I have seen how Whites “repent” slavery  

Progressivism seems to be a contagious mental illness. Remember China’s Cultural Revolution only 50 years ago? It was just the same. Op-ed.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

Chinese Liberation Army soldiers before image of Supreme Leader Xi
Chinese Liberation Army soldiers before image of Supreme Leader Xi

In China the “cultural revolution” began with the destruction of the pianos, torn to pieces (often together with the pianists). Then the violins (and the hands of the violinists). The music of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and all the other dirty “bourgeois ideologists” was then forbidden.

Young people plundered the temples, knocked down the beautiful statues of Chinese antiquity and finished them off with a hammer.

Citizens suspected of “revisionism” brought out to the streets. It was no longer possible to go out into the streets of Beijing without meeting men and women with signs proclaiming “I am a landlord” on their chest.

Opera singers were sent to the countryside. The Forbidden Imperial City, the Temple of Heaven, was transformed into an encampment and a curtain of red paint was spread over many of its paintings. All churches were barred.

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June 26, 2020 | 10:18 am | 1 Comment »

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White House punts on Israel annexation; more talks planned  

T. Belman. I believe this is fake news. It is fear mongering.  If you ignore the so-called opposition and relegate it to impotent posturing, you are left with a lot of positive signs and reasoning that says all the ducks are lined up and Netanyahu is ready to shoot.

By MATTHEW LEE, AP

FILE – In this Feb. 20, 2020 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the area where a new neighborhood is to be built in the East Jerusalem settlement of Har Homa. A senior Emirati official warned Wednesday, June 17, 2020 that Israel’s planned annexation of parts of the West Bank could lead Arab states to call for a single binational state for Israelis and Palestinians. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top national security aides have been unable to reach a decision on whether to support an Israeli plan to annex significant parts of land the Palestinians claim for a future state, an impasse that could affect the timing of any action by Prime Minister Benjaimin Netanyahu.

The White House said Thursday that consultations with Israeli officials will continue as they try to formulate a proposal that would support Trump’s plan for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

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June 26, 2020 | 10:03 am | Comments »

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Black Lives Matter Leader: ‘If This Country Doesn’t Give Us What We Want, Then We Will Burn Down This System’ (VIDEO)  

By Cristina Laila, GATEWAY PUNDIT

Black Lives Matter greater New York Chair Hawk Newsome issued what many have interpreted as a terroristic threat during his appearance on Fox News Wednesday evening.

Mr. Newsome told Fox News host Martha MacCallum that if Black Lives Matter doesn’t get what they want, they will burn the system down.

“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.. I could be speaking figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation.” said Newsome.

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June 26, 2020 | 1:24 am | 3 Comments »

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Sowing the Sixties Winds, Reaping Today’s Whirlwind  

Today’s disorder reflects just how successful the leftist “long march through the institutions” has been.

By Bruce Thornton, FPM

From one perspective, the surreal absurdity of the current protests, vandalism, and riots is not even close to the disruption and mayhem of the political violence in the Sixties and Seventies. We have not yet seen the kidnappings, murders of judges, and scores of bombings that roiled that era. In 1967 alone there were 159 riots, and in the Seventies 14 people were killed and 600 wounded by politically motivated bombings.

But what’s going on today is more dangerous, for the ideologies driving the disorder reflect just how successful the leftist “long march through the institutions” has been at corrupting American education and culture over the last half a century. As a result, ideas and behaviors that by consensus were out of bounds then, have now been normalized and abetted by civic leaders and politicians, as well as popular culture, schools, and even sports.

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June 25, 2020 | 2:34 pm | 2 Comments »

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This is not the French Revolution  

It is the acting out of spoiled, ignorant and ungrateful thugs

By Patricia McCarthy, AMERICAN THINKER

As Americans watch some of our major cities ravaged by rioting, looting and the vandalization or destruction of monuments to our nation’s past with impunity, it is, for those of us of a certain age, a moment to reflect on the depredations of the French Revolution. But let us not be confused by the differences.

The French Revolution took its cues from our own Revolutionary War for independence from England but theirs went all wrong.  The devastatingly poor of Paris were well and truly abused by the Parisian aristocracy.  They were treated as less than human.

Of course, the British aristocracy thought the same of the American colonists, but they were by an ocean removed and the colonists were made of sterner stuff than the Brits sent to defeat them for England.
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June 25, 2020 | 2:22 pm | 3 Comments »

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It will be OK  

By Victor Rosenthal

Israelis are sometimes criticized for saying “yehiye b’seder” [it will be OK] without sufficiently considering the consequences. But there is such a thing as decision paralysis, when you can’t act because you never feel that you have enough information. Sometimes that’s worse than a less-than-perfect decision. I think the opponents of Israel’s application of civilian law to parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley are trying hard to induce decision paralysis.

