The state of Britain today: Submission to Islam

"Nothing to see here". Really? The "you are ours" move

British politician Nick Timothy objected to the mass prayer -- the Adhan --  by Muslims in public spaces. I'm sure you've seen it. Vast hordes of beardos, doing yoga, the Downward Dog, heads on the ground, arses in the air. Pretty disturbing. Especially when we remember this: that a Christian lady was arrested by the rozzers for "silently praying". Talk about Two Tier policing. A Chrisian woman cannot silently pray, in public, but vast numbers of beardos, hewing to a misogynist, supremacist, homophobic, pedophilic religion are untouched, as it were, when they pray publicly in Trafalgar Square.

Britain is done.

Below a response to those who've criticized the bravery of Nick Timothy in calling this out. I fear it's not going to do anything. Because the mass of people, brainwashed by the pollies, is attacking him. The crowd. The mob. 

Oh dear....

Jim Chimirie on the issue.

@EdwardJDavey, you have misread the argument so comprehensively that one has to wonder whether it is deliberate.

Nobody is objecting to freedom of worship. Nick Timothy did not say Muslims should not be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon. The Adhan, the call to prayer, declares there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. That is by definition a theological repudiation of every other faith. When projected into Trafalgar Square, a national memorial to British sovereignty and independence, it is not equivalent to a celebration. It is a declaration. The distinction is theological, not political, and it is precise. You invoke freedom of worship as though Timothy had called for mosques to be closed. He did not. You invoke British values as though observing that the domination of public spaces is straight from the Islamist playbook is somehow un-British. It is not. It is documented, sourced and supported by scholars who have spent decades inside Islamist movements. This week, thousands of people gathered on the Embankment chanting death to America and death to Israel. Bobby Vylan led chants of death death death to the IDF, cleared by the CPS last year and back on a London stage doing it again. The Islamic Human Rights Commission, named in a Lords report as part of Iran's soft power network in Britain, addressed the crowd. Thirty six Labour MPs wrote to the Parliamentary Commissioner demanding the investigation of a man for pointing out what every serious student of Islamism already knows. The Attorney General deployed his Jewish identity to defend a declaration that, by its own theological logic, repudiates Judaism. And your contribution to all of it is a tweet accusing people who raise these questions of stoking fear, hatred and division. You lead a party that voted consistently to keep Britain in the European Union against the democratic will of the British people. A party that has positioned itself as the political home of progressive appeasement, that has never met an Islamist grievance it would not accommodate, and whose response to every act of cultural intimidation is to accuse those who name it of bigotry. The Liberal Democrats have no record of defending British values under pressure. They have a record of redefining British values to mean whatever is least likely to cause offence to the most vocal pressure group in the room. Freedom of worship is indeed a fundamental British value. So is freedom of speech. So is the freedom to observe, without being accused of racism, that a theological declaration of exclusive truth projected into a national monument is not the same as lighting a menorah or performing a Passion play. Nick Timothy exercised that freedom. The full weight of the parliamentary and political establishment descended on him within twenty four hours.

That is the state of British politics today, Ed. And you are part of the problem, not the solution. "Nick Timothy didn't say Muslims shouldn't be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon."

ADDED: The folks at Spiked discuss.

While Australian PM, Anthony Albanese, Submits to Islam. Will he attend an Easter celebrations? Let's see, but I doubt it. And no one will notice. Australia is sliding right along, full square, into submission to the will of Allah. In that way, he's just like his horrid namesake, Francesca Albanese, she of the Human Rights watch in the U.N. who watches out for the human rights of all but the Jews, for she's a reliable Jew hater.

Round the Island Race, Hong Kong, 19 November 2015

Xena. Me at the helm. South of Hong Kong island.

Did Netanyahu say he wants Israel to take over the Middle East?

I’ve seen and heard this claim. I’d never heard Netanyahu say anything like it, either in his memoir or in speeches. But still… better check.

Here is the Google AI. Short answer is “NO”. He did not.

Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like dogs!

 

Islamists in New York, in Britain, in Europe are coming after our dogs. Because in Islam they are “unclean”. 

