Putin’s Remarks About Jews, Ukraine, And The Russian Orthodox Church Aren’t Anti-Semitic  

Peloni:  This was a very interesting read.  While I completely reject the notion made by Putin’s remark that “They are ethnic Jews” as there are far more than just Jews who are responsible for the repulsively repressive policies against the Russian Orthodox Christian Church to which Putin is addressing, but the explanation argued by Korybko is completely reasonable, beyond the objection I make here.

Andrew Korybko | Dec 25, 2024

His intent was actually to absolve Jews of the collective responsibility for Zelensky’s crimes and his radical ideological crusade against the Russian Orthodox Church that anti-Semites attribute to them solely due to their ethno-national and religious association with him.

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December 28, 2024 | 8:51 am | Comments »

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Did WHO Officials In the Intel Comm Suppress FBI COVID Lab Leak Theory?  

Having a consultant from a foreign organization controlling intelligence is a threat to national security.

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The COVID era was an Orwellian nightmare in which official narratives ruled and suppressing ‘disinformation’ was seen as the only means to save lives. Dubious claims that even those distributing them did not believe, like the supreme power of surgical masks or the natural origins of the Wuhan Virus, became dominant under the guise of a national and global emergency.

The idea that the Wuhan Virus emerging into a worldwide pandemic was unrelated to the Wuhan biolab working on gain of function research on those same viruses was implausible. It violated Occam’s Razor and yet the intelligence community, among others, took a lead in shutting it down.

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December 27, 2024 | 11:50 am | 4 Comments »

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“America’s Transition: Working to Make America Great Again”  

By Paul E Vallely, MG – US Army (Ret) | December 26, 2024

There was a time when differing political opinions meant an excellent discussion at the dinner table or workplace. In those days, political business conducted itself through compromise. After all, they all believed in the fundamental values of America: freedom, love of God, country, family, and hard work through private enterprise. We were all in it together. No longer. After all, the Left controls most of the media, education, Hollywood, Big Tech, Big Pharma, big business, and much of the federal government through their deep state. If you try to computer research a political question, your answer will come from the New York Times, NPR, the Boston Globe, Time, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, and The Daily Beast. You will have to scroll way down to get anything approaching objectivity.

You would think the Left was the majority. The Left in America has co-opted loyalty to America for allegiance to the tribe. And this tribe is anti-America, pro-democratic socialism (whatever that is), pro-censorship, transgenderism, open homosexuality, open borders, a universal basic income, and faith in science, not God. And their science has no room for diverse opinions, including God’s. Secretly, to them, all science has a political objective. Climate change will require massive societal change as long as one can change one’s gender. Climate change has become the outing of natural gas: the introduction of digital ID, central bank digital currency, 15-minute cities, no private transportation, lab-grown meat, no dairy, no private property, no privacy. The elimination of billions of people. Did they tell you that? Yes, they did, but you weren’t listening. It will be to your detriment if you don’t believe this.

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December 27, 2024 | 11:37 am | 1 Comment »

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What about the Houthies?  

By Walter E. Block

The worst possible affront in the lexicon of the wokesters is racism (sorry, sexism has to still sit in the back of the bus; it is only the second worst sin in their view). Both, seemingly, are worse than mass murder, rape, slavery (unless aimed at a downtrodden racial group).

I was almost ready to accuse Israel of racism! Racism against whom? Why, the Houthies of course. Israel cannot be accused of racism against Hamas. As of October 8, 2023, the IDF was paying full attention to that group. Belatedly, only a week or so ago, has the Israeli military heavily focused on Hezbollah. The only civilized country in the Middle East can no longer be accused of ignoring that particular terrorist group. But what about the Houthies? Until just a few days ago, the IDF was guilty of overlooking and disregarding that organization. If that is not racism, woke style, then nothing is racism, woke style.

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December 27, 2024 | 8:16 am | 1 Comment »

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Israel Is Doing Everyone a Favor By Hitting the Houthis Harder  

Seth Mandel | Commentary | Dec 26, 2024

The fundamental problem with the Western way of war strategy in the 21st century is on display in Yemen.

The Houthis, an Iranian proxy militia, are everyone’s problem. In their current siege of the Red Sea shipping route and the waterways around Yemen, they have killed innocent crew members, sank ships, targeted U.S. Navy vessels with missile attacks, held global trade hostage, and expanded regional war.

