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Good on Tamir Musedin for doing this. It's one of the things they do well in the United States: "Ask me anything" stalls at Unis.
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I set out my own list of major stuff that Elon has done. Elon is the Da Vinci of our age. Cern Basher above, on Herbert Ong's channel, gives an even longer list. And it's correct!
Democrats, the ones on the loopy left, have gone off Elon, after loving on him for his EVs and Solar City panels. Single-handedly saving the planet from the climate crisis!
They changed on Elon for one very simple, but stupid, reason. That he changed from being a Democrat to Republican voter. Because he noticed that the Democrats were going Open Borders, were going “Defund the Police”, were going anti-Woman, were going pro-Hamas, were going anti-science, were going extreme Woke. For that shift left, he changed his vote. Which many of us did, many of us, myself included, well before Elon made the change. For that they hate him. Despite all the good he's doing for humanity.
Listen to Cern Basher talk about what Elon is up to. I feel privileged to be living in the Era of Elon.
Cecilia,
From: "."@hkri.com
Date: 26 May 2025 at 16:40:52 HKT
To: jinglee@netvigator.com
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Ref: TS/E168/25
THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. [Here]
Because of the principles in this Declaration, Israel is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious state, with equal rights for all, including its 22% of Arab citizens.
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it. (Preamble)
The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." (Article 7)
Palestine is an Islamic land... Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Muslim wherever he may be. (Article 13)
The Zionist project is a racist, aggressive, colonial and expansionist project based on seizing the properties of others; it is hostile to the Palestinian people and to their aspiration for freedom, liberation, return and self-determination. The Israeli entity is the plaything of the Zionist project and its base of aggression. (2017, Article iv).
[And much much more, along similar lines]
Because of the principles in this Charter, Gaza is a uni-cultural, uni-ethnic, uni-religious, xenophobic, genocidal state with no rights for minorities, gays, women, jews.
Number of Jews in Gaza: 0. Number of Christians in Gaza: 0. Number of non-Arabs, non-Muslims in Gaza: 0.
The Hamas Charter makes clear in many places that it is explicitly genocidal. It urges killing all Jews in all of "Palestine" and then in all the world.
These things in mind, it's a bit of a "thing I don't get" why people are violently anti-Israel, and worshipfully pro-Hamas. And are proud to repeat, to chant, the doctrines and hatreds of this vile outfit.
Me... I love Israel, Jews and their cult of life. I hate Hamas and their cult of death.
Idolise Israel; Hate Hamas.
And not buying any moral equivalence. One of these is good. The other is bad. T'were ever thus and remains thus.
Albrego Garcia the MS-13 gang member they're trying to bring back to the US. And did in the end. A gang member. Wife beater. Human trafficker. But beloved of the Left, because a technical error was made in his deportation. Why spend so much time on this man?
Reminds me of:
Che Guevara. A mass murderer, but beloved of the left. Soooo handsome!
Mao Tse-tung. Responsible for 10st of millions of deaths in China. Worshipped at the Paris Commune uprisings in the 60s.
Stalin. Responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions. Gulags. Repression. But, oh, so handsome. A true revolutionary!
Lenin. Inspiration for Stalin, Mao, and other mass murderers. But a true hero of the Left.
Ho, ho, ho Chi Minh. He slaughtered the mixed blood babies of American soldiers and Viet women. But, you know, a nationalist. In the good sense!
Treyvon Martin and Michael Brown >> BLM
George Floyd >>>> BLM + and all the loonies beloved of the Left. Like the crook Patricia Cullors.
And now: Illegal aliens, aka, "undocumented migrants", aka "newcomers". All of whom getting more goodies, more attention, more money, more love, by the Left, than any ordinary American citizen gets.
"... irredentism"??
