COMMENTARY / OPINION
China Is Waging a Proxy War on Israel By Pesach Wolicki
June 27, 2024 – In early November, a letter allegedly written by Osama bin Laden went viral on the social media app TikTok, where American kids were making videos of themselves praising the letter’s contents and confessing that it made them rethink their fundamental beliefs. The letter is deeply antisemitic and makes the case for Islamic terrorism against Israel and the West. So vociferous were the accusations against the social media platform for the spread of the letter that TikTok eventually removed all content featuring the video.
Of course, it’s not surprising that Osama bin Laden would have gained viral popularity with American teens on TikTok. Tiktok is owned by Bytedance, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, and China is committed to the destruction of the United States and its allies—especially Israel.
“The Hamas movement is part of the Palestinian national fabric and China is keen on relations with it,” Chinese diplomat Wang Kejian told Hamas during a meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar in March, according to Hamas. It was around this time that a video was widely disseminated on Chinese social media in which a TV presenter bragged that “TikTok has won big for Palestine.”
The CCP-Hamas partnership goes both ways. Khaled Meshal, a top Hamas leader, said in early November in an interview on Arabic TV that Hamas “seeks cooperation with the superpowers, China and Russia.” He added that China should take inspiration from the Hamas invasion of Israel for their own plans to conquer Taiwan.
What possible interest does Hamas have in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan? The answer is simple: Both Israel and Taiwan are seen as allies and proxies of the United States.
This represents a shift for China. Israel’s diplomatic ties with China go back more than three decades, and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s 2017 visit to China led to 25 cooperation agreements at an estimated value of $2 billion. At the time, Netanyahu expressed interest in joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative and invited China to build infrastructure projects in Israel.
But in December 2023, Israeli companies reported that Chinese suppliers were delaying shipments of necessary materials and vital components, demanding a range of new forms and regulations. And in January 2024, COSCO, China’s state-owned shipping giant, announced that it would cease operations in and with Israel.
Then they full on switched sides.
BREAKING: IDF Chief Declares Near Hamas DEFEAT In Rafah; Hezbollah War Inching Closer [15:04] Yair Pinto
June 26, 2024 TBN Israel – TBN Israel’s Yair Pinto reports on the Israel-Hamas War. Pinto reports that the IDF has nearly dismantled the remaining Hamas brigades in Rafah as the military finalizes preparations for a full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Meanwhile, Hamas leaders in Qatar are being pressured to leave the country and may possibly relocate to Iraq. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments here on TBN Israel.
JONATHAN POLLARD ANNOUNCES: Disassociation from Itmar Ben Gvir over Torture of Amiram Ben Uliel [9:19] Machon Shilo
June 26, 2024
BREAKING: Nasrallah URGENTLY Escapes His Hideout; IDF Nears MAJOR Hezbollah Offensive; [9:50] Tom Nash
Jun 26, 2024
0:00 – Introduction
0:01 – Hassan Nasrallah Seeking New Hideout
0:36 – Nasrallah’s Last Public Appearance
1:10 – Israel’s Strategy Against Hezbollah
2:00 – Israeli Military Plans and Intelligence
2:33 – Historical Context and Previous Conflicts
3:00 – Intelligence Leaks and Israeli Strategy
3:27 – IDF’s Ongoing Operations Against Hamas
4:02 – Israeli Military Strategy in Gaza
4:45 – Security Issues at Beirut Airport
5:59 – 2020 Beirut Explosion and Implications
6:21 – Regional Military Movements and Egyptian Stance
7:01 – U.S. and Israeli Political Dynamics
7:59 – Biden and Netanyahu’s Tactical Disagreements
Wrap on 2024’s “Safe Electoral Votes” and Introduction to “Leaners” CAPT. SETH KESHEL
Topic: 2024 Election
JUN 27, 2024
Safe Electors
This is the transition point of the 2024 Electoral College preview. I have now completed my assessment of 370 electoral votes I consider safe, or likely to be won by more than 10 points and therefore not competitive (yes, this accounts for fraud, state laws, and anticipated deceit), spread over 37 states, plus Washington, D.C. They come out to a 191-179 Biden advantage before getting into the upcoming “leaners” category. The map is below, and the defining characteristic of any electoral votes in this category is that not only do I expect margins over 10%, but I am also convinced beyond a shadow of doubt they will not go for the other candidate, even if I miss on the predicted margin.
Consider this the starting point, the “base camp,” of the 2024 presidential election:
Gary Varvel: Why seniors are un-retiring GARY VARVEL
Plus 2 podcast interviews. One with me and one with my son, Brett
JUN 26, 2024
Bidenflation has drastically lowered the value of seniors’ retirement savings. President Biden blames inflation on corporate greed, but the truth is his big-spending monetary policies lowered the value of the dollar and inflated the prices of goods and services.
According to CBS News:
“The typical American household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain the same standard of living they enjoyed in January of 2021, right before inflation soared to 40-year highs, according to a recent analysis of government data.”
In the upcoming debate, Trump should repeat this fact over and over. And senior citizens who voted for Biden and now are forced to un-retire, should remember that elections have consequences and stop voting for, you know, the thing.
Americans Can Save Our Constitution From Organized Federal Judicial Corruption—Here’s How by Manuel P. Asensio – Chairman of St. Johns County Presidential Republican Executive Committee
Jun. 26, 2024 12:45 pm – To save our Constitution, we must unite and insist that President Donald J. Trump confront John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and chief executive officer of the US Judicial Conference in Washington, D.C.
President Trump beat Hillary, but he did not beat the alliances Roberts had with former president Obama. Now President Trump must end Roberts’s reign of personal corruption in America.
