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John McAfee, now dead, explains in his own foul-mouthed, coke-wired way the state of crypto currencies. He makes many valid points:
-The value of crypto is in its use.
-Volatility is not a tolerable quality for a currency.
-Ask a gangster if you want to know which one works best for you
-Bitcoin is a sham.
https://youtu.be/FnKrMKo_WlU?si=G4E3OCFJsldpXcgK
Only 8 minutes in and already its the best analysis of BC so far.
Happy Thanksgiving
The Real Story Behind Thanksgiving – William Federer
November 4, 2006
Just too depressing.
Tony Badran is one of the three best analysts of the Levant. He expresses himself better than the other two.
July 31, 2024. Substantive + grim:
The Ottoman American Empire
The Obama-Biden blueprint after Gaza
https://www.israpundit.org/tony-badran-discusses-the-disastrous-lebanon-deal/
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Grim.
Tony’s take on the “ceasefire” signed yesterday.
Grim.
NOW: Disastrous Lebanon Ceasefire Deal: Grim.
Podcast, I don’t know how to embed it. Here it is at Tablet:
GRIMhttps://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/rootless/rootless-lebanon-disastrous-lebanon-ceasefire-deal
Jonathan Spyer {snips}:
A ceasefire deal won’t finish off Hezbollah
With the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah, community leaders in Israel’s north have noted that while Hizbullah’s infrastructure along the border has been extensively damaged, the movement itself has not been destroyed. The proposed agreement also does not include a buffer zone.
However, two new elements are included in the ceasefire agreement. The first is a U.S.-led enforcement committee, which will oversee the process. The second is a letter from the U.S. to Israel endorsing Jerusalem’s right to take action against rocket and missile launches, and to interdict efforts to supply Hizbullah from Syria.
Are these elements likely to make a decisive difference? It can be said with near certainty that the Lebanese Army, heavily infiltrated by officers and soldiers with links to Hizbullah, and UNIFIL will not succeed in preventing Hizbullah’s re-establishment along the border. After the 2006 war, Hizbullah’s grip was firmly reimposed as soon as the fighting ended.
To be sure, Hizbullah is vastly more damaged now than after the 2006 war. Its entire top leadership cadre has been wiped out and the second rank has been decimated. The reconstruction process will begin from a substantially lower point than last time around. Yet, Lebanon is still host to an Iran-implanted deep state that is much stronger than the official bodies of state.
This means that residents of Israel’s north are indeed set once again to have Hizbullah as their neighbors, though the organization will be weakened and chastened, at least for a while. This means that a further round of fighting is a near inevitability. Hizbullah is the owner of Lebanon. Iran is the owner of Hizbullah.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-ceasefire-with-israel-alone-wont-finish-off-hezbollah/
Avi Issacharoff:
Hizbullah Was Badly Battered in This War
While Hizbullah spokesmen may claim victory, the reality is clear to most Lebanese citizens. Hizbullah suffered a devastating defeat in the recent conflict.
Israeli intelligence demonstrated its ability to locate Hizbullah operatives down to the level of company commanders and including those facilitating weapons smuggling from Iran through Syria.
This campaign will undoubtedly be studied in military academies as a model of how Israel, through a combination of deception, tactical ingenuity, precise intelligence, combat spirit and soldierly sacrifice, managed to bring the conflict to a decisive close once the decision was made to act.
Israel had allowed Hizbullah to grow unchecked over the past 17 years without decisive action to stop its military buildup.
After the ceasefire, Hizbullah will undoubtedly resume its reconstruction efforts. Will Israel act decisively to prevent Hizbullah’s next military buildup?
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skutxknx1x#autoplay
Hizbullah Claims Victory
The son of slain Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday shared a video from his destroyed home in Beirut’s Dahieh district, claiming victory over Israel. Other residents of the Hizbullah stronghold celebrated by chanting support for the Shiite group.
In southern Lebanon, returning villagers expressed joy to the Hizbullah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen network, claiming they had triumphed over Israel.
However, the Lebanese daily Nidaa al-Watan argued that Hizbullah’s losses overshadow any claims of success. “Many of Hizbullah’s leaders are no longer alive. Where is the victory without them?”
It called the destruction of southern border villages, tunnels and defenses a catastrophic blow, labeling this outcome the worst defeat Hizbullah has faced since its founding.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjlwznemyg#autoplay
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Son of Nasrallah Praises “Precious Victory”
Muhammad Mahdi Nasrallah, son of Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, said in a video at the site of his father’s destroyed home on Nov. 27:
“Praise be to Allah, who allowed us – the family of the master of the nation’s martyrs – to share [the experience] of…being displaced from our homes….
Are you pleased [with our sacrifices], oh Lord? Take more until You are pleased. We congratulate you on this precious victory.” (MEMRI-TV)
https://www.memri.org/tv/Muhammad-mahdi-nasrallah-son-hassan-hizbullah-ruin-home-victory
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You know it’s bad when happy talk comes out of the WSJ, NYSlimes, Barak Ravid at Axios (spokeshole for 0Biden like the Israeli leftist elite at the top of IDF, Shin Bet, Judiciary, media).
Don’t believe the happy talk. It’s utterly grim. My nephew is back in the hospital for another operation. He’ll be ok [B”H]. But we’ve already paid too much for Ottoman-America.
I hope the Caroline Glick video shows up.
As always, she gives us the facts of life.
No marinating in grief, we’ve got too much to do. So be of good cheer and soldier on.
(Richard: Here is a report from yesterday on the swatting of President Trumps picks for cabinet positions, it happened again last night along with bomb threats and FOX is reporting that Republican members of North Eastern State Legislatures are being swatted.)
Trump Cabinet nominees, appointees targeted with ‘violent, unAmerican threats’
The attacks included bomb threats and ‘swatting’
Brooke Singman By Brooke Singman Fox News
Published November 27, 2024 11:19am EST
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Incoming Trump ‘border czar’ vows to not be intimidated by threats: ‘I’m going to do this job’ Video
Incoming Trump ‘border czar’ vows to not be intimidated by threats: ‘I’m going to do this job’
Tom Homan opens up about facing threats after being chosen by President-elect Trump for his new administration on ‘The Story.’
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly a dozen of President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees and other appointees tapped for the incoming administration were targeted Tuesday night with “violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them,” prompting a “swift” law enforcement response, Fox News Digital has learned.
The “attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting,’” according to Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman and incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. One of the officials issued a statement describing his incident as having involved a “pipe bomb threat” with “a pro-Palestinian themed message.”
Sources told Fox News Digital that John Ratcliffe, the nominee to be CIA director; Pete Hegseth, the nominee for secretary of defense; and Rep. Elise Stefanik, the nominee for UN ambassador, were among those targeted. Brooke Rollins, who Trump has tapped to be secretary of agriculture, and Lee Zeldin, Trump’s nominee to be EPA administrator, separately revealed they were also targeted.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-cabinet-nominees-appointees-targeted-violent-unamerican-threats
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