Roundup
(1) Here’s a link to a story about October 7 and its aftermath (hat tip: commenter “sdferr”), although I warn all of you that it describes a Palestinian atrocity so barbaric that you might not want to read about it. However, I’m posting the link because I think the event is emblematic of the horror Israel is fighting – one that all civilized people should be fighting.
(2) More on the FBI’s war on the right:
Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like “MAGA” and “Trump” as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of “religious texts” could indicate “extremism,” the House Judiciary Committee revealed Wednesday in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, Bass Pro Shops and more.The House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been conducting oversight of federal law enforcement’s “receipt of information about American citizens without legal process and its engagement with the private sector.”
We are very deep in the weeds.
(3) Pakistan and Iran are having a skirmish:
Pakistan carried out a series of deadly military strikes on what it said were separatist militant hideouts inside Iran, in the latest incident across their shared border that has sent tensions between the two neighbors soaring.
The new strikes mean both Pakistan and Iran have now taken the extraordinary step of attacking militants on each other’s soil this week at a time of expanding conflict in the Middle East and wider region. …
Pakistan’s operation comes a day after Iran said it used “precision missile and drone strikes,” to destroy two strongholds of the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, according to the Tasnim news agency.
The strikes killed two children and wounded several others, according to local officials and Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, which described the attack as an “unprovoked violation of its airspace by Iran” and warned Iran of “serious consequences.”
Intra-Islamic violence has been a thing for a long time.
(4) Blinken thinks Israel should promise to give the Palestinians with a state. Now, where have we heard that before?:
The secretary of state returned to Washington, the officials said, having been rebuffed by Netanyahu on all but one of the administration’s asks: an understanding that Israel would not attack Hezbollah in Lebanon. …
Blinken’s major achievement on the trip was getting a commitment from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and four other Arab leaders to help rebuild Gaza after the war, multiple senior administration officials said. The Arab leaders also agreed to support a new, reformed Palestinian government to secure Gaza, the officials said. The Saudi crown prince offered to normalize relations with Israel as part of a Gaza reconstruction agreement — a diplomatic development Netanyahu has long sought — but only if the Israeli leader agrees to provide Palestinians with a pathway to statehood, the officials said.
Netanyahu rejected the offer, officials said, telling Blinken that he’s not prepared to make a deal that allows for a Palestinian state. And now three senior U.S. officials say the Biden administration is looking past Netanyahu to try to achieve its goals in the region. Several senior U.S. officials told NBC News that Netanyahu “will not be there forever.”
Neither will Blinken and Biden, I suppose. The idea of some sort of Palestinian reconstruction supervised by others is fine, in the abstract. But who are the others? What would the marks be that Gaza’s government has “reformed”? How is that supposed to happen if Hamas isn’t destroyed militarily (and even if it is destroyed, “reforming” the area is quite the task)? And they want Netanyahu to make this deal now, after October 7, and while hostages are still being tortured in Gaza? Insane. Let’s reward barbaric terrorism.
(5) Anti-HIV drugs may be able to combat sepsis. I’ve written about sepsis several times before.
Not that it would change their minds any, but maybe Blinken and Biden should read the story you listed in #1. OH wait…didn’t Blinken already see the Israeli film of Hamas torture? How can anyone see that and still push what he is doing? The people running are government are probably not much above the Hamas terrorists on the evolutionary ladder; they just wear suits.
I flatly object to the phrase “Blinken thinks . . .”.
Never happened. Can’t possibly happen. For that would make of thinking a non-entity, a veritable nothing.
Blinken mouths. Ok. Blinken recites. Alright. Blinken jerks off. Very well. Blinken performs. It’s a thing. Blinken maliciously schemes. Oh yes, he does.
Thinking, however, he has never and will never do.
He is a bland ideologue.
But don’t let that fool you: as a major cog in the vast “Biden” conspiracy to take down America—i.e., as a committed, earnest, amoral purveyor of delusion, deceit and dishonesty—a very dangerous one.
Hes malleys sock puppet possibly xis
Thats in the unspeakable horror category
But they all are…
(Unless you can point out one who isn’t…. I’d love to find out!)
