The generals’ belated awakening

It is beginning to dawn on the Israelis that when it comes to Iran’s nuclear program, the Jewish state stands alone.

Something is changing in the assessment of the Iranian nuclear threat among Israel’s military brass. Evidence is growing that members of the IDF General Staff and Mossad are beginning to realize that the United States doesn’t share Israel’s goal of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Last week, for instance, Michael Makovsky, head of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), a Washington-based group that cultivates ties between Israeli and U.S. generals, published an article in the New York Post in which he described their rude awakening.

Biden’s handlers are Obama 2.0.

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Fauci on Film – White coat supremacy in cinéma vérité.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, claims that his critics are “really criticizing science because I represent science.” That was also the theme of Fauci, a hagiographical documentary released back on October 6.

According to Disney+ promotional materials, Fauci is “the ultimate public servant” facing attacks from adversaries, with “science increasingly caught in the crosshairs.” Fortunately, a more cinéma vérité portrayal has been around for some time.

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Of course the Russians are coming to Ukraine. They want to rebuild their empire

A fighting force of almost a million regular soldiers and reservists is on alert because of the constant threat of a Putin-ordered invasion

For Denis Semyrog-Orlyk, it is not a question of whether the Russians will invade Ukraine, but when. On a cold, drizzly evening last week, the affable 46-year-old architect was sitting with fellow members of the 130th battalion of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces in a hut on the outskirts of Kiev, taking lessons on how to stop the invaders in their tracks.

The Ukrainian capital, a bustling place of picturesque golden domed churches and horrendous traffic jams, does not feel like a city on the verge of war. There are no signs of panic buying; no mass exodus to the countryside. The estimated 100,000 Russian troops positioned menacingly on the country’s northern, eastern and southern borders feel far away.

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The Algerian Jew

Zemmour does not want yesterday’s Algeria to be the France of tomorrow where Jews are kidnapped and tortured by the decolonized.

“With Eric Zemmour, France would have its first president of Algerian origin. He has the genealogy, the history but also the tics: Zemmour is of Homeric, Mediterranean, Arab, Jewish and French audacity. Zemmour is the French unconscious, the great occult substitute, the paradoxical decolonial reparation, the memory returned in disguise. The theatrical representation of the martyr.” So writes the Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud in Le Point.

In the analysis of the cyclone Eric Zemmour, the right-wing independent essayist candidate in the next presidential elections of 2022, no one has dwelled on what is perhaps the most important aspect of his history. He is called “fascist” and “racist”, forgetting that Zemmour’s is the story of an Algerian Jew.

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USMCA neighbors Canada, Mexico cry foul over Biden’s electric car subsidies

Cottage industry.

Fight over green agenda could strain Trump’s updated free-trade pact

“… The administration “is committed to tackling the threat of climate change by supporting the transition to electric vehicle manufacturing,” USTR spokesman Adam Hodge said in a statement to the Reuters news agency on Dec. 3. “We will continue to engage a range of stakeholders, including our close trading partners, as Congress considers legislation to strengthen U.S. leadership in the sector.”

That seems the US position in a nutshell and Biden is not driving this EV. I don’t see the US changing course. The existing trade agreements seem to be viewed as artifacts of a modern day equivalent to the horse and buggy era. And of course Trump Derangement Syndrome!


Mmmm – some good info here. Tesla is opening up it’s charging network to rivals because everything else is so bad it has the potential to undermine the entire EV industry.

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Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes

Dr. Garry Nolan is a Professor of Pathology at Stanford University. His research ranges from cancer to systems immunology. Dr. Nolan has also spent the last ten years working with a number of individual analyzing materials from alleged Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.

His robust resume—300 research articles, 40 US patents, founding of eight biotech companies, and honored as one of Stanford’s top 25 inventors—makes him, easily, one of the most accomplished scientists publicly studying UAPs. 

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Conrad Black: The Liberals are determined to squander Canada’s independence

The editors have invited me to write about the 90th anniversary of the proclamation of the Statute of Westminster on Dec. 11, 1931, which effectively made Canada and other comparable British Empire jurisdictions autonomous of British laws. The so-called Dominions that were declared to be of equal sovereignty to the United Kingdom were Canada, Australia, what was then known as the Irish Free State and which became the Republic of Ireland, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa. These were the founding members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, which eventually became just the Commonwealth of Nations.

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The Media’s Color-Coded Parenting Standard: White parents of school shooters are culpable; black parents of inner-city gangbangers are blameless.

On April 19, 2021, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski suggested in a text to Chicago’s mayor that the parents of two children recently killed in Chicago’s gang activity had “failed those kids.” Kempczinski’s text became public in November 2021, prompting widespread accusations of racism and calls for his resignation. Kempczinski confessed to his white privilege and apologized profusely for holding parents responsible for the fate of their children.

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Meth and heroin fuel Afghanistan drugs boom

Heaped in plastic bags in a small room in rural southern Afghanistan, the white crystals glisten.

They are “export quality” methamphetamine, and will be trafficked to countries as far away as Australia. Once there, the 100kg (220lb) stored in this room will have a street value of around £2m ($2.6m).

Outside, smoke billows from two barrels where new batches of meth are being cooked.

Drugs are big business in Afghanistan, and under the Taliban, trade is booming. The country has long been linked with heroin, but in recent years, it has also emerged as a significant producer of crystal meth – another dangerously addictive drug.

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San Francisco’s vaunted tolerance dims amid brazen crimes

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Caitlin Foster fell in love with San Francisco’s people and beauty and moved to the city a dozen years ago. But after repeatedly clearing away used needles, other drug paraphernalia and human feces outside the bar she manages, and too many encounters with armed people in crisis, her affection for the city has soured.

“It was a goal to live here, but now I’m here and I’m like, ‘Where am I going to move to now?’ I’m over it,’” said Foster, who manages Noir Lounge in the trendy Hayes Valley neighborhood.

A series of headline-grabbing crime stories — mobs of people smashing windows and grabbing luxury purses in the downtown Union Square shopping district and daytime shootings in the touristy Haight-Ashbury — has only exacerbated a general feeling of vulnerability. Residents wake up to news of attacks on Asian American seniors, burglarized restaurants, and boarded-up storefronts in the city’s once-vibrant downtown.

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Iran: Exporting Oil or Revolution?

Yousef Tabatabai Nejad – Chief Misogynist Iran

“The greatest achievement of Imam Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution!”

This is how the daily Kayhan in Tehran, believed to reflect the views of “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei, describes what it labels a “Resistance Front” led by Iran.

The paper’s editorial does not say why it needs to raise the controversial issue at this time. One possible reason may be a behind-the-scenes debate about the need for reviewing a policy that has cost Iran billions of dollars over the past decades.

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Judge OKs regulators’ subpoena for ‘Rust’ assistant director

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin a prop gun that killed a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set must make himself available for an interview with state workplace safety regulators, a judge has decided.

… Safety officials tried twice since Nov. 2 to interview Halls for their investigation but he declined both times through his attorney and said he wouldn’t agree to an interview until a criminal investigation into the shooting is complete, a compliance officer wrote Wednesday in an affidavit in support of the subpoena request.

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Fordham U. prof fired after mixing up two black students names in class

A Fordham University professor was fired after mixing up the names of two black students in class, according to a report.

Hours after what he called an “innocent mistake,” lecturer Christopher Trogan, 46, sent a rambling, nine-page email to students in his Composition II classes explaining the faux pas — and defending, without being asked, his “entire life” of working on “issues of justice, equality, and inclusion,” the campus newspaper reported.

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