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Nov 7, 2023 13:28:45   #
https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-york-california-approving-over-60-of-migrant-asylum-cases-three-times-more-than-texas-florida

New York, California approving over 60% of migrant asylum cases — three times more than Texas, Florida
CANDACE HATHAWAY
NOVEMBER 02, 2023
From January to August, New York and California immigration courts approved over 60% of migrant asylum cases, according to data obtained by Syracuse University’s T***sactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

Migrants who filed asylum cases in Republican-led Texas and Florida were three times less likely to have their cases approved. TRAC data found that Texas immigration courts approved 19% of cases, Florida 23%, New York 61%, and California 66%.

Texas denied 5,604 asylum case adjudications and approved 1,309 from January to August. During that same period, California denied 4,353 and approved 8,664.

New York and California remain the top two destinations for the millions of migrants flooding the southern border and entering the country. The two blue states oversee the majority of asylum cases in the nation.

Previous TRAC data revealed that the approval rate for asylum cases averaged 49% under the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017. That rate dropped to 32% under former President Donald Trump and rose to an average of 40% during the first few months of Joe Biden’s presidency.

Asylum cases rejected by one court are eligible for appeal and may be t***sferred to a different court.

Michael Wildes, with the law firm Wildes & Weinberg P.C., told the New York Post that immigration courts are understaffed.

“It’s the Wild West,” Wildes said. “They keep putting people into Manhattan hotels and similar facilities around the nation. It’s compounding and turning into one of the biggest traffic jams I’ve ever seen.”

Approximately 160,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since spring 2022, the Post reported.

New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly stated that the city’s shelter system is at capacity and that the immigration crisis is unsustainable.

Last month, Adams reported that there are roughly 64,000 migrants currently using the city’s services. City officials stated that only 2,100 migrants have applied for work authorizations.

New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul believes the migrant crisis will cost the state $2 billion.

City officials in San Diego, California, have also reported that their shelter systems are at capacity. Just last month, the city released 13,000 asylum-seeking migrants onto the streets after running out of shelter space.

Customs and Border Protection reported that in fiscal year 2023, which ended in September, more than 900,000 migrants were allowed into the country and eligible to apply for asylum.

Migrants entering the country are supposed to be provided with a notice to appear in court. Immigration courts are currently so overwhelmed that many migrants are receiving court dates five years out, the Post reported.
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Nov 6, 2023 22:45:16   #
AuntiE wrote:
New t***slation for the acronym FBI.


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Nov 6, 2023 20:52:02   #
https://thepostmillennial.com/fbi-recruits-for-new-hires-at-charlotte-p***e-event

FBI recruits for new hires at Charlotte P***e event
"FBI Charlotte participated in a P***e event where the FBI spoke to attendees about career opportunities."


Katie Daviscourt
Seattle WA
Nov 5, 2023
3 Minute Read

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) set up a recruitment table at an L***Q P***e event in South Carolina, prompting backlash across social media with people accusing the federal law enforcement agency of political bias.

The FBI announced on X that its Charlotte branch attended a recent P***e event in an effort to recruit attendees to the Bureau and to discuss the agency's commitment to protecting civil rights.

"Recently, @FBICharlotte participated in a P***e event where the FBI spoke to attendees about career opportunities and the work the Bureau does to protect civil rights," the Bureau said on X.



At a time when the Biden administration has weaponized the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies to target political opponents and conservatives across the country, which includes parents protesting school board meetings, the FBI's announcement failed to sit well with individuals across social media. Mostly because P***e events have been the scene of public nudity, indecent exposure, and sexually explicit behavior towards minors over the past few years, with those that lean politically to the right referring to them as "g***ming events."

Individuals questioned the FBI's priorities and called out the Bureau for recruiting said "g***mers." Some of the comments include:

"Y’all already had a g***ming problem before this so I’m not surprised this is the route you’re going."



"I'm going to reference this post whenever someone tries to tell me the FBI is a politically unbiased institution and it would never operate in a way which benefits one political party over another."



"The only reason the FBI should be at a P***e event is in an undercover capacity given the rise is t***s motivated attacks and widespread child g***ming."



"Does the FBI set up booths at MAGA events? I'd guess that conservatives are severely underrepresented in FBI ranks, especially the leadership levels. Is there any outreach to encourage them applying?"



"How many p*******es did the FBI arrest when y’all were there?"



"The FBI is hiring g***mers now."



"Taking time off from investigating normal parents?"



The FBI included a link to its website regarding the agency's outreach programs and encouraged people to "learn about opportunities to participate in #FBI community programs near you."

The federal law enforcement agency has been under mass scrutiny over the past few years. A report released by the House Judiciary Committee in 2022 detailed allegations of misconduct and political bias within the FBI under the Biden administration. The report detailed how the agency alters and manipulates data to better fit a predetermined narrative from the Biden administration about domestic extremism and purges employees with conservative views and those who dissent from diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

P**********l GOP candidates such as former President Donald Trump, who is the current Republican frontrunner, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy have vowed to terminate, defund, and t***sform the FBI in order to rid the agency of targeted weaponization toward Americans.
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Nov 6, 2023 20:35:13   #
F.D.R. wrote:
Time have sure changed, not a Pollock in the bunch.


