KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY: Hamas Calls for Global Pro-Terrorism Rallies on Friday.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 12, 2023
BUT THE CLASS OF 2023 LEADS IN PERSONAL PRONOUN USAGE AND IN HOURS SPENT WITH DRAG QUEENS: ACT test scores fall to lowest levels in 32 years. “It sunk slightly lower than the 2022 score of 19.8, which had been a 30-year low, as well… Average scores have been declining for six consecutive years, ACT CEO Janet Godwin said in a statement.”
In other words, the trendline sucks.
October 11, 2023
GLENN GREENWALD:
The fraudulent "disinformation industry" was invented after Brexit and Trump's 2016 win because Western elites concluded online free speech is too dangerous.
This EU study — designed to legally force X to censor more — is supremely fraudulent:https://t.co/dK2JG7VU8X pic.twitter.com/6jOu5PrOQi
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 10, 2023
Exit quote: “You should assume that everyone claiming to be a ‘disinformation expert’ is a fraud and censorship advocate.”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: You Won’t Believe How Many Times Biden Lied About His Corrupt Family Business.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Harvard Student Leaves Lecture On Microaggressions To Attend ‘Kill The Jews’ Rally.
BECAUSE OF COURSE: Biden Won’t Refreeze Iran’s $6 Billion.
As I guessed last night, the Biden Cabal won’t let anything derail their resurrection of Obama’s Iran Deal.
DEMOCRATS SPENTS YEARS PLAYING THE RACE CARD TO SHIELD THESE TWO FROM CRITICISM, SO YOU’LL EXCUSE ME IF I’M NOT BUYING TODAY’S CONDEMNATION: White House strongly condemns ‘repugnant’ comments made by Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar: ‘There are not two sides.’
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO F*** THINGS UP: The U.S. Money Trail With Iran Is Worse Than You Think.
In a recent article, senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former National Security Council official Richard Goldberg traces the money trail. He confirms: It is so much worse than we think.
Goldberg lays out the numbers. The $6 billion you’ve seen in every (other) headline is only the money being transferred from our friends in Qatar. But this is separate from the $10 billion of assets being transferred from Iraq, which Goldberg says will continue on “a rolling basis.” Then there are the reports that Iran will be allowed to access $7 billion in fiat currency by trading drawing rights with the International Monetary Fund. He also says Japan is scheduled to transfer $3 billion to Iran.
“Money is fungible,” and even the funds that have not yet been unfrozen are likely being treated as good credit in Iran’s ledger.
The revelations do not end there. U.S. officials have also quietly acknowledged that they’ve uncapped Iranian oil exports to China. These export levels, previously held around 775,000 barrels per day under Trump’s sanctions, are now estimated to be between 1.4 and 2.2 million barrels per day. Modest estimates value this relief at $25 billion annually.
The total? $50 billion.
It’s giving a thug a loaded machine gun and expecting him not to shoot the bullets.
Oh, I don’t think this White House of Obama retreads expected that at all.
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: According to KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov, It’s Time for a ‘Crisis.’ “A ‘crisis’ may involve violent riots as we saw from 2020 to 2021. Or perhaps a manufactured shortage of food, water, and energy. There may be a handful of ‘crises’ that form one large calamity. The chaos will likely result in another lockdown — you know, to keep us ‘safe’ like last time. Remember: Marxism, like most tyrannies, comes disguised as virtue.”
GREAT MOMENTS IN EDITING:
The @nytimes changed it from “terrorists” to “gunmen.”
Wouldn’t want to upset the Hamas Caucus, I guess. https://t.co/s1AJjIpC4K pic.twitter.com/LiELP4S9ki
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) October 11, 2023
The editors of the New York Times are finely attuned to their readers’ sensitivities. They helped nurture them, after all.
ROBERT SPENCER: Hamas and Fatah Explain What Their War Against Israel is All About. “Two jihad groups, including the one that was behind the massacres, Hamas, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, have issued statements that clarify exactly what they think they’re doing. As you might expect, they both make for chilling reading.”
SPACE: For the third time in a year, Russian hardware on the space station is leaking.
The problems with leaky radiators began about 10 months ago.
On December 14, 2022, as two cosmonauts were preparing to conduct a spacewalk outside the space station, the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked nearby began to leak uncontrollably from its external cooling loop. This Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft had been due to bring cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, as well as NASA’s Frank Rubio, back to Earth in March. A replacement vehicle had to be sent up to bring them home, and they landed safely last month.
Additionally, on February 11, 2023, the Progress MS-21 supply ship attached to the International Space Station lost pressure in its external cooling system. Once again, all of the coolant on board a Russian spacecraft leaked into space due to a rupture. This vehicle, which had been docked to the ISS since October, later detached and returned to Earth’s atmosphere without incident.
After these problems, Russian officials blamed both of these coolant system leaks on “an external impact,” pointing toward a micrometeorite or small fragment of orbital debris as the cause. Although privately some NASA officials questioned whether both of these leaks really were caused by impacts in space, rather than technical defects with the hardware, publicly the US space agency has gone along with the explanation.
