tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55918844063045432642024-03-17T10:44:57.976-07:00Government, Religion, Politics and CultureCrush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comBlogger9835125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-35016383487611350752024-03-17T10:44:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:44:23.960-07:00The Paper is Not Magic - Vox Popoli<p><span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">And, as Liberia has proven,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/ab492d28-5514-4776-a0e4-1d5e3d121eec" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">it doesn’t make the dirt magic</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">either.</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 5px 15px 0px; quotes: "" "";"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. It is therefore futile and foolish to make appeals to Constitutional arguments in an immoral and atheistic society. Our enemies have disregarded what the Constitution says for half a century. It is a mistake continuing to play by a set of rules that our enemies no longer obey. Worse yet, turning a piece of paper into an idol and elevating it to some pseudo “holy” status in our minds.</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Andrew Torba is correct. The power is not in the paper, the power is in the ideas and those ideas have been adulterated and perverted wherever they haven’t been abandoned.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Neither the words nor the ideas have ever applied in any way to newcomers, immigrants, citizens, illegals, invaders, foreigners, or the children of those diverse peoples, they only ever applied to the Posterity of the Founders, the direct genetic blood descendants of the men who fought the American Revolution against their British brethren for independence from the King of England.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Constitution was written to safeguard the liberties of the sons and daughters of the American Revolution and no one else. That’s what the Preamble to it says and that’s <a href="https://voxday.net/2017/06/25/posterity-tk-vs-vd/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">literally what Posterity meant</a>. And that’s what it still means today, the legalistic fantasies of the would-be inclusive midwits who overrate the importance of their credentials and their own cognitive capabilities notwithstanding.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">The words of the U.S. Constitution <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">have never applied in any way </em>to most of the “Americans” who are reading this now. So to fetishize it, to place any trust whatsoever in it, is to fundamentally fail to understand what it is, why it was written, and why it is no longer even remotely applicable to the United States of America in the Year of Our Lord 2024.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">No damage therefore, that men in the state of nature suffer from one another, can give a conqueror power to dispossess the posterity of the vanquished, and turn them out of that inheritance, which ought to be the possession of them and their descendants to all generations. The conqueror indeed will be apt to think himself master: and it is the very condition of the subdued not to be able to dispute their right. But if that be all, it gives no other title than what bare force gives to the stronger over the weaker: and, by this reason, he that is strongest will have a right to whatever he pleases to seize on.</em><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />– John Locke, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Of Conquest, Second Treatise on Civil Government</em>, 1690</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/ab492d28-5514-4776-a0e4-1d5e3d121eec" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">DISCUSS ON SG</a></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://voxday.net/2024/03/17/the-paper-is-not-magic/" id="LPlnk118699" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://voxday.net/2024/03/17/the-paper-is-not-magic/</a></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-450886035050073362024-03-17T10:39:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:39:13.180-07:00Putting the New Testament Record to the Test - The American Vision - BY GARY DEMAR<p><img alt="Putting the New Testament Record to the Test" class="thumbnail" src="https://americanvision.org/images/uploads/lkwit.png" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; color: #536171; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 750px;" /></p><div class="post-content inner-md" style="background-color: white; color: #536171; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 750px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">Last Sunday’s sermon (3/10/2024) at our church was from Mark 15. Verse 21 caught my attention: “They pressed into service a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to bear His cross.” Biblical skeptics call for historical proof that Jesus existed and that the NT record is authentic. Many of these critics contend that the Gospels were written very late into the first century. These same critics dismiss Jesus’ prophecy about His coming before that Apostolic generation passed away. In fact, they go so far to say that Jesus was mistaken about His coming (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt. 24.34" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt.%2024.34" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Matt. 24:34</a>). If the gospels were written post-AD 70, why would the supposed inventors of the Christian religion—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—include a blatantly false prophecy in their accounts? It makes no sense.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">Some argue that there are no records outside the NT books that authenticate the life, ministry, and work of Jesus. There are 27 historical records that make up the NT. There are no comparable historical records from that era with that much corroborating source material. Luke did a thorough investigation from eyewitnesses: </p><blockquote style="border-top: 3px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); color: black; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.5rem auto; padding: 1.33333rem 0px 0px 60px; position: relative; quotes: none;"><p style="margin: 0px;">Since many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, it seemed fitting to me as well, <strong>having investigated everything carefully from the beginning</strong>, to write it out for you in an orderly sequence, most excellent Theophilus; so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Luke 1.1-4" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Luke%201.1-4" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Luke 1:1-4</a>)</p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">Paul makes a similar argument based on eyewitness accounts (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="1 Cor. 15.3-8" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/1%20Cor.%2015.3-8" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">1 Cor. 15:3-8</a>).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">You can’t do much better than multiple eyewitnesses: “Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses” (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Cor. 13.1" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2%20Cor.%2013.1" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">2 Cor. 13:1</a>; see <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Num. 35.20" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Num.%2035.20" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Num. 35:20</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Deut. 17.6" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Deut.%2017.6" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Deut. 17:6</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Deut 19.15" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Deut%2019.15" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">19:15</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt. 18.16" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt.%2018.16" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Matt. 18:16</a>). We know about Roman history by Roman historians who wrote histories of that era. Tacitus wrote the <em>Annals</em> and the <em>Histories</em> that examine the reigns of the emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69). These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus (AD 14) to the death of Domitian (AD 96). Tacitus was born in AD 56, and his <em>Histories</em> was written around AD 100-110. Suetonius wasn’t born until a year before the AD 70 destruction of Jerusalem. The letters (<em>c</em>. AD 61-113) of Pliny with Trajan<a class="external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger#cite_note-Benko5-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"></a> are the earliest surviving Roman documents to refer to early Christians. These letters prove that Christianity was an early and rapidly growing force in the Roman Empire.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">Josephus (<em>c</em>. AD 37- <em>c</em>.100) chronicled the <em>Wars of the Jews</em>. How many contemporary historical works authenticate the works of Josephus or those of Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny, and Plutarch?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">Mark’s mention of Simon of Cyrene, “the father of Alexander and Rufus,” is not an insignificant addition to the narrative when it comes to historical authenticity since it tells us something about the time and reliability of Mark’s gospel. These men were known by Mark’s intended audience! They might still have been alive when Mark penned his gospel.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">The historicity of the Bible is of vital importance to Christians in that it’s linked to the growth of Christendom and the ultimate meaning of life that begins when we are brought into this world. If the Bible isn’t true, then we are, to use Walker Percy’s book title, <em>Lost in the Cosmos.</em> What we are and how we got here is a speculative mystery that will never be solved. It’s one of the reasons scientists send out probes throughout our galaxy and build high-powered telescopes to search for our cosmic origins. They are trying to find the meaning destroyed with their matter-only cosmos. Carl Sagan defined such a world: “The universe is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”<strong>[1]</strong> To the Saganites, our planet is nothing more than a revolving “pale blue dot” bobbing in the vacuum of space. </p><blockquote style="border-top: 3px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); color: black; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.5rem auto; padding: 1.33333rem 0px 0px 60px; position: relative; quotes: none;"><p style="margin: 0px;">The question of the lack of self-knowledge of the enlightened self, Carl Sagan comes up in Percy’s two-part explanation of “the lonely self.” The first part explains the loneliness of “the autonomous self.” We sometimes experience ourselves these days as “autonomous” or on our own without any guidance in figuring out who [we] are and what we’re supposed to do. The downside of being autonomous is being alone. And the autonomous self can’t help but experience him- or herself not only as all alone in the world of other people, but all alone in the Cosmos that is indifferent to his or her singular existence. For our transhumanists, for example, the fundamental situation seems to be ME vs. the Cosmos (or the nature that is out to extinguish forever MY very being).<strong>[2]</strong></p></blockquote><div class="product_card" style="align-items: center; background-color: #e3e6ea; display: flex; font-size: 0.8rem; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px;"><div class="product_image" style="margin: auto; width: 171.204px;"><img alt="Last Days Madness" src="https://store.americanvision.org/cdn/shop/products/LDM-front_large.png?v=1572279906" style="border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></div><div class="product_info" style="padding-left: 20px; text-align: center; width: 518.807px;"><h3 style="color: black; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 1.55556em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.83333rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Last Days Madness</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">In this authoritative book, Gary DeMar clears the haze of "end-times" fever, shedding light on the most difficult and studied prophetic passages in the Bible, including <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Dan 7.13-14" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Dan%207.13-14" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Daniel 7:13-14</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Daniel 9.24-27" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Daniel%209.24-27" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">9:24-27</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt. 16.27-28" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt.%2016.27-28" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Matt. 16:27-28</a>; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt 16.24-25" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt%2016.24-25" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">24-25</a>; Thess. 2; <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="2 Pet 3.3-13" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2%20Pet%203.3-13" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">2 Peter 3:3-13</a>, and clearly explaining a host of other controversial topics.</p><a class="button" href="https://store.americanvision.org/products/last-days-madness" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: rgb(51, 59, 69); border-radius: 3px; border: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.075em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0.75714em 25px; text-decoration-line: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle;" target="_blank">BUY NOW</a></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">Not to go too far afield, but at times Christians seem lost in the cosmos or viewed as barely important interlopers in a world that belongs to pagans. Why did God bother to create the world and put us in it if this world is insignificant or the legitimate domain of kingdom rebels? Why redeem the elect and leave them here? What are we supposed to do post-redemption? Wait for some new directive? Look for the “blessed hope” (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Titus 2.13" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Titus%202.13" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Titus 2:13</a>)<strong>[3]</strong> in something called “the <a class="external" href="https://store.americanvision.org/products/the-rapture-and-the-fig-tree-generation" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">rapture</a> of the church”?<strong>[4]</strong> (I deal with the meaning of the “blessed hope” in my book <em><a class="external" href="https://store.americanvision.org/products/last-days-madness" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Last Days Madness</a>.</em>) Jay Rogers comments:</p><blockquote style="border-top: 3px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); color: black; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.5rem auto; padding: 1.33333rem 0px 0px 60px; position: relative; quotes: none;"><p style="margin: 0px;">We ought to be concerned with revival among the churches and world evangelization because it is the commandment of the Lord, not because a famous Christian leader has promoted his evangelistic campaign as a “significant end-times move of God.” It is self-centered and elitist to believe that our generation alone possesses this “blessed hope” (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Titus 2.13" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Titus%202.13" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Titus 2:13</a>). In fact, the “blessed hope” does not refer to the Second Coming of Jesus, but to “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (<a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Col 1.27" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Col%201.27" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Colossians 1:27</a>). It is better to show we love God by obeying His commandments than to gear our lives toward a mad rush to the end times.<strong>[5]</strong></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">Dave Hunt, who was representative of many Christians who hold to a similar <a class="external" href="https://store.americanvision.org/products/the-rapture-and-the-fig-tree-generation" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">rapture</a>-oriented future, wrote the following in his article “Looking for the Blessed Hope”: </p><blockquote style="border-top: 3px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); color: black; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.5rem auto; padding: 1.33333rem 0px 0px 60px; position: relative; quotes: none;"><p style="margin: 0px;">Our hope is not in taking over the world, but in being taken to heaven by our Lord, to be married to Him in glory and then to return with Him as part of the armies of heaven to rescue Israel [after what’s left of Israel after two-thirds of Jews living in Israel during the Great Tribulation are slaughtered: <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Zech. 13.8-9" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Zech.%2013.8-9" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Zech. 13:8-9</a>],<strong>[6]</strong> destroy His enemies and participate in the Millennial reign.<strong>[7]</strong></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">The “great prophetic disappointment” of 1988 and the winding down of the Left Behind franchise do not mean that many formerly “rapture-ready”<strong>[8]</strong> Christians have abandoned a belief in the return of Christ, but it has led to a fundamental reassessment of the interpretive methodology that has been used to make repeated dogmatic arguments for an imminent end-time event. Many Bible-believing Christians who cut their teeth on the works of notable prophecy prognosticators have questioned the popular end-time paradigm to such an extent that they “are not awaiting [Jesus’] return at the Rapture”<strong>[9]</strong> but instead are focusing on John Winthrop’s “city upon the hill” metaphor adopted from his “Model of Christian Charity” (1630). They have come to realize that the version of the end times that defined the twentieth century and continues to hold sway in this new century is a prophetic anomaly that had no history prior to 1830: </p><blockquote style="border-top: 3px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); color: black; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.5rem auto; padding: 1.33333rem 0px 0px 60px; position: relative; quotes: none;"><p style="margin: 0px;">Pre-Civil War Evangelical eschatology was largely <em>postmillennial</em>, expecting Christ to return in judgment <em>after</em> a millennial reign of one thousand years. Post-Civil War Evangelical eschatology was dominated by a new doctrine of <em>premillennialism</em>. This view expected Christ to return <em>before</em> the millennium to take the saints out this world in an event called the “rapture.”<strong>[10]</strong></p></blockquote><div class="product_card" style="align-items: center; background-color: #e3e6ea; display: flex; font-size: 0.8rem; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px;"><div class="product_image" style="margin: auto; width: 171.204px;"><img alt="The Reduction of Christianity" src="https://store.americanvision.org/cdn/shop/products/reduction_large.jpg?v=1610747238" style="border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></div><div class="product_info" style="padding-left: 20px; text-align: center; width: 518.807px;"><h3 style="color: black; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 1.55556em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.83333rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The Reduction of Christianity</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">A number of valiant defenders of historical Biblical orthodoxy have risen to the challenge of unbelief. Unfortunately, while ably sounding the alarms and capably rousing the troops, some have reduced the breadth and depth and power of the Faith once for all delivered to the saints. Unwittingly, they have offered the Church a shrunken and truncated version of the Gospel. But we don't have to accept reduction in order to avoid seduction. We can contend for the Faith without condensing or abbreviating it.</p><a class="button" href="https://store.americanvision.org/products/the-reduction-of-christianity" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: rgb(51, 59, 69); border-radius: 3px; border: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.075em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0.75714em 25px; text-decoration-line: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle;" target="_blank">BUY NOW</a></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">After the Civil war, the optimistic worldview espoused by the earlier civilization builders “was replaced by an eschatology that looked for the return of Christ to rescue the ‘saints’ <em>out of this world</em>. Premillennial teaching implied that the world was in such bad shape that it would only get worse until the return of Christ. Some even argued that efforts to ameliorate social conditions would merely postpone the ‘blessed hope’ of Christ’s return by delaying the process of degeneration.”<strong>[11]</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">Christians who are rethinking the sensationalism of contemporary apocalyptic rhetoric have come to realize that America would never have been founded if today’s rapture version of eschatology had been prevalent in the seventeenth century. Where there had been an emphasis on “the propagation and advance of the gospel of the kingdom of Christ,”</p><blockquote style="border-top: 3px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); color: black; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.5rem auto; padding: 1.33333rem 0px 0px 60px; position: relative; quotes: none;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;">[t]he vision was now one of rescue from a fallen world. Just as Jesus was expected momentarily on the clouds to <a class="external" href="https://store.americanvision.org/products/the-rapture-and-the-fig-tree-generation" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">rapture his saints</a>, so the slum worker established missions to rescue sinners out of the world to be among those to meet the Lord in the air. Evangelical effort that had once provided the impulse and troops for reform rallies was rechanneled into exegetical speculation about the timing of Christ’s return and into maintenance of the expanding prophecy conferences.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> The extent to which this shift in eschatology was felt throughout Evangelical life and thought is difficult to overestimate. One of the most striking contrasts between pre-Civil War revivalists and those after the war is that the former founded liberal arts colleges while the latter established Bible schools. To the post-war premillennialist the liberal arts college involved too much affirmation of the cultural values of this world and took time away from the crucial task of getting minimal knowledge of the Bible before rushing into the inner cities or the mission fields to father as many souls as possible before the imminent return of Christ. In the late nineteenth century the Bible school movement picked up the message of the prophecy conferences and trained a whole generation of Evangelicals in the new doctrines.<strong>[12]</strong></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">Os Guinness writes that “dispensational premillennialism . . . has had unfortunate consequences on the Christian mind,” including reinforcing an already developing “anti-intellectualism” and a “general indifference to serious engagement with culture.”<strong>[13]</strong></p><div class="product_card" style="align-items: center; background-color: #e3e6ea; display: flex; font-size: 0.8rem; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px;"><div class="product_image" style="margin: auto; width: 171.204px;"><img alt="The Rapture and the Fig Tree Generation" src="https://store.americanvision.org/cdn/shop/products/figtree_large.png?v=1578455246" style="border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></div><div class="product_info" style="padding-left: 20px; text-align: center; width: 518.807px;"><h3 style="color: black; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 1.55556em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.83333rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The Rapture and the Fig Tree Generation</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">For decades Christians have been enticed with the belief that they would be taken to heaven before a coming tribulation period in an event called the “rapture.” Since the national reestablishment of Israel in 1948, countless books and pamphlets have been written defending the doctrine assuring readers that it could happen at any moment. Some prophecy writers claimed the “rapture” would take place before 1988. We are far removed from that date. Where are we in God’s prophetic timetable?</p><a class="button" href="https://store.americanvision.org/products/the-rapture-and-the-fig-tree-generation" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: rgb(51, 59, 69); border-radius: 3px; border: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.075em; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0.75714em 25px; text-decoration-line: none; text-transform: uppercase; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle;" target="_blank">BUY NOW</a></div></div><hr style="border-bottom-color: rgb(227, 230, 234); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 1.66667em 0px;" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[1] Carl Sagan, <em>Cosmos</em> (New York: Random House, 1980), 4.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[2] Peter Lawler, “<a class="external" href="https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/04/the-lonely-self-walker-percy-vs-carl-sagan.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">The Lonely Self? Walker Percy vs. Carl Sagan</a>,” The Imaginative Conservative (April 20, 2013).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[3] Take note of <a class="rtBibleRef" data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Col 1.3-6" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Col%201.3-6" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Colossians 1:3-6</a>: “We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints; <strong>because of the hope reserved for you in heaven</strong>, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel <strong>which has come to you, just as in all the world</strong> also it is bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.” See Gary DeMar, <a class="external" href="https://store.americanvision.org/products/last-days-madness" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(51, 59, 69); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><em>Last Days Madness</em>,</a> updated and revised ed. (Powder Springs, GA: American Vision, 2020), 223-226.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[4] “[<strong>L</strong>]<strong>ooking for the blessed hope</strong> (here, as in Gal. v. 5, Col. i. 5 al., nearly objective,—the hope, as embodying the thing hoped for), <strong>and manifestation</strong> (<em>hope and manifestation</em> belong together) of the glory (Chrysostom says, “He speaks here of two manifestations; the former of grace, the latter of glory.” Nothing could be more unfortunate than the rendering of the A.V., “<em>glorious appearing</em>,” by which the whole sense is obscured) of the great God (the Father: see below) and of our Savior Jesus Christ (as regards the sense, an exact parallel is found in Matt, xvi. 27, “<em>The Son of man is about to come in the glory of His Father</em>,” compared with Matt. xxv. 31, “<em>When the Son of man shall come in His glory</em>.” See also 1 Pet. iv. 13.” Henry Alford, <em>The New Testament for English Readers,</em> 3 vols.(London, 1865), 2:586.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[5] Jay Rogers, <em>The Days of Those Kings: The Book of Daniel in Preterist Perspective</em> (Clermont, FL: Media House International, 2017), 253.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[6] “For the premillenarian, the massacre of Jewry expedited his blessed hope. Certainly he did not rejoice over the Nazi holocaust, he just fatalistically observed it as a ‘sign of the times.’” Dwight Wilson, <em>Armageddon Now!: The Premillenarian Response to Russia and Israel Since 1917</em> (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1977), 95.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[7] Dave Hunt, “Looking for that Blessed Hope,” <em>Omega Letter</em> (February 1989), 14.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[8] Todd Strandberg and Terry James, <em>Are You Rapture Ready? Signs, Prophecies, Warnings, Threats, and Suspicions that the Endtime is Now</em> (New York: Dutton, 2003).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[9] Jeff Sharlet, “God Blessed America: How the Christian Right is Reinventing U.S. History,” <em>Harper’s Magazine</em> (December 2006), 14.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[10] Donald Dayton, <em>Discovering an Evangelical Heritage</em> (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 125.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[11] Dayton, <em>Discovering an Evangelical Heritage</em>, 126</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[12] Dayton, <em>Discovering an Evangelical Heritage</em>, 127-128.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;">[13] Os Guinness, <em>Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don’t Think and What to do About It</em> (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1994), 63-65.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.66667em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://americanvision.org/posts/putting-the-new-testament-record-to-the-test/" id="LPlnk314202" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://americanvision.org/posts/putting-the-new-testament-record-to-the-test/</a></p></div>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-47589525768414209132024-03-17T10:31:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:31:47.278-07:00The German-American Strategic Depth Clown Show — Strategic Culture - Pepe Escobar<p> <em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bolder; text-align: justify;">The saga of Bundeswehr officers plotting to blow up the Kerch bridge with Taurus missiles and getting away with it is a gift that keeps on giving.</em></p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">The Four Stooges saga of Bundeswehr officers plotting to blow up the Kerch bridge in Crimea with Taurus missiles and getting away with it is a gift that keeps on giving.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">President Putin, in his comprehensive interview to Dmitry Kiselev for Russia 1/RIA Novosti, did not fail to address it:</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">“They are fantasizing, encouraging themselves, first of all. Secondly, they are trying to intimidate us. As for the Federal Republic of Germany, there are constitutional problems there. They correctly say: if these Taurus hit that part of the Crimean Bridge, which, of course, even according to their concepts, is Russian territory, this is a violation of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.”</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Yet it gets curioser and curioser.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/593714-full-leaked-crimean-bridge-recording-germany/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b22a39; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">When the transcript of the Taurus leak </a> was published by RT, everyone was able to hear Brigadier General Frank Gräfe – head of operations of the German Air Force – speaking with Lieutenant Colonel Fenske from the German Space Command Air Operations on the plan to deploy Taurus systems in Ukraine.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">A key point is that during the plotting, these two mention that plans were already discussed “four months ago” with “Schneider”, the successor of “Wilsbach”.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Well, these are German names, of course. Thus it did not dawn on anyone that (Kevin) Schneider and (Kenneth) Wilsbach could instead be… Americans.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Yet that did raise the eyebrows of German investigative journalist Dirk Pohlmann – who I had the pleasure to meet in Berlin years ago – and his fellow researcher Tobias Augenbraun.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">They found out that the German-sounding names did identify Americans. Not only that: none less than the former and the current Commanders of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">The Four (actually Six) Stooges element gets an extra boost when it is established that Liver Sausage Chancellor Scholz and his Totalenkrieg Minister Pistorius learned about the Taurus plan no less than four months later.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">So here apparently we have a clear cut case of top German military officers taking direct orders regarding an attack on Crimea – part of the Russian Federation – directly from American officers in the Pacific Air Forces.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">That in itself opens the dossier to a large spectrum ranging from national treason (against Germany) to casus belli (from the point of view of Russia).</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Of course none of that is being discussed on German mainstream media.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">After all, the only thing that seems to disturb Brigadier General Gräfe is that German media may start seriously prying on the Bundeswehr’s Multiple Stooges methods.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">The only ones who actually did proper investigation were Pohlmann and Augenbaun.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">It would be too much to expect from German media of the “Bild” type to analyze what would be the Russian response to the Multiple Stooge shenanigans against Crimea: a devastating retaliation against Berlin assets.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">It’s so cold in Alaska</span></p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">During the jolly Bundeswehr conversation yet another “plan” is mentioned:</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">“Nee, nee. Ich mein wegen der anderen Sache.” (“No, no. I mean the other matter.”) Then: “Ähm … meinst du Alaska jetzt?” (“Ahm, you mean Alaska now?”)</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">It all gest juicier when it is known that German Space Command Air Operations Centre officer Florstedt will meet none other than Schneider next Tuesday, March 19, in Alaska.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">And Gräfe will also “have to go back to Alaska” to explain everything all over again to Schneider as he is “new” in the post.