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Nov 6, 2023 20:29:22   #
The War on Hamas Spells Trouble for the War on Inflation
The clash in Israel and Gaza should bring a reminder from the 1970s: Central bankers and investors must beware of false dawns.

November 5, 2023 at 9:00 PM PST

By Niall Ferguson

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-06/israel-hamas-latest-middle-east-wars-spur-us-inflation-and-recession








I am not sure Oct. 12, 2023, was the day I’d have chosen to declare victory. Just five days after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched their barbaric rampage from Gaza, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman tweeted, “The war on inflation is over. We won, at very little cost.”

I leave aside that the measure he selected to prove his point — consumer price inflation excluding food, energy, shelter and used cars — was not one in common use, for the obvious reason that a measure of inflation that omits the cost of eating, heating, housing and driving would strike most people as utterly useless. My interest is that he picked that moment — just after the outbreak of the second war in as many years — to celebrate inflation’s defeat.

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The economic consequences of wars are a topic I’ve dev**ed a significant part of my career to thinking about. There aren’t many papers about how to invest in the event of a world war. Mine is one of the few. Takeaway No. 1 is that big wars are inflationary. You don’t want to own bonds, especially not those issued by the losing side.

Of course, it is possible that the new war in the Middle East will not be big. Initial market reactions suggested that some investors feared it might be. Oil jumped 7.2% in the two weeks after Oct. 7, in anticipation of potential supply disruptions. Gold was up 8.1%. On Oct. 19, the 10-year Treasury (briefly) yielded more than 5% for the first time since 2007. US stocks were down 2%. Gold’s gain despite the rise in yields — which would normally depress gold prices — was noteworthy.

Will This War Be Different?
Economic impact of the war in Israel and Gaza (outbreak=100)


Source: Bloomberg

These were market moves a good deal larger than those triggered by most recent crises in which Israel has been involved: the 1982 Lebanon war, the 2006 Lebanon war, the previous Gaza conflicts of 2008-09 and 2014. This was closer to the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1990. Two weeks after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, gold was up 5.8% and oil 15.6%.

Markets and War in the Middle East
Price moves since the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel


Source: Dow Jones; Coinbase; FRED

Yet with the passage of a further two weeks, most of these initial moves have faded. Oil at the close on Friday was down 2% compared with Oct. 6. The 10-year yield is down nearly 30 basis points. Gold is still up 8% but you’d have been better off buying Bitcoin on Oct. 6. (For reasons that have nothing to do with Gaza, it’s up 26%.) On a one-month time horizon, markets seem to think this is just another Gaza episode. Can we please go back to parsing Fed Chairman Jay Powell’s latest presser?

This complacency is surely delusional. For reasons I have discussed elsewhere with my colleague Jay Mens, the base case must be that this war escalates. The Hamas-Palestinian Islamic Jihad atrocities were primarily intended as a provocation intended to suck the Israel Defense Forces into Gaza’s godforsaken streets and tunnels, increasing Israel’s vulnerability to attacks on other fronts.

Those attacks are already underway. There are missiles being fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon. There are m*****as gathering in Syria with their eyes on the Golan Heights. The Houthis of Yemen are attacking Israel, too. Meanwhile two US aircraft carrier strike groups have converged on the Eastern Mediterranean. And US military bases in the region are under regular attack, with dozens of American soldiers suffering serious injuries. I struggle to see why Israel’s enemies would suddenly call the whole thing off. It is going much too well — especially the global propaganda campaign to represent the Palestinians as the innocent victims of “settler colonialism.”

Moreover, as Martin Wolf reminded us last week, the Middle East remains “far and away the world’s most important energy producer,” with 48% of global proved reserves and 33% of production last year. Oil still accounts for more than 30% of global primary energy consumption and a fifth of the world’s supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz. True, the world is less reliant on oil shipped from the Persian Gulf than it was in the 1970s, because total global output is less oil-intensive, and US domestic production has recovered. But military escalation that (for example) leads the US to carry out retaliatory strikes against Iran — or merely to toughen up its sanctions regime — would be bound to disrupt at least some of the 1.5 million barrels of oil that Iran now exports every day.

The World Bank estimates that any conflict that reduces Gulf exports by 2 million barrels a day (which is 2% of global supply) would raise oil prices to between $93 and $102 a barrel. A major war that reduced exports by 6 to 8 million barrels a day would drive oil up to somewhere between $141 and $157. Natural gas prices are already up by more than a third since the war began.

The initial market response to the last comparably serious Middle Eastern war was also muted — to begin with. In the first two weeks after Egypt and Syria launched their surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 6, 1973, there was slight weakening of the US stock market (down nearly 1%). But that was nothing. On Oct. 16, the Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, announced a 70% increase in the price of oil, and on Oct. 17, an embargo on exports to countries that supported Israel. The price of oil rose from $2.90 to $11.65 a barrel from October 1973 to January 1974 — a fourfold increase.

The Oil Shock of 1973
Economic impact of the Yom Kippur War (outbreak=100)


Source: Bloomberg

The economic consequences were disastrous. Headline consumer price inflation had fallen below 3% in the summer of 1972, but was already back up to 7.4% on the eve of the war. By October 1974, it was at 11.8%. A recession lasted from November 1973 to March 1975. The unemployment rate jumped from 4.6% in October 1973 to 9% by May 1975. Stagflation had arrived.