Obama’s calling the shots (“leading from behind”—oh, how he LOVES to do that!) and IRAN is the new kid in town (well, not so new, of course).
Trump cramped their style only to see “Biden” set them free…with all kinds of cash “INCENTIVES” (not to mention “moral support”), the results of which we are all currently witnessing—that is anyone who doesn’t have their eyes wide shut….
Hoo boy, are we in trouble. I’m not a Latin Mass Catholic, but I do subscribe to and read conservative Christian materials; my husband is keeping Bass Pro in business, as far as I can tell. Can we expect the FBI to break in the front door soon?
Blinken doesn’t appear to be superior to his boss in the brain department. See item #1, and the Oct. 7 videos. Sure, let’s give these monsters a state.
Blinken, Majorkas, Buttigieg, and the entire Biden Cabinet all put together do not equal one normal functioning human brain.
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Here is a good daily summary of world events:
https://youtu.be/aWjQecFYD-A?si=UE4dy-EPbmSK7wcF
Oh boy, the banks are now looking for “questionable” purchases. Cabela’s, Dick’s, Cheaper Than Dirt, and other arms sellers ought to get together and file a class action suit against the banks/FBI.
This is the kind of thing that will make Bitcoin popular. But then there’s always CASH – the old-fashioned stuff. A bit clumsy for online purchases, but possible.
I understand the use of this surveillance to catch drug dealers, organized crime, and money launderers (Like Hunter B.). But that’s looking for people who have already broken the law. This is looking for people who might have conservative political ideas. We’re now officially in 1984 country.
Not shocked by any atrocity Hamas does, and read all accounts I see
Don’t ask UN officials or Saudi princes about a Palestinian state. Ask the Palis. AWRAD: Public Opinion Poll – Gaza War 2023 – Tables of Results
Which indicates that the Palis envisage a Judenrein Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.” Small wonder that Netanyahu doesn’t have warm fuzzy feelings about a Palestinian state.
…FBI’s war on the right… –neo
We’re small fry, but I assume neo and all commenters here are aware that the Feebs and other alphabets know who we are and what we’ve said.
If a “social credit” system as in China is established here, we’ve dinged our scores.
I’ve been targeted by the FBI on the left and now the right. I must be doing something right!
“religious texts” , eh? Does that mean Korans? Bibles? Books of Mormon? Hebrew texts?
…. I warn all of you that it describes a Palestinian atrocity so barbaric that you might not want to read about it — neo
I was worried there for a minute. Sad to say, it seemed mild compared to some of the other things I’ve read.
Terrorists, literally terrorists.
1 I avoid all these because I don’t want to be haunted by them. I don’t care what Israel does to these people. Kill them all and let God sort them out.
2 these people are stupidly insane. It will not look good at their trials.
4 hahahaha what a maroon!
Armed conflict has just been reported between Pakistan and Iran. YES! Bring it on. The only thing that would be better news would involve Teheran calling Valerie Jarrett home to serve on the front lines.
Oh
https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1748034610586399032
She born there but shes just a red diaper baby maiden name bowman
ComputerLabRat
Especially the Bible
I don’t know how I never until this year heard about the pipe b0mb left by the DNC the day before J6, but this thread here is…incredible.
Not that I think anything will ever come of it, as I feel like we all say too much these days.
https://x.com/darrenjbeattie/status/1748093132044980447?s=46
MC at 7:53 pm. That’s what the King’s Star Chamber did.
The Fifth amendment is a reaction to it and meant to prevent it.
“ As the US Supreme Court described it, “the Star Chamber has, for centuries, symbolized disregard of basic individual rights. The Star Chamber not merely allowed, but required, defendants to have counsel. The defendant’s answer to an indictment was not accepted unless it was signed by counsel. When counsel refused to sign the answer, for whatever reason, the defendant was considered to have confessed.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber
NS: “… about the pipe b0mb left by the DNC …”
Perhaps you really meant “left at the DNC” or even
“left at the DNC by the DNC…” ?????????
Even those of us who happened to be aware of this situation before 2024 do not know if the bomb was left by the DNC…. but we have our suspicions.
How many of the women hostages will be pregnant upon release.
Hopefully, none.
