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Zuck orchestrates hiring blitz to take Meta back from the woke mob. Will he be successful?   JORDAN SCHACHTEL

JAN 06, 2025 – At the onset of the Covid hysteria times, Mark Zuckerberg began the process of an ideological transformation, and the first signs came in the form of his physical appearance. The once-scrawny nerd was suddenly lifting weights and training and competing in the martial arts.

During the Covid years, Meta embraced vicious and repeated political censorship on Facebook and Instagram, hailing the likes of Anthony Fauci as the all-knowing totality of science itself and imposing blanket bans on any who dared to question the Current Thing or any of the sacred cows of the political establishment, like Hunter Biden’s laptop or the efficacy of mRNA injections produced by Pfizer and Moderna.

At the same time, the company’s founder was publicly becoming increasingly uncomfortable with what his creation had become.

For those of us who embrace the ways of the bro science, it was apparent what was happening. Zuck, once relatively uninterested in the machinations of politics and influence, began physically and ideologically distancing himself from the woke mafia, which, sadly, slowly and deliberately took over the company he founded from his Harvard dorm room in 2004.

Last week, Meta announced it was hiring Joel Kaplan, a longtime proponent of robust speech, to lead its global policy team. An angry MSNBC reporter, clearly concerned about the appeal to liberty-aligned voices, declared the hiring a “MAGA-friendly makeover.”

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[Ed.:  After being kicked out for life, today Zuckerprick invited me back to his Facebook!  But, he had to change the name to ‘META’  because of bad reputation, and 4-letter acronyms are in fashion due to MAGA.  Now he wants me back as a confirmed MAGA-type person!  What chutzpa!  And in answer to Jordan Schachtel’s excellent article:  No, his efforts at redemption at this point will not be successful.  Now he can eat crow.]

   

 

JUST NOW: Trump JUST SHOCKED Congress with new DEMAND!!  [35:06]   Stephen Gardner

Jan 6, 2025

Trump calls for Liz Chenney to be investigated and jailed if necessary. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada steps down. Trump is elected 47th president of the United States by Electoral College.

Jacob Chansley the January 6th Shaman

It was so good to run into you at Charlie Kirks’ AmFest in Phoenix.

I was one of the first channels to interview you out of jail because I wanted to help clear your name and let you tell your story. I want to hear more of it today but first, what are your thoughts on Liz Cheney receiving the Presidential Citizens metal for her role in going after J6 prisoners and President Donald Trump.

Trump said in the last 24 hours, not only does he want Liz Cheney investigated but she should be jailed for destroying evidence that would help over 1000 defendants and until that can happen he plans to pardon them once in office.

What is your feeling on no accountability thus far of Nancy Pelosi or General Mark Milley or any of the others that rejected the National Guard which would have been used to keep order instead we find out over 20 undercover FBI informants were in the crowd instigating chaos and pushing people towards the capitol.

Do you think Kash Patel will investigate further the role of the FBI on January 6th. Will we get to the bottom of that day?

I saw today that Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is resigning. He no longer has confidence from his voters. His biggest downfall was flooding canada with illegal immigrants and the Trucker blockade where he took people money right out of their bank accounts, closed down businesses, fined people, sued them into the ground and blocked them from receiving outside financial help. Thoughts on the public getting rid of terrible leaders like Trudeau and Biden.

Today Attorney General Merrick Garland said J6 was one of the most tragic days in American history and that 5 police officiers died defending their country, but reporting shows no police died that day. One gentleman died a few days later of what appears to be a stroke or aneurysm but not one J6 defendant was accused of manslaughter. Why make up these lies as the head of the Justice Department?

I believe after Trump takes office a group of J6 defendants are officially filing a $50 billion class action lawsuit against the federal government and the DOJ. Are you part of that suit and what do you think will come of it?

