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Hamas says 60 hostages were killed in Israeli airstrikes
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Kim Dotcom: The West is probing Zelenskyy on concessions to Russia. But the most likely outcome is that the evil empire of lies will not leave the stage quietly.
[Twitter/X] Russia and Ukraine were ready to sign a peace deal in 2022. It was blocked by Joe Biden. Since then 600k+ people died, the EU economy lost $1.5 trillion, Ukraine lost 20% of its territory and the US added 3 trillion in debt

Russia is now in a much stronger position. It won’t trust any deal with Ukraine due to past treaty breaches instigated by the West. Ukraine is running out of money and forces.

The US, EU and NATO have lost their proxy war and Russia can keep this conflict going for a long time thanks to failing sanctions. Low cost Russian arms production and artillery shells from partners cause the West to deplete their reserves and bleed billions more into the black hole that is Ukraine.

Russia will likely take more territory in Ukraine and turn it into a rump state without access to the Black Sea. Ukraine will not be allowed to become a NATO or EU member.

Russia will ensure that the US coup in Ukraine will be reversed and that a pro-Russian Govt will be installed. Only then will the conditions improve for Ukraine.

The NATO big-mouth alliance will crumble after this embarrassing defeat. The US and EU will fall into a deep recession and the BRICS alliance will grow in power and influence.

The US dollar will lose reserve currency status and excessive US money printing will cause hyperinflation and devalue most US assets to junk status.

The failure in Ukraine will be Biden’s and Zelenskyy’s legacy. They will be remembered as the most inept leaders of our time. Most of the EU leaders will be seen as failed US puppets who followed a dementia patient and a comedian into the sewer of history.

China is the big winner in all of this. They get the discounted Russian energy that made Europe a manufacturing powerhouse and the multipolar alliance of BRICS countries can turn decades of global wars and chaos into the most peaceful era of growth and prosperity for humanity.

That’s how it should be.

But the most likely outcome is that the evil empire of lies will not leave the stage quietly. The US Govt will smash the geopolitical chess board against the wall and go out in a tantrum of nuclear war that will end civilization as we know it.

Only the American people could prevent this from happening but I wouldn’t bet my money on that. Most US brains have been fried by endless propaganda or dumbed down by a Neanderthal education system and TikTok ;)

The best insurance for your family is to have a Plan B in the far south of the southern hemisphere. That area will have the most survivors.

May the force be with you 😘


Posted by: Ebbease Panda9307 || 11/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If we stop funding Ukraine’s government payroll and retirement programs, Zelensky would be removed immediately and the peace process could begin immediately. What is stopping that? The people who own our politicians.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/05/2023 8:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
National Suicide: Inside the Democrats' Plan to Allow Non-Citizens to Vote
[Gateway, via Epoch Times and Zero Hedge]
Circular reporting, but worth the effort.
As the border has been overrun with illegal immigrants in recent years, many people on the right have suggested that the goal of Democrats is to eventually turn these people into Democrat voters.

The report below suggests that this is not a long-term plan for years from now but right now.

Democrats in various American cities are setting up these invaders to vote ASAP, through work permits, which they are all working hard to hand out as quickly as possible:

THE NON-CITIZEN VOTING SCAM
Democrats are pushing to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections in New York City, Boston, and other municipalities, and statewide in Connecticut.

The number of migrants pouring across the southern border has hit a record high, according to data released on Oct. 21. Illegal immigrant crossings soared 21 percent over the previous month. On a yearly basis, the figure hit 2.48 million.

Democrats may feign shock and distress. Don’t be fooled. Democrats see these newcomers as their guarantee of a permanent voting majority in local elections. Not years from now, after the newcomers become citizens. Right now.

New York Mayor Eric Adams’s rhetoric is typical. He warns that the overwhelming number of migrants arriving—currently 16,000 to 17,000 a month—"will destroy New York City," but he’s also leading the legal effort to turn migrants into voters.

Mr. Adams and other New York Democrats pushed President Joe Biden to expedite work authorizations for them. They said it’s about making migrants self-sufficient. Maybe, but Democrats have another powerful motive.

If you read the fine print of New York City’s "Our City, Our Vote" law, enacted in December 2021, it says that anyone with a work authorization who has been in the city for a mere 30 days can vote, even if they entered the country illegally.

If Democrats are allowed to get away with this, they will ’fundamentally transform’ the United States forever.

The country you grew up in will cease to exist.
They want it gone, all of it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2023 06:18 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democrats may be players, but this is a global undertaking.

Exclusive Photos: Migrants Leave ID, U.N.-Provided Maps at Mexican Border Crossing into Texas
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/05/2023 8:41 Comments || Top||



The great betrayal tearing the Democrats to shreds: Prof. Alan Dershowitz says vile Leftist anti-Israeli hate will turn millions of American Jews from Blue to Red - and he's one
Maybe this time he really will walk away from the Democratic Party. But he has said similar things before, and in the end voted Democrat anyway.
[MAIL] The Democratic Party now faces a choice.

The Hamas atrocities of October 7th have forever fractured any political alliance between centrist and liberal Jews and woke, anti-Israel progressives.