If I was speaking from a position of power in a government, the witch-hunt after J6 was possibly the worst thing a government could do. It would drive those people who really want to fight the government underground. Those people will only use cash from now on. And for Internet purchases US Postal Money Orders. Haven’t seen any vendor who wouldn’t take them. Step hard on groups and you recruit for them. All these FBI operations just are evolution in action. At the end no one is going to be happy with the results.
My pessimistic outlook may just be my Covid talking. I hope so.
Caroline Glick, “The US campaign to oust Netanyahu”:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383836
(2) Sure, the Democrat’s personal law enforcement department is going after religious conservatives without any masks now, so it’s a good thing the GOP leaders in the Judiciary Committee are on the ball here.
I am reassured by the words of encouragement from Not the Bee.
https://notthebee.com/article/feds-had-financial-institutions-flag-terms-like-maga-and-trump-for-j6-investigation-even-marked-the-purchase-of-bibles-and-shopping-at-bass-pro-shop-for-investigation
“But don’t worry, this strongly-worded letter will fix things!”
(Do I need to label that as sarcasm?)
Not the Bee had two posts today that are oddly complementary, showing that at least some people on both the right and the left saw the end-point of the political trajectory if the Marxist Democrats were not stopped.
Hint: they weren’t.
https://notthebee.com/article/if-i-were-the-devil-a-warning-from-1965
Paul Harvey predicts the rest of the story.
https://notthebee.com/article/in-1995-camille-paglia-saw-everything-wrong-with-modern-academia-and-no-one-wanted-to-hear-it-check-out-this-interview-clip-making-the-rounds-today
Didn’t turn her into a conservative or Republican, but at least she was aware of the looming problems.
AF, years ago I read an article in City Journal on Paglia that said early on she developed a fascination with and admiration for classical culture (ancient Greece/Rome) which she saw as ancestral to modern Western culture. So she always fiercely opposed the post-modernists in the academy who tried to tear it down. This may explain why though she is still leftist she often resonates with those of us on the right.
Re: Israelis and Netanyahu
I am not sure this means anything — it is just an anecdotal observation of mine of one single friend of mine.
I have a friend in Israel who is a pretty rabid leftist, and has over the years railed against Netanyahu on Facebook. After 10/7, at first, he totally blamed the terror on Netanyahu. He did support Israel going into Gaza and “neutralizing” Hamas. And he has stuck by that so far.
My observation is that he has STOPPED railing against Netanyahu. I think he is starting to see the value of having a “strong horse” at the helm, and that Netanyahu is the strongest horse they have. I am not sure he will see that way once the threat is over. He hasn’t publicly renounced his hatred (and he really does hate Netanyahu in the same irrational way people with TDS here hate Trump), but he has stopped going on and on and on and on about how Netanyahu’s “corrupt” government enabled the incursion to happen.
(FWIW, this is a guy who fought in Yom Kippur War, the Litani Campaign, and in Lebanon. I think it is apparent he didn’t see the same things in Lebanon some friends of mine did: Children with RPGs firing at them.)
Re: Barbaric Palestinian Atrocity
I read a translated summary of the postmortem on those two soldiers murdered in Ramallah many years ago. Remember the guy in the window holding his blood-covered hands up, so proud of himself? Those two young men were BRUTALLY tortured. The memory of what I read continues to sicken me. If those animals weren’t cruel enough back in 2000, the antics of ISIS gave them even more ideas of how to brutlize people.
““Three senior U.S. officials say the Biden administration is looking past Netanyahu to try to achieve its goals in the region. Several senior U.S. officials told NBC News that Netanyahu ‘will not be there forever,’” Mitchell wrote.”
And they will be gone too – hopefully sooner than later.
I simply cannot fathom that our government is calling for a Palestinian state now. The “don’t reward bad behavior” argument against it is so simple that if feels patronizing to even make it. Unfortunately, it needs to be made, and forcefully. Fortunately, I can’t imagine that Israelis will commit national suicide by accepting a Palestinian state absent decades of proof that Palestinians are willing to live peacefully alongside Israel – which will likely never happen.