It is at the US Judicial Conference where Roberts and the federal judges rig the nation’s trial and appeal processes to suit their own personal interests. It is here where the federal judges have taken over the Judicial Conduct Act and the Rules Enactment Act – our two greatest legislatively created laws. Congress specifically created these laws to protect you and your family’s peace of mind and property from corrupt federal judges and the lawyers they use to get what they want.
Congress explicitly designed these two anti-judicial corruption laws to prevent federal judges from stepping outside of their very narrow constitutionally prescribed lane. These are the two laws that the president and Congress created to keep judges in their proper place and lawyers in their place. Most lawyers have never heard of or much less ever worked with the US Judicial Conference, the Judicial Conduct Act, and the Rules Enactment Act. The reason for this is simple. These two laws are bad for the business of America’s judicial industrial complex and good for freedom.
The Judicial Conduct Act and the Rules Enactment Act are meant to prevent judges and lawyers from taking control of due process and the rule of law in America. These two laws are the cornerstones of preserving, protecting, and perpetuating the Constitution’s great values of independence, liberty, and principles of the separation and limits on the powers of government.
To save our Constitution, we must discard the notion that lawyers have an interest in defending our Constitution. Without corrupt lawyers, there would be no organized judicial corruption. It is the lawyers who have sold us a bill of goods that federal judges get to regulate the Judicial Conduct Act and the Rules Enactment Act and then rule over the Constitution. It is the lawyers that have joined together with the federal judges to create a so called “post-modern society.” This post-modern is nonsense but good business for lawyers. This is why federal judges have become metaphors for pretentiousness, hypocrisy, collective denial, or hollowness – we all see the absurdity of judges and lawyers pretending to be straight when they are not.
Supreme Court rules 6-3 to not hear evidence in case involving critical First Amendment rights of all Americans LEO HOHMANN
Make no mistake, this was a cowardly cop out by the highest court in the nation, showing it is intimidated by the American deep state
JUN 26, 2024 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday in Murthy v. Missouri that challengers alleging Biden administration officials “coerced” social media companies to remove content the government viewed as unfavorable did not have the legal right to sue and did not rule on the merits. The High Court determined neither the Louisiana and Missouri attorneys general nor the five private individuals who brought the lawsuit had standing to seek an injunction against any of the government defendants.
The challengers attributed the restrictions they experienced on social media to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and dozens of other Biden administration officials from The White House, FBI, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They alleged a “coordinated campaign” between the officials and Big Tech companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google, to censor content dealing with opposition to government narratives about COVID-19, the validity of the 2020 election, the Hunter Biden laptop story, abortion, gender discussions, and more.
The Supreme Court noted that while the social media platforms had their own “independent incentives to moderate content,” the government was indeed influential in those choices but rejected the assertion that there was a “concrete link” between the free speech injuries and the government.
Here’s my bottom line takeaway from this case: This was a cowardly move by the Supreme Court. Six of the nine justices lack the will to decide on a major question of how speech gets regulated and censored in America. It’s done not directly but every bit as convincingly as any dictatorship. The U.S. government, because it is constrained by the Constitution’s First Amendment from limiting the speech of free Americans, that same federal government has outsourced the censorship to private social-media platforms, threatening them with the financial handouts that make running a major social media company very profitable, and then hiding behind a façade of innocence, claiming it’s not at all involved in the censorship because it extorted a third party to do its dirty work of shutting down free speech.
This amounts to a major defeat for free speech. As a result, I lament, it amounts to another nail in the coffin of our constitutional republic. I say that because the government has found an end-run around the Constitution that enables it to shut down the free flow of information in this country, and without vital information flowing to the public, enabling it to make educated electoral decisions, there is no democracy nor is there any constitutionalism. And any government that succeeds in such a devious route toward the trampling of its own Constitution, the very document meant to keep it in check, cannot be called either a democracy or a republic. We now live under a dictatorship. Full stop.
[Ed.: Supreme Court Justices who refused this case included Trump’s appointees. How consistent he was in misevaluating people! Trump ran away from office the last time we elected him. But we will surly vote for him again in November because we must, we have no other choice! He may still win the 2024 election (despite the 40,000,000 illegal alien voters,) but do we think he will not run away again? Our civilization and our country are over, except in our illusions. I’m voting for the fellon, nevertheless, in vain.]
“They came for the Jews”: Inside the LA Pogrom [56:56] Caroline Glick
June 25, 2024 JNS TV – A pogrom in the LA Jewish community; Pro-Hezbollah and Pro-Hamas protests crop up across America; AOC spreads antisemitic rhetoric and a new white house hire Tyler Cherry has a terrible history of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish comments.
Jonathan Pollard: What is Defense Minister Yoav Gallant REALLY Doing in Washington? [7:19] Machon Shilo
Jun 24, 2024 – Watch Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim on Biden and Iran:
Biden’s Italian Strike The ongoing U.S. policy of slow-walking munitions deliveries to Israel isn’t about Rafah BY MICHAEL DORAN
JUNE 20, 2024 TABLET MAGAZINE – No sooner had Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Biden administration on Tuesday of withholding arms shipments for Israel than American officials depicted him as delusional. “We … do not know what he’s talking about,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained to reporters. Yes, she said, the Biden administration is withholding one single shipment of 2,000-pound bombs, out of fear that they might be used in densely populated Gaza, but “there are … no other pauses or holds in place.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Europe after having met with Netanyahu in Israel, repeated the claims of Jean-Pierre almost verbatim. Besides the 2,000-pound bombs, he explained, “everything else is moving as it normally would move.”
But this assertion of normalcy is easily refuted. Last month, Politico reported that an order by Israel for Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs)—converter kits that turn “dumb” bombs into “smart” bombs—“came up for license in December 2023, and the administration has been sitting on it ever since.” The JDAMs, Politico further reported, are but one of “multiple” sales that the State Department “is reviewing.”