Not satisfied with hating dogs in private while letting those of us who love our dogs get on with owning and loving them, the Islamists demand that we hew to their beliefs. Beliefs they hold because the “perfect man” — that murderous, genocidal, paedophilic ratbag, the “prophet” Muhammad — didn’t like dogs. That’s it. That’s their sole reason for this caniphobia. Which, btw, triggers my Islamophobia…

I’ve often posted stuff by Oren Cahanovitc, Israeli, owner of the tour company “travellingIsrael.com, knowledgeable and balanced commenter on the Middle East issues we know and hear all too much about.

I’ve got him in my list of Israel commenters. 

Here he is above talking of Islamists’ latest attack on the good life of the west. Attempting to turn the west into the hellholes they fled from. They fled from. And try to recreate. Go figure. 

Sigh…

By the way, Oren is correct that not all cultures are the same. Islam, for example, is more violent than most. Just as the Jain culture is far more peaceable than most. You’d think that that would be clear and obvious. But it’s not, especially on the Left, because of damage done to common sense by post-modernism, brought to us mainly by French and German philosophers. The likes of Foucault, Derrida and the Frankfurt School.

U.S. Civil war in 2030…

Green Beret’s prediction, below, strikes me as plausible. Why? Because Democrats tell us that that’s what they’re going to do. Pack SCOTUS, open borders to increase their voter base, create new states that will be Democrat, gerrymander purple and red states, arrest anyone who was in the Trump administration, or anyone MAGA. They tell us that on CNN, in The New York Times.

Result: a supermajority for Democrats. All America becomes like California, where Republicans have no hope of winning state power ever again. i.e. America becomes a One Party State. A UniState. Now you might approve of this because you like the Dems. But traditionally we’ve thought very dimly of one party states. At the very least authoritarian. 

The Democrats are far better organised than the Republicans. Who can’t even bring themselves to pass the SAVE Act….

Green Beret Nap Time, post on X:

Here’s what I think is going to happen. 

The right is going to lose in 2026, not because Democrats have better or more popular policies, but because of voter fatigue on the right from constant propaganda meant to divide us… which is clearly working.

They threw out all of the stops, never missing an opportunity to push so many lies from so many angles that most people simply can’t process what is real and what is fiction.

So, we lose.

It won’t seem too drastic at first, but it will hamstring the Trump admin enough and tie him and those that remain loyal up in impeachments and other nonsense that will make his admin ineffective.

This will create more doubt on the right as Democrats and our adversaries pump more propaganda into the space, highlighting the ineffectiveness. 

Morale will drop even further.

Then we are really going to lose in 2028. We are going give Democrats and the Halal Right a supermajority, which they will use to pack the court, open the borders again, send more money to Islamist and left leaning causes, reestablish DEI policies, proliferate troon ideology, and ultimately start chipping away at the Constitution.

It will only take a year or two with that kind of juice behind the effort and a supermajority pushing through legislation.

The SCOTUS will be unable to stop unconstitutional laws because of the new leftist majority make up.

A hot Civil War will start in the south, but it won’t feel like a civil war (no real clear sides, more like insurgent warfare of rural vs urban). Media and influencers will push it as anti-American insurgents trying to attack other Americans.

Rights will be suspended. The Patriot Act will be used to identify and lock up tens of thousands.

Martial law will be implemented.

American foreign policy will crumble with the domestic issues. 

China and Russia will move forward in the world stage and systematically rewrite alliances.

World wars will likely break out as a result.

By 2030… the word will be a bleak and terrible place…

But hey, at least a bunch of influencers made money off of centuries old propaganda made for illiterate peasants.

Fun times.

Keeping one's house in order. An analogy of Gaza vs Israel | Adam Carolla

 

Adam Carolla is king of the analogies. He's good at it, and they're useful, even if the late great Scott Adams used to say that analogies are "not argument". Maybe not, but they help clarify. 

In Adam’s rant in the video above, which I set to start at 15:15, he does a good job of clarifying the problem in the Middle East with a simple analogy, which I think works. 

It's not that Israel is "doing bad things" to the "Palestinians" (let alone “genocide”), but that the Palestinians are not keeping their own house in order. They're obsessed with wiping Israel off the map, and with killing Jews. Instead of getting their own house in order, in Gaza, in Judea and Samaria.

As Golda Meir said: "If the Islamist lay down their arms there will be peace; if Israel lays down its arms, it will be exterminated". 

