[RIA] In Rostov-on-Don, the monument to General Wrangel was dismantled - it was installed on the territory of the cadet corps just three weeks ago, but protests from the left and communists immediately began and now the regional authorities have decided to remove the bust of the Black Baron. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation called the dismantling “absolutely correct,” which, of course, is completely stupid and shameful. Because the small bust was erected not by the authorities, but by the local public, which has the same right to its views on Russian history as the communists. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation does not want Lenin monuments to be demolished? There are thousands of them in the country, but why then is it necessary to interfere with the attempt to honor the memory of one of the leaders of the White Guards, whose life is connected with Rostov?
Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, also Vrangel; Freiherr Peter von Wrangel; was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army and later commanding general of the anti-Bolshevik White Army in Southern Russia in the later stages of the Russian Civil War. After his side lost the civil war in 1920, he left Russia and became one of the most prominent exiled White émigrés.
Moreover, in Russia there is only one monument to Wrangel - it was opened only seven years ago in the Crimean Kerch near an Orthodox church. Crimea became the last stronghold of the White Guards, and from there, having lost the Civil War, they left Russia. The other day, by the way, it was in Crimea, in Sevastopol, that a hurricane damaged the monument to the “Sons of Russia who fought in the Civil War” erected the year before last.
The figure of the Red Guard fell, but the White Guard remained standing. There is a certain mysticism in this, moreover, the fall of the red fighter occurred after it became clear that in Rostov things were moving towards the demolition of the bust of Wrangel (it was covered with film). But the figure of the Red Army soldier, of course, will be restored, because the meaning of the monument in Sevastopol is precisely the reconciliation of the two sides of the Civil War, the end of the unrest. But the bust in Rostov will not be returned to its place, because for some of our citizens the baron is “an executioner, a hangman, a traitor.” So maybe there is no need to anger them or provoke them, especially since the bust was unveiled on November 7?
But such logic is flawed, because it means: we are not striving for reconciliation, we are still choosing one side from the unrest that ended a century ago. That is, the government indulges some views on our history and pushes others into the shadows. But this already happened in the Soviet years and how did it end? The fact that with the beginning of perestroika, the exposure of Stalin’s dirty deeds (fictitious and real) undermined the entire ideological foundation of the Communist Party, which itself made him a “figure of silence.” Almost the same as Emperor Nicholas II and Baron Wrangel were in the Soviet years - however, they were only allowed to scold and denounce them. Has everything changed now?
Not really, if such passions are running high against the modest bust of the last White Guard commander in chief. To denounce the baron, they even use a quote from one of his comrades, who wrote in August 1941: if Peter Wrangel had been alive, then “he would have gone with the Germans without hesitation.” But, not to mention the fact that Wrangel died in 1928, the vast majority of white generals - for all their hatred of the Bolsheviks - did not cooperate with Hitler.
But the hatred of the current heirs of the Bolsheviks towards the baron causes deep regret and bewilderment. Who are they still fighting with? The descendants of the whites have long since died, there is almost nothing left of the Cossacks who fought with the reds - so what do the denouncers of the “executioner and murderer” hate so much? Is it only a specific Baron Wrangel?
Of course not. The bust of Wrangel was installed on the territory of the Second Don Cadet School, which bears the name of Emperor Nicholas II. The canonized royal passion-bearer is still called “bloody” by some heirs of the Bolsheviks, although his blood is on the hands of the Reds. But it is not so convenient to oppose monuments to Nicholas II, of which there are already several in the country (although there have been attempts to destroy them). So they take it out on the barons and generals. And so, if you give free rein - in a seemingly good intention not to “inflame”, not to anger this part of society - then tomorrow the Rostov school will be renamed, and the monuments to the emperor will be demolished.