President Biden and his team are asking us to believe that when they arbitrarily place an arms shipment bound for Israel “under review,” they are following routine procedures rather than denying weapons to Israel. Europeans call the tactic of slowing or stopping work by meticulously adhering to rules and regulations an “Italian strike.”
It is hard to imagine a legal and bureaucratic process that invites this tactic more readily than American foreign military sales. The laws and policies governing sales require defense industries, the State Department, the Defense Department, and Congress to work closely with one another. If you ask representatives of any allied country about their experiences of the foreign military sales machinery, for the next two hours they will tell you tales of bureaucratic absurdity worthy of Kafka. The process is so convoluted that President Biden can place a transaction on hold simply by leaving it to rot in an interagency labyrinth of mandated reviews, verifications, and notifications.
The purpose of the Italian strike is to force the Israelis into dependence on the United States, to deny them the ability to make long-term plans—namely plans regarding Hezbollah and Iran.
Nevertheless, when Biden deems a transaction to be a national security priority, he has the power to free it from the labyrinth. His office has the authority to force cooperation on the Departments of State and Defense, as well as to mediate between the executive and legislative branches. Israel, of course, is popular on Capitol Hill. Legislators, therefore, will place no obstacles in the way of delivering weapons to it in a timely fashion. During this war, however, Congress has yet to find a trusted interlocutor in the White House. “The administration is very much trying to keep Congress in the dark on a lot of their decision-making,” an aide on Capitol Hill told Politico.
The beauty of the Italian strike is that it offers its leaders plausible deniability. Some military sales to Israel have proceeded without delay; some have slowed but not stopped; still others have been halted altogether. Transactions that were once stopped have started again. Biden and his team point to the restarting of stalled initiatives as proof of noninterference by the White House. Each new instance of stoppage that comes to light they attribute to this or that regulation. As Netanyahu and his defenders complain, the administration depicts them as delusional.
This gaslighting has successfully hidden the true nature of Biden’s policy from the public eye. To be sure, some press outlets, such as Politico, have poked holes in the administration’s cover story, but they have failed to recognize the Italian strike for what it is: namely, a coherent policy hiding behind the appearance of incoherence. Even while treating some of the details of the cover story with skepticism, the press has almost uniformly accepted the general framing of the administration, which presents the disagreements between Washington and Jerusalem as a fight over the Rafah campaign and how best to prevent civilian deaths.
A Call for Emergency Mobilization in Israel BY HUGH FITZGERALD
JUN 24, 2024 4:00 PM – Israel is now fighting a multi-front war, with Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria, Israeli Arabs opposed to the Jewish state, Muslim Brotherhood members and ISIS remnants in the Sinai, and the sinister state that supports, supplies, and directs Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis — the Islamic Republic of Iran. Israel is now, and for many years to come, will be fighting for its very existence, but, argues David Weinberg, the Israeli government still has not come to grips with the magnitude and duration of the conflict, and has not called for an “emergency mobilization” of the entire population, as he believes it must. More of Weinberg’s analysis, and his insistence that Israel be put on a “wartime footing,” can be found here: “Brace for impact: As Hezbollah escalates in North, we must prepare for emergency – opinion,” by David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2024:
SCREAMS BEFORE SILENCE Full Video [57:00]
A documentary film on the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th, Screams Before Silence is a documentary film led by American businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg, that explores the sexual violence by Hamas during the Hamas-led attack on Israel, on 7 October 2023, including events at the massacre at the Nova Festival and abductions to the Gaza Strip.
Strike while it’s hot: Can Israel wreak havoc on Hezbollah? By Shachar Kleiman
Israel has been given a rare opportunity to change the situation fundamentally in the north. Nasrallah has discovered that he has been compromised far beyond what he expected.
06-23-2024 19:32 – As the Israel Defense Forces approaches the final stages of its major ground operations against Hamas in Rafah, Hezbollah is ramping up its threats in an attempt to deter Israel from launching a large-scale military action in Lebanon. In his recent speech, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah pulled no punches. He hinted at the possibility of the terrorist organization attacking Cyprus, boasted of a force of 100,000 fighters, and insisted that the elite Radwan unit is still capable of invading the Galilee.
To justify potential military action against Cyprus, Nasrallah claimed that if Israel were to use bases or airports on the island nation, Hezbollah would attack it. While Cypriot officials denied such cooperation, the message seemed directed at the entire Western world: Hezbollah is prepared to turn the war with Israel into a regional conflict. This appears to be a response to US envoy Amos Hochstein, who warned the Lebanese of escalation if they don’t progress towards a settlement.
Nasrallah may be hoping that the US and European Union will exert diplomatic pressure on Jerusalem, but in any case, he has only served to remind the world of the threat his organization poses to many countries. One need only mention Hezbollah’s drug trafficking operations stretching from the Middle East to South America to fund its activities. As such, it seems the US might actually support a measured expansion of the offensive. From Israel’s perspective, the goal on the northern front is crystal clear – pushing Hezbollah and its capabilities away from the border to allow residents to safely return to their homes.
The Lebanese are afraid
On the surface, all of Israel’s options seem poor: While Hezbollah has withdrawn to about 8 kilometers (3 miles) from the border, its members could return one day without more significant action; Lebanon has been run by a caretaker government for the past two years, which, without a sitting president, will struggle to reach a diplomatic settlement; Israel cannot afford to rely on the Lebanese army or an international force to ensure its citizens’ security; and finally, an all-out war carries many risks that the security cabinet must carefully consider. One can only hope that more experienced voices will prevail regarding the nature of the operation.
