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What’s the Plan to Save America? – Part 4 TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS

SEP 06, 2024

This is Part 4 of my series on “What’s the Plan to Save America?” Please read Parts 1-3, if you haven’t yet, as each chapter builds on the previous.

What’s the Plan to Save America – Part One

What’s the Plan to Save America – Part Two

What’s the Plan to Save America – Part Three

People throw around words like Federal debt, Federal deficit and the Federal Reserve – but frankly, I don’t think most of us understand what it really means, how it got that way, who is responsible, who we actually owe money to and how to fix it.

In order to fix a problem – first you have to understand it and define it. So let’s do that together.

The newborn US had roughly a 30% debt-to-GDP ratio and that has been the average over time.

Back then, the Continental Congress lacked the power to tax the people. It first tried to pay for stuff by printing money. This currency, known as the Continental, collapsed. The Continentals were intended to be an early form of fiat currency, which was not tied to a commodity like gold or silver.

Continentals were the paper currency issued by the Continental Congress in 1775 to help fund the American Revolutionary War. Continentals quickly lost value, partly because they were not backed by a physical asset like gold or silver, but also due to the fact that too many bills were printed.

You can see that wars and recessions always spike the debt of countries. Central banks LOVE wars and recessions and pandemics because they require nations to borrow lots and lots more money from them.

People try to blame President Trump for the debt we had to incur for COVID – but it was at historic levels well BEFORE that.

Look at the huge increase in debt/GDP that this country incurred from 1980-2015 – before COVID hit – due to the wars in the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan and the recessions of 1980, 1987, 1990, 2001 and 2007.

U.S. Campuses: The ‘Taboo’ Ignored Pandemic of Muslim Jew-Hate by Andrew Bostom
September 6, 2024 at 5:00 am

ADL further recorded a total of 400 antisemitic incidents on college and university campuses, compared to only 33 incidents during the same period in 2022. Ugly incidents of U.S. campus antisemitism persisted throughout the spring 2024 semester year.
Routine empirical, if taboo, observation clearly indicates that often, the most vociferous and violent U.S. student campus antisemites share a common Islamic/Muslim religio-ethnic identity. A courageous, expansive Brandeis University study was just published addressing the potential validity of this anecdotal observation by analyzing U.S. undergraduate college student religious affiliation as a critical, independent factor animating their Jew-hatred.
Sadly, but with depressing predictability, the study’s seminal, if corroborative findings are being ignored by media, and the most voluble talking heads and “public intellectuals,” across the ideological spectrum.
The study authors concluded that although “a climate of universal anti-Jewish hatred” did not exist, Jewish student concerns about antisemitism were justified, and “driven by about a third of students who held distinct patterns of beliefs about Jews and Israel.” Specifically, “Identifying as Muslim was significantly associated with being either hostile to Israel or hostile to Jews, even after controlling for other factors.” Furthermore, compared to Christians, for example, Muslims were 2.6-fold more likely to harbor the most virulent antisemitism, namely, shared hostility to both Israel and Jews.
Since 2004, ADL surveys of Muslims have been conducted in Western (European and U.S.) societies, and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries, where Islam is the state religion. MENA Muslim nations are by wide margins the 16 most antisemitic countries worldwide, where the prevalence of extreme antisemitism ranges from a “low” of 74% (in Egypt and Saudi Arabia), to 93% (among the Palestinian Muslims of Gaza, and the West Bank).
Largely consistent with these ADL MENA Muslim data, and strikingly concordant with the 2.6-fold excess of extreme Muslim antisemitism, relative to extreme Christian antisemitism, just revealed by the Brandeis study of U.S. college students, 2015, 2019, and 2023 ADL Western European reports, and a 2017 ADL U.S. report, found a 2- to 4-fold excess prevalence of extreme antisemitism, among Muslims versus Christians, or non-Muslims.
Discussion of the most plausible and discernible explanation for this global surfeit of Muslim Jew-hatred is also shunned: relentless inculcation of antisemitic motifs from the Qur’an itself, and other core Islamic texts, by the pre-eminent authoritative religious teaching institutions in Islam, such as Al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam’s putative “Vatican.”
Identical, canonically sourced Jew-hating Islamic religious indoctrination is ubiquitous, and even embellished, in mainstream U.S. mosques, a baleful practice that has intensified following October 7, 2023.
Unfortunately, monomaniacal focus on DEI racist bias has become just the latest device to avoid any serious discussion of Islam, and the global pandemic of excess Muslim Jew-hatred. Hope springs eternal publication of the landmark Brandeis study confirming this disproportionate pandemic has reached U.S. campuses, will finally initiate honest reckoning with such uniquely Muslim bigotry.

Bibi, the lonesome cowboy Jack Engelhard

He stands there without the trappings of his office, without members of his cabinet, without cheering crowds. He is a man entirely alone. And the well-kept secret that US media don’t show you is that the polls of Israeli citizens are on his side.

Sep 6, 2024, 12:49 PM (GMT+3) INN – There he is again, the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bibi, back on US TV, now Fox News, making his case for going on with the war.

To capitulate, he says, is to threaten Israel’s survival.

He stands there without the trappings of his office, without members of his cabinet, without cheering crowds. He is a man entirely alone.

He explains why he won’t back down. To back down would be the easy way, the popular way. He would surely be far more popular if he gave in.

Submission is the way of the world, but he refuses to bend. Join us as part of the in crowd, they say pleasantly. Better, as it says, to be a live dog, than a dead lion.

Join us, they say, and forget the land you were sworn to protect. We will do that for you, as we have done in the past. Trust us. You can always count on our assurances.

That way his enemies are waiting for him to crack. Each day they expect him to crumble. They see the bags under his eyes for lack of sleep, and days of worry.

In plain view, he has got the world on his shoulders, and there is no one to turn to in a world without pity. They figure the pressure is getting to him.

Former friends urge him to call it quits. Colleagues abandon him. Some slander him. A few threaten him. But Bibi persists.

He is Gary Cooper, aka Will Kane, from the Western “High Noon.” But always in this movie it is Gary Cooper, a Marshall in a town out West.

The Miller Gang has arrived to kill him. He is the Law, but he will need help. Why not, as his bride, Grace Kelly, suggests, and then insists, just leave?

In fact, they were all packed and ready to go, to start a new life elsewhere, the same day the Miller Gang arrived.

Cooper, of course, chooses the manly thing. He will not leave. He will fight. But he is badly outnumbered and out-gunned. He will need help from the townspeople.

After all, throughout the years, he was their protector, and many were his friends.

One at a time he turns to them to help him out, and one by one, as the clock is ticking for noon, they turn him down. He is a man alone.

Bibi must know that feeling.

“High Noon,” considered the greatest Western ever, nominated for seven Academy Awards, was written by Carl Foreman, produced by Stanley Kramer, directed by Fred Zinnemann.

All were Jewish. They must have known something. Zinnemann especially. He knew what it was like when there is no help and an entire world turns against you.

He was a Holocaust Survivor.

Playwright Ionesco’s. “Rhinoceros’’ runs along a similar theme…how an entire town turns cowardly and submissive upon the arrival of a single monster.

Who will be the hero and stick to his convictions?

New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.

He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal.” From the publisher: His novel “Slot Attendant” and his other works motivated John W. Cassell to declare “Jack Engelhard is a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Contact here

NOW AVAILABLE: The collection of Jack Engelhard’s op-eds, Writings, here

Dr. Mordechai Kedar: ‘We can have endless war or we can have deterrence’ [6:59] Yoni Kempinski

Dr. Mordechai Kedar insists that as the war carries on, Israel must take new approaches on each front.

Sep 6, 2024, 1:22 PM (GMT+3) INN – Dr. Mordechai Kedar joined Arutz Sheva – Israel National News to speak about the recent rise in terrorism in Judea and Samaria.

