The Best Blood, the Worst Wars
Posted By: Judy W., 11/11/2024 8:06:53 AM
Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veterans Day comes news of the death of John Nott, British Defence Secretary during the Falklands War. This was his finest moment, as Mrs Thatcher's very straight man for the announcement of the first victory of that conflict (Snip)Likewise the blood spilled in the endless unwon wars of the twenty-first century was "the best blood". But there was no "negotiation", just wholesale surrender and abandonment that left the Taliban with more territory than they controlled on September 11th 2001 and bequeathed them one of the most advanced and sophisticated armouries on the planet. It would be difficult to conceive a more humiliating and dishonourable end to a war.
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The Best Blood, the Worst Wars
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Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veterans Day comes news of the death of John Nott, British Defence Secretary during the Falklands War. This was his finest moment, as Mrs Thatcher's very straight man for the announcement of the first victory of that conflict (Snip)Likewise the blood spilled in the endless unwon wars of the twenty-first century was "the best blood". But there was no "negotiation", just wholesale surrender and abandonment that left the Taliban with more territory than they controlled on September 11th 2001 and bequeathed them one of the most advanced and sophisticated armouries on the planet. It would be difficult to conceive a more humiliating and dishonourable end to a war.
Republicans learned to ballot harvest
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After the steal, I said learn to ballot harvest.
Republicans did.
They did their ballot harvesting legally and in front of the entire world. There were no midnight dumps of ballots from California into unattended ballot boxes. Vote tabulations did not suddenly change in the wee hours of the morning. Republicans read the rules, learned the rules and applied the rules in new ways.
Trump urged voters to vote early — to bank their votes as they say. Republican voters did. According to the New York Times, in 9 states more than half the ballots cast were cast before Election Day either by mail or in-person.
In a stunning video brought to public attention by National Review, Brian Lozenski, a leading authority on critical race theory who is Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s most important education adviser, calls explicitly for the “overthrow” of America.
(Snip)
Critical race theory, the ideology injected by the woke Left into schools across the country, holds that America is “systemically racist,” that racism is in our DNA. The implications of this belief are clear enough to anyone interested in reasoning them out.
Lozenski isn’t a marginal figure; he is a nationally known activist and academic and the foremost authority on “ethnic studies” in Minnesota.
Is the Age of the Big Lie Over?
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"They forced us to lie about everything,” said Tucker Carlson in his speech at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. The primary reason he supports Donald Trump, Carlson continued, is because Trump “liberated” the American people, liberated us “from the obligation to tell lies.”
I can relate to that. I owe my career as an author -- 15 nonfiction books and several documentaries -- to the legacy media’s unwillingness to tell the truth. (Snip) Citizen journalists take up the slack -- in my case, TWA Flight 800, the death of Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, the authorship of Dreams from My Father, and the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt among
‘Word salad’ versus ‘the Weave’
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One of my main takeaways from the Joe Rogan interview was a greater appreciation for Donald Trump’s unique rhetorical style, which he has recently referred to as “the weave.” It is diametrically opposed to Kamala Harris’s style, which some have described as “word salad” but I prefer to call “vapid filibustering”—vapid because it’s meaningless and filibustering because it’s both incessant and designed to forestall further discussion.
With the obviously senile Joe Biden out of the race, the legacy media has taken to implying that Trump’s “meandering” or “rambling” way of speaking somehow shows that he, too, is “losing it.” But (Snip) that is far from the truth.
Everyone is Hitler, apart from the people
who enthusiastically support death squads
killing Jews 3 replies
who enthusiastically support death squads
killing Jews 3 replies
In a rational world, we would all condemn and despise Nazism.
In the same rational world, we would all condemn and despise Communism.
You know what would also be despised? Falsely comparing people to Hitler (Snip)
We live in one where a third disastrous totalitarian ideology which has killed more people than Nazism and Communism combined and which has been killing people since the 7th century AD is protected and respected.
At least 250 million people (some estimates are much higher) have been killed through history as a direct consequence, at the command of, Islam. But that one we are told to respect as a great world religion.
They Want You Dead
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~Back in the summer, in the immediate aftermath of the slaughter of three little girls in the English town of Southport, I wrote:
Starmer is not, as has been suggested, simply 'tone-deaf'. He is seizing his opportunity, as Washington did on J6 and Justin did with the Canadian truckers. You know how that worked out for law-abiding grannies on their first trip to America's capital, or for prairie donors who'd dropped fifty bucks via credit card on the Ottawa convoy. And you know how muted public protest about anything has been in either country since.