As for Netanyahu – I can’t imagine that he will stay in power after the war. Likud might be wise to replace him, or he might be wise to step down in favor of a younger successor. Accountability isn’t a thing for those on the left anymore, but it is for the right. (It should be for everyone.) Regardless of his policies and politics, 10/7 was a massive failure and it happened on Bibi’s watch. I think he’ll regain a measure of lost honor for his wartime leadership. He’ll regain even more, in my eyes at least, if he accepts some responsibility for the 10/7 failure and steps aside afterwards.
You cant they are evil incarnate they are bought by qatar and china and iran well its a time share arrangement
They funded hamas and continue to, they force israel to ship food and fuel that ends up in hamas hands as much as your orange man
phantom entertains you
I dont know how real the abraham accords might have been but if the regime had not targeted every pillar in the gulf except qatar
RE: Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine
Who knows what the state of play really is?
Peter Zahn, for instance, points out that it has always been the aim of invasion friendly, mostly geographically flat Russia to create a buffer of states around it, to shield it from invasion by land, and that is one of the main reasons for grabbing the Ukraine.
And, if his invasion is successful, says Zahn, Putin’s next objectives will be to grab more such buffer states.
My impression is that Putin is just coldly shoving more and more men into the meat grinder.
The Russian casualty estimates that I’m seeing start at 325,000 and go up close to 400,000 dead and wounded, and they may actually be higher.
Hundreds of thousands of young Russians have also fled Russia so they won’t get drafted, and that has got to be a great loss for the future development of Russia.
Russia, you might remember, is also one of those nations which is in the midst of a demographic collapse.
Reports point out that Russia has 70 year’s worth of old military equipment in storage which it can pour into the war, but such obsolete equipment means less capabilities and protection for the Russians who are actually fighting, especially when they are up against much more capable modern weapon systems and technology, and the leverage and force multiplication they represent.
At some point, even though the Russian national character seems to specialize in the endurance of pain and oppression, you would think that, when the caskets and maimed returning to Russia reach a certain tipping point, the Russians would rebel, and Putin will be deposed and/or killed.
Well, there’s no way around it:
Liars gotta lie.
Stealers got steal.
Betrayers gotta betray:
“The U.S. is Now Openly Working Against Israel’s Survival”—
https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2024/01/18/the-us-is-now-openly-working-against-israels-survival-n4925637
Surprise?
Um, no, not at all—should have been expected by anyone paying attention:
a question of “not if but when”…).
(So make that an emphatic “NO!”)
To be sure: “The US is Now Openly Working Against the US’s Survival”…except it’s not “NOW”; it’s been going on since January 20, 2009 (with a brief four-year hiatus courtesy of OMB, something that not enough people seem to truly appreciate… Oh well, can’t please everyone….)
Russians can be patient up to a point, shambling and his crew, foolishly made the holding of Ukraine a point of honor, foolish humans,
so you believe in Space men, but think these reports from orbis, fusion recycled into the Times and the Telegraph are real
I cannot understand how highly educated people like Blinken can be so stupid.
It’s as if his entire brain is suited for academic pursuits within the make believe world of non-STEM academia, but is on the level of a moron when real world decisions must be made.
Perhaps it’s as Orwell put it; “ there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
This assumes Blinken is an intellectual; he probably thinks he is.
Here is John McCain’s speech in Congress re: Tony Blinken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckUi3xdoIgk
he was educated at the same paris lycee as Effendi Malley, then he went to Harvard, and apprenticed for 30 years at Biden’s knee, up on till he was nominated for no 2 at Foggy Bottom I’m guessing he learned nothing from Mansfield or Huntington, when the latter came back from the Carter NSC
then he was the bag man at the Biden center in Pennsylvania, wasn’t also a player in the 50 intelligence experts game of Bingo,
“. . . wasn’t also a player in the 50 intelligence experts game of Bingo[?]”
I believe he was fingered as the prime instigator, no less. So.
so we are told by morell, who is a self serving weasel, did blinken really have the pull to ask for such a tasking order, as they would say,
It remembered the Zinoviev telegram, with much less detail, commissioned by the Foreign Office with through Sidney Reilly, from a group of Russian emigres tied to Savinkov the old dog
As for Bibi, I know enough about him and his background, going back to his father’s cv as the premier historian on the inquisition, his brother’s sacrifice on the plains of Entebbe, to know he wouldn’t bend on this point
Cicero on January 18, 2024 at 6:32 pm said:
Blinken, Majorkas, Buttigieg, and the entire Biden Cabinet all put together do not equal one normal functioning human brain.