 

The Fabricated Video Scandal—Exposing the Deep State in Israel   [9:40]   Avi Abelow

Jan 6, 2025 – The Sde Teman prison video scandal seems to be a catalyst that is exposing the deep state like never before for so many Israelis.

While the fabricated video is a horrible blood libel, it seems like the Israeli public are finally being exposed to the depth and power of the deep state like never before, bringing us closer than ever to their downfall.

 

“Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse”: Gaza, like Carthage   Alexander Maistrovoy

“Furthermore, I consider Carthage to need to be destroyed,” repeated Cato the Elder. Gaza is Jihad’s foothold, our Carthage. We have no other choice.   Opinion.

Jan 5, 2025, 10:42 PM (GMT+2)   Israel National News The winner in a conflict is the one who better understands the enemy’s ultimate goals and worldview, his aspirations and priorities.

What is Gaza for Israel?

For the average Israeli, thinking within the framework of a rational Western worldview (I am not talking about leftist inversions), Gaza is a bridgehead controlled by a hostile force, Hamas. So, it is necessary to weaken Hamas as much as possible and control it through its proxies (like Dahlan) with the support of moderate Arab states or contain it directly through a military administration.

What is Gaza for Islam in general, and for the local Arab population in particular?

Gaza, in their view, is the sacred land of Ribat, a stronghold, a “vigilant watch” or citadel of an even “greater Ribat” – Arḍ al-Ribat (“Land of Ribat”) – Palestine. They are guided not by politics, but by sacred precepts that they must strictly follow.

Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, to which I will refer, thus defines the significance of the Gaza Strip.

“Whether in honoring the Prophet’s lineage or serving as a strategic stronghold for the defense of Muslim lands, Gaza boasts a history steeped in nobility, virtue, and honor.”

The different aspects of Gaza’s importance to Arabs and to Islam are then highlighted.

  • Gaza is sacral land. It is the resting place for many noble Islamic figures throughout history.

Islamic figures buried in Gaza are listed: “Amr ibn ʿAbd Manāf, …the grandfather of Prophet Muhammad, …some of Hāshim’s relatives from the Banū ʿAmr ibn Kinānah tribe, noble descendant of Ḥāshim, the esteemed scholar and founder of the Shāfiʿī school of thought, Imām al-Shāfiʿī”.

“In this vein, Gaza has continued to honor the Prophet’s lineage, becoming known among Muslims as Gaza-Hāshim”.

It is emphasized that “Gaza played a pivotal role as a hub for Arab trade expeditions”.

  • This is Ribat, the territory of “jihad”, which includes Ashkelon.

“A selection of hadiths also extol Ashkelon (ʿAsqalān), a city now located 13 kilometers north of the border with the Gaza Strip. Such hadiths commend the city for being dedicated to defending Muslim lands, an endeavor known as ribāṭ.

The Prophet was reported to have said,

“So, upon you is jihād, and indeed, the best of your jihād is ribāṭ, and the best of your ribāṭ is in Ashkelon»”.

Major Islamic figures who visited Ashkelon or were buried there are listed.

It is emphasized: “The aim of ribāṭ is to safeguard Muslim lands and honor”.

“Al-Bukhārī (d. 256/870) titled one of the chapters in his collection “A Chapter on the Merit of Performing Ribāṭ for One Day for the Sake of Allah and on Allah’s Saying, ‘You who believe, preserve, endure, and be ready (rābiṭū).’”.

  • Gaza is defined as a springboard for the conquest of the Levant (al-Sham), which comprises areas in Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

“Аl-Shām plays a pivotal role as the prophesied location for significant events at the end of time, including the descent of Prophet Jesus (AS) and the demise of al-Dajjāl, as indicated in several hadiths”.

(al-Dajjāl is associated with the West, and of course with the “Zionists” – A.M.).

“The Prophet’s companion, ʿAbdullāh ibn Ḥawālah, narrated that the Prophet said,

The matter will come to the point where you will be enlisted as soldiers: a group in al-Shām, a group in Yemen, and a group in Iraq”.