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">So the question is: Why Alaska?</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Enter American shadowplay on a lot of “activities” in Alaska – which happen to concern none other than China.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">And there’s more: during the conversation still another “plan” (“Auftrag”, meaning “mission”) also surfaces, bearing a not clearly understandable code name sounding like “Kumalatra”.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">What all of that tells us is that the Crash Test Dummy administration in the White House, the CIA and the Pentagon seem to betting, in desperation, on Total War in the black soil of Novorossiya.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">And now they are sayin’ it out loud, with no shadow play, and coming directly from the head of the CIA, William Burns, who obviously sucks at secrecy.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">This is what Burns told the members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this week:</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I think without supplemental assistance in 2024, you’re going to see more Avdeevkas, and that – it seems to me – would be a massive and historic mistake for the United States.”</em></p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">That spells out how much the Avdeevka trauma is impressed on the psyche of the U.S. intel apparatus.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Yet there’s more: “With supplemental assistance, Ukraine can hold its own on the front lines through 2024 and into early 2025. Ukraine can continue to exact costs against Russia, not only with deep penetration strikes in Crimea, but also against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.”</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Here we go: Crimea all over again.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Burns actually believes that the humongous $60 billion new “aid” package which must be approved by the U.S. Congress will enable Kiev to launch an “offensive” by the end of 2024.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">The only thing he gets right is that if there’s no new package, there will be “significant territorial losses for Ukraine this year.”</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Burns may not be the brightest bulb in the – intel – room. A long time ago he was a diplomat/CIA asset in Moscow, and seems to have learned nothing.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Apart from letting cats and kitties galore out of the bag. It’s not only about attacking Crimea. This one is being read with surpreme delight in Beijing:</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">“The U.S. is providing assistance to Ukraine in part because such activities help curb China.”</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Burns nailed his Cat Out of the Bag Oscar win when he said “if we’re seen to be walking away from support for Ukraine, not only is that going to feed doubts amongst our allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific; it’s going to stoke the ambitions of the Chinese leadership in contingencies ranging from Taiwan to the South China Sea”.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">The inestimable Andrei Martyanov perfectly summed up the astonishing incompetence, peppered with tawdry exceptionalism, that permeates this performance by Burns.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">There are things “they cannot grasp due to low level of education and culture. This is a new paradigm for them – all of them are ‘graduates’ of the school of ‘beating the crap from defenseless nations’ strategic ‘studies’, and with the level of economic ‘science’ in the West they cannot grasp how this all unfolds.”</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">So what is left is panic, as expressed by Burns in the Senate, mixed with the impotence in understanding a “different warrior culture” such as Russia’s: “They simply have no reference points.”</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">And still they choose war, as <a href="https://globalsouth.co/2024/03/09/war-is-chosen/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b22a39; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">masterfully analyzed by Rostislav Ishchenko</a>.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Even as the acronym fest of the CIA and 17 other U.S. intel agencies have concluded, in a <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2024-Unclassified-Report.pdf" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b22a39; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">report</a> shown to Congress earlier this week, that Russia is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“almost certainly”</em> seeking to avoid a direct military conflict with NATO and will calibrate its policies to steer clear of a global war.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">After all the Empire of Chaos is all about Forever Wars. And we are all in the middle of a do or die affair. The Empire simply cannot afford the cosmic humiliation of NATO in Novorossiya.</p><p><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bolder; text-align: justify;"></em></p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Still every “plan” – Taurus on Crimea-style – is a bluff. Russia is aware of bluff after bluff. The Western cards are now all on the table. The only question is when, and how fast will Russia call the bluff.</p><p style="background-color: #f2f2f2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #272727; font-family: PTSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/15/the-german-american-strategic-depth-clown-show/" id="LPlnk224113" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/15/the-german-american-strategic-depth-clown-show/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> </span></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-70645040265681886982024-03-17T10:27:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:27:34.845-07:00CSIS Declares CHINA The Cartel’s Biggest Threat to Global Dominance Posted on March 12, 2024 by Helena<p> <img alt="" class="attachment-axon-standard size-axon-standard wp-post-image" data-attachment-id="439" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"22","credit":"","camera":"SLT-A65V","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1348833383","copyright":"","focal_length":"130","iso":"1600","shutter_speed":"0.00125","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="DSC01925" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/helenaglass.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dsc01925.jpg?fit=748%2C499&ssl=1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/helenaglass.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dsc01925.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/helenaglass.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dsc01925.jpg?fit=6000%2C4000&ssl=1" data-orig-size="6000,4000" data-permalink="https://helenaglass.net/2015/08/28/water-shortages-fracking-privatization-who-wins/dsc01925/" decoding="async" height="500" src="https://i0.wp.com/helenaglass.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dsc01925.jpg?resize=848%2C500&ssl=1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="848" /></p><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 50px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 50px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whatever happened to the war to defend Taiwan against Big Bad China? CSIS ~ ”China’s defense industrial base is operating on a wartime footing, while the U.S. defense industrial base is largely operating on a peacetime footing.” </em>A. US is at war against Palestine. B. US is at war against Russia. C. US is asking for MONEY to combat the rise of China & Russia in Africa. D. US is still at war with Syria stealing all their oil while periodically lobbing bombs. E. US is now bombing Yemen. F. Congress asking for MONEY to build up Taiwan’s military.</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t know if these Spy NGO’s that Taxpayers fund are really that ignorant or if they really think lying is just the new normal. The US spends $800 billion on the books for War. Another $1.6 trillion has gone missing in the FY 2023 Budget. That funds 2 additional militaries. Or a whole lot of Bribes, Blackmail, Child Trafficking, and the losses incurred by Soros as a direct result of Ukraine refusing PEACE. Ukraine has 2 last bastions: Kyiv and Lviv. Should those go – the Soros pawns have declared WWIII.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CSIS</strong> ~ <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“China is heavily investing in munitions and acquiring high-end weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than the United States. China is also the world’s largest shipbuilder and has a shipbuilding capacity that is roughly 230 times larger than the United States. One of China’s large shipyards, such as Jiangnan Shipyard, has more capacity than all US shipyards combined.”</em> The fact that China’s population is 4.25 times that of the US is lost on these neocons of nongenius expertness.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2021, China spent $270 billion for all its defense needs – nearly 300% LESS than the US. As a result, the US has bestowed sanctions on every weapons manufacturer in China. That’ll show them! US Blinkens are telling the Saudi Crown Prince, Bin Salman, not to buy weapons from China even though they are half the price of their counterparts – Made in America. IF the Middle East dares to buy weapons from China, then the White House handlers are prepared to punish the Middle East. I remember when we had more allies than enemies…</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember when Egypt was romanticized? Dr. Zhivago. We were friends with Iran, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, most of Africa, etc … But all that was upsided when the US Coup Program became common knowledge and sovereignty became colonization. <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Where will all these Zions go when they have finished their task of destruction?</em></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Supressing a giggle, The Atlantic queries</strong>, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“How has America slid into its current age of discord? Why has our trust in institutions <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing-levels-trust-are-devastating-america/616581/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #60727a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">collapsed</a>, and why have our democratic norms <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/losing-the-democratic-habit/568336/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #60727a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">unraveled</a>? </em>Despite every historian declaring that ancient societies routinely collapsed due to Climate Change, The Atlantic proposes the cause is The Elite. Apparently, there are too many wealthy and educated persons in America and not enough peasants. Hence the import of uneducated immigrants to do the bidding of The Elite ~ according to an elite research team employed by The Atlantic in data searching variables from 10,000 years of societal collapse.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are too many qualified people for elite spots in America. As such education must decline radically, IQ’s must stagnate in the 70 range. Worker bees must allow the Elites to hold onto their coveted status in order for America to survive… The Atlantic. The essence of this way of thinking is that – what creates a thriving peaceful society is Communist control via Stalinesque diplomacy. And this, The Atlantic learned by studying the Fall of every civilization.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course, the reality is that the Elites studied what caused societies to FAIL and devised The Protocols as the blueprint for assuring this outcome in Europe and America.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Preferred Destinations for the wealthy include: Australia, UAE, Singapore and Switzerland. </strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australia</strong> is notable for their strict stance on immigrants. Only the wealthy need apply. Those that make it past the barriers are relegated to live on an island penal colony for two years before they can even consider coming to the mainland. Australia’s economy has slowed to a halt. They currently risk a recession with growth on par with the recession of 2008. Why? Because Australia is a mini-me US – they do what they are told and are controlled by the Zion crown in the UK.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Singapore:</strong> The current President of Singapore is a UK, London School of Economics, and Harvard grad installed by the Cartel. President Tharman is a member of the G20, the IMF, The UN Development Program, the Group of thirty, and sits on the Board of Trustees for the World Economic Forum. He is ‘well-entrenched’ in the Cartel Club.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The previous president was Halimah Yacob, the first female to ‘win the election’ because all opponents were declared ineligible. She was highlighted for stating she is no longer associated with ISIS upon her uncontested run for president. 83% of her constituents disliked her.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Switzerland</strong> is the home of Klaus Schwab and his minions.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And the UAE</strong> is a Middle Eastern nation that supports Netanyahu and does the bidding of the US Cartel. Dubai was built on the backs of Indian labor while US and UK oilmen helped cover the real jobs. UAE citizens pay no taxes, healthcare is free, education is free, and a stipulated monthly wage is given to every citizen. 90% of citizens who do work, work for the Emirates government. The UAE is playing chess by formalizing ties with the BRICS while maintaining Western Cartel relations.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those are the four highest choices for elite immigration. Not necessarily stellar for the plebes and peasants. But clean, vastly drug free, clear distinctions between the rulers and everyone else, and wealthy by default.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course, should the UAE decide that China is a good investment, they risk being defriended and subject to sanctions. There is also the issue of a closed Monarchy that cannot be couped. Australia is following the lead of destruction. Which leaves Switzerland and Singapore. Both highly advanced and open to western Cartel control.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">China isn’t going to war. Russia has no need or aspirations to colonize. Water may end up the deciding factor as its scarcity becomes an issue with agriculture, cattle, and poultry farms. Singapore, like the Middle East relies on desalinization. 68% of the world’s freshwater is locked up in glaciers and ice. 30% of freshwater is in the ground – where Switzerland derives its source. Rivers and lakes provide less than 1% of freshwater needs. Singapore is out.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Antarctica has garnered quite a bit of attention and conspiracies as of late. The continent contains 90% of the world’s ground freshwater and 60% of all freshwater… Its land is covered by a treaty of 12 nations. While that land might not seem a good investment today, when the magnetic north continues its flip southward, Antarctica will warm. The ice will melt. And perhaps, a new rainforest will emerge…</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NOTHING is ever done by The Cartel unless it provides them with abundant control and wealth. NOTHING.</strong></em></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://helenaglass.net/2024/03/12/the-china-syndrome-threat/" id="LPlnk437776" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://helenaglass.net/2024/03/12/the-china-syndrome-threat/</a></strong></em></p></div>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-85010958261124049112024-03-17T10:24:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:24:45.216-07:00Jews Reveal Their Plans For The Destruction Of America: Wage War Against Iran - And Lose Its Empire - Christians for Truth<p> <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://christiansfortruth.com/jews-reveal-their-plans-for-the-destruction-of-america-wage-war-against-iran-and-lose-its-empire/" id="LPlnk976029" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://christiansfortruth.com/jews-reveal-their-plans-for-the-destruction-of-america-wage-war-against-iran-and-lose-its-empire/</a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: var(--image-block-margin,0 0 var(--image-block-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-88091" decoding="async" height="354" sizes="(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px" src="https://christiansfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/battleship-target.jpg" srcset="https://christiansfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/battleship-target-300x174.jpg 300w, https://christiansfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/battleship-target.jpg 611w" style="border-radius: var(--image-border-radius,0); border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; filter: var(--image-filter,unset); height: auto; max-width: 100%; transform: var(--image-transform,unset); transition: var(--transition); vertical-align: bottom;" width="611" /></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">(<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: var(--emphasis-font-style,italic);"><a href="https://israel365news.com/387795/jeremiah-prophecy-us-will-wage-war-against-the-houthis-and-iranand-lose/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">Israel365News</a></span>) Couched in a Talmudic twisting of Old Testament prophecy, Jews have revealed their plans for the destruction of Christian America — whom they believe is “Amalek” or “Edom” — the ancient enemies of Israel — by luring America into an unwinnable war against modern ersatz Israel’s greatest existential threat — Iran — a plan that has been in the making for decades:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: var(--blockquote-border-bottom,0); border-left: var(--blockquote-border-left,var(--border)); border-right: var(--blockquote-border-right,0); border-top: var(--blockquote-border-top,0); box-shadow: var(--blockquote-box-shadow,none); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; font-style: var(--blockquote-font-style,italic); line-height: var(--blockquote-line-height,normal); margin: var(--blockquote-margin,1em auto); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--blockquote-padding,var(--spacing-sm) 0 var(--spacing-xs) var(--spacing-lg));"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">“On Monday, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_movement" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">Houthi rebels</a></span> fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles from their bases in Yemen into the Red Sea toward merchant vessel Pinocchio, a Singaporean-owned, Liberian-flagged ship. The US navy responded harshly.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">“United States Central Command conducted six self-defense strikes destroying an unmanned underwater vessel and 18 anti-ship missiles in Houthi controlled areas of Yemen”, CENTCOM announced.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">“<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">It was determined these weapons presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region</span>,” officials said. “These actions are taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S. Navy and merchant vessels.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Despite the US navy’s response, the Houthi attacks continued</span> and two drones were shot down by an Italian warship in the Red Sea in what was described as an act of self-defense</p><p style="--paragraph-margin-bottom: 0; box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">On Saturday, Centcom said US and coalition warships had “downed a total of at least 28” drones in what appeared to be a large attempted attack by the Houthis.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: var(--blockquote-border-bottom,0); border-left: var(--blockquote-border-left,var(--border)); border-right: var(--blockquote-border-right,0); border-top: var(--blockquote-border-top,0); box-shadow: var(--blockquote-box-shadow,none); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; font-style: var(--blockquote-font-style,italic); line-height: var(--blockquote-line-height,normal); margin: var(--blockquote-margin,1em auto); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--blockquote-padding,var(--spacing-sm) 0 var(--spacing-xs) var(--spacing-lg));"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">On Wednesday, a Houthi attack off the port of Aden killed three crew of the Barbados-flagged, Greek-operated True Confidence. On February 18, a Houthi missile sank the cargo ship Rubymar.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">Since the US began its campaign of airstrikes in January, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">the U.S. military says it has shot down and destroyed more 100 Houthi missiles,</span> according to an Associated Press analysis of its statements.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Claiming to stand with Hamas in its war against Israel</span>, the Houthis have launched attacks against civilian vessels in the Red Sea that have <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">disrupted global shipping</span>, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">This has stoked fears that the Israel-Hamas war could spread to destabilize the wider Middle East</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">During its first weeks in office <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">the Biden administration chose to unconditionally revoke Trump’s decision to classify the Houthis as a terrorist organization but reclassifieed the organization as terrorists in January.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">As the Middle East heats up, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">the US is encountering Yemenite Houthis and other Iranian proxies in hostile encounters</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">The US military is even coming close to putting boots on the ground in Gaza as it airdrops humanitarian aid.</span> A US naval vessel is en route, carrying equipment to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hamas has been accused by Israel</span> of violently hijacking trucks carrying humanitarian aid into Gaza, raising <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">the possibility they will be in conflict with US troops</span> distributing food, fuel, and medical equipment to Gaza’s civilians.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">Analysts have also noted that <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Iran is intensifying efforts to expel US forces from northeastern Syria and Iraq by leveraging Hezbollah and various militias</span>. Over 170 missile and drone attacks from October 17 to the end of January targeted coalition bases across northeastern Syria.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">After one such attack <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">killed three US servicemen and wounded 25 more, a bipartisan group of Senators called for President Biden to take direct military action against Iran</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">The US is finally waking up to the very real threat posed by Iran</span>. Last week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, publicly released an unclassified version of its yearly report, “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community,” and senior intelligence officials testified about it before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">The report listed Iran as the third largest threat to US security</span>, after Russia and China, citing decades-long support for proxy groups as a major threat that allows Tehran to assume an aggressive posture “while shielding Iranian leaders from significant consequences.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">This brings to mind a verse in the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Book of Jeremiah makes a prophecy that in the end-of-times, the Edom will fight a war against Yemen which it will lose</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">“Hear, then, the plan which Hashem has devised <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">against Edom, and what He has purposed against the inhabitants of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teman_(Edom)" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">Teman</a> [Yemen]</span> : Surely the shepherd boys Shall drag them away; Surely the pasture shall be Aghast because of them.” Jeremiah 49:20</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.sefaria.org/Yoma.10a.4?lang=bi" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">The Talmud (Yoma 10a)</a></span> interprets this verse, explaining that <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">in the future, Rome, descended from Edom/Esau, is destined to fall into the hands of Yemen</span>, as it is stated in this verse by the Prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah describes that this violent encounter will have global repercussions:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">At the sound of their downfall The earth shall shake; The sound of screaming Shall be heard at the Sea of Reeds. <a href="https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/49-21.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">Jeremiah 49:21</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">The Talmud then explains that <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Jeremiah’s prophecy verse was not referring to Teman/Yemen but that the term “the youngest of the flock” was actually referring to Persia</span>, as per a verse in the Book of Daniel:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">“The two-horned ram that you saw [signifies] the kings of Media and Persia; (<a href="https://biblehub.com/daniel/8-20.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">Daniel 8:20</a>)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">The Talmud also identifies ”the shepherd boys” as <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Persia, the descendants of Japheth, the youngest son of Noah. .</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">The Talmud then draws an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_a_fortiori" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">a fortiori inference</a> from the two Temples in Jerusalem which implies <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">that Rome will fall to Persia</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">“Just as the First Temple, that the descendants of Shem built it and the Chaldeans destroyed it, and in turn the Chaldeans, ruled by Belshazzar, fell to Persians, ruled by Darius the Mede and his son-in-law Cyrus the Persian; <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">the Second Temple, that the Persians built it and the Romans destroyed it, is it not right that the Romans will fall into the hands of the Persians?” the Talmud concludes.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Rabbi Mendel Kessin, a prominent lecturer, connects Esav throughout history to Edom, Rome, Christianity, Western civilization and, ultimately, to the United States</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">According to Rabbi Kessin, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">America represents the good of Esav</span>. At the End of Days, Rabbi Kessin contends that <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">the sins of Esav will be removed and Esav will become God-fearing</span>. Rabbi Kessin explains that, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">although Esav has traditionally been associated with oppressing, persecuting and afflicting the Jews, at the End of Days, he will undergo a fundamental change in his character</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">Rather than harming Jews, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Esav will turn toward serving the Jews, assisting them in doing God’s will in the form of mitzvot</span> (Biblical commandments).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">As a result, Esav will be rehabilitated and will earn a place in the World to Come</span>. Further, since Rabbi Kessin believes that <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">spiritual tasks of Esav are being completed by the United States today</span>, he sees the destiny of the United States at the End of Days as a positive one.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">This <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;">connection between the modern United States and ancient Rome was even noted by the popular political pundit, Tucker Carlson</span> in a video clip.</p><p style="--paragraph-margin-bottom: 0; box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">In the video, Carlson suggested that like Rome, which he claimed fell because its military “became dominated by non-citizens”, the open southern border and shortfalls of military recruitment could combine to pose an existential crisis for the US. A recent House proposal, ironically titled the Courage to Serve Act, would allow the military to recruit qualified migrants who crossed the border illegally.”</p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">Rome simply cannot be Esau/Edom — and to make this spurious claim requires ignoring both the Bible and historical facts.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">The Roman historian <a href="https://www.philipharland.com/Blog/2022/11/idumeans-idumaeans-josephos-josephus-on-the-edomites-origin-and-relations-with-judeans-jews-late-first-century-ce/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">Josephus writes about the close relationship between the Israelite Judeans and Edomites</a> who had been given Roman citizenship under John Hyrcanus.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">In fact, during the revolt against Roman rule in Judea, the Edomites (Idumeans) revolted alongside the “Jews” who sought to overthrow Roman rule — and lead to the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">This alliance between “the Jews” and the Edomites continued in the second uprising against Rome during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">Bar Kokhba revolt in 132 AD</a> which resulted in the final destruction of “the Jews” in Judea — after which they were scattered to the wind.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">So please explain — oh, “learned rabbis” — how the Romans battled against both the Edomites and the “Jews” and yet at the same time be identified as “Edom/Esau” themselves.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">This makes no sense whatsoever.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">The reality is that these rabbis appropriate the concept of Esau/Edom — one of the enemies of the ancient Israelites — as a blanket term to describe any White racial group that opposes their plans for world domination.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">These rabbis have called the Romans, the “Nazis”, Christendom — and now the entire White race as “Esau/Edom” — which is quite ironic considering all of these groups are the true Christian-Israel.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">As far as the prophecy of Jeremiah is concerned, one again the rabbis twist it to merely justify their current political agenda — the destruction of America, the only White nation left which stands in the way of the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: var(--emphasis-font-style,italic);"><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ersatz" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">ersatz state</a></span> of modern Israel becoming <a href="https://christiansfortruth.com/rabbi-claims-israel-will-replace-america-as-next-world-superpower-and-jews-need-to-embrace-their-destiny/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">the only world superpower left standing</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">First off, <a href="https://biblescan.com/search.php?q=teman" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">Teman</a> in the Bible was <a href="http://www.mostholyfaith.com/Beta/Images/Teman-Dedan.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">a city in northern Edom</a> — located today in southern Jordan, which in no way, shape or form could be <a href="https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/us-troops-now-officially-fighting-ground-yemen/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">conflated with modern Yemen</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">In fact, <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Red_Sea_topographic_map-en.jpg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">if you look at a modern map</a>, you will readily see that where ancient Teman was located is approximately 1,200 miles north of modern day Yemen, which lies at the southern end of the Red Sea on the Saudi Arabian peninsula.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">Regardless of whether the ancient Persian-Medean Empire was comprised of the descendants of Japheth or Shem through his son Elam is irrelevant — the purpose of this empire was to fulfill Daniel’s prophecy and the restoration of the Israelites held in Babylonian captivity to their homeland in Judea.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">Once Israel was restored in Jerusalem, all prophecy relating to the Persian Empire was <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: var(--emphasis-font-style,italic);">completed</span> — this empire was <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: var(--emphasis-font-style,italic);">already</span> in decline prior to the time when Alexander the Great finally conquered it in 334 BC.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">But the final nail in the coffin of Persia — and the original Aryan people who occupied the land — occurred when the Muslim Arabs invaded — <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: var(--emphasis-font-style,italic);"><a href="https://christiansfortruth.com/jews-aided-the-persian-invasion-and-sacking-of-christian-byzantine-israel-in-7th-century-ad/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">aided and abetted by the Jews there</a> </span>— in the 7th century AD.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">In typical Jewish fashion, the Jews repaid the Persians for freeing them from their Babylonian captivity and restoring them to Jerusalem by turning around and helping the Arabs invade on conquer Persia.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">One Jewish historian — Bernard Lewis — claims that although Persia was conquered by Arab Muslims, it was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070429144545/http://www.tau.ac.il/dayancenter/mel/lewis.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">“Islamized but not Arabized”</a> — implying that somehow the conquered Aryans remained separate and distinct racially from the Arabs — which seems inconceivable to maintain over the last 1,500 years occupying the same land.