But they all attended Harvard, and that rubber stamps them as our permanent betters.
huxley on January 18, 2024 at 7:24 pm said:
…. I warn all of you that it describes a Palestinian atrocity so barbaric that you might not want to read about it — neo
I was worried there for a minute. Sad to say, it seemed mild compared to some of the other things I’ve read.
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Same here. It is sad that my familiarity with islam and its adherents has increased to the point where an atrocity like that now registers as routine news to me.
Re: Putin, Russia, Ukraine
Putin and the Russian leadership could care less how many Russians die fighting in Ukraine; Russian leadership has never, ever cared how many Russians must die to meet the goals set by their leaders.
During WWII the Russian army would shoot dead any Russian soldier not advancing towards the enemy fast enough or retreating. Russia has resurrected this policy in Ukraine.
As for Russia running out of soldiers, this will never happen. They will forcibly draft any man – for starters – who can walk and chew gum at the same time and if need be, begin drafting females.
Not enough rifles? No big deal.
Just follow the soldier with the rifle and when he gets killed, pick up your dead comrade’s rifle and keep advancing.
This is the Russian mindset.
The Russians are animals.
They are just one step removed from Hamas. Russia will first defeat their military foes, and then embark upon mass rape, torture and murder.
Hamas does this in the opposite direction.
It would be a big mistake to judge Russian military actions as one would judge a Western nation’s military actions.
Western nations today are very cognizant of death tolls within their military or of civilian deaths. These two issues are of ZERO import for Putin and his pals.
Finland and Sweden have joined NATO.
Poland is rearming and aims to have the largest military in Western Europe.
One has to be a total idiot not to understand the significance of this.
They did not do this because they believed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a “defensive” move on the part of Russia to have friendly nations on Russia’s borders.
They did this because they have lived with a hostile neighbor for 500 years; they know full well who is the neighborhood troublemaker.
“. . . did Blinken really have the pull to ask for such a tasking order[?]”
Seems to me, anyhow, this amounts to asking whether President Pseudonym himself (aka Barry Soetero) has “the pull”, as Blinken is his bona-fide mouthpiece, no? And then our answer is?
Blinken (to Friedman at WEF): “I have to tell you I personally feel the fierce urgency of now.”
Friedman: Right.
Oh. And where have we heard that pathetically empty rhetoric before? Ah yes, straight from the mouth of Anthony’s slave-master, who Tommy-boy recognizes immediately.
Iran vs Pakistan.
I never knew these two nations were at loggerheads; live and learn.
Let’s hope the USA stays far, far away from this.
As Kissinger once said; ” it’s too bad both nations can’t lose.”
Recall that Pakistan was (is ? ) a big supporter of the Taliban and also sheltered Bin Laden for many years.
And to brighten up your day folks; the USA sends many millions of $$$ in foreign aid to Pakistan. Yep, OUR tax dollars at work to help the American citizen.
The above amount is a rounding error in the amount of $$$$ the USA has sent back to Iran. But we all know that Iran is using those billions of $$$ for social services for their citizens. I can only surmise that the incomparable Tony Blinken was instrumental in sending that cash to Iran.
I should be clearer, the dog that hasn’t bit is cofer black agency supergrade, blackwater vp burisma board, the model for henry wilson in covert affairs,
true, for similar reasons, Iran and Russia supported the Northern Alliance against the Taliban, Iran is hodgepodge of factions including the Baloch, who may have been weaponized by the Iraqi’s at one point, that was the speculation of Laurie Myroie once upon a time, th Baloch are at odds with the boys of Aabpara, the ISI since they aren’t Pashtun, they probably agree as much as they disagree on sectarian principles
as for Russia I don’t trust them, can you ponder why, but I don’t think Putin is 10 feet tall either, some of the folk wisdom about Ryazan and other places and persons
he encourages like the line about John Wesley Hardin the famous outlaw he sees himself in the line of Peter the Great, so for the Swedes that course of action will not discourage him one bit,