Darryl Cooper (@martyrmade) has secured himself a "place of honor" as one of the most prominent Holocaust deniers, thanks in large part to the "not antisemitic" @TuckerCarlson, who gave and continues to give him a platform of millions while presenting this living Elmo as "the... pic.twitter.com/FStnIsyNL5
— עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli (@AmichaiChikli) July 17, 2025
Go read the entire long tweet at the link. He is creatively scathing. I left it there so Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435’s comment here can be properly appreciated without distracting competition.
This is about Tucker's three hour (zzzzzz....) interview with Cooper.
Starts off kooky and goes off the deep end with conspiracies and unlikely scenarios, my favorite part was the Scientology-style lewd trashy sci-fi novel.
Absolutely zero proof of any of this. They mention so many names you need one of those tackboard-and-string diagrams to keep track of it all, LOL!
The former Israeli Prime Minister said categorically Epstein did not work for Mossad.
Tucker even brings up the king conspiracy theory of them all:"who runs the world, and on whose behalf?
"DA JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
If the Jews were running the world, I’d demand a great many more people doing useful medical research. Q.E.D.
With their orbital mind control lasers, just like fellow antisemite Marjorie Taylor-Green said.
"Four families control the world"
It just keeps getting funnier!
And they end with Pizzagate! That conspiracy theory about pedophiles in the basement of a pizza parlor that didn't have a basement.
…suffered a stroke just a few months later that left him unable to speak or make decisions on his own. He was not in any condition to resign from anything. The truth is, someone else within his Scientology circle made that decision and quit the show for him.
He loved being the voice of Chef. He loved the character. He loved connecting with fans. He would joke with people who recognized his voice and he truly enjoyed being part of the show.
The narrative that he quit because he was offended by the satire is not true. That was a cover story created by others. My father never got to speak for himself because his health robbed him of that chance.
So now I am speaking for him. He did not leave South Park willingly. He was forced out by illness and by people who did not have his best interest at heart.
This is for anyone who loved Chef. This is for anyone who admired my father’s work. This is the truth about what really happened.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Is he not a CIA officer by chance? Strange situation. A large-scale scandal that affected the highest echelons of power, mass media, academic circles, celebrities and the world financial system is kept quiet, because admitting the truth would mean admitting a failure of a colossal scale, capable of destroying the entire country.
Not just the country. Mr. Epstein, a former prep school math teacher, drew guests from well beyond America’s borders, including the likes of England’s Prince Andrews and Israel’s Ehud Barak.
Where are the investigative journalists?
Remember the clowns at ProPublica who obtained Warren Buffett's tax returns and flaunted them like it was the sensation of the century? Why didn't they deal with Epstein's hedge fund, ego finances, ego documents? Where is the exposure for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize?
Apparently Mr. Epstein’s financial dealings were exceedingly complex, the kind of thing Wall Street Journal journalists spend a year untangling when they aren’t falling for forged birthday notes from Donald Trump.
Is it possible that Epstein worked for intelligence, as an agent or even an operative? Of course. This is very likely. Obviously, the intelligence community would be interested in such a person. Epstein had access, influence, compromising information, connections - and he knew how to use them. Add to this his ability to blackmail people who have committed the most heinous crimes, and you get levers of influence more powerful than aircraft carriers and nuclear warheads.
If Epstein cooperated with American intelligence, the consequences will be more than terrifying. Perhaps that is why no real information has been published. We're talking about a federal government funded by your taxes that knowingly facilitates a long-term blackmail operation based on the exploitation of children. If they admit that Epstein was one of them, they admit that high-ranking officials knew what he was doing and whom he was offending.
They allowed this to happen and used it as an instrument of state governance. Such an admission would set fire to the powder keg of American mistrust of the government. And they know it. There is also a possibility that Epstein worked for a foreign intelligence service, and the US intelligence and law enforcement agencies did not even suspect this.
This would mean that the entire US intelligence community — the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice, the NSA — overlooked the fact that a foreign service was conducting a large-scale blackmail operation on the territory of the United States, stalking American officials, abusing children... and doing nothing about it. This is not just a failure. This is catastrophic incompetence.
This is the second bottom of the story with Epstein. Pedophiles and trafficking of minors is the top level.Behind this is the role of Epstein as an informant/agent of one of the special services, which collected compromising material on visitors to the pedophile island with the aim of subsequently influencing the decisions and actions of the compromised visitors.