In other words, in the collective consciousness of Muslims, the fate of Gaza is closely linked to the fulfillment of Koranic prophecies. This, and not just Iranian ambitions, whims, or posturing, is what motivates Yemeni Houthis and Iraqi militants to fire on Israel. It is a religious imperative.

For Israel, this means only one thing: if we do not destroy Gaza, Gaza will destroy us. Ashkelon, Tel Aviv and, of course, Jerusalem will follow.

Therefore, it is not enough to simply try to control Gaza. Most of the population of the Strip firmly believes that Gaza is the chosen “Land of Jihad” (the citadel of an even “Greater Ribat” – Arḍ al-Ribat) to conquer the vicious Zionist entity cursed by Allah.

This leaves Israel with no choice. Many of the Gazans must be resettled in other countries: perhaps in Africa. After October 7, there were plans to resettle them in the Congo and Rwanda for a significant reward, but under pressure from the Bidenites, those plans were curtailed.

With the arrival of the Trump administration, those plans should be fully restored, and a significant part of Gaza will be populated by Jewish communities.

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse (“Furthermore, I consider Carthage to need to be destroyed”), repeated Cato the Elder. Otherwise, he warned, Carthage will destroy Rome.

We have no other choice.

Alexander Maistrovoy is a graduate of Moscow Univ. in Journalism, worked there in his field and made aliyah in 1988. He works at the Russian language newspaper Novosty Nedely, has had articles posted on many internet sites and authored “Ways of God” about different religious and ethnic groups in the Holy Land, Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger), and with Mark Kotliarsky the Russian book Jewish Atlántida.

 

DECLASSIFIED: The IDF’s Commando Raid Deep in Syria [42:08]

January 5, 2025  JNS TV | JLMinute – The Israel Defense Forces has declassified one of its most daring and dangerous operations deep inside Syrian territory. The Israeli Air Force’s elite Shaldag unit destroyed an arms manufacturing site that would have played a major role in arming the Hezbollah terror groiup through Iran.

JNS CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman and Middle East correspondent Josh Hasten have all the details and discuss what the operation means in terms of the IDF’s capabilities.

This and other major stories, including President-elect Trump issues another ultimatum on the hostages; sirens sound in Jerusalem due to another Houthi missile; and President Joe Biden is planning a surprise vote at the United Nations while approving an 8 billion arms sale to Israel.

 

Steve Bannon Doubles Down, Calls for Elimination of H-1B Visas, Deportations of “ALL H-1B Visa Holders Immediately” and Reparations for Americans who Had Their Jobs Stolen by Foreigners

 

The Truth About Bob Dylan’s Fallout with Pete Seeger

January 5, 2025  The Free Press – One of Bob Dylan’s greatest tricks, in a career full of them, is his endless provocation of academic charlatans, credulous journalists, and his army of Aspergerian superfans. Those opaque lyrics and infrequent interviews—full of tall and contradictory tales, deeply entertaining and obviously false—have left a trail of breadcrumbs that lead off a cliff. Nevertheless, this has somehow managed to produce reams of overdrawn academic interpretations (“the jurisprudence of Bob Dylan!”) and the occasional chin-stroking film portrait (It’s Cate Blanchett as young Bob!).

When I uncovered pop science writer Jonah Lehrer’s fabrications about Dylan in 2012—invented quotes from nonexistent archives that supposedly identified the “neuroscience” behind Bob’s genius—I was surprised that Lehrer hadn’t dismissed his own fabulism as a meta-tribute to a great fabulist. Why make anything up when interpreting a man who made everything up? With minimal quote-mining, one can create endless iterations of Dylan: left-wing or right-wing, evangelical Christian or messianic Jew, civil rights activist or subterranean racist.