Nobody wants to anger the “reds” - on the contrary, most of the modern left is not only patriotic, but also does not want to offend their “white” opponents. However, no one has the right to prohibit our citizens from honoring the memory of those whom they consider heroes. The civil war is over - Baron Wrangel, and Dzerzhinsky, and Emperor Nicholas II, and Lenin became part of our common history. It is wrong and impossible to divide - and it is extremely dangerous to even try to do so.
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Very well said. The Baron was quite a man and worthy of consideration and emulation. Oh, and to the Hell fires with communists, everywhere and anywhere.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vadim Bondar
[REGNUM] Western politicians (it’s difficult to call them anything else) are irresistible in their irrepressible desire to abolish, ban, and eradicate everything in the slightest degree connected with Russia, not only in their fiefdoms, but everywhere they can reach. Why did they suddenly become so hateful about Russian culture? Is it really possible to erase it from world reality? And what could all this hectic activity ultimately lead to?
Answering the question whether it is possible, we will say unequivocally: no, it is not possible. Why? For a very simple reason. Today, in the age of cross-border networking, it is basically impossible to cancel something, especially if many people like it for some reason.
Even in the pre-digital age in the USSR, despite all the propaganda and powerful prohibitive pressure, people not only enjoyed watching “Melodies and Rhythms of Foreign Pop” and stormed the cinemas when festival films from famous world directors appeared there, but also brought them from abroad - records and art albums that were not published in the Union. The Soviet man, despite all the ideological indoctrination, was in himself a cultural product of the postmodern era, he was a Eurasian and, first of all, a European.
The revolution, the construction of socialism and the Iron Curtain could not isolate Russia culturally. Moreover, this is impossible now. Now almost all of the world's cultural classics, including Russian, have been digitized, be it literature, music, painting, opera, ballet, theater, cinema, and so on. Finding all this on the Internet and digital galleries is not difficult, and anyone who wants can always learn more about the culture of past and modern Russia. And many people want it - like Lev Oshanin: “You can’t strangle this song, you can’t kill it!”
Now let’s talk about what actually caused these maliciously prohibitive attempts and what they are aimed at. Culture is understood as social information that is preserved and accumulated in society with the help of symbolic means created by people. Russian culture is a symbolic means with inexhaustible semantic potential. It is deeply national and at the same time carries within itself a huge supranational sensory and semantic component. Let's remember Tolstoy's War and Peace. There are huge chunks in French, there is a universal cosmism of reflection and reflection, characteristic of all people in general, and at the same time an amazing, indelible Russianness.
“Where, how, when did this countess, raised by a French emigrant, suck into herself from that Russian air that she breathed, this spirit, where did she get these techniques that pas de chale should have long ago been supplanted? But these spirits and techniques were the same, inimitable, unstudied, Russian ones that her uncle expected from her,” Tolstoy writes about Natasha Rostova.
This is the strength and power of Russian classics. It is entirely imbued with the Russian spirit, Russian thought, Russian design, if you like, but at the same time it is close and understandable to other peoples. She brings them the truth about Russia, about the Russian people, his soul, his aspirations, and through empathy for him, Russian classics build unburnable bridges between ours and other European - and not only European - peoples. This phenomenon of synthesis of apparent simplicity and cosmism, national nature and internationalism cannot be refuted and destroyed by cultural forms.
You can only try to do this by force, as in Ukraine. There, according to the deputy head of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy of the Verkhovna Rada, Evgenia Kravchuk, more than 11 million books have already been destroyed during the “derussification of libraries.” It’s a pity for the obsessed, but, as the Kiev resident and Russian classic Mikhail Bulgakov wrote in “The Master and Margarita”: “Manuscripts do not burn.” Russian culture cannot be abolished. You can cancel the happiness of enjoying it, your involvement in this part of the noosphere, but this part itself cannot be canceled. This is one aspect of the problem.
The second aspect is why, along with the classics, they are just as fiercely trying to abolish Russian cultural modernity? Since the nineties and until recently, modern culture and contemporary art in Russia have largely been a blurred copy of the Western original. And a copy is always worse than the original, because it is secondary and imitative. Let's be honest, during this period our people were not the bearers of the culture and cultural code that lay, and even now partly underlie the created cultural samples and works of art.