It's either them or us.

The coalition is at civil war.

Following the terrorist massacre of Israeli civilians and even before the military response, young woke progressives turned stridently against the Jewish State.

It was a knee-jerk reaction stimulated not by what Israel did — because it had done nothing to justify Hamas' brutality — but what Israel is: the nation state of the Jewish people.

In New York City, speakers at a rally endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (a group to which several members of Congress belong) celebrated the attacks.

Progressive students at many American universities issued statements, held banners, and participated in marches not in favor of a two-state solution which would establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel, but against the existence of Israel itself.

The dominant slogan at these events was 'Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I think Dems got the message - otherwise I can't explain the absence of knife in Israel's back (the alternative: Biden's admin actually understands the situation is too far fetched.).
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/05/2023 2:28 Comments || Top||


#3  The alliance between the progressive left and contemporary totalitarian Islam is quite natural.

The political platforms of both movements overlap in that they advocate primitivization, genocide and slavery.

The labels differ, the policies not so much.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/05/2023 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  elmerert

some of the policies are the same but most are not

- transgender issues
- same sex marriage
- consensual sex before marriage
- artistic expression

the anti antisemitism is in some ways simply a political messaging tactic to disguise the difference between the progs and the Islamofacists

it worked in Iran where the left sided with Khomeini against the shah and the left was then eliminated in the next 6 months
Posted by: lord garth || 11/05/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#5  I see transgender as a new form of leftist obedience training. The issue is not really important, what is
important is that the Party decides whether 2+2=3,5 or even 4.

As for the overlap, I don't see any fundamental difference between Taliban rule, North Korea and the Khmer Rouge.

A person who started as a Khmer Rouge communist would have no inherent problem with becoming supporter of totalitarian Islam, an ideology that commands tremendous respect and accommodation in Western bien pensant elite circles.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/05/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ A profoundly accurate assessment EH, at least in my view.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2023 14:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
[BEE] FBI Uncovers Horrifying Extremist Reading Material In Mike Johnson's Home
[BEE] BENTON, LA — The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that it had discovered terrifying extremist reading material in a raid of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's Louisiana home.

"We were very troubled by what we found during our totally legal raid," said FBI Special Agent Curt Schampers. "When our tactical team breached the door of the home, one of our lead agents called our attention to a piece of reading material on the living room coffee table. The reading material appeared to be a thick, leather-bound book that had pages with gold-gilded edges. Clearly some type of radical, religious text. This type of book is normally only found in the homes of truly dangerous individuals."

Eyewitnesses reported seeing FBI agents removing the book from the home in a sealed plastic bag for further investigation. "You could see the fear in their eyes," said Johnson's neighbor Darius Anderson. "I heard them talking to each other and saying they knew people who read that book were radical, unhinged fanatics who believe crazy things and want to take over the world. To think Mike Johnson is a part of something like that...it's pretty scary."

When asked to comment on what impact this discovery may have on Johnson's ability to serve effectively as Speaker of the House, Special Agent Schampers had only this to say: "This country would look a lot different if the kind of people who read that book were in charge of things."

At publishing time, the FBI refused to comment on horrifying reports that framed passages of religious texts were found hanging on the walls of the home.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
No one wants the Palestinian Arabs
[IsraelNationalNews] Last week, Professor Amir Hetsroni posted an idea with which many readers agreed — he suggested settling the Palestinian Arabs, beginning with those from Gaza, on an island near the North Pole, where, he said, "they can continue their barbaric policies as they wish without harming anyone."

Professor Hetsroni minced no words in describing the situation Israel faces since the horrifically murderous attack on its citizens on the morning of the Simchat Torah holiday. And it is quite clear that most Israelis are not interested in having neighbors — or citizens, for that matter — who believe in the extremist Islamist world view that wants to destroy the Jews.

The problem is that no one else wants them either.

Despite the non-ending defamation and criticism of Israel because of its treatment of the so-called "refugees" within its borders, their lives are immeasurably better in Israel that in other Arab countries. In Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait and their fellow Arab states, the Palestinian Arab "refugees" have no rights whatsoever, even basic ones. They cannot choose the way they make a living, not even who they wish to marry, not to mention the health and educational services that barely exist. Within the countries with their own ethnic background and religion, for all intents and purposes they live under an apartheid regime.

Those countries, of course, have a vested interest in preserving the "Palestinian Arab refugee narrative," because that way the Palestinian Arabs continue to demand their homes in Haifa, Acco and Jerusalem (although these were their great grandfathers' homes, if at all) and it is possible to continue trying to destroy Israel. In addition, this way these states keep the problematic violent and crime-ridden "refugee" population away from their own citizens. It is uncertain which of the two reasons comes first when the host countries determine their policies.
Nevertheless, Arab countries (in conjunction with UN) created the "Palestinian Problem", and it's their problem.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/05/2023 01:05 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The 'palestinians' are where they are and unwanted for the same reason: they hold to no allegiance.
If somebody trusted them, it would be different.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/05/2023 16:22 Comments || Top||


Stolen Palestinian Land? An Arab Israeli Responds
[YouTube]


Yoseph Haddad is a proud Arab Israeli. He briefly visited New Zealand in February 2023. Dr Sheree Trotter had a conversation with him about his identity and background and addressed some of the common questions people ask about the Israel Palestinian conflict. Yoseph tells the story of his grandfather. Who was it that gave him orders to leave? What did he decide to do?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stolen Palestinian Land?