A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold’s biographical film charting Dylan’s early career, from his 1961 arrival in New York City to his infamous 1965 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, provides a necessary and slightly boring corrective. At last, a straightforward and unpretentious vision of Dylan, respectfully sanitized by Hollywood and supposedly sanctified by the man himself. But it misses a major point about the man and the political scene that fostered his talent—and why he broke with it to go his own way.

A Complete Unknown has a clear and unpretentious premise: A baby-faced Minnesota troubadour comes to New York City, fast becomes a star in the folk world, which he abandons upon discovery that it’s a fusty and creatively stultifying scene, inhabited by self-serious poseurs. Out with the acoustic guitars, the cosplay songs about unions and labor strife, and an apostate Dylan will “go electric” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Cue the outraged purists, eager to criticize what they don’t understand, who try to cut the power as he plays “Like a Rolling Stone.”

When I left the theater with my 13-year-old daughter, she rendered her judgment of A Complete Unknown with a shrug, confused by the film’s dramatic crescendo, when a famous solo musician decides to play with a band who play amplified instruments. So what’s the big deal?

A Complete Unknown isn’t that interested in clarifying this point. Because the film almost entirely ignores politics. And it should ignore Dylan’s politics, whatever they might be. But it makes an unforgivable error in ignoring the politics of his Greenwich Village confederates who adhered to the Maoist dictum that art must serve the people, avoid manifestations of the individual, and reject commercial concerns.

As one critic complained in the aftermath of Newport, for the new, electrified Dylan “the words [matter] less than the beat.” What he “used to stand for, whether one agreed with it or not, was much clearer than what he stands for now. [Which is] maybe himself.” Irwin Silber, the rigidly Communist editor of Sing Out! magazine, the in-flight magazine of the radical folk scene, excoriated the New Dylan for having abandoned political songs in favor of “inner-directed, innerprobing, self-conscious” music. Decades later, Silber reflected on his criticism by acknowledging that his “biggest concern was not with the electricity. . . but with what Dylan was saying and doing about moving away from his political songs.”

Dylan was so desperate to slip out from folk’s rigid ideological strictures that he would simply deny the politics even of his most transparently political songs. “Blowin’ in the Wind” wasn’t topical but “just a feeling I felt because I felt that way.” Already in 1964, he would shrug at a song he wrote about the lynching of Emmett Till, “which in all honesty was a bullshit song. . . . I realize now that my reasons and motives behind it were phony.”

It would become a mantra for the next 60 years, recited to every interviewer who blubbered about sitting across from the voice of a generation. “I’m not politically inclined,” he told one interviewer. “My talent isn’t in that area; it’s just to play music.” As for “the ’60s” as a political thing, he was unforgiving: “I don’t care one bit about the ’60s. . . I know it was a time of great upheaval in the world, but still I don’t care about them. . . I didn’t grow up in the ’60s, so Bob Dylan the ’60s protest singer isn’t me at all.”

Dylan might have had no politics, but his two love interests in A Complete Unknown, girlfriend Suze Rotolo (rendered in the film as “Sylvie Russo”) and fellow folk singer Joan Baez, were firmly on the radical left and pushed him toward a more political songbook.

MONICA BARBARO PLAYS JOAN BAEZ IN A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. (SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES)

Mangold’s Baez, played by the enchanting Monica Barbaro, watches his musical transformation with resignation. But looking back on those years, the nonfiction Baez admitted that she “wanted [Dylan] to be a political spokesperson. . . to be on our team,” and complained in her memoir that his “active commitment to social change was limited to songwriting,” dinging him for never going on a protest march or engaging in civil disobedience. In 1972, long after he had abandoned political songwriting, Baez released the single “To Bobby,” a cringe-inducing excoriation of Dylan for not sharing her political priorities, which munificently ends with a promise that if he returned to the political fray, God “will forgive you.”

