Reader’s Links for October 17th, 2023

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47 Replies to “Reader’s Links for October 17th, 2023”

  1. Hasbara – a neutral term for propaganda – explanation(?)

    “Hamas hiya D’awash” Hamas is ISIS. They have kidnapped or murdered (can’t recall) 40 Israeli Arabs.
    Not sure if this is Israeli or from partners in the Abraham accord.
    https://dwv4ag7si3i3i.cloudfront.net/ARABIC/arabic.mp4

    I saw another Arabic-language video from a man in Saudi or Emirati clothing with a different meme: The Jews and Arabs come from Abraham and the Palestinians are from (he gave the list of places). Then he started in on the mosque as not being the holy mosque mentioned in the Quran. He was more than upset at Hamas. He praised the children of Israel for living in the land of Israel. It would be ironic if parts of the Arab world are more supportive of Israel than parts of Europe and Asia.

    There is also a Thai video here. Their nationals were murdered and kidnapped, as well. https://dwv4ag7si3i3i.cloudfront.net/mobile.html

    I saw an Israeli TV interview of the bereaved Irish-Israeli man who had told CNN that he was happy (relieved) that his 8-year old daughter would not have to suffer as a hostage. He recounted that the absence of air sirens along with the sound of bombs/shooting prompted him to realize that the kibbutz was under a ground attack. There was also another clip of a “daughter of the Shoah” consoling a family member who felt guilty that she had survived when others hadn’t.

    Let’s look forward to things calming down as people work together to build a better future for everyone without HAMAS.

    • Interesting that the emirati fellow was stating that Jews and Muslims come from Abraham but that Palestinians come from other countries, did he indicate that they were somehow less than or mongrels?
      As evidence of still having an open mind I am now agreeing with the founder of m e m r i, he was interviewed on Arabic TV and said the best thing that Israel could do at this time was to agree to a full hostage exchange and then deal with things after. Israeli defeat has already occurred and saving their own is the best plan.
      Israel doesn’t leave their folks behind and breaking that rule now would be an even bigger betrayal to the Israeli people then the IDF not defending its borders on s i m h a t t o r a h.

      https://www.memri.org/tv/memri-president-yigal-carmon-gaza-death-trap-israel-release-prisoners-exchange-captives-gaza-qatar-hamas-jazeera-terrorists

      Still am disappointed with the IDF dropping the ball, but this video of them addressing the situation on simhat – torah was very satisfying

      https://www.timesofisrael.com/?post_type=liveblog_entry&p=3124171#openwebComments

      As a student of history in the modern world learning and digesting is all we have, it’s odd how the hidden crazy of Jew hatred can show up out of nowhere from respected writers.
      Been subscribed to money circus for some time, unpaid so I’m not seeing all that he writes. Reasonable thoughtful political analysis had been the rule with an awareness of all of the nefarious schemes, this morning I read that Israel is responsible for genocide and ethnic cleansing and apartheid from the author that had been coherent and rational until then. It was the first place I wrote that this would be a 15 minute City eventually which makes sense, but it’s hard to take credible those who can spew slurs as if they were fact.

      summation/takedown of Israeli leftists.
      https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/pulse-of-israel-avi-abelow/the-left-are-never-right/2023/08/01/

      https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/crisis-update-gazas-fate-holds-a?publication_id=388485&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=heyzq

      • Alan, do you visit ElderOfZion?
        Links, qwiki summaries twice a day. News from and about Israel and the Diaspora. Military, political, cultural.

        The latest from the best journalists, such as: Lee Smith, Caroline Glick, Johnathan Spyer, Seth Frantzman, Dan Greenfield.

        Retired naval intelligence officer J.E.Dyer often “sentences” a casually antisemitic follower to a month of twice daily links. It’s often a painful 15 miniutes. Geopolitical enlightenment.

        The comments are extremely well-moderated. Sardonic Jewish humor leavens the mood. Links to new videos about weapons technology, ancient history, insanely funny pop culture news.

        https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com

        • Yucki
          Thanks for the recommendation, hadn’t read from there for years and like what I see so far
          The latest Carolyn glick video is gloomy, Biden blinken and the bozos interfering thwarting inserting themselves, withholding weaponry double dealing
          Just learned that m a l l e y was considered a godson to Arafat…
          Dire times

          • I had to stop Caroline’s video today, breathe deeply, then go back. Real bad.

            There are so many superb sources for Israel updates. Such as:
            http://www.tabletmag.comm/collections/hamas-israel

            The Telegram link was from Malca. I watch it too. Especially for anything Russia-Ukraine. Vocabulary not too demanding, easy to click auto-translate. A lotta fake news that’s fun to read if you don’t take it seriously.

        • Thought I replied to you earlier, it’s great I’m enjoying it much
          Was it you or malca who sent the telegram link, I’ve been enjoying telegram so far

  3. Yesterday my teenaged daughter showed me something on social media about Jewish homes being marked with stars of David in Germany. I told her I didn’t believe it, but cannot confirm it to be untrue.

    On the other hand, the MSM had enough dialectical power to convince people to harm themselves with experimental injections. They made the uninjected into the dirty Others with precisely the mechanism used on the Poles in WW2.

    Here, a Conservative MP points out the Canadian Broadcast Corporation using linguistic slight of hand when referring to terrorists. Under 2 min:

    • I remember an article from Germany about one house finding a star of David painted in it. The police are suppose to be hunting the person who painted it.

