China’s Vast New Nuclear Build-Up  

When “China is ‘Untouchable’ in Terms of Military Power”

by Judith Bergman, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  September 21, 2021 at 5:00 am

  • “China’s explosive growth and modernization of its nuclear and conventional forces can only be what I describe as breathtaking. Frankly, that word, breathtaking, may not be enough.” — Admiral Charles Richard, Commander of US Strategic Command, Space and Missile Defense Symposium, August 12, 2021.
  • “There’s been a lot of speculation out there as to why they are doing all of this. I just want to say right now, it really doesn’t matter why… What matters is they are building the capability to execute any plausible nuclear employment strategy — the last brick in the wall of a military capable of coercion.” — Admiral Charles Richard, August 12, 2021.
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September 21, 2021 | 3:34 pm | 3 Comments »

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George Soros Funds The Bush-Clinton-Obama Group Pushing For Afghan Migrants  

Soros Everywhere

By Patrick Howley, National File, September 19, 2021:

Former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are serving as Honorary Co-Chairs of an organization to support the welcoming of Afghan migrants into the United States of America following the U.S. defeat to the Taliban and failed evacuation from Afghanistan. The organization, Welcome.us, is funded by socialist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

The Honorary Co-Chairs of Welcome. Us include Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton. The group’s National Welcome Council includes representatives from the New York Times, the Soros-funded Atlantic Council, Obama’s former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Maria Shriver, establishment pundit David French, and Jeb Bush
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September 21, 2021 | 1:17 pm | 1 Comment »

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How Durham Bombshell Made a ‘Birther’ Out of Me  

By Jack Cashill, AM THINKER

Upon reading special counsel John Durham’s 27-page indictment of attorney Michael Sussman, I found myself asking, “Is there anything Perkins Coie lawyers would not do to keep their Democratic clients in power?” Thanks to Durham, we know they launched a cyberwar against candidate Donald Trump that makes their work on the Steele dossier seem half-hearted. What we need to know is whether their work in producing Barack Obama’s birth certificate was any more legit than these other misadventures.

As to Sussman, he stands accused of lying to the FBI, “to wit, on or about September 19, 2016, the defendant stated to the General Counsel of the FBI that he was not acting on behalf of any client in conveying particular allegations concerning a Presidential candidate, when in truth, and in fact, and as the defendant well knew, he was acting on behalf of specific clients, namely, Tech Executive-I and the Clinton Campaign.”

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September 21, 2021 | 1:00 pm | 2 Comments »

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What? New England Journal of Medicine Backtracks – Now Admits COVID Vax May Not Be Safe for Pregnant Women  

ZELENKO WAS RIGHT

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The esteemed New England Journal of Medicine posted a correction last week and now admits the COVID vaccine may not be safe for pregnant women.

The study was updated after it found that 104 of 827 pregnant participants experienced a spontaneous abortion after receiving the COVID vaccine. That is roughly 1 of 8 pregnant women losing their baby after getting the vaccine.

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September 21, 2021 | 9:06 am | 3 Comments »

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The dangerous impotence of UNIFIL’s mission in Lebanon  

by Lt. Col. (res.) Sarit Zehavi and Dr. Eric R. Mandel, TOI


A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Meiss al-Jabal on December 16, 2018, shows a United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldier monitoring the border between Lebanon and Israel. On his right is a flag of the Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Lebanon is in economic freefall, and the sectarian tensions between Shiite, Sunni, Christian, and Druze have paralyzed the government. Lebanon’s true power, Hezbollah is under the direct control of Iran, while Lebanon’s weak and compliant armed forces (LAF) coordinate with Hezbollah.

Both Iran and Hezbollah have ignored UNSC Resolution 1559, calling for “strict respect of Lebanon’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity, and political independence under the sole and exclusive authority of the Government of Lebanon” while disbanding “all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias.”

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Sukkot guide for the perplexed, 2021  

A primer with facts and customs for the holiday of joy.

By Yoram Ettinger, INN

Sukkot Explained for Kids - BJE

1. Sukkot (September 21-27) Commemorates the Exodus and is named for the first stop during the 40-year-Exodus from Egypt – the town of Sukkot – as documented in Exodus 13:20-22 and Numbers 33:3-5. This holiday underscores the gradual transition from the spiritual state-of-mind during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to the mundane of the rest of the year. The construction of the Holy Tabernacle, during the Exodus, was launched on the first day of Sukkot (full moon).

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EU plans to spend 3 billion Euros creating a de-facto Palestinian state by 2030  

While the EU has repeatedly slammed settlement building by Israel in the West Bank as ‘illegal’, it has been funneling millions into the region to illegally build Palestinian settlements. 

By Donna Rachel Edmunds, World Israel News
Israeli border police officers stand guard near the Yitzhar settlement, where illegal structures where demolished earlier in the morning in April 2020. (Flash90/Sraya Diamant)

European nations are actively encouraging and funding the building of illegal Palestinian settlements in Area C of the West Bank, even as Israel is being criticized for legal building, the director of a pro-Israel organization has said.The West Bank is the area west of the Jordan river which was captured from Jordan in the 1967 war by Israel. As it includes Palestinian towns, the region, known as Judea and Samaria to Jewish Israelis, was subsequently split into three sections by the Oslo Accords: Area A, administered by the Palestinian Authority, which Israeli citizens are barred from entering, Area B, which is shared territory, and Area C which under Israeli control. Read more…

September 20, 2021 | 5:14 pm | 14 Comments »

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The War on Terror Sacrificed Thousands of Lives to Avoid Tough Political Decisions  

We have failed to identify the enemy. And until we do, we can never win.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

The infrastructure of Islamic terror is made up of three groups: domestic infrastructure, financial infrastructure, and organizational infrastructure. The domestic infrastructure consists of the populations who are the source of Islamic terrorism, the financial infrastructure comes from the state sponsors and billionaire funders of terrorism, and the organizational infrastructure is represented by the terrorist groups like Al Qaeda that run training camps and plan operations.

