CHRIS QUEEN: What’s Going on in Argentina’s Elections Sounds Awfully Similar to What We’re Seeing in the U.S. “With so much else going on in the world, it’s easy to overlook the elections in Argentina, but it’s a fascinating story with some interesting parallels to our current political climate. You might find it all uncomfortably familiar.”
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October 24, 2023
NICE JOB, LADIES: Squad of female IDF combat troops eliminated nearly 100 Hamas terrorists.
For nearly four hours, terrorists attempted to outflank Ben-Yehuda and her team, engaging them in firefights. More vans arrived, but the Caracal Battalion commander effectively thwarted them. Additional Light Anti-Armor Weapon (LAW) missiles were launched, further eliminating terrorists: Some were killed, and others retreated.
Despite wounds to some of her soldiers, they persevered.
After hours of intense combat, soldiers from the Shayetet (flotilla) 13 Navy Special Forces unit arrived to clear the base of terrorists. Drones were launched to assist them. The firefights continued, and wounded soldiers were evacuated. They remained at the base for a total of 14 hours until it was fully secured.
Ben-Yehuda emphasized the significant contributions of the female soldiers under her command, who saved many lives through medical care and even daring helicopter landings under fire. Their remarkable performance under the extreme pressure of war highlighted their capabilities.
Previously: Islamists’ Fear of Females: The Roots of Gynophobic Misogyny among the Taliban and Islamic State.
Well, now they have good reason.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: You Can’t Beat the Truth Into This Israeli Peace Activist with a Stick, Literally.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: General Services Administration head worked mostly from Missouri after calling employees back in. “The head of the General Services Administration, the government agency that helps to manage and support federal agencies, spent most of her time working remotely from Missouri during the year after she ordered employees back to their offices, according to a letter from the agency to Congress.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Pure Evil—Team Biden Pimping Nonexistent ‘Islamophobia’ Narrative. “As we are all painfully aware, Joe Biden always finds a way to make any awful thing he’s done even worse. After making a trip to Israel just so he could offer to cut a check to the terrorists, Biden and his puppet masters did what they always do after Islamic terrorists murder people: they started barking ‘Islamophobia’ like trained seals.”
BOO: Cost Of Halloween Candy Is Up 13% This Year.
UCLA supply-chain expert Professor Christopher Tang says candy is so expensive because of the cost of ingredients.
It’s also because these products are mainly made in the United States.
“The labor cost has gone up a lot because of inflation,” Tang said. “The workers need to have a higher income so that they can survive.”
“All the ingredients from wrapping paper to the basic ingredients like sugar, and also the cocoa beans that we have imported from Africa. So as a result, every single ingredient, element, and the wages are going up.”
According to the National Retail Federation, the average household will spend about $31.93 on candy this year – up from $25.91 last year.
All the smartest people had assured me inflation was over.
HE NEEDS HIS REST: Rapper 50 Cent Tells Biden to ‘Get the F*** Up’ From Another Beach Vacation.
NOWHERE TO RUN: New elite Israeli unit to hunt down every Hamas terrorist involved in sneak slaughter.
The specially selected members of Shin Bet, Israel’s version of the FBI, will function independently from other units targeting high-ranking terrorists, the Jerusalem Post said.
The new unit will specifically target members of the special Hamas commando group called Nukhba, which is believed to have pulled off the attack that slaughtered hundreds of innocent Israelis along the country’s border with the Gaza Strip.
The unit is being named after the World War I-era Jewish underground organization “Nili,” an acronym in Hebrew for “the Eternal One of Israel will not lie,” said the Times of Israel.
As Adolf Eichmann learned 15 years after he fled Nazi Germany for Argentina, the Israelis are effective and as patient as they need to be — and their reach is global.
ROBERT SPENCER: Why Israel Still Hasn’t Started Its Ground Operation in Gaza. “Every day the ground incursion is delayed, in fact, aids Hamas by giving it time to strengthen its defenses, set traps for Israeli soldiers, and stir up its populace with even more Jew-hatred and bloodlust than they get in ordinary times. At this point, it isn’t even completely certain that there will be any ground operation in Gaza at all, despite the fact that there can be no definitive end of Hamas without one, and so the bloody events of Oct. 7 will just be replayed on another day.”
October 23, 2023
I DON’T NEED THIS YET BUT I’M ADDING A “FASTER, PLEASE,” JUST IN CASE: First-ever treatment can regenerate 90% of lost hair, study finds.
EVERGREEN HEADLINES: Biden Doubles Down on Stupid. “Presidentish Joe Biden has a message of peace and love on Monday in the aftermath of the most deadly attack on Jewish civilians since the Holocaust. It did, however, leave me with one question: did the White House’s Dr. Feelgood get your daily dosage wrong, Mr. President?”
CHANGE: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Breaks Ground in Europe, Wins Key Satellite Launch Deal.
Notably, the collaboration is expected to see two launches in the coming year, each bearing two Galileo satellites, a move underscored by Javier Benedicto, the ESA’s director of navigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The final go-ahead, rests with the European Commission and EU member states and an approval is anticipated before the end of this year.
According to the terms laid out, the U.S.-based Falcon 9 rockets, part of SpaceX’s arsenal, will take the satellites into space.