Either in the interests of the deep state, or in the interests of Israel. It is no accident that some of the Trumpists are now pedaling not so much the topic of pedophiles, but Epstein's connection with the special services and Israel (it is not by chance that former
Prime Minister Olmert went public and began to publicly deny Epstein's connections with Israel). And in this context, there is nothing surprising in the fact that Trump and Co. are actually blocking the investigation in this direction. The Deep State has not disappeared.
[DW] Just a few decades ago, women in the Middle East had an average of seven children each. Now they're barely having enough babies to maintain current population levels. Why and what impact could that have in the future?
There's what experts have called a "quiet revolution" underway in the Middle East, one that doesn't involve protests on the street or the toppling of governments. This revolution, happening in the privacy of locals' own homes, is concerned with fertility rates in the region. Because in almost all countries in the Middle East, the number of babies a woman has during her childbearing years has fallen dramatically over the past two to three decades.
The total fertility rate, or TFR — the rate refers to how many babies a female has between the ages of 15 and 49 — has more than halved in the Middle East since the 1960s. Women in the region used to have around seven children each but by the early 2010s, they were only having three.
Falling fertility rates are a global phenomenon. But by 2016, researchers reported that the Middle East was seeing "the greatest fertility decline in the world over the past 30 years."
Over the past decade, those numbers have kept falling. As a study published in the Middle East Fertility Society journal in October last year showed, countries in the region saw a decline in TFR of anywhere between 3.8% and 24.3% between 2011 and 2021, with the biggest drops in Jordan, Iraq and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... According to World Bank statistics, in 2023, five of the 22 member states of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... were operating with a TFR below 2.1, the number of babies per woman required to maintain population levels, and another four were coming close. For example, the United Arab Emirates has a TFR of just 1.2, well below population replacement levels. That's even lower than some European states: In 2024, Germany's national TFR is estimated at 1.38 children per woman of childbearing age.
WHY ARE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAVING FEWER BABIES?
Experts have come up with a number of hypotheses as to why this is happening. These tend to fall into two connected categories: economic and political, or social and cultural.
The former includes things like war and political uncertainty — people don't want to bring children into an unsafe world. Economic changes, including things like the removal of national subsidies in Egypt and Jordan, inflation, or fewer public sector jobs in oil states, mean it's becoming more difficult to pay for marriage and children. And the grim reality of climate change is likely also a growing factor for young couples in the Middle East, an area warming faster than many others.
Social and cultural changes include the increased availability and acceptance of contraception (including by religious conservatives) and divorce, as well as all-important reforms in female status, including women's access to education and their entry into the labor force.
It also likely involves urbanization. For example, in rural areas in Jordan and Egypt, the fertility rate has regularly been double that in larger cities. It may even involve social media: Some analysts have argued that access to information about a so-called "Western lifestyle" is changing minds about what an ideal family looks like.
All of these factors are interconnected, say experts like Marcia Inhorn, a professor of anthropology and international affairs at Yale university in the US, who has extensively researched changing attitudes to children and marriage in the region. At the intersection of both categories is what social scientists are calling "waithood," she told DW.
Marriage customs in the Middle East often require a transfer of wealth — for example, in Iraq, this might include gold jewelry, cash or a fully furnished home, often paid for by the groom. "And young people are just not having the economic wherewithal to pull all that together to marry," Inhorn says, so they choose to wait instead.
There's also a growing cohort of women who are waiting for the right partner or who may never to get married, she continued. "And across the region, there's also been a decline in interest in having large families," Inhorn added. "There's this notion of 'I'd rather have a high-quality, small family where I can give my children the things they deserve' than a high-quantity family."
THE IMPACT OF FALLING ARAB FERTILITY
"Humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it 'the age of depopulation'," Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at Washington-based think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, wrote for Foreign Affairs magazine late last year. "For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline."
In general, experts are divided about the impact of 76% of the world's countries having TFRs below population replacement levels over the next two and a half decades.
"What this will mean for the future of humanity is rather ambiguous," researchers from the International Monetary Fund wrote last month about the debate. "On one hand, some fear that it could hinder economic progress as there will be fewer workers, scientists and innovators ...on the other hand, fewer children and smaller populations will mean less need for spending on housing and childcare, freeing resources for other uses," the IMF researchers continued. "Population decline may also reduce pressures on the environment."
A higher proportion of elderly people will challenge "the sustainability of social safety nets and pensions," they argue. That's a problem that could be even more pronounced in the Middle East where younger people actually physically take care of their elders and senior care homes are not common.