What about Islamists living in the west? They want you dead. It’s true. They say it repeatedly and explicitly. They no longer bother hiding their aims. They feel the west, places like the U.K. and Europe, are already submissive enough. ("Islam" means  "Submission"). And they’re right. Sigh…

“China’s ethnic unity law can foster a shared sense of belonging” | SCMP

The idea is for all ethnic groups to come under the broader umbrella of Chinese civilisation and foster a stronger sense of national identity and unity. Forging a common Chinese identity is the key. While diversity is to be respected and protected, there is a need to transcend ethnic boundaries for advancement. This is achieved by overcoming preferential treatment among ethnic groups. Regardless of origins, they all form an integral part of the Chinese nation.

The above clip is from today's editorial in The South China Morning Post.

I'm just going to note this, which I think is a truism: the editors would NEVER, ever, say the same about America. Or Europe. Or the Anglosphere.

If ever America were to call for "all ethnic groups" to "come under the broader umbrella of American civilisation", and said we have to “transcend diversity ", the Post would surely call it "White Supremacy", racism, bigotry, xenophobia and excoriate those who had the temerity to do so. 

Hypocrisy, much? 

Point of pedantry: can an umbrella be "broader"? 

“Please, ma’am, could you broaden your brolly?”.

Israel fights the Brandolini principle

Hamas literally livestreamed a pogrom and still ended up with large parts of the world on their side. That isn’t an Israeli PR failure, it’s a failure of the West to be able to distinguish good from evil. 

This impairment will manifest in ways far more serious to them than this. 

Israel could have more quickly countered the bullshit but it’s hard to outrun the Brandolini principle. 

Aka: The bullshit asymmetry principle. “The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”

Aka: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”. 

About Israel: It’s easy to say “genocide”, “apartheid”, “settler colonialism”, “Gaza is the biggest open air prison in the world”. But it takes whole articles to debunk these lies about Israel.

“Trump’s dilemma: Win it or End it” | Michael Doran and Gadi Taub

 

Michael Doran and Gadi Taub, who I’ve posted a number of times before, knowledgeable analysis from a conservative perspective, discuss the issues. 

Because the Left and the Isolationist Right both asking “so, how long’s this going to take?” , on top of “the sky’s falling”, “America is losing”, “it’s a mess” and all the rest of it.

Gone are the days when everyone would get behind a war effort even if they disagreed with it. Or at least did not openly root for the failure of one’s own country. 

Or hope for failure because… Trump. 

Iran: fearsome enemy. Or paper tiger?

Before Operation Midnight Hammer (June 2025). Before the current Operation Epic Fury…

Leftists be like: 

• “You can’t attack Iran”
• “It’s too powerful”
• “You’ll be bringing our soldiers back in body bags”
• “There will be millions of deaths”
• “You will start World War III”

ADDED: War games in past 25 years apparently supported this pessimism, predicting a much more even fight, with massive casualties on both sides. 

Then: U.S. does Operation Midnight Hammer to bomb Iran’s secret nuclear facilities. Zero U.S. casualties. Then U.S. and Israel jointly do Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion. They immediately off the head of the snake. They Destroy the Iranian Army. They Sink the Iranian Navy. They Decimate the Iranian missile batteries. 

We are just over two weeks into this. 

And Leftists now be like:

• “Why is this dragging on so long?”.
• “You’re failing”
• “It’s the forever war”

i.e. A war that was supposed to be impossible to win, has gone on, with spectacular success, for 2 weeks and that’s too long?

So let me get this straight.

The war with Iran (the regime, not the people) has been going on for two weeks now. Just two weeks.

In that time, the regime leadership has been completely decimated.

Missile production has been destroyed. 

Missiles fired from the regime have dwindled—declining daily. Their navy, obliterated.

Their infrastructure of oppression is being bombed to hell. 

The forces on the ground now run away when they hear the sound of drones.

This high pressure chipping away of a militarily sophisticated enemy is unprecedented in its speed, scope and precision. It’s almost unbelievable.

But randos online, political commentators (and even leaders who should know better!) brainlessly say things like:

“They’re losing”. “They don’t have a plan”. “America is now stuck in a war it can’t escape”. “This is Israel’s war”. “This is illegal”. “This is a forever war”.

It’s genuinely one of the most retarded moments I’ve ever lived through. 

It’s like people have either shut off their brains, or they’re acting maliciously. 

I’m still figuring out which it is.Before our very eyes, we’re seeing one of the most consequential moments of modern history. 

We’re witnessing the exorcism of a demonic Islamic regime that has brutalised the Iranians and destabilised the Middle East for years!