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">We can see in Europe today how quickly the native British, French and English peoples are being Arabized — with the most common birth name in those countries being “Mohammed” — and inter-racial children becoming quite common after only one generation.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">While Lewis freely admits that our knowledge of the ancient Persians comes not from Iranian sources but rather from the Greeks and “the Jews” — a lapse we’d expect only if today’s Persians are not the same people as the original Persians.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">Lewis also points out <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070429144545/http://www.tau.ac.il/dayancenter/mel/lewis.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">the many Persian influences on the German language</a> — to show the connection between the ancient Persian Aryans and the Germanic people — but one look at <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mahmoud+Ahmadinejad&t=ftsa&iax=images&ia=images" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">modern “Persians” in Iran</a> we can see that they are not racially similar to the Aryan Germans — they are clearly mixed with Arab blood.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">Note that according to <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: var(--emphasis-font-style,italic);">Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance</span>, the term “arab” or “arabia” derives from:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: var(--blockquote-border-bottom,0); border-left: var(--blockquote-border-left,var(--border)); border-right: var(--blockquote-border-right,0); border-top: var(--blockquote-border-top,0); box-shadow: var(--blockquote-box-shadow,none); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; font-style: var(--blockquote-font-style,italic); line-height: var(--blockquote-line-height,normal); margin: var(--blockquote-margin,1em auto); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--blockquote-padding,var(--spacing-sm) 0 var(--spacing-xs) var(--spacing-lg));"><p style="--paragraph-margin-bottom: 0; box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">“…<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--strong-font-weight,var(--body-font-weight-bold)); overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6150.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">ereb</a></span> (1 Kings 10:15), (with the article prefix), {eh’-reb}; from arab; the web (or transverse threads of cloth); also a mixture, (or mongrel race) — Arabia, mingled people, mixed (multitude)”</p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">In other words, any “prophecies” coming out of the mouths of Jewish rabbis today concerning Persia as modern Iran are merely self-serving ways for the Jews to manipulate gullible Christians into believing that supporting an American war against Iran is somehow pleasing to God.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">We should fully expect the Israelis to orchestrate another <a href="https://www.twz.com/5497/us-destroyer-attacked-by-anti-ship-missiles-from-rebel-controlled-yemeni-territory" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">false flag attack on a U.S. ship</a> — a modern-day <a href="https://www.falseflag.info/lusitania/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">sinking of the Lusitania</a> — much like they did when they <a href="https://christiansfortruth.com/remembering-the-uss-liberty-attack-june-8-1967/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">attacked the U.S.S. Liberty</a> in 1967 to lure America into their war with Egypt.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">The Jewish plan for America is to utterly destroy it — bankrupt the economy through usury, taxes, and uncontrolled spending — exhaust the military in an endless “war against terror” during which all existential “threats” to Israel will be defeated — and <a href="https://christiansfortruth.com/jewish-nyt-writer-admits-jews-connection-to-refugee-flood-not-a-conspiracy-theory/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">flood America with the Third World</a> — fulfilling <a href="https://christiansfortruth.com/white-passing-jews-should-collaborate-with-other-minorities-to-help-turn-america-beige/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">the Kalergi Plan</a> — which will replace the aging White population — <a href="https://christiansfortruth.com/category/covid-pandemic/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">euthanized by their deadly vaccines</a> — while destroying the younger population <a href="https://christiansfortruth.com/?s=race+mixing" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link-text-decoration,none); text-underline-offset: var(--link-text-decoration-offset,var(--spacing-xxs)); transition: var(--link-transition,var(--transition)); word-break: var(--link-word-break,break-word);" target="_blank">through race mixing</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">And the Jews will rule over the ashes.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">At least that’s their plan — not a “conspiracy theory” — as Rabbi Abarron Haviv explained at the World Jewish Congress Summit in 2011,</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: var(--blockquote-border-bottom,0); border-left: var(--blockquote-border-left,var(--border)); border-right: var(--blockquote-border-right,0); border-top: var(--blockquote-border-top,0); box-shadow: var(--blockquote-box-shadow,none); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; font-style: var(--blockquote-font-style,italic); line-height: var(--blockquote-line-height,normal); margin: var(--blockquote-margin,1em auto); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--blockquote-padding,var(--spacing-sm) 0 var(--spacing-xs) var(--spacing-lg));"><p style="--paragraph-margin-bottom: 0; box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">“The homogeneity of European nations is fundamentally against the interests of the Jewish people. We are at a critical turning point in history. The West is becoming more and more racially diverse, and soon the White race will be forced into submission. The future of the West is that of an ethnically diverse melting pot, where the evil divisions of race and white supremacy no longer reign. This is all thanks to the tremendous power of our social movements and institutions. This great change will be catalyzed by Muslim settlement. From the land of Israel, Jews will forever be a light unto the new mono racial world as guaranteed by God.”</p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">Or just allow Israeli Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu explain the Jewish plans for America:</p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: var(--blockquote-border-bottom,0); border-left: var(--blockquote-border-left,var(--border)); border-right: var(--blockquote-border-right,0); border-top: var(--blockquote-border-top,0); box-shadow: var(--blockquote-box-shadow,none); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; font-style: var(--blockquote-font-style,italic); line-height: var(--blockquote-line-height,normal); margin: var(--blockquote-margin,1em auto); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--blockquote-padding,var(--spacing-sm) 0 var(--spacing-xs) var(--spacing-lg));"><p style="--paragraph-margin-bottom: var(--spacing-xxxs); box-sizing: border-box; margin: var(--paragraph-margin,0 0 var(--paragraph-margin-bottom,var(--spacing-md))); padding: var(--paragraph-padding,0); width: var(--paragraph-width,auto);">“If we get caught they will just replace us with persons of the same cloth. So it does not matter what you do, America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. Why? Because it is the will of God and America is big enough to take the hit so we can do it again and again and again. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them suffer for refusing to be our slaves.”</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--cite-color,var(--color-body)); font-family: var(--cite-font-family,var(--heading-font-family)); font-size: var(--cite-font-size,0.8rem); font-style: var(--cite-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--cite-font-weight,bolder); position: relative;">—Bibi Netanyahu, 1990 recorded conversation with an Israeli spy working in America</cite></blockquote><div><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--cite-color,var(--color-body)); font-family: var(--cite-font-family,var(--heading-font-family)); font-size: var(--cite-font-size,0.8rem); font-style: var(--cite-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--cite-font-weight,bolder); position: relative;"><br /></cite></div><figure class="wp-block-video" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 17.2603px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 100%;"><video controls="" src="https://christiansfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Barbara-Lerner-Spectre-Jews-behind-immigration-into-Europe.mp4" style="border-radius: var(--border-radius); box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; width: 757.702px;"></video></figure>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-47759010121880174832024-03-17T10:18:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:18:42.451-07:00Against Free Speech - Vox Popoli<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: #01ffff; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Andrew Torba appears to have belatedly come around on the problematic nature of free speech, even if he has not yet accepted the historical fact of its essentially evil nature:</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 5px 15px 0px; quotes: "" "";"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Previous Policy: Focus on Individual Content Removal</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For a long time Gab relied on a policy that focused on removing individual pieces of content that violated our community guidelines. This approach often involved issuing warnings to users before taking action on specific posts or comments. However, this strategy has shown limitations, as some users continued to engage in threatening, spammy, and harassing behavior even after multiple warnings. This led to the ongoing presence of toxic elements within the community, which often drove good and decent users away.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The New Policy: Removal of Entire Accounts</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In response to these challenges, Gab has decided to take a more proactive approach by removing entire accounts that engage in threatening, harassing, or spamming behavior. This shift in policy is a direct response to the shortcomings of the previous approach, which failed to effectively deter users from engaging in problematic activities. By removing entire accounts instead of just individual pieces of content, Gab aims to send a clear message that such behavior will not be tolerated and will ultimately lead to account termination.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We are giving no quarter to subversive accounts that exist for one reason and one reason only: to destroy Gab and our amazing community.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In order to strike the right balance between protecting free speech and ensuring the safety of our community, we must continually assess and refine our approach to content moderation. This involves ongoing discussions with users, legal experts, and other stakeholders to ensure that our policies remain both effective and fair.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ultimately, our goal is to create a platform where individuals can freely express themselves while also feeling safe and protected from subversive freaks who want to scare them off the platform with violent threats and make Gab look bad.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As we continue to evolve and grow as a platform, we remain committed to the principles of free speech and community protection. By working together with our users and partners, we believe that we can create a space where individuals can engage in healthy and productive dialogue while also not facing a barrage of threats and harassment from subversive people who want to destroy Gab.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We’re cleaning up Gab and it’s long overdue.</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">This is a wise step forward, but an incoherent policy. Because “the principles of free speech” are inherently and always opposed to “community protection”.<u> </u></span><span style="color: #333333;"><u>The very purpose of free speech is subversive and blasphemous; as we have learned, the primary advocates of free speech are the very first to criminalize and penalize it as soon as they attain sufficient power.</u></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;">But I understand. It’s very hard to not only abandon, but actively turn against the very rhetoric that once inspired you. <b>Most people are never able to slaughter their formerly sacred cows.</b> </span><span style="color: #333333;">At least Torba and company have recognized the poison in the false promises and are now taking practical steps against it, even though they are still paying lip service to the conceptual problem.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/b4332744-4e02-4825-884c-1237b5171c87" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">DISCUSS ON SG</a></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://voxday.net/2024/03/15/against-free-speech/" id="LPlnk366970" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://voxday.net/2024/03/15/against-free-speech/</a></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-39007572215647453282024-03-17T10:13:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:13:29.653-07:00The Trauma of Russian Independence - Vox Popoli<p> <span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Clown World cannot abide Russia because Russia has escaped the satanic chains that bound her, while her European diplomats</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/594286-main-problem-eu-diplomacy/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">have lost the art of diplomacy</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">for which they were once famous:</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 5px 15px 0px; quotes: "" "";"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dominic Lieven, a fine British scholar of the Russian Empire’s origins, wrote that the Russians were the only people Western Europeans had to deal with who were capable of fighting for their special, independent niche in the modern world with boundless courage, perseverance, and self-sacrifice.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Consider these words – we are the only civilization against which the West has attempted to act aggressively, and failed to achieve its goals. All the rest – the Great Empire of China, the ancient civilization of India, and many others – were unable to withstand the decisive thrust of the West, which for 500 years had been expanding the frontiers of its power by fire and sword. They were beaten, even if they were able to restore their statehood after some time.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our country was never defeated. But let’s try to put ourselves in the Western Europeans’ shoes and understand their emotional state. For centuries, they have been living with a trauma called ‘an independent Russia’. However, we ourselves have never had the opportunity to understand what it is like to have a permanent enemy that can never be conquered.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, when the USSR suddenly collapsed in 1991 and the unified state disintegrated, Western Europe found itself in a situation it had never experienced before. Overnight, the most unfulfilled wish of generations of European politicians and military leaders came true. All by itself, without a decisive military clash, and with the Russians’ full of desire to join the ‘European family’, even as pupils. Such a shock could not pass without serious consequences for the psyche of the statesmen and ordinary citizens of these Western European states.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Their entire foreign policy culture was based on the fact that Russia would never be pushed around or told what to do. Suddenly, the West felt it had won the Cold War without firing a single shot. In a state of fantastic emotional upheaval, the Western Europeans began to build relations with Russia as if it had finally been defeated. For several years, Moscow accepted the rules of the game that the West imposed. It took into account the wishes of the Western Europeans in the economic sphere and developed its foreign relations with an eye to how this would affect the main goal – which was gradual ‘integration’ with the EU.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the new circumstances, the bloc found itself in the position of a demanding teacher, offering numerous ‘partnership’ programs with two simple objectives. First, to secure the interests of Western European business and make the Russian market even more open to it. Second, to ensure that Moscow was complying with its instructions.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">European diplomats became equally demanding teachers. For several generations of EU ambassadors in Moscow, the main task was to monitor how well Russia was honoring its many commitments. As part of this ‘honorable’ mission, a tradition of communication with Russians at various levels has developed. And while there have been talks at the level of heads of state or foreign ministers, there has been no trace of normal diplomacy below that level.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">EU ambassadors did not simply become the executors of the will of their masters back home (which is perfectly normal) – they gradually became technical workers entrusted with the task of observing Russia and pointing out errors in its behavior.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And the level of their intellectual ability was no longer measured by their competency in playing a subtle diplomatic game. The main measure was the degree of hysteria with which they pushed through a very simple agenda. All the more so as their individual will and intelligence were increasingly integrated into the system of rules and requirements common to all NATO and EU representatives abroad.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As a philosopher wrote in the last century, “in any collective, individual agency becomes the servant of the collective interest.” And gradually, we should add, it disappears in the sense that is a sign of agency in the first place – the ability to analyze a situation independently and to make decisions. This problem has become so total for Western European diplomacy and politics that it has gradually ceased to be noticed.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All the more so because European politics was also changing rapidly. Having found themselves, through no fault of their own, in the position of ‘winners of the Cold War’, Western Europeans felt a deep sense of moral superiority over the whole world around them. Except, of course, towards the Americans, who they are simply afraid of. We have repeatedly seen examples of the European Union interfering in the purely internal affairs of key partners such as China, or the still-very-friendly India. Not to mention states of lesser size and importance. Last year, for example, French President Emmanuel Macron made a scene with the Brazilians over their treatment of their forests.</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The behavior of European leaders like Macron, Merkel, and Boris Johnson does often strike one as significantly out-of-touch with basic reality. When they talk about “defeating Russia” or “sanctioning China”, it makes one seriously wonder if they are even capable of basic math, let alone capable of understanding that the balance of power is no longer in their favor.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #990000; font-size: medium;">What the author gets wrong is that while Russia was never defeated by the West, it was defeated by a foreign power when the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, <b>by the same power that rules over Ukraine and is at war with Russia today.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">UPDATE:</span> This recent <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/594327-medvedev-russia-romania-gold/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">demand by the European Parliament</a> should serve to demonstrate the cartoonish extent to which the European leaders are overestimating their influence.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Moscow to send back 91.5 metric tons of gold and cultural artifacts that were exported to the Russian Empire in 1916-1917 by Romania.</span></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m a little disappointed that the Russians merely rolled their eyes and told them, explicitly, “to fuck off”. I think it would have been much more amusing if they’d simply pointed out that the sanctions being applied by the European governments render any such transaction impossible.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/040ff484-dbbf-409a-a69e-3a27920e4d3a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">DISCUSS ON SG</a></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://voxday.net/2024/03/15/the-trauma-of-russian-independence/" id="LPlnk690168" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://voxday.net/2024/03/15/the-trauma-of-russian-independence/</a></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-16355403916154082652024-03-17T10:08:00.000-07:002024-03-17T10:08:27.515-07:00This is why EU diplomacy is practically dysfunctional — RT World News<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 27px;">The Western European bloc’s representatives no longer try to understand those who disagree with them, instead they deliver lectures dripping with arrogance</span></p><div class="article__author-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; width: 515.539px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Timofe</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">y Bordachev, </span>Programme Director of the Valdai Club</em></p></div><div class="article__cover article__cover-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: none; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; width: 515.539px;"><div class="media " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="This is why EU diplomacy is practically dysfunctional" class="media__item lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.03/xxs/65f340ca2030273eb0606b05.jpg" sizes="516px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.03/xxs/65f340ca2030273eb0606b05.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 515.539px;" /></picture></div><div class="media__footer media__footer_bottom " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 515.539px;"><div class="media__title media__title_arcticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.28571em; margin: 10px 0px 0.714286em; padding: 0px;"><span data-role="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, third left, on a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. </span><span data-role="copyright-symbol" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">© </span><span data-role="copyright" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> AP Photo/Virginia Mayo</span></div></div></div><div class="article__text text " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">A recent incident in which a group of ambassadors from EU states refused to attend a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov perfectly encapsulates the state of European diplomatic culture today. The reason is simple – over the past 30 years, the need to be diplomatic in the traditional sense of the word has almost disappeared.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Despite the fact that the envoys of EU countries in Moscow are relatively well-educated and not stupid, these individual peculiarities no longer count for much. Everything is determined by their dogmatic world view, which has become the opposite of what is necessary for civilized relations between states.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Those observers who question why in today's world each EU state needs its own separate ambassador in Moscow have merit in their arguments. After all, the envoys really do not decide anything and cannot fulfil their duties in the traditional accepted way. It would be much easier for everyone if these people – both great and not so great – would return to their countries for a while.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">There are several reasons why Western Europeans have ventured so far on the road to their own, different world. First, they experienced a colossal upheaval just over 30 years ago. Since the 16th century, these states had been neighboring Russia, which they could not defeat.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Dominic Lieven, a fine British scholar of the Russian Empire's origins, wrote that the Russians were the only people Western Europeans had to deal with who were capable of fighting for their special, independent niche in the modern world with boundless courage, perseverance, and self-sacrifice.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Consider these words – we are the only civilization against which the West has attempted to act aggressively, and failed to achieve its goals. All the rest – the Great Empire of China, the ancient civilization of India, and many others – were unable to withstand the decisive thrust of the West, which for 500 years had been expanding the frontiers of its power by fire and sword. They were beaten, even if they were able to restore their statehood after some time.</p><div class="read-more large read-more__right" data-has-alias="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; font-size: 0.666667em; margin: 10px 0px 20px 3em; max-width: 330px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 279.999px;"><a class="read-more__link" href="https://www.rt.com/russia/594081-ukraine-wsj-zelensky-west/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="We now know why the only credible peace deal between Russia and Ukraine collapsed" class="read-more__cover lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.03/xxs/65ef076b2030273ae5313993.jpg" sizes="280px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.03/xxs/65ef076b2030273ae5313993.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 279.999px;" /></picture><div class="read-more__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="read-more__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Read more</div> <span class="read-more__footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We now know why the only credible peace deal between Russia and Ukraine collapsed</span></div></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Our country was never defeated. But let’s try to put ourselves in the Western Europeans’ shoes and understand their emotional state. For centuries, they have been living with a trauma called ‘an independent Russia’. However, we ourselves have never had the opportunity to understand what it is like to have a permanent enemy that can never be conquered.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">So, when the USSR suddenly collapsed in 1991 and the unified state disintegrated, Western Europe found itself in a situation it had never experienced before. Overnight, the most unfulfilled wish of generations of European politicians and military leaders came true. All by itself, without a decisive military clash, and with the Russians’ full of desire to join the ‘European family’, even as pupils. Such a shock could not pass without serious consequences for the psyche of the statesmen and ordinary citizens of these Western European states.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Their entire foreign policy culture was based on the fact that Russia would never be pushed around or told what to do. Suddenly, the West felt it had won the Cold War without firing a single shot. In a state of fantastic emotional upheaval, the Western Europeans began to build relations with Russia as if it had finally been defeated. For several years, Moscow accepted the rules of the game that the West imposed. It took into account the wishes of the Western Europeans in the economic sphere and developed its foreign relations with an eye to how this would affect the main goal – which was gradual ‘integration’ with the EU.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">In the new circumstances, the bloc found itself in the position of a demanding teacher, offering numerous ‘partnership’ programs with two simple objectives. First, to secure the interests of Western European business and make the Russian market even more open to it. Second, to ensure that Moscow was complying with its instructions.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">European diplomats became equally demanding teachers. For several generations of EU ambassadors in Moscow, the main task was to monitor how well Russia was honoring its many commitments. As part of this ‘honorable’ mission, a tradition of communication with Russians at various levels has developed. And while there have been talks at the level of heads of state or foreign ministers, there has been no trace of normal diplomacy below that level.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">EU ambassadors did not simply become the executors of the will of their masters back home (which is perfectly normal) – they gradually became technical workers entrusted with the task of observing Russia and pointing out errors in its behavior.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">And the level of their intellectual ability was no longer measured by their competency in playing a subtle diplomatic game. The main measure was the degree of hysteria with which they pushed through a very simple agenda. All the more so as their individual will and intelligence were increasingly integrated into the system of rules and requirements common to all NATO and EU representatives abroad.</p><div class="read-more large" data-has-alias="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 0.666667em; margin: 10px 3em 20px 0px; max-width: 330px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 279.999px;"><a class="read-more__link" href="https://www.rt.com/news/593996-biggest-loser-of-ukraine-conflict/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="Fyodor Lukyanov: Why the EU could be the biggest loser from the Ukraine conflict" class="read-more__cover lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.03/xxs/65ec71082030271b4300ef0e.jpg" sizes="280px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.03/xxs/65ec71082030271b4300ef0e.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 279.999px;" /></picture><div class="read-more__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="read-more__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Read more</div> <span class="read-more__footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fyodor Lukyanov: Why the EU could be the biggest loser from the Ukraine conflict</span></div></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">As a philosopher wrote in the last century, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“in any collective, individual agency becomes the servant of the collective interest.”</em> And gradually, we should add, it disappears in the sense that is a sign of agency in the first place – the ability to analyze a situation independently and to make decisions. This problem has become so total for Western European diplomacy and politics that it has gradually ceased to be noticed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">All the more so because European politics was also changing rapidly. Having found themselves, through no fault of their own, in the position of ‘winners of the Cold War’, Western Europeans felt a deep sense of moral superiority over the whole world around them. Except, of course, towards the Americans, who they are simply afraid of. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">We have repeatedly seen examples of the European Union interfering in the purely internal affairs of key partners such as China, or the still-very-friendly India. Not to mention states of lesser size and importance. Last year, for example, French President Emmanuel Macron made a scene with the Brazilians over their treatment of their forests. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">To be fair, part of the problem is that other countries have long been unwilling to make these Western Europeans aware of the inadequacies of their behavior. As a participant in global diplomacy, the EU has gone very far down the road to a place from which there is no return to reality.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">However, a reasonable question arises – why does Russia care at all about our Western neighbors' loss of their ability to adapt to the world around them? It seems that if the current political-military crisis is temporarily accompanied by a downgrading of our diplomatic relations with EU countries, we might still benefit from understanding the reasons.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Firstly, if we exclude tragic scenarios for everyone, the bloc will remain Russia’s neighbor and we will have to resume diplomatic dialogue with it. Even if we take into account the fact that the main reason for Western European inadequacy has been of a fundamental nature – the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR – we could have been more demanding with them earlier. For their own – and our common – good. It is therefore necessary to understand where they have major weaknesses that deprive them of the ability to engage in normal diplomatic interaction. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Secondly, we must recognize the tragic errors of replacing diplomacy with political lectures. As Russia develops relations with the Global South and our neighbors in the former Soviet space, it is useful to be extra vigilant and make sure that we ourselves do not also start displaying signs of European arrogance.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This article was first published by <a href="https://vz.ru/opinions/2024/3/6/1256764.