Going after training camps and terror leaders made sense, but it was also the most difficult militarily, requiring the deployment of troops to distant countries to engage in guerrilla warfare in hostile environments and counterterrorism in enemy cities, and the easiest politically.

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September 20, 2021 | 2:52 pm | 1 Comment »

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Why the New York Times can’t get its Israel story right  

By Lev Tsitrin, AM THINKER

It is human to err, and journalists, being but human, err routinely. Some errors are just minor slips that do not alter the overall picture, but others offer a wide window into the total lack of understanding on the part of a reporter, and will fundamentally corrupt the reader’s perception of the issue.

One such is the insertion of a number 54 into the New York Times report of Israel’s capture in Jenin of the last pair of the escapees from what was considered a maximum security prison: “for many Palestinians, who see the fugitives as resistance fighters against a 54-year occupation, the jailbreak was a morale-boosting act of heroism.”
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September 20, 2021 | 10:50 am | 4 Comments »

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Pulling the Plug on Palestinism  

by Victor Rosenthal    September 19, 2021 

One of my readers asked a question, and since many people think as he does, and because the question deserves a more considered response than a quick email reply, I decided to answer in a complete post. Here is his question:

I am responding to the article “Why Does Israel Only Play Defense?”

Essentially [you are] saying that Israel should annex the entire West Bank and Gaza. But [you do] not tell the reader what would be the status of the roughly four million Arabs in those two areas. Now, Israel can correctly say that the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza are not in Israel and continue to be at war with Israel, so that use of the word apartheid is nonsense. That would change if the West Bank and Israel are annexed and the four million – most of whom support Hamas – become Israeli residents.

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September 20, 2021 | 7:40 am | 2 Comments »

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Trudeau’s Six Wasted Years Leave Canada With One Rational Vote — Conservative, Led by Erin O’Toole  

Our Northern Neighbors Will Be Going to the Polls Tomorrow

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | September 19, 2021

As Canada drags itself to the end of one of the most boring and superfluous federal election campaigns in its history, it is time to evaluate the merits of the different parties.

The Greens are so extreme in their proposed remedies to imprecise environmental problems that a vote for that party is not rational. The Bloc Québécois is a Quebec separatist party, and the independence of Quebec is an arguable political option for that province, but as the separatists would be the first to tell us, it is an issue to be decided by voters in a Quebec election and not a federal one. The raison d’être of this party is to be disruptive and well-publicized. A vote for it, even by a Quebec separatist, is not rational.

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September 20, 2021 | 7:33 am | 3 Comments »

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Israel’s Unvaccinated 17% Now Account for Nearly Half of COVID Deaths  

Over 3 million in Israel have now received the COVID booster shot

HAARETZ
The number of coronavirus patients in serious condition has remained stable, according to data released by Israel’s Health Ministry on Friday.

There are 658 patients in serious condition, compared to 654 a day earlier. Unvaccinated Israelis – who account for 17 percent of the population eligible for a vaccine – make up about two-thirds of the total number of serious cases.

Meanwhile, more than 3 million people in Israel have received a third COVID shot, according to the Health Ministry.

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September 19, 2021 | 2:31 pm | 21 Comments »

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Bennett defends booster shots, says US to soon follow Israel with widespread use  

PM to limit Green Pass to those who’ve received 3rd jab despite FDA move to only give shot to Americans over 65 and high-risk; Israel FDA panelist explains its decision

By TOI STAFF       18 September 2021, 9:52 pm

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks ahead of receiving his third COVID-19 vaccine shot at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, on August 20, 2021.

In his first public comments on an FDA panel’s decision on Friday to approve booster shots of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine only for older Americans and those considered high-risk, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett predicted Saturday night that the United States will gradually begin to offer the shot more widely after being presented with scientific data from Israel.

“The FDA decided to follow in Israel’s path,” he asserted on Twitter, referring to the decision by the US regulator.

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September 19, 2021 | 7:54 am | 1 Comment »

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Barkat criticizes Likud’s attempts to court Gantz  

MK Nir Barkat: I do not think Gantz should be Prime Minister, certainly not with eight seats.

Arutz Sheva Staff , Sep 19 , 2021 4:35 AM

Nir Barkat

Senior Likud MK Nir Barkat on Saturday night criticized the Likud’s attempts to court Defense Minister Benny Gantz in an attempt to convince him to join a coalition with the Likud.

“It’s a mistake, I do not think Gantz should be Prime Minister, certainly not with eight seats,” Barkat told Channel 12 News in an interview.

“I think the person who should be the Prime Minister of Israel is the leader of the largest party in the coalition. We must not allow a party with six or eight seats to lead the country. We want the Prime Minister to have strong validation from the public, so I do not think Gantz with eight seats should lead the government.”

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September 19, 2021 | 7:35 am | 3 Comments »

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Protests Expand In Israel Over COVID-19 Vaccinations and Restrictions  

Israel is the most vaccinated country per capita in the world and yet COVID-19 is increasing throughout every sector. The government continues to push vaccinations as a solution within the context of further restrictions designed to push people to a vaccine that seems to have less efficacy than was believed.

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September 19, 2021 | 6:56 am | 1 Comment »

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