By Tabitha Korol

The gnomes of Snap Crackle, and Pop have new meaning in the 21^st century, a far cry from their inception, but perhaps more momentous.

            Who could have imagined in 1933, when The Kellogg Company invented the advertising gnomes, SNAP, CRACKLE, and POP for its Rice Krispies cereal, that the words would be prescient for the early 21^st century? Kellogg’s words merely evoked the sounds of the product’s bursting in milk, but today they could be applied to no less a calamity than the demise of Western culture.

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By Victor Davis Hanson

In a controversial passage in Plato’s “Republic,” Socrates introduced the idea of the “noble lie” (“gennaios pseudos”).

A majestic fiction, he says, could sometimes serve society by persuading uninformed citizens of something good for them.

Ever since, many prevaricators have used the excuse that they lied for the common good.

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By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | October 27, 2021

After three weeks in Europe and extensive discussions with dozens of well-informed and highly placed individuals from most of the principal Western European countries, including leading members of the British government, I have the unpleasant duty of reporting complete incomprehension and incredulity at what Joe Biden and his collaborators encapsulate in the peppy but misleading phrase, “We’re back.”

As one eminent elected British government official put it, “They are not back in any conventional sense of that word. We have worked closely with the Americans for many decades and we have never seen such a shambles of incompetent administration, diplomatic incoherence, and complete military ineptitude as we have seen in these nine months. We were startled by Trump, but he clearly knew what he was doing, whatever we or anyone else thought about it. This is just a disintegration of the authority of a great nation for no apparent reason.”

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TIERNEY NEWS

Mike Lindell appeared on Bannon and said his lawsuit before the Supreme Court is on track:

https://rumble.com/vmx1ox-lindell-we-will-have-this-case-before-the-supreme-court.html

LINDELL: On Tuesday, November 23rd at 9am, before Thanksgiving, around 20 state AGs are going to file before the Supreme Court, and all do have standing. It’s based on the 4th & 12th amendment. I’m not going to tell you their names or our strategy. The Supreme Court has to accept it and I’m told it would unconstitutional if they don’t. This is all new evidence we’ve been gathering. The poll books are online – we have access to everything – the machines are using them to create votes. Bill O’Reilly made a comment that it didn’t happen with machines. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. They pull fake names from the voter rolls and the machines do it. This is taking a long time. Every one will finally see the truth.

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By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative  October 27, 2021,

Secretary of State, Antony Blinken – the chief architect of President Biden’s foreign and national security policy – is pressuring Israel to embrace his (classic State Department) policy on the rogue regime of Iran’s Ayatollahs and the Palestinian issue.

*Irrespective of the systematic track record of Iran’s Ayatollahs – since their 1978/79 ascension to power with the active support of the State Department and the CIA – Secretary Blinken is leaning on Israel to accept the mindset that the Ayatollahs are amenable to peaceful-coexistence with the neighboring Sunni Arab regimes; ready to abandon their core, fanatic, imperialistic vision; and refrain from regional and global terrorism and wars, in exchange for generous financial and diplomatic benefits. Blinken considers Iran’s Ayatollahs to be constructive partners for negotiation, worthy of waiving the US military option, which Blinken believes should be superseded by diplomacy.
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by Richard Kemp, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  October 27, 2021

• This may seem like just another diplomatic facility to issue visas, promote trade and take care of US citizens, with no greater consequence than the US consulate in Edinburgh, UK. But it is far more than a mere office for paper-shuffling diplomats. It amounts to a de facto US embassy to the Palestinians on Israeli territory. Its true purpose is to undermine Israeli sovereignty in its own capital city and will jeopardise future prospects for peace between Israel and Palestinian Arabs.
• As well as betraying Israel, Biden’s irresponsible diplomatic signalling — which also appeases his hard-left supporters — is a betrayal of the Palestinian people. They have suffered too long and too hard under the hostility of their leadership, which has consistently refused to entertain all proposals for peace with Israel that could lead to the establishment of their own state.
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China is remodeling mosques to make them appear ‘Chinese’. Domes & Minarets are being replaced by Pagodas. Islamic calligraphy is being replaced by Chinese texts. Palki Sharma gets you a report on this ‘sinicisation’ campaign.

