Reader’s Links for January 23rd, 2024

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

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  2. I began this interview with Conrad Black with hope I would hear poetry. None came. There is barely a single opinion on any of the burning questions other conservatives currently struggle with, except that the CCP is not 10-feet tall. Maybe it is better to retire, and know it, than to retire and pretend you are still relevant. I don’t mean this to sound as harsh as it does, because he’s a brilliant man, but he didn’t force the conversation into our waters for good reason.

    https://youtu.be/Gjqdn7J8NFQ?si=NKNAxkELMci3hPQW

  4. An entertaining Clyde Do Something. Funny thing is Clyde doesn’t have to do anything more than bring Canada’s last week into focus to be entertaining.

  5. WASHINGTON, DC — A divided Supreme Court issued a stay allowing Biden administration agents to open Texas’s border barrier, blocking an appeals court ruling that favored Texas in the ongoing fight between the Biden administration’s open border policies and Texas’s attempts to secure the border, with two Republican-appointed justices joining the Democrats in a five-to-four vote on this temporary stay Monday as litigation continues in the lower court.

    https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/01/22/supreme-court-rules-5-4-to-allow-biden-admin-to-cut-texas-border-barrier/

      • The myth of ‘the Muslim world’
        The Israel-Hamas War has exposed the danger of Islamic identity politics.

        This week, the idea of ‘the Muslim world’ took one hell of a beating. The notion of an ummah has been left in tatters. The fantasy of a global people with shared interests and experiences – almost an Islamic class – is now surely kaput.

        For while woke activists in the West might still speak of Muslims as a bloc, if not a blob, elsewhere in the world Muslims are at war. Two of the most powerful Muslim-majority nations, Iran and Pakistan, got dangerously close to all-out conflict this week. Tell me: who should the ‘Muslim community’ in Britain or the US or Canada support in this violent border skirmish?

        [The] term, ‘Muslim voter’, conjures up an image of a samey, single-issue citizen, faithfully traipsing to the polling booth to register the uniform ‘animosity’ his kind feel. Things are more complicated…

        [The] West’s Muslim identitarians are not that different from other Western tribes. Many young Westerners now feel alienated from both nation and community, both flag and family, and prefer to piece together an identity from ideas and beliefs found online and in the other global networks of late-stage capitalism.

        Only where they wave the Pride flag and ditch their pronouns to signal their rejection of nation and tradition, the Muslim identitarian waves a Koran and denounces the Great Satan of imperialism…

        https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/20/the-myth-of-the-muslim-world/
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        Indicts globalism. Ok.
        But whatabout the Koran?

  7. It may be low-brow stuff, but given there is so much of it one cannot help but think the sentiment is wide spread:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHicndimHPU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvn78xt_WbY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05AzrKJmDk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YuubJG0Tos

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxYe9aqO4NQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67dbwq35Vkg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNpb31eTNL8

    https://youtube.com/shorts/x1udm6jZAXI?si=mOryfe2rCg9bYzG8

    https://youtube.com/shorts/Wh_weBl9sUo?si=xAqG4PwaQnJoaUXT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovb3P1CNKQ8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmwIlJBkdII

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gvpkY7A2g8

  8. 21 IDF Soldiers Killed as RPGs Cause Gaza Building Collapse

    The IDF said Tuesday that 21 soldiers were killed in Gaza as they were preparing explosives to demolish two buildings on Monday in central Gaza. A terrorist firing a rocket-propelled grenade triggered the explosives, causing the buildings to collapse on the soldiers inside.

    https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/01/23/deadly-gaza-incident-caused-by-building-collapsing-on-soldiers/
    ………..

    Heavy toll in Gaza explosion demands probe, lessons learned

    Analysis: Incident highlights, reinforces need to eliminate Hamas threat to launch attacks across the border described as an objective of the war

    The fatal incident on Monday highlights how necessary the IDF’s incursion into Gaza was and is. The explosion occurred just 600 meters from the border and Kibbutz Kissufim. Residents of the border communities in the Western Negev would not be able to return to their homes safely if the mission was not completed. One lesson that can already be learned is that when there are explosives prepared to detonate, all those not directly involved in the final stages must clear out of the danger zone.

    https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hy2bfwtta

  9. Hamas: We Reject the Two-State Solution (MEMRI)

    Khaled Mashal, the leader of Hamas abroad, told Kuwaiti podcaster Amar Taki in January 2024:

    “We have nothing to do with the two-state solution. We reject this notion, because it means you would get a promise for a [Palestinian] state, yet you are required to recognize the legitimacy of the other state, which is the Zionist entity. This is unacceptable.”