An enemy that believes the world needs to be in chaos for their Mahdi to appear.

Lunatics that want to see the world subdued.

A world without this threat is a better world for everyone.

America and Israel will pull this off, and reap all the rewards. 

While the brainless European leaders—who did nothing—will become even more irrelevant on the world stage.

By the way, to answer the question in the headline. Even assuming a military victory, Iran remains a dangerous threat for the Islamic poison it has pumped into the veins of the west. That will be much harder to repel, as we’re seeing in Europe and the U.K. 

"What Most People Get Wrong About Iran" | Elica Le Bon

 Elica Le Bon, is an Iranian activist, lawyer and journalist. She speaks so well and eloquently. Listen to her on the Iranian questions, talking to Dan Senor of the Call Me Back podcast:

• Why the Iranian people and the regime are fundamentally different 

• How the 1979 Islamic Revolution reshaped a 7,000-year-old civilization 

• Why the regime places Israel at the center of its ideology 

• How the regime exports its revolution across the Middle East 

• Why Western narratives often misunderstand the Iranian people

“Iranian women activists are so beautiful”

U.S. population supports the Iran war | Rasmussen Reports

McLaughlin Poll: "The United States military actions against Iran and the  leadership of the Iranian regime were necessary and warranted to protect  American lives today and in the future."

A clear majority — 57% of likely voters — agreed, while only 33% disagreed.

Support was particularly strong among voters planning to support  Republican candidates for Congress, where agreement reached 87%,  compared with just 7% who disagreed.

Even among voters still undecided about their congressional vote, the statement won majority support at 51% to 29%.

The results also show meaningful support among several key demographic groups.

Among independent voters, 46% agreed the action was necessary, compared with 40% who disagreed.

Among Hispanic voters, agreement was 56% to 33%, and among women, the margin was 47% to 38% in favor."

Rasmussen Reports

I’m inclined to summarise this as strong support. Especially a whole three weeks into the war. 

USA > CRINK

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People on the Left hate this. Islamists hate this. The Red-Green alliance hates this. They all Hate America standing up for the West. America being dominant. 

Look at the board. Russia’s economy is being eaten alive from the inside. China just posted the lowest growth target in its modern history and admitted, for the first time ever, that deflation has been devouring their economy for three straight years. Iran’s supreme leader is dead, and their Navy is scattered across the ocean floor. Venezuela’s dictator is sitting in a jail cell in lower Manhattan. Cuba can’t fuel an airplane. And the great CRINK alliance… China, Russia, Iran, North Korea… the coalition that every think tank in Washington warned us was going to end American dominance? It fell apart the first time any of them actually needed help. Every single time. Not once did one of these countries come to the rescue of another. Not once.

And where is America? Military deployed across multiple theaters with a speed and precision that stunned the entire world. The economy absorbing global shocks that would flatten any other nation on earth. The dollar still the reserve currency of the planet. NATO still intact. And a president who demonstrated in a matter of hours in Caracas what Russia has failed to accomplish in four years in Ukraine. A matter of hours. 

The United States of America is operating from a position of strength that would have seemed impossible five years ago. Every major adversary is weaker. Every supposed counter-alliance is fractured. Every bet against America has lost. And there is not a thing… not a single thing… that any country on this earth can do to stop it.

This, this, is the Rules Based Order. 

And you know who China welcomed today? The Dictator of Turkmenistan. The only country that makes North Korea look normal! The alliance of scoundrels and misfits.

No, Israel does not take anywhere near the majority of US Foreign Aid

 

Aussie Erin Molin talks to Gen Z'er that I've recently noted, Shabbos Kestenbaum.

Jewish influence on America: One of the many lies that people tell about Israel. Sometimes not knowing. All too often -- with the likes of Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly -- knowing, but lying. (How do I know this? Because in each case I've seen them lie, outright and egregiously, face to camera. When the issue is one that they had to know the truth. They're professionals. And now they're professional liers. Two people I used  to follow). 

In terms of lobbying dollars spent in the US, Israel is not even in the Top Ten. China, Saudi, Japan, Qatar, even Bermuda and the Bahamas ffs, all spend more than Israel. 

And then there's US foreign aid. Many nations get more aid than Israel. Just as many more spend way more on lobbying in the United States than does Israel. Again, Israel is not in the Top Ten. And has made clear that it's going to reduce its receipts to zero within five years. 