They are also, by the way, deliberately starving the Yemeni civilian population—an act that is facilitated by the above-noted warmongering. “Being in constant conflict is actually strengthening their domestic cohesion,” Wolf-Christian Paes, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told the Times of Israel. “Because people are not asking so much about service delivery and the economy and all of that when you’re in war.”

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December 27, 2024 | 5:02 am | Comments »

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Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and the Silicon Valley Tech Millionaire Group Continue Lambasting Americans While Advocating for Expanded Foreign Worker Visas  

Peloni: Is the return of American exceptionalism really to be based upon H-1b visas?   Is this really how Americans make America Great Again?  With an immigration injection of the right stuff, so to speak?  The problem with the likes of Ramaswamy, who owes his success to funds from the Soros family and the promotion of a failed Alzheimer drug which was known to fail before Ram promoted its successes, is that he is not “Trumpier than Trump”, as he once sardonically claimed.  In fact, Ram has no appreciation of the American people, and in fact has a great disdain for them, their acumen, and the culture which initiated the concept of American exceptionalism in the first place.  Indeed, the hallmark of American exceptionalism is not based on personal academic marks nor on personal academic acceptance, both of which the H-1b program would focus upon.  Instead, I think that Eric Weinstein explains this point best in the following 2min video [LINK

Arguably, American exceptionalism is, at least in part, based on accepting and promoting unconventional thought as often expressed by unconventional individuals, for if convention is to be the height of what is viewed as exceptional in America, we would be lowering the bar of potential success considerably, exposing an enormous Achilles Heal in Ram’s erroneously short sighted claim that a return of American exceptionalism must come thru the cultural change which will be led by foreign immigration forced thru the H-1b program.  Indeed, the number of H-1b candidates which Ram would be injecting into American society would be woefully short of being capable of making any such cultural change possible as Ram is suggesting?  Instead it might be better argued that one would be better situated to Make America Great Again by unleashing the American born initiative which would come from unburdening American individuality, American ingenuity, and American advancement.  By doing so America will, without any need of foreign competition, lead the world towards greater heights than Ram’s plan to ram thru his cheap labor sourcing of compliant, conventional, and cost effective H-1b candidates.

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December 27, 2024 | 2:47 am | 24 Comments »

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The terrorist who shattered the Oslo myth  

Fuad Shubaki devoted his life to financing the bombers, snipers, grenade-hurlers, stabbers and rock-throwers waging nonstop jihad against Israel.

Moshe Phillips – national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel, a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education group

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas with Fuad Shubaki, March 2023 Source: “Wafa” News Agency via MEMRI.

If there was one terrorist whose life epitomized the Arab war against Israel and shattered the illusions fostered by the Oslo Accords, it was Fuad Shubaki, who died this week at the age of 83.

Shubaki was born in Gaza in 1940. Note that the Jews didn’t rule Gaza in those days (the British did), so Gazans didn’t demand a Palestinian state and didn’t organize any movement for independence. The next occupier was Egypt. The Egyptians illegally occupied Gaza in 1948 and ruled it for the next 19 years—yet still, there was no uprising against an occupation.

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December 27, 2024 | 1:12 am | 3 Comments »

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Khamenei’s Brilliant Failure  

His strategy against Israel and the United States was working—until Hamas attacked Israel.

By Reuel Marc Gerecht | December 23, 2024

On October 6, 2023, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, could have done a tour d’horizon of the Middle East and been proud. His anti-Israeli/anti-American battle plan was working. An array of Shiite and Palestinian Sunni Islamist militias—the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and a smorgasbord of militant groups in Iraq—had effectively given Iran imperial reach at relatively little cost.

Through this “Axis of Resistance,” the clerical regime could harass Americans in Iraq and Syria. Ever fearful of escalation, Washington never took the fight back to Iran directly—with the exception of President Donald Trump’s decision in 2020 to kill in Baghdad Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and the operational mastermind behind Iranian strategy. The axis was designed to keep America fatigued in the Middle East, to keep it leery of deeper intervention. Similarly, the alliance intended to complicate Israeli calculations, to keep Jerusalem from “mowing the lawn”—the routine pummeling of Israel’s nearest foes—for fear that military escalation against one party might trigger a wider conflict. With time, the axis would only get stronger; the Zionists and Americans weaker. For years, this approach worked.