“A wave of smuggling of weapons, ammunition, and explosives real explosives, produced in Iran smuggled through Iraq and Jordan, are no doubt the source of the weapons and the explosives which we see today in Judea and Samaria. The motivation comes from what they see as Israel’s weakness, which is the which is the product of the demonstrations against the government. This is translated to a Jihad, which combines the ability on one side and the intention on the other.”

He suggested a possible response to the execution of six hostages: “Israel should send them the message that their war is lost, and that they will never escape Gaza, that we will pursue them to the very last one.”

Dr. Kedar called for a change of approach to northern Israel as well. “We can have endless war or we can have deterrence. Deterrence means that the Prime Minister should speak to the Lebanese people directly, and emphasize that if even one more shot comes from Lebanon, we will destroy Lebanon – not Hezbollah, but Lebanon. They will take that as a credible threat, and the more credible the threat the less chance we will need to use it.”

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Of Tucker, of Candace, and rhinos Jack Engelhard

On the campus where they walked with friends, they have none. Antisemitism needed only a scratch to surface.

Nov 19, 2023, 1:46 PM (GMT+2) INN – Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros” takes us to a small town where one day a rhino appears causing fear and trembling among the citizens, until gradually, one by one, they all fall under the spell of this green monster and become rhinos themselves. The allure of mindless brute force was too much to resist.

A case of life imitates art.

Because imagine what it’s like for Jewish students, post Oct 7, to find their campus turned into a different world.

Before Oct 7, these Jewish kids were just like the rest. Their Jewishness was no big deal. They attended the same classes as their non-Jewish friends, rooted for the same football team, shared secrets, exchanged homework, laughed, giggled at the same jokes, with no hint that in a snap, everything was about to change.

Their classmates, their instructors, their professors had become monsters. Not all of them, but enough of them to turn the college experience into a nightmare, contrary to the expectation that the college years would be the last stage to enjoy the sweetness of youth, a time to celebrate, savor and appreciate that particular age of innocence for a lifetime.

All that’s been shattered. On the very campus where they walked with friends…they have no friends. Or, they don’t know which are these, and which are those.

Being Jewish is a big deal, after all.

On campus…those who dare…they are met with people who scowl, sneer and shriek “river to the sea” and Allah-hu Akbar.

Many of these are here on visas from Jihad-festering hell-holes and bring with them ancient grudges. The others are homegrown American stooges.

Their antisemitism needed only a scratch to surface.

The “pro-Palestinian” crowd is having it their way.

Of all those “Palestine” flags being waved in NYC and throughout America, some might rightfully ask, whose country is this anyway?

Under the guise of Islamic Studies, that is what we’ve brought into our country, and into our universities as teachers and students. (Must read Chapter 8.)

No wonder then, that so many Jewish kids are terrified…afraid to step foot on campus, afraid to attend class.

They don’t know which professors are their friends, or merely neutral, and which of them tore down those posters of the hostages being held by Hamas.

Where are the counter rallies? The one held in DC…very nice. But it changes nothing, day to day, for Jewish students, or for Jews anywhere.

As we write, some “Palestinian Arab” office is naming Jewish individuals and businesses as targets in New York City. They are calling for “direct action,” whatever that means.

Back to campus, the Jewish kids I’ve spoken to share one feeling when it’s time for class…dread and nausea.

They are waiting for their Christian and Asian friends to stand up and be counted. They are still waiting.

Or have they too changed colors…which brings us to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who are apparently at odds with Ben Shapiro.

Shapiro, so far as I get the story from YouTube, is disappointed that fellow conservatives, namely Tucker and Candace, are not on his side for Israel and against Hamas.

I’ve wondered the same thing. All along I’ve been fans, of Candace in particular, a black woman fearless to take on and tear apart BLM.

But where is she on Israel when Israel and Jews everywhere can use a strong conservative voice of support? Where is Tucker? Seemingly indifferent.

Their conservatism has limits, and it stops with the Jews.

Too bad. Been good to know ya. So long…and as for that hyped up regular on the PBD podcast (Vinny?} who says people should be allowed to ask questions about Oct 7, suggesting, as I heard it, that there is another side to the story, so tell us then, if a neighbor’s wife and kids were raped and hacked to death…would they be interested in your other side of the story?

For all this negativity there is one shining bright spot. In Israel there are tears, but no despair. All are in it together with firm resolve toward complete victory.

The Israelis need to stop explaining themselves. Finish the job…the rest of the world be damned.

There is no half measure, not this time, for the IDF, King David’s Army.

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New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva. He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal,” the authoritative newsroom epic, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” followed by his coming-of-age classics, “The Girls of Cincinnati,” and, the Holocaust-to-Montreal memoir, “Escape from Mount Moriah.” For that and his 1960s epic “The Days of the Bitter End,” contemporaries have hailed him “The last Hemingway, a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Contact here.

Tucker Carlson and the attempted mainstreaming of right-wing Jew-hatred JORDAN SCHACHTEL

In his most recent podcast, Tucker is not-so-subtly carrying water for the Nazis, and dismissing the uniquely evil horrors of the Holocaust.

SEP 05, 2024 – I’m just going to keep it real with all of you. I have been spending the past couple of days brainstorming about what kind of content to offer to the best audience in the world. The Dossier’s readership is incredibly thoughtful, engaged, open-minded, and morally decent human beings, and I am truly blessed to have so many of you on board as readers and contributors.

I know that most of you come here not to read about my personal opinions, but rather, our journalism, commentary and analysis on the important issues of the day.

Yet it would be a betrayal of my being to let this one slide. So I’m going to use this post and email send with the hopes of doing some good.

This post is for me. It’s for my ancestors. It’s for my people. It’s for my tribe. With great love and respect for those who don’t share my background and beliefs, I need to get something off of my chest.

Tucker Carlson is probably the world’s most influential political podcaster. He is a man I deeply admired and respected not so long ago. When he was at Fox News, he even gave me on-air shoutouts about my reporting, which was an unbelievable honor.

So much has changed since then. Today, I can’t help but notice that he has a big, big problem with the Jews, and you would have to be blind not to notice how obvious it is. No, not all Jews. He’s fine with Jews who can be used as tokens to demonize Jewish institutions. His problem is with the Jews who stand proud without trembling knees, who he noticeably won’t invite on to his show to discuss issues of contention. Yes, so too does the Farrakhanista freakshow, Candace Owens, but I never took her seriously, and she has become something of a punchline, despite being influential herself.

Unlike the major right-wing voices who are afraid — largely due to audience capture — to say anything about Tucker Carlson’s headfirst dive into the depths of demonic antisemitism, I can’t let this go.

After all, not being able to let immoral things go, regardless of the implications of speaking out, is kind of my thing!

This week, Carlson had a guest on his show named Darryl Cooper (he goes by Martyr Made on X), a popular history buff podcaster who, like Tucker, has embraced the darkness of “just asking questions” about the Jews. I used to be friendly and cordial with Cooper until he started publicly mocking my religion on X and declaring that the God of the Torah (for Christians, the Old Testament) is demonic. When I responded to his onslaught, he blocked me, and the rest is history. Since then, Cooper has continued leaning into his ingested ideological poison. He has alluded to the idea that Hitler is in heaven, and has claimed that Europe would have been better off had the Nazis won World War II. Unsurprisingly, Cooper can’t decide if Israel’s war in Gaza is worse than the Holocaust. Of course, he knows better, but this is his way of signaling to his disturbed fanbase that he is a fellow piece of trash Nazi.

In their chat, Carlson and Cooper declare Winston Churchill the “chief villain”of World War II. Of course, this is preposterous, evil clickbait on its face, and it glosses over the atrocities committed by the Nazis and Soviets. Specifically, Hitler’s geopolitical aggression and genocidal motives (which the Nazis made sure to reveal to an absurdly transparent degree) are downplayed and entirely misrepresented, and by denigrating Churchill, they further whitewash the Nazis.