The energy crisis also kicked off one of the worst stock market crashes in modern history.

From the end of October 1973 to the beginning of October 1974, the S&P 500 fell by more than 44%.

The dollar also slumped — though, like inflation, this predated the Middle East crisis. On Aug. 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon had severed the last official link between the dollar and gold. The dollar’s real effective exchange rate fell from 144.25 in July 1971 to 110.86 in May 1975, a decline of 23%.

Now, before you place an order for a Tesla and solar panels for your roof, let me reassure you: 2023 is not 1973. One obvious difference is that the context today is dollar strength, not weakness as in 1973. A second crucial difference is the likely scale of any oil embargo. According to media reports soon after the Gaza attacks, Iran (3% of global supply) proposed imposing an embargo on Israel (0.2% of global demand.) In 1973, by contrast, the Arab world accounted for 30% of global supply and the US and the future European Union countries 55% of global demand. In 1973, there was not the slightest prospect of normalization between Israel and the Arab states. Today, it is almost inconceivable that Saudi Arabia would contemplate an all-out oil embargo against the US.

No, 2023 is not 1973. Oil prices are not going to quadruple. On the other hand, as Henry Kissinger said in a seminar I attended two weeks ago, in some ways the present strategic situation is worse, in that the positions of both Israel and the US are militarily and politically weaker today than then.

In 1973, the Egyptians had a limited territorial goal, namely recovery of the Sinai. Their leader, Anwar Sadat, saw the war as a way to break the diplomatic deadlock and convince the Israelis (and the Americans) that peace negotiations with him were worth pursuing. The situation today is in some ways more like that of the conflict over Israel’s founding in 1948. Israel’s enemies are aiming at its delegitimization and ultimately its destruction.

In 1973, Israel had to contend with conventional Arab armies with Soviet tactics and arms. Today, the enemies are terrorists, m*****as and popular movements that use the entire spectrum of warfare, though they too have the backing of at least one state, Iran, and perhaps less visible support from Russia. In 1973, the surrounding countries were relatively stable. Today, there are four failed or failing states in the vicinity: Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

In 1973, the principal rival of the US, the Soviet Union, was closely linked to the Arab states and was clearly complicit in their attack on Israel. Today, the principal rival of the US is China. It is only indirectly supportive of the Palestinian cause, a) in the public statements of its foreign minister, Wang Yi, b) as a major buyer of Iranian oil and c) as a close confederate of Russia.

In 1973, the crisis in the Middle East came after major US diplomatic breakthroughs the year before (the opening to China, the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, and “peace is at hand” in Vietnam). But détente went south after 1973 as South Vietnam (and Cambodia) succumbed and the Soviet Union and Cuba began to exploit opportunities for mischief in southern Africa. Much therefore depends on whether China decides to seize the opportunity presented by the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel to make its move against Taiwan.

A trip to Singapore last week gave me a chance to sound out some well-informed Chinese scholars and investors on this question. The consensus was that an imminent showdown over Taiwan is not likely. As one eminent Chinese economist told me, “Xi Jinping is not at all like Putin. He is very cautious, very risk-averse.” (My thought was that if the two men really are so very different, they spend a surprising amount of time together. Well, perhaps it is just a case of opposites attracting. Or maybe I should remain more nervous than my friends about a Taiwan Strait Crisis.)

Where I found more consensus in my recent travels was on the Federal Reserve’s decision last week to extend its “pause,” leaving the federal funds rate unchanged at 5.25%-5.5%. There is widespread skepticism among former central bankers about the wisdom of this decision, particularly in the context of a wildly unrestrained US fiscal policy.

We are in the second act of the post-p******c inflation. The first round of goods and energy inflation was created by outsized fiscal and monetary support to a supply-constrained economy concurrently experiencing an energy shock. These price increases passed through to inflation expectations, asset prices and wages, driving the second round of inflation in services.

The first wave of inflation has come and gone. However, despite the Fed’s decision to hold rates, the second round is not yet over. Measures of growth, consumption and wages are all printing at levels that clearly indicate above-target inflation. By holding rates while the economy continues to run hot, the Fed may be making another mistake — not perhaps as big as the mistake it made by standing pat in 2021 and early 2022, but potentially as destructive of confidence in price stability.

Now add the Middle Eastern crisis to this mix. If this war escalates even modestly, there is a good chance that oil rises above $100. Such a 20% rise in oil prices could add around 0.5% to headline CPI. In that scenario, this week’s dovish language from the Fed will look as imprudent as Krugman’s tweet.

History has two very clear lessons for economists and central bankers alike — and they are conveniently packaged in new research papers by, respectively, the International Monetary Fund and Deutsche Bank. The main lesson from the excellent IMF paper is that inflation is harder to beat than the Fed model is telling you. Reviewing more than 100 inflation episodes in advanced and emerging economies since 1970, the authors note that “most unresolved inflation episodes involved ‘premature celebrations.’” Money quotes:

Only in under 60% of episodes in the full sample was inflation resolved within 5 years after a shock. Even then, disinflation took on average over 3 years. … The historical outcomes were worse following the terms-of-trade shocks associated with the 1973–79 oil crises … In about 90% of unresolved episodes … inflation declined materially within the first three years after the initial shock, but then either plateaued at an elevated level or re-accelerated.