There are no real villains in A Complete Unknown—because no one believes in anything, beyond a love of acoustic instruments—but Pete Seeger comes close. The author of folk staples “If I Had a Hammer” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” Seeger is correctly portrayed as the grand old man of folk, generous in his nurturing of a once-in-a-generation talent, but so opposed to his turn toward traditional rock music that, in the film’s final scene at the Newport Folk Festival, he has to be restrained from cutting power to Dylan’s amplifiers.

Seeger’s gentle cadence and friendly countenance are matched perfectly by Edward Norton, but viewers are left unaware that his anger toward Dylan could be divined from his slavish devotion to a particular strain of totalitarianism. Perhaps a line or two indicating that Seeger defended Joseph Stalin throughout the genocidal Ukrainian famine, the bloody purge trials, the antisemitic “Doctor’s Plot,” the Soviet alliance with Nazi Germany, and their subsequent dismemberment of Poland.

In his memoir, Seeger half-heartedly apologized for supporting Stalin, who he had variously called a “heavy-handed,” “hard driving” leader who engaged in an “awful lot of rough stuff.” This was wrong, he acknowledged in 1993, amplifying the criticism only slightly, because he turned out to be “a supremely cruel misleader,” too. (Historian Ron Radosh, who took banjo lessons from Seeger and maintained a contentious friendship with him over the years, criticized his former mentor for singing about Nazi concentration camps but ignoring the Soviet gulag. After the Cold War ended, Seeger would ultimately concede the point to Radosh. “I think you were right,” he wrote in a 2007 letter, including in his letter the lyrics to a new anti-Stalin ballad. But he would never perform the song publicly.)

Seeger would consistently claim that his attempt to shut down Dylan’s electric set at Newport was merely an objection to excessive amplifier volume and poor sound quality. But in the days after the show, he scribbled a note to himself, complaining that Dylan’s voice had turned into a “snarl,” that his new music was “destructive,” and predicted his newer, nonpolitical songs would soon be forgotten (“Who is going to sing them? And for how long?”). It wasn’t the crackling feedback or the plugged-in guitars. It was political. After all, Stalinists aren’t generally known for their broadmindedness.

A few months after Newport, Seeger would leave the controversy behind, as he headed out on a tour of the Soviet Union.

Dylan was becoming too big to care, but “going electric” meant he would be blacklisted by those who wrote songs denouncing political blacklists. Seeger’s sister Peggy, who co-owned a music venue in London with folk singer Ewan MacColl, spurned Dylan because “at that time we were singing pretty much folk songs or highly political songs in our club.” For good measure, MacColl said Dylan should be shunned as “someone who doesn’t really want to change the world.” (MacColl’s desire to change the world meant a continued defense, up until his death, of his original 1951 composition “The Ballad of Stalin,” a banjo-driven celebration of a leader he judged “the best the world has ever seen.”)

If any surviving Dylan antagonists want to reignite these long-forgotten purity battles, they will doubtless point out that Levi’s has partnered with A Complete Unknown for branded jackets and jeans. This will inevitably precipitate another round of clueless “Dylan sells out” discourse, with the requisite reminders that he made an exclusive deal with Starbucks in 2005 to sell his music; that he has his own brand of whiskey (“Heaven’s Door”); that he rarely gives interviews but will show up on an episode of the reality show Pawn Stars, or deliver a patriotic (and protectionist) sermon in a Super Bowl ad for Chrysler, or hand his cowboy hat to a lingerie-clad model in a Victoria’s Secret ad.

Perhaps, say his defenders, it’s all an elaborate performance piece. The great cipher is keeping us guessing. Or perhaps the truth is more prosaic. Maybe the Hollywood portrait is a better reflection of the real Bob Dylan. He doesn’t do purity tests. He doesn’t believe his music is too sacred to sell cars or booze or coffee. He isn’t—and has never been—an activist. He doesn’t care about your causes.

“He was not interested in the true nature of the Soviet Union, or any of that crap,” said the Marxist folk singer Dave Van Ronk. “We thought he was hopelessly politically naive. But in retrospect, I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.”