Today (Wednesday) there is supposed to be a meeting in the White House at which Trump Administration officials reportedly will decide whether to green-light the move. Of course it will be a good thing if the US recognizes Israel’s action, especially if that means that it will issue an official statement that Jewish communities outside the Green Line are part of Israel.
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June 25, 2020 | 12:25 pm | 2 Comments »

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Is it America’s turn to have a revolution  

If revolutions could happen in Russia, China, Germany and Italy, in the last century, they can happen in the USA.

By Ted Belman

Since Trump’s inauguration, I have assumed that a second term is assured. What with all the walk away movements taking their toll and with Candace Owens almost singlehandedly moving the black vote in favour of Trump (i.e., from 8% to 40%). With his great accomplishments, which include record low unemployment numbers for minorities, record highs in the stock market, his prison reform and funding of black universities, etc., etc., I became complacent. Why shouldn’t I have, considering his opponent was Sleepy Joe.

No longer.  I have been looking at his chances through rose-colored glasses and haven’t learned anything from what I have been seeing during the last three months.

Recently the “idiot” AOC recently won her primary in a landslide. Although centrists spent a lot of money to dethrone her, their money and message was not sufficient to thwart the juggernaut that propelled her to victory.
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June 25, 2020 | 12:04 pm | 14 Comments »

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Biden leads Trump by 14 points in New York Times poll  

Democrat builds big lead with women, African Americans, Latinos, as voters sour on president over handling of coronavirus crisis, new survey finds

By AFP       Today, 4:08 am


US President Donald Trump arrives on stage to speak at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, Saturday, June 20, 2020, in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Joe Biden has a 14-point lead over US President Donald Trump ahead of the November election as some Republican-leaning voters reproach Trump for his response to the coronavirus crisis, a poll showed Wednesday.

In one of Trump’s worst poll showings for the 2020 race, the Democrat Biden garnered 50 percent of the vote compared with 36% for the president, according to a survey by the New York Times and Siena College.

Recent polls have found Biden 10 points ahead of the president on average.

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June 25, 2020 | 10:29 am | 11 Comments »

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Minnesota State Rep: Antifa and Muslim Groups Plan to ‘Police Minneapolis Under Muslim Rule’  

It would have sounded farfetched just weeks ago. It doesn’t anymore.

By Robert Spencer, FPM

As the city of Minneapolis moves to dismantle its police force, Minnesota state Rep. Steve Green on Tuesday stated the obvious that virtually everyone else has been tiptoeing around and pretending isn’t there: “What you’re looking at, in my humble opinion, is communism moving into Minneapolis and St. Paul.” And not just Communism, but the Leftist/Islamic alliance. Green asserted that Antifa and Muslim organizations plan to “police Minneapolis under Muslim rule.” Those who scoff at such a notion simply aren’t paying attention to recent developments.

The Minneapolis City Council voted two weeks ago to abolish the city’s police force. Its plans beyond that have so far been sketchy, but something is going to have to be put in place as an alternative to the police. The New York Times noted that “many have called for relying more on self-policing by the community, in the way attendees often do at events like music festivals, with the police stepping in only when a true emergency arises. Some cited as an example how, in the days after the killing of Mr. Floyd, teams made up of dozens of members of the American Indian Movement patrolled streets and directed traffic in the Little Earth housing community in Minneapolis.”

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June 25, 2020 | 3:51 am | 2 Comments »

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Future still murky for UN Palestinian refugee agency after donors pledge $130M  

T. Belman.  We are witnessing the end of UNRWA and the PA.  The US has cut $211 million in financing from UNRWA and the $130 million pledged doesn’t come close to covering the $400 million deficit expected this year. It will be gone by the end of the year.

Also the US has cut even more money from the PA budget. The PA too will be gone before the end of next year. The Europeans and the Gulf states are not interested in making up the shortfall.  Yes they posture against Trump’s Deal of the Century but have no interest in picking up the tab of doing anything about it.

I predict that King Abdullah will be gone by the end of this year. Jordan will be the new home for the Palestinians and will be considered the Palestinian State.

“We are still in the dark and we do not know if our operations will run until the end of the year,” says UNRWA Director-General Philippe Lazzarini.