Carlson and Cooper are not-so-subtly carrying water for the Nazis, and they dismiss the uniquely evil horrors of the Holocaust. For Jews, this is as personal as it gets. So many of my ancestors died in the Holocaust. A search for “Schachtel” in Holocaust databases returns with over one hundred names. Hitler’s regime brutally murdered my ancestors, many of whom were children and even babies when they were taken to concentration camps. Had it not been for a couple of relatives who wisely decided to take a leap of faith and get to the United States in the years and decades before the war, my entire bloodline, dating back thousands of years, would have been wiped out by Adolf Hitler’s genocidal campaign. No, Winston Churchill is not the “chief villain” of World War II, you absolute scumbags.

To be clear, I don’t claim under any circumstances that the Holocaust somehow inoculates me or any Jews from any legitimate criticism. Criticize me and my ideas all you want. Free speech is paramount. The issue comes with the attempt to erase history and turn victims into perpetrators, and good guys into bad guys.

I will let the authors at the end of the piece fully address the podcast itself. As a non-historian, I would be doing a disservice with a longer rebuttal.

This isn’t the first time Tucker announced that he despises Churchill. In a separate interview, he mockingly declared that “it’s illegal to criticize Winston Churchill,” while engaging in further bastardization of World War II motives and history.

Sure, none of the heroes of Western civilization were perfect men. Churchill was not. He had many ordinary vices, but he still became extraordinary. It’s easy to pick apart the men who charged into the arena retrospectively. But Churchill met his moment in time with relentless courage, bravery, & righteousness. Tucker, on the other hand, had a nervous breakdown about the Wuhan sniffles and ran to Trump begging him to shut down the country.

Tucker is leading an ongoing effort within elements of the right to destroy the heroes of Western civilization through conspiracymongering and outright cynicism, blackpilling Americans into believing that nothing matters, that our shared historic greatness is a lie, and that the world is all shades of gray. He is leading the statue topplers movement of the right, and frequently, it comes back to his problems with the Jews and the Jewish state.

I can’t help but notice that a significant chunk of his guest roster since leaving Fox has been a who’s-who of rabid Jew-baiters. Recently, he brought on a PLO pastor who glorified the October 7th massacre, and gave him unchallenged space to demonize the world’s lone Jewish state.

This has become Tucker’s schtick over and over again. He seemingly doesn’t have the cojones to directly attack Jews and Israel, so he strategically launders this indecent effort through his guests, who use his massive platform to attempt to smear and degrade my coreligionists. With this approach, Tucker takes little risk and he can still link arms in public with major right-wing figures.

The world’s most influential political media guy is engaged in an endless campaign of “just asking questions,” and it’s way past time that he owns up to it and that someone calls it as it is.

On that note, I’ll leave it to some of my more notable peers to tackle the issues addressed in the Tucker podcast head-on.

Military Reform: Reversing the Decline By Gary Anderson

Sep. 5, 2024 11:20 am Real Clear Wire – Since 2020, the nation’s military has undergone one of the most humiliating periods in its history. The disgraceful rout at Hamid Karzai International airport during the Afghanistan withdrawal. Soon after, the decrepit state of naval maintenance and shipbuilding is the worst since the Navy’s founding.

Further compounding the humiliation, the Marine Corps has been castrated into a regional force whose legendary force in readiness is being replaced by a combination of colonial light infantry and coastal defense artillery.

The tragic decline of our nation’s armed forces coincides with the greatest recruiting crisis that our Army has suffered since the activation of the all-volunteer force in the 1970s.

We are now experiencing the greatest decline in American combat power since the end of World War II. America’s military is becoming a hollow force not seen since the Carter years.

The Department of Defense appears incapable of reversing the devastating decline in combat power, all while President Bidne and his administration tout our Military as the most powerful in the world.

The seeds for an even greater debacle have been sewn. Unless there is a significant course correction disaster looms over the horizon. The necessary course correction should be the job of Congress.

Starting with the Navy, as this is written, we have only two aircraft carriers deployed globally, with both anchored in the Middle East for what could become a global crisis. Despite the chest pounding over the Chinese threat, the Navy’s Indo-Pacific presence is akin to the emperor without clothes.

This lack of power projection necessary to deter potential adversaries like China is due to the abysmal state of the U.S. shipbuilding along with incompetence and corruption among the senior naval officers charged with the Navy’s maintenance and repair. Most naval personnel I know, officer and enlisted, believe it is only the tip of the iceberg.

So, what can Congress do? An investigation into incestuous relationship between senior naval personnel and the shipbuilding industry and their contractors, often staffed with senior retired sailors would be a good start. Congress also needs new rules to address the army of senior retired military leaders working for defense contractors.

The Navy’s current crisis didn’t just happen during the Biden administration. It simply reached an inflection point after decades of neglect.

We have allowed our maritime industrial base to deteriorate since the end of the Cold War. To get back on course to achieve the requisite level of sea power our Navy requires will take decades.

Congress must consider outsourcing already backlogged emergency and routine maintenance to allied nations who have excess capacity. This admittedly violates “buy American” pledges, but in this case, America has nothing to sell.

Congress must also address the crisis of military recruiting. Namely, the Army’s crisis in recruiting goes much deeper than the dwindling manpower base caused by poor public education, drug use, and the sedentary lifestyle of the video game generation. Women can only go so far in filling the gap. The cadre of healthy young men from the south and rural areas as well as high school athletes that have traditionally made up the core of the combat arms are staying away in droves.

Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the decline in the military recruiting pool has been the decline in veteran families not recommending service to their children. Approximately eighty percent of the military was comprised of those that had a close family that served in the military. I am one of the many veterans who, if not discouraging military service, are not encouraging young people to pursue it as a career.

Many of us feel that the woke mindset pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion along with critical race theory and other controversial progressive social agendas once relegated to campuses like Columbia and Berkley.

The blame for propagating this progressive social agenda and driving away the traditional recruiting base lays squarely with both the Obama and Biden administrations. Congress must counter the damage done as a recent study at Arizona State University declares “The U.S. Armed Forces should not be a laboratory for social experimentation.” Congress needs to eliminate these social experiments and refocus on the core mission of warfighting and ensuring our nation’s security.

The Marine Corps, however, has staved off the recruiting crisis but can only blame themselves for a striking loss of combat power. Beginning in 2019, then commandant General David Berger radically retooled the Marine Corps from its role as a global force in readiness into a China focused force to help the Navy contesting Chinese aggression in first island chain by placing small Marine Corps units armed with anti-ship missiles on the disputed islets and shoals. The concept known as Force Design 2030, now simply Force Design (FD).

The operational component of FD is Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) with tactical missile shooters across an array of islands known as Stand-in Forces (SIF). To augment the SIF will also be the newly formed Marine littoral regiment.

To implement this new, controversial operational concept during a time of constrained defense budgets, General Berger divested the Marine Corps of much of the combat power that made it a potent world-wide combined arms force in readiness. The Marine Corps rid itself of tanks, heavy engineering units, a majority of cannon artillery, a number of aviation assets, and core elements of its infantry including scout snipers.

The monumental divestiture of historic Marine Corps assets to implement this new operational concept was all conceived behind closed doors without input from any previous commandant and a set of war games. The closed series of war games was conducted at the classified level to “validate” the concept and critics, including several analysts involved, have essentially accused the senior leadership of “cooking the books.”

There is a congressionally mandated requirement for a study of the efficacy of Force Design being done by the Center for Naval Analysis, but at this point, it is a work in progress. If that study shows FD/EABO to be ill conceived, Congress should stop all further funding for FD/EABO until the Marine Corps can come up with a viable course correction.