    “Especially following October 7, I believe that the dream and the hope for Palestine from the River to the Sea, and from the north to the south, has been renewed.”

    “The Palestinian consensus – or almost a consensus – is that we will not give up on our right to Palestine in its entirety, from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea, and from Rosh Hanikra to Eilat or the Gulf of Aqaba.”

    “I believe that October 7 has enhanced this conviction, has narrowed the disagreements, and has turned the idea of liberating Palestine from the River to the Sea into a realistic idea that has already begun….We are standing on its threshold.”
    [video, subtitles]

    https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leader-abroad-khaled-mashal-we-reject-two-state-solution-october-7-proved-liberating

      • No such delicacy of expression, but just as final. Inevitable, in fact. Aloha-snackbar.

        “Conference” is appropriation of the facade of Western decision-making. Hamas doesn’t confer to exchange views. They confer as if granting a portion of their infinite honor to subordinates.

        Qatar is the doorkeeper, a minion of the Strong Horse. It may look like they’re exercising power when they throw out some terrorist clan, but they’re just doing the job of the bouncer. Getting rid of the riff-raff, keeping things tidy.

        The Ottomans treated the Hashemites as janitors of the Holy Sites. Zero love in either direction.

        Egyptians see these jumped-up monarchies as barbarians, pirates, camel-drivers at best. It’s hard for Egyptian elites to keep up the show of respect the Gulfie$ think they’re owed. They still laugh about 0bama doing the bow-wow.

  10. EU’s Top Diplomat: Palestinian State May Need to Be Imposed on Israel from Outside

    EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell suggested on Friday that the creation of a Palestinian state might need to “be imposed from the outside,” without Israel’s agreement.

    While some international actors believe the recent violence only underlines the need for a peace deal, Israeli leaders argue the Oct. 7 attack highlighted the extreme danger of an autonomous Palestinian entity near its population centers.

    Amid soaring support for Hamas among Palestinians in the wake of the atrocities, there appears to be little appetite in the Israeli public for peace efforts.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-says-no-way-to-ensure-israels-long-term-security-without-a-palestinian-state/

    • ‘Denying Palestinians statehood is unacceptable,’ Guterres says

      “Israel’s military operations have spread mass destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented during my time as secretary-general,” Guterres said at the opening of a summit in Uganda

      https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-783047
      ……….

      Biden Admin, Qatar, Egypt Propose Hostage Deal Where Israel Loses War

      The U.S., Qatar, and Egypt have reportedly proposed a deal in which Hamas would free the remaining 136 Israeli hostages (or their bodies) in exchange for Israel withdrawing from Gaza and ending the war without destroying the terrorist organization….

      Though Israelis broadly agree that Hamas should be destroyed, and that a Palestinian state would be a disaster (a reversal from the view a decade ago), some dissenting voices are echoing Biden administration claims that Hamas cannot be totally defeated.

      Netanyahu has dismissed such claims, arguing that Israel not only has the ability to defeat Hamas, but that it is doing so, and that it has no choice but to continue the war until Hamas is defeated, because otherwise Israel will not be able to restore its security.

      The fact that the U.S. plan is also backed by Qatar and Egypt will not sway many Israelis. Qatar is resented for hosting the Hamas leadership in luxurious exile, and Egypt is increasingly suspected of having helped Hamas smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip.

      https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/01/21/biden-admin-qatar-egypt-propose-hostage-deal-where-israel-loses-war/

  11. Palestinians Deny Hamas’ Oct. 7 Atrocities

    • Palestinian diplomat Abdullah Abu Shawesh claimed to Al Jazeera in January that no Israeli civilians were killed in the Oct. 7 onslaught on communities near Gaza, and that accounts of rape and other atrocities “were lies,” dismissing the overwhelming evidence. On the Palestinian street, these views reflect mainstream beliefs, with polling showing high levels of denial.

    • According to a Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research survey last month, over 90% of Palestinians believe that “Hamas did not commit the atrocities seen in the videos” on Oct. 7. That number is 97% among West Bank residents, compared to 83% of Gazans.

    • PCPSR director Khalil Shikaki said this is due to the lack of coverage in Palestinian and Arab media. 85% of Palestinians said they had not seen video of the acts.