 

Eyeless in Gaza   Jonathan Pollard

In spite of everything we’ve done to eliminate it, Hamas continues to be a threat to our security. So, what exactly does this mean?  Opinion.

Jan 5, 2025, 1:11 AM (GMT+2)   Israel National News – Unbelievably, we’ve been suffering consecutive days of rocket fire from Gaza. It has also been reported that Hamas has begun the process of rebuilding its depleted ranks. The organization has managed to do this by virtue of all the hijacked humanitarian aid it can use to pay their new recruits and the inexcusable vacuum left in certain parts of Gaza by withdrawn Israeli soldiers.

Many of us were not surprised by these ominous developments. Indeed, we’ve been trying to warn the public that the security situation in Gaza is deteriorating and that unless and until we radically change our military policy there, we may very well face the prospect of a revitalized Hamas in the not too distant future.

In response to our concerns, the IDF’s High Command has been trying to reassure the Israeli public that the situation in Gaza is completely “under control” and that Hamas’ military forces have been reduced to the point where they can’t regenerate. However, the near daily loss of soldiers, the periodic enemy rocket fire and the continuing use of our hostages as tools to sow discord within our society, clearly demonstrate the fact that Hamas is still very much alive. In spite of everything we’ve done to eliminate it, Hamas continues to be a threat to our security. So, what exactly does this mean?

First, it means that the High Command has been straight out lying to us about the actual situation in Gaza. Although this shouldn’t come as any surprise, what’s absolutely unacceptable is the fact that nobody has taken any steps to correct this intolerable situation. It’s really unbelievable when you think about it. Our army leadership has refused to act upon the age old principle of total victory. Indeed, the High Command seems to be criminally unaware of this cardinal military concept. “Managing the enemy” and pushing a final decisive outcome down the road for future generations to achieve appear to be the only military doctrines our generals seem to comprehend.

Second, the refusal of the government to embrace a viable “day after” scenario involving the elimination of Hamas and our annexation of Gaza shows that our so-called “leaders” are apparently comfortable with subjecting our soldiers and civilians to an endless war of attrition in Gaza. But here’s the simple truth: no other power is going to police Gaza if Hamas still exists. And the use of the PA to do this unenviable task is a total non starter. Clear orders should therefore be issued to the army: destroy Hamas’ food warehouses, cut off all water supplies to Gaza, corral Hamas’ civilian auxiliaries in one location, then completely level the Strip. The government should also make it abundantly clear that this policy will be implemented no matter the consequences to the hostages. The only concession we should offer to Hamas involves allowing surrendering terrorists to survive on condition they bring in a living hostage. Other than that, no Hamas prisoners should be taken. None! They’re going to be shot on sight whether they surrender or not. After what they did to our people on October 7, the G-d of vengeance will now walk the battlefield. And Hamas will learn the hard lessons of Jewish retribution.

[Ed.:  This guy must be reading too much Daily Shmutz!]

 

Meir Kahane EXPOSES The Ugly Truth About Arabs   [4:07]   Rabbi Dovid Vigler

Jan 2, 2025Meir Kahane Exposes the truth about the Arab world many failed to see.

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Linda Goudsmit on America’s Survival, Inc. (ASI) with Cliff Kincaid
Topic: The spreading chaos in America and “MAMA: Make America Moral Again”
  by Linda Goudsmit
January 4, 2025

WATCH:  Deport George Soros and his Red/Green Collaborators

America’s Survival  [39:02]

Dear readers,

I am delighted to post my January 1, 2025 interview with Cliff Kincaid, founder of America’s Survival. We are discussing my latest article, “MAMA: Make America Moral Again” and how it relates to the “Red Jihad” New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that same morning. As the communists and Islamists battle for world control, will the spreading chaos in America result in martial law to prevent Trump from taking office?

I hope you find it interesting.

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