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The lesson from the equally enlightening Deutsche Bank paper on “The History and Future of Recessions” is an equally uncomfortable one for those who still fantasize about immaculate disinflations, soft landings and bright, shiny unicorns. Looking at recessions in developed economies as far back as the data will allow, the authors argue that we are coming to the end of a period notable for its lack of recessions. The US, Germany and France have suffered only four since 1982. But that is because monetary and fiscal policy have been repeatedly used by governments to avert or mitigate economic downturns. Unfortunately, those days are gone because inflation is back and debt is reaching unsustainable levels.

The Deutsche team provide four key precursors of recession:

Inflation increasing 3 percentage points over a rolling 24-month period;
The yield curve inverting;
Short-term rates increasing 1.5 percentage points over a rolling 12-month period;
Oil increasing 25% over a rolling 12-month period.
When all four are present, the chance of a recession in the US is three in four. The bad news is that all are present today. Oh, and the Deutsche report adds laconically, “recessions are the major source of drawdowns in equity markets and rallies in bonds through history.”

The war in the Middle East is not over. Nor, pace Krugman, is the war on inflation. And winning it will ultimately cost quite a lot.
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Nov 6, 2023 20:26:33   #
The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites
Why does the world apply a special standard of conduct to Israel?

By Victor Davis Hanson

November 6, 2023
Peruse campus literature. Watch clips from university protests. Scan interviews with pro-Hamas protestors. Read the chalk propaganda sketched on campus sidewalks. Talk to raging students in the free speech area. And the one common denominator— besides their arrogance—is their abject ignorance. Take their following tired talking points:

“Refugees”

We are told that the Palestinians after more than 75 years of residence in the West Bank and Gaza are “refugees.” If that definition were currently true, then, are the 900,000 Jews who were forcibly exiled from Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia after the 1947, 1956, 1967 wars still “refugees?”

Most fled to Israel. Do they now live in “refugee” camps administrated by the UN? Are they protesting to recover their confiscated homes and wealth in Damascus, Cairo, or Baghdad? Do Jews on Western television dangle their keys to lost homes in Damascus a half-century after they were expelled?

How about the 150,000-200,000 Greek Cypr**ts who in 1974 were brutally driven out of their ancient homes in Northern Cyprus? Are they today living in “refugee” camps in southern Cyprus? Are Cypr**t terrorists blowing themselves up in “occupied” Nicosia to recover what was stolen from them by Turkey?

Turkish president Recep Erdogan lectures the world on Palestinian “refugees,” but does he mention Turkey’s role in the brutal expulsion of 40 percent of the residents of Cyprus?

Are there campus groups organizing against Turkey on behalf of the displaced Cypr**ts? After being slaughtered and expelled, are the Cypr**ts a cause celebre in academia? Do the “refugee” cities of southern Cyprus resemble Jenin or Jericho?

For that matter, how about the 12 million German civilians who between 1945-50 were expelled, and mostly walked back from, East Prussia and parts of Eastern Europe, some with Prussian roots going back a millennium and more. Perhaps 1 million died during the expulsions.

Are any current survivors still “refugees?” If so, are they organizing for war to get back “occupied” “Danzig” and “Königsberg” for Germany? So why does the world damn Israel and romanticize the Palestinians in a way it does not with any other “refugee” group?

“Apartheid”

Israel is said to practice “apartheid,” although since 2005-06 Gaza has been autonomous. Mahmoud Abbas runs in his fashion the West Bank. Like the Hamas clique, he held e******ns one time in 2005, and then after his e******n, of course, cancelled any free e******n in the fashion of the one e******n, one time Middle East. Who forced him to do that? Z*****ts? Americans?

At any time, Gaza could have taken its vast wealth in annual foreign aid and become completely independent in fuel, food, and energy, without need of any such help form the “Z*****t entity.”

Gaza could have capitalized on its strategic location, the world’s eagerness to help, and the natural beauty of its Mediterranean beaches. Instead, it squandered its income on a labyrinth of terrorist tunnels and rockets. Today, it snidely snickers at any mention of following the Singapore model of prosperity–a former colonial city whose World War II death count vastly surpassed that of the various wars over Gaza.

Are the Israeli Arabs—21 percent of the Israeli population—living under apartheid?

If so, it is a funny sort of oppression when they v**e, hold office, form parties, and enjoy more freedom and prosperity than almost anywhere else in the Middle East under Arab autocracies. Are those in sympathy with Hamas fleeing from Israel into Gaza or the West Bank or other Arab countries to live with kindred Muslims under an autocratic and theocratic dictatorship, or do they prefer to stay in the “Z*****t entity” under “apartheid?”

Where then is real apartheid?

The Uyghurs in China, fellow Muslims to Middle Easterners, who are ignored by Israel’s Islamic enemies, but who reside in China’s segregated work camps to the silence of the usually loud UN, EU, and Muslim world?

How about the Muslim Kurds? Are they second- or third-class citizens in Muslim Turkey? And how about the tens of thousands of foreign workers from India, Pakistan, and other Asian countries who labor under the kafala system in the Arab Muslim Gulf countries, and are subject to apartheid protocols that allow them no free will about how they live, travel, or the conditions of their labor?

Are campuses erupting to champion the Uyghurs, the Kurds, or the subjugated workers of the Gulf?