General Eric Smith, the current commandant, was handpicked by Berger and must relinquish his position if the Marine Corps is to restore its lethal force in readiness for the expanding global threats. Smith and Berger recently met with the other eight former commandants who made an impassioned pleas for modification of the FD/EABO/SIF concept to reflect a Marine Corps vision capable of engaging the expanding global threats. However, days later, General Smith issued his Commandant’s planning guidance, doubling down on the FD enterprise.

A recent article in JFQ by Adam Clemens “The Marine Corps the United States Needs” states:

The Marine Corps’ statutory mission—amphibious assault to seize advanced naval bases—is not as relevant as it once was, but it cannot be completely dismissed. The Marine Corps needs a mission or set of missions to ensure its relevance in a 21st-century world in which denied environments will become increasingly common. More important, the Marine Corps cannot simply choose the missions it would like to do and hope that the other services and Congress accept those choices and that our partners and competitors respond to them in a way that improves the competitive position of the United States. The Marine Corps must instead optimize itself to suit the Nation’s needs given the choices made by other actors.

To change course and prepare the Marine Corps for future conflict, Congress must act now. Eight administrations of both parties have lived through the unintended consequences of the Goldwater-Nichols act and bi-partisan solutions are now possible.

It took Vietnam to drive the last great U.S. effort at military reform, we cannot let Afghanistan and related military failure be locked in the attic like a crazy uncle. Like a termite infestation or dry rot, ignoring the problems much longer could lead to a collapse of the whole edifice and our nation’s interests and force in readiness, the Marine Corps, depend on it.

Gary Anderson retired as Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab and served as a Special Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense.

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Operation Barbarossa: The German Invasion of the Soviet Union By Alex Grobman
September 5, 2024
Part XIII

Ordinary Bureaucrats and Functionaries

In this group of perpetrators, there were the ordinary bureaucrats and functionaries in the middle and lower levels of government. They included the Jewish experts and the civil servants in the German Foreign Office, which served as the apologist, defender and propagandist for the “antisemitic movement in Germany,” asserts historian Christopher Browning. The decision by key personnel to advance antisemitic policy “was calculated, not fanatical.” This was not the primary reason for their conduct “but rather a symptom.” They were not forced by any “external threat” to act as they did. Whatever personal reservations they might have harbored about handling the Jewish question, they unvaryingly performed their responsibilities with “meticulous efficiency.”

They were compelled to complete their tasks, he said, in order to ensure their records remained untarnished. “They blotted out any sense of individual responsibility.” They viewed their work solely from the vantage point of how it might affect themselves, not what it would do others. In essence, they became “dehumanized.”

After the war, civil servant Franz Rademacher, head of D III, the Jewish desk (Judenreferat) of the German Foreign Office from May 1940 to April 1943, explained what Browning called the “deal of dehumanized bureaucratic subservience.” Rademacher said: “My will was exclusively directed toward doing my duty as an official to the best of my knowledge and conscience…. My entire education from childhood aimed at serving the state, irrespective of the political opinion of the state leadership at the moment.”

He accurately assessed that the German courts would be far more “lenient” to someone who committed these illegal acts out of a sense of duty, instead of being motivated by racial hatred. Browning concludes that in every bureaucratic state there is never a lack of aspiring professionals eager to fulfill the wishes of the leadership of the moment as the surest way to advance their career goals. Their extreme desire to permit themselves to be exploited becomes hazardous or “criminal” if used by “politicians” who have even “greater ambition and less moral scruple than themselves.” Such was the case in the Foreign Office.

The anti-US Iran-Venezuela-Hezbollah axis Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger

September 4, 2024 – *Venezuela’s geo-strategic location in Latin America has been leveraged by Iran and its chief proxy, Hezbollah, to undermine the strategic posture of “The Great American Satan” in the US’ own backyard. The Iran-Venezuela-Hezbollah axis has erected a mutually beneficial network of intelligence, terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, training, weapons, supplies, and know-how, transforming Venezuela into a central hub of transnational organized crime and international terrorism. However, since 1979, the State Department has persisted in its diplomatic option toward Iran’s Ayatollahs, which has bolstered the Ayatollahs’ anti-US capabilities, threatening the survival of every pro-US Arab regime.

*According to the Atlantic Council: “The dual-use nature of Iran’s cooperation with Venezuela’s Maduro regime, layered with the illicit financial connections of its facilitators, and Hezbollah’s established crime-terror network in Venezuela, creates a tier-one national security concern for the United States. It is multifaceted and requires a robust response.”

*According to Joseph M. Humire, the co-author of Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America: “For more than a decade, Iran has been equipping Venezuela with modern weaponry, including long-range drones, smart bombs, cruise missiles, rockets, and, of course, the combat boats. These weapons systems are not meant to be used in a conventional military fashion but instead used in asymmetric amphibious assaults, like the tactics used by the Iran-supported Houthi rebels off the coast of Yemen and in the Red Sea… Iran is taking this modus operandi across the Atlantic into the Caribbean. This is aimed at the United States with the mounting Venezuela-Guyana conflict [concerning a territorial dispute, offshore oil and commercial shipping lanes] as the catalyst…. Iran, Russia and China have already carried out a half-dozen joint naval exercises in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean since 2018, and aspire to bring these drills to the Atlantic Ocean. Venezuela may provide them the pretext to do so.”

*Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has tightened its cooperation with Venezuela’s intelligence apparatus, assisting the despotic and corrupt Maduro regime, while leveraging Venezuela’s geostrategic location as a staging ground to plan terror operations on the soil of “The Great American Satan” and undermining the US’ strategic posture in its own hemisphere. In fact, FBI Director, Chris Wray, maintains that Iran-supported Islamic terrorists have established sleeper cells in the US, plotting assassinations of former and present US officials.

Biden’s Actions Against Israel Are ‘Unprecedented’ w/ Eugene Kontorovich [1:01:17] Caroline Glick

September 4, 2024 JNS TV – Over the past seven months, the Biden administration has decided to levy sanctions on 11 “settlers” and an equal number of non-governmental organizations whom they view as “obstacles to peace.”

JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick is joined by legal expert Eugene Kontorovich, law professor and director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University, about this unprecedented abuse of power against the Jewish state and what it could mean for the U.S.-Israel relationship going forward.

Glick and Kontorovich also discuss international efforts by the United Nations, International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice to delegitimize Israel and what can be done to combat it.

Chapters:

00:00 Unprecedented sanctions

03:11 Abuse of international law

10:51 Violation of constitutional rights

20:27 Implications for the future

31:00 The Biden administration’s actions against Israel

33:15 Campaign to delegitimize the Kohelet Policy Forum

41:09 The ICC and ICJ proceedings Against Israel

45:26 The need for pushback against int’l institutions

49:14 The need for legal reform in Israel

58:18 Disillusionment with international institutions

Jonathan Pollard: OUTRAGE: The Rape & Judicial Persecution of a Female Israeli Soldier [18:36]

September 5, 2024 Machon Shilo – Watch the following discussion between Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim on the Iranian Attack on Israel:

18:29:11

Alone at the helm Prof. Phyllis Chesler

PM Netanyahu is the sole world leader who is standing against radical Islam.

Sep 4, 2024, 9:41 AM (GMT+3) INN – As I’ve long feared, the entire world is now electrically pre-wired with Jew hatred. From coast to coast, on every continent, every day, pro-Hamas demonstrations disturb the world’s peace.

It has only gotten worse after 10/7. At every conference, on every holiday, and on every campus, the hoarse cries of “Free Palestine” pierce the air. The surging, keffiyeh-masked pro-Hamas mobs are seemingly everywhere. They are not stopping anytime soon, even if Democrats try to claim they are. They constitute Iran’s bought-and-paid-for global army.

Iranian, Qatari, and left wing billionnaire funding of both Jew, Israel, and America hatred for the last fifty years have accomplished this. Everyone absolutely refused to see the danger coming. One cannot blame only PM Netanyahu for this blindness, the entire world is guilty as Hell. This time, the Gates of Vienna have fallen and Europe has already reaped the deluge.