Nevertheless, it’s doubtful that Israel will have a better time to change the situation fundamentally in the north. The IDF could take advantage of the international window of opportunity to destroy Hezbollah’s strategic assets. As revealed in 2020, Hezbollah maintains precision missile parts production sites in neighborhoods in the heart of Beirut. A central part of the air defense system is located in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. The infrastructure of the drone unit was attacked this week in the Tyre area. And in the south of the country, the organization has built an enormous tunnel network that facilitates the movement of its fighters. This labarynth was also intended to hide hostages in the event of an invasion into Israeli territory. However, Hezbollah lost the element of surprise on October 7. An attempt by the Radwan force to raid is unlikely to end in success, to put it mildly. In fact, in the nine months since the war began, Nasrallah has discovered that he has been infiltrated by intelligence far beyond what he expected. If Israel has the ability to eliminate a division commander sitting in a house in the Tyre area, it serves as a warning light for the entire command and leadership echelon of Hezbollah.
However, Hezbollah lost the element of surprise on October 7. An attempt by the Radwan force to raid is unlikely to end in success, to put it mildly. In fact, in the nine months since the war began, Nasrallah has discovered that he has been infiltrated by intelligence far beyond what he expected. If Israel has the ability to eliminate a division commander sitting in a house in the Tyre area, it serves as a warning light for the entire command and leadership echelon of Hezbollah.
Just this past week, a regional operations commander in the organization was killed while driving his car in one of the villages in the Tyre area. It’s no coincidence that Arab sources reported that Hezbollah has issued guidelines prohibiting the use of cell phones. More than 430 of the organization’s fighters, equivalent to half a battalion, have already been eliminated.
Beyond that, many Lebanese fear war and watch helplessly as a radical Islamist organization drags them to the brink of Gaza-like destruction, without being able to do anything about it. One after another, they lament that Lebanon has been hijacked by Nasrallah, and anger towards him will grow in the event of a wider confrontation that significantly harms him.
A decision needs to be made
“With all the rockets Hezbollah has, its capabilities are limited,” Lebanese MP Riad Yazbeq told Arab media. “It has the ability to cause casualties and damage on the Israeli side, but it cannot change reality. Israel is a country that receives support from the United States. It’s a powerful country economically, militarily, and technologically, that can return Lebanon to the Stone Age.” [Emphasis added]
In this context, Dr. Dan Naor, a Lebanon researcher and lecturer at Ariel University, believes that Hezbollah “does care about Lebanese public opinion, and that’s also the reason it hasn’t escalated to an all-out war. I think Hezbollah is attentive and maintains rules of engagement because most of the public in Lebanon doesn’t want war. It needs to maneuver between Iranian needs and Lebanese needs, and the Shiite community is paying the price, with many having to leave southern Lebanon.”
With the completion of the main maneuver in Rafah and the diversion of most military resources to the north, Israel faces a fateful decision regarding Hezbollah. Along with continuing to eradicate Hamas in Gaza and pursuing a hostage deal, difficult years lie ahead. In these times, we need internal unity, patience, and righteousness. Through these, we can prove to our enemies that we are here to stay.
A decent Gaza is possible Prof. Daniel Pipes
But first, the Palestinian Arabs must lose. Opinion.
This article appeared on the Middle East Forum and was posted in the Washington Times.
Jun 23, 2024, 5:09 PM (GMT+3) – American friends of Israel tend to admire policies of the Jewish state as heroic and blame foreign governments, especially their own, when Jerusalem makes errors vis-à-vis the Palestinian Arabs, notably 1993’s Oslo Accords, 2005’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, the catastrophe on Oct. 7, and the Israeli military’s eight-month failure to defeat Hamas.
I beg to differ. Without defending Washington’s actions, Israelis have also made their full share of mistakes. In particular, their government and security establishment tended to be overly reliant on technology, prone to short-term fixes, and too conciliatory.
On that last point: although Israel enjoys a huge economic and military edge over its Palestinian Arab enemy, Israel’s leaders have, with few exceptions, sought to conciliate it rather than defeat it. The Jewish state tactically deploys violence but strategically seeks to end the conflict through a curious combination of enriching and placating Palestinian Arabs. This approach accounts for its current predicament.
Although I am not Israeli, a 55-year witness to the heartbreaking mistakes by America’s only genuine Middle Eastern ally prompted me to develop an alternate paradigm for it, one that replaces the postmodern goal of conciliation with the traditional one of defeat.
As a historian, I understand that conflicts usually end when one side gives up: think the U.S. Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War. Applying this universal insight to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict opens up an exciting possibility to resolve the past century’s most intractable and emotive clash: Palestinian Arabs lose, fighting ends.
To which comes the inevitable retort: “Given the many internal and external restraints on Israel, how could it possibly impose a sense of defeat on ‘West Bankers’ and Gazans?”
My reply, as explained in detail in a just-published book, Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated (Wicked Son), focuses on the Palestinian Arab center of gravity, meaning (as defined by theorist of war Carl von Clausewitz) “the essential source of ideological and moral strength, which, if broken, makes it impossible to continue the war.”
In this case, that center of gravity lies not in the leadership, the militia, the economy, the land, or in religious sanctities, but in hope: the hope to destroy Israel and replace it with Palestine.
Accordingly, Israel’s goal must be to extinguish that hope and replace it with hopelessness.
Misunderstanding Islam A.J. Caschetta
Perhaps more than any other academic besides Edward Said, French philosopherMichel Foucault is responsible for today’s alliance between Leftists and Islamists. He died in 1984, but his misunderstanding of Islam lives on, influencing the way the West views Islam. Op-ed,
Jun 24, 2024, 10:00 AM (GMT+3)
Islam and America
At the nation’s founding, American vessels and American citizens were being seized by Barbary Coast pirates on behalf of sheikhdoms of Morocco, Algiers, and Tripoli, who were enslaving them because the Koran gave them that “right and duty,” as the Ambassador of Tripoli told Ambassador Thomas Jefferson in 1786. But then President Jefferson defeated the Barbary pirates, and for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Islam and the Muslim world was removed, distant, exotic, unfamiliar.