Let’s say, the films “Brother” and “Brother-2”, which still cause a lot of controversy and are condemned by a significant part of our creative intelligentsia as vulgar, low-grade, like “gangster smut” and so on. But these films are still very popular among the people. Why? Brother and Brother 2 both were excellent action/crime films made and released in a time when that style of film was very popular worldwide. I've seen and have enjoyed both films immensely. The actor who played the lead role died decades before his time.
Because there are some core works of art, the same films, on which the people’s idea of good and evil, about themselves, about the people’s hero, about how everything should be in this life, about the world as a whole is based. And if people watch these films, as they say, to their hilt, it means that they see all this in them.
You shouldn't judge whether it's good or bad. This is objective reality. Obviously, people see in these films much more than a Western with fights and chases or banal gang wars. But he doesn’t see Western art in overt and covert remakes. Therefore, in Russia they are a disposable product. But until recently, these stampings were put on stream, therefore they drilled into the consciousness of ordinary people and conquered them with their massive numbers and - with rare exceptions - the lack of an alternative.
And everyone was happy with everything. The West “Hollywoodized” Russia, the part of the domestic creative intelligentsia, which prayed for everything Western, was completely satisfied with this, since, being a conductor of Western values in the homeland, it was a handshake in a “civilized society”, and “people hawal”, as they say, is what they give.
But as soon as Russia started talking about returning to its own cultural sources, to its own classics, to its own rich cultural heritage, this heritage immediately began to be abolished, just like the modern one that began to be created on the basis of its own, and not someone else’s, cultural experience. It's like in Hollywood movies about colleges, where there is a girl - the star of the class, and all her friends must imitate her, praise her and grovel before her, and the boys must be completely in love with her and compete for her attention and favor. If someone violates this law of the system, he is immediately subjected to obstruction, boycott, ridicule, bullying, in general, becomes an outcast and an enemy of the civilized society of this college.
Today this primitive scenario is being played out in relation to Russia. SVO is just an excuse. The true reasons are much more fundamental, otherwise the bans would not have affected culture, sports, tourism and any human communication. Unable to oppose anything conceptual to the emerging new multipolar world order and Russia as one of its key links, the West is trying to deprive our country and its people of kinship with humanity. By erasing us from world culture, he is trying to “dehumanize” Russians (Russians in this case are a collective image, read all Russians). Moreover, by canceling everything Russian, they want to erase us from world history, as if we never existed. There is no other way to seriously fight us. Neither military nor economic methods work.
Well, the last thing: what this fuss can lead to.
Probably, few people paid attention to how, starting around 2004, a campaign was launched in the West to abolish the attributes of Christmas, so as not to cause discontent among followers of non-Christian religions. In the name of the principle of secularism, Christmas trees were removed from schools. That is, they tried to actively reformat their culture using the same methods of prohibitions and abolition. The peak of this campaign was between 2012 and 2016. What did this lead to?
In 2017, Trump came to power in the wake of protest voting in the United States. Next year his triumph has every chance to be repeated. In any case, the electorate is already warmed up for this. In Europe, throughout last and this year there was a triumphal march of right-wing parties, gradually taking over the continent. Just the other day, the far-right leader of the PVV (Party for Freedom) Geert Wilders came to power in the Netherlands.
In general, ban and cross out further. Let's see where your dreams take you.
Nobody — not even Americans — believes it, but 20% of Americans live in a household where more than one language is spoken. Probably half that speak more than two, though what the third might be depends on location: Spanish, Chinese, and Russian are fairly common. My local Midwestern suburban public school offers eight pre-translated options other than English, including Vietnamese and Arabic in a dropdown menu on the front page of the website.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino addressed the explicit comments Elon Musk hurled at advertisers during what she called a “wide ranging” and “candid” interview Wednesday.