Yeah. Frozen bank accounts and solitary confinement will do that to you.
Since the Democrats have not disbanded the criminal wing of their party, we have to assume they are going to try the same tricks they used to ‘fortify’ the 2020/2 elections and then some.
Election theft is an anti-story, which is to say, if you are employed by Baghdad Bob, (Sundance’s name for the corporate media), if you mention suspicions, you are not only fired, you are blacklisted for all time. Driven out of the cult, and mocked.
If you type the word: D*m*nion, a bot picks you up and down-ranks your post or story.
The absence of the legacy media means that citizens have stepped up.
The killing of Yahya Sinwar
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Some people here in Israel are reportedly crying tears of joy over the killing by the Israel Defence Forces of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Rafah area of Gaza yesterday. Others are jubilant.
I am not.
Yes, there’s enormous relief. There’s huge satisfaction that at last Sinwar has met his long over-due fate.The world is a better place this morning without him.
(Snip)Sinwar didn’t create this evil. He was the product of it, and was one of its many diabolical avatars. What created him was fanatical, genocidal Jew-hatred, the desire to remove Israel and the Jewish people from the face of the earth as an Islamic religious duty
Islam, Migration, & Anti-Semitism
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Hello once again from Berlin, where I’ll be speaking today on a panel about migration and anti-Semitism.
Over 2000 radical Islamists gathered in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday to call for a caliphate and the implementation of Sharia law.
In the footage from the gathering, crowds could be heard chanting Allahu Akhbar.
Germany is a country in which one of the most popular political parties in the country, the right-wing AfD, is under constant surveillance by state security for supposedly being an extremist threat to German democracy. And yet, in Hamburg, 2,000 Islamists rally calling for the overthrow of the state and its replacement with an Islamic religious government.
The disaster in North Carolina continues to instruct, the primary take-away being that the government is malignant beyond our imagination and people are going to have to save themselves. The Appalachias are filled with the most degraded and outcast of human ethnic groups - one of them being my aboriginal tribe, the desperate clans of the Scottish/English border - and all of them vote, over and over again, for not-socialist-oppression because the State sends its stupidest most heartless crusader lefties to “help” Appalachia, and then allows vulture-corporations to ride roughshod. Appalachia is rich, in not just coal, but the power for a new century, with lithium and quartz crystal.
The Jewish moment
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Earlier this week, there was a sound that has become all too rare. It was a western political leader expressing unequivocal moral clarity.
Asked about US President Joe Biden’s opposition to Israel striking Iran’s nuclear facilities in defence against the Islamic regime’s attacks, Canada’s Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said:
I think the idea of allowing a genocidal, theocratic, unstable dictatorship that is desperate to avoid being overthrown by its own people to develop nuclear weapons is about the most dangerous and irresponsible thing that the world could ever allow. If Israel were to stop that genocidal, theocratic, unstable government from acquiring nuclear weapons, it would be a gift by
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Although still four years away, anger and soul-searching has taken hold of the Democratic Party after Kamala Harris' election loss that left some party officials blindsided.
Some party members believe plans should already start to be made as to how the Democrats will come back from such a devastating defeat and who might be the leader to take them there, given many now-familiar names may be leaving the political stage.
Top Story at the Washington Post Today
Advises Liberals on How to Move to Another Country 27 replies
Advises Liberals on How to Move to Another Country 27 replies
The liberal Washington Post is out with a story today about how to leave the USA and live in another country. It’s one of their top stories for today. As the GP recently pointed out, we have been down this road before, but the people who claim they want to leave rarely follow through and actually do it in the end.
Threatening to leave the country because Trump won the presidency seems to be some sort of rite of passage on the left.
here are lots of people on the left who don’t appreciate how good they have it by living in the United States of America. Maybe living abroad would help.
CBS’s Stephen Colbert revealed on Monday’s show that he has been stress eating in the days since President-elect Donald Trump won the election.
Stephen Colbert said his plan to cope with Trump’ victory is to lift weights and get “super jacked,” or, “I’m just going to get super fat. One of those two and I’ve got a pretty good clue of where it’s going to be. Because over the weekend, what I like to do when I’m feeling stressed out, I cook.” Colbert then listed the meals he prepared, including Tuscan white bean soup, roasted cauliflower in coconut milk, and an almond bread pudding.