By 1979, Islam was virtually unknown in the U.S. The Iranian Revolution changed all that, abruptly forcing Americans to pay attention to Islam and make decisions about it. Leftist intellectuals became apologists, following the lead of Edward Said who taught academics that criticizing Islam was the racist sin of “Orientalism.” Most liberals embraced not only Islam but its violent offspring Islamism and accepted its excesses in ways that contradicted their core beliefs, especially those about freedom and women’s rights. French phiosopher Michel Foucault was at the center of it all.
Forty years ago, on June 25, 1984, Michel Foucault died of AIDS at age 57, leaving behind a mixed legacy of literary and political writing that crossed over into activism.
The anniversary of Foucault’s death offers a new opportunity to assess his most important and lasting impact on Western society. I refer not to his work on “biopolitics” or his subtle deconstructions of ideas about sanity, or his linguistic analysis, but rather to his role in establishing a leftist-Islamist alliance and profoundly influencing the way the West views Islam.
Why Iran?
Surely one of the most attractive aspects about the Iranian Revolution to leftist intellectuals was its anti-Western, anti-American character.
In an interview conducted in September 1978, Foucault told Baqir Parham that “industrial capitalism … [is] the harshest, most savage, most selfish, most dishonest, oppressive society one could possibly imagine.” He expressed special animosity for “vicious American imperialism.”
Foucault’s solution to this problem was a “spiritual politics.” He found it in Iran, symbolized in the person of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Enter Foucault
Foucault taught at the College de France from 1971 to 1984. He was chair of something called “The History of Systems of Thought” and described himself as, variously, a philosopher and a genealogist. He also wrote dozens of books and became one of a handful of French post-modernists whose ideas dominated literary and historical discourse from the 1960s to the 1980s and still exert a great deal of influence among American academics.
Foucault’s job requirement was to provide 26 hours per year of teaching, which he fulfilled by giving a public lecture every Wednesday evening from January to March. The lectures were recorded, and later translated into English by Graham Burchell, and published as books.
But Foucault barely mentions Iran in these lectures. He published his writing on Iran in popular journals, so he traveled to Iran twice in 1978 and wrote extensively on the revolution for the Italian daily Corriere della sera and several French dailies and journals. In October 1978, he also met with Khomeini, then in exile at the Neauphle-le-Château near Paris, but left no record of their conversation.
U.N. has ‘plan of action’ to curtail free speech in every nation of the world LEO HOHMANN
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the quiet part out loud: All speech contrary to established narratives must be reined in.
JUN 23, 2024 – Don’t look now but your First Amendment rights are up for negotiation at the United Nations, just as they are at the World Economic Forum and other globalist organizations that are aligned with the burgeoning one-world system.
On June 18, in recognition of International Day for Countering Hate Speech – yes, they actually have a day for that – the United Nations Secretary-General called for the eradication of “hate speech” around the world.
While that may sound nice in today’s world, where it tickles the ears of the naive Western liberals, keep in mind that “hate speech” is in the eye of the beholder.
This U.N. statement should be seen as a harbinger, a clear signal, that the U.N. and its many globalist allies are getting ready to clamp down even harder on what we the people are allowed to say or write online. The intent of the globalists is to criminalize all speech with which they disagree.
In a prepared speech published on June 17, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had a lot to say about why the nations of the world need to regulate speech even more tightly than they already do. He said:
“Hate speech is a marker of discrimination, abuse, violence, conflict and even crimes against humanity. We have seen this play out from Nazi Germany to Rwanda, Bosnia and beyond. There is no acceptable level of hate speech; we must all work to eradicate it completely.”
He added that:
“Hate speech today targets a broad range of groups, often based on grounds of race, ethnicity, religion, belief or political affiliation. Recent months have seen an upsurge in both antisemitic and anti-Muslim hate speech online and in public comments by influential leaders. Hate speech may be used against women, refugees, migrants, gender-diverse and trans people, and minorities. It is massively amplified by the power of digital platforms and tools that enable it to spread across borders and cultures.”
And here’s the kicker. He noted:
“States have an obligation under international law to prevent and combat incitement to hatred and to promote diversity, mutual understanding and solidarity. They must step up and implement these commitments, while ensuring that the measures they take preserve freedom of speech and protect minorities and other communities.”
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Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Are Going “Off Grid” In Anticipation Of What Is Coming by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
As our society descends into chaos, vast numbers of people are choosing to pull the plug and walk away. Of course it is nearly impossible to completely escape the ubiquitous madness that is seemingly all around us, but many are finding that an “off grid” lifestyle gives them the best opportunity to insulate themselves as much as possible. When you become less dependent on the system, what happens to the system has less of an impact on you. Unfortunately, it appears that our system is heading into a full-blown meltdown, and a significant portion of the population is feverishly making preparations in anticipation of what is coming.
According to Reuters, it has been estimated that there are now approximately 20 million “preppers” in the United States…
Brook Morgan surveyed booths at the “Survival & Prepper Show” in Colorado that were stocked with boxes of ammunition, mounds of trauma medical kits, and every type of knife imaginable.
A self-described “30-year-old lesbian from Indiana,” Morgan is one of a new breed of Americans getting ready to survive political upheaval and natural catastrophes, a pursuit that until recently was largely associated with far-right movements such as white nationalists since the 1980s.
Researchers say the number of preppers has doubled in size to about 20 million since 2017.
There is a subset of that group that has decided that the best way to prepare is to go “off grid”.
It is being reported that “more than 250,000 people in the U.S.” have chosen to adopt such a lifestyle…
As energy costs and home prices continue to rise, more Americans are choosing to live off-grid. According to one estimate, more than 250,000 people in the U.S. have an off-grid lifestyle. While the potential cost savings are certainly attractive, technology and interest in tiny homes, shipping container homes and other energy-efficient housing alternatives are allowing families interested in sustainable lifestyles to move to off-grid living.