  4. Epoch Times

    NO MORE PRAYERS ON REMEMBRANCE DAY, Military Tells Chaplin Service

    Canadians about to attend Remembrance Day Services across the country could come across different proceedings than they’re used to as the military has told its chaplin services that religious prayer in official functions are now FORBIDDEN.

    “While the dimension of prayer may occupy a significant place for some of our members, we do not all pray in the same way; for some prayer does not play a role in their lives”, says the October 11 directive.

    Therefore it is essential for chaplins to adopt a sensitive and inclusive approach when publicly addressing military members,” says the directive signed by Chaplin General Brigadier General Guy Belislle.

    In practice, this means that a Chaplin, or padre as they are commonly known in the ranks, cannot recite THE BIBLE or ALLUDE TO GOD while participating in ceremonies and public functions, instead the “spiritual-reflection” must be inclusive in nature and respectful of the religious and spiritual diversity of Canada.

    The move is part of the cultural change process in the Liberal government which aims to put principles of diversity, equity and inclusion at the core of the organization.

    (I left the propaganda the National Defense Advisory Board spewed, simply because they make me sick — it is like reporting on vaccinating children that had a 0.004 chance of getting sick from Covid.)

    An anonymous, active military Chaplin said the new policy is a violation of a covenant Canadians have with the war dead. He says he thinks Canadians would not attend Remembrance Day Ceremony in which our dead are not honoured in prayer.

    “As a military Chaplin, I believe we have moral and spiritual obligations, we have a covenant with the dead. Most of those who fought in the Great Wars did so for God and Country, and deserve to be honoured in that way. This new policy is also self-imposed and was not needed, given the previous policy on public prayer was already “highly inclusive” and “robust”. The policy is destroying traditions in the name of “diversity, which is philosophically contradictory.”

    “None of this is surprising. They have to gradually remove God from the public square in order to push all these radical agendas we are now seeing. It is not about “remaining neutral” it’s about REPLACING traditional religion with the new state religion of progressivism.”

  6. Republicans Pounce After Kamala Harris Calls for “Assault Weapons” Ban of “Weapons of War” After Unarmed Israelis Massacred by Hamas
    By Kristinn Taylor Oct. 17, 2023 9:00 am164 Comments

    A little over a week after Hamas massacred over 1,400 unarmed Israeli civilians (also police and soldiers), Kamala Harris posted a call for an “assault weapons” ban, saying, “Weapons of war have no place on the streets of a civil society. We need an assault weapons ban. Congress, send it to @JoeBiden’s desk.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/republicans-pounce-after-kamala-harris-calls-assault-weapons/

  7. [machine translate]
    Kibbutzniks who drove Arabs from Gaza for treatment in hospitals in Israel saw those Gazans participating in the looting of the kibbutzim

    Avigdor Lieberman says on N12 that he was told by people from the kibbutzim.
    In addition, those Arabs from Gaza passed on information about the moshavs and kibbutzim.

    https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/817613.shtml

    • It’s just theft until everyone participates– then it’s looting.

      That is a function of one’s personal moral compass. It needs more context to sound evil — which I am sure it became.

  8. All Arab leaders (including Abbas) agree: They’d rather see Palestinians die than do anything to save them. (It is not a new policy.)

    [Jordanian King Abdullah II says: “There will be no refugees in Jordan and no refugees in Egypt.”]

    Why not, exactly?

    Jordan took in 1.3 million refugees from Syria. About half are in camps and the rest live in the cities. It wasn’t happy about the situation, but Abdullah certainly didn’t draw a “red line” against them.

    Egypt, similarly, has taken in – equally reluctantly – hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan, Syria, and elsewhere.

    But even though both those countries accepted Syrian refugees, they didn’t treat them all the same.

    Jordan turned away many Syrian refugees – if they were of Palestinian origin. It didn’t allow the ones who came earlier to live in the same refugee camps that they set up By policy, Palestinian Syrians were treated like garbage.

    Egypt gave rights to Syrian refugees – but not if they were considered Palestinian. Palestinians who arrived via air were immediately sent back to Syria.

    For decades, the Arab world pretended that they cared about Palestinians, but when it came to actual living Palestinians, they not only refused to help – they actively worked to deny them help.

    They always wanted Palestinians to be cannon fodder against Israel and nothing more.

    https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/10/all-arab-leaders-including-abbas-agree.html

    • Saw a picture earlier that showed the illegitimate Jordanian kinglet and the Egyptian sissi smiling with abbass standing behind them forlornly

      • Drunken Dwarf Illegitimate Kinglet. His heir apparent is marrying a princess from the most rarified litter of Saudi royalty.
        MbS figures Jordan is Greater Saudi.
        Farrr-rrright -wing Zionists see it as the one and only State of Palestine.

    • Emiratt guy said, They’re not Arabs and they don’t belong here. His view of the world is that Jews would agree with him. This makes Gaza sound like a ghetto awaiting liquidation and there must be thise who orefer Israel heads that effort up – It won’t. Israel’s rejection of genocide might frustrate some tribes there.

  9. 13 Far-Left Congressional Democrats Led by Black Lives Matter Activist Cori Bush Put Forth Sick Resolution Demanding Israel Stop Fighting Back Against Hamas Terrorists
    By Cullen Linebarger Oct. 17, 2023 11:20 am205 Comments
    TruthGettrGab

    A baker’s dozen radical leftists in Congress led by Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) put forth a sick resolution Monday demanding Israel cease its military response against the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas.