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a6aa6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">‘Vzglyad’ </a>newspaper, translated and edited by the RT ream </em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://www.rt.com/news/594286-main-problem-eu-diplomacy/" id="LPlnk691760" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.rt.com/news/594286-main-problem-eu-diplomacy/</a></em></p></div>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-218448171205332312024-03-13T12:01:00.000-07:002024-03-13T12:01:29.081-07:00Economics, Reconsidered - Vox Popoli<p> <span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">In which the Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus, at Princeton and 2015 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">begins to wonder</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">if perhaps everything about the mainstream Neo-Samuelsonian economics he has been utilizing as his basic conceptual model is wrong:</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 5px 15px 0px; quotes: "" "";"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Economics has achieved much; there are large bodies of often nonobvious theoretical understandings and of careful and sometimes compelling empirical evidence. The profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought…</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century…</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am much more skeptical of the benefits of free trade to American workers and am even skeptical of the claim, which I and others have made in the past, that globalization was responsible for the vast reduction in global poverty over the past 30 years. I also no longer defend the idea that the harm done to working Americans by globalization was a reasonable price to pay for global poverty reduction because workers in America are so much better off than the global poor. I believe that the reduction in poverty in India had little to do with world trade. And poverty reduction in China could have happened with less damage to workers in rich countries if Chinese policies caused it to save less of its national income, allowing more of its manufacturing growth to be absorbed at home. I had also seriously underthought my ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. I no longer think so. Economists’ beliefs are not unanimous on this but are shaped by econometric designs that may be credible but often rest on short-term outcomes. Longer-term analysis over the past century and a half tells a different story. Inequality was high when America was open, was much lower when the borders were closed, and rose again post Hart-Celler (the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965) as the fraction of foreign-born people rose back to its levels in the Gilded Age. It has also been plausibly argued that the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the factories in the North would not have happened if factory owners had been able to hire the European migrants they preferred.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Economists could benefit by greater engagement with the ideas of philosophers, historians, and sociologists, just as Adam Smith once did. The philosophers, historians, and sociologists would likely benefit too.</span></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">I can’t cast too many stones in the eminent Prof. Deaton’s direction. I, too, once believed that free trade was economically beneficial to both nations involved in the trade. I, too, once believed that the free movement of peoples was a net benefit to the economy and the well-being of the peoples involved. </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">And while I was always deeply skeptical of, and completely opposed to, globalization, <u>it wasn’t until fairly recently that I recognized the satanic thread that runs through and inevitably connects liberty, democracy, the liberal Enlightenment values, and economic liberalism to obvious evils like globalism, imperialism, techno-authoritarianism, and Clown World.</u></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">But the lies, some of them centuries-old, are shattering. They are being broken apart by finally being tested against real-world consequences. And in the aftermath of their discrediting, an entirely new economics, one that is not based on a false model of a perfectly rational economic man, will be constructed.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/0e617f04-aaf6-49f3-98d7-529c1fd89f9f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">DISCUSS ON SG</a></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://voxday.net/2024/03/13/economics-reconsidered/" id="LPlnk861402" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://voxday.net/2024/03/13/economics-reconsidered/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-61607852870885886072024-03-13T11:56:00.000-07:002024-03-13T11:56:19.359-07:00Rethinking Economics or Rethinking My Economics by Angus Deaton<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.764rem;">Questioning one’s views as circumstances evolve can be a good thing</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 106.207px;">Economics has achieved much; there are large bodies of often nonobvious theoretical understandings and of careful and sometimes compelling empirical evidence. The profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought. Recent macroeconomic events, admittedly unusual, have seen quarrelling experts whose main point of agreement is the incorrectness of others. Economics Nobel Prize winners have been known to denounce each other’s work at the ceremonies in Stockholm, much to the consternation of those laureates in the sciences who believe that prizes are given for getting things right.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 106.207px;">Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century. I will come to some of the substantive topics, but I start with some general failings. I do not include the corruption allegations that have become common in some debates. Even so, economists, who have prospered mightily over the past half century, might fairly be accused of having a vested interest in capitalism as it currently operates. I should also say that I am writing about a (perhaps nebulous) mainstream, and that there are many nonmainstream economists.</p><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px 1em 40px; padding: 0px 106.207px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Power:</span> Our emphasis on the virtues of free, competitive markets and exogenous technical change can distract us from the importance of power in setting prices and wages, in choosing the direction of technical change, and in influencing politics to change the rules of the game. Without an analysis of power, it is hard to understand inequality or much else in modern capitalism.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Philosophy and ethics: </span>In contrast to economists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx through John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and even Milton Friedman, we have largely stopped thinking about ethics and about what constitutes human well-being. We are technocrats who focus on efficiency. We get little training about the ends of economics, on the meaning of well-being—welfare economics has long since vanished from the curriculum—or on what philosophers say about equality. When pressed, we usually fall back on an income-based utilitarianism. We often equate well-being with money or consumption, missing much of what matters to people. In current economic thinking, individuals matter much more than relationships between people in families or in communities.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Efficiency </span>is important, but we valorize it over other ends. Many subscribe to Lionel Robbins’ definition of economics as the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends or to the stronger version that says that economists should focus on efficiency and leave equity to others, to politicians or administrators. But the others regularly fail to materialize, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution—frequently though not inevitably—our recommendations become little more than a license for plunder. Keynes wrote that the problem of economics is to reconcile economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty. We are good at the first, and the libertarian streak in economics constantly pushes the last, but social justice can be an afterthought. After economists on the left bought into the Chicago School’s deference to markets—“we are all Friedmanites now”—social justice became subservient to markets, and a concern with distribution was overruled by attention to the <em>average</em>, often nonsensically described as the “national interest.”</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Empirical methods: </span>The credibility revolution in econometrics was an understandable reaction to the identification of causal mechanisms by assertion, often controversial and sometimes incredible. But the currently approved methods, randomized controlled trials, differences in differences, or regression discontinuity designs, have the effect of focusing attention on <em>local </em>effects, and away from potentially important but slow-acting mechanisms that operate with long and variable lags. Historians, who understand about contingency and about multiple and multidirectional causality, often do a better job than economists of identifying important mechanisms that are plausible, interesting, and worth thinking about, even if they do not meet the inferential standards of contemporary applied economics.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Humility:</span> We are often too sure that we are right. Economics has powerful tools that can provide clear-cut answers, but that require assumptions that are not valid under all circumstances. It would be good to recognize that there are almost always competing accounts and learn how to choose between them.</li></ul><h6 style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 106.207px;">Second thoughts</h6><p style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 106.207px;">Like most of my age cohort, I long regarded <span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">unions</span> as a nuisance that interfered with economic (and often personal) efficiency and welcomed their slow demise. But today large corporations have too much power over working conditions, wages, and decisions in Washington, where unions currently have little say compared with corporate lobbyists. Unions once raised wages for members and nonmembers, they were an important part of social capital in many places, and they brought political power to working people in the workplace and in local, state, and federal governments. Their decline is contributing to the falling wage share, to the widening gap between executives and workers, to community destruction, and to rising populism. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson have recently argued that the direction of technical change has always depended on who has the power to decide; unions need to be at the table for decisions about artificial intelligence. Economists’ enthusiasm for technical change as the instrument of universal enrichment is no longer tenable (if it ever was).</p><div style="font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px 106.207px;"><div class="block-quote tweetable" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("/Assets/IMF/images/fd/quote.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 30px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 60px; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top: 2px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 1.764rem; line-height: 2.6rem; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">When efficiency comes with upward wealth redistribution, our recommendations frequently become little more than a license for plunder.</span> <iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-share-button twitter-share-button-rendered twitter-tweet-button" data-url="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html#dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imf.org%2Fen%2FPublications%2Ffandd%2Fissues%2F2024%2F03%2FSymposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton&size=m&text=When%20efficiency%20comes%20with%20upward%20wealth%20redistribution%2C%20our%20recommendations%20frequently%20become%20little%20more%20than%20a%20lic%E2%80%A6&time=1710355864907&type=share&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imf.org%2Fen%2FPublications%2Ffandd%2Fissues%2F2024%2F03%2FSymposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton" style="height: 20px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 65px;" title="X Post Button"></iframe></div></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 106.207px;">I am much more skeptical of the benefits of free <span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">trade</span> to American workers and am even skeptical of the claim, which I and others have made in the past, that globalization was responsible for the vast reduction in <span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">global poverty</span> over the past 30 years. I also no longer defend the idea that the harm done to working Americans by globalization was a reasonable price to pay for global poverty reduction because workers in America are so much better off than the global poor. I believe that the reduction in poverty in India had little to do with world trade. And poverty reduction in China could have happened with less damage to workers in rich countries if Chinese policies caused it to save less of its national income, allowing more of its manufacturing growth to be absorbed at home. I had also seriously underthought my <span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">ethical judgments</span> about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.</p><p style="font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 106.207px;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that <span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">immigration</span> to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. I no longer think so.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Economists’ beliefs are not unanimous on this but are shaped by econometric designs that may be credible but often rest on short-term outcomes. Longer-term analysis over the past century and a half tells a different story. Inequality was high when America was open, was much lower when the borders were closed, and rose again post Hart-Celler (the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965) as the fraction of foreign-born people rose back to its levels in the Gilded Age. It has also been plausibly argued that the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the factories in the North would not have happened if factory owners had been able to hire the European migrants they preferred.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 106.207px;"><span style="color: #990000;">Economists could benefit by greater engagement with the ideas of philosophers, historians, and sociologists, just as Adam Smith once did. The philosophers, historians, and sociologists would likely benefit too.</span></p><a name="authors" style="background-color: white; color: #004c97; font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"></span><div class="fd-author" style="background-color: white; font-family: MuseoSans-300, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 20px 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 106.207px;"><img alt="" src="https://www.imf.org/-/media/Images/IMF/FANDD/authors/Deaton-rtrleight772966/AngusDeaton600.ashx?h=600&w=600&la=en" style="border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px 20px 40px 0px; max-height: 60px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><p style="font-size: 0.882rem; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 90px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: MuseoSans-700, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Angus Deaton</span> is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus, at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. He is the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.</p><p style="font-size: 0.882rem; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 0px 90px; padding: 0px;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton" id="LPlnk644844" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton</a><span style="color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p></div>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-87464623629015944602024-03-13T11:50:00.000-07:002024-03-13T11:50:09.391-07:00White House Releases Budget Written In Mythology Posted on March 11, 2024 by Helena<p><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Biden is tackling the $40 trillion debt load incurred by our government with a new 2025 Budget of $7.3 trillion. 2023, Revenues collected was $4.1 trillion on expenses of $6.4 trillion. A 56% Shortfall/Deficit on revenue. While claiming no new taxes – Biden increased tax rates for 2024 wherein a single filer making $100k to $191k is taxed at 24% – with a 37% cap rate. As of the third quarter 2023, federal net borrowing was $2.3 Trillion to cover the deficit. Savings as of the 3<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">rd</span> quarter FY was ($1.68) trillion. Meaning our $2.3 Trillion in borrowing was still short $1.688 Trillion – Pentagon Math. Social Benefits (SS and Medicare) were in the hole for the year $1.3 trillion. While Biden declared student loan debt was free.</strong></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #01ffff;">Federal Benefit Programs will see the highest increase in Biden funding which includes; welfare and illegal benefits on the backs of taxpayers paying 24%!! The average taxpayer will now give the government 31% of everything they make for the privilege of having their cities destroyed – their children raped, and their stores ransacked. 7% of that is for money our government promises to invest on our behalf for 40 years and pay us back…</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fun Fact: </strong>Research total federal employees and the number is estimated to be 2.2 million. FINE PRINT.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;"><b>However, this number does NOT include:</b> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Federal Reserve, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, foreign service personnel at the State Department, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Office of the Vice President, Postal Regulatory Commission, Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S. Postal Service, White House Office, foreign nationals overseas, Public Health Service’s Commissioned Officer Corps, non-appropriated fund employees, selected legislative branch agencies, the judicial branch, or the military, United Nations, Green Fund. Employees of NGO’s paid for by US Taxpayer funding.</em></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;">State and local government employees are estimated to be around 20 million. And ALL these employees get paid PENSIONS – paid for by taxpayers shelling out 30% or more of their income. Those benefits are payable as of age 57 and 30 years employment or age 60 with 20 years of service – with some exceptions for age 50. Social Security – is the problem though because the funds are borrowed against to pay for welfare and illegals and government pensions. Thus the retirement age for Social Security is tagged to be increased to reinforce the gap – but Federal and State Pensions? Nah.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;">Government wants more government while simultaneously ushering in poverty for the middle class. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> Because Soros declared that unraveling America would be his biggest accomplishment given The American People are resilient, stubborn, educated, and Patriotic. As a direct result, those qualities are exactly what Soros targeted. The Protocols for destruction of an entire society.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CIVILIZATIONS DIE:</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What happened to the Galatians of Biblical history? They were conquered by the Romans and sold into slavery. What happened to the Thessalonians? They were massacred by the Romans and the Jews via the Argonauts of Greek mythology. After the massacre of the Thessalonians, The Bishop of Milan condemned the violence and withdrew communion from Theodosius. Eight months later, Theodosius said he was sorry and the Bishop reinstated his Christian orthodoxy of communion.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What happened to the Corinthians? They were slaughtered by the Romans. Corinth, according to historians, was founded by a descendant of – Zeus.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once again, we are led to believe that mythology was reality. And Greek mythology characters were at a constant war with the Roman Empire founded on Roman mythology.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are no original manuscripts of either Plato or Aristotle. The writings attributed to these scholars were actually written more than a century after their death in 895 AD. Did Plato even exist? The scholars that wrote Plato’s manuscripts (claiming that scraps of parchment survived hundreds of years…) created Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. That is the evidence.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><u>Our Government is not governing – they are spending free money.</u> Our History is not history – it is mythology. Our Science is not evidence based – it is a Ouija board game. And no one wants to tell us the Truth because they say we will all fall into a death spiral of mass hysteria. Medicine causes more diseases and death than the initial disease being treated.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">But the ‘hysteria’ that will implode all of society is TRUTH. And so our government officials lie – about everything. They lie about expenses, about revenues, about statistics, about risk, about investments, and about the state of our economy. What has been the outcome of The Lies? More lies to cover the speck of truth that threatens to expose the lies.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 14px;">The $50 billion per year for ten years that Biden claims he will collect in excess revenues isn’t going to reduce the debt – it isn’t going to be saved – it will be spent by multiples of for expanding government, paying for illegals, while hiking wages 20% to 30%. Our deficit spending will increase by another $3-$4 trillion IF the Budget is adhered to. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The ONLY way we can ever unravel and reveal the TRUTH is through concentrated mass uncensored research and sharing. </span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://helenaglass.net/2024/03/11/whit-house-budget/" id="LPlnk659519" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://helenaglass.net/2024/03/11/whit-house-budget/</a></strong></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-5888370121910042112024-03-13T11:34:00.000-07:002024-03-13T11:34:33.375-07:00bionic mosquito: Rebel With a Cause<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">The record is stunning.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">To take only one microcosmic example: In the year 1866, two important works of literature had begun to appear in serial form side by side in the same literary journal.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">The Russian Mesenger</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">(</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Russky vestnik</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">).</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;">The first novel was <i>War and Peace</i> by Leo Tolstoy. The second was <i>Crime and Punishment</i> by Fyodor Dostoevsky.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://store.ancientfaith.com/the-age-of-nihilism-christendom-from-the-great-war-to-the-culture-wars/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">The Age of Nihilism: Christendom from the Great War to the Culture Wars</a>, by John Strickland</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Stickland is describing the boom that occurred in Russian secular culture once the West’s humanist ideals were embraced. Here, Stickland will focus on Dostoevsky, noting that he would document, better than any of his contemporaries, the growing crisis of utopian Christendom – the version of Christendom that came to replace, in Strickland’s view, the paradisaical Christendom that existed for the first thousand years in the West, and, until more recently, in the East.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Dostoevsky, son of a brutal father who was murdered when his peasants rose up against him, was never an atheist, although he nevertheless liked to spend his time among atheists. He would keep up with the latest streams of progressive Western thought. Most in this camp would look at the Russian Orthodox Church with contempt.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">They would also look down on the poor and impoverished. Dostoevsky would write of these same poor and impoverished, stirring dissatisfaction with the status quo. A lesson for our time, perhaps: when the status quo is atheist, it is the Christian who is a rebel:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;"><i>John 15: 18-19 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Dostoevsky would write, when contemplating how different he was, the torment he suffered as “a child of this century”:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;"><i>“And despite all this, God sent me moments of great tranquility, moments during which I love and find I am loved by others. … This symbol is very simple, and here is what it is: to believe that there is nothing more beautiful, more profound, than Christ…”</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Yet, he would remain rebellious in temperament. He would join a group that would meet at night, discussing books by prominent French socialists. Having been found out, the members of the group were sentenced to execution.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">As they were being marched out to receive this punishment, a rider came up with a message from the tsar: they would not be executed, but instead sent for hard labor in Siberia. A reprieve. In Siberia, instead of limiting himself to live within the world of the intelligentsia, he would have hardened criminals for companions: murderers, rapists, child abusers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">He was not allowed to bring any of his books with him, yet somehow a charitable society did provide copies of the New Testament for the prisoners. Dostoevsky would keep his under his pillow in the barracks for the next four years.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">What Dostoevsky would discover in his time with the criminals: even if the world was transformed into a utopia, with everyone given wealth, health, and freedom, in the end that world was still populated by men such as these. There is nothing in such a utopia that would heal the hearts of such men.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;"><i>“In the course of several years, I never saw a sign of repentance among these people…”</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Just like Nietzsche, Dostoevsky saw the dark side, the nihilism. Dostoevsky was in prison, Nietzsche in the splendor of Bayreuth. Yet, unlike Nietzsche, Dostoevsky was a Christian – this reality gave Dostoevsky the means to transcend this broken world.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Seeing a man savagely beaten in prison, Dostoevsky’s mind raced back to a time in childhood. Out in the family forest, he heard the cry of a wolf. Terrified, he fled the wood and came to Marey, one of his father’s peasants. Peasants who were so cruelly beaten by Dostoevsky’s father that they would one day rise up and murder him.</p><a name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></a><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Marey dropped his work, ran to the boy, and blessed him with the sign of the cross. He then promised to watch the boy until he made it back to the house. No one or nothing forced Marey to act this way. Dostoevsky reflected: Marey did all this knowing that, almost certainly, no one would ever know of his kindness. In Marey’s eyes, Dostoevsky saw genuine love.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Only God, perhaps, could witness Marey’s action. Through this, Dostoevsky could see his fellow convicts with sympathy rather than malice:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;">Unconditional love, rooted in the Christian faith of the peasant Marey, now offered an alternative to nihilism.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">After prison, Dostoevsky would return to Saint Petersburg in 1859, with much work to do. He would find that the populists were agitating for ever more radical forms of progress, through increasingly an increasing nihilistic lens that would see the traditional Orthodox faith with contempt,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Good and evil were to be determined solely by utility: did an action advance or impede human happiness; history moves in an ever upward trend as science replaces religion: positivism; intelligent men held the traditional social order in contempt.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Dostoevsky saw all this. His first significant work after his return was designed as a challenge to this humanistic understanding of man: <i>Notes from Underground</i>. This “underground man” is a contemptible figure, yet strangely sympathetic. But it isn’t the extravagant wealth of the nobility or the poverty of the peasants against which he rails:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;">For him, society is rotten because under the influence of modern Western ideas it threatens to reduce man to the status of an animal.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Such a totalizing rational ordering of society could do nothing but destroy true human freedom, despite the seeming advances that a liberal Western model seemed to advance and continued to promise. The status of animal (or, as CS Lewis would write, <i>The Abolition of Man</i>) as an end result was inevitable.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">His subsequent novels would put on full display where this nihilistic road would lead. For example, a self-destructive self-loathing woman accepts a one-hundred-thousand-ruble bribe to elope, only then to hurl the money in the fireplace. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Such figures would be seen by western intellectuals as grotesque, yet this is exactly where we have come, based on the ideas of these western intellectuals. This is what happens when reason and the individual are divorced from God:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;">…nihilism lies below the surface of rationalism when the latter is divorced from the light of the gospel.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Those who claim to serve the material needs of the masses end up only interested in power for its own sake. Dostoevsky would foresee the future of this revolutionary movement falling into the hands of a megalomaniac, one obsessed with his own power and willing to murder even those in his circle to attain and keep it: he foresaw Stalin.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">He would write of the rational nihilist, one who concludes that the will of the individual is the only standard of morality. But it is the will of the <i>extraordinary</i> that counts; only they are free to commit whatever acts they choose, while the <i>ordinary</i> must suffer whatever they must.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">The extraordinary man in Dostoevsky’s novel, <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, is Raskolnikov. He would devise a plan to murder a helpless old woman who held some treasure – with his superhuman talents, he could do something useful for the world with her wealth.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Yet, this extraordinary man would first have a dream. In his dream, he came across a man beating a horse, soon joined by others in this action. The horse was beaten so badly that it would die. The boy Raskolnikov would ask his father, in the dream: why did they beat the horse? With a strained chest, unable to breath, Raskolnikov would wake up.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Dostoevsky intended this dream to offer a premonition of where this nihilistic road would lead. Without God, there can be no limits on human behavior: anything is permissible. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">For a moment, Raskolnikov is humbled: “…can it be that I will really take an axe and hit her on the head and smash her skull…?” Such concerns didn’t remain for long. He heard of this woman, a pawnbroker who would be at home alone the following day. Unable to reason, he felt as a man condemned to death. He not only murdered the old woman, but also her mentally disabled sister. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Strickland then recalls Nietzsche and the scene which drove him to madness – that of witnessing a man mercilessly beating a horse. It is almost certain that Dostoevsky never read Nietzsche (although he had heard Wagner, “that tiresome German scoundrel”), but it is well established the Nietzsche read Dostoevsky. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;">Dostoevsky believed that atheism inevitably leads a human being made in the image of God to a point of self-destruction. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Raskolnikov would bury his treasure under a rock. In the novel, this is the last we hear of the treasure. Instead, the novel turns to Raskolnikov suffering his punishment – all an interior punishment. It would lead him to repentance.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;">The solution to nihilism therefore becomes not mythological world building but repentance. … For [Dostoevsky], only a radically different solution to the transformational imperative could possibly save utopian Christendom from the impending catastrophe.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Conclusion</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Repentance; a change of mind. Dostoevsky’s various novels and writing would make this point repeatedly. As one further example, Alyosha, the hero of <i>Brothers Karamazov</i>, outside at night staring at the vast heavenly dome:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;"><i>The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens, the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars … Alyosha stood gazing and suddenly, as if he had been cut down, threw himself to the earth … It was as if threads from all those innumerable worlds of God all came together in his soul, and it was trembling all over, “touching other worlds.” He wanted to forgive everyone and for everything, and to ask forgiveness.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 0.5in;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2024/03/rebel-with-cause.html" id="LPlnk364717" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2024/03/rebel-with-cause.html</a><span style="color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-12265321121795783682024-03-13T11:27:00.000-07:002024-03-13T11:27:54.159-07:00Is The Holocaust a New 'Religion' with 10 Commandments?<p> <span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px;">According to the Israeli philosophy professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the 'Holocaust' is a new religion. Holocaust-ianity has now replaced Christianity.