If you are thinking of making a similar move, you need to do your research.
Most of us are extremely dependent on the grid, and many find that making a switch to a radically different lifestyle is quite challenging…
Living off the grid means committing to sourcing everything you need to survive and thrive independently: food, shelter, energy and most importantly: water. It’s empowering, until the moment things don’t work. Like when you’re halfway through a delightful hot shower at the end of a January day and the water pump suddenly stops working, sending you into the frozen darkness with a wet headful of shampoo and some tools to address the problem.
For a lot of people, joining a community of others that have adopted an “off grid” lifestyle is very helpful.
For example, about 55 miles south of Salt Lake City hundreds of survivalists are living in a very large community that is completely off the grid…
A community of society-shunning Americans launched a survivalist haven in the Utah desert after finding themselves alienated from the modern world.
Hundreds of people have set themselves up to live off the land under ‘Operation Self-Reliance,’ feeling that getting off-the-grid is the solution to a crumbling culture.
This particular community was originally founded by a 74-year-old man named Philip Gleason, and he is warning that “a variety of apocalyptic scenarios could play out in the coming years”…
Gleason said he fears a variety of apocalyptic scenarios could play out in the coming years, from a power grid failure taking down America’s electricity, to nuclear war and cyber attacks.
‘This is just history repeating itself,’ he cautioned. ‘At the start of any cultural revolution, the people that control their food are the ones that come out on top.’
As Americans consistently share that they are losing faith in the nation’s institutions, those that have made a new life on Riverbed Ranch have essentially set up their own self-surviving nation state.
Of course it probably wasn’t a great idea for them to share what they are doing with such a large audience, because when things do get really bad large numbers of desperate people may start heading that direction.
Most of the time, families that choose to live an “off grid” lifestyle just do it on their own.
Heather Graesser and her husband once owned a large home near Denver, but now they are much happier living an “off grid” lifestyle…
Ten years ago I was living a typical suburban life on the outskirts of Denver. My husband, Casey, and I were both teachers. We lived in a four-bedroom house with a small yard where our two kids liked to play.
Today our life looks radically different. We live entirely off the grid in a 300-square-foot home that we built from straw bales and cob, a natural building material made from soil, water, and other organic matter. We rely on solar power for electricity and rain collection for water, and we use a drop toilet to create “humanure” — compost made from human waste.
We’ve left the conventional world behind. But along the way we’ve created a much more luxurious and free lifestyle than the one we were living in suburbia.
Good for them.
These days, it is becoming increasingly difficult to live a “normal” middle class lifestyle because the cost of housing has become so painful.
In fact, an entirely new category known as “impossibly unaffordable” has been created because home prices have become so expensive in certain cities…
Anyone with half an eye on the housing market over the last two decades will know that in many countries, not least the United States, it’s become much more difficult to buy a home.
But a new report sums up the feeling of many potential home buyers by creating a category that labels some major cities as “impossibly unaffordable.”
The report compared average incomes with average home prices. It found that pandemic-driven demand for homes with outside space, land use policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl, and investors piling into markets had sent prices soaring.
Living “off grid” is often much cheaper than living a conventional lifestyle.
And living “off grid” will also give you a much better chance of shielding yourself from the endless violence that we see all around us.
Recently, I was deeply shocked to read about a 42-year-old man that fired 28 shots at women and children at a family splash pad in Rochester Hills, Michigan…
An eight-year-old boy is fighting for his life after being shot in the head by a rampaging gunman at a family splash pad as seven others were also gunned down.
The violent attack took place in Rochester Hills, Michigan, around 5pm Saturday after the shooter fired 28 rounds from a handgun in a seemingly random attack, peppering women and children at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad outside Detroit.
The gunman fled the scene to a nearby home within half a mile of the splash pad, leading to a tense hours-long standoff that ended when the shooter – described as a 42-year-old white male who lived with his mother – died by suicide.
You would have to be completely and utterly evil to do something like that.
Sadly, our entire society is saturated with evil at this point.
So I can definitely understand why so many people just want to get away from it all.
Things are really bad now, but they are going to get a whole lot worse during the chaotic years that are in front of us.
Ultimately, I think that large numbers of people are going to regret not adopting an “off grid” lifestyle while they still had the opportunity to do so.
Our society is already in the process of collapsing all around us, and those that understand what is happening are getting prepared for what is coming.
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US ‘support’ in case of war with Lebanon? What does that mean? Dr. Aaron Lerner
Real US support means signing off on Lebanese civilian losses needed to destroy Hezbollah missilies. Op-ed.
Jun 23, 2024, 4:20 PM (GMT+3) – “Senior US officials reassured a delegation of top Israeli officials visiting Washington this week that if a full-out war were to break out on Israel’s northern border between Israel and Hezbollah, the Biden administration is fully prepared to back its ally, according to a senior administration official.”
US offers assurances to Israel this week in the event of full-blown war with
Hezbollah By MJ Lee, CNN Published 7:35 PM EDT, Fri June 21, 2024
Here is why real US support for Israel means signing off, publicly, and in
advance, on the civilian Lebanese losses required to destroy Hezbollah
missiles:
#1. The Hezbollah missiles, if and when launched, will cause catastrophic damage to Israel both in life and limb and in the destruction of critical life supporting infrastructure.
#2. The Hezbollah missiles are shielded by high profile civilian structures – hospitals, schools, orphanage, mosques and more.
#3. Even if Israel were to somehow send tens of thousands of crack special units to destroy the missiles in an operation on the ground, the destruction of the war heads could cause thousands of Lebanese civilian losses.
#4. Even if Israel possessed a Star Trek Star Ship, it would take an Israeli Scotty so much time to beam up each of Hezbollah’s missiles that Hezbollah would end up launching most of them once they realized what was happening.