    • Al Jazeera, [the main news outlet for half of the population], “was more focused on the glorification… videos … described as outbreaks of “spontaneous” and “overwhelming joy…

    Many Palestinians believe [the] large-scale destruction could not have been produced by a small armed group [of Hamas fighters], but rather must have been the work of Israeli tanks or helicopters…”

    • Michael Milshtein, head of the Forum for Palestinian Studies at the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, said, “Palestinians live in a state of perpetual victimhood; they always find a justification for whatever they do. They cannot accept the elevated levels of violence that exist in their midst, nor the fact that they are capable of perpetrating war crimes.”

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-most-palestinians-october-7s-savagery-is-literally-unbelievable-blame-the-tv-news/

    • Marc Zell @GOPIsrael

      The U.S. Biden Administration is playing a very dangerous game. They are attempting to bring down the Netanyahu government by saying that the war is unwinnable and that the hostages have to be brought home now.

      They are seriously misreading the Israeli public. The upshot of the Biden/Obama gambit may well be to fragment the center left parties and strengthen the center-right coalition. I hope this is true. Time will tell.

      Meanwhile the political machinations of the U.S. and the Israeli left are bolstering Iran and its proxies and increasing instability in the Middle East. I shudder to think how this could play out. The U.S. and the world need strong and competent leadership now.

      https://twitter.com/GOPIsrael/status/1749139812496371874

    • Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas

      The Hamas jihadi death cult released a 16-page report justifying the October 7 massacre. The document, published in both English and Arabic, said that any evidence of their murderous rampage was “complete lies and fabrication.”

      The murderous psychopaths then wrote: “Avoiding harm to civilians, especially children, women and elderly people is a religious and moral commitment by all the Al-Qassam Brigades’ fighters”

      https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1749459094212059485

  12. David Milstein @davidamilstein
    https://twitter.com/davidamilstein/status/1749505733001974239

    So – the Biden Admin will give a visa / permit Iran’s FM / IRGC member into the U.S. after Iran orchestrated the heinous Hamas attack on Oct. 7 and continues to direct and facilitate the attacks on the U.S., Israel and commercial ships – but if you are an Israeli who lives in Judea and Samaria that the Biden Admin wrongly views as being an obstacle to peace –

    “…the State Department is implementing a new visa restriction policy targeting individuals believed to have been involved in undermining peace, security, or stability in the West Bank…”

    https://www.state.gov/announcement-of-visa-restriction-policy-to-promote-peace-security-and-stability-in-the-west-bank/
    —-
    Those farrr-rrright Oath Keepers settlers… and guns…

  13. (Richard: This makes sense, everyone knows that Biden is not capable of doing anything and we also know Michelle is eagerly seeking to become the first woman President. If she is elected or the election is stolen to put her in the Oval Office she will attempt to carry us in to full communism and probably try to establish an Obama Dynasty to rule the US for many years. I say rule because they will be true absolute monarchs that will rule by dictate alone and will use force to keep everyone else weak and unable to object. The down side for the Dems is that after the openly stolen 2020 election I don’t see the American People accepting another stolen election, it takes a long time to get the US population so made that we will stand up and scream no more but once this happens we will fight forever to achieve our goals.)

    Report: Michelle Obama’s Secret Plan to Replace Joe Biden for President Emerges
    by Cullen Linebarger Jan. 23, 2024 10:00 am2070 Comments

    The Gateway Pundit’s Kristinn Taylor shared an explosive story last week that Barack and Michelle Obama are angling to replace decrepit, unpopular Joe Biden with the younger and more popular Michelle as the Democrats’ presidential nominee. Michelle has reportedly already surveyed major Democrat donors about her potential candidacy and in 2022 allegedly told a gathering of CEOs in New York City she was running.

    Now, the New York Post’s Cindy Adams reveals that a secret plan has emerged to throw Old Joe under the bus. She claims it comes from “credible sources few have access to and usually not meant for the noses of the media.”

    Barack has reportedly polled donors and put together a plan for Michelle, which is still being tweaked, according to Adams.

    Per Adams, here is how the plot will work:

    Around May, Biden announces he’s not running (even mentally). The so-called plot is that come the August convention, ­Michelle gets nominated.

    Next step, Hunter’s father — the temp — drops out just before that convention.

    For now, he still play-acts like he’s a real candidate.

    One may wonder why Biden does not drop out now and let Michelle get a head start. Adams argues that he must pretend he’s running because “our dodo-in-chief would have to stop quacking and become a lame duck.”

    As the Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month, Michelle set off a firestorm with her comments regarding the potential of another Trump Presidency. This only fueled speculation that she was gearing up for a run to save the Democrats.