"Irredentism (Italian: irredentismo)[1] is one state's desire to annex the territory of another state. This desire can be motivated by ethnic reasons because the population of the territory is ethnically similar to or the same as the population of the parent state.[a]Historical reasons may also be responsible, i.e., that the territory previously formed part of the parent state..." [Here]
From the article sent to me by an Occasional Reader (OR) in the Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. should oppose the Putin doctrine as a challenge to de facto international law and in its actual use in Ukraine and any independent part of the former Soviet Union. Since the doctrine can embolden China’s expansionist claims in Russia, the Pacific Rim and potentially India, U.S. resistance can help preclude the destabilizing effects of Sino-Soviet and other Asian territorial disputes. Unfortunately, President Trump has leaned toward helping Mr. Putin by denying previously promised weapons for Ukraine and easing sanctions on some Russian firms and individuals. Russian forces are advancing on the battlefield, and Mr. Putin shows no sign of compromise.
Agree. Because if you allow Putin, you allow Xi, and if you allow those two reprobates, you allow the whole of Islam to say that Europe is a "waqf", that is, a place that was once under Islamic control, and therefore should be forced back to Islamic control. Places like Rome then become the target. Vienna. Spain. France.
Anything allowing irredentism is going to lead to chaos.
Thanks to the OR for the link to the WSJ Article.
Co-author of the article above: Dan Quayle ! At the time of his vice-presidency, a much mocked man. With this article, he shows wisdom.
I don't know.
But I'm pretty sure I know one area, two areas, that are going to roll out and make a big difference to our future. Both to do with Tesla.
Robotaxis and...
Optimus humanoid robots.
Let's imagine "Horizon City" a decade hence.
Horizon City, 2035
Steven Mark Ryan has my view of Elon Musk: a genius, a very special man, who can absolutely handle a wide range of companies and even a new Party, with ease. As he calls him: "MVP of the Earth".
I remain Long -- LOONNNNG -- TSLA.
https://youtu.be/HTA7M6bcAho?si=NgFVg1jHJNU8h8fW
A very useful 10 minutes, if you're plugged into this fascinating bit of current history. Trump v Musk. And Musk v the World. And Musk v even his fans. Hah! He'll come through. He'll win.
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Immovable Object meet Unstoppable Force!
Trump is wrong about Elon's concern being the cancellation of EV mandates. I've written about that a number of times on this blog, and it's covered again in the above vid by the Aussie TSLA Bull Steven Mark Ryan. Elon has all along said that all subsidies should go, including EV.
No. His concern is the size of the debt. As he has said all along. And as the lads from the All-in podcast talk about. And agree with.
And as the video above makes clear. Some very sound analysis. Very worth a watch.
Third Party is happening. The America Party. Whether that takes away votes from the GOP, or supports them by being a minor party in critical electoral areas, we wait to see. Musk has a history of taking on "impossible" things and making them happen.
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These are three of the usual five on the Ruthless podcast. One of the top conservative channels.
These guys are funny. And very patriotic…
Check out the faux "debate" about who can claim the Wright brothers, inventors of flight, at minute 12:00.
In answer to Xi Van Fleet’s post on 1 July “Don’t forget Hong Kong”:
I live in Hong Kong. Have done since 1976, permanently since 1990. Also lived and worked in Beijing, Shanghai…. AND I’m no fan of CCP.
But I’d say that Hong Kong has worked out better than many feared, even if worse than many hoped.
I feel free. I maintain a blog that’s often critical of CCP and of Xi Jinping, and of local government. We don’t have hate speech laws. The judiciary still follows common law system. The civil service is largely clean and uncorrupted. We have our own hard currency, free trade, free movement of capital. Compared to any other post-colonial place, and compared to many cities in the west (eg, thinking LA, SF, Birmingham, even Paris or London) we are fine, clean, safe and not all a police state.
I wish we hadn’t had the 2020 National Security Law, but I’d argue it was precipitated by the riots (yes, violent daily *riots*) of 2019, demanding “independence” for Hong Kong, a foolish thing to do.
The US should treat us Homgkongers as the different entity we are.
My earlier post.
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"[Aptheker]... argued for framing the Arab-Israeli conflict in terms of “imperialism and colonialism versus national liberation and social progress,” as well as through the lens of racial oppression."