So, Mr. Biden and your team, there isn’t even a fantasy work around to destroy the Hezbollah missiles without causing a lot of civilian Lebanese casualties.
So here are the options:
#1. The “For The Record Conditional Support Option”: Support Israel on condition that there aren’t “too many” Lebanese civilian losses, thus being on record as supporting Israel without actually supporting the Jewish State. We are down that road right now and it is lengthening the timeline of war in Gaza.
#2. The “Golda Option”: Tell Israel that the US will only support taking out the Hezbollah missiles after Hezbollah launches a devastating first strike against the Jewish State. We have been down that road too, and we lost 2600 IDF soldiers in 18 days.
#3. The “Lifesaving Option”: Openly state now that the United States of America recognizes the painful truth that unless Hezbollah immediately pulls the missiles out of civilian areas that Israel has the right to take out the missiles even at the cost of a large number of Lebanese civilian casualties.
This is a lifesaving option because many Lebanese civilians would, after the American announcement, successfully run for their lives.
Choosing life for the region requires being bold enough to cope with reality.
And those Hezbollah missiles shielded by high profile civilian structures – hospitals, schools, orphanage, mosques and more – are very real.
No Israelis in Brussels? Prepare to lose more than that Giulio Meotti
The slippery slope is not a figure of speech, but it is terrifyingly reality when dealing with radical Muslims who hate, not just Israel, but all of Western culture. Op-ed.
Jun 23, 2024, 8:06 AM (GMT+3) – The football match between Belgium and Israel scheduled for September 6th in Brussels will not be possible. This was announced by the mayor of the Belgian and EU capital, Benoit Hellings, according to whom it would be “simply impossible” to guarantee public order and safety at the stadium and in the city.
“Hosting this match in our capital would provoke huge protests against it, compromising the safety of spectators, players, residents as well as the police force themselves,” Hellings said.
Poor mayor, it must be really complicated to manage a city conquered by Islam. And it couldn’t even do as in Malmö, which allowed Israeli Davis Cup tennis players to play, but without an audience. But that was in 2009, a century ago.
Indeed there are many things, beyond Israel, that we should no longer do for our own “security”. Publish cartoons? Exhibit statues of women in Sweden by an Iranian artist? Publishing “The Satanic Verses”? Show high school students a painting inspired by Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”? How far will we go, from blackmail to blackmail? The slippery slope is not a figure of speech, but it is terrifyingly reality when dealing with radical Muslims who hate, not just Israel, but all of Western culture.
And indeed there are many things you will no longer be able to do in your city once it has reached the Brussels stage of rot.
-You will no longer be able to organize a European conference of conservatives. The mayor will send the police like his private militia to barricade the doors.
-You will no longer be able to celebrate Christmas and Easter (let alone Hanukkah) at school.
-You will no longer be able to go around certain neighborhoods without a veil.
-You will no longer be able (if you are LGBT) to walk hand in hand in certain areas.
-You will no longer be able to read Dante in the original version, but sweetened to please Islamic migrants.
-You will no longer be able to talk in school about the Holocaust or Voltaire making fun of Turkish culture.
-You will no longer be able to organize tributes in museums to the massacred cartoonists.
-You will no longer be able to go to the biggest bookstore and order a book critical of multiculturalism.
-You will no longer be able to walk around wearing the kippah.
However, if you are Muslim, you will be able to do things that infidels are not allowed to do and that are not allowed even in your countries of origin.
You can go to the Parliament of the Infidels and recite the suras of the Koran.
You can get elected to that Parliament and then go and be a minister for a foreign state, Turkey, that wants to subjugate the first.
You will be able to set parts of the city on fire if your foreign football team loses.
You can throw rocks at the basilicas.
You can raid the stands of critics of Islam at the Book Fair.
You can organize mass demonstrations in favor of Hamas.
You can buy hundreds of churches to make mosques.
You can bribe and buy European Parliament officials.
You will be able to found a party that wants to establish sharia.
You can invite the mayor of Tehran.
This is what is happening in Brussels.
On the other hand, as the terrorist of the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam from Brussels, said in the chamber, “Islam will triumph”.
Because when you no longer know how to give yourself a single reason to exist as a civilization, you will always find many reasons to die.
CHAPTER 24: The Politics of Pronouns by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is (forthcoming release July 2024)
June 23, 2024 – Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.
In an information war, fought without bullets or bombs, language is weaponized. The globalist campaign promoting gender fluidity in order to destroy individual selfness manipulates spoken and written language to achieve its goal. Perversion of pronoun usage in the English language has a particularly destructive political purpose. The enemies of national and individual sovereignty are revising language to reflect human existence without the boundaries of self. Words matter. The switch to third-person plural, gender-neutral language is a weapon of mass psychological destruction that begins in early childhood.
Consider this: young children who do not learn the first- and second-person individual and possessive pronouns I, me, mine, you, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers do not learn to name or identify themselves or others as individual gendered selves. Without a personal, individual, gendered, identifiable self, children become confused, destabilized, and vulnerable.
Instead of singular pronouns, young children are intentionally being taught to use the third-person plural pronouns they, them, theirs, so that they identify themselves in terms of the non-gendered collective. It is linguistic demolition of the individual. Plural pronouns effectively erase the concept of an individual self from the English language, and support the replacement of the individual with the preferred non-gendered collective identity.
Globalism’s tactical strategy is to have the Left focus its Marxist ideological values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in cultural and educational institutions. The incremental strategic objective is for those values to be accepted as normative, then become social policy, and ultimately become the law of the land.
Dr. David Martin Issues Direct Message to President Trump THE VIGILANT FOX
This executive order could change everything.
JUN 22, 2024 – Dr. David Martin has delivered a powerful and direct message to former President Donald Trump on The Alex Jones Show. He implored Trump to abandon his defense of the so-called vaccines and instead acknowledge that he was deceived.