“Disproportionate”

Israel is now damned as “disproportionally” bombing Gaza. The campus subtext is that because Gaza’s 7,000-8,000 rockets launched at Israeli civilians have not k**led enough Jews, then Israel should not retaliate for October 7 by bombing Hamas targets–shielded by impressed civilians— because it is too effective.

Would a “proportionate” response be counting up all the Israelis murdered, categorizing the horrific manner of their deaths, and then sending Israeli commandoes into Gaza during a “pause” in the fighting to murder an equal number of Gazans in the same satanic fashion?

Does the U.S. lecture Ukraine not to use to the full extent its lethal U.S. imported weaponry since the result is often simply too deadly? After all, perhaps twice as many Russians have been k**led, wounded, or are missing than Ukrainian casualties. Should Ukraine have been more “proportionate?” Has President Biden ordered President Zelensky to offer the Russian aggressors a “pause” in the fighting to end the “cycle of violence?”

Or did U.S.-supplied artillery, anti-armor weapons, drones, and missiles “disproportionally” k**l too many Russians? Or does the U.S. assume that since Russia attacked Ukraine at a time of peace, it deserves such a “disproportionate” response that alone will lose it the war?

For that matter, the U.S. certainly disproportionately paid back Japan for Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese brutal take-over of the Pacific, much of Asia, and China—and the barbarous way the Japanese military slaughtered millions of civilians, executed prisoners, and mass raped women. Should the U.S. have simply done a one-off retaliatory attack on the imperial fleet at Yokohama, declared a “cease-fire,” and thus ended the “cycle of violence?”

Civilian casualties

Campus activists scream that Israel has slaughtered “civilians” and is careless about “collateral damage.” They equate retaliating against mass murderers who use civilians to shield them from injury, while warning any Gazans in the region of the targeted response to leave, as the moral equivalent of deliberately butchering civilians in a surprise attack.

So did protestors mass in the second term of Barrack Obama when he focused on Predator drone missions inside Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen to go after Islamic terrorists who deliberately target civilians?

At the time, the hard-left New York Times found the ensuing “collateral damage” in civilian deaths merely “troubling.” No matter—Obama persisted, insisting as he put it, “Let’s k**l the people who are trying to k**l us.” Note Obama did not expressly say the terrorists in Pakistan or Yemen were k*****g Americans, but “trying” to k**l Americans. For him, that was, quite properly, enough reason “to k**l” the potential assassins of Americans.

What would the Harvard President today say of Benjamin Netanyahu saying just that about Hamas?

We have no idea how many women, children, and elderly were in the general vicinity of a targeted terrorist in Pakistan or Yemen when an American drone missile struck. Then CIA Director John Brennan later admitted that he had lied under oath (with zero repercussions), when he testified to Congress that there was no collateral damage in drone targeted assassinations.

Obama was proud of his preemptive assassination program. Indeed, in lighthearted fashion he joked at the White House Correspondence Dinner about his preference for lethal drone missions, when he “warned” celebrities not to date his daughters: “But boys, don’t get any ideas. I have two words for you, ‘predator drones.’ You will never see it coming. You think I’m joking.”

Did the campuses erupt and scream “Not in my name” when their president laughed about his assassination program? After all, Obama had also admitted, “There is no doubt that civilians were k**led who shouldn’t have been.” Did he then stop the targeted k*****gs due to collateral damage—as critics now demand a cease fire from Israel?

“Genocide”

Genocide is now the most popular charge in the general damnation of Israel, a false smear aimed at calling off the Israeli response to Hamas, burrowed beneath civilians in Gaza City.

But how strange a charge! Pro-Hamas demonstrators the world over chant “From the River to the Sea,” unambiguously calling for the utter destruction of Israel and its 9 million population. Are the Hamas supporters then “genocidal?”

Is genocide the aim of Hamas that launched over 7,000 rockets into Israeli cities without warning? What is the purpose of the purportedly 120,000 rockets in the hands of Hezbollah if not to target Israeli noncombatants? Is all that a genocidal impulse?

Do Hamas and Hezbollah drop leaflets to civilians, as does Israel, to flee the area of a planned missile attack—or is that against their respective charters?

Hamas leaders in Qatar and Beirut continue to give interviews bragging about their October 7 surprise mass murdering of civilians. They even promise more such missions that likewise will be aimed at beheading, torturing, executing, incinerating, and desecrating the bodies of hundreds of Jewish civilians, perhaps again in the early morning during a holiday and a time of peace.

Is that planned continuation of mass k*****g genocidal? Does the amoral UN recall any other mass murdering spree when the k**lers beheaded infants, cooked them in ovens, and raped the dead?

Perhaps students at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Stanford will protest the real genocide in Darfur where some half-million black African Sudanese have been slaughtered by mostly Muslim Arab Sudanese. Did the Cornell professor who claimed he was “exhilarated” on news of beheaded Jewish babies protest the slaughter of the Sudanese? Did the current campus protestors ever assemble to scream about the Islamists who slaughtered the indigenous Africans of Sudan?

Are professors at Stanford organizing to refuse all grants and donations that originate from c*******t China? Remember, the Chinese c*******t Party has never apologized for the party’s genocidal murder of some 60-80 millions of its own during the Maoist Cultural Revolution, much less its systematic efforts to eliminate the Uyghur Muslim population?