By  AP and ILH Staff

New Zealand decides to suspend funding to UNRWA

UNRWA’s headquarters in the Gaza Strip | Photo: AP/Khalil Hamra

International donors pledged over $130 million Tuesday to the United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees, an amount the organization’s head says is encouraging but not enough to keep operations running through the end of the year.

The UN Relief and Works Agency has faced a financial crisis since the United States pulled all funding in 2018, leaving the organization with a massive budgetary shortfall.

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June 25, 2020 | 1:23 am | 3 Comments »

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The axis of evil is in free fall  

For many years, Syria, Iran and Hezbollah have excelled at maintaining and unifying their “Axis of Resistance” against Israel. In retrospect, however, this appears to be an axis of bankrupt entities foisting calamity upon their own peoples.

By Prof. Eyal Zisser, ISRAEL HAYOM     06-24-2020 12:17

The 20-year anniversary of the IDF’s withdrawal from Southern Lebanon was commemorated in Beirut this year modestly, almost obscurely. Although Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivered a victory speech, from the underground bunker he hides in, he was also forced to admit that Hezbollah has no reason to celebrate today.

The flames have been nipping at Nasrallah’s robe for quite some time, but in recent weeks he and his men have openly exhibited signs of distress. For the first time, during the ongoing protests flooding the streets of Beirut, people have called for disarming the organization and rehabilitating the sovereignty of the Lebanese state.

In Syria, too, where President Bashar Assad recently celebrated the 20-year anniversary of his rule, the atmosphere is as gloomy as ever. Although Assad defeated his people who rose against him on the battlefield – with chemical weapons, aerial bombardments, and missiles – in the real battle he is now waging over Syria’s rehabilitation he is losing soundly.

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June 25, 2020 | 1:02 am | 3 Comments »

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Dump China: Time to End Beijing’s Pernicious Tech Empire  

By Gordon G. Chang, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  June 24, 2020


Can China innovate the technologies of tomorrow with an oppressive political system, a failing economy and loss of support from the international community? Despite everything, Xi’s China has managed to become a technology leader in critical fields, such as quantum communications and 5G wireless communications. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)

  • China’s window of vulnerability… is only a few years at most. So this is the time for the world to act.
  • The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology talks about the country committing $1.4 trillion in the next five years.
  • China also is working on plundering Google, which has various operations in the People’s Republic including its AI China Center in Beijing and partnerships with the country’s two leading universities, Peking and Tsinghua. Yet the company has larger plans.

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June 24, 2020 | 1:16 pm | 17 Comments »

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Over 1,000 MPs from across Europe call for ‘decisive action’ against annexation  

T. Belman. I find this very upsetting. Their arguments are constantly refuted by Kontorovich and other law experts but the Europeans aren’t listening. The truth doesn’t fit their narrative.

One more thing. Everyone’s opposition to annexation is also an affront to Trump. He is not taking it lightly that all these Europeans are interfering with his Deal of the Century.

Left- and right-wing lawmakers say failure to ‘adequately respond would encourage other states with territorial claims to disregard basic principles of international law’

By Raphael Ahren, TOI

The Austrian parliament session in Vienna, Austria, January 10, 2020. (Ronald Zak/AP)
The Austrian parliament session in Vienna, Austria, January 10, 2020. (Ronald Zak/AP)

More than a thousand lawmakers from across Europe on Tuesday signed a statement against Israel’s planned annexation of parts of the West Bank, urging decisive action to prevent the move and punitive measures if it goes ahead.

“We, parliamentarians from across Europe committed to a rules-based global order, share serious concerns about [US] President [Donald] Trump’s plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the imminent prospect of Israeli annexation of West Bank territory. We are deeply worried about the precedent this would set for international relations at large,” the statement read.

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June 24, 2020 | 12:14 pm | 2 Comments »

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The Black Lives Matter Foundation Does Not Care about Black Lives  

By Philip Carl Salzman, PJ MEDIA Jun 23, 2020 5:55 PM EST


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It could not be clearer that the Black Lives Matter Foundation cares nothing about black lives. We know this because the Foundation never mentions or addresses the overwhelming cause of threat to black lives: black-on-black crime. It never mentions the underlying reasons for black-on-black crime: the absence of fathers for boys and the long term corrupt governance of all major cities by Democrat politicians. And it never advocates a cure for black-on-black crime: more police and more community cooperation with police.

BLM Foundation and its activists and supporters claim that African Americans are constantly under threat from police and white attackers:  “Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.” BLM Foundation claims that blacks are systematically targeted for murder: “We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise.”

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June 24, 2020 | 9:10 am | Comments »

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