Air pollution breathed in by women during pregnancy may be linked to a greater risk of developing autism, according to new research.
A review of the latest literature found babies with a genetic predisposition to autism exposed to four common air pollutants were more likely to develop the condition.
It's thought that when breathed in during early childhood or in the womb these pollutants can get into the bloodstream. There, they can bypass the protective layers of the brain, causing inflammation, changing the way nerves function and develop.
Donald Trump warned not to pull out of
Paris climate agreement—by the CEO of
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Donald Trump’s thumping re-election threatens to upend the business of an industry he’s sworn to protect: Big Oil.
Should his incoming administration follow through on plans to once again pull the United States out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement—as a way to loosen regulations on fossil fuel companies—it could actually end up hurting companies like Exxon Mobil, according to the oil giant’s CEO. (snip) The Exxon Mobil boss was in Azerbaijan to attend COP29 in Baku, the second straight time that a city rich from exploiting its fossil fuel deposits played host to the United Nations climate conference after Abu Dhabi last year.
President-elect Donald Trump's promise to unleash a big oil boom in the US and lower gas prices is running up against a market reality: The world is already awash in fossil fuels. ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods told Semafor on November 12 that while he wants to maintain US oil production at its current highs, the market is already well supplied. "I don't think today that production in the US is constrained," he said. "I don't know that there's an opportunity to unleash a lot of production in the near term."
Oprah Winfrey denies report that Harris
campaign paid her $1 million: ‘I was
paid nothing — ever’ 25 replies
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paid nothing — ever’ 25 replies
Oprah Winfrey on Monday shut down a report that Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign paid her $1 million to stump for the Democrat.
“I was paid nothing — ever,” Winfrey told a TMZ reporter who approached her as she walked to her car.
The reporter asked about the claims that the Harris team paid her the massive figure for the star-studded, virtual town hall called “Unite for America” that the talk show star hosted on behalf of the Democratic nominee in September. (Photo) “Not true,” Winfrey, who endorsed Harris, said.
Chris Wallace to Leave CNN
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CNN anchor Chris Wallace announced on Monday that he would leave the network at the end of his contract, citing the growing influence of podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God.
Wallace – who joined CNN in January 2022 after nearly 20 years at Fox News – told the Daily Beast he would leave the network at the end of his three-year contract in favor of independent broadcasting.
Describing podcasts and streaming platforms as “where the action seems to be,” Wallace pointed to Rogan and Charlamagne’s influence during the 2024 election, before adding, “I don’t flatter myself to think I will have that sort of reach.”
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is his choice to be the next U.S. ambassador amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
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'I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected former Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has been nominated to be The United States Ambassador to Israel,' Trump wrote, although he does not yet have the formal power to make nominations until he takes the oath of office.
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Still, there’s an angry, petty and vocal faction on the left that has no interest in unity because
Top Stars at CNN on Chopping Block as
Network May Fire Hundreds After Trump
Landslide Victory 17 replies
Network May Fire Hundreds After Trump
Landslide Victory 17 replies
The legacy media is dead.
Top stars at fake news CNN are on the chop as the network mulls firing hundreds after Trump won the 2024 presidential election.
According to Nielsen ratings obtained by Mediaite, both MSNBC and CNN have seen their ratings tank after last week’s Trump landslide election.
“Insiders told Puck the new round of firings will likely see on-air talent like them affected, as the network’s new CEO looks to free up finances amid waning ratings.” Puck News reported.
FEMA worker Marni Washington breaks silence
on not helping Trump-voting hurricane victims 17 replies
on not helping Trump-voting hurricane victims 17 replies
The FEMA boss who was fired after ordering volunteers not to approach homes displaying Trump signs in Florida after Hurricane Milton has insisted her edict 'was not isolated' and also happened in North Carolina.
Speaking out for the first time since she was fired, Marn'i Washington accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency of 'lying' about the scandal, and making her the scapegoat of a wider practice.
Washington was blasted publicly and lost her job after a text chain was leaked that showed her instructing colleagues to 'avoid' houses that had Trump signs in their yards.
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Terriific. Mark begins with Britain's victory in the Falklands war and ends with crushing commentary on our present gormless and corrupt war-mongers.