    Here is what she said to Jay Shetty on his podcast “On Purpose”:

    Things that keep me up because you, you don’t have control over them. And you wonder, where are people that, where are we in this? You know, where are our hearts? What’s gonna happen in this next election?

    I am terrified about what could possibly happen. Because our leaders matter. Who we select. Who speaks for us. Who holds that bully pulpit. It affects us in ways that I sometimes think people take for granted

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    Michelle Obama says she is kept awake at night due to the upcoming election: “I am terrified about what could happen”

    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1744430534753673549

    Make no mistake: A Michelle Obama campaign would set a new low for media bias in America. She would hailed as the conquering hero throughout and the only hope to “save” America from Donald Trump.

    This truism and her media sensationalized charisma make her the most dangerous candidate the Democrats could nominate. God help America if she were to succeed.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/report-michelle-obamas-secret-plan-replace-joe-biden/

    • Was she ever a cabinet-level appointee, governor, senator, or business owner? No one is giving handouts to become the Commander-in-Chief unless it’s just a plot for donor dollars and Federal matching funds.

  14. Chicago-Area City Councilman Issues Challenge to His Affluent Liberal Constituents: Sign Up to Open Your Homes to Illegal Aliens (VIDEO)
    by Cullen Linebarger Jan. 23, 2024 1:20 pm200 Comments

    Naperville, Illinois – A Chicago-area City Councilman is making waves after challenging his wealthy liberal constituents to put their money where their mouths are and open up their homes to house illegal migrants.

    As the Gateway Pundit has reported, the Biden regime’s border crisis, which they imposed upon Texas, has been spreading north. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been flying and busing illegals across the country to sanctuary cities, including Chicago.

    The situation has become so dire that socialist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has said the city is at a breaking point and is begging the Biden regime for help.

    Now, Naperville, an affluent city located 28 miles west of the Windy City, is feeling the pain of illegal migration. The residents there gave Biden 62% of the vote in the 2020 Presidential Election.

    But Naperville Councilman Josh McBroom has a creative plan to ensure city taxpayers will not pay to house the illegal invaders. The Chicago Tribune reported that McBroom, during a city council meeting on January 16, said he wants wealthy families complaining about the crisis to host the invaders in their homes and plans to create a signup sheet.

    “We do have a very affluent community, a lot of big homes, and what I’d like to do is direct staff to create a signup sheet for individuals that would be willing to house migrant families,” said McBroom.

    “I think we need to find out who would be willing to house migrant families,” he continued.

    End Wokeness
    @EndWokeness
    Naperville Councilman Josh McBroom wants a sign-up list for residents to host illegals in their homes:

    “We do have a very affluent community. We have a lot of big homes.”

    Naperville is a wealthy liberal suburb on the outskirts of Chicago. Biden won there by a 20% margin in 2020.

    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1749776182961213453

    The Chicago Tribune revealed McBroom’s proposal was supported by fellow councilmembers Nate Wilson, Paul Leong, and Jennifer Bruzan Taylor. The plan will now be vetted more carefully by staff before it is brought back to the council for discussion at a future meeting.

    Should McBroom’s proposal be adopted by the entire city council, seeing how many constituents take advantage of this opportunity will be interesting. History shows that left-leaning individuals are all talk, no action.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/chicago-area-city-councilman-issues-challenge-his-affluent/

  15. Defense Secretary Austin Claims No Credible Evidence of Misuse of U.S. Aid in Ukraine in First Appearance Post-Hospitalization Scandal, Despite Audit Showing $1 Billion Unaccounted For (VIDEO)
    by Jim H?ft Jan. 23, 2024 1:00 pm210 Comments

    In his first public appearance since the incapacitation scandal, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin addressed the contentious issue of American aid to Ukraine. Despite a recent audit revealing over $1 billion in U.S. military equipment unaccounted for, Austin firmly stated that there is “no credible evidence” of misuse or illicit diversion of this aid.

    It can be recalled that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, 70, secretly had prostate cancer surgery on December 22. He was placed under general anesthesia for the operation after being gravely ill with a spreading infection and intestinal issues requiring a tube to drain his stomach. Then, on January 1, he was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland following the complications from the surgery.

    The Pentagon said that Austin did not inform Joe Biden, the White House, or Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks about the medical procedure.