In November 1967, the Indian chapter of the World Peace Council, a Soviet front organization, held the International Conference in Support of the Arab Peoples in New Delhi. Gathering in the capital of India were some 150 delegates representing 55 countries and 70 international organizations from across the Third World, the socialist bloc, and the West. India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Algeria’s Houari Boumedienne—the biggest political stars of the Non-Aligned Movement—sent their greetings, as did heads of Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Algeria, Kuwait, and Mongolia. Chairing the proceedings was Krishna Menon, a firebrand leftist Indian intellectual and former Indian defense minister the KGB had actively cultivated in the hopes that he would rise to be the head of state.
Some 1,200 delegates and visitors attended the opening plenary, at which Herbert Aptheker, a senior member of the American Communist Party (CPUSA) and influential scholar of Marxism, argued for framing the Arab-Israeli conflict in terms of “imperialism and colonialism versus national liberation and social progress,” as well as through the lens of racial oppression. Contrary to Israeli rulers’ claims, he declared, the greatest threat facing Israel came not from Arabs but from Israel’s own extremist right-wing government, which had turned Israel into the “handmaiden of imperialism and colonialist expansionism.” He equated Israel with Nazi Germany by referring to the recent Six-Day War as a blitzkrieg, a quintessentially Soviet propaganda term meant to evoke Hitler’s invasion of the USSR. Today, said Aptheker, it was Jews who were “acting out the roles of occupiers and tormentors” of the oppressed. He called on the audience to work tirelessly to unmask “the horror of the June war and its aftermath.” So closely did Aptheker’s speech follow the anti-Israel logic and idiom of Soviet propaganda that it may well have been written for him in Moscow.
Xi Van Fleet: "Chinese by birth; American by choice. Survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution. Defender of liberty.'
Here.
CNN! Usually reliably anti-Trump. Here, senior editor Michael Smerconish goes through Trump’s in a roll. In his own channel.
CNN!
https://youtu.be/thBswEC_fLk?si=Mx0wMSkNQugX4VyP
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Happy "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day". A Hong Kong holiday.
28 years ago that Hong Kong was handed over to the Chinese government, by the UK government.
In Chinese it's 回归, Hui Gui, which is much simpler and much more descriptive. It means "the return of Hong Kong to our beloved motherland".
28 years ago, last night, Jing and I sat in a Wanchai Bar, watching the proceedings. All the Chinese army waiting on the Shenzhen side, to cross over into Hong Kong on the stroke of midnight.
It was a very wet, rainy night. Prince Charles was here for the handover, and famously described the Chinese bureaucrats at the ceremony as "appalling old wax works". It would be good if he was as honest today about Islam in Britain as he was then about those appallling Chinese apparatchiks.
Jing was pregnant with John, who was born two weeks later.
The Chinese largely kept out of Hong Kong politics, until forced to do so by the riots of 2019. But even then, I think it's fair to say, they handled that with a light hand, given what they could have done and many people, including people here in Hong Kong, were calling for them to do.
One simple thing to note: unlike most post-colonial places, Beijing has not demanded the change of a single name of a single street or building in Hong Kong. It's still Victoria Harbour, Victoria Park, Queen Elizabeth street, Pottinger St, Des Voeux road, and so on. I'd guess there's been more renaming in Australia than here in Hong Kong.
"I always assume we’re losing even if it looks like we might win. Anti-DKE."
This post refers to an "Anti-DKE" mindset, likely alluding to countering the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a cognitive bias where people overestimate their competence in areas where they lack expertise. Several users on X, such as @aigov_agent, @Honesttruthman, and @Hitmans_Lounge, commented on this post, interpreting it as...
... a strategy of staying vigilant and avoiding overconfidence in competitive fields like AI and technology.
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Thoughts on the caring, the careful, the worrying, of the Right and of the Left, who say the "We should NEVER, never go to war with anyone", because, you know, Peace...
The pacifists, in other words.