Think of it: Hamas massacres and wounds thousands and kidnaps many hundreds of Israeli civilians–and Israel gets cursed for fighting back.

Hamas sadistically executes six completely beaten-down, still shackled, Israeli hostages in cold blood–and pro-Hamas demonstrations take place in Bled, Slovenia (!), at a global conference which is just ending.

In Bled, a so-called “Ambassador” from “Palestine” and a Palestinian Arab soprano had speaking (and singing) slots–and only one Israeli, left-wing Tzipi Livni, a former Knesset member and the minister responsible for the failed 2006 UN Resolution 1701 which prohibits all armed militias from operating anywhere in all of Lebanon, and who has long been out of power, was there, telling the Europeans just what they want to hear.

Media the world over continue to lead with headlines which position Israel’s fighting back as pre-emptive overkill, as demonically genocidal.

Once again: Hamas sadistically executes six hostages, hours away from being rescued, and Israelis who want a very different kind of state, not the one they have, stop traffic in Tel Aviv, call a half-day strike, blame only PM Netanyahu for Israel being attacked by Iranian proxies on three fronts simultaneously.

These Israeli protestors, mad with grief and fear, (heartbroken too), do not march to protest at the Gaza border, or attack Iran demanding the release of the remaining hostages, dead or alive. They do not take on the mullahs. No one does.

PM Netanyahu is the sole world leader who is standing against radical Islam. Presidents Obama, Biden, and Vice-President Harris all enabled Iran to get this far. If Harris is elected, I have every reason to assume that she (and her handler, Obama), will take it even further.

If the world does not back PM Netanyahu–we will all be overrun by radical fundamental Islamists who yearn for the destruction of the West and for a Shii’a Caliphate.

My saying so a quarter century ago, led to mockery, dis-invitations, and the loss of publishing venues.

Piffle.

Is PM Netanyahu a perfect human being or politician? Of course not. As has been said, whoever is–let them cast the first stone.

Does Israel need a full-scale reckoning about how its intelligence failed on 10/7, on what PM Netanyahu knew and when he knew it, on who may have stayed his hand on 10/7? Of course it does. But not now, not in the middle of this particular war.

Israel must first win this war, not a single Hamas terrorist can be left standing, not an inch of the Philadelphi corridor can be returned to Egypt or to Arabs in Gaza.

My colleague, Dexter Van Zile, recently published an article about a recent August, 16th, pro-Hamas demonstration in Boston. A counter pro-Israel demonstration proved very successful because many of the pro-Israel demonstrators were Iranians and partly because they just kept chanting: “If you’re siding with Hamas, you support rapists and murderers,” over and over again. The Hamasniks actually retreated.

This tells us that, in terms of demonstrations, on campuses, and in general, we need Iranian expatriate allies; Indian allies (who have their own fearful problems with surging Islamists who kidnap, rape, convert, and forcibly marry Hindu girls); Christian allies (whose brethren are being butchered all over Africa and the Middle East by Islamist Muslims) and we need them all to march with us and to support Israel.

Dare I dream? Why not. It is time for the Sunni Arab countries to join us on the front lines as well. It is in their interest to do so. Perhaps Jewish progressives will also begin to wake up, not only use their money-power but also take to the streets.

Heroic alliances are our only option. Netanyahu, stand strong.

Prof. Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and the author of 20 books, including “Women and Madness” (1972), “With Child: A Diary of Motherhood, (1979) and” “The New Anti-Semitism” (2003, 2014). She conducted and published four studies about honor killing. Her latest books are “An American Bride in Kabul, which won a National Jewish Book Award and is now in Arabic;“A Family Conspiracy: Honor Killing,” “A Politically Incorrect Feminist.” She is a founding member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME).

Embattlement: How growing antisemitism will affect the American Jewish community Dr. Chaim Cohen

Antisemitism in America is here to stay, and will probably increase The “golden Era of American Jewry ‘ is definitely over, not to return.

Sep 4, 2024, 4:59 PM (GMT+3) INN – After a post-World War Two-post Holocaust ‘hibernation’, real, and often powerful, antisemitism is growing in America, to an extent that we post-war Baby Boomers ‘never, never dreamed could happen in the USA.’

The ‘Golden Era’ of American Judaism, (1950-1990) where Jews openly dominated many areas of culture, business, science and academic life, is definitely over, and will never return. Today ,due to antisemitism, to be openly and proudly Jewish, and at the same to seek success in these fields, has become a very difficult act. Being openly Jewish in these fields today requires one to be constantly cautious and on the defensive about key elements in your social behavior, and it is hard to be highly productive and originally creative, when at the same time you have to be cautious and defensive, and when ‘you are carrying around ‘a monkey on your back’ entitled “I am a proud Jew’.

The most likely reasons for the current emergence of American antisemitism

I do not have a definite sociological explanation why the ‘Bear’ of antisemitism has suddenly emerged from its ‘cave of hibernation’. I will mention a few of possible causes.

One, suffering antisemitism is the norm of Jewish history. Most societies/civilizations, throughout human history, have ‘placed Jews’ in social roles and social positions which have caused other parts of the population to feel threatened and uncomfortable. Throughout human history, ‘proud, successful Jews’ get on people’s nerves.

Two, throughout the 19th and 20th century antisemitism has been a prevalent part of both the political Left and the political Right (each in its own version). Today the increasingly dominant progressive Left is the main engine of antisemitism, but antisemitism on the Right is also strong.

Three, and this is the most relevant reason in America today, American society is becoming increasingly polarized and semi dysfunctional. America ‘no longer believes in itself.‘ There is no longer a common American dream, a common American belief system that 80% of the population shares. Basic social institutions, such as stable families and communities, and organized religion, are becoming increasingly weakened. The number of individuals who feel isolated, vulnerable, lonely and depressed is increasing in an alarming rate.

And as the German Weimer Republic of the 1920’s (which gave birth to the Nazi movement) teaches us, a political society which has lost its self-confidence, and in which ‘the stable Center no longer holds’ is the most fertile ground for antisemitism. The Jews are historically everyone’s (Left and Right) most favorite and available ‘scapegoat ‘when a society begins to unravel.

So how will growing American antisemitism affect American Jewry?

I have a fairly simple answer to the above question.

1) There will be the ‘disappearing Jew’ response to antisemitism

American, self-identified Jews, for whom Jewish self-identity is not a highly prioritized factor in their overall self-identity, will simply downsize and weaken the Jewish factor in their overall self-identity till it almost disappears, because ‘being Jewish’ has now become such an onerous, social problem. Maintaining a Jewish identity is simply not worth the ‘sweat’, effort and even dangers that it may involve. Whether non-Jews will let them ‘get away’ with this ‘disappearing act’ is another question. (One hundred percent assimilation did not save German Jews.) According to my ‘semi scientific’ estimation close to a million self-identified Jews will try to cope with antisemitism using this ‘disappearing Jew’ method.

Most of these’ disappearing Jews ‘ are today under 40, the product of two generations of family religious-ethnic intermarriage, and probably four generations removed from their first generation (Ellis Island, 1890 to 1920) ethnic origins. They self-report that they have very minimal, if any, connection to Jewish religious practice or beliefs.

2) There will be the ‘reinvigorated-revved up’ Jewish response to antisemitism

(For the sake of clarification, in this category I am referring to non–Orthodox practicing Jews)

And, in contrast, there seem to be an equal, and maybe larger number of Jews, who are responding to growing antisemitism by strengthening, redefining, and reinvigorating their Jewish self-identity.

My discussion here of the ‘Reinvigorating- revved up Jew’ is basically speculative and tentative, yet based on expertise intuition.

[Ed.: If Israel would ruthlessly decimate and obliterate her enemies, antisemitism wouldn’t go away, but most of it would go back to the closet for a good 30 years or so. When Israel does win wars in a frightening and shocking manner, Jew-haters, like all bullies, shut up. Since Israel is In Name Only, it won’t do that and the bullies will be increasingly emboldened.]