These examples could easily be expanded. But they suffice to remind us that the Middle-East and Western l*****t attacks on Israel for responding to the October 7 mass murdering are neither based on any consistent moral logic nor similarly extended to other nations who really do practice apartheid, genocide, and k**l without much worry about collateral damage.

So why does the world apply a special standard to Israel?

To the l*****t and Islamist, Israel is guilty of being:

1) Jewish;

2) Too prosperous, secure, and free;

3) Sufficiently Western to meet the boilerplate smears of colonialist, imperialist, and blah, blah, blah.
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Nov 6, 2023 20:17:16   #
‘Dumb College Kids’ Have Been Supporting Mass Murder for a Hundred Years
Daniel Greenfield, 05 Nov

One of the people watching college students cheer Hamas and tear down posters of kidnapped Israeli children commented that this was not just “dumb kids wearing Che t-shirts”. But it is. The ‘dumb college kids wearing Che t-shirts” were supporting mass murder, atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Latin America. They were cheering on the murder of women and children.

Before they were supporting Hamas, they were backing B*M while cities burned, streets filled with broken glass and people were violently assaulted. And before B*M, there was Mumia Abu Jamal and the Gitmo terrorists, further back there were the Sandinistas, the PLO, the Weathermen, the BLA and the Viet Cong. And before them Mao and the Bolsheviks.

‘Dumb college kids’ have been supporting the mass murder of millions for at least a century. But there is something different here.

Never before have the atrocities been as graphically documented with so many videos taken by the monsters themselves committing their crimes that were broadly distributed in graphic and gory detail to the public in ways that could not be censored or suppressed.

The victims of Marxist dictatorships or the Soviet Union and China were mostly faceless figures, sometimes caught in grainy black and white photos, often with no names or backstories. Here there are full color photos and videos, personal stories of families, mothers and children, and the elderly, all looking from the ‘Kidnapped’ posters being torn down from college campus walls.

But the smiling children looking back from the posters might as well have been kulaks in Russia or intellectuals in Cambodia for all the empathy they elicited. Seeing them only infuriates college kids busy righteously advocating for Hamas as a q***r liberation movement. It spoils their plans for a class walkout while chanting, “Free Palestine” and waving their puny fists in the air conditioned air.

Hamas understood that documenting its atrocities would make it more appealing, not only to fellow Islamists, but also to l*****ts. The ‘dumb college kids’ aren’t alienated by atrocities, they’re drawn to them. And it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the last century to think otherwise.

The dumb college kids may be dumb, but so was your average N**i goose stepper or Bolshevik thug. The mobs who clamored to see heads roll around the guillotine were not geniuses. But much like the Gaza civilians that crossed the fence to take part in the murder and rape, they know what they like. And what they like is chaos, violence and seeing things burn.

Your average dumb college kid isn’t born evil because she misses B*M rallies and traded in her black power fist banner for a PLO f**g, but neither were the German teens who filled stadiums to listen to Hitler or their Chinese counterparts who giggled while their teachers were beaten during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. As Alinsky said, “a good tactic is one your people enjoy.” And, “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”

Consequences are things that come along later. Some people grow up enough to realize that they had been part of something monstrous.

“It was quite fun,” a former Red Guard member recalled. Then she was actually told to beat people and ran away. “God bless me, I didn’t beat anyone back then. If I had beaten anyone how could I have lived with myself all these years?”

Some of the college kids cheering Hamas now may have their moments of reckoning. Or not.

But dismissing them as just ‘dumb college kids’ is how campus extremism becomes softened, normalized and even celebrated. Decades of pop culture turned seventies d******c t*******ts into activists who never meant to hurt anyone and were just upset about the Vietnam War. Che went from a symbol of mass murder and repression to slightly edgy youthful r*******n. The old C*******ts were idealists who wanted to make America into a just and equal society.

These are some of the examples that today’s campus radicals cite when arguing that history will vindicate them. Eventually the bodies are buried and the radical artists and writers turn out to be much more important than all the dead in Russia, China, Cuba and Cambodia. Everyone can name Ernest Hemingway and Noam Chomsky, but who can name a million corpses?

Supporting mass murder isn’t a phase. It’s evil.

The Hitler Youth weren’t just ‘dumb kids’ even if they were dumb kids. Patronizingly dismissing l*****t extremism as a phase or a coming of age ritual normalizes our version of the Hitler Youth. And then we wonder at the spectacle of crowds of college kids cheering “armed resistance” against the ‘Z*****t occupiers” and wonder over how they could possibly do such things.

What do we think has been the norm on college campuses for at least 50 years?

Liberals utterly failed to draw a red line with the Left. The constant dismissals of l*****ts as passionate but misguided, as having the right views but the wrong tactics, led to this. The liberals fell to the Left. And then the most extreme parts of the Left cannibalized the rest. College campuses, always radical, became nests of the most extreme politics in the country.

Dismissing all of this as ‘dumb college kids’ or ‘youthful passion’ is how we got here.

An 18-year-old, never mind a 22-year-old, is old enough to go fight a war, yet we act as if he has no moral agency because we’ve accepted the idea that college is a time to test out political extremism. Or at least l*****t adjacent political extremism. (College kids advocating for w***e s*********t groups don’t meet with the same kind of tolerance as advocating for Hamas.)