People like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Steve Bannon, on the Right. And pretty much everyone on the Left.
But...
Pacifism is a joke. A weak-kneed cop-out. It’s waving a white flag while the world burns. Me, I’m cheering for the ones who fight back.
Look around. Tyrants don’t sip tea and talk peace. They crush skulls, bomb cities, and laugh at your “dialogue.” Pacifists think holding hands stops tanks. Tell that to the Jews in 1945, or the Tutsis in ’94. Evil doesn’t pause for your principles. It rolls right over them. History’s clear: sit back, and you’re next. Fight, and you might live.
I’m not saying war’s pretty. It’s blood, guts, and tears. But when a thug’s at your door, you don’t quote Gandhi. You grab a gun. Or a missile. Israel gets it. They don’t wait for Hamas or Iran’s mullahs to play nice—they strike. And I’m clapping. Like when they hit Iran’s nuke dreams. That’s not aggression; that’s survival. The sane world knows it. Even the Arabs—Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf—quietly root for Israel to gut the Shia snakes. They won’t say it loud, but they’re on board.
Pacifists? They’re living in a dream. They’ll preach “nonviolence” while hiding behind soldiers, cops, anyone willing to bleed for their safety. That’s not morality—it’s cowardice. Hypocrisy, too. You want peace? Great. So do I. But you don’t get it by begging. You get it by breaking the bad guys first. Look at 1979 Iran. The Left welcomed Khomeini, then got slaughtered for it. Pacifism didn’t save them. It never does.
Human nature’s not a yoga retreat. We’re built to protect what’s ours. Ignore that, and you’re lunch. The soldier, the parent, the nation that fights—they’re not the problem. They’re the solution. Pacifists can keep their high horse. I’ll take the tank, the jet, the fist that says, “Not today.” Because when the world’s on fire, you don’t meditate. You fight. And you win.
One minute it’s Trump calling in Operation Midnight Hammer, and peaceniks were saying that Trump had brought us to the cusp of WW Three.
Then it’s stopped, looking like 3-way peace, and the peaceniks started wondering how do they make peace look awful, and make it all Trump’s fault.
Like try to impeach him. A silly pursuit. Not least because Clinton, Obama and Biden all carried out similar operations, to not a squeak from the Dems. On the Dems side, it's only ever wrong if the Republicans do it.
Turning over now to Alan Dershowitz, 55-year Alumnus Law Professor at Harvard. Youngest tenured professor; hugely popular classes; expert in constitutional law. A life-time Democrat, but non-partisan about The Law.
He has a take on the Ceasefire. Ceasefire being a thing I don't like. Because of Gaza. Where whenever Israel was winning the Biden admin -- or its politburo, controlling Biden's Autopen -- would call a ceasefire. Which allowed Hamas to regroup.
And now we have the same in Iran. Where the Ceasefire may be best for Iran, allowing them to regroup.
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Keating was a master of the finely tuned insult. The above being just one of the more memorable.
That was then Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating, in 1992, describing then leader of the opposition, John Hewson. The full quote is:
“This little flower, this delicate little beauty, this cream puff, is supposed to be beyond personal criticism… He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
I thought of it when watching our current PM, Anthony Albanese, yesterday, trying to find something nice to say about the successful bombing campaign over Iran last weekend, by the United States. A decision taken by the president, Donald Trump.
But Albanese suffers such deep TDS that he came across as weak. As did his Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Both made comments about Operation Midnight Hammer, through gritted teeth. Such is their contempt for the man who took the tough decision to go ahead with it.
Pathetic, really. These two most senior reps of Australia. Unable to say something gracious about our most important ally. Which it is, without a doubt. No matter who the president. The allyship ought to be beyond their upsets at rude tweets, that so offend them.
Another Keating quote from a few years later is relevant, especially about Trump's decision to bomb the Iranian Nuke bunkers:
"Leadership is not about being nice. It's about being right and being strong."
Both Albanese and Wong deserve the Keating "shiver" taunt. Two shivers, looking for a spine to run up.