But then Monday’s incident happened.
Russian gear isn’t known as the most reliable but this is ridiculous.
FIVE FREED HOSTAGES AND A RIVER OF BLOOD: $6 Billion in Iranian Assets Buys What, Exactly?
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): How do you say “Thanks for the $6 billion” in Farsi? “Death to America!”
LIFE DURING WARTIME: As Hamas war rages, personal firearm activists see surge in interest.
Gun control in Israel is relatively strict, and firearm licenses are generally only granted to those who can show a need for extra security in their line of work or daily life. Meaning, one of the key criteria for a private citizen to receive permission to own a gun is where they live.
That could now change, says Rabbi Raz Blizovsky, 32, of Katzrin, an activist who has been part of grassroots discussions around personal arms.
“People are changing their opinion, and now there is more awareness,” he told The Times of Israel. It doesn’t make sense, he said, that someone in Tel Aviv cannot get a pistol, but someone in the Golan can. “There are terror attacks in both places,” he stressed.
The best time for a government to recognize the individual’s right to protect life, liberty, and property with firearms is before the stuff hits the fan. The second-best time is right now.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: WTAF Was Hamas Thinking? IDF Warns Gaza ‘Will Soon Be a Tent City.’ “Hamas wanted an Old Testament war and now they’re going to get one.”
THIS IS CNN? ‘Blood’s on the Wall’; Emotional CNN Reporter Details Horrifying Site of Hamas Terror.
Having been with CNN for over two decades and a foreign journalist for more than three decades, CNN international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson has seen plenty covering natural disasters, terror attacks, and war zones. But on Monday’s The Lead, he was repeatedly on the verge of breaking down in tears describing what he called “callous, cruel, cold-blooded killing” of Israelis and other innocents by Hamas terrorists at a Re’im music festival.
Robertson went into graphic detail describing what he saw at the now-eerie site, including evidence of Hamas hunting attendees down into bomb shelters as they fled both the terrorists and incoming rockets, leaving blood splattered “on the ceiling and…bullet holes…in the concrete wall.”
Robertson was moved by a conversation host Jake Tapper had with Biden National Security Council official John Kirby, who was similarly choked up. Tapper said he’s “never seen anything like this” with “the images of children kidnapped, of — of young women who have been abducted, who have blood in their pants because they’ve been repeatedly raped.”
This moved Kirby: “I — I — it — I’m sorry. It’s very — excuse me. It’s very difficult to look at these images, Jake. It is — the human cost and these are human beings. They’re family members. Their friends and loved ones and cousins and brothers and sisters. Yeah, it is difficult and I apologize.”
“Nothing to say sorry for,” Tapper replied.
Read the whole thing.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ‘The Squad’ Idiots Should Be Sent to a Country They Actually Like. “For the longest time, the Democrats at least managed to keep the most virulent anti-Semitic voices among them out of national office. When Minnesota sent Keith Ellison to Congress in 2007, he would at least try to be coy about his true feelings. Then Ellison was succeeded by Ilhan Omar, and all Squad hell broke loose.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: ATF Pistol Brace Regulations Blocked. “This ruling is also another example of why the black-pilled ‘Republicans are useless’ mutterings are wrong. Without Reagan, Bush41, Bush43 and Trump judicial appointments, it’s overwhelmingly likely that none of the landmark Second Amendment cases (Heller, Bruen) go our way, and ruling Democrats would be busy working on complete disarmament of American citizens.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I always assume that most of the black-pilled crowd are actually just plants paid by some lefty organization to post depressing stuff to demoralize their enemies. I mean, can there really be that many actual idiots out there?
NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: Ilhan Omar Doubles Down on Hamas.
CDR SALAMANDER: Prelude to Slaughter.
Glenn already linked to Sal’s latest but I wanted to break out this part:
The fact Gaza became a terrorist run safe space didn’t stop the “International Community (IC),” the internationalist left, and useful idiots from turning it in to a global welfare state that never had to earn support through constructive behavior. Humanitarian aid came in from all over the place, and with each passing year it became a stronger and more effective proxy for Iran. There was never a popular uprising against Hamas by the residents of Gaza, just the opposite. They own this. They are “this.”
The attacks from Gaza last weekend did not happen in a vacuum, nor did they happen overnight. As with almost all frozen conflicts, they eventually thaw out under the right conditions.
In the case of the latest – and most deadly events – the latent causes that enabled the Gazans (as I prefer call them if you haven’t noticed) to think now was the time to send the death squads out of their enclave ultimately belong to the Gazans themselves. As I said above, they own this. However, it could not have happened without outside help.
Gaza is one of the planet’s most concentrated areas of misery and poverty. They don’t have the economic surplus to afford any of this on their own. Gaza was intellectually and financially underwritten from the outside through active sustainment, willful neglect, and outright encouragement.
The Gazans will get their due courtesy of the IDF. But what of their enablers here in the West?