EU authorities initially hesitated to leverage SpaceX for the Galileo satellite launches, with concerns stemming from a reluctance to rely on a U.S. entity to deploy essential infrastructure into space.
But, given the delays with Europe’s Ariane rocket program and the conscious choice to sidestep Russian rockets due to geopolitical tensions, officials conceded that SpaceX became the viable alternative.
Last July: Ariane 5 launches final mission as Europe faces space gap. “The mission to send France’s Syracuse 4B and Germany’s Heinrich Hertz (H2Sat) satellites to geostationary orbit caps 27 years of service for Ariane 5, whose successor – Ariane 6 – has been hit by technical delays until 2024 for operational use.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Americans Are Overdue With Their Car Payments At Highest Rate In Nearly 30 Years.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Seattle Dystopia: Students at Three Schools Targeted by Masked and Armed Gangs.
BATTLESWARM: Russia: “We Are Withdrawing From The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.” U.S.: “OK.” BOOM!
Some under-reported news from last week: Russia withdrew from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), and literally hours later the U.S. conducted a nuclear test.
So, a nuclear test, but not a nuclear/fission device. It seems like this was a test using conventional high explosive mixed with radioactive isotopes, For Science.
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The U.S is still a signatory to a number of other nuclear weapons treaties. But it’s pretty interesting that the Department of Energy had this one cued up and ready to go immediately after the Russkies nixed the treaty…
It’s always such a pleasant surprise when we aren’t caught by surprise.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: You’ll Never Believe Where Hamas Hid a Military Headquarters (Actually, You Will).
Plus, a preview of the upcoming ground campaign courtesy of Edward Luttwak.
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL: 1 in 4 ISIS brides returned to Sweden now work in Swedish schools, shocking report reveals. “Of the 81 women confirmed to have fled Sweden to join the Islamic State at the peak of its power and subsequently repatriated, 21 were found to now be employed in Swedish schools, kindergartens, and asylum centers for kids. The bombshell report evoked a strong reaction from government ministers who questioned how radicalized individuals who were willing to join a terrorist organization had been permitted to work with young people upon their return to the country.”
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Obama’s Racist Chickens Have Come Home to Roost. “Rather than elevate black people, the far left has created a situation where black crime is legal and white people are racist if they notice.”
CHANGE: As U.S. Debt Surges, Europe Brings Its Own Under Control.
The U.S. government Friday said its deficit rose to $1.7 trillion, or 6.3% of gross domestic product, in the year ended Sept. 30, from $1.4 trillion, or 5.4% of GDP, a year earlier. Without an accounting change related to the administration’s aborted student-loan-cancellation program, the deficit would have been closer to $2 trillion, a doubling from the prior year.
In projections released earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund projects U.S. deficits for all governments will reach 7.4% of GDP in 2024 and 2025.
But in Europe it is a different picture. The IMF expects combined deficits of eurozone governments will fall to 3.4% of GDP this year from 3.6% in 2022, and further to 2.7% in 2024.
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Crucially, it doesn’t seem to have a path to narrowing those deficits: the Biden administration has proposed tax rises that Republicans and some Democrats in Congress reject, while Republicans seek spending cuts that the administration won’t countenance.
Under Biden, federal spending as a percentage of GDP is at post-WWII highs (excluding one-time lockdown bailouts/stimulus of 2020-21), while defense spending (including on Ukraine) as a percentage of GDP is at or near post-WWII lows.
ASHLEY MCCULLY: The Silent Death Toll in Israel.
Natanel died living his dream: defending Israel as an IDF soldier. He was only 20 years old.
The youngest of five children, Natanel, or Nat as his family called him, moved from London to Tel Aviv when he was 18, just old enough to volunteer in the Israeli Defense Force. Nat embodied the Spirit of the IDF: Patriotism, commitment, and devotion to the State of Israel—a democratic state that is the national home of the Jewish people—and to its citizens and residents.
Israel’s national airline, El Al, maintains the same spirit. It is one of the only airlines continuing routes in and out of the country, delivering tens of thousands of people to defend their homeland with Nat and his comrades.
Read the whole thing.
Law enforcement budgets in the city, which is ravaged by homelessness, drugs and a downtown business exodus, face cuts of $27.6 million, while the public health department could lose a further $25.9 million, according to a DailyMail.com analysis.
The fire department must propose reductions of around $10.5 million to meet the mayor’s demand, while city’s crumbling Municipal Transport Agency must find savings of $15.5 million, a review of official figures suggests.
In a letter dated October 11, Mayor London Breed ordered departments to propose massive cuts to this year’s budgets in order to prevent San Francisco reaching a $500 million deficit by 2025.
The radical cuts mark an embarrassing change of tack from Breed, who is now forced to tear up the record-breaking $14.6 billion annual budget she signed off just three months ago. Department heads across the city have until Thursday, October 26 to propose their cuts.
San Francisco has serious problems with crime, mental health, and drug addiction, so it’s big cuts for police and health.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats Want Kids Dumb for Public School Indoctrination. “While it’s true that the young minds of college students are polluted by leftist radicals in Academia, those who arrived at universities via the American public education system did so with brains that were ripe for whatever progressive nonsense their professors threw at them. The far-left thoroughly evil teachers’ unions who control public schools and the Democratic Party saw to that.”