“We’re a platform that allows people to make their own decisions,” Yaccarino said in a post.
In recent weeks, Musk’s posts on X have prompted major companies to suspend advertising on the platform.
Musk on Wednesday told advertisers to “Go f---yourself.”
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Advertising is propaganda. When it was limited to bending your thinking towards the advertiser's product, that was maybe acceptable. Now that it is a carry-all for lots of noxious messages, it is past time to heavily regulate it.
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....no regulation. Just end it as a tax write off.
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^ All well and good, but I was already doing that in almost all cases.
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Now that it is a carry-all for lots of noxious messages, it is past time to heavily regulate it.
Just don't buy the plastic crap from China they're advertising. Or in the case of Disney, well, you don't need me to tell you not to watch their movies.
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Disney, Apple, IBM, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global and Lions Gate Entertainment
Really not hard to boycott these companies.
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So we are told to think as we've learned that the CIA employed someone so emotional she can't keep her Palestinian advocacy to herself in public forums, in this case. You would think CIA officials would keep themselves a little classified, a little mysterious, but not this one. She's into social media. She's into what are known as "stickers," colorful little advocacy buttons posted on her own selfie photos on her social media accounts. It's plausible that people like her communicate through emojis. And she's doing it because all the kids are doing it.
Love the 1991-look suit redolent of the woman in the Zombietime 2008 Obama fund-raising photo under the caption: One half of a glamorous power couple from a bygone era. Like teenagers, the swamp has its own way of dressing. Her, too.
In any case, her loudly pro-Palestinian and, yes, pro-Hamas message, posted on publicly available social media, drew the attention of even the Financial Times, as well as other media outlets, raising questions as to her impartiality.
The CIA said she wouldn't dream of being impartial.
According to the Washington Free Beacon:
Here she is, associate deputy director for analytics, and has been the person who prepares the president's daily briefing as gatekeeper for what intelligence the president sees each morning when he gets briefed and what he doesn't:
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Congratulations! I erased your student loans. Now will you vote for me?'
That's what President Biden should have said in an email to more than 800,000 student loan borrowers – because his latest scheme to 'forgive' some of their $1.78 trillion in outstanding debts is nothing more than a bribe.
'Your student loan has been forgiven because of actions my Administration took to make sure you receive the relief you earned and deserve,' read the White House message sent to in-boxes on Tuesday.
Gee – Democrats are so generous with other people's money.
What had these lucky few done to 'earn' and 'deserve' this multi-billion dollar 'relief?'
Very little.
In a bit of bureaucratic sleight of hand, Biden and his dutiful ministerial assistants transformed an obscure Education Department repayment program into a brand new entitlement program.
The monthly payments of hundreds of thousands of borrowers will be capped at five percent of discretionary income, and if they pay these tiny installments for 10 to 20 years their entire remaining loan will be wiped away.
Millions more may find they owe $0 in payments.
And presto!
An estimated $475 billion in unpaid federal student loans is set to vanish into thin air.
What's the catch?
Those billions of dollars in liabilities will simply be moved from around the necks of these educated elites to above the heads of each and every American.
Liabilities of approximately $1,800 for every taxpayer.
It's hardly a small amount of money when America's already running multi-trillion-dollar deficits and existing entitlement programs, like Social Security, are barrelling down the road to insolvency.
This Frankenstein's monster from the bowels of the bureaucracy may amount to the single most expensive regulation is U.S. history.
And the real motivation behind this bailout isn't some urgent financial crisis, as Democrats and the mainstream media would have us all believe.
Yes, Americans owe nearly $1.8 trillion in student loans. But millions are also on the hook for $1.5 trillion in auto loans and $1 trillion in credit card debt – and we don't hear anyone clamoring outside the White House gates to cancel those charges.
No, this is about raw, craven, cynical politics – pure and simple.
