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Incendiary kite terrorism rages on despite Gaza ceasefire
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China-Japan-Koreas
Trump puts the Korean horse ahead of the Iranian cart
[IsraelNationalNews] The pundits don’t stop yammering and carping on every step President Trump takes to solve the greatest threats the world has ever seen: The joint North Korean/Iranian development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles systems to deliver them.

But, despite 24 years of what any objective observer would see as the abject systemic failure of 3 different US administrations to solve the Korean/Iranian nuclear file, the media does nothing but act like 24 years of failures have been successful. Their experts appear to fatuously opine Trump should continue with the same appeasement idiocy three different US administrations have applied to the Iran/North Nuclear nuclear problem.

Instead, Trump has hewed to a 2-step common sense approach. First, divide and conquer. Second, isolate the real nuclear emergency priority: North Korea. In effect, Trump is ingeniously putting the North Korean nuclear "horse" in front of the Iranian nuclear "cart," and thus Trump stands to use common sense to successfully solve both the North Korea and Iranian nuclear problems.

Why is the North Korean nuclear file the "horse," and not the "cart"? North Korea is the "horse" or the first to be focused on because North Korea actually already has the nuclear bomb, and Iran relies on North Korea’s technical nuclear expertise to develop its own. So, if President Trump can turn North Korea, he has at best, paralyzed, and at worst, dramatically slowed Iran’s progress and pathway to an actual functional nuclear weapon.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/01/2018 06:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Maybe we can get the author to release this for publication in the New York Times Washington Post, and Los Angles Times..

Oh, wait - am I awake?
Posted by: Bobby || 06/01/2018 10:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Pudgy might be evil but at least he's sane. You can't say that for the Mad Mullahs. They don't call 'em mad for nothing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/01/2018 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Both Pudgy and the Mad Mullahs have consistently applied techniques that heretofore worked very well indeed, a mark of sanity. It will take serious pain for them — and their supporters and enablers —to accept that circumstances have changed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/01/2018 14:05 Comments || Top||

#4  All Iran and North Korea have to do is wait for the Brennans and Muellers and (apparently) Sessions and Gowdys and Ryans and whatnot to falsely convict him of Collusion OMG! so they can get the US back on course to committing suicide by Mandarin Caste.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/01/2018 16:11 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The full story behind the understandings for a truce in Gaza
[Ynet] Analysis: Israel turned down Paleostinian organizations’ demand to issue official statement on ceasefire Tuesday evening, insisting that ’calm will be met with calm.’ Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and Islamic Jihad kept firing rockets, but after IDF strikes in Gazoo left no casualties, they informed Egypt they were prepared to halt fire. Rockets fired after 1 am were launched by small ’rebel’ organizations.

The statements issued by Hamas and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, that they have reached a ceasefire with Israel, are false. Their aim is to create an impression that Tuesday’s exchanges of fire led to a tie between the Paleostinian organizations and the IDF, and that the Paleostinian organizations managed to achieve a situation of mutual deterrence, in which the IDF was forced to change its pattern of action as a result of the barrages fired at the western Negev communities.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/01/2018 01:18 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Home Front: Culture Wars
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
[PJMedia] As many observers have noted, America is now embroiled in a de facto civil war in which the nation is being relentlessly attacked and disassembled from within, not by the conservative Right, as The New Yorker and other progressivist outlets irresponsibly lament, but by the domestic Left.

...It is a state of affairs that, in its insidious way, is no less critical than the bloody civil war that split the nation in the 1860s. There’s no blood in the streets yet -- or maybe just a little -- but the nation is split pretty much in half. One half wishes to destroy the other through a series of destabilizing tactics: electoral fraud, fake news, negonomics, industrial dereliction, globalist doctrine, climate change scam, university indoctrination, Blue State model primary and secondary education, the divisive concept of a "living constitution," trade deficits, pro-Islamic logrolling, radical feminism, gender dysphoria, pro-choice abortion favoring a sub-replacement fertility rate, runaway entitlements, censorship-prone social media monopolies like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google, the abolition of the Second Amendment, open borders, caravan immigration, sanctuary cities, politically correct -- and in some places, compelled -- speech, judicial overreach, ubiquitous surveillance of American citizens, foreign policy surrender and revolutionary advocacy.

...Realism must finally prevail. The battle for the nation’s survival as a constitutional republic cannot be won until the domestic Left is torn root and branch from the body politic. As David Horowitz writes, "It would be a healthy development for everyone, rich and poor alike, if future generations put Karl Marx’s manifesto on the same sinister shelf as Mein Kampf and other destructive products of the human soul." One may justly view the Manifesto as a synecdoche for the Left in toto, itself, collectively speaking, a destructive product of the human soul.

Many refuse to recognize that the Left is not merely a political party across the aisle or that so-called democratic Socialism is not democratic. In his fact-filled volume The Psychotic Left, Kerry Bolton defines the Left and its adjuncts as "a psychological aberration having the same motivations as the mass murderer, the rapist and the thief." The evidence he accumulates for his thesis is conclusive. The reduction of society in the direction of state control, a command economy, the policing of language, "equality of suffering" and mediocrity of existence as "happened in Bolshevik Russia and Jacobin France," he argues, "is happening at more subtle levels today." The drive to create such malignant utopias is the bane of civil society. They are an implacable enemy of free individuals and will not rest until they achieve the goal of our common ruin.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/01/2018 07:24 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A list describing an Orwellian dystopia. It's like the worst of Communism was kept and the less bad aspects rejected or de-emphasized. Who came up with that nightmare?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/01/2018 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  I think we have basically seen a case of the "magnetic poles of politics" flipping. The left now totally believes in the FBI and the CIA and in total government control. Those not of the left (unfortunately "right" or "conservative" are tainted labels now) see nothing but trouble in the hive's plans for us. Now we say "stick it to the man."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2018 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Now we say "stick it to the man."

Started saying that 50 years ago.
Now I wear a sidearm to the grocery just to fit in.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2018 14:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Left believes whatever they have to to defend their team and attack the other team. Law Enforcement will be under the bus once they are no longer useful
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 06/01/2018 15:40 Comments || Top||



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