    Austin kept just about everyone in the dark about his condition until early January, including Joe Biden, even though the U.S. is involved in conflicts in the Middle East and Europe and a hot zone in the South China Sea.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/defense-secretary-austin-claims-no-credible-evidence-misuse/

  16. WAYNE ROOT: I Say Out Loud What Others Only Whisper: Is There Any Patriot in America Who Isn’t Thinking Supreme Court Justices are Being Bribed, or Blackmailed?
    by Assistant Editor Jan. 23, 2024 11:00 am697 Comments

    By Wayne Allyn Root

    C’mon. Admit It. You know you’re thinking the same thing. It’s so obvious. It’s just common sense. Anyone who isn’t at least wondering is a naïve fool.

    I grew up in an all-Italian mafia neighborhood in New York. I know when the fix is in. I know when someone has taken a bribe. I know when the mafia has got their “hooks” into someone.

    Something is wrong with our United States Supreme Court. Something smells to high heaven. Something is “hinkey.” Someone is being bribed, threatened, intimidated, or extorted.

    This just isn’t normal. It makes no sense. Conservatives have the edge. Not just 5-4…but a safe, overwhelming 6-3 edge. We should be winning every major Supreme Court case.

    And yet we keep losing with the most obvious, clear-cut, life-or-death-of-America cases. Cases that should be slam dunks. Cases where it’s so clear that no conservative, or patriot in all of America would vote against us. Cases where a vote against us is a vote for the intentional destruction of America.

    Yet yesterday our 6-3 edge at the Supreme Court became a 5-4 loss in the most obvious, simple, clear-cut case in history. Again. Just like Obamacare (twice). Just like allowing illegal aliens to count in the U.S. Census that determines who represents us in Congress.

    Yesterday, the Supremes voted 5-4 against Texas and A) in favor of the insane, radical, Marxist madmen of the Biden administration…B) in favor of open borders and against the Sovereignty of the United States of America…C) in favor of the intentional destruction of America…D) against States Rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution…and E) in favor of leaving the American people completely helpless to stop a mass invasion of our country.

    Who could possibly vote against the interests of America and a secure border? Who could possibly vote against Texas and ignore States Rights? Who could rule that a state and its legal American citizens have no right to defend against a mass invasion of criminals? Who could possibly vote that as millions of military-age males from Hamas, Hezbollah, MS-13 and our mortal enemy China pour into our border, a state cannot even put up razor wire to try to slow the invasion down?

    Two “conservatives” voted that way.

    Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Amy Barrett was one of the recent Trump appointments, recommended to President Trump by the fantastic, pro-Constitution, Federalist Society.

    How is this possible? There is not one conservative, or patriot in all of America who would have voted this way. So how do two supposedly “conservative” justices stab America in the back, and vote against States Rights, and for the destruction of America?

    I’ll say it out loud.

    It’s my opinion that we just found out who the bribed and/or blackmailed, rat-fink TRAITORS are. No normal, honest, pro-rule-of-law, pro-American judge on earth would vote this way. It’s not even possible. It’s unimaginable. It’s absurd. It’s insanity.

    It’s like two conservative judges just voted for national suicide.

    Think about it. These two “conservative justices” just voted for letting in all the world’s criminals to murder us…all the world’s armies to conquer us…all the world’s third world poverty and misery to bankrupt us…all the world’s disease…all the world’s pedophilia and child sex trafficking….all the world’s drugs….all the world’s fentanyl to keep killing over 100,000 of our American children annually.

    They voted to keep raising our national debt by an insane half a TRILLION DOLLARS per year to pay for the welfare, food stamps, housing, schooling and healthcare of these illegal invaders, until our economy collapses.

    They ruled that in response to this mass foreign invasion…we the people…and the states of the United States…have no say.

    This is the same Supreme Court…and the same two conservative justices…who believe Big Brother has the right to lockdown its own citizens, close their businesses, and restrict their civil rights…and use government mandates to force a deadly, untested, experimental vaccine that clearly violates the Nuremberg Code into our bodies…but we have no right to stop a foreign invasion from destroying our lives and our country.

    Does any of this make sense to you? That ANYONE could vote for this? Let alone two conservative justices? Something is very wrong.

    Our country is being sold down the river.

    It’s my opinion that these “conservative” Supreme Court justices are either bribed, or blackmailed by the Deep State, DC Swamp, foreign governments like China, or the Mexican Drug Cartels. Or all of the above.

    It’s my opinion that a vote like this could never happen unless a gun is to the head of these justices.

    Someone clearly has a video of these justices doing something terrible, or evil. Perhaps someone was taking trips to Jeffrey Epstein’s island. Perhaps someone is getting paid tens of millions of dollars in offshore bank accounts for keeping the human trafficking, sex trafficking and drug trafficking flowing at the open border.