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December 27, 2024 | 12:10 am | 3 Comments »

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No sanctions relief for Syria until HTS proves it is done with jihadism – opinion  

Our approach should be humanitarian aid, yes, but no to US reconstruction aid or sanctions relief until Syria is unambiguously not jihadist.

By ERIC R. MANDEL | DECEMBER 25, 2024

HTS LEADER Abu Mohammed al-Julani (right), meets with Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt in Damascus.   (photo credit: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)

A New York Times editorial disguised as a front-page news article demanded, “The West must ease financial controls to help the [Syrian] economy… the way forward starts with sanctions relief.” The writer, Patricia Cohen, claims “there is widespread agreement… the single most important step in rebuilding Syria’s economy can be taken only by the United States: Lift the punishing layers of sanctions.”

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December 26, 2024 | 9:18 pm | 1 Comment »

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Netanyahu: Israel Will Act Against Houthis Like It Did Against Hamas and Hezbollah  

Seth J. Frantzman | FDD | Dec 23, 2024

Latest Developments

  • Netanyahu Promises Strong Response Against Houthis: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel will strike hard against the Houthi rebels in Yemen after the Iran-backed terrorist group launched multiple ballistic missiles and drones at Israel during the previous week. “Just as we acted forcefully against the terrorist arm of Iran’s axis of evil, so we will act against the Houthis,” Netanyahu said on December 22, alluding to Israel’s dismantling of Iranian proxies Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon since Hamas’s mass atrocities on Israel on October 7, 2023.  

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December 26, 2024 | 8:46 pm | 2 Comments »

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A plan to burn Syria is led by the “King” of Jordan and a Gulf state  

Mudar Zahran tweeted the following:

Our sources reveal: A plan to burn down Syria led by the “King” of Jordan and a certain Gulf state…

 Funded by a (colonially-invented ) Gulf state, the Jordanian intelligence has facilitated the entry of 600 militants into southern Syria over the past 48 hours, with a diabolical plan to carry out false flag and terror attacks including murder, bombings, and attacking Sunni community leaders, pinning the blame on minorities, and attacking the interests of minorities as well, and killing their symbols….

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December 26, 2024 | 8:28 pm | 3 Comments »

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The Head of The Octopus  

Barbara Diamond | Dec 4, 2024

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Whatever illusions the world-at-large once fostered about the future of the Middle East, are now null and void. Facing core issues is very difficult, especially when it forces upon those in power… to admit their own complicity in allowing evil to proceed unchecked.

From the first day after the October 7, 2023 atrocities perpetrated by Hamas upon innocent babies, men, women, children…young and old… peacefully asleep in their beds or dancing with delight to the sounds of music under the night’s skies… there has been one question which few in high places were prepared to answer:  Why has Iran not been held accountable for the atrocities which it artfully financed and set into motion?

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December 26, 2024 | 10:34 am | 3 Comments »

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What is the Gun Threatening the Judges in the “Thousands Cases”?  

Yossi Baum tweeted the following:

What is the Gun Threatening the Judges in the “Thousands Cases”?

The judges are attempting to apply significant physical pressure on the defense to expedite Netanyahu’s testimony. Before this, the judges—through an act that stirred the nation—refused to reduce the frequency of his testimony, despite the war. As someone closely following the judges, this seemed strange.

Here’s the likely explanation:

  • According to estimates, before Netanyahu’s testimony, the trial was expected to continue until the end of 2027 or even 2028 (see Grintzayg’s article on Channel 7).
  • After progressing through part of Netanyahu’s testimony, the calculation has inflated. From an estimate of about 80 trial days to about 120 trial days. That’s an additional 16 weeks, approximately four months. Meaning: the reasonable estimate now is that the case won’t conclude before April-May 2028.

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December 26, 2024 | 1:05 am | 3 Comments »

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Unfortunately, The Trump Cabinet Will Likely Expand the Surveillance State  

Sundance | Dec 25,  2024

The surveillance state is an outcropping of the Fourth Branch of Government, which is, essentially, the unelected intelligence community in control of our government.

The surveillance state comes from the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) which is an entirely inward-looking agency. Prior to the Patriot Act, the surveillance sweep searching for terror threats focused outward, looking outside the U.S borders. The Patriot Act took the surveillance sweep a full 360 degrees and looked inside the Homeland for terror threats. Hence, DHS was created.

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December 26, 2024 | 12:10 am | 1 Comment »

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