</span></p><header class="entry-header pos-rel" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; order: 1; position: relative;"><div class="read-details" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="entry-header-details af-cat-widget-carousel" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="aft-post-excerpt-and-meta color-pad" style="box-sizing: inherit; order: 4;"><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="author-links" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="item-metadata posts-author byline" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; padding-right: 10px;"><span class="far fa-user-circle" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span> <a href="https://www.renegadetribune.com/author/renegade/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; display: inline-block; text-decoration-line: none;">renegade</a> </span><span class="item-metadata posts-date" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 0.75; padding-right: 10px;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="far fa-clock" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 1; margin-right: 3px; text-rendering: auto;"></span> September 10, 2016 </span></span><span class="min-read" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; padding-right: 10px;">2 min read</span> <div class="aft-comment-view-share" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; margin-right: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="aft-comment-count" style="border-radius: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin-right: 2px; width: auto;"><a href="https://www.renegadetribune.com/holocaust-new-religion-10-commandments/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; display: block; line-height: normal; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="far fa-comment" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 1; margin-right: 3px; text-rendering: auto;"></span> <span class="aft-show-hover" style="box-sizing: inherit;">4</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></header><div class="read-img pos-rel" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; margin: 20px -20px; order: 3; position: relative;"><div class="post-thumbnail full-width-image" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><img alt="" class="attachment-morenews-featured size-morenews-featured wp-post-image" decoding="async" height="576" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/567404877_1280x720.jpg" srcset="https://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/567404877_1280x720.jpg 1280w, https://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/567404877_1280x720-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/567404877_1280x720-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/567404877_1280x720-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/567404877_1280x720-720x405.jpg 720w, https://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/567404877_1280x720-600x338.jpg 600w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 783.321px;" width="1024" /></div></div><div class="color-pad" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato; order: 4;"><div class="entry-content read-details" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jerusalem — According to the Israeli philosophy professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz (photo), the ‘Holocaust’ is a new religion. Holocaust-ianity has now replaced Christianity. The Jews have an inquisition against those that want to “debate” it, to record the complete truth.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leibowitz’ countrymen Shraga Elam, Gilad Atzmon, Yoshua Shalev and others have further developed this concept, reasoning like this: Most Jews today are either atheists or shun the religion of Judaism. Therefore, the Jewish people had to adopt belief in the ‘Holocaust’ as their new religion. They have spread this religion all over the world. ‘Holocaust’ museums are the new houses of worship and are present in most major cities. The new religion has its commandments, its decrees, its prophets, its high priests, its circle of saints, its rituals and its pilgrimages. It knows neither mercy, nor forgiveness, nor clemency but only the duty of vengeance. If you question the ‘Holocaust Religion’, you will go to prison.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">The ‘Ten Commandments’ of this ‘Holocaust Religion’ may be enunciated as follows:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">1. Remember what Amalek (the Non-Jews) has done to thee.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />2. Thou shalt never compare THE HOLOCAUST with any other Genocide.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />3. Thou shalt never compare the Nazi crimes with those of Israel.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />4. Thou shalt never doubt the number of 6 million Jewish victims.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />5. Thou shalt never doubt that the majority of them died in gas chambers.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />6. Thou shalt not doubt the central role of SATAN Hitler in the extermination of the Jews.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />7. Thou shalt never doubt the right of Israel to exist as the Jewish state.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />8. Thou shalt not criticize the leading Jewish organizations and the Israeli government.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />9. Thou must never criticize Jewish organizations and the Zionist leadership for abandoning the European Jewry in the Nazi era<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />10. Thou shalt take these commandments literally and never shew mercy to them that doubt!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="http://www.renegadetribune.com/holocaust-new-religion-10-commandments/" id="LPlnk558884" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://www.renegadetribune.com/holocaust-new-religion-10-commandments/</a><span style="background-color: white; 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(Land, Hamas, ideology or something else?)</em></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_2" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="54"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ron Unz</strong>—I think that a complex mixture of all those different factors is responsible, each being uppermost for different individuals. But obviously <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the triggering event was the extremely successful Hamas raid on October 7th and the total shock and horror it inflicted upon a very complacent Israeli society.</strong> As <a href="https://www.unz.com/runz/gaza-and-the-dangers-of-jewish-paranoia/" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.unz.com/runz/gaza-and-the-dangers-of-jewish-paranoia/">I wrote</a> in December:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); border: 2px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 1em 2em; padding: 0px 1em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="container" id="p_1_3" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="84"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For years, many thousands of Palestinians had been held without trial as prisoners in Israel, often under brutal conditions, and these captives included large numbers of women and children. So Hamas hoped to seize some Israelis who could be traded for their freedom, and they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, carrying around 240 prisoners back to Gaza. In later interviews with Israeli and foreign media outlets, the released or rescued Jewish hostages described <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/24/shalom_hamas_hostage_release_handshake_video" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/24/shalom_hamas_hostage_release_handshake_video">how well</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/M_Alsanusi87/status/1711755709333831780" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://twitter.com/M_Alsanusi87/status/1711755709333831780">respectfully </a>they had been treated by their Hamas captors.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_4" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="129"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This stunning military achievement was a direct consequence of the arrogance and over-confidence of the Israelis, who had assumed that the many hundreds of millions of dollars they had invested in their Gaza border defenses, featuring banks of high-tech electronic sensors and remotely-operated machine-guns, made them impervious to any attack from Hamas. But the latter used inexpensive small drones and other innovative tactics to disable those defenses, then breached the barrier at numerous points. This allowed 1,500 lightly-armed Hamas militants to cross over and overrun a number of army bases, military kibbutzim, and police stations, some of them deep inside Israeli territory. The IDF was literally caught napping, with many of their sentries asleep or away from their posts, and Hamas achieved an initial success far greater than their expectations.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_5" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="69"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Israeli response to this devastating, totally unexpected military attack was panic-stricken, disorganized, and very trigger-happy</strong>, with Apache helicopter pilots unable to distinguish friend from foe on the road and merely <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed0-OxNO_bQ" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed0-OxNO_bQ">blasting anything that moved.</a> Video footage shows that <a href="https://youtu.be/JN7SXIE37YI" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://youtu.be/JN7SXIE37YI">hundreds of Israeli cars were incinerated by Hellfire missiles</a>, with some of those vehicles driven by Hamas militants with or without Israeli hostages and others driven by fleeing Israeli civilians.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_6" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="72"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since the mid-1980s, Israel has adopted a controversial military policy known <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive">as the Hannibal Directive</a>, under which any Israelis captured by Palestinian militants who cannot be readily rescued must be killed to prevent them from becoming hostages, and an Israeli official described what happened on October 7th as <a href="https://www.haaretz.co.il/digital/podcast/weekly/2023-11-09/ty-article-podcast/0000018b-b3a5-d3c1-a39b-bfe55acb0000" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.haaretz.co.il/digital/podcast/weekly/2023-11-09/ty-article-podcast/0000018b-b3a5-d3c1-a39b-bfe55acb0000">“a mass Hannibal.”</a> High explosive tank-shells and missiles were used to blast buildings occupied by Hamas fighters and their Israeli captives, killing everyone.</span></p></blockquote><p class="container" id="p_1_7" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="96"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Based upon the existing evidence, I think that perhaps as few as 100-200 unarmed Israeli civilians may have been killed by the Hamas fighters</strong>, in many cases inadvertently, while all the rest died at the hands of Israel’s own trigger-happy military. But admitting such embarrassing facts would have dealt a tremendous blow to the Israeli government, so instead propaganda efforts were put into overdrive, promoting the most ridiculous lies and atrocity-hoaxes involving beheaded babies, babies baked in ovens, and widespread Hamas gang-rapes and sexual mutilations, <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/07/media-concocts-un-hamas-rape-report/" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/07/media-concocts-un-hamas-rape-report/">none of which seem to have any basis in reality</a>.</span></p><ul style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.unz.com/runz/gaza-and-the-dangers-of-jewish-paranoia/" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.unz.com/runz/gaza-and-the-dangers-of-jewish-paranoia/">Gaza and the Dangers of Jewish Paranoia</a><br />Ron Unz • <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Unz Review</strong></em> • December 18, 2023 • 5,800 Words</li></ul><p class="container" id="p_1_8" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="76"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not only did this wave of dishonest propaganda help to conceal Israel’s military humiliation, but it also stoked enormous popular anger, producing almost universal support for the brutal retaliatory massacre of tens of thousands of Gaza’s helpless civilians that soon followed. According to Max Blumenthal, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">polls have shown that up to 98% of Israelis support the massive ongoing attacks on Gaza</strong>, with nearly half believing that Israel’s military response has actually been too restrained.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_8" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="76"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Read full text: </span><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://www.unz.com/runz/the-jewish-roots-of-the-gaza-rampage/" id="LPlnk797802" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.unz.com/runz/the-jewish-roots-of-the-gaza-rampage/</a></p><p class="container" id="p_1_79" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="68"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For years <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">it’s been quite apparent to me that America’s national government had lost almost all of its political legitimacy, being something much closer to the decaying hulk of the late, unlamented USSR</strong> than to the republic we once knew. Bushnell’s personal sacrifice provided a signpost to that bitter reality and may also have brought us a step closer to the collapse of that regime.</span></p><ul style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.unz.com/runz/the-rise-of-the-brics-and-the-fall-of-the-ussa/" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.unz.com/runz/the-rise-of-the-brics-and-the-fall-of-the-ussa/">American Pravda: The Rise of the BRICS and the Fall of the USSA?</a><br />Ron Unz • <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Unz Review</strong></em> • September 4, 2023 • 3,300 Words</li></ul><p class="container" id="p_1_80" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="53"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For similar reasons, I think that the tens of thousands of dead Gazans did not lose their lives in vain. Instead, their martyrdom has dominated the global media for the last five months, conclusively revealing to the entire world the moral bankruptcy of the international system that had condemned them to their fate.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_81" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="51"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222;">Probably hundreds of millions of people worldwide have now begun asking themselves questions that they never would have previously considered. </span><span style="color: #990000;">I suspect that <strong style="border: 0px; 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font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(</span>Whether you are a believer or not, attend church or not - this is NOT about religiosity - it is REALITY!</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">If there ever was an essay that is a must read, this is it, including the linked full text by Rev. Matt - in fact, read that linked full text FIRST, as Vox Day always has good overall perspective from all angles to sum things up.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">Every pastor needs to read it! - CL)</span></div><p><span><span style="background-color: #01ffff;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"></span></span></span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: large;">An Australian pastor asks why so many of his self-professed fellow believers</span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://revmatthewlittlefield.substack.com/p/why-cant-many-christians-see-obvious?r=1envt0&triedRedirect=true" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">can’t see the evil</a><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: large;"> </span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: large;">in the murderous frenzy of the Gazacaust:</span></div><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 5px 15px 0px; quotes: "" "";"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I know many of the Christians who are supporting Israel have condemned other nations in recent years for doing far less. But their misunderstanding of the nature of the identity of God’s people only applying to those who believe in Jesus by faith and having nothing to do with genetics, causes them to overlook the clear evil intent behind the levelling of an entire city, and the devastation of the people in that city. Christians are partnering with Molech in a tragic way, and they cannot even see it. Although, I have noticed that less and less of these people are defending it, as time goes by, which is a good sign that the devastation Israel is causing is making them uncomfortable.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This should be a warning to all of us who claim the name of Christ that we need to be diligent and wary to the encroachment of unbiblical doctrines that rise to prominence in the Church. Any one of us that might consider ourselves mature could become slack in our study of the word, reliance on the guidance of the Spirit of God through his word and other believers, and fall into a place of immaturity. We should not speak to others blindness without being willing to examine our own blind spots. But that does not mean that we should not be concerned about how many believers appear to lack discernment between good and evil. This is deeply concerning and has genuinely negative impacts in our world. Bad theology is supporting a terrible foreign policy that has destroyed countless lives in the Middle East for 80 years or so.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many good Christians were hung out to dry during covid because the leaders of the church could not see the clear evil that was happening, or could but were afraid to speak out about it. Many good Christians have been hung out to dry on many issues. But who would have thought that so many believers would not be able to call a mass killing of people in a small, underdeveloped region of the world the evil that it is?</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Israel is just another nation. It is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically bad on the basis of its geography or dominant ethnicity. The Israelis have absolutely no historic claim to the land except the same right of conquest by which most people, including Americans, hold their land; even their historic claim is based on invasion and the genocide of the native people living in the land of Canaan.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Which means that Israel must be held to the same standard to which all other nations of the world are held to account. And yet, many self-professed, self-styled Christians are actively working to prevent the Israeli government or its people from being held accountable for their genocidal actions.</span></p><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-62133 lazyloaded" data-sizes="(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" data-src="https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-16.png" data-srcset="https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-16.png 512w, https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-16-300x274.png 300w" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" height="467" sizes="(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" src="https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-16.png" srcset="https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-16.png 512w, https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-16-300x274.png 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="512" /></span></figure></div><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">This suppressive action by South Dakota and other state legislatures is obviously a Clown World attack on Americans, Christians, and the First Amendment to the Constitution, as well as further evidence that neither Donald Trump nor most Republicans are actually on the side of the angels. None of these antisemitism laws are likely to hold up in court, given their blatant anti-constitutionality, but they are being passed and signed into law nevertheless in order to try to intimidate the American people into remaining silent when they should be speaking out against the global satanists who presently rule over them.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;">When even the pagans speak out against the wickedness they are witnessing, should not Christians do the same?</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday, March 7, called Israel’s war in Gaza a </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“disgrace for civilization”. “It is a tragedy for humankind and a disgrace for civilization that today, in the 21st century, this humanitarian disaster cannot be stopped,”</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Wang told journalists at a press conference.</span></span></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">This is not a political problem. It’s not going to be fixed by electing different politicians. <u>It is, rather, the inevitable consequence of failing to prevent the wicked from ascending to the pulpits.</u> <b>The Apostle Paul warned Christians about the wolves in sheep’s clothing who would infiltrate their churches, but Catholics and Protestants alike failed to guard their doctrine, their dioceses, their deacons, and their pulpits.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Lest you give into fear and the temptation to accept the wicked as your spiritual leaders, don’t forget that we are told God will hold those accountable who call good evil, and evil good. Which is why my response to the self-styled Christians who proclaim that a certain ethnicity are uniquely unfallen beings who are in no need of salvation through Jesus Christ and are thereby worth of being protected from all criticism with the force of law is this: <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">are you really sure </em>your professed beliefs are in line with the eternal Word of God?</b></span></p><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-62132 lazyloaded" data-sizes="(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" data-src="https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-15.png" data-srcset="https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-15.png 512w, https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-15-300x300.png 300w, https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-15-150x150.png 150w" decoding="async" height="512" sizes="(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" src="https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-15.png" srcset="https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-15.png 512w, https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-15-300x300.png 300w, https://voxday.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image-15-150x150.png 150w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="512" /></figure></div><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/7eadb991-610a-466b-8c3e-43a70176d42d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">DISCUSS ON SG</a></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://voxday.net/2024/03/09/those-who-call-evil-good/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #4285f4; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://voxday.net/2024/03/09/those-who-call-evil-good/</a></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-9402039549899866542024-03-10T11:03:00.000-07:002024-03-10T11:03:42.926-07:00Why Can’t Many Christians See Obvious Evil? REV. 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font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I was meditating on this question this morning: why can’t many Christians see obvious evil?</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">We see so many examples of this. A few years ago, in an American election year involving the most controversial President in modern United States history, a pandemic was used as an excuse to lock people in their homes, shut down economies and movement of people, place limits on how U.S. elections could function, and eventually coerce hundreds of millions of people around the world to take an experimental medical treatment most people did not want, and certainly most people did not need, and which large companies profited from greatly. This had so </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8307262645034081361/5307476099607773481#" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">many stamps of evil all over it</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> that to many of us were so clear, but to many more Christians they not only did not see, they supported it, and even fought against those who called it out. To this day many Christians refuse to see the coercive evil they supported and was right in front of them.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">But an even more pertinent example now is the massacre of civilians happening in Gaza as I write this article. This has all the hallmarks of evil all over it. Some Christians will immediately jump in and say right now, “Woah, Woah!! Why are you supporting Hamas?” Which just shows how blinded people are. Defending innocent civilians caught up in collective punishment is not supporting Hamas. Bombing an entire civilian city to rubble, displacing over two million people, and killing tens of thousands of civilians is not justice, it is not a proportionate response, and has all the hallmarks of evil all over it. Over 39,000 civilians are confirmed dead, 14,622 of these are children, 8,986 are women, 73,300 are injured, which includes maiming and other cruel injuries, among many more atrocities.[1] These are just the confirmed numbers with thousands more believed dead under the rubble caused by the IDF campaign. Just because someone responds to evil (the Hamas attack) does not mean they are good. As Paul would tell us do not respond to evil with evil, but instead do what is honourable or good (Rom. 12:17). In no impartial eyes is what Israel is doing in the category of good. But thousands of Australian Christians are standing with Israel, and crying out against criticism of Israel, at a time when Israel is committing great evil. Yes Hamas did evil, but two wrongs do not make a right. No honest person would say Hamas should not be brought to justice for their crimes, but that is not what is happening. Not even close.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">So why can’t so many Christians see the obvious evil that is happening?</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Well, as I said I was meditating on this today, and my daily devotions, as sometimes happens, instantly answered this; it is because of a lack of spiritual training and discernment. I am currently reading through Hebrews, and this is part of what I read this morning, for my devotions, in chapter 5,</p><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-left: var(--size-4) solid var(--background_pop); color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin: var(--size-20) 0; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);">“12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”</p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">“But solid food belongs to those who are full of age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” In other words, one of the marks of a well-trained Christian spirituality is that we learn, through practice, training, and Scripture to see the difference between good and evil. Again, in other words, Christians brought up on a light diet of Scripture and errant Christianity will not be able to properly discern good and evil. Could you give a better description of the quality of teaching in the modern church? It is remarkable that we have so many people who can see evil, considering the state of modern church doctrine.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I know some people are going to immediately see my comment as arrogant, but I don’t care. When you can’t see the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians as the sacrifice unto Molech, or the Devil, that it is, then your senses to evil are blinded on the issue. Just men, just leaders, do not unleash hell on civilians over the actions of a relatively small group of criminals, they hunt down the criminals and punish them.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Tradition says that the letter of Hebrews was written to Jewish Christians likely by the Apostle Paul. However, there are traditions which also dispute this, and there is no indication in the book of Hebrews about who wrote it, nor is there a direct mention of who it was written to. But the assumption that it was written to Jewish believers is a good one, because the writer of Hebrews assumes that its readers will have a deep understanding of the Psalms, the Mosaic covenant, the priesthood, the early books of Moses, and much more of the Old Testament. It is perhaps the book of the New Testament which is most visibly steeped in references to the Old Testament, even though other books like Romans and Revelation are equally reliant on Old Testament teachings and imagery when more carefully examined. </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">So, there is good reason to believe that this book was written to people who a) should have been mature in the faith, because of their deep understanding of God and his word, and b) should therefore have been teachers, not needing to be rebuked for their error which placed them in danger of “departing from the faith” (Heb. 2:1; 3:12. Etc). So, what had gone wrong with their theology? What had led them into the serious error which the writer of Hebrews seeks to address?</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">They had misplaced the position of physical Israel in the eyes of God. This comes through very clearly. Because of this the writer of Hebrews must show that Jesus is superior to the Old Testament prophets (Heb. 1), that Jesus is a more superior agent of God’s covenant than the angels (Heb. 2), that Jesus is superior to Moses (Heb. 3), that Jesus is a better Joshua (Heb. 3-4), that Jesus is a better high priest than Aaron (Hebrews 4-5), that Jesus is the head of a better priesthood than Levi (Heb. 7), that the covenant Jesus established is a better covenant than the Mosaic (Heb. 8), and that Jesus has secured a better temple with a better sacrifice, his once-and-for-all sacrifice (Heb. 9-10). It is very clear that the writer of Hebrews is addressing people who are being tempted to place the Old Covenant and, by extension physical Israel, into an incorrect place in their faith walk, and this had led them to serious error. In fact, it had led them to such serious error that they could not correctly discern good from evil.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">We know that the Judaizers were the original and worst opponents of Christianity at its beginning. This continued for well into the first three centuries of the early church, where they stirred up through their influence many of the Roman persecutions against the Church, with this finding its culmination in the reign of Emperor Julian who even sought to rebuild the temple. But before the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, they had a strong case that the Jewish people were the ancient stewards of the words of the God, the Old Testament, the central position of the presence of God in the world, through the temple, and the conveyors of the blessings of God, because their people had survived so many tumults and attacks over the centuries and retained their identity. But the Hebrews' writer would agree with Paul (in fact it may even have been Paul himself) that in comparison to Jesus this was all ‘skubala’, or dung, or rubbish,</p><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-left: var(--size-4) solid var(--background_pop); color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin: var(--size-20) 0; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);">“3 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not tedious, but for you it is safe.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);">2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, 4 though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);">7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead” (Phil. 3:1-11).</p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Paul was very clear that all of his achievements as an ethnic Jew under the Old Covenant, apart from Christ were nought but trash, compared to the revelation of Jesus Christ. Paul made sure people were taught strongly not to put physical Israel and the Old Covenant in the wrong place in their faith walk. Something many errant Christians do today.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">It is very telling that we have an entire book of the Bible that warns people that if you misunderstand the place of the Old Covenant, and all that goes with that - which includes the land, the temple, the Mosaic law and more - in our faith walk, this will dampen your ability to discern between good and evil. And we see this at work in how many Christians view the modern conflict in Gaza; as if Israel were God’s team and should be uncritically barracked for and supported. </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Let me be clear here, I am not saying that this explains why so many other Christians cannot see so many other evils. I am not making that case. There are many reasons, and they all stem from people not being diligent enough in their study of the words of Scripture. What I am saying is that this error on physical Israel helps explain at least one of these situations. I know that many people would read my initial question and simply say, “Well they cannot discern evil properly because they are not real Christians.” But I do not believe this to be the case for all of these people, both from observation but also from Scripture. The writer of Hebrews is addressing believers,</p><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-left: var(--size-4) solid var(--background_pop); color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin: var(--size-20) 0; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);">“12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.”</p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">These are not unbelievers, though some of them may prove to be of course. They are believers who are approaching the teachings of the Apostles and the rest of the Scriptures in an immature way. They are not rightly dividing the word of God, and this has caused them to misapply the Old Testament, misunderstand physical Israel’s place in God’s plan, and therefore they are deadened towards what is good and evil in a serious way.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">I know many of the Christians who are supporting Israel have condemned other nations in recent years for doing far less. But their misunderstanding of the nature of the identity of God’s people only applying to those who believe in Jesus by faith and having nothing to do with genetics, causes them to overlook the clear evil intent behind the levelling of an entire city, and the devastation of the people in that city. Christians are partnering with Molech in a tragic way, and they cannot even see it. Although, I have noticed that less and less of these people are defending it, as time goes by, which is a good sign that the devastation Israel is causing is making them uncomfortable.