“President Trump could easily say that he was conned,” Dr. Martin suggested. Because once the truth comes out, the reality is this: “They’re going to set you [Trump] up for this,” Alex Jones warned.
Dr. Martin took a hard stance on Operation Warp Speed, highlighting the grim reality of its consequences. “Operation Warp Speed, without his [Trump’s] knowledge, was actually signing the death warrant for a number of individuals who happen to be American citizens, who happened to be people that you [Trump] swore an oath to protect.”
However, Dr. Martin believes the path forward is not about pointing fingers but about taking decisive action. He called on Trump to sign an executive order to end money-making “pandemics” for good.
“The executive order that gets signed on the day you become president must be the absolute erasure of the pharmaceutical liability shields that are in place for vaccine manufacturers,” he insisted.
“If we want this thing to end, companies will be responsible for the products that they make, period. And then they’ll stop. The minute Pfizer and the minute Moderna have fiscal and civil and criminal liability for the things that they actually are producing … We will not have a pandemic.”
Click here to watch the full interview.
What IS the New World Order? TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
JUN 22, 2024 – It appears to me that Government politicians all over the world are just puppets and bit actors playing their parts – but who the heck is really behind the satanic cabal called the New World Order that they take direction from? That’s what I hope to answer in this newsletter.
Mike Benz calls it the blob. Others call it an international crime cartel or the Deep State. Archbishop Vigano says it’s a combination of the British Crown, CIA, WEF, UN, Vatican and IMF.
It’s obviously NOT based on religion – nor is it based on country or party or gender or race. We know that there is SOME connection – because their propaganda and schemes (like COVID) work in tandem all over the world. But what is the connection? Where did the NWO come from, why do they hate God and family – why are they so obsessed with evil?
It’s obviously NOT based on religion – nor is it based on country or party or gender or race. We know that there is SOME connection – because their propaganda and schemes (like COVID) work in tandem all over the world. But what is the connection? Where did the NWO come from, why do they hate God and family – why are they so obsessed with evil?
What is their motivation? I’ve read THOUSANDS of articles and documents on this subject and this is what I think. I’m going to be providing you with enough information (in a 10 minute read) so you can do your own research but I’m not going to overwhelm you with too much detail in this newsletter so you lose my point. What follows is my EDUCATED OPINION.
Imagine a private club where Presidents, Prime Ministers, international bankers and Generals rub shoulders and where the people who run the wars, the markets and governments say things behind closed doors that they never say in public. Where does that happen? At the annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group. Every year, since 1954, the Bilderberg Group meets to decide how to run the world. No notes are taken, no press are allowed.
[Ed.: This is a ‘MUST READ’ article, and probably ‘a keeper’!]
Mayorkas Claims Global Warming Makes Him Better at Dealing With Crises by Daniel Greenfield
The only thing FEMA learned from the big lie of “global warming” was to lie.
June 22, 2024 – FEMA, which has been drained by being redirected to deal with Biden’s open borders invasion, needs money to smuggle more migrants around America.
The city government of El Paso, Texas, is busing illegal migrants to the Big Apple on the dime of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino told the DCNF Monday. The federal agency covers the travel costs of illegal migrants through a grant program.
But, according to the as yet unimpeached Secretary Mayorkas, global warming has prepped him to deal with hurricanes.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during an interview with the Associated Press that the U.S. is prepared to go into an intense hurricane and wildfire season, but he did raise concerns about budget shortages.
Mayorkas said that the department is well equipped to deal with hurricanes and other natural disasters this summer, adding that more intense national disasters, partially due to climate change, have allowed the agency to gain experience in dealing with crises.
“As the impacts of climate change have been more and more evident, we have seen and experienced increasing frequency and gravity of extreme weather events,” Mayorkas said.
“Extreme weather events” are much of a myth as FEMA’s competency.
During the Clinton administration, there were folks worried about FEMA setting up concentration camps. I’d be very impressed if FEMA could set up a tent, let alone a camp. It’s a mostly useless agency that’s good for taking taxpayer money and funneling it through the usual web of special interests before it reaches anyone in need. (Of course that’s true for most federal government agencies.)
This is the real FEMA over in Puerto Rico.
By September 2018, despite billions of dollars in aid, Puerto Rico was still a mess. By August, FEMA had stopped paying for the nearly 2,500 displaced Puerto Ricans who had been living in hotels after Hurricane Maria had wrecked their homes. But the FEMA times were good at Casino Del Mar.
Ahsha Nateef Tribble’s job had been to get Puerto Rico working again. That’s why Ahsha had been appointed FEMA’s Power Sector Chief and Infrastructure Chief for Recovery.
And she was certainly helping one part of Puerto Rico recover.
At Casino Del Mar, Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions, who has been indicted alongside Tribble, was seen in surveillance footage picking up $3,000 worth of casino chips. The indictment alleges that Tribble and Ellison were together at the gambling tables and the cash cage.
Tribble and Ellison were gambling in more ways than one. The stakes would have easily broken the Casino Del Mar. Ellison’s Cobra had received $1.8 billion in federal contracts to restore Puerto Rico’s power grid. And Tribble had the authority to dispense $200 million in public assistance projects.
And then again in Hawaii.
Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been slammed by locals over their slow response to the devastating wildfires that have claimed at least 114 lives and left thousands of people homeless after their houses were scorched to the ground.
But that has not stopped the under-fire agency from splashing taxpayer cash to put up more than 1,000 of its personnel at four bank-breaking resorts in Wailea after the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. for more than a century that caused an estimated $5billion in damage.
The beachside resorts are popular among the rich and famous and located about a 45-minute drive away from the fire-ravaged town of Lahaina.
I saw FEMA up close in New York. It was useless.
The only thing they learned from the big lie of “global warming” was to lie and waste money.