Jonathan Pollard: TRUTH BOMB: Gaza Tunnel Revelations [8:25]

Sep 3, 2024 Machon Shilo – Watch the following discussion between Jonathan Pollard and Rabbi David Bar-Hayim on the Iranian Attack on Israel:

IDF Lieutenant gives more details on six found hostages in Rafah [12:38] Berel Solomon

Sep 1, 2024 – Details Emerge from IDF Lieutenant on Six Hostages Found in Rafah, hosted by Berel, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Jacob from the IDF shares insights into a recent tragic discovery in Gaza. The IDF found six hostages who had been killed by Hamas inside a tunnel in Rafah. Jacob explains that these hostages were likely alive until a few days before the discovery. He describes the complexity and dangers of the operations to rescue hostages, emphasizing that Hamas often uses the hostages as human shields and kills them when IDF forces approach. The colonel also reflects on the broader situation in Israel, where the conflict spans multiple fronts, and expresses frustration with the high command’s handling of the war. He believes that the current leadership is not capable of winning the war due to their inability to adapt to the changing dynamics of the conflict.

Jacob further discusses the strategic and moral challenges Israel faces, including the difficulty of negotiating with Hamas and the risks posed by opening the Philadelphia route, which could allow more terrorists to enter Gaza. He emphasizes the need for stronger, more decisive action from Israel and criticizes the current government’s approach to the war. Jacob also touches on the importance of unity within Israel, particularly the need to integrate religious and liberal segments of society into the war effort. He concludes by urging a change in strategy to show strength and deter future attacks, highlighting the critical support from international allies like the United States. The video also underscores the personal sacrifices made by soldiers and their families, illustrating the deep impact of the conflict on those serving on the front lines.

Contact Daniel Directly: dantsj@gmail.com

A clever way to stop “misinformation superspreaders” like me STEVE KIRSCH

I thought of a clever way for the US government to silence all of us for 5 years. Problem solved!

SEP 04, 2024

Executive summary

US law (18 USC 1001) makes it illegal to lie to the US government.

So an easy way to stop “misinformation spreaders” is to subpoena them to testify in front of Congress and ask them whether vaccines are safe and how they know. If they lie, they can be put in jail for 5 years.

Problem solved.

Summary

Oddly, nobody in Congress wants to do this.

Congress and the Biden/Harris administration prefer controlling free speech by censoring speech they don’t agree with.

EU Should Condemn Iran, Not Israel, for West Bank Violence by Con Coughlin
September 4, 2024 at 5:00 am

[T]he fact that the EU’s foreign policy chief [Josep Borrell] has even suggested imposing punitive measures against Israel, a country smaller than the state of New Jersey, when it is involved in a desperate fight defending itself against the world’s largest sponsor of state terrorism, Iran, and its proxy terrorist groups — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Iraqi militias, as well as Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — on at least seven fronts, shows a woeful lack of understanding of the conflict.
Borrell’s constant articulation of anti-Israeli views also raises questions about his suitability to continue holding such an important position in the EU. Earlier this year, he launched a blistering attack against the “Israeli occupation authorities” for imposing punitive measures against an openly genocidal Palestinian Authority (PA).
Even so, Borrell’s stance reflects the deep anti-Israel sentiment that exists within the EU bureaucracy… After Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1,200 Israelis, rather than receiving support for her gesture of solidarity by visiting Israel, during which [European Commission President Ursula] von der Leyen went to the Kfar Aza kibbutz (where at least 52 of 700 residents were murdered), she faced a barrage of criticism from EU insiders, with 800 EU staffers writing an official letter of complaint criticising her “uncontrolled” support of Israel.
[UN Secretary-General Antonio] Guterres’s willingness to focus his criticism on Israel, and not the Iranian-backed terrorists, is yet another example of the UN’s institutional anti-Israel bias. If the UN has any genuine interest in taking a balanced approach to the violence in the West Bank, then, instead of focusing its criticism exclusively on Israel, it would call on Iran to cease backing the network of terrorist groups it backs in the region, whose main goal is the destruction of Israel on the way to destroying the United States — the main representative of the West.
The failure of international bodies such as the EU and the UN to demonstrate any pretence of balance when intervening on vital international security issues such as the Iranian-sponsored conflicts taking place in Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon not only makes a mockery of their claim to be independent arbiters on the issue. It also runs the risk of making them utterly irrelevant, to the extent that they suffer the same fate as the League of Nations in the 1930s, whose inability to confront fascism condemned it to abject failure.

Iran’s Plan for the 2024 US Election By John Mills

Sep. 3, 2024 1:40 pm – There are reportedly Iranian attempts to make sure former President Donald Trump does not return to office. There is reportedly both the high-end threat of direct assassination and malign influence activities through cyber and social media.

Walid Phares, a respected expert on Middle East matters, has said: “The Islamic regime in Iran is trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump, with hopes of doing so by Nov. 5, Election Day.” [Emphasis added]

“Multiple governmental sources associated with U.S. allies across the Mideast have informed me of the danger.”

Even before the July 13 Butler shooting that injured Trump (which is not known to be linked to Iran), there was concern that Iran was plotting to kill the former president.

In addition, Iranian cyber units appear focused on the Trump campaign.

In the 2024 presidential election, there is allegedly a real and malign foreign election interference operation led by Iran. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released a joint statement squarely blaming Iran for seeking to use cyber methods to break into the Trump campaign.

The statement reads in part: “The Intelligence Community (IC) has previously reported that Iran perceives this year’s elections to be particularly consequential in terms of the impact they could have on its national security interests, increasing Tehran’s inclination to try to shape the outcome. We have observed increasingly aggressive Iranian activity during this election cycle, specifically involving influence operations targeting the American public and cyber operations targeting presidential campaigns.”

The Iranian hacking operation reportedly has a face and identity. It is allegedly known as APT (advanced persistent threat) 42 or CharmingKitten. APT42 is thought to be embedded in and associated with the intelligence division of the Iranian military, the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iran as a Proxy of China

There has been an evolution of the longstanding Iranian tension with the United States. Iran has become China’s premier worldwide proxy. China is the dominant provider of support to Iran, and Iran’s economy is beholden to energy exports to China.

Henry Rome of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy has said: “The economic relationship is fundamentally asymmetrical, so I’d call it a one-way strategic partnership. … It’s certainly strategic for Iran: China is Iran’s most important economic partner and is the lung through which the [Iranian] economy breathes.”

The connection between Iran’s IRGC, military, and intelligence activities and China has become pervasive. Chinese defense ministers have traveled to Iran to establish deep and formal relations with Iran, with a possible focus on arms transfers; drone, dual-use, and missile technologies; and cyber and intelligence capabilities. Iran is now reportedly seeking advanced Chinese spy satellites to give Iranian intelligence and influence operations a broader, worldwide reach.

With Russia decisively focused on the Ukraine War and now attempting to respond to a sudden Ukraine thrust into the Kursk Oblast of Russia, Iran has become the senior “colony” to China. It is not unreasonable to conclude that because of the defense and intelligence agreements between Iran and China, Iran’s objective of ensuring Trump does not return to office has at least the tacit approval of China if not some involvement in the planning and direction of the Iranian election interference operations.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

All viewpoints are personal and do not reflect the viewpoints of any organization.

This article first appeared in Epoch Times and was reprinted with permission.

Irish Teacher Arrested for the Third Time for Refusing To Give in to ‘Trans’ Agenda By Margaret Flavin

Sep. 3, 2024 3:20 pm – Enoch Burke is a devout Christian teacher who formerly taught at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co. Westmeath, Ireland.

According to their website, while the school is associated with the Church of Ireland, they appear to bow to the trans agenda.

In 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported that Burke was put on paid administrative for refusing to address a trans student as “they.”