But, it's, you know... "yada, yada, yada... it's Israel wot done it!" Or " this, this, this..... it's the Jews wot done it". 

Many other lies about Israel. 

Xena on China Sea Race 16 April 2014

The biggest threat to Israel: terrorists in the “West Bank” | The Israel Guys

 

These days, Atheist Zionist that I am, I prefer to call the “West Bank” by its historical name, aka its Biblical name, “Judea and Samaria”.

Where, we see the Israel Guys, on the ground, describe the real and present danger of terrorism from some 2 million Arabs living there. 

To the international Left, these are not terrorists, but “freedom fighters”. They can only be so of you believe Israel has no right to exist on its own, never-abandoned, indigenous land. 

But I do accept Israel’s historical, legal and occupational right to exist. So, to me, as to the Israel Guys, they remain terrorists. Whose simple aim is explicitly genocidal: to kill the Jews, to drive them out of the Middle East and to make it “Judenrein”, Jew-free. 

Note the high level of support for Hamas in the Palestinian areas of Judea and Samaria: up to 80%, according to polls in 2025. 

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Jimmy Carr Islamic Jokes

Can't do his Islamic jokes and here's why @jimmycarr 🥳

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This is pretty funny! Knowing, but funny!

"What are the Christians going to do? Forgive me??

This House belives that... Thoughts on Iraq, Iran, and the justification for war

This House believes that... 

... we believed that the 2003 Iraq war was wrong. We all believed that, in this house, unanimously, at the time. Ditto the war in Afghanistan. 

We remember Colin Powell making the case for attacking Iraq in the United Nations. We were unconvinced. Powell later admitted that he'd oversold the "evidence" and apologised. Gee, thanks Col.... 

I remember a simple case counter-terror czar Richard Clarke made against the the 2003 Iraq war: 

"Attacking Iraq after 911 is like attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbour". 

We, in this House, agreed with Clarke, and we were right. It did turn out to be a mistake. (Though the attack and military operations were successful, the Occupation was not so). 

Now we have the war in Iran, Operation Epic Fury. 

On this one, this House is divided. I support it. Others don't. 

I support it because I believe the dangers Iran poses. I believe Iran poses serious, clear and present existential dangers to us all in the west. 

Iran, its Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its Supreme Leader, all repeat the same thing. They chant it before every parliamentary meeting: "Death to Israel, Death to America, Death to the West". 

They mean it!

They have been working to achieve that. They fund powerful proxies in the region, as a "Circle of Fire" around the "Little Satan" of Israel: Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. 

They spend more on digging vast tunnels than they spend on health care. They spend more on drones that on schools. They spend more on Hamas than on Hospitals. 

The attack America and the West, over and over. Here's a list. 

Their aim is for a world of one religion only: Islam. Their Shia version. 

They have been working hard to get an arsenal of nuclear bombs. 

This was clear even during the time of Obama's "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action". After the signing of the JCPOA, United Nations weapons inspectors reported that Iran had repeatedly breached the deal. 

Meantime the JCPOA did not even cover the program of building Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Iran were free to build as many of those as they wished. Some deal!

These are missiles they will aim at Europe first. The Supreme Leader and the IRGC have said the "Black Flag of Islam" will fly over the St Peter's. How much of resistance would Rome offer if an ICBM were to land in the middle of the Vatican? Please let's not test this. 

The IGRC say their aim is to have an ICBM reach the United States. Building ICBMs was nowhere covered in the JCPOA. Go figure that one. Gee thanks, Barack....

I followed this issue over the years. Debates by experts, at the likes of Intelligence Squared, ended with wins for the side doubting the value of the JCPOA. 

No wonder. And good riddance to a bad deal. 

If Iran achieve the building of a nuclear weapon, their leadership repeatedly said they would use it on Israel. And then on Europe. And then on the United States.

Iran's madman theocrats are determined to vanquish the world in the name of their millenarian Shia Islam. That's a fact.  

I would have supported any military action against Iran by any president since 1979. I didn't care if it was Jimmy Carter, or George H.W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, or George W. Bush, or Barack Obama, or Donald Trump. Just so long as the threat was attacked and neutralised. 

None of them did. Until Trump. I salute his brave decision. Others hate him for it. 

Whether he succeeds or fails, at least the has the guts to take on Iran, the largest, the most serious, the most clear and present existential threat to the West. 