Polls show that Biden is struggling with young voters, usually a sure-fire Democrat voting bloc. Without these college-educated 18 to 34 year olds, he can't win re-election.
How better to win back their loyalty than with a good old-fashioned quid pro quo? Elect me and the gravy train keeps chugging along.
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If only they (except from small minority) actually learned something useful.
Make them work it off at State Approved Free Community Services clinics. 5,000 hrs over a 5 year period for a max amount allowed of $150K in a lifetime.
At the least then there is some community benefits.
Of Course:
With an annual State and IRS Tax required filing, using Officially issued and verified hourly log documentation.
Repayment rate is based on
Student Loan amount ÷ 5,000 hrs = ______.
Any hours not performed will require repayment at 2x the rate.
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It's an appeal to the Karens who appear to be the ones not paying off their debt. Obviously, a key Donk demographic. That would be the same Karens who think they're going to rope themselves in some rich and stupid male to pay it off. Which explains why they like Biden.
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I made the mistake of co-signing one of my daughter's loans and I had to pay it. So, no, I'm not happy.
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The real scam is Sallie Mae backs these loans and the government sells the debt to private companies like Navient. At thirteen percent interest, Navient is happy to collect payments that cover the interest and very little of the principle as long as the former student lives. They don't care about the principle. It's the interest. But then Joe pays off all the loans. Either way it's a big scam for Navient and you can bet your butt they make big contributions to Biden's election. The students get lousy educations and then they can't find jobs but the academics, the lenders and old Joe get rich.
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I must say, though, I feel better about paying that loan than I would if Joe had paid it. Maybe I'm a fool but I'm not a crook.
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Hard to get worked up about this. We're already paying for their healthcare, housing, cell phones, food, education, internet, etc.
[Townhall] October 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation.
During peace and holiday, invading Hamas, gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated some 1,200 Israelis. The vast majority were unarmed women, children, infants, and the elderly.
The cowardly murderers proudly filmed their atrocities and then fled back to Gaza -- to cheers from the Gaza street.
Before Israel even retaliated, the mass murder of Jews earned praise from the Middle East, the international hard left, and especially the faculty and students of elite Western campuses.
When the Israeli Defense Forces struck back, the killers dispersed to the safety of their multibillion-dollar subterranean cities. The cowardly elite architects of the mass murder fled to Arab sanctuaries in Lebanon and Qatar.
From its headquarters burrowed below hospitals, mosques, and schools, Hamas bartered hostages for a reprieve from the IDF and the release of its own convicted terrorists in Israeli jails.
Hamas shot any of its own supporters who refused to shield Hamas gunmen.
It continued launching rockets at Israeli civilian centers. It serially lied about its casualties, expropriating intended relief food and fuel for its underground tunnel city of killers.
Abroad, Hamas supporters also emulated the methods of the pro-Nazi demonstrators in Western cities of the 1930s. Unlike their pro-Israel critics, the pro-Hamas demonstrators in the U.S. and Europe turned violent.
They took over and defaced private and public property. They chanted genocidal antisemitic slogans calling for erasure of the nation of Israel.
They interrupted shoppers, blocked highways, attacked businesses, and swarmed bridges. They assaulted the police.
The majority wore masks to hide their identities in the fashion of antisemitic Klansmen.
Why did the doctrinaire left, the youth of the Democratic Party, and the campuses outdo each other in their antisemitic venom toward Israel?
For the first time in their lives, many of the ignorant protestors suddenly professed concern about refugees, colonialism, disproportionality, innocent civilians, and the rules of war.
But none could explain why the Palestinians who fled Israel in 1947-48 still self-identify as victimized "refugees" when 900,000 Jews ethnically cleansed from Middle-East Arab cities about the same time do not.
The 200,000 Greek Cypriots driven out from northern Cyprus by Turkey apparently do not warrant "refugee'' status either.
Few protestors knew that Jews had lived in present-day Israel for over three millennia. The longest colonialist presence there was Muslim Turks, who brutally ran the Holy Land for 300 years until they lost in World War I and were expelled.