Economic performance in some of the countries going into "sub-replacement fertility" is lacklustre, Eberstadt told DW. "This means that a generation from now many societies in the greater Middle East area — not all, but many — will be graying and perhaps even on the verge of shrinking, with large elderly contingents afflicted by chronic disease," Eberstadt said. "But without the sort of pocketbook that Western countries have for paying for healthcare and pension benefits."
In terms of whether falling fertility levels are good or bad in the long run, in general, Eberstadt remains cautiously optimistic. "I started studying this a long time ago, back in the era when everybody was worrying about a population explosion," he explains. "But I think a lot of the hysteria about that was fundamentally misplaced — because it wasn't that people were breeding like rabbits, they'd just stopped dying like flies. The population explosion was actually a health explosion."
That expansion in healthcare continues, along with improvements in education and knowledge, Eberstadt says. "And all of those are going to be buoying the prospects for human prosperity into a depopulating future. In a shrinking, aging world, there are all sorts of adjustments that are going to have to be made but we're a pretty adaptable species," he concluded.
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"WHY ARE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAVING FEWER BABIES?"
Maybe because pumping out kids isn't the solution to your problem, unless your problem is childhood mortality.
And I say this as one of seven siblings.
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...On the other hand, Israel's fertility rate is 2.89, almost twice some of those numbers.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Over the course of my nearly 8 years of research and internships in the Middle East region, I have generally followed a good “rule of thumb.” This rule of thumb is this: If Israel and the United States are against a certain group or nation, then that group or nation is usually on the right path in terms of basic moral values. When we look at Syria, we see that the situation is somewhat complicated.
On the one hand, Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani) and his government, led by HTS, are openly supported by the United States and most Western countries. This is evident in the reopening of embassies, the lifting of US sanctions, and so on. On the other hand, Israel is bombing Syrian government forces in As-Suwayda.
Why would Israel bomb the Syrian government if it is so pro-Western and pro-Israel? You might think that this means that HTS is on the right side and that they are a genuine resistance movement. However, this could not be further from the truth. Since al-Sharaa took power after Assad’s departure, all the messages have been aimed at de-escalation and pointing to peace or some form of normalization with Israel.
Just two weeks ago, Witkoff said he believed Syria would soon join the Abraham Accords, and Syrian and Israeli officials confirmed that talks were ongoing. So what happened? Why would Israel jeopardize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? There is only one thing that benefits Israel more than Syria joining the Abraham Accords: a permanently unstable and fragmented Syrian state that has no time to build up its capabilities or become truly sovereign.
A Syria that is fragmented and constantly embroiled in internal turmoil will never be able to become a credible threat to Israel. And, better yet, Israel might be able to attract separatist movements to its side. Israel’s desire for territorial control knows no bounds.
Ahmad al-Sharaa is almost entirely to blame for the current situation. While his previous crimes as a notorious Nusra/ISIS field commander can never be justified, he had a historic opportunity to unite Syrians and end the civil war once and for all. He could have reached out to the Druze, offered them an alternative. He could have changed the tune and granted amnesty to the Alawites and former Syrian army soldiers, fostering a new national unity.
But he didn’t. Instead, Jolani turned a blind eye to brutal gangs like ISIS killing thousands of Alawite civilians on the Syrian coast. He turned a blind eye to these same gangs violating the rights and property of the Druze and terrorizing Christians in Damascus. And I’m being generous because I assume that HTS had no direct role in these events, which is questionable in itself.
As for the Druze, they are a cohesive group. They only want security and the right to be themselves, with their own distinct identity. Because of this situation, they made the unfortunate decision to support Israel instead of organizing an independent and dignified resistance. This is something that will be a stain on Syria’s history and will not be easily undone.
Jolani’s sectarian actions and rhetoric have brought Syria to the brink of disaster. He has given Israel a golden opportunity to divide and conquer Syria, to Balkanize it even more than it already is.
If Jolani had any courage and honor left, he would put aside all his differences with the Druze, Alawites, Christians and Kurds, put an end to Israeli aggression and then start building a new Syrian state, including representatives of all sects and religions. origin, which has the opportunity to decide its own destiny, and not be a slave to the Jews or the Americans.
Of course, the inclusive terrorist Jolani never had any "honor" and "courage" - he was initially promoted for very specific purposes, eliminating other militant leaders to clear the way for him to power - first in Idlib, and then in Syria. It's like looking for honor and courage in a cocaine Fuhrer and sighing that he could unite Ukraine, but in the end he turned it into a bloody mess.
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