On the other side, we have those against this war. 

I grant that they may have genuine concerns about it. 

But what I'm seeing is that their opposition is more because they don't like Trump. 

Some have said it outright: "If the war ends and Trump and Bibi survive, we've lost the war". These people -- which is all the Mainstream Media and pretty much all the Democratic Party, apart from John Fetterman -- hate the war because they hate Trump. That's not a reason!

They are cheering for an American loss in the war, so that Trump loses. 

That, to me, is disgusting. You're free to oppose the war. But not just because you hate Trump. You're hoping for America to fail, because you loathe Trump??!

Make a better case. 

This House believes that whether your support or oppose Operation Epic Fury, you should have reasons. I mean decent, based, reasons. Not because you hate the Orange Man. 

I've set out my reasons, above. If you oppose the war, what are your reasons? 

ADDED: Then Florida Senator Marco Rubio (now Secretary of State) set out the reasons we have to be worried about Iran, back in 2015. Eleven years ago. It's worn well. 

Perfect, Marco! Link here. 

What’s going on in the Hormuz Strait? | Navy Decoded

 

This channel, Navy Decoded, is unabashedly patriotic, pro-America, pro-Navy, describing the positive side of Operation Epic Fury.

It’s a counter to the unashamedly unpatriotic, anti-war mainstream media. The CNNs, MSNBCs, ABCs. 

The MSM and Party Democrats may have good reasons to oppose this Iran war. But even if they think war against the Iran regime is a good idea, they’re against it. Because … it’s Trump's war. And anything Trump, they want the opposite. Including for America to lose a war. 

Early in the video above talks a of the difference between tanks in World War Two. The German Tiger Tank was superior to the American Bradley. But the Bradley was made on production lines. Result: many more Bradleys than Tigers. Bigger result: the Bradleys won. 

That’s the same issue we’re hearing so much about now in Iran. Cheap Iranian drones downed by multi million dollar American missiles. How long can that go on? Well, America solves this quandary by destroying the drone and fast-boat production facilities. As described in the vid above. And by reverse engineering the Iranian Shahed drone as the American made LUCAS drone.

In sum: this vid is a counterbalance to the anti-war mainstream media. A counter to the media’s clear-deep hope that America should lose. America should lose, because… well… because Trump.

It’s also a pretty interesting video! 

"Where's the Truth?": a case study from New York

 

It keeps coming up at our gatherings. "What's the truth?", and "where can you find it?".

My answer is always: you have to read around a subject. Read Left, Right and Middle. Imagine the Venn diagram of those three, and the middle bit is going to be the Truth or thereabouts. 

A simple way of saying this: In America, read the New York Times and the New York Post. Watch CNN and Fox. In the U.K. read the Guardian and the Telegraph. Watch BBC and GB News. In Australia read the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian. Watch the ABC and Sky News Australia. 

If you're really obsessed, get Ground News, a news aggregation site, for a collection of news from all perspectives. 

The latest "What's the Truth?"  brouhaha is about the recent bombing attacks at the NYC Mayor's Residence, Gracie Mansion. 

This is "The Truth", as far as an reasonable person would agree: 

1. There was a demonstration outside the mansion, to "Stop the Islamic takeover of New York". This demonstration was perfectly legal under the 1st Amendment free speech clauses of the United States. 

The reason for the anti-islamification theme is that the current mayor, Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim. And a pretty radical one at that. 

2. There was a counter protest against those protesting against Mayor Mamdani. This too was perfectly legal. 

3. Suddenly two teenagers threw Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, at the first group. The IEDs didn't go off. But if they had people on all sides would have been killed or wounded. 

The two teenagers have been arrested. They have admitted they are ISIS members. Which is why they bombed the anti-Islam protesters. 

That's the truth of what happened. The Important Truth. Not yet the Full Truth, but enough to know, that's the Important Truth. 

Now, here's the thing.

The reporting on CNN and also in the New York Times, made it seem like the bombing was from the anti-Islam protesters, in Group 1, and that they were targeting Mamdani. This is the opposite of the truth.

The reporting on this issue from the Right, from the likes of Fox and Sky News Australia, plus a myriad YouTube sites was far more on point, far more truthful, far more correct and far more honest than any of the reporting on the Left. 

That's the TRUTH, right there. 