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">This should be a warning to all of us who claim the name of Christ that we need to be diligent and wary to the encroachment of unbiblical doctrines that rise to prominence in the Church. Any one of us that might consider ourselves mature could become slack in our study of the word, reliance on the guidance of the Spirit of God through his word and other believers, and fall into a place of immaturity. We should not speak to others blindness without being willing to examine our own blind spots. But that does not mean that we should not be concerned about how many believers appear to lack discernment between good and evil. This is deeply concerning and has genuinely negative impacts in our world. Bad theology is supporting a terrible foreign policy that has destroyed countless lives in the Middle East for 80 years or so. </p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;">Many good Christians were hung out to dry during covid because the leaders of the church could not see the clear evil that was happening, or could but were afraid to speak out about it. Many good Christians have been hung out to dry on many issues. But who would have thought that so many believers would not be able to call a mass killing of people in a small, underdeveloped region of the world the evil that it is? Well, the writer of Hebrews, that’s who, because he was informed about the dangers of raising Christians on a bad diet of teaching, “14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” May God shake his church to wake it up from its many slumbers, but especially this current blindness.</p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://revmatthewlittlefield.substack.com/p/why-cant-many-christians-see-obvious?triedRedirect=true" id="LPlnk583774" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://revmatthewlittlefield.substack.com/p/why-cant-many-christians-see-obvious?triedRedirect=true</a><span style="color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-625690293099435572024-03-10T10:59:00.000-07:002024-03-10T10:59:55.031-07:00The US Defines Antisemitism - Vox Popoli<p> <span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">In order to assist you in the extremely important moral imperative of avoiding even the smallest hint of antisemitism, here is</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.state.gov/defining-antisemitism/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">the official U.S. State Department definition of antisemitism</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">. Or rather, the official partial definition, since the definition is not limited to the examples included, which will no doubt be expanded in the future as needed.</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 5px 15px 0px; quotes: "" "";"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.</span></li></ul><cite style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Defining Antisemitism, Office of the Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, 10 March 2024</span></cite></blockquote><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, I’m relieved they provided this useful, if incomplete, clarification. We definitely won’t be doing any of that and we definitely won’t be doing that here! I’m absolutely certain the merest thought of contemplating any of that hasn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing anyone’s mind here.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">I can’t help but wondering, though. Do you think there is a single self-help book about winning friends and influencing people ever published that recommends calling the police every time someone doesn’t believe something you say, trying to get someone fired every time they don’t like your tone of voice, or seeking to get them ejected from their house if they happen to criticize something you’ve done?</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/795371a8-6a17-4cbb-b77f-709a85662a17" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">DISCUSS ON SG</a></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://voxday.net/2024/03/10/the-us-defines-antisemitism/" id="LPlnk201913" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://voxday.net/2024/03/10/the-us-defines-antisemitism/</a></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-41396191896925668592024-03-10T10:56:00.000-07:002024-03-10T10:56:21.065-07:00How the "Fight against antisemitism" became a shield for Israel’s genocide, by Jonathan Cook - The Unz Review<p><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">(<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">Opposing the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza conducted by Israel makes you an anti-semite, so they need more anti-semites to justify their genocide.....and they are succeeding in manufacturing more anti-semites by continuing the genocide. Got it! - CL)</span></span></p><p><br /></p><a class="page-thumb" href="https://www.unz.com/article/how-the-fight-against-antisemitism-became-a-shield-for-israels-genocide/" style="background-color: white; border: none; display: block; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 600px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 1em 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="attachment-page-thumbsize size-page-thumbsize wp-post-image" height="307" src="https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-07-at-16.26.31-copy.jpg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 700px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="520" /></a><span id="_top" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div class="entry" id="contents-holder" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="premium-overlay" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><section class="open" level="1" pos="1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="section-holder" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="container" id="p_1_1" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="30"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy</strong></em></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_2" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="34"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you read the establishment media, you might conclude that a serious battle is being waged by Israel and its most ardent supporters to tackle an apparent new wave of antisemitism in the West.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_3" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="63"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In article after article, we are told how Israel and western Jewish leadership bodies are demanding our concern, and outrage, at a <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68288727" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68288727">rise in anti-Jewish hate</a> incidents. Organisations such as the Community Security Trust in the UK and the Anti-Defamation League in the US <a href="https://cst.org.uk/public/data/file/9/f/Antisemitic_Incidents_Report_2023.pdf" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://cst.org.uk/public/data/file/9/f/Antisemitic_Incidents_Report_2023.pdf">produce lengthy reports</a> on the relentless increase in antisemitism, especially since 7 October, and warn that action is urgently required.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_4" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="35"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Undoubtedly, there is a real threat of antisemitism and, as ever, it comes largely from the far right. Israel’s actions – and its false claim to be representing all Jews – only help to stoke it.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_5" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="36"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This moral panic is transparently self-serving. It directs our attention away from the pressing, all-too-concrete evidence that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza – one that has slaughtered and maimed many tens of thousands of innocents.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_6" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="29"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It redirects our attention instead towards tenuous claims of a deepening antisemitism crisis, one whose tangible effects appear limited and for which the evidence is all too clearly exaggerated.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_7" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="53"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After all, a rise in “Jew hatred” is all but inevitable if you redefine antisemitism, as western officials have recently done via the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism">new definition</a>, to include antipathy towards Israel – and at the moment when Israel appears, even to the World Court, to be <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/gaza-icj-ruling-offers-hope-protection-civilians-enduring-apocalyptic" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/gaza-icj-ruling-offers-hope-protection-civilians-enduring-apocalyptic">carrying out a genocide</a>.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_8" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="11"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The logic of Israel and its supporters runs something like this:</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_9" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="39"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many more people than usual are expressing hatred of Israel, the self-declared state of the Jewish people. There is no reason to hate Israel unless you hate what it represents, which is Jews. Therefore, antisemitism is on the rise.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_10" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="50"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This argument makes sense to most Israelis, to its partisans, and to the overwhelming majority of western politicians and career-minded establishment journalists. That is: the very same people who interpret calls for <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-gaza-slogan-bigger-news-murder-babies" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-gaza-slogan-bigger-news-murder-babies">equality in historic Palestine</a> – “from the river to the sea” – as a demand for a genocide against Jews.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_11" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="58"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The singer Charlotte Church, for example, found herself accused of antisemitism by the entire establishment media after a “pro-Palestinian chant” to raise money for Gaza’s children being starved by an Israeli aid blockade. The <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68404269" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68404269">offending song</a> had included the lyric “From the river to the sea”, calling for the liberation of Palestinians from decades of Israeli oppression.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_12" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="40"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the weekend, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt once again <a href="https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1764214271427162157" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1764214271427162157">suggested</a> marches calling for a ceasefire were antisemitic because they supposedly “intimidated” Jews. In fact, Jews are prominent at those marches. He was referring to Zionists who excuse the slaughter in Gaza.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; display: flex; font: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 500px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 500px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1763371695782425071" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1763371695782425071&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unz.com%2Farticle%2Fhow-the-fight-against-antisemitism-became-a-shield-for-israels-genocide%2F&sessionId=fe66c9ba91e4add21518a3857d57bff748d6a7c5&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=500px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font: inherit; height: 647px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p class="container" id="p_1_15" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="36"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Similarly, in the wake of George Galloway’s overwhelming byelection win “for Gaza” in Rochdale last week, a BBC reporter berated former Labour MP Chris Williamson for using the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_16" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="21"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The reporter was <a href="https://twitter.com/DerbyChrisW/status/1763371695782425071" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://twitter.com/DerbyChrisW/status/1763371695782425071">worried</a> that the term “might offend some people”, despite the World Court finding the accusation of genocide plausible.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_17" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="3"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A ghoulish phenomenon</strong></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_18" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="35"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the ambition of these Israel zealots runs much deeper than mere deflection. Israel’s leaders and most of its citizens are not ashamed of their genocide, it seems, and neither are their overseas backers.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_19" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="40"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If my social media feeds are any guide, the slaughter in Gaza is not discomfiting these apologists, or even giving them pause for thought. They appear to revel in their support for Israel as the world looks on in horror.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_20" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="22"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Every Palestinian child’s bloodied body, and the outrage it provokes from onlookers, fuels their self-righteousness. They entrench, they do not retreat.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_21" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="26"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They appear to be finding a strange reassurance – comfort even – in the wider public’s anger and indignation at the extinguishing of <a href="https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1758431191043133584" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1758431191043133584">so many young lives</a>.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_22" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="28"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It mirrors very precisely Israeli officials’ own reaction to the International Court of Justice’s verdict that there is a plausible case Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_23" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="62"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many observers assumed that Israel would seek to placate the judges and world opinion by toning down its atrocities. They could not have been more wrong. In defying the court, Israel became even more brazen, as attested to by its horrifying assault on <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68330579" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68330579">the Nasser hospital</a> last month and its <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68434443" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68434443">lethal attack</a> on Palestinians scrambling to reach an aid convoy last week.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_24" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="27"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9d67LQL22Q" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9d67LQL22Q">war crimes</a> – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBIWXs2bXRA&ab_channel=MiddleEastEye" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBIWXs2bXRA&ab_channel=MiddleEastEye">broadcast</a> on every <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu8qlr9cYec&ab_channel=MiddleEastEye" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu8qlr9cYec&ab_channel=MiddleEastEye">social media platform</a>, including by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwK1PA" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwK1PA">its own soldiers</a> – are even more <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXOJwihmCg" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXOJwihmCg">in our faces</a> than before the World Court ruling.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tOXOJwihmCg?feature=oembed" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font: inherit; height: 360px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 613.003px;" title="Video shows Israeli military stripping naked Palestinians in northern Gaza" width="500"></iframe></p><p class="container" id="p_1_25" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="40"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This phenomenon needs explaining. It looks ghoulish. But it has an internal logic that shines a light on why Israel has become an emotional crutch for many Jewish people, both inside the country and abroad, as well as for others.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_26" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="59"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not just that Jews and non-Jews who strongly subscribe to the ideology of Zionism identify with Israel. It runs deeper still. They are utterly dependent on a worldview – long cultivated in them by Israel and by their own community leaders, as well as by oil-grabbing western establishments – that places Israel at the centre of the moral universe.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_27" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="25"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They have been drawn into what looks more like a cult – and a very dangerous one at that, as the horrors of Gaza are revealing.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_28" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="3"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Albatross, not sanctuary</strong></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_29" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="38"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The claim they have internalised – that Israel is a necessary sanctuary in a future time of trouble from the supposedly innate, genocidal impulses of non-Jews – should have come crashing down on their heads over the past five months.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_30" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="39"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If the price of reassurance – of having a “just-in-case” bolthole – is the slaughter and maiming of many tens of thousands of Palestinian children, and the slow starvation of hundreds of thousands more, then that bolthole is not worth preserving.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_31" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="35"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not a sanctuary; it is an albatross. It is a stain. It must go, to be replaced by something better for Jews and Palestinians in the region – “from the river to the sea”.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_32" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="31"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So why have these Israel partisans not been able to reach a conclusion so morally self-evident to everyone else – or at least those not suborned to the interests of western establishments?</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_33" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="20"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because like all cult members, hardcore Zionists are immune to self-reflection. Not only that, but their reasoning is inherently circular.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_34" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="29"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel, Zionism’s creation, is not in the least concerned with providing a solution to antisemitism, as it professes. Quite the reverse. It feeds on antisemitism and needs it.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_35" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="27"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Antisemitism is its lifeblood, the very reason for Israel’s existence. Without antisemitism, Israel would be redundant, there would be no need for it as a sanctuary.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_36" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="45"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The cult would be over, and so would the endless military aid, the special trading status with the West, the jobs, the land grabs, the privileges and the sense of importance and ultimate victimhood that allows for the dehumanisation of others, not least the Palestinians.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_37" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="44"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Like all true believers, Israel’s partisans overseas – who proudly call themselves “Zionists” but are now <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/08/facebook-instagram-censor-zionist-israel/" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/08/facebook-instagram-censor-zionist-israel/">pressuring social media platforms</a> to ban the term as antisemitic, as the movement’s goals become more transparent – have too much to lose from self- and communal doubt.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_38" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="45"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fight against antisemitism means nothing else can take priority – not even genocide. Which, in turn, means no greater evil can be acknowledged, not even the mass murder of children. No bigger threat, however pressing, however urgent, can be allowed to come to the fore.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_39" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="16"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And to keep the doubt at bay, more antisemitism – more supposed existential threats – must be generated.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_40" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="4"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Racism in new garb</strong></span></p><div class="book-unit alignright premblock book-author" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; float: right; font: inherit; margin: 0.5em 7px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0745325564/" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ML2p1Fj1L.jpg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; height: auto; margin: 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px;" /></a></div><p class="container" id="p_1_41" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="51"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In recent years, the biggest difficulty facing Zionism has been that the true racists – on the right, often in power in western capitals – have also served as <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/24/why-benjamin-netanyahu-loves-the-european-far-right-orban-kaczynski-pis-fidesz-visegrad-likud-antisemitism-hungary-poland-illiberalism/" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/02/24/why-benjamin-netanyahu-loves-the-european-far-right-orban-kaczynski-pis-fidesz-visegrad-likud-antisemitism-hungary-poland-illiberalism/">Israel’s strongest allies</a>. They have dressed up their traditional racist ideologies – that once fed antisemitism, and could again – in new garb: as Islamophobia.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_42" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="11"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Europe and the United States, Muslims are the new Jews.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_43" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="43"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Which is ideal for Israel and its partisans. A supposed “<a href="https://twitter.com/PalBint/status/1749047912091250688" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://twitter.com/PalBint/status/1749047912091250688">global, civilisational war</a>” – ideological cover to justify continuing western domination of the oil-rich Middle East – always places Israel, the regional attack dog, on the side of the angels, firmly alongside the white nationalists.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_44" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="45"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because Israel and its apologists cannot expose the true racists and antisemites in power, they must create new ones. And that has required changing antisemitism’s definition beyond recognition, to refer to those who oppose the colonial domination project into which Israel is profoundly integrated.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_45" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="43"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In this upside-down worldview, one that prevails not only among Israel partisans but in western capitals, we have arrived at a nonsense: to reject Israel’s oppression of Palestinians – and now even its genocide of them – is supposedly to reveal oneself as antisemitic.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_46" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="2"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Palestinians dehumanised</strong></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_47" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="36"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This was precisely the position in which Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, found herself last month after she criticised French President Emmanuel Macron.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_48" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="22"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel has, as a consequence, declared it is banning her from entry to the occupied territories to record its human rights abuses.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_49" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="42"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But notably, as Albanese pointed out, nothing has changed in practice. Israel has excluded <a href="https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1757077466550550567" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1757077466550550567">all UN rapporteurs</a> from the occupied territories for the past 16 years, during its siege of Gaza, so they cannot witness the crimes that foregrounded the attack on 7 October.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_50" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="45"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last month, Macron made a patently preposterous statement, though one promoted by Israel and treated seriously by the western media. He described Hamas’ attack on Israel as the “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/07/macron-calls-hamas-attacks-biggest-antisemitic-massacre-of-our-century" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/07/macron-calls-hamas-attacks-biggest-antisemitic-massacre-of-our-century">biggest antisemitic massacre</a> of our century” – that is, he claimed it was driven by hatred of Jews.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_51" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="33"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One can criticise Hamas for how it carried out its attack, as Albanese has done: undoubtedly, its fighters committed many violations of international law that day in killing civilians and taking them hostage.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_52" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="34"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Exactly the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-night-raids-terrorising-families-not-over" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-night-raids-terrorising-families-not-over">same kind of violations</a>, we should note in the interests of balance, that Israel has committed day in, day out for decades against the Palestinians forced to live under its military occupation.</span></p><div class="subscribe-button-holder" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 10px auto; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="subscribe-button" href="https://www.unz.com/subscribe/?domain=article" style="background: rgb(3, 93, 166); border: none; color: white; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; height: 27px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 15px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_subscribe" title="Subscribe to New Columns ">Subscribe to New Columns</a></div><p class="container" id="p_1_53" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="26"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Palestinian prisoners, seized by an occupying Israeli army in the middle of the night, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-night-raids-terrorising-families-not-over" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-night-raids-terrorising-families-not-over">held in military jails</a> and denied proper trials, are no less hostages.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_54" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="39"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But to ascribe antisemitism as Hamas’ motivation is intended to scrub out those many decades of oppression. It airbrushes out the very abuses faced by the Palestinians that Hamas and the other Palestinian militant factions were established to resist.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_55" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="21"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That right of resistance to belligerent military occupation is enshrined in international law, even if the West rarely acknowledges the fact.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_56" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="24"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Or as <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rykvsjij6" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rykvsjij6">Albanese put it</a>: “The victims in the October 7 massacre were not killed because of their Judaism, but in response to Israeli oppression.”</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_57" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="25"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Macron’s ridiculous remark also wiped out the past 17 years of the siege of Gaza – a slow-motion genocide that Israel has now put on steroids.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_58" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="42"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And he did so precisely because western colonial interests – just like Israel’s interests – must rationalise the dehumanisation of Palestinians and their supporters as racists and barbarians, in the West’s pursuit of domination and old-fashioned resource control in the Middle East.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_59" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="33"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But it is Albanese, not Macron, now fighting to <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israels-symbolic-ban-must-not-distract-atrocity-crimes-gaza-un-expert" rel="" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israels-symbolic-ban-must-not-distract-atrocity-crimes-gaza-un-expert">save her reputation</a>. She is the one being smeared as a racist and antisemite. By whom? By Israel and the genocide-supporting leaders of Europe.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_60" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="2"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Sacred cause</span></strong></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_61" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="51"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Israel needs antisemitism. And armed with a ludicrous redefinition adopted by western allies that classifies as Jew hatred any opposition to its crimes – any rejection of its bogus claims of “self-defence” as it crushes resistance to its occupation and its oppression of Palestinians – Israel has every incentive to commit more crimes.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_62" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="37"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Every atrocity produces more outrage, more resentment, more “antisemitism”. And the more resentment, the more outrage, the more “antisemitism”, the more Israel and its supporters can present the self-declared Jewish state as a sanctuary from that “antisemitism”.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_63" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="56"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Israel is no longer treated as a state, as a political actor capable of committing crimes and slaughtering children, but as an article of faith. It is transformed into a belief system, one immune to criticism or scrutiny. It transcends politics to become a sacred cause. And any opposition must be damned as wicked, as blasphemy.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_64" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="11"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Which is precisely the state to which western politics has devolved.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_65" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="53"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">This battle against “antisemitism” – or rather, the battle being waged by Israel and its partisans – is to turn the meaning of words, and the values they represent, on their head. It is a fight to crush solidarity with the Palestinian people, and leave them friendless and naked before Israel’s campaign of genocide.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_66" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="39"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">It is a moral duty to defeat these “antisemitism” warriors and assert our shared humanity – and the right of all to live in peace and dignity – before Israel and its apologists pave the way to an even greater slaughter.