    Bush, an activist for the Marxist Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist, sponsored the resolution demanding Israel stop fighting back against the terrorists seeking to wipe it off the face of the Earth. As reported by KSDK, Bush previously demanded an end to all Israel military aid after Hamas launched their terror attack on October 7.

    Bush’s resolution has been co-sponsored by the following 12 Democrats: Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Jamaal Bowman and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Nydia Velázquez of New York, André Carson of Indiana, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Delia C. Ramirez, Jesús “Chuy” García and Jonathan Jackson of Illinois. A true Hall of Shame.

    The two-page resolution calls for the “immediate de-escalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine” while refusing to condemn Hamas for their barbaric war crimes. It goes on to claim that “hundreds of thousands of lives are at imminent risk if a cease-fire is not achieved and humanitarian aid is not delivered without delay.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/13-far-left-congressional-democrats-led-black-lives/

  11. Order on Trump and It’s Worse Than We Thought
    By Cristina Laila Oct. 17, 2023 1:00 pm671 Comments

    Judge Tanya Chutkan released the gag order on Trump and it is worse than we thought.

    Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday imposed a gag order on Trump in the middle of a presidential election.

    Last month Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion to gag Trump.

    “The need for the proposed order is further evidenced by a review of the defendant’s prejudicial statements in the weeks since the Government initially filed its motion on September 15,” Jack Smith’s prosecutors wrote in the court filing reviewed by this reporter.

    Judge Tanya Chutkan held a hearing on Monday morning on Jack Smith’s proposed gag order and used it as an opportunity to attack Trump.

    President Trump will be barred from speaking out against Special Counsel Jack Smith, court witnesses and more!

    Judge Chutkan laughed at Trump’s lawyers before telling them that Trump does not have unfettered First Amendment Rights.

    “Chutkan laughed after Trump’s lawyer John Lauro argued that the current conditions are working, saying she disagreed before she went through some of Trump’s statements one by one. Chutakn said Trump “doesn’t” have unfettered First Amendment rights, and that there’s “no question” that the court is entitled to draw restrictions to ensure the fair administration of justice.” NBC News reported.

    According to Chutkan’s gag order, Trump cannot criticize Special Counsel Jack Smith or any of his prosecutors – even if Trump is telling the truth!

    Trump cannot criticize Jack Smith or any of his prosecutors or staffers, any of the Court’s staff or supporting personnel or any ‘witnesses.’

    Jack Smith can leak and lie about Trump – and threaten witnesses – but Trump cannot defend himself otherwise he will be violating Chutkan’s unconstitutional gag order!

    “At its essence, this prohibition could punish Trump for telling the truth about the Special Counsel. No falsity required,” attorney Techno Fog reported.

    Judge Chutkan did not state the penalties for violating the gag order (jail or fines?).

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/judge-chutkan-releases-official-gag-order-trump-its/

  12. Gaetz: Hakeem Jeffries Not Really in Charge of Democrats, He’s Just the ‘Frontman’
    By Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal Oct. 17, 2023 2:30 pm68 Comments

    GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida argued Sunday that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is just a “frontman” for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

    The subject came up during an interview on Newsmax in the context of reports some House Republicans were looking to strike a deal with Democrats in order to elect a House speaker other than Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.

    Gaetz said he is surprised that backing Jordan is a difficult decision for some Republican lawmakers.

    The congressman explained the reason Kevin McCarthy is no longer speaker is because he had lost the trust of a group of members of the Republican conference due to not living up to the agreements he made in January to secure the position.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/gaetz-hakeem-jeffries-not-really-charge-democrats-just/

  13. Prosecutors to Refile Involuntary Manslaughter Charges Against Alec Baldwin in Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting
    By Cristina Laila Oct. 17, 2023 1:40 pm108 Comments

    Santa Fe prosecutors will likely refile involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin in the fatal ‘Rust’ shooting.

    In April, criminal charges against Alec Baldwin were dropped in New Mexico.

    Earlier this year, Alec Baldwin was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/prosecutors-refile-involuntary-manslaughter-charges-against-alec-baldwin/

  14. This is from Israel via a friend on telegram: ???? ????:

    ?????? ??????? ???????? ?? ???? ???? ??? ???? ?? ????? ???? ?????, ???? ?????? ??? ??????, ???? ?????? ??.
    ?? ?? ???? ????????, ????? ?????? ????? ??????, ????? ????? ????? ???? ????? ???? ???? ??????.

    An analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit.

    Intelligence from multiple sources we have in our hands indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.

    Benjamin Netanyahu:
    The whole world needs to know
    The barbarian terrorists in Gaza are the ones who attacked the hospital in Gaza, not the IDF. The one who brutally murdered our children, also murders his children.
    (translated from Hebrew)

    *I don’t know if this link includes the video*

    “Israel didn’t attacked the hospital , please share the truth ??”
    https://t.me/yairlevimusic/249

  15. EXCLUSIVE: NY AG Letitia James Failed To Disclose Six Figure, Dark Money Loan Possibly Tied To Anti-Trump Media Operatives
    An exclusive investigation has found that New York’s first black, female elected state Attorney General has a dark money problem

    Nobody is above the law, unless your name is Letitia James. It appears as though New York’s first black, female state Attorney General has a dark money problem.

    WATCH: NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES HAS WEAPONIZED HER OFFICE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP IN A POLITICALLY MOTIVATED “INVESTIGATION” AND INDICTMENT

    Despite living on a lifelong public servant’s salary, this radical New York City public advocate, who currently “serves” as the Attorney General in New York, still managed to purchase a four-story, brownstone in her native hometown of Brooklyn, New York in 2001, which is now worth several million dollars.

