy. They saved the world.
ADDED: towards the end Jeffrey Sachs says: “The Democrats are now the party of war; and the Republicans are the party of peace. Amazing!”. He, a lifetime Democrat. Noting the inversion, in our lifetime. Used to be the opposite.
From the Editor-in-chief of The Economist:
Together with two colleagues I spent last week in Beijing, where we were attending the China Development Forum, an annual gathering where senior Chinese officials meet foreign business bosses. Our Beijing bureau chief, David Rennie, set up a remarkable agenda of conversations with Chinese officials, scholars, economists, business leaders and diplomats. Over breakfast, coffee, lunch and dinner we had some 30 meetings in just a few days. My colleagues and I left Beijing with thicker waistlines, a deeper understanding of China’s economic direction—and some fairly profound concerns.Now, I don’t want China to fail. Who does? Especially here in Hong Kong, we need China to do well. But I fear, they’re right, those Economist people. As I’ve noted before: that moving back to an economy run by the state is not the way to go. The success that China has had in the last forty years is exactly correlated to the extent to which they have shifted to the market based economy. The more market based, the more the success. The more “capitalist” the more wealth. The more socialist, the less wealth.
Our cover this week reflects these concerns. In a leader we argue that Xi Jinping’s plan to escape economic stagnation is misguided. Blending techno-utopianism, central planning and an obsession with security, Mr Xi’s plan sets out his ambition to dominate the industries of tomorrow. But its contradictions mean that it will disappoint China’s people and anger the rest of the world.
"Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation”
And then there’s the security thingie. The obsession of Xi Jinping. Which again, I’ve talked about over the years. His “Plan 9 from outer space” -- a vicious attack on the west, on enlightenment values and on the market economy-- right back to his taking up his post. It’s that reborn, now, yeah?
Click on “Document 9” in the Labels below. An eye-opener.
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And wow did it pass!
Watch carefully. Tesla”s FSD waits for a cackle of chickens to cross the road. Also, it slows down for speed bumps! I mean, these are things that even a human can miss.
Farzad, a Tesla specialist, clips 19 folks raving on the latest FSD. Which will be updated, over the internet, every two weeks. IOW getting better and better, faster and faster.
This is not just “unbelievable”. It’s mega.