Morality doesn’t come from the absence of standards, but the insistence on them.

Americans spend countless billions each year subsidizing higher education. We deserve more from universities and from their graduates. What we are seeing is not just an immediate failure, but a century of betrayal by academia which has been serving up apologetics for politically correct mass murder since the days of Lenin and Stalin. When its views are unpopular, it hides behind free speech, and when it feels its strength, it purges dissenting students and professors.

The greatest extremist threat in this country isn’t coming from a few KKK members living in trailer parks, but from the nation’s most prestigious Ivy League universities. It’s time for either academia to rethink its relationship to political extremism or for the country to rethink its relationship to a system of higher education that teaches students to support mass murder.

The N**i party had its strongest base of support in German universities. As did the C*******ts of the Soviet Union. Our ‘Hitler Youth’ on both sides of the political spectrum are invariably college graduates. We broke up the KKK, it may be time to break up Harvard.
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Nov 6, 2023 12:27:59   #
*WHEN A FLY FALLS INTO A CUP OF COFFEE . . *


*The Italian –* throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.

*The German –* carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee.

*The Frenchman –* takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.

*The Chinese –* eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

*The Russian –* Drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.

*The Israeli –* sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.

*The Palestinian –* blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian so there will be peace.
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Nov 5, 2023 22:46:52   #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
They all do...
In Chinese...


What's the Chinese word for Israel? Palestine!
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Nov 5, 2023 17:13:48   #
Blade_Runner wrote:
Not so in my neck of the woods.
At the local range, I see parents training their kids quite often.
Just last week at the range, I met a father teaching his two kids, 12 year old daughter and 9 year old son, to shoot.
The girl had her own 22lr rifle and she was very good with it. I was impressed.

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I agree. But it seems to be a fairly recent phenomenon. Many parents are now training their children in firearm use. More and more women are enrolling in firearms training. They've seen what happens when the populace of a country is not armed and can't fight back against the totalitarians and despotic rule of the l*****ts. They don't want the U.S. to become another Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, etc. America is the last best hope for freedom and liberty to flourish.
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Nov 5, 2023 15:30:48   #
Blade_Runner wrote:
If there are half as many people in America as there are guns, what difference does it make how many guns there are?

There are 330+ million people in America, 80+ million of them legally own guns, and we certainly do not need your permission to own them.

As for the AR15, this rifle has been used far more often to defend life and property than it has been used to commit crimes.

Furthermore, the AR15 is not the only gun out there that can k**l people. Every gun can k**l.

A 40 grain 22 long rifle bullet through the brain will k**l just a quick as a 55 grain bullet from an AR.
The sub-sonic 22 long rifle is the bullet of choice for professional assassins.

The handgun (pistol) is the numero uno choice for criminals and mass shooters. Less than 5% of all mass shootings were committed with a rifle of any type.
If there are half as many people in America as the... (show quote)


We used to do this but with the increased urbanization of America it seems fewer and fewer young Americans are ever taught gun ownership responsibility. Add to this the elimination of the draft and fewer males are now obtaining training in the use of firearms through the military. The public high school I attended in an urban area had a shooting team and a gun range located under the administration building. My cousin could drive to school with her rifle on a gun rack in her truck, leave the car unlocked in the parking lot and this all occurred in 1971 when she graduated from high school. It's the left that has turned the word "gun" into a dirty word in their quest for world control.

An adaptation of the song Tell All the People. - The Doors

Tell all the sheeple that you see,
Follow me.
Follow me down.
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Nov 5, 2023 15:12:56   #
Deadly practice already k**ls 45,000 in one country, now gets expanded!
Legalizing guns? No. Now people who are addicted to drugs or have mental issues can ask to be k**led
WND Staff By WND Staff
Published November 5, 2023 at 12:37pm

Canada, indeed several Western nations, already have legalized assisted suicide for a variety of reasons, from actually having a terminal illness to feeling sick to feeling poor.

Now it's about to be expanded so that those who are addicted to drugs can ask to be k**led.

The Christian Institute has reported that euthanasia soon could be available to Canadians for those with "substance abuse disorders."

The report said David Martell, an "addiction medicine provider" who joined a working group on so-called medical assistance in dying (MAID), claimed, "it’s not fair to exclude people from eligibility purely because their mental disorder might either partly or in full be a substance use disorder."

Canada authorized doctors to k**l patients under some circumstances starting in 2016, but that was for those who are terminally ill. Now the program is expected to be extended to those who have mental health problems.

Martell outlined the idea at a meeting of the Canadian Society for Addiction Medicine, and said the procedure shouldn't be "pushed" on people."

The institute noted that Zoë Dodd, of the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society, said MAID is showing more and more its basis in eugenics.

Just this year, a medical journal in Canada said those in "unjust social circumstances," such as being poor, should not be denied the program.

Already, nearly 45,000 Canadians have been k**led through the procedures.

A report at Vice explained the expansion of the program to include those who are addicted is expected to become effective next March.

The requirements include two assessments from health care providers to apply.

The report explained, "Some drug users and harm reduction advocates told VICE News they’re upset the idea of drug users being given access to MAID is even being discussed, as they feel other public health measures, including better access to overdose prevention sites, opioid agonist medications like methadone, a regulated drug supply, housing, and employment are lacking."