    Throughout the years, James has performed “hazardous” and unauthorized restoration to her now multi-million dollar residence.

    By 2011, the future weaponized Attorney General of New York, and enemy of mortgage servers, managed to negotiate substantial savings for her monthly mortgage obligations, with a Home Affordable Mortgage Modification Agreement. Letitia cried poverty and beat the system.

    See Letitia James’s Home Affordable Modification Agreement

    Letitia “Peekaboo” James’s French Connection

    In October 2017, as a candidate for Attorney General during President Trump’s first year in office, Letitia James combined and modified her additional mortgages into one loan for $625,000.00. However, atypical verbiage that is not considered ordinary was added to an affidavit with a note from Willard F Miller, an attorney for Wells Fargo Bank, which briefly described an additional loan that was previously issued for $770,000 on May 21, 2016, by Christopher J French and Kristen French.

    For reference, then candidate Donald Trump filed to run for President on June 16, 2015, nearly one year prior to the dark money loan being issued to Letitia James.

    This affidavit was then attached and recorded with her latest mortgage consolidation.

    SEE AFFIDAVIT HERE

    Upon investigation, there are no records of a Christopher J. French and Kristen French financial connection in the United States. Instead, it appears to be a possible and potential alias that was used on a legal document to possibly evade the detection of a dark money loan and its origins.

    How did this possible alias originate?

    Upon investigating financial and professional ties between James and people in New York with the surname French in the Democrat Party, my investigation led me to Christian French.

    Could Christopher J French possibly be Christian J. French, The Trump hating COO and heir to the Anti-Trump “Regional News Network (RNN)? WRNN-TV is a television station located in New Rochelle, New York. WRNN serves the New York City area. Christian J French also happens to be the brother of the leftist news talk show host Richard French of “Richard French Live”, and Christian is also a board member of numerous leftist organizations, that conduct business with both New York State and New York City.

    On his LinkedIn, Christian French is listed as the President of the Board of Directors for an organization called Hudson Link. On their website, Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison describes itself as a progressive organization that

    “provides college education, life skills, and reentry support to currently and formerly incarcerated people so they can make a positive impact on their own lives, their families, and communities, resulting in lower rates of recidivism and higher rates of employment, community regeneration, cohesiveness, and reciprocity.”

    While Christian J French has listed himself as the President of the Board of Directors, it is worth noting that one of the Board of Directors for Hudson Link is a woman named Annette Johnson, who just so happened to once serve as the Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where Letitia James is currently the Attorney General overseeing President Trump’s indictment in New York, which has been widely described as a personal political vendetta and witch hunt.

    Annette Johnson currently serves as Senior Vice President, Vice Dean and General Counsel at NYU Langone Medical Center and oversees all legal matters concerning the medical center including providing leadership to the Office of Audit and Compliance, the Institutional Review Board and the Office of Government Affairs, all of which report to her.

    Another Board Member listed on Hudson Links’ website is Mayo Bartlett. According to his bio,

    “Mayo Bartlett is the Principal Attorney at the Law Offices of Mayo Bartlett, PLLC and he was a partner at the law firm of Young & Bartlett, LLP, a litigation law firm which focused on Plaintiff’s Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, and Civil Rights matters. He worked for the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office for more than ten years, and served as a litigator in the Superior Court Trial Division prior to his appointment as the Chief of the Bias Crimes Unit. Mr. Bartlett has provided hate crime training for the law enforcement community and he works with community organizations and schools to ensure that hate crimes are properly identified, reported, and investigated. For nearly a decade, Mr. Bartlett regularly appeared on the television news forum “Richard French Live” on WRNN as a member of the legal panel, discussing current issues concerning the law and society.”

    Upon further investigation, on June 15, 2022, Mayo appeared on a legal panel with NY Attorney General Letitia James. Additionally, Mayo has his participation in a panel with Attorney General James prominently displayed on the front page of his law firm’s website.

    On the RNNTV website, under the “Management Team” section, Richard French’s bio highlights his ties to President Barrack Hussein Obama.

    “The Emmy Award-winning program is a forum that counts politicians, pundits and personalities as contributors ranging from President Obama to the biggest newsmakers from the national to regional level. A multiple Emmy and state broadcaster awardee, Richard came to broadcasting from the world of politics.”

    A review of Richard French’s YouTube channel for his show reveals that majority of his episodes are anti-Trump in nature, and his banner says “Can America Handle Another Trump Presidency”.

    The details for the $770,000 loan that AG James has been hiding and withholding from her financial disclosures are nonexistent in James’s 34 page 11/3/2017 mortgage agreement that was recorded with the Office of the Register within New York City’s Department of Finance. Additionally, James never mentioned the $770,000 loan from French in her financial disclosure form when she was running for office to become New York’s Attorney General. Her failure to disclose this loan on her financial disclosure forms is not only unethical, but it is highly illegal. This dark money loan fails to conform to the norms of typical and lawful loan agreements, which is likely why James has gone through great lengths to hide this loan, and the true identity of the funder of the loan.

    Something is rotten in the state of New York, and it’s not just the smell urine and marijuana that originates from the New York City subway system.

    On page 13 of Attorney General Letitia James’s 2022 financial disclosure statement, she only listed some of her financial liabilities, including the $625,000 Wells Fargo mortgage. However, since 2017, New York’s AG Letitia James hasn’t once disclosed the origins of the $770,000 loan from French.