If you only follow the likes of CNN, you don't know the correct story. If you only follow the likes of Fox, you know the story. At the very least: You're much closer to The Truth by watching the horrid, "far-right" Fox, than you are  from watching the supposed purveyor of truth, CNN. 

I've thought that I might look at the media over the period of Trump 45, from 2016 to 2020. I would guess that, objectively, if you were after getting at what the Truth is, you'd have been better off with Fox than CNN during that time. Not that I'm saying that right now, I'm just thinking that. And also thinking that, of course, it's always better to go for both. Watch both. Read on both sides. 

But the concept that -- if you had to choose one cable channel -- it might be Fox that is the better source of *FACTS*, would be total anathema to those on the Left. 

But it might be true nonetheless. 

The recent NYC terrorist bombing incident is just the most egregious of recent failures of the media on the Left to report the news. The TRUTH. 

ADDED: CNN’s Abby Phillip’s on-air apology.

Why the US Military Copied Its Enemy's Deadliest Drone

 Study China's Sun Zi: 

"The Soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe he's facing."

There's also a whole "Know your Enemy" vibe throughout Sun Zi.

And, from the Pentagon: "The other side actually had a good idea". In this case: the cheap, expendable Shahed drone. Which America turned into the even better LUCAS drone. 

By the way, this vid above came out two days before the beginning of Operation Epic Fury. 

There's now many vids on how the U.S. is kicking up its production of the cheap, dispensable "suicide" drones. Copying, then doing better than, the Iranian ones (the Shahed drone): the LUCAS!

Dog dominates Human

Byron (Canis lupus) vs Arlene (Homo sapiens)

Don't tell me "it's a dogs life" like it's a bad thing…. 

Byron occupying 97% of the rear seat. Dog dominates human. 

Byron, our Labradoodle, is luxuriating in four of his favourite things: 1. Being in the golf cart. 2. Being with Arlene. 3. Having his ear scritched. 4. Sun-bathing.

Why the Third Carrier Group is the one Iran fears most

We're all experts in everything now. 

So here's the one to learn to become an expert in Naval Strategy. 

UK Labour Party is hiding Islamic crimes

 

Rafe Haydel-Mankoo tells the story. It's a shameful one. 

There are now Islamic Blasphemy laws. In the home of democracy and free speech. 

The U. K. is gone. Sadly... 

"Do not say you were not warned". 

Muslims claim to be indigenous Australians

	Liza Rosen ⁦‪@LizaRosen0000‬⁩ Muslim influencer explains that just like Israel, Australia is about to be returned to its original native indigenous Muslim people who existed before humanity came to existence. pic.x.com/TBa7mhNOmn   12/3/2026, 5:10 am

My thought: 

Siena Park to Central Hong Kong

Hotel Auberge, North Plaza, Discovery Bay, at left
Central Hong Kong, in the middle far distance

And... what's with the Battle of Tours?

Following on from my pervious post about The Gates of Vienna, aka The Siege of Vienna.... and in addition to my 2009 post "Why the Battle of Tours"...  below, an update from Grokipedia. 

Which adds to my point: that there were two seminal moments in European history where the invasions of Islam were beaten back. First the Battle of Tours (7th C) and second the Siege of Vienna (17th C). 

Historians have seen the Battle of Tours as a "historical turning point".  As was the Siege of Vienna 1,000 years later. Which also shows just how persistent this ideology is. It's resilient and it's determined. And we face it today, in all its manifestations -- influencers, mosques, push for Sharia law, mass emigration to the west, in politics, in demographics and also in war: bullets, babies and ballots. 

Anyway, here's a bit from Grokipedia:

The Battle of Tours is viewed by many historians as a turning point that halted Muslim expansion northward from Spain into Western Europe after the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, helping preserve a predominantly Christian Europe. 

In his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–1789), Edward Gibbon depicted the Battle of Tours as a decisive check on Umayyad expansion, arguing that it rescued Western Europe from the "civil and religious yoke of the Koran," averting a scenario where Islamic doctrine might have supplanted Christianity across the continent, including in institutions like Oxford. 