The report said Health Canada claimed assessments are carried out over a period of time and "not during a time of acute emotional distress or crisis."
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Nov 5, 2023 14:12:08   #
Milosia2 wrote:
Nobody wants all that !
They only want AR15s off the streets .
We have twice as many guns in this country as we have people.
Taking AR15s off the streets wouldn’t cause a very large ripple.
The plus side of this is that even you would be safer , and able to walk your own streets .
I will never understand why youz bunch o fools rale
Against safer streets , when the t***h is you are in as much danger of being shot as everyone else.


As usual, you miss the entire point of the article and misunderstand the issue. You're more likely to die from f******l or c***d unless you're a young black male between 15-34 living in an inner city controlled by Democraps. Black-on-Black crime and murder accounts for 50% even though their demographic is 6% of the U.S. population.
We have plenty of gun control laws which are not enforced. The increase in gun deaths has coincided with the proliferation of gun laws. How that's working for you, Bunky?

Palestinian asylum seeker arrested in Texas on gun charge, allegedly was planning to attack Jews
Sohaib Abuayyash is set to appear for his arraignment Nov. 13.

By Charlotte Hazard
Published: November 4, 2023 12:47pm

Article
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A20-year-old Jordanian citizen was arrested in Houston, Texas, for illegal possession of a firearm and was allegedly planning an attack on Jews, the FBI confirmed Friday.

According to a report from KHOU 11 News Houston, Sohaib Abuayyash was in the U.S. on a tourist visa, but overstayed that visa and was in the country illegally for months before applying for asylum.

The United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Texas put out a press release Friday saying that Abuayyash is set to appear for his arraignment Nov. 13.

"According to the criminal complaint filed upon his arrest, Abuayyash entered the United States on a nonimmigrant visa, which expired in 2019, and has allegedly been in direct contact with others who share a radical mindset," the release reads. "The charges further allege he has been conducting physical training and has trained with weapons to possibly commit an attack."

CNN reports that when FBI Director Christopher Wray, during his Senate testimony this week, said the FBI arrested a man “who’d been studying how to build bombs and posted online about his support for k*****g Jews,” he was referring to Abuayyash.

A law enforcement source told the outlet that he was “plotting to attack a Jewish gathering.”

The FBI is currently conducting an investigation. If convicted, Abuayyash could face up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Nov 5, 2023 14:02:18   #
Should parents have the option of allowing their babies' blood to be retained by the government?
Yes No

Another attempt at totalitarian control by l*****ts. Do you really think your own body is sovereign? The Supreme Court rules long ago that you do not have control over your own DNA. "“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” -Ben Franklin

State secretly retaining blood from newborns
'Can currently use the DNA for any reason, without informed consent from parents'
WND Staff By WND Staff
Published November 5, 2023 at 12:06pm


A lawsuit has been filed by the Institute for Justice over a New Jersey state program that has been obtaining, and secretly retaining, blood from newborns.

The IJ explained it is representing a number of parents in the case.

It's because right now, "The state can currently use the DNA from the blood samples for any reason, without informed consent from parents."

The case charges that state law in New Jersey demands that when babies are born, blood be taken and tested for various diseases, similar to other states.

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"But, after the testing is over, New Jersey’s Department of Health keeps the leftover blood for 23 years. The state does not ask parents for their consent to keep their babies’ blood, failing to even inform parents that it will hold on to the residual blood. The only way parents could learn about such retention is by proactively looking it up on one of the third-party websites listed on the bottom of the card they’re given after the blood draw.

"And, once the state has the blood, it can use it however it wishes, including selling it to third parties, giving it to police without a warrant, or even selling it to the Pentagon to create a registry—as previously happened in Texas," the legal team warned.

Should parents have the option of allowing their babies' blood to be retained by the government?
Yes No

"Parents have a right to informed consent if the state wants to keep their children’s blood for decades and use it for purposes other than screening for diseases," Rob Frommer, a senior IJ lawyer, said. "New Jersey’s policy of storing baby blood and DNA and using that genetic information however it wants is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment rights of all New Jersey parents and their newborns."

The plaintiffs are two Boonton parents, Erica and Jeremiah Jedynak, and Rev. Hannah Lovaglio, a Cranbury mother of two.

Lovaglio explained, "It’s not right that the state can enter an incredibly intimate moment, the tender days of childbirth, and take something from our children which is then held on to for 23 years. The lack of consent and t***sparency causes me to question the intent and makes me worried for my children’s future selves."

Christie Hebert, a lawyer for IJ, explained New Jersey's practice is problematic: "What makes New Jersey’s program so uniquely disturbing is the complete lack of safeguards for future abuse and the lack of consent, which leave the program ripe for abuse. Parents should not have to worry if the state is going to use the blood it said it was taking from their baby to test for diseases for other, unrelated purposes."

Similar lawsuits already have been brought against Texas, Minnesota and Michigan, and in those cases settlements have ordered the destruction of blood samples held by the states, or the state has voluntarily destroyed them.
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Nov 5, 2023 13:48:32   #
Marty 2020 wrote:
It’s clear now that the only big c***ting is in the democrat party!


Yes, both parties have c***ted, but "Big C***ting" is the Democraps forte.
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