    It is important to remember that Letitia James’s entire campaign for New York Attorney General in 2018 was based upon “Getting Trump”. She campaigned on the claim that Donald Trump was an illicit President, and she vowed to remove him from office if she were elected. Currently, as we head into the 2024 Presidential election, James and her office have committed election interference by weaponizing the office of New York Attorney General’s Office against President Trump, his family, and their business ventures. Ironically, James has targeted the Trump family over the valuation of their real estate holdings, all while she appears to be illegally concealing an illicit dark money loan from the public. Additionally, as she continues to work with other radical Democrats to fabricate impropriety against President Trump and his family, she herself is engaged in illegal financial misdeeds through the intentional obfuscation of her loan from two individuals with the last name French who suspiciously are not able to be located or properly and legally identified in her mortgage and campaign documents.

    This begs the question, why has Letitia James gone through such great lengths to hide the $770,000 loan that was recorded in 2017, as well as the origin of the loan? Who is James trying to protect, or who is trying to hide their true identity… and why?

    It is illegal to knowingly use a fake name or alias on a signed affidavit. There is no financial record linking a Christopher J French and a Kristen French to Letitia James. Could their names potentially be an alias for Christian J French, whose mothers’ name coincidentally happens to be Cristina French?

    And if Christopher J. French is indeed an alias for Christian J French, did Christian J. French buy off the New York Attorney General for $770,000.00?

    If this turns out to be the case, how much interest did French, and his anti-Trump, family owned, progressive, New York based TV network earn in our government?

    Perhaps it’s time for the New York State Inspector General to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James’s French Connection.

    https://lauraloomer.substack.com/p/exclusive-ny-ag-letitia-james-failed

  16. Iran’s Guards commander warns of another shockwave if Israel does not end “atrocities”
    Reuters
    Tue, October 17, 2023 at 5:38 AM CDT
    DUBAI (Reuters) – Israel will face another shockwave by the resistance front if its “atrocities” do not stop in Gaza, a deputy commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying by Iranian state media on Tuesday.

    “The resistance front’s shocks against the Zionist regimes (Israel) will continue until this ‘cancerous tumour’ is eradicated from the world map,” said Ali Fadavi.

    “Another shockwave is on the way, if Israel does not end atrocities in Gaza.”

    https://news.yahoo.com/irans-guards-commander-warns-another-103844298.html

    • He became a geologist and predict earthquakes? Iran and Afganistan have each had this oast week

    • This is part of the plan, the Marxist governments are working to destroy all Democracies in the world. Since they control the corporate media most of the world’s population will never hear the facts about what they are doing.

      • Even when shown the facts, they refuse to believe their lying eyes. Whip up an elaborate conspiracy theory to explain it away.

  20. Lebanon’s Hezbollah announces ‘day of unprecedented anger’ against Israel

    Al Arabiya English
    Published: 18 October ,2023: 12:48 AM GST
    Updated: 18 October ,2023: 02:09 AM GST
    Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement Tuesday called for a “day of rage” to condemn a strike on a Gaza Strip hospital as hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the French and US embassies in protest.

    Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian militant group Hamas, blamed the hospital attack on Israel, calling it a “massacre” and a “brutal crime”, while Israel’s army blamed a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad, another Gaza-based militant group

    https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/10/18/Lebanon-s-Hezbollah-announces-day-of-unprecedented-anger-against-Israel

  21. Rep. Mike Waltz demands Bill Gates ban Hamas from Qatar Four Seasons
    By Josh Christenson

    Published Oct. 17, 2023, 3:34 p.m. ET

    Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) is calling on billionaire Bill Gates to step in and ban Hamas terrorists from using any Four Seasons hotels, including one of the company’s properties in Qatar, noting that the Microsoft co-founder and former CEO has a controlling stake in the hotel chain through his investment firm.

    https://nypost.com/2023/10/17/rep-mike-waltz-calls-on-bill-gates-to-ban-hamas-from-using-four-seasons-in-qatar/

  22. BREAKING: Former GOP Candidate for MI Gov. and Father of 5 Is Sentenced to Prison Because Obama-Appointed Judge Didn’t Believe He Was “Truly Remorseful” Over His Non-Violent Jan 6 Misdemeanor Charge
    By Patty McMurray Oct. 17, 2023 5:15 pm0 Comments

    Conservative husband and father of 5 Ryan Kelley, who ran in the MI GOP primary for governor in 2022, has been sentenced to prison over a misdemeanor charge for protesting outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/breaking-former-gop-candidate-mi-gov-father-5/

  23. The Sad State of the Chinese People
    The communist regime cares only about power, not the people.
    October 17, 2023 by Mark Lewis 4 Comments

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    I recently received a social media message from a teacher recruiting agency in China wondering if I would be interested in going back there to teach. Such messages appear on my social media rather frequently—“here’s a teaching job, would you be interested?” I can’t help but feel sorry for those recruiters because of the country they live in. Explanation:

    As I have noted before, I spent about 10 years teaching in China. I obviously had some affinity for the place, or I wouldn’t have stayed as long as I did. The common people, the “slaves” I call them, are, by and large, very nice people who treated me well. I absolutely loved the students; they were kind, respectful, and enjoyable to be around. They aren’t any better or worse, academically, than the average American student. Like in America, some of them are intelligent, some of them are dumb, some study hard, some are lazy. Americans seem to think that “all Oriental students are intelligent and diligent.” There may be some truth to that in America, but in their home country, they are no different from students anywhere else in the world. The best ones usually end up in foreign countries, and that is what you see in America.