Despite an order barring him from the campus, Burke continued to show up on campus and was arrested and jailed for contempt of court and spent three months in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison.

Ultimately, the school board dismissed Burke.

Despite the firing, Burke continued to show up to the school, and in September 2023, he was arrested again.

At the start of the 2024 school year, Burke was arrested for a third time and taken into custody by Ireland’s Garda (police force).

Burke protested his right to be at the school and told arresting officers, “I have a right to work here, I have a right to be here.”

“I’m not going to turn my back on my duty to my students.”

Following the arrest, Burke was sent back to Mountjoy Prison with a review of his case scheduled for October 11.

An account on X run on Burke’s behalf shared, “BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke arrested at Wilson’s Hospital School after refusing to endorse and affirm transgender ideology.”

“Judge Barry O’Donnell, who made almost €400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest.”

“TUSLA is the Irish State ‘Child Protection’ agency, an organisation saturated with LGBT ideology, urging staff recently to learn about cross-dressers and drag performers, and making acceptance of LGBT and transgender ideology a condition for fostering children.”

“What a mockery to expect Enoch Burke, a Christian teacher, to sit before this man and expect justice.”

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Victor Davis Hanson Video: ‘I Told You Something is Coming and Now It’s Here’ [8:52]

How universities are churning out graduates that are contributing to a national crisis.

September 3, 2024 Frontpagemag.com – Aug 12, 2024 – Are universities failing students and society? In this video, Victor Davis Hanson discusses the current state of higher education. He argues that universities are churning out graduates burdened with massive debt and insufficient skills, contributing to a national crisis.

Hanson explains how the push for diversity and equity has led to the dilution of academic standards and the devaluation of degrees. Many young people, especially men, are not marrying, buying houses, or having children, partly due to the financial strain of student debt. Hanson suggests that universities should be transparent about the true costs and potential earnings of different degrees and should take responsibility for student loan defaults.

He also highlights the problem of universities rejecting highly qualified students to meet diversity quotas, leading to a decline in the quality of graduates. Employers are now favoring graduates from less prestigious schools because they are better trained and less entitled. Hanson calls for a revolutionary movement in education to prioritize practical skills and accountability, moving away from the current system that prioritizes credentials over competence.

On petitions, hostages and hypocritical rabbis MOSHE PHILLIPS

Refusing to call on Qatar and Egypt to pressure Hamas suggests that they are primarily interested in pressuring only Israel.

(August 29, 2024 JNS – More than 90 rabbis and cantors signed a letter this month to Israel’s prime minister, demanding that Israel cease firing at Hamas and release a large number of terrorists to gain the release of the hostages in the Gaza Strip. When the same clergy were asked to sign a letter calling on Qatar and Egypt to pressure Hamas to release the hostages, guess how many signed on?

Five. That’s right, just five.

The letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which was organized by the “Bring Them Home Now” campaign, urged him to “finalize the deal on the table.” According to media reports, the two main components of that deal are that Israel will stop pursuing the gang rapists and baby-beheaders of Oct. 7 and will release many hundreds—perhaps even thousands—of terrorists who have murdered or attempted to murder Jews.
It’s peculiar to use the slogan “Bring Them Home Now,” which indicates that it is within Israel’s power to do so. A more appropriate slogan would have been “Let My People Go” because that would be aimed at Hamas, which is holding the hostages, and at the governments that support Hamas and could exercise leverage on it. “Bring Them Home Now” puts most or all of the onus on Israel.
That appears to have been the intent of the letter of the nearly 100 rabbis and cantors—to put pressure on Israel, to put the blame on Israel, to put all the responsibility for the fate of the hostages on Israel’s shoulders.
Nowhere in their letter did the 99 rabbis call on Hamas to surrender. Nowhere did they call for action by Qatar, which finances Hamas, or by Egypt, which controls Gaza’s western border.
So, we at Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI) decided to organize a second letter to correct the imbalance. We sent it to all the rabbis and cantors who signed the first one.
As I explained in my cover note to these rabbis and cantors, our letter deliberately mimicked the language of the first letter, except ours was directed at Qatar and Hamas. We used the same language to make it as comfortable as possible for all 99 rabbis and cantors to sign on. If they were satisfied with the language of the first letter, then they should have been satisfied with the language of the second one—or so we assumed.

FIDF Briefing: Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Israeli Scholar of Arab Culture – Sept. 1, 2024 [1:02:17]

Sep 1, 2024 Friends of the IDF – FIDF – FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil welcomes Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Israeli Scholar of Arab Culture, Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, and Vice President of NEWSRAEL to offer his expert insight into Israel’s conflict with Iran within the broader context of Middle Eastern, Islamic, and world histories. Dr. Kedar elaborates on the various internal divisions within the Muslim world–particularly the Shia and Sunni sects–and how their conflicts are impacting Israel’s geopolitical reality and fueling wars throughout the Middle East. Steve and Dr. Kedar also discuss the dangers posed to Western societies around the world by the extremist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. Finally, Dr. Kedar provides his views on the current and future situation with Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.Donate NOW at FIDF.org for the fastest and most direct way to give IDF soldiers what they need most. 100% of your contribution goes toward meeting their emergency humanitarian needs.

After Hostages Executed, Left Blames Bibi [49:43] Caroline Glick In-Focus

September 1, 2024 JNS TV – But why would Gallant blame Netanyahu—and more importantly, why does the premier continue to keep his defense minister on board?

On today’s episode of “In-Focus,” JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick discusses the motivations behind Gallant’s actions and how they connect to the larger effort to topple Netanyahu.

She also reveals the details of Hamas’s terms for Israel’s capitulation; the inner workings of the Jewish state’s establishment; and developments in the continued war against Palestinian terror.

Chapters

0:00 Terror wave continues

10:10 Hostages found

14:00 Establishment left creates chaos

20:00 Terms of capitulation

25:00 Gallant goes to Washington

36:00 Breaking down the internal subversion

45:00 Why hasn’t Gallant been fired?

Jonathan Pollard: Torah Requires Constitutional Monarchy [44:15]

September 1, 2024 Machon Shilo

We Are Facing the Breakup of America as We Know It General Flynn

September 1, 2024 – We are facing the breakup of America as we know it, advancing into some of the most challenging times in U. S. history, including the days of the American Revolution.

After analyzing the messaging throughout the DNC, it’s important to understand that this election is not simply about policy, it’s an opportunity for every American to choose between competing ideologies.

Americanism is based on our constitutional republic, our bill of rights, the rule of law, our freedoms, and the idea that we the people have the absolute say in the direction of our country. In opposition is a totalitarian tyrannical oligarch running as a group of communists and managing our lives at the top by an overarching federal government. There is a stark difference.

It can feel as though our nation is divided into two camps, but one camp is substantially smaller. The ideology of communism pervades inside of our current government structure, particularly in the white house, the executive branch and even in parts of congress. The number of people in our country who truly believe in this is larger than you would think but it’s not half the country the way that the left will make you believe. It is a small group that has infiltrated the political class. The challenge is that they hold significant power.

An additional challenge that we face is that we have an establishment class on the conservative side. Republican Party leaders that don’t like President Trump because he’s not one of theirs. He continues to be an outsider and does not participate as a part of the establishment. Again, the establishment is a small segment of the Republican party, but they are prominent in the political class. They want to take care of our lives, and don’t want us to get involved.

Republicans are in charge of the House of Representatives right now, and should be fighting tooth and nail, but instead, they are out on vacation. We have an extremely weak Speaker of the House, who hasn’t done anything to speak of. We have a Weaponization Committee, which has done even less. Meanwhile, we continue to watch conservatives being thrown into prison with an Attorney General who recently announced that more J6ers would be indicted.

Never mind the recent news that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, just acknowledged that his social media platforms participated in making sure that the people of this country were lied to for the purpose of swaying the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, which was won by less than 45K total votes. And apparently, we’re meant to simply forget about the 51 Intel leaders that signed a letter that clearly misled the public about Hunter Biden’s laptop (and likely swayed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election).