Some don’t understand the history, here is a short lesson.

(1)Before the modern state of Israel there was the British mandate, Not a Palestinian state .

(2) Before the British mandate there was the ottoman empire, Not a Palestinian state .

(3) Before the ottoman empire there was the Islamic mamluk sultanate of Egypt, Not a Palestinian state .

(4)Before the Islamic mamluk sultanate of Egypt there was the ayyubid dynasty, Not a Palestinian state .Godfrey of bouillon conquered it in 1099.

(5) Before the ayyubid dynasty there was the christian kingdom of Jerusalem, Not a Palestinian state .

(6) Before the christian kingdom of Jerusalem there was the Fatimid caliphate, Not a Palestinian state .

(7) Before the Fatimid caliphate there was the byzantine empire, Not a Palestinian state .

(8) Before the byzantine empire there was the Roman empire, Not a Palestinian state .

(9) Before the Roman empire there was the hasmonean dynasty, Not a Palestinian state .

(10) Before the hasmonean dynasty there was the Seleucid empire,Not a Palestinian state .

(11) Before the Seleucid empire there was the empire of Alexander the 3rd of Macedon, Not a Palestinian state .

(12) Before the empire of Alexander the 3rd of Macedon there was the Persian empire, Not a Palestinian state .

(13) Before the Persian empire there was the Babylonian empire, Not a Palestinian state .

(14) Before the Babylonian empire there was the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, Not a Palestinian state .

(15) Before the kingdoms of Israel and Judea there was the kingdom of Israel, Not a Palestinian state

(16) Before the kingdom of Israel there was the theocracy of the 12 tribes of Israel, Not a Palestinian state .

(17) Before the theocracy of the 12 tribes of Israel there was the individual state of Canaan, Not a Palestinian state .

In fact in this corner of the earth there was everything but a Palestinian state!
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2023 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Exactly right, besoeker
This piece here deals with the fantasy claim of palestinians as indigenous fighting evil white colonists
This is the triple alliance - Greens, Left, islamists and they are turning marxism to race ear and deco,onisation
In the usa they use BLM
In australia trying to recruit aborigines
They are trying to frame the palestinians as poor browns kicked out of their land by evil whites

https://lettersfromaustralia.substack.com/p/moral-collapse-greens-toxic-islam
Posted by: Anon1 || 11/05/2023 5:40 Comments || Top||

#3  The never talk about the Soviets ethnically clearing the Germans out of East Prussia, or the Poles clearing out the Germans of Silesia, or the Czechs clearing out the Germans of the Sudetenland after 1945, three years before 1948.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2023 6:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Joe wants them. They'll be good Democrats.
Posted by: Thrineth Shuger1620 || 11/05/2023 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Or the Arabs in Syria clearing each other out.
Armenians from Karabach. Russians from post soviet republics (and not just in Asia).
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/05/2023 12:10 Comments || Top||

#6  (17) Before the theocracy of the 12 tribes of Israel there was the individual state of Canaan, Not a Palestinian state .


My reading of Joshua’s conquest is that Canaan was the name of the region, which was made up of individual city-states and little kingdoms rather than a unitary government. Nobody outside the city came charging in to help defend Jericho, after all, though they had a week to get there.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/05/2023 17:32 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ EVs take a while

/sarc
Posted by: Frank G || 11/05/2023 18:40 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2023-11-05
  Hamas says 60 hostages were killed in Israeli airstrikes
Sat 2023-11-04
  IDF says it has eliminated 10 senior Hamas members so far since the beginning of the war
Fri 2023-11-03
  Elizabeth Warren calls for Gaza ceasefire
Thu 2023-11-02
  Hamas says Israeli air strikes killed seven civilian hostages
Wed 2023-11-01
  Yemen Declares War on Israel
Tue 2023-10-31
  Israel's Defence Minister Gallant to Hamas: Surrender or die
Mon 2023-10-30
  Mob storms Russian airport looking for Jews
Sun 2023-10-29
  Hamas offers to free hostages for prisoners in Israeli jails
Sat 2023-10-28
  Hamas says intense ground fighting with Israeli forces underway in Gaza
Fri 2023-10-27
  Footage shows elimination of deputy head of Hamas's intelligence, Shadi Barud in a strike in Gaza
Thu 2023-10-26
  Israeli airstrikes cripple Aleppo airport
Wed 2023-10-25
  Muslims barred from Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jews allowed as Israel continues Gaza holocaust
Tue 2023-10-24
  All hospitals in the Gaza Strip have run out of fuel now
Mon 2023-10-23
  Israel orders villagers to evacuate Lebanon border as Hezbollah tensions rise
Sun 2023-10-22
  Explosion near the Israeli embassy in Cyprus


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