    A huge problem with Chinese academia is that education is so important that the students are pressured, mercilessly, by their parents to succeed. Thus, the major issue we dealt with, everywhere I went, was with students cheating on exams and lying through their teeth. They HAD to succeed, and in any way possible. So, at a very early age, young people in China learn to cheat and lie. That is an absolute tragedy, and it is something many keep with them for the rest of their lives. The last two employers I had were Chinese, middle-aged or above, and they lied to me and cheated me endlessly until I finally left the country. This is one reason why, in addition to the Chinese government being an amoral communist government, you can’t believe anything that comes out of their news agencies. They lie by custom and habit, and of course, China has cheated, lied to, and stolen from untold numbers of foreign businesses and other countries in order to get to their current world position. How long they can continue, being underpinned by that foundation, is an intriguing question and one that bears watching. Can a society built on lying, cheating, and stealing survive for long? I guess we’ll find out.

    But except for dealing with lying, cheating students—and an arbitrary government—I very much enjoyed my time in China. The government, as noted, is very arbitrary and cares less about its people than the Democratic Party does about Americans. Frankly, in the first two schools I worked for (in Dalian and Zhengzhou), I was doing a tremendous amount of good, helping many people, literally all over those cities. I met numerous students from other schools who wanted my help learning English. I wasn’t hurting anyone, I was genuinely helping the Chinese people. But, in both situations, for absolutely no legitimate reasons, the government refused to renew my visa, and I had to leave and try to get another visa in another location. The Chinese government couldn’t have cared less that I was helping their people; like every Leftist government—including the Democratic Party—they didn’t care at all about the well-being of their people. They only cared about power, about exercising control and dominance over others. “Get out, Lewis, we don’t care what you are doing or how many people you are helping. You will submit to us.” I put up with it until, as noted, my last two employers lied to me, stole from me, and cheated me out of China. But don’t think all people in China are like that; they are not, far from it. The “slaves” are decent folk.

    And that brings me back to the point I opened this essay with—being contacted by a teaching recruitment agency about a job. My first reaction was, “They obviously aren’t getting any direct contacts. They are hurting, so they are scrounging up old contacts to see if they can find teachers.” Not many people want to go to China anymore, and the government is now making the requirements so stringent that few can truly meet the qualifications. Their government is squeezing these agencies to death. Most of them are run by good people who are just trying to make a respectable living and feed their families. But their own government is hindering them from doing so. That is sad. I grieve for those people.

    My Canadian friend returned to China a few months ago, and he just sent me a message: “There are definitely less foreigners here now.” By all indications, that policy is deliberate. Xi Jinping fears Western influence, and China’s long history is certainly one of parochial racism. Now, the last two employers I worked for (the Chinese bosses) were just stupid—and greedy. If they had treated me well, I would have stayed with them. But stupidity—and greed—cost them my services and I left. China isn’t immune to such folly; I saw much of it there, largely because the people are all brainwashed and not allowed to think for themselves. That will indeed produce ineptitude, incompetence, and mind-numbed robots, and, trust me, they are all rampant in China.

    I suspect Xi Jinping doesn’t want foreigners in China—or as few as possible. His party has definitely established a system that limits their entry. It is horribly evil, but it’s also sad for the Chinese people, who can’t do one, single, solitary thing about it.

    I’m not going into China illegally. I may not be smart, but I’m not THAT stupid.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-sad-state-of-the-chinese-people/

  24. Indigenous Slavers: American Indians Who Whipped and Owned Blacks
    You won’t learn about Indigenous slaveholders from our textbooks.
    October 16, 2023 by Paul Kengor 17 Comments

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    As leftists look to cancel Christopher Columbus and today’s annual holiday commemorating him — that is, the man who discovered this land that is the United States of America — they’re also looking to replace the great explorer with a day of their own. That new day for these cultural revolutionaries, celebrated all the way up to the level of their president, one Joseph Robinette Biden, is something called Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

    How ironic this is.

    Among the sins that leftists try to peg on Columbus is slavery. And yet, many of their indigenous peoples, including the so-called “civilized” among them, in fact owned slaves. No, I’m not merely talking about their savage cruelty toward fellow tribes. I’m talking about their brute treatment of the black African slaves they owned, in some cases even after the Civil War. (READ MORE from Paul Kengor: Hamas Attacks Israel on the 50th Anniversary of the October 1973 War)

    Now there’s something that progressives will not be teaching the kiddies this Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

    I unfortunately know too much about this subject, having written a book on slavery. The ugly truth about slavery is that it isn’t America’s original sin; it’s humanity’s sin. Scholars trace slavery back 9,000-11,000 years ago. Pretty much every culture engaged in the practice. Open your Bible and read about Jews being enslaved constantly. Do a little more digging and read about Egyptian slavers, Mesopotamian slavers, Chinese slavers, the Incans, the ferocious Aztecs and Mayans hailed if not revered by the maniacs in our public schools, and, of course, the most militant slavers of them all: Muslims.

    But pick up your kid’s civics text and you’ll find a total whitewash on the subject of Native American slavers.

    For the record, many modern black Americans are not ignorant of that past. There are blacks today with literal lawsuits still against those Indian tribes. These black Americans probably wonder why university professors, liberal journalists, and Democrats have been silent on this racism against their people.

    My book includes a long chapter on these Indigenous slavers. I cannot do the subject adequate justice here, but I’ll share a few thoughts.