    Or perhaps the Mexican Drug Cartel has shown these justices photos of their children at school, and at home, and threatens to kidnap and murder their children, if they don’t vote to keep the border open.

    I know this. Something is very wrong. No one votes this way. Unless they have a gun to their head. Or unless someone is dirty and has sold out their country.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/wayne-root-i-say-loud-what-others-only/

  17. What Does a B-1 Bomber Crash Tell Us About CCP Monitoring of US Military Bases?
    by John Mills Jan. 23, 2024 9:15 am189 Comments

    Credit: 18th Wing Public Affairs
    Commentary

    The crash of a B-1 bomber on approach to Ellsworth Air Force Base was the loss of a high-value airframe, but fortunately, the even more important crew survived.

    Originally, 100 B-1Bs were made during the Reagan years to supplement the aging B-52 force, which, at the time, still included D, E, F, G, and H models of the B-52. As part of arms control treaty protocols with the Soviet Union, the B-1s were “neutered” in the 1990s and rendered incapable of carrying nuclear ordnance.
    Today, there are less than 50 of these B-1Bs still flying. They’re considered a higher operating cost airframe than the remaining approximately 75 B-52H models. They can carry 24 long-range missiles on rotary launchers in their three bomb bays, four more than the 20 missiles that a B-52H can carry, which can only fit one rotary launcher internally, and the other 12 missiles have to be carried on massive underwing pylons.

    There are still several dozen B-1s in the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base that can be regenerated back into service if the Air Force so decides. The Air Force has reluctantly kept the B-1Bs, but its large magazine of missiles can provide a powerful deterrent in the Western Pacific. The B-1 bomber that crashed at Ellsworth Air Force Base is probably unsalvageable for service.

    How do we know it’s unsalvageable?

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/what-does-b-1-bomber-crash-tell-us/

  19. Caroline Glick: US pushes to reward Oct. 7th with a Palestinian State

    The US and the international community continue to push Israel to create a Palestinian state in Gaza when the war is over, but is this something that Palestinians and Israelis want? Is the idea of a moderate Palestinian Authority fiction in the mind of a hopeful West?

  20. on the interminable malice of Al Jazeera:
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/31/bullying-campaign-after-us-graduate-speech-criticises-israel

    compared to the bullying messages come from the “victim” (as alleged as documented elsewhere)
    “… I pray upon the death of the USA on a public platform but yolo [you only live once] i guess.” Fatima Mohammed, Twitter, May 9, 2021

    “So, I come to you all today with a very, very short message and that is: glory to the martyrs…Glory to each and every single person throwing the stones.” Fatima Mohammed, Youtube, Apr 20, 2022

    “Demand that Zionist professors are not welcomed on your campus! Demand that Zionist students are not in spaces where Palestinian students are, because Zionism is a threat! Zionism is a genocidal threat to us!” Fatima Mohammed, Youtube, Mar 30, 2022

    “terms like left-wing Israeli just make me laugh. Allah yl3nhm kuluhum ya rab [May Allah curse them all, oh God].” Fatima Mohammed, Twitter, May 8, 2021

    “?????? ???? ??? ?????? [Oh God, help the people of Palestine]… ????? ???? ????????? ?? ???? ???? [Oh God, grant victory to the Mujahideen (jihad fighters) for the sake of God]. ????? ???? ??? ???????? ???? ??? ??????? [Oh God, make the fire of Muslims burn on the enemies].” Fatima Mohammed, Youtube, Apr 20, 2022

    “…may every zionist like yourself face the wrath of your injustice. Allah yl3nak [May God curse you].” Fatima Mohammed, Twitter, May 10, 2021

    “quick make dua [pray] for the fall of Zionism and the destruction of Israel.” Fatima Mohammed, Instagram, May 2022

    Mohammed has been undeterred by widespread condemnation of her violence-inciting speech.

    Since October 7th, 2023, NYC and its citizens have dealt with destructions unlike any others. “Not-so-peaceful” protests have blocked highways, bridges and tunnels, they have disrupted the tree lighting at Rockefeller center, blocked travels at terminal 4 of JFK airport in Queens, and protested MLK Day. Mohammed has been at the center of these unlawful activities. Her organization “Within Our Lifetime” proudly took credit for $75 thousand dollars worth of damages to the New York Public library. There are many more planned protests scheduled including one on January 27th entitled “Flood Airports for Gaza Day”. These activities have wreaked havoc on New York City on a regular basis and have adversely impacted the freedoms of New York and American citizens.