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_66" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="39"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://www.unz.com/article/how-the-fight-against-antisemitism-became-a-shield-for-israels-genocide/" id="LPlnk525832" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.unz.com/article/how-the-fight-against-antisemitism-became-a-shield-for-israels-genocide/</a><span style="color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span></span></p></div></section></div>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-11028472454499089062024-03-10T10:47:00.000-07:002024-03-10T10:47:21.493-07:00A Total Reevaluation of the 2024 Election, by Andrew Anglin - The Unz Review<p> <a class="page-thumb" href="https://www.unz.com/aanglin/a-total-reevaluation-of-the-2024-election/" style="background-color: white; border: none; display: inline !important; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 600px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 1em 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="attachment-page-thumbsize size-page-thumbsize wp-post-image" height="449" src="https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ap_19084594732078-e247a04b6d0b69df937d868dfcda8af84f29aa5e-s1200-618x462-600x449.jpg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 700px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="600" /></a></p><span id="_top" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><div class="entry" id="contents-holder" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="premium-overlay" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><section class="open" level="1" pos="1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="section-holder" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="container" id="p_1_1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="43"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Due to extreme changes in the global and domestic situations, my views on the upcoming 2024 election have changed drastically in the last several months, so it’s appropriate I give a basic outline of what my positions were and what they are now.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="69"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Infamously, I had said since 2024 that there is zero chance Donald Trump can win the 2024 election. The argument was that it simply does not make sense that the Democrats stole the 2020 election (something which I assert is incontrovertible fact), face zero consequences, and then not continue to steal elections. I also pointed out that the amount of fraud in the 2022 election was probably even worse than two years earlier.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="77"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In order for there to be a fair election, I assert, the US would have to be under some form of martial law. Currently, there is no other mechanism to prevent massive fraud. Without going into too many details about the fraud, which I’ve covered extensively elsewhere, it is a very simple process which simply involves controlling the vote count in a handful of blue cities in otherwise red states (Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia).</span></p><div class="image imagecenter container" id="i_1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px auto; max-width: none; padding: 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px; z-index: 1;"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="image-holder" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/mpe.jpeg" style="border: none; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/mpe-618x309.jpeg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;" /></a></div></span></div><p class="container" id="p_1_4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="142"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The only way to prevent this fraud would be to send in the military to monitor these sites, as well as sites in other potential swing states. Obviously, that is not going to happen. Nothing is going to happen, other than exactly what happened in 2020 and 2022. The plan is to run the election the exact same way. Congress has taken zero action against the mail-in voting and ballot harvesting system. (This is the mechanism through which the election was stolen; it was not rigged machines, which was a red herring pushed by Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, both bad actors who crippled Trump’s ability to create a cohesive response to the fraud in 2020.) Further, Democrats have made it even easier for non-citizens to vote (which is a lesser factor in the fraud than the mail-in ballots, but still a relevant factor).</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="153"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The arguments from people who agree that 2020 was a massive fraud and who also argue Trump can win in 2024 are not coherent. If I were to do my best to steelman their argument: they claim that Biden is so unpopular that the voter fraud will be overwhelmed by so many votes for Trump. If Trump were to get 70% of the votes in these swing states, surely that would be too much for the fraudsters to handle, they argue. However, this goes against what we all witnessed in 2020, which was that they shut down the counting centers and brought in new ballots. The entire media, including Fox News, said this was normal. There were no riots, there were no mobs with torches and pitchforks showing up at the counting centers. Some Trump supporters in their cuck-muzzles showed up to complain, and in Detroit, they literally locked the doors and covered the windows with cardboard.</span></p><div class="image imagecenter container" id="i_2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px auto; max-width: none; padding: 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px; z-index: 1;"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="image-holder" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/michigan.webp" style="border: none; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/michigan-618x464.webp" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;" /></a></div></span></div><p class="container" id="p_1_6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="15"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When people reacted to these shocking images, the shameless lugenpresse then published headlines like <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/05/media/detroit-windows-covered-ballots-vote-center/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/05/media/detroit-windows-covered-ballots-vote-center/index.html">this</a>:</span></p><div class="image imagecenter container" id="i_3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px auto; max-width: none; padding: 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px; z-index: 1;"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="image-holder" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-07-at-8.16.05%E2%80%AFPM.png" style="border: none; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-07-at-8.16.05%E2%80%AFPM-618x312.png" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;" /></a></div></span></div><p class="container" id="p_1_7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="68"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The response from the Trump base was January 6, which was a total setup by the feds to create an atrocity narrative around the election, and an excuse to effectively outlaw any further discussion of the matter. This all worked. Trump agreed to leave the White House, Joe Biden was inaugurated. The January 6 protesters were subjected to Bolshevik type political imprisonment, torture, and show trials. And that was that.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="38"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trump could win 100% of the vote in swing states, and it wouldn’t matter. There is no one to stop the fraud, and there is no one to investigate it. The 2024 election cannot be legitimate. It is impossible.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="53"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, what we must realize is that the only thing that the fraud actually proves is that US elections are not decided by vote count. Although this does prove that Trump cannot win, it does not prove that Trump cannot “win,” i.e., be selected and appointed president through the fraudulent electoral system.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="90"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, and the ensuing Israeli response, there was no reason to believe the people with the power to rig elections would want Trump back in office. Now, there is a big reason to believe that: Trump is a diehard Israel supporter. Although he had said little about the ongoing situation in Gaza (presumably because it is so unpopular, even with Republicans), on Tuesday he <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-breaks-silence-on-israels-military-campaign-in-gaza-finish-the-problem/ar-BB1jo5hj" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-breaks-silence-on-israels-military-campaign-in-gaza-finish-the-problem/ar-BB1jo5hj">told Fox News</a> Israel should “finish the job,” suggesting full support for everything the IDF is doing in Gaza.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; display: flex; font: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 500px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 500px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1765153490135842938" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1765153490135842938&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unz.com%2Faanglin%2Fa-total-reevaluation-of-the-2024-election%2F&sessionId=b7f64902f883329d56c7fba67ab645f8aacb015c&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=500px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1; font: inherit; height: 644px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 500px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p class="container" id="p_1_14" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="47"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the job that needs to be finished, Donald? Killing the rest of the kids in Gaza? Invading southern Lebanon, ostensibly to “create a buffer” against Hezbollah rockets that are hitting northern Israel? Wiping out the Houthis? Invasions of Iraq and Syria? An invasion of Iran?</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_15" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="44"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whatever it is, it’s a big job. And it is certainly not an “America First” job. Virtually no one in America wants a region-wide war in the Middle East, and the people who do want it are too stupid to understand the implications.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_16" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="123"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel has an incredible sway over America’s foreign and domestic policy through all sorts of mechanisms. The biggest mechanism is obviously just money; the Jewish lobby just pays politicians. But we should also consider that the presumed Mossad agent Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual blackmail ring was almost certainly just one of many Israeli intelligence operations designed to control powerful people in the US. There are many reasons to believe that the Israelis and their American supporters would be able to engineer a Trump election victory in 2024 if they believed it benefited them. I think at this point, given the problems that Biden is facing, and this signaling from Trump, it is very easy to assume that the entire Israeli government wants Trump 2024.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_17" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="152"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Donald Trump is not stupid. He understands everything stated above about the nature of the election fraud system. What he is doing is appealing to the Jews to allow him to become president again in exchange for full support of their agenda in the region. What that support would entail is not calculable. The overwhelming majority – probably more than 95% – of white males who would be useful to the US military (young, intelligent, fit, competent, brave) are devoted Trump supporters, and if he called on them to fight a war with Iran, there would be lines out of the military recruitment centers stretching around the block. Trump has a special leadership quality that masculine men are magnetically drawn to, and this gives him the ability to command his young millions to fight a war. This is primal, an atavistic element of male psychology. Very few of these young men will consider the implications.</span></p><div class="image imagecenter container" id="i_4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px auto; max-width: none; padding: 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px; z-index: 1;"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="image-holder" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/C3tk9MZVUAAGfuV.jpeg" style="border: none; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/C3tk9MZVUAAGfuV-e1709869057794-618x755.jpeg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;" /></a></div></span></div><p class="container" id="p_1_18" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="43"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although I try to avoid getting too conspiratorial in my analyses, I certainly would not be surprised if there was a 911 type attack on America, and Iran was blamed for it, providing a casus belli that goes beyond “we have to protect Israel.”</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_19" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="11"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trump Isn’t Actually a Threat to Anything Jews Care About</strong></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_20" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="34"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aside from the Israelis and the hardline Israel supporters, you will probably see a lightening of the rhetoric about Trump from American Jews, if it is fully established that he is the Israeli candidate.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_21" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="64"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The assumption that Trump would never be allowed back into office was based on the amount of vitriol aimed at Trump by the Jewish establishment, white women, immigrants, and various other goons of the American Empire. However, the emotionally unhinged reactions to Trump did not ever line up with reality. Trump did not do any of the things his enemies claimed he would do.</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn’t build a wall or do mass deportations of immigrants.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn’t end the conflict with Russia, and in fact sent weapons to the Ukraine after Obama had refused.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn’t dissolve NATO.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn’t stop the Black Lives Matter riots, he didn’t stop the coronavirus lunacy, he actually supported the mass vaccination campaign.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He did not “drain the swamp,” and in fact appointed only the worst swamp creatures to offices of relevance.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although he didn’t start any new wars, which was maybe impressive, he failed to end any conflict excluding in Syria (where the Russians probably deserve a lot more credit than him), and continued many neocon policies, including escalations against Iran. He also supported the Saudi war against the Houthis.</li><li style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He did more for Israel than he did for America, giving them sovereignty over the Golan Heights, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem (a symbolic gesture saying that there will never be a two-state solution), and organized the Abraham Accords, which denied the existence of Palestine, gave Islamic states ridiculous incentives (bribes, really) to normalize relations with Israel, and were arguably a precursor to the current situation in Palestine.</li></ul><p class="container" id="p_1_22" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="82"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I want to note that I still have fond feelings towards Trump, and believe he wanted to do good things for the country. I don’t think he was “in on it,” I think he was just not capable of really doing anything, and ended up choosing the path of least resistance. I also fully understand why so many people want him back in office. Obviously, regardless of the list of problems above, the country was much better when he was president.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_23" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="74"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The American Jewish hysteria surrounding Trump was not rational. It was purely based on fear of a masculine, white, aggressive leader. It was not based on an objective analysis of what he was capable of doing, or how anything he did would harm the Jews. I am reminded of Jewish “comedian” Sarah Silverman’s bit where she says that her (white, non-Jewish) boyfriend raising an American flag reminded her of Hitler and the Holocaust.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_24" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="13"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2017/12/07/sarah-silverman-felt-very-weird-scared-shaken-seeing" style="border: 0px; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2017/12/07/sarah-silverman-felt-very-weird-scared-shaken-seeing">a 2017 episode</a> of the ironically titled “I Love You, America,” Silverman said:</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); border: 2px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 1em 2em; padding: 0px 1em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="container" id="p_1_25" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="111"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I had a boyfriend many years ago, he was my first boyfriend who had his own house, and one day I went outside to see what he was doing, and he was hoisting an American flag up the flagpole in his front yard. And I instantly felt very weird. It didn’t make sense, but I felt this feeling of like, um, I felt scared – yeah, I felt scared. So I was like, ‘Uh, what are you doing?’ and he said, ‘Raising the flag,’ and I was like, ‘Why?’ and he’s like, ‘Um, because I love America?’ and I was like, ‘Right, right, of course.’ But inside I was shaken.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_26" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="118"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And then I calmly walked to my car and I got inside and I called my sister Susie to tell her what happened. Now, maybe you’re thinking, ‘What do you mean what happened? Nothing happened, your boyfriend put an American flag up at his own house.’ No, you’re totally right, I had no idea why I was freaking out. I just – I had this very visceral reaction and my sister, who knows shit because she’s a rabbi in Israel, explained to me, she was like, ‘Dude, nationalism is innately terrifying for Jews. Think about it: flags, marching, blind allegiance? These things tend to ring a bell for us.’ Right. Of course. Duh. It made sense.</span></p></blockquote><p class="container" id="p_1_27" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="58"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This more or less totally explains the screeching we saw from the Jews about Donald Trump. This inexplicable neurosis would of course be overpowered, in the case of many Jews, by the perceived need to protect Israel. Jews tacitly supporting Donald Trump for the sake of protecting Israel could be compared to a starving man engaging in cannibalism.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_28" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="62"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You could, and probably will, see the media falling back in their attacks on Trump. They will still attack him, but they will tone it down. In particular, they will start admitting he is likely to win, and publishing polls showing that. And then, on election night, they may well behave very differently than they did in 2020, calling states early for Trump.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_29" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="48"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The majority of the remainder of the “resistance” to Trump came from women and millennials (as well as some other emotionally volatile people like Keith Olbermann) related to the idea that Trump reminded them of their hated fathers. These people are irrelevant. They don’t control the media.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_30" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="7"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Potential to Replace Biden Still Exists</strong></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_31" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="73"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was conceivable that Nikki Haley would play some significant role in this election cycle, potentially running as a third party candidate. However, after she dropped out this week, and given the way she dropped out, that no longer seems very likely. There is still a chance Biden could be replaced by the Democrat Party with someone who would be considered viable by enough of the power brokers to be installed in November.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_32" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="37"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biden certainly appears to be completely burned. The way his administration has managed the Ukraine and Israel situations, along with the man’s cartoonish senility, means that reelecting him would create much more instability in the US.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_33" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="48"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In theory, his administration supports Israel just as much as Donald Trump. The problem is, none of his voters do, and they are protesting against him. If Trump was president, he could do what he couldn’t manage to do with BLM, and shut down the Palestine protests.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_34" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="197"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a modern liberal democracy, you don’t need public support for any policy. A democracy government is always just a puppet of private interest groups, and the population has no ability to influence state decisions. The only threat is domestic upheaval, which is generally extremely unlikely in a democracy, given that people will usually simply say “well, I’ll vote for the other guy next time” instead of going into the streets and creating chaos. However, if Biden is reinstalled as president in November, and the wars continue, the economy turns down, and the crime and immigrant situation keeps getting more extreme, you could end up in a situation where no matter how hard the media lies, his real level of support is below 15%. At that point, you are moving into a very precarious situation, where you could start seeing real political violence that threatens the country’s basic stability. There is a switch that can be flipped in the collective psyche of a human population where they, almost simultaneously, become violently enraged, and start acting on that. Right now, Biden’s Israel policy and his immigration invasion both threaten to trigger this collective psychological mechanism.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_35" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="78"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is still a chance that Biden is switched out for some other Democrat candidate, which would most likely be Gavin Newsom (although others have claimed Michelle Obama is the more likely option). If this happens, then there is a possibility or probability that the Democrats will continue in power. However, if this doesn’t happen, I’m going to go on a crypto betting website and put a lot of money on Donald Trump winning the 2024 election.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_36" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="3"><span class="contents" style="background-color: #01ffff; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Personal Note</strong></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_37" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="41"><span class="contents" style="background-color: #01ffff; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I hate saying all of this. As the longtime readership is aware, I endorsed Donald Trump in 2015 immediately after his declaration. No matter what happens, the night of the 2016 election will always be one of the greatest nights of my life.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_38" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="40"><span class="contents" style="background-color: #01ffff; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I understand fully that the idea of Donald Trump becoming the bad guy, of starting a major war and sending our boys to go die for Israel in some massive region-wide Middle East mega-war, is extremely painful to even consider.</span></p><div class="image imagecenter container" id="i_5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px auto; max-width: none; padding: 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px; z-index: 1;"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="image-holder" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/alkdjf.jpg" style="border: none; color: #035da6; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" src="https://dailystormer.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/alkdjf-618x412.jpg" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 620px;" /></a></div></span></div><p class="container" id="p_1_39" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="47"><span class="contents" style="background-color: #01ffff; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But I have to tell the truth, and we all have to live in reality if we want to be real human beings loyal to God, to each other, and to ourselves. Not recognizing what is going on here, or denying it, cannot have any good outcomes.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_40" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="62"><span class="contents" style="background-color: #01ffff; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although I’ve been mentioning that Trump could be the Israel candidate for a while now, it was after his “finish the job” statements on Tuesday, where in so many words he explicitly endorsed the entire Israel war agenda, that it became necessary to give a full outline of what I think is going on, which is what I’ve done here.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_41" style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="97"><span class="contents" style="background-color: #fcff01; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I also have to note that this whole thing is such an unbelievable mess, with so much chaos in the government and seemingly no one really in charge, that it is impossible to make any prediction with any degree of certainty. Predictions about politics are primarily based on game theory, analysis of the motives of rational actors, and from what we’ve seen, no one is really acting rationally (<u>with the exception of Trump, who is acting rationally by appealing directly to Jews and offering unlimited support for their war effort in exchange for an election victory)</u>.</span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_42" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="118"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">No one in the Biden Administration is capable of acting rationally. They continue to back themselves into corners. This Ukraine situation has always been lunacy. Or, at least it was lunacy after the sanctions didn’t collapse the Putin government. The original plan for the war was really about the Russian economy: they believed that they could crush the ruble, which would cause a color revolution ending in Putin being replaced with Alexi Navalny. When that didn’t happen, the only rational move would be to agree to give Putin the Donbass and then claim victory because “Putin was stopped from moving further.” Instead, they’ve continued to do things that make zero sense, from really any angle.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_43" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="85"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red;">Maybe more importantly going forward, the Bibi Netanyahu government, which I’ve asserted would be in charge of a potential Trump administration, is not acting rationally. The assumption that no Arab state is capable of mobilizing against them, along with the assumption that the Sunni-Shia split is something permanent and that some form of alliance between Turkey and Iran is always impossible, are not rational assumptions. These are very dangerous gambles that could, and honestly probably will, result in the destruction of the Zionist entity.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_44" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="100"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">I don’t claim to have insider information, and I am not a wizard, so the only ability I have is to analyze the data we do have, and do my best to make sense of it. The correct analysis, in the end, has to be: anything could happen. Biden could die before the election, Trump could be elected and then die, there is probably some nonzero chance Nikki Haley becomes president somehow, there could be a major terrorist attack or a very serious war could break out before the election and those scenarios could mean who even knows what.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_45" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="18"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Here’s the only thing I know for certain: there’s an ill wind that blows nobody good.</span></span></p><p class="container" id="p_1_45" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font: inherit; margin: 0.7em 0.4em 0.7em 1em; padding: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" wcount="18"><span class="contents" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://www.unz.com/aanglin/a-total-reevaluation-of-the-2024-election/" id="LPlnk688540" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.unz.com/aanglin/a-total-reevaluation-of-the-2024-election/</a></span></p></div></section></div>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-52175274648936859602024-03-10T10:37:00.000-07:002024-03-10T10:37:44.924-07:00DEI vs Semiconductors - Vox Popoli<p><span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">A longtime industry insider makes it clear that the recent Diversity law is not compatible with the expense and failure rate of semiconductor manufacture, <u>which means the USA will be permanently knocked out of the computer technology arms rate, with all the obvious consequences for Clown World’s future industrial and military capabilities.</u></span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is interesting. Don’t know the reality. Certainly DEI is not going to work in an advanced fab. Maybe the bill can be cleaned up. But it might be too late to clean up the bill. Was it all DEI pork or AI silicon? Must be shocking for the Taiwanese to read the bill and wonder if they can make chips with the subsidy and government requirements.</span></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Intel’s Grove got rid of the union in 1979. If union won the fab 3 was closed – period! Intel Fab 3 was the 8080 cpu series start up for the first IBM PC and first memory chips at production scale.</span></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Getting in bed with the government could be worse today. Intel’s CEO better read the fine print. Is it worth the regulations? Every wafer will have a built-in DEI tax and fab operational red tape.</span></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/de11fbb0-a681-4d01-862c-6ffaad432865" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">DISCUSS ON SG</a></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://voxday.net/2024/03/10/dei-vs-semiconductors/" id="LPlnk194704" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://voxday.net/2024/03/10/dei-vs-semiconductors/</a></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-29579881195210558282024-03-10T10:33:00.000-07:002024-03-10T10:33:41.823-07:00University Of Virginia Spends $20 Million On 235 DEI Employees, With Some Making $587,340 Per Year | ZeroHedge<p> <em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">By Adam Andrzejewski of <a href="https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/university-of-virginia-spends-20" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">Open The Books substack</a></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">The University of Virginia (UVA) has <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/3.4_UVA_DEI_and_other_employees.xlsx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">at least 235 employees under its “diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)” banner</a> — including 82 students — whose total cost of employment is estimated at $20 million. That’s $15 million in cash compensation plus an additional 30-percent for the annual cost of their benefits.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/uva%20highest%20paid%20dei.jpg?itok=3Ps_4pGY" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/uva%20highest%20paid%20dei.jpg?itok=3Ps_4pGY" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="inline-images image-style-inline-images" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="d0a59c50-1c05-40ea-8891-e5534337437d" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="386" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/uva%20highest%20paid%20dei.jpg?itok=3Ps_4pGY" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 612.438px; max-width: 100%; width: 793.319px;" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500" /></a></p><div class="AdvertisingSlot_desktop__eL99N AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_inContentParent__PbvHE" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 280px; min-width: 336px;"><aside class="AdvertisingSlot_inContent__nSM6b" id="in-content-video" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 100%; margin: 15px 0px;"></aside></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">In contrast, last Friday, the University of Florida <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/university-of-florida-diversity-equity-inclusion-ben-sasse-03fa2109?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">dismissed its DEI bureaucracy</a>, saving students and taxpayers $5 million per year. The university <a href="https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/03/uf-eliminates-diversity-whats-known-and-what-remains-unclear#:~:text=The%20university%20announced%20it%20has,to%20UF%20Spokesperson%20Cynthia%20Roldan." style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">terminated</a> 13 full-time DEI positions and 15 administrative faculty appointments. Those funds have been re-programmed into a “faculty recruitment fund” to attract better people who actually teach students.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">No such luck for learning at Virginia’s flagship university – founded by Thomas Jefferson no less. UVA has a much deeper DEI infrastructure.