    Indigenous Slave Masters
    Native American tribes in the continental United States engaged in slavery before and after 1776, far into the 19th century, and even owned black African slaves as well as enslaving one another. Many of these tribes sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War in order to preserve slavery. (READ MORE:Why Can So Many Trace Their Ancestry to the Cherokees?)

    This is well known to historians who bother with the subject, though it would elicit a long, blank stare if not full meltdown from the typical product of our morally bankrupt universities. Our young people have been taught to place on a pedestal any and every Native American as living a pure and perfect life — until the cruel Columbus and fellow white Europeans marched along to subjugate them.

    Consider the example of the enslavement of blacks by the five so-called “Civilized Tribes” — i.e., the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians. Ryan P. Smith writes in Smithsonian Magazine:

    When you think of the Trail of Tears, you likely imagine a long procession of suffering Cherokee Indians forced westward by a villainous Andrew Jackson. Perhaps you envision unscrupulous white slaveholders…. What you probably don’t picture are Cherokee slaveholders, foremost among them Cherokee chief John Ross. What you probably don’t picture are the numerous African-American slaves, Cherokee-owned, who made the brutal march themselves, or else were shipped en masse to what is now Oklahoma aboard cramped boats by their wealthy Indian masters.

    Smith underscored these “uncomfortable complications in the narrative” that were brought to the forefront at an event held at the National Museum of the American Indian. Titled “Finding Common Ground,” the symposium was focused on “intersectional African-American and Native American history.” It was hosted by museum curator Paul Chaat Smith, himself a Comanche. “I used to like history,” remarked Chaat Smith wryly. “And sometimes, I still do. But not most of the time.”

    Slavery would continue among these Indians post-Civil War. Their black slaves remained their black slaves.

    The case of the enslavement of blacks by prominent members of the Civilized Tribes is one example of uncomfortable history that Chaat Smith does not like. It is not a “crowd-pleasing narrative.” He notes that people would prefer a narrative of “the enslaved black people and soon-to-be-exiled red people would join forces and defeat their oppressor.”

    They would indeed. American progressives eagerly embrace false narratives rather than truthful ones if it advances their anti-Western ideological cause.

    But here is the uncomfortable reality, as Ryan Smith notes: “The Five Civilized Tribes were deeply committed to slavery, established their own racialized black codes, immediately reestablished slavery when they arrived in Indian territory, rebuilt their nations with slave labor, crushed slave rebellions, and enthusiastically sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War.”

    They also owned blacks. How many? No one really knows, and you can be certain that college professors aren’t tripping over one another to get to archives. One source estimates:

    By 1824, it is estimated that the Cherokee owned 1,277 black slaves; the Choctaw and the Chickasaw held over 5,000 blacks in slavery by 1860. Some mixed-blood Indians, such as the Choctaw chief Greenwood Lefore and the Cherokee chief John Ross, owned between 100 and 400 enslaved blacks respectively [that was more than George Washington owned]. And when the southeastern Indians were forcefully marched west to present-day Oklahoma by the American government in the infamous “Trail of Tears” in the 1830s and 1840s, as many as 15,000 enslaved blacks were taken with them….

    The harsher treatment of blacks by the Five Civilized Tribes, including the Seminoles, possibly stemmed in part from the larger number of enslaved blacks held by Indians after the removal. The number of enslaved blacks among the Creeks increased from 502 to 1,532; among the Cherokees, the number grew from 1,592, to 2,511; among the Choctaw, from 512 to 2,349; and among the Chickasaw, the number climbed from several hundred to around 1,000. For the Seminole, the number increased from 500 to somewhat less than 1,000.

    “The truth is that the practice of slavery will forever cast a shadow on the great Cherokee Nation.”

    According to scholar Barbara Krauthamer, an expert who has published books on the subject, American Indians in the 1830s and 1840s brought their slaves with them westward when the federal government removed the Indian nations from the southern states. Krauthamer says that the Cherokee had the largest number of black slaves, with more than 1,500. At the time of the start of the Civil War, says Krauthamer, more than 8,000 blacks were enslaved in Indian Territory, comprising 14 percent of the total population. Moreover, she states, “Though many Indian leaders debated the implications of severing their ties to the Union, Choctaw and Chickasaw leaders almost universally cast their lot with the Confederacy.” (READ MORE: Happy Western Civ Day!)

    They stood with Jefferson Davis, not Abraham Lincoln. They wanted to keep their Negro slaves.

    Indigenous Racists and Torturers
    There was an indigenous racism at the basis of this indigenous slavery.

    As Krauthamer notes, racism was very much a part of these indigenous attitudes. The Indians saw blacks as inferior: “Choctaws and Chickasaws purchased slaves — men, women, and children — to work on their Mississippi farms and plantations and to serve in their homes. Slaveholders and those who did not own slaves embraced a racial ideology that affirmed black people’s inherent difference and inferiority and thus justified their enslavement.”

    Our creative liberals might prefer to imagine these indigenous peoples freeing black slaves from the wretched white man and smoking peace pipes and singing Kumbaya together. Not quite, dear wokester.

    The Indians’ treatment of slaves was horrific, whether black slaves or captive members of other tribes. They captured them and often tortured them, sometimes killing them outright before they could use them as slaves. “Like other Native peoples, such as the Cherokees, Choctaws and Chickasaws, they usually put?male captives to death after a period of ritualized torture,” states Krauthamer. “On one occasion in 1752, for example, Choctaws whipped a captive Chickasaw warrior for three days and planned on burning him to death on the fourth day, but he escaped.” In the same year, she adds, Chickasaws tortured two captive Choctaw warriors in what was described by a witness as “a most barbarous Manner, taking off their Scalps and cutting out their Bowels before they were dead.”