Till now, the Western world led by the US was opposing human rights violations in Egypt, allegedly perpetrated due to the Emergency. However, by revoking the Emergency, el-Sisi is making it clear that Egypt is in a secure place. In fact, the West must embrace Cairo now, especially because it has been acting like a friend for the West for quite some time by befriending Israel and the Arab States, despite traditional differences for quite some time now. Watch the video to know more.

T. Belman. Only 43 countries, mostly western, signed. Israel chose to not alienate China at the risk of alienating other countries. We know that Iran is not complaining.  What about Saudi Arabia?

AL JAZEERA:  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/22/43-countries-criticize-china-at-un-for-repression-of-uyghurs

Foreign Ministry says it has expressed human rights concerns regarding Xinjiang in past; Israeli diplomatic official says Jerusalem needs to balance various interests

By JACOB MAGID, TOI     26 October 2021, 12:19 am  

In an effort to placate China, Israel refrained from signing on to a joint statement at the United Nations last week that expressed concern over Beijing’s treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority, an Israeli diplomatic official told The Times of Israel on Sunday.

Forty-three countries signed on to the French-led statement, which called on China to “ensure full respect for the rule of law” in the Xinjiang region where “credible” reports “indicate the existence of a large network of ‘political reeducation’ camps [with] over a million people [who] have been arbitrarily detained.”

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Also: Exposed: Inhumane, lethal COVID Protocol in Hospitals

“There is a consensus among the 4 panelists, which included a Rabbi, that the hospital conduct, amounted to premeditated murder.”

By Ury Weiss

https://rumble.com/vo9cnf-r-and-b-medical-fellowship-episode-six.html

It’s a heartbreaking video, testimony of an Israeli man who lost his wife in an Israeli hospital. He and his entire family fell sick, but he treated himself and the kids with Protocol Zelenko and recovered quickly. For some reason his wife ended up in hospital, where despite having a prescription for Ivermectin, the hospital refused to honor it. In this video Dr. Zelenko says that what Dr. Mengele did to the Jews is kindergarten stuff, compared to the ravages of this genocidal “vaccine”. Thousands of people are affected by MYOCARDITIS, PERICARDITIS, BLOOD CLOTS, STROKES, AND IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO THE IMMUNE SYSTEM and the REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS.

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T. Belman. The US is fighting Israel on settlements, Jerusalem and Iran. Israel must present an iron wall to their demands. It is time to assert ourselves rather than display our willingness to work with them.

By Nir Hasson , HAARETZ Oct. 25, 2021 11:03 AM

The Supreme Court is holding a decisive hearing on Monday concerning the eviction of a Palestinian family from their home in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem – which could also affect the possible eviction of dozens of other families in the area.

Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, who was asked to issue his legal opinion on a number of fundamental questions arising from the case, told the court last week he believes these issues should not be discussed because the residents can be evicted based on the denial of their claim that the statute of limitations has expired. The attorney general is expected to send a representative to attend the hearing.
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By Louis Fishman, HAARETZ           Oct. 24, 2021 6:34 PM

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sent shock waves through the world from a Saturday afternoon rally, by declaring he was ordering his foreign minister, Mevlet Cavusoglu, to declare ten foreign ambassadors persona non grata for their call to release the jailed philanthropist Osman Kavala.

He offered the crowd a taste of the tone in which the order was given, saying he’d told Cavusoglu, “You will sort it out immediately.”

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This is a great review of what is going on. Biden is not in the driver’s seat. He is begging for a role so he can take credit. As I wrote before Saudi Arabia is not demanding the division of Jerusalem as Biden wants.

The State Department wants to open a consulate to the Palestinians there despite Israel’s objections.

By Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ     Oct. 25, 2021 6:34 pm ET

The biggest diplomatic spat between Israel and the U.S. in recent memory is brewing over the Biden administration’s insistence on opening a consulate to conduct diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority and locating it in Israel’s capital, Jerusalem. Despite vociferous Israeli protest, the State Department has repeatedly said it would push forward with opening a consulate anyway, and Secretary Antony Blinken will personally lead the effort.

The U.S. Embassy to Israel is already in Jerusalem, and it has a consular department that provides services to Palestinians. Opening a separate, independent diplomatic mission would undermine a longstanding bipartisan policy of treating Jerusalem as the exclusive capital of Israel.

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