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Reform or abolition must await this summer’s anticipated changes in the school’s Board of Visitors. At least until then, the very highly compensated, generally non-teaching, DEI staffers are safely embedded throughout the entire university – while costing students and taxpayers a fortune.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Our team of auditors at OpenTheBooks.com <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/members/employer-detail/?Id=3046&tab=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">reviewed the university payroll file</a> for 2023 to sort out the DEI position head counts, compensation, and then estimated the cost of benefits.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meet The Top Paid DEI Executives</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Martin N. Davidson, senior associate dean of the Darden School of Business & global chief diversity officer, earns the most in a DEI role, at $452,000, or $587,340 including benefits. For comparison, Glenn Youngkin, the governor of Virginia earned $175,000.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">The second most highly compensated DEI executive is Kevin G. McDonald, the vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion and community partnerships, who takes home $401,465, or an estimated $520,000 with benefits.</p><div class="AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 280px; min-width: 336px;"><aside class="AdvertisingSlot_centered__lQ1jM AdvertisingSlot_verticallySpaced__cNuwT" id="in-content-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex: 1 1 100%; justify-content: center; margin: 40px 0px;"></aside></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Those in DEI leadership roles such as vice presidents, associate/assistant deans, directors, assistant directors and managers earned up to $312,000 last year, or $400,000 with benefits.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">When McDonald began in his position in August 2019, he was making $340,000, eligible for a 10-percent bonus every year. His first year, he was given a $25,000 recruitment bonus and up to $30,000 for relocation costs, according to UVA records <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/3.4_UVA_Kevin_McDonald_offer_letter_Redacted.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">provided through the Virginia Freedom of Information Act</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Some of the DEI chiefs have been transparent about their philosophies during their public comments. For example, Rachel Spraker, an <a href="https://dei.virginia.edu/people/rachel-spraker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">assistant vice president for equity & inclusive excellence</a> – where she earned $186,800 last year or $242,840 with benefits – <a href="https://thejeffersoncouncil.com/in-their-own-words-rachel-spraker/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">described the opioid epidemic in Appalachia as an example of “white toxicity</a>.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">DEI staff aren’t the only well-paid employees in controversial roles at UVA.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Lanice Avery, an <a href="https://psychology.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/la4gd#:~:text=Assistant%20Professor%20of%20Women%2C%20Gender%2C%20and%20Sexuality%20and%20Psychology&text=Dr.,%2C%20sexuality%2C%20and%20mainstream%20media." style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">assistant professor of psychology</a> in the departments of Psychology and Women, Gender and Sexuality, makes $102,200 ($132,860 with estimated benefits). She runs the Research on Intersectionality, Sexuality, and Empowerment (RISE) Lab at UVA and <a href="https://thejeffersoncouncil.com/in-their-own-words-lanice-avery/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">writes and speaks</a> about black, female sexuality, and describes herself as a “board-certified sexologist” and speaks online about her orgasms.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/UVA%20letter.jpg?itok=XZqTOvmZ" data-link-option="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/UVA%20letter.jpg?itok=XZqTOvmZ" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="inline-images image-style-inline-images" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="807785d4-3607-423c-9bc8-a06d03b338a8" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="556" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/UVA%20letter.jpg?itok=XZqTOvmZ" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 882.17px; max-width: 100%; width: 793.319px;" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500" /></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">UVA’s DEI Infrastructure</strong></p><div class="AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 280px; min-width: 336px;"><aside class="AdvertisingSlot_centered__lQ1jM AdvertisingSlot_verticallySpaced__cNuwT" id="in-content-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex: 1 1 100%; justify-content: center; margin: 40px 0px;"></aside></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">What does the DEI bureaucracy do?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">There are 187 UVA <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/3.4_UVA_DEI_and_other_employees.xlsx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">employees and students dedicated to</a> “assist and monitor all units of the University in their efforts to recruit and retain faculty, staff, and student from historically underrepresented groups and to provide affirmative and supportive environments for work and life…”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Here are some of the university agencies <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/2.7_University_of_Virginia_Payroll.xlsx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">committed to the DEI mission</a>. If you think you are seeing double in this list, you are right:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Equity Center</strong> (110 employees total: 37 employees +73 students),</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion</strong> (17 employees +1 student),</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Multicultural Student Services</strong> (6 employees +10 students),</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Office of Diversity & Engagement</strong> (3 employees + 4 students)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Center for Diversity</strong> (4 students)</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Included in the DEI employment roster are another 31 people working in DEI roles sprinkled throughout other departments, including the Urology Department, in Occupational Programs, for the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and other areas.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Then, there are another 48 employees and students working in roles related to DEI and advancing equality for women, minorities, etc.</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center</strong> (21 employees, including 4 undergrad students/interns)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights </strong>(16 employees working on Title IX compliance, sexual misconduct investigations and Americans with Disabilities Act compliance, among other things)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Office of African American Affairs </strong>(4 employees)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Center for Global Health Equity </strong>(4 employees and 3 student employees working on providing health services to mostly Third World countries)</li></ul><div class="AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: flex; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; min-height: 280px; min-width: 336px;"><aside class="AdvertisingSlot_centered__lQ1jM AdvertisingSlot_verticallySpaced__cNuwT" id="in-content-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex: 1 1 100%; justify-content: center; margin: 40px 0px;"></aside></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Not included in the DEI numbers for this investigation were the Women, Gender and Sexuality Department with 10 professors making a collective $857,103 last year ($1.1 million with benefits) and the Psychology Department with 87 employees making $8.4 million ($11 million with benefits).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Adding to the confusion, the university has consistently undercounted DEI staffers in presentations to the public. In April 2023, Kevin McDonald <a href="https://outlook.office.com/mail/safelink.html?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/us/uva-diversity-board-bert-ellis.html&corid=dc1994b2-42d5-e8ed-c344-1dd87ffd4c5a" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">told the New York Times</a> that UVA had only 40 DEI employees. In May 2023, <a href="https://thejeffersoncouncil.com/ryan-calls-for-a-kinder-gentler-dei/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">a presentation to the Board of Visitors</a> claimed UVA had only 55 DEI positions.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Even our list of 235 employees is not complete. Here is a great example of an executive with a hidden DEI mission:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Kimberley Barker, Librarian for Digital Life ($80,000, or $104,000 with benefits). Barker isn’t in our database, however, she is the DEI leader for the Health System Library – the “IDEA (Inclusion Diversity Equity Accessibility) lead. Her <a href="https://guides.hsl.virginia.edu/barker" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;">university bio page lists her</a> as the “Librarian for Belonging and Community Engagement.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Summary</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">UVA was founded by Thomas Jefferson, the author of our Declaration of Independence. Jefferson’s work presented the moral case for a common freedom among all men. The university has an historic opportunity to promote the time-tested principles:</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”</p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">But, instead of working towards the ideal of the Shining City on the Hill under Jeffersonian principles, his university embraced the divisive quotas of the neo-Marxist DEI crowd.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Tens of millions of dollars in student tuition and taxpayer monies are flowing into promoting anti-American notions and radical philosophies that judge the color of one’s skin instead of the content – and competence – of their character.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">Students, taxpayers and all who care about learning can look to Florida as the beacon of a new day. Perhaps Virginia, a birthplace of our Constitutional republic, home to birth places of individual rights and freedoms in America, will emulate the model.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/university-virginia-spends-20-million-235-dei-employees-some-making-587340-year" id="LPlnk241560" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/university-virginia-spends-20-million-235-dei-employees-some-making-587340-year</a></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-28394582516114281812024-03-10T10:30:00.000-07:002024-03-10T10:30:05.262-07:00Convergence Kills US Semiconductors - Vox Popoli<p><span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">There’s also an interesting geopolitical strategic assumption buried deep in this article on</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">the chip-making industry’s abandonment of the USA</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">, which is particularly intriguing in light of the audience for The Hill:</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 5px 15px 0px; quotes: "" "";"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Biden administration recently promised it will finally loosen the purse strings on $39 billion of CHIPS Act grants to encourage semiconductor fabrication in the U.S. But less than a week later, Intel announced that it’s putting the brakes on its Columbus factory. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has pushed back production at its second Arizona foundry. The remaining major chipmaker, Samsung, just delayed its first Texas fab.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is not the way companies typically respond to multi-billion-dollar subsidies. So what explains chipmakers’ apparent ingratitude? In large part, frustration with DEI requirements embedded in the CHIPS Act.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Commentators have noted that CHIPS and Science Act money has been sluggish. What they haven’t noticed is that it’s because the CHIPS Act is so loaded with DEI pork that it can’t move.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The law contains 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups, including one creating a Chief Diversity Officer at the National Science Foundation, and several prioritizing scientific cooperation with what it calls “minority-serving institutions.” A section called “Opportunity and Inclusion” instructs the Department of Commerce to work with minority-owned businesses and make sure chipmakers “increase the participation of economically disadvantaged individuals in the semiconductor workforce.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The department interprets that as license to diversify. Its factsheet asserts that diversity is “critical to strengthening the U.S. semiconductor ecosystem,” adding, “Critically, this must include significant investments to create opportunities for Americans from historically underserved communities.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The department does not call speed critical, even though the impetus for the CHIPS Act is that 90 percent of the world’s advanced microchips are made in Taiwan, which China is preparing to annex by 2027, maybe even 2025.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Handouts abound. There’s plenty for the left—requirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as “justice-involved individuals,” more commonly known as ex-cons. There’s plenty for the right—veterans and members of rural communities find their way into the typical DEI definition of minorities. There’s even plenty for the planet: Arizona Democrats just bragged they’ve won $15 million in CHIPS funding for an ASU project fighting climate change.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That project is going better for Arizona than the actual chips part of the CHIPS Act. Because equity is so critical, the makers of humanity’s most complex technology must rely on local labor and apprentices from all those underrepresented groups, as TSMC discovered to its dismay.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tired of delays at its first fab, the company flew in 500 employees from Taiwan. This angered local workers, since the implication was that they weren’t skilled enough. With CHIPS grants at risk, TSMC caved in December, agreeing to rely on those workers and invest more in training them. A month later, it postponed its second Arizona fab.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now TSMC has revealed plans to build a second fab in Japan. Its first, which broke ground in 2021, is about to begin production. TSMC has learned that when the Japanese promise money, they actually give it, and they allow it to use competent workers. TSMC is also sampling Germany’s chip subsidies, as is Intel.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Intel is also building fabs in Poland and Israel, which means it would rather risk Russian aggression and Hamas rockets over dealing with America’s DEI regime. Samsung is pivoting toward making its South Korean homeland the semiconductor superpower after Taiwan falls.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In short, the world’s best chipmakers are tired of being pawns in the CHIPS Act’s political games. They’ve quietly given up on America.</span></p><cite style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DEI killed the CHIPS Act, THE HILL, 7 March 2024</span></cite></blockquote><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Notice that it’s not “if” Taiwan falls but rather “when”, complete with an estimated range of dates from 2025 to 2027. This may also explain Victoria Nuland’s fall from grace at the State Department, as the pivot to China from Russia is clearly underway.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/9dc01bfb-ebb0-40c6-a551-ed6df313ed89" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">DISCUSS ON SG</a></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://voxday.net/2024/03/08/convergence-kills-us-semiconductors/" id="LPlnk603533" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://voxday.net/2024/03/08/convergence-kills-us-semiconductors/</a></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-58720426662508714722024-03-08T13:40:00.000-08:002024-03-08T13:40:51.216-08:00Is This Really News? - Vox Popoli<p><span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-size: medium;"> <em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/RealPatrickWebb/status/1765773810551210276" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">BREAKING:</a> The federal government has been illegally surveilling and building profiles for Americans in secret portal called DSAC for those who oppose firearm restrictions, lockdowns & vaccine mandates, and or support border security and are labeling them as domestic extremists.</em></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">I’ve lost track of the number of government lists I’m on, and that’s just the US government.</span><span style="color: red;"> Look, all of this stuff is completely illegal, unconstitutional, and proves that the whole thing about “the Land of the Free” is total and absolute nonsense. But it’s not as if we didn’t know this already.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The material surveillance state erected by Clown World is wicked, nefarious, anti-American, and wrong. It needs to be exposed and it needs to be eliminated entirely. Even so, don’t forget that all the men and machinery of the surveillance state is but a pale shadow of the spiritual surveillance that is actively seeking to peck away at your soul every single day. So don’t stress yourself worrying about either the material evil or the spiritual evil. They exist. They have always existed. <b>Do what is right, speak the truth, and fear God only.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And remember, it’s pretty clear that they fear us. Perhaps you should give some thought as to why that might be.</span></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://social.infogalactic.com/micropost/500a7f67-1d20-496d-b2d1-a5fbf3c0dfbc" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #334477;">DISCUSS ON SG</a></em></p><p style="background-color: #eeeecc; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" href="https://voxday.net/2024/03/08/is-this-really-news-2/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://voxday.net/2024/03/08/is-this-really-news-2/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-38168998804222447732024-03-08T13:34:00.000-08:002024-03-08T13:34:57.161-08:00Marriage And Family, Not Career, Are The Key To A Fulfilling Life - BY: TIM GOEGLEIN<p> <img alt="family reunion" class="img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" src="https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9597064665_cb9b572245_k-1200x675.jpg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 18px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: middle; width: 532.218px;" /></p><div class="row justify-content-center" style="--bs-gutter-x: 30px; --bs-gutter-y: 0; -webkit-box-pack: center !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 18px; justify-content: center !important; margin-left: calc(-.5 * var(--bs-gutter-x)); margin-right: calc(-.5 * var(--bs-gutter-x)); margin-top: calc(-1 * var(--bs-gutter-y)); outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div class="col-12 col-md-11 col-md-10 mt-30 mt-sm-60" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; outline: none !important; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) * .5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) * .5); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 562.212px;"><figure class="article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 3.75rem !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div class="article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15" style="-webkit-box-align: center !important; -webkit-box-pack: end !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex !important; font-family: attribute-mono, neue-haas-unica, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 0.625rem; justify-content: flex-end !important; letter-spacing: 0.0625rem; line-height: 1em; margin-top: 0.9375rem !important; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-transform: uppercase;"><i aria-hidden="true" class="mdi mdi-camera me-10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; margin-right: 0.625rem !important; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></i><span class="visually-hidden" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px) !important; height: 1px !important; margin: -1px !important; outline: none !important; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-wrap: nowrap !important; width: 1px !important;">IMAGE CREDIT</span><br /></div></figure></div></div><div class="row justify-content-center" style="--bs-gutter-x: 30px; --bs-gutter-y: 0; -webkit-box-pack: center !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 18px; justify-content: center !important; margin-left: calc(-.5 * var(--bs-gutter-x)); margin-right: calc(-.5 * var(--bs-gutter-x)); margin-top: calc(-1 * var(--bs-gutter-y)); outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div class="col-12 col-md-11 col-lg-10 col-xl-8 col-xxl-7" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-top: var(--bs-gutter-y); max-width: 100%; outline: none !important; padding-left: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) * .5); padding-right: calc(var(--bs-gutter-x) * .5); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 562.212px;"><div class="article-excerpt body-lg bdr-btm-black pb-30 pb-md-45 mb-30 mb-sm-45" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 0.0625rem 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: neue-haas-unica, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 1.75rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 2.5rem; margin-bottom: 2.8125rem !important; outline: none !important; padding-bottom: 2.8125rem !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Adults who are married with children report that their lives are more meaningful, compared with childless men and women, who say their lives are sad.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">he late James Q. Wilson, professor of government at Harvard University, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Problem-Culture-Weakened-Families/dp/006093526X" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank">wrote</a> in his book, <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The Marriage Problem,</em> back in 2002, “It is not money, but the family that is the foundation of public life. As it has become weaker, every structure built upon that foundation has become weaker.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Over the past 50-plus years, we have heard a constant stream of rhetoric from secular elites that “you can have it all” — career, money, marriage, and family. The result has been sadly the opposite. You cannot “have it all,” and two of these eventually trump the other two in taking up our time and energy. Increasingly, for many Americans, it has been money and career, and our society, and we as individuals, are suffering the consequences.</p><div class="fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center" id="fdrlst__b89e9-1753361456" style="-webkit-box-pack: center !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex !important; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; justify-content: center !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none !important; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></div><div class="fdrlst__b89e9-86cfdde63d3604811eda4beb048fea10 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2" id="fdrlst__b89e9-86cfdde63d3604811eda4beb048fea10" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">While lower-income Americans have experienced the greatest breakdown in marriage, even those who are well-off and college-educated are getting married at later ages. The average <a href="https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/time-series/demo/families-and-households/ms-2.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank">age</a> of those entering marriage now is 30 for men and 28 for women. And those who marry are having fewer children or no children because of career considerations that push back the age of childbearing.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The bottom line is that even if people are getting married, they are not having children or as many children. Meanwhile, the number of never-marrieds continues to rise.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The growing trend of people never getting married is resulting in greater societal isolation and unhappiness. Twelve years ago, the Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2014/09/24/record-share-of-americans-have-never-married/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank">reported</a> that one in five adults 25 and older had never been married. In comparison, back in 1960, that figure was only one in nine adults over the age of 25. The same report found that 50 percent of American society felt it was fine for people not to prioritize getting married and having children.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">In fact, the overall marriage rate <a href="https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sciences/NCFMR/documents/FP/FP-13-13.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank">dropped</a> by 60 percent during that period. Over the past 20-plus years, the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/marriage-divorce/national-marriage-divorce-rates-00-21.pdf" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank">number</a> of marriages has decreased from 2,315,000 in 2000 to 1,985,072 in 2021, even though the total U.S. population has increased by 50 million in the same time.</p><div class="fdrlst__b89e9-5e23415785aa52e026c308152e8aeebb fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6" id="fdrlst__b89e9-5e23415785aa52e026c308152e8aeebb" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div class="fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6 d-flex justify-content-center" id="fdrlst__b89e9-2024893547" style="-webkit-box-pack: center !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex !important; justify-content: center !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none !important; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></div></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The decreasing marriage rate has led to a spike in the percentage of people living alone. The U.S. Census Bureau <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/06/more-than-a-quarter-all-households-have-one-person.html#:~:text=Over%20a%20quarter%20(27.6%25),to%202020%20(Figure%201)." rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank">reported</a> in 2020 that 27.6 percent of all U.S. occupied households consisted of only one person. In 1950, that percentage was just 9.3 percent. Nearly 46.4 percent of all adults are now<a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/unmarried-single-americans-week.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank"> reported</a> to be single.</p><h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 2.125rem; line-height: 1em; margin: 3.75rem 0px 1.875rem; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Marriage Correlates with Happiness</h2><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">In his new <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/get-married-brad-wilcox?variant=41546330636322" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank">book</a>, <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Get Married,</em> Brad Wilcox, senior fellow at the Institute of Family Studies, writes about how this decrease in marriage is taking a toll on American’s mental well-being.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">He comments, “Marital quality is, far and away, the top predictor I have run across of life satisfaction in America. Specifically, the odds that men and women say they are ‘very happy’ with their lives are a staggering 545 percent higher for those who are very happily married, compared with peers who are not married or who are less than very happy in their marriages.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Wilcox says childless Americans are more likely to report they live lonely lives, and their lives are less likely to be meaningful and happy. In addition, 60 percent of men and women who do not have children say they are lonely, some or most of the time, compared with 45 percent of married parents with children.</p><div class="fdrlst__b89e9-7adb13ed7c5cf2e1ca1009b4902594af fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10" id="fdrlst__b89e9-7adb13ed7c5cf2e1ca1009b4902594af" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div class="fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10 d-flex justify-content-center" id="fdrlst__b89e9-146549246" style="-webkit-box-pack: center !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex !important; justify-content: center !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none !important; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></div></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Finally, those adults who are married with children report that their lives are more meaningful, compared with childless men and women who say their lives are sad.</p><h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 2.125rem; line-height: 1em; margin: 3.75rem 0px 1.875rem; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Seeking Fulfillment in Career</h2><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Despite these startling statistics, as noted earlier, more than half of Americans and particularly young Americans have bought into the lie that having a career is more fulfilling than getting married and having children. This has resulted in much of our national discontent.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Young Americans have been told they should focus on their career, accumulate wealth, and have as many “experiences” as possible, such as travel, before they even think of marriage and having children. Instead of asking if they can be good husbands and wives, and good parents, these young adults ask themselves, “How much money will I make?,” “How fast can I climb the corporate ladder?,” and “How can I find self-fulfillment?”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Now particularly women spend the bulk of their childbearing years focusing on temporal things that do not bring long-term fulfillment. Men often stay in a state of arrested adolescence, with more money to buy new toys for themselves, but with nothing else in their lives that allows them to settle down and invest in something more than themselves.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">In many cases, as they enter their 40s, they increasingly learn the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%201&version=NIV" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank">words</a> of Solomon from Ecclesiastes 1:2 are sadly true: “Everything is meaningless.” Or, as former President Ronald Reagan <a href="https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/radio-address-nation-family-values" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;" target="_blank">reminded</a> us in 1986, “Some have suggested that in today’s world, the family has somehow become less important. Well, I can’t help thinking just the opposite: that when so much around is whispering the little lie that we should live only for the moment and for ourselves, it’s more important than ever to affirm an older and more lasting set of values … the family remains the fundamental unit of American life.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1.875rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">If our nation is to return putting selflessness over selfishness and long-term happiness over short-term “experiences,” it would be prudent to remind ourselves of the words from these two wise men and realize that marriage and family — and not money and career — are true keys to a fulfilling life.</p><div class="fdrlst__b89e9-5688dd9934ed49bd3acdaffe032e35df fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content" id="fdrlst__b89e9-5688dd9934ed49bd3acdaffe032e35df" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div class="fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content d-flex justify-content-center" id="fdrlst__b89e9-119303282" style="-webkit-box-pack: center !important; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex !important; justify-content: center !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none !important; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></div></div><hr class="wp-block-separator" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(11, 188, 244); border-width: 0.25rem 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin: 3.75rem auto; opacity: 1; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 100px;" /><div class="article-author-description fst-italic" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 400; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Tim Goeglein is the vice president of government and external relations at Focus on the Family in Washington, D.C.</div><div class="article-author-description fst-italic" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: latienne-pro, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 400; outline: none !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/08/marriage-and-family-not-money-and-career-are-the-key-to-a-fulfilling-life/" id="LPlnk768521" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/08/marriage-and-family-not-money-and-career-are-the-key-to-a-fulfilling-life/</a></div></div></div></div>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5591884406304543264.post-38273069596921539592024-03-08T13:29:00.000-08:002024-03-08T13:29:49.957-08:00E.V.irtue Signaling - by GOOD CITIZEN<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, var(--font-family-title)));"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">The electric vehicle will soon be like the medical face mask—another public display of low IQ.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, var(--font-family-title)));"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Read full text: </span></span><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" href="https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/evirtue-signaling" id="LPlnk451856" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/evirtue-signaling</span></a></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, var(--font-family-title))); font-size: var(--font-size-18);"><span style="color: red;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: red;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>Crush Limbrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11511707894293049606noreply@blogger.com