    Torture was common.

    Another scholar, Tony Seybert, notes that some Indians cut off one foot of their captives to keep them from running away. Slaves were desperate to flee, not only from ongoing cruel treatment but from being subject to ritualistic human sacrifice (as with the fiendish Aztecs). “Not surprisingly, some Indian slaveholders treated their enslaved blacks with abject cruelty,” writes Seybert. “The Cherokee mixed-blood James Vann, for example, is reported to have buried a slave alive as punishment for robbery…. [T]he death penalty was instituted for any slave convicted of raping a Cherokee woman.” (READ MORE:The Washington Commies)

    The mistreatment was common.

    As noted by Jason D. Hill, an African American professor of philosophy at DePaul University:

    The notion that they [American Indians] all constituted a peace-loving assemblage of tribes is naïve at best and a perniciously false attempt to camouflage history at worst. American Indians owned slaves, including African Americans, and they conquered several competing tribes long after Columbus arrived on the continent. They burned villages, kidnapped children, raped women, and scalped their enemies. They behaved like savages.

    This information has long been known, though restricted to circles who have bothered to accurately study this past. “The truth is that the practice of slavery will forever cast a shadow on the great Cherokee Nation,” wrote the late Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller.

    Well, it would if people knew about it. If it was taught. Fear not, Chief Wilma, our government-funded universities and top newspapers are focused on “1619.” Your people will get a pass.

    Among those few in the know are black Cherokee slave descendants known as the “freedmen.” The Cherokee Supreme Court has stripped some of them of their Cherokee citizenship and other basic rights, including the right to vote and to access all medical, educational, and housing services provided to tribal citizens, leading to protracted court trials (this actually received some coverage in the Washington Post and Time magazine).

    Such is not unique to the Cherokees. The Seminoles and other tribes have denied the black descendants of black slaves of Indians numerous rights, benefits, and citizenship, and in turn have been accused of outright discrimination, bigotry, and “systemic racism” by African Americans in the 21st century (click here and here for more).

    Where’s the Emancipation?
    This slavery of blacks by Native Americans persisted, often on huge plantations owned and run by Indians. One scholar notes: “In the Southeast, an elite class of Indians began to hold African Americans in transgenerational slavery and, by 1800, developed plantations that rivaled those of their white neighbors.”

    This slavery was so entrenched that it went beyond the Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation. Another scholar adds: “Even Emancipation and the end of the Civil War did not bring immediate relief to the enslaved living in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. Although the Choctaw and Chickasaw sided with the Confederacy during the conflict, the United States considered them to be separate political polities; therefore, the abolition of slavery as stated in the Thirteenth Amendment did not apply in Indian Territory.”

    Think about that.

    Slavery would continue among these Indians post-Civil War. Their black slaves remained their black slaves.

    * * *
    So much more could be said about this subject, not only in this article but, of course, above all, in our schools, from K-12 to the universities. But don’t hold your breath, pilgrim. On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, their targets are Columbus, the Mayflower, 1619, and really, Western civilization as a whole. (READ MORE: Columbus Day and Hispanic Day Are Triumphs for Western Civilization)

    To the leftists smearing America, this land was a Shining City Upon a Hill until Columbus and the pilgrims got here. All would have been well, downright utopian, if not for those European devils who brought their boats and diseases and whips and chains with them.

    Telling the truth about slave-owning Indigenous peoples does not serve the cultural revolution. That’s a story best left untold.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/indigenous-slavers-american-indians-who-whipped-and-owned-blacks/

    (Richard: Not all of the Cherokees sided with the South, due to internal tribal politics the slave owning Cherokees sided with the North and the non slaving Cherokees sided with the South.

    General John Jumper commanding the Cherokee unit was the last Confederate General to surrender.)

  26. — did he indicate that they were somehow less than or mongrels?

    paraphrasing:
    They are from Turkmen Roman [Gypsy?] Circassian

    They are not Arab, so don’t belong here

    My opinion:
    This is a dismissive way to speak about a people who view thenselves as homeless.

    The Jews of Egypt lost their citizenship, wealth, homes, and even the pensions that they had worked for. If Egypt is doing a half-way “population exchange,” maybe it needs to give something to Gazans in return.

  27. Mexican Sinaloa Cartel’s Message to Members: Stop Making Fentanyl or Die
    Crime group yields to intensifying U.S. law-enforcement pressure and is kidnapping or killing producers who defy its ban on trafficking the opioid

    YAEL MARTINEZ FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
    CULIACÁN, Mexico—The Sinaloa cartel, the leading exporter of fentanyl to the U.S., is prohibiting the production and trafficking of the illegal opioid in its territory after coming under increasing pressure from U.S. law enforcement, cartel members say.

    The order comes from the “Chapitos,” the group led by the four sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who transformed the Sinaloa cartel into a global empire managing the supply of narcotics, from Mexican heroin to Colombian cocaine and fentanyl made with precursors from Asia.

    WHAT’S NEWS

    The directive from the most powerful faction within the criminal group aims to evade pressure from U.S. law enforcement, operatives say, though some U.S. officials are skeptical that the ban will endure.

    https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexican-sinaloa-cartels-message-to-members-stop-making-fentanyl-or-die-b96d3e09