Gibbon emphasized the battle's role in preserving classical heritage and Christian institutions amid the rapid Arab conquests, which had already overrun North Africa and Iberia by 732, viewing the Frankish victory under Charles Martel as the high-water mark of Islamic incursions into Gaul.[30]

Sir Edward Creasy, in Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (1851), similarly ranked Tours among history's turning points, asserting that Martel's triumph inflicted irrecoverable losses on the Umayyad forces—estimated at tens of thousands—and marked the northernmost extent of Muslim military reach in Europe, thereby safeguarding the region's Christian identity against further conquest.[47] 

Creasy drew on contemporary Islamic chronicles to highlight the invaders' intent to extend the caliphate's domain, contending that without this defeat, the Saracens' momentum from prior victories, such as the fall of Narbonne in 720, could have led to the subjugation of Francia and beyond.[48]

Nineteenth-century Western historiography, building on Gibbon and Creasy, framed Tours as pivotal for civilizational continuity, correlating the battle's outcome with Europe's subsequent feudal-Christian development rather than the dhimmi subordination observed in Umayyad-held territories like al-Andalus, where non-Muslims faced jizya taxation and restricted rights.[49] 

This perspective underscored the empirical halt in expansion—Umayyad raids persisted but never regained pre-732 scale—as causal to preserving indigenous governance and religious liberty, contrasting with patterns of conquest and conversion in eastern Mediterranean precedents. 

Conservative interpreters within this tradition highlighted Tours as a bulwark against systemic Islamization, attributing Europe's trajectory of relative autonomy and cultural preservation to Martel's defense rather than mere logistical contingencies.[1]

What’s with the “Gates of Vienna”?

Look up “Gates of Vienna” and you’ll find it’s the name of a longstanding blog (2004), which is anti the Islamisation of Europe. I’ve always thought of it as one of two most famous times that Europe fought back invasions of Ottoman (i.e.. Muslim) forces. The other most famous one being the original name of this blog, “The Battle of Tours”. 

/Snip: 

The site's name [Gates of Vienna] draws from the 1683 Siege of Vienna, where allied Christian forces repelled the Ottoman Empire's advance, symbolising for its contributors an analogous modern defense against jihadist expansionism and demographic shifts.[3]

An Occasional Reader claims there was no such battle since a Sichuanese peasant had assassinated one of the Mongol Khans, so no invasion of Mongol/Ottoman troops happened at the time. i.e. China saved Europe from Islamisation even if inadvertently. 

Two things: 

1. There actually was a *Siege of Vienna*. Which happened over three centuries after any of the Khans was killed in China:

The name "Gates of Vienna" derives from the Siege of Vienna, a major military engagement from July to September 1683 in which an Ottoman force of over 140,000 troops besieged the Habsburg capital, only to be repelled by a Holy League army of about 80,000, including a decisive Polish cavalry charge led by King John III Sobieski on September 12 that shattered the invaders and halted Ottoman advances into Central Europe.[12][13] This event, often regarded as a high-water mark of Ottoman power in Europe, symbolized the limits of Islamic expansion westward.[12]

2. There was no single documented Chinese assassin of a Khan. At least as far as the internet can find. There were indeed Khan deaths from fighting Chinese, but three centuries before the Siege of Vienna. 

Here is Google’s Gemini:

Based on historical records, 

there is no verified account of a single Chinese person assassinating a Mongol Khan, although several Khans died during campaigns in China or from illnesses contracted during them. 

However, historical records note several relevant, often mysterious, deaths:

• Möngke Khan (1259): He died during the Siege of Diaoyu Castle in Sichuan, China. While some accounts attribute his death to battle injuries or disease (dysentery/cholera), popular legends or alternate accounts sometimes cite assassination attempts during the fierce resistance by Song Chinese forces.
• Genghis Khan (1227): He died during a campaign against the Western Xia in China. While some legends suggest he was killed by a Tangut princess or by being shot with an arrow, most historians believe he died of illness or injuries from a fall during his final campaign.
• Assassination Attempt on Genghis Khan (Early career): Records indicate that during a battle, a warrior named Zurgadai (later given the name Jebe) shot an arrow that hit Genghis Khan's horse (or him, depending on the source) in the neck. Genghis Khan admired his honesty in admitting it and made him a high-ranking general. 

Context on the "Assassins":
While not Chinese, the Hashashin (Order of Assassins) from the Middle East interacted with the Mongols. Hulagu Khan, brother of Möngke, was tasked with destroying them, and later, the Mongols actually executed the Assassins' leader after he traveled to meet Möngke Khan. 

Conclusion:
While Chinese resistance was highly effective in killing or fatally injuring Mongke Khan in 1259 through siege warfare, a singular, documented "assassin" story is not supported by mainstream history.