So, the question remains, where is the accountability? Will there be any action taken or does Zuckerberg get a hall pass offered by Jim Jordan and the judiciary committee? Congress should immediately call these people in and place them under oath, but congress in their illustrious way is still out on recess.

CHAPTER 34: In a World Obsessed with Feelings, Whose Feelings Matter? by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is*
September 1, 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.

Hidden deep within the Gospel of Yuval Harari is the question “Do children belong to their parents or to the state?” Harari’s position clearly favors the state, because the “intelligent design” he describes is an arm of the state body politic. To repeat what he said at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos on January 24, 2020:

In the coming decades, AI and biotechnology will give us godlike abilities to reengineer life, and even to create completely new life-forms. After four billion years of organic life shaped by natural selection, we are about to enter a new era of inorganic life shaped by intelligent design.

Harari’s “evolutionary” biology sees human beings as hackable animals whose future will be shaped by artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and the reengineering of life into new life-forms. The new life-forms Harari refers to are transhumanist beings totally controlled by the globalist elite—the “intelligent designers.”

To “transcend” means to go beyond the range or limits of something. Transhuman means going beyond the current limits of being human and acquiring the powers and abilities of an enhanced human being in what the World Economic Forum calls “Humanity 2.0″—the stated goal of “intelligent design.” Harari’s narrative is grooming your children for Humanity 2.0.

To understand the insidious plan to move humanity from Humanity 1.0 to Humanity 2.0, it is necessary to examine the tactical shift away from meritocracy—the traditional metric of achievement foundational to American life, progress, and success.

In a society that eliminates meritocracy by shifting its metrics from achievement to feelings, whose feelings actually matter? What is the political purpose of the shift?

BREAKING: Don Jr JUST shared the CRAZIEST WARNING!! [21:52] Stephen Gardner

AUGUST 30, 2024

Love is choosing for another’s HIGHEST GOOD TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS

AUG 31, 2024 – I wasn’t going to write another newsletter until next week, but one of my friends asked me this question this morning and I took it as a sign that I was supposed to tell you about it before the holiday:

Peggy, what do you say to people who answer the illegal immigration charge with “you can’t have illegal immigration with a country that stole from the Indians” & “borders are illegal” & “you stole from the Indians.”

Here is how I suggested he answer back:

If you believe in the idea that any one people have an inherent right to land because they were there first, then every nation on earth is on stolen land, because there is no country today that is inhabited by the same people that it was 2000 years ago. Or even 500.

Back then, Native American tribes would rape, murder and pillage the people of OTHER tribes and sacrifice their children. They would take land by force and hold other tribes under slavery. In fact, Native Americans were the ORIGINAL slave traders in what we call modern North America.

This is nothing new. Nobody is taught this truth in school. I wish people would do their homework before they start parroting propaganda about how bad America is compared to the rest of the world.

Today, there are still 45 million enslaved people on the globe – mostly in Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and India. African slaves are sold for $200 on the streets and then mutilated and “cooked like kebabs” by violent African gangs. You must teach this truth to your children.

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As you prepare to spend the holiday weekend with friends and family, I’d like to take the time to briefly address something else.

I know many of you are parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts to children and young adults who have been indoctrinated into Communism and Satanism at our liberal schools and colleges…not to mention the daily assault on our children with lockstep propaganda from the fake news! They are all in on it together and it’s relentless – and the latest is all about fake JOY.

IMHO, you are NOT doing the next generation of Americans any favors by going along to get along or even accepting their new “learned philosophical mindset” in order to keep the peace.

If you LOVE THEM – you will set them on the right path – gently, calmly and intelligently – no matter what the cost to you. LOVE IS seeking the HIGHEST GOOD for another. LOVE IS NOT allowing another to be swallowed whole by evil under the guise of “joy.“

In case you still don’t know – STRENGTH THROUGH JOY was a campaign line for the NAZI PARTY – otherwise known as the National Socialist Worker’s Party of Germany. The “fact checkers” are trying to dispute this – but it’s very very true.

This weekend would be a good time to start giving your friends and family a history lesson!

CS LEWIS: “Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s False Apology JEFF CARLSON & HANS MAHNCKE

Zuckerberg’s actions over the years speak far louder than his words

AUG 28, 2024 – Mark Zuckerberg made some startling admissions in his recent “mea culpa” letter to Congress. He admitted that the Biden-Harris Administration “pressured” Facebook to censor stories on the origin of Covid. He admitted that the FBI pressured Facebook to censor the Hunter Laptop story. And he admitted that Facebook did what the government asked him to – censor American citizens.

Zuckerberg also (sort of) addressed his personal financial contributions during the 2020 election. His letter gave the appearance of a public apology – he appeared almost contrite for his actions in the 2020 election and the Covid Pandemic, but is Zuckerberg really sorry? Or is he simply worried because he got caught? A closer look at the involvement of Zuckerberg & Facebook with the DNC over the years may answer that question.

A pattern of close collaboration between Zuckerberg/Facebook and the DNC goes back to at least 2012 — when Facebook shared their user data with the Obama campaign.

Obama’s Election Team was given full access to Facebook’s data in 2012. Access that was not – and would not have been granted to Conservatives.

As a result, any time people used Facebook’s log-in button to sign on to the campaign’s website, Obama’s data scientists were able to access their profile as well as their friends’ information. That allowed them to chart the closeness of people’s relationships and make estimates about which people would be most likely to influence other people in their network to vote.

Carol Davidsen, who was director of data integration and media analytics for the Obama Campaign, was surprisingly clear about what happened. “We ingested the entire U.S. social graph,” Davidsen said in an interview. “We would ask permission to basically scrape your profile, and also scrape your friends, basically anything that was available to scrape. We scraped it all.”

Davidson also highlighted the favoritism Facebook gave to Obama’s campaign, noting that Facebook “came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”

Which raises an important question. If Facebook gave the Obama Campaign access to valuable data worth millions of dollars to bolster Obama’s chances of winning the election, why wasn’t this access counted as in-kind political contributions by the Obama Campaign?

We’ve all heard how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg infamously privatized elements of the 2020 presidential election when he sent nearly half-a-billion dollars to local election boards in key states to turn out likely Democratic voters.

To put that amount into perspective, Zuckerberg alone spent almost as much money funding government election offices as the entire federal government spent on the 2020 election.

Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess? BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER

AUGUST 30, 2024 – Consider Mark Zuckerberg’s revelation and its implications for our understanding of the last four years, and what it means for the future.

On many subjects important to public life today, vast numbers of people know the truth, and yet the official channels of information sharing are reluctant to admit it. The Fed admits no fault in inflation and neither do most members of Congress. The food companies don’t admit the harm of the mainstream American diet. The pharmaceutical companies are loath to admit any injury. Media companies deny any bias. So on it goes.

And yet everyone else does know, already and more and more so.

This is why the admission of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was so startling. It’s not what he admitted. We already knew what he revealed. What’s new is that he admitted it. We are simply used to living in a world swimming in lies. It rattles us when a major figure tells us what is true or even partially or slightly true. We almost cannot believe it, and we wonder what the motivation might be.

In his letter to Congressional investigators, he flat-out said what everyone else has been saying for years now.

In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree….I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.

A few clarifications. The censorship began much earlier than that, from March 2020 at the very least if not earlier. We all experienced it, almost immediately following lockdowns.

After a few weeks, using that platform to get the word out proved impossible. Facebook once made a mistake and let my piece on Woodstock and the 1969 flu go through but they would never make that mistake again. For the most part, every single opponent of the terrible policies was deplatformed at all levels.

The implications are far more significant than the bloodless letter of Zuckerberg suggests. People consistently underestimate the power that Facebook has over the public mind. This was especially true in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles.

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