How exactly did the eighth-century A.D. Al-Aqsa Mosque happen to be built within King Herod's earlier Second Temple enclosure?
The pro-Hamas crowd has little appreciation that colonizing Arab Muslims has one of history's longest records of "settling" other countries far from their historic birthland.
They "settled" and "colonized" the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Middle East, Berber North Africa, and southern Spain. Millions of Middle Easterners migrated to -- "settled?" -- supposedly infidel European cities, where they often self-segregate and do not assimilate fully with their magnanimous hosts.
As far as "disproportionality," it is the goal of every power at war, Hamas included.
What protestors are furious about is that Israel is more effective at being disproportionate in retaliation than Hamas and its Iranian supporters were in their preemptive mass murdering.
Targeting innocent civilians? Hamas is among the current greatest offenders in the world.
It rockets Israeli cities without warning. It mass murders Jews in their beds during peace. It exposes Gazans to mortal danger by impressing them as human shields. Hamas shoots those who refuse.
The "rules of war" are violated by Hamas daily. Such protocols require combatants to wear uniforms not to blend in with civilians, not to use them as shields, not to murder noncombatants, not to rape them, not to mutilate them, and not to execute civilians without trial.
Why, then, would millions ally themselves with this odious reincarnation of the SS?
Are they ignorant of the history of the Middle East?
Are they arrogant since few challenge their hate and threats?
Are they opportunists who feel mouthing anti-Western shibboleths gains them career traction in leftist-run media, academia, and popular culture?
Are they bullies who count on the Western silent majority to remain quiet as they disrupt lives, trash Western tolerant culture, and commit violence?
Like Hamas that they support, do they despise Jews? Why else do they express an existential hatred toward Israelis that they never display to any other group?
Those now on the street utter not a peep about the Sudanese Arab mass killers in Darfur, Chinese oppressors of the Muslim Uighurs, Russians targeting civilians in Ukraine, or ISIS, Syrian, and Yemeni murderers of fellow Muslims.
Yet all of these terrorist killers are guilty of the very charges the protestors falsely attribute to Israel. But they are all not Jewish -- and that explains the pass given them by our antisemitic, pro-Hamas street.
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After 53 days of a barbaric war that hit the Gazooks with what equals more than a nuclear bomb, the Israelis were forced to demand a truce due to major losses inflicted upon the Zionist occupation army during the ground offensive.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] For more than 50 days, the Israeli war jets, tanks, cannons, and machineguns did not cease pounding the entire Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, mercilessly killing over 20 thousand civilians.
’Israel’ as a barbaric occupation entity is accustomed to committing war crimes in Paleostine, Leb
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Just watched the news, they had a kid crying because they were bombed again. Then he started yelling they were willing to be martyred. Kill them all Israel
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Hamas:"We are willing to die!"
IDF:"Not a problem. You server will be with you shortly."
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That aged well.
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Incapable. Yes. We see.
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Sure, right, I believe that and that there is an easter bunny...
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over 20 thousand civilians
"Please be serious," or, Stylus in Gaza
"A bloodbath! Aceldama! Trauma!"
"Oh, brother. Enough with the drama."
But Arabs keep counting
And numbers keep mounting:
"It's gotta be bigger than Hama!"
[News With Views] The aftermath of Hamas’ Simchat Torah surprise attack on Israel has left us with definitive answers to several questions.
The vaunted Two-State Solution, previewed in Hamas’ barbaric October 7th massacre of Israeli civilians, is dead in the water.
Arab Muslims are serious about wiping Israel off the map.
Jew hatred is alive and well.
And yes, it can happen again.
These are troubling discoveries, but we ignore the truth at our peril. And in that spirit, I’m going to forge ahead by not only commenting on the war between Hamas and Israel, but also by revisiting the history underlying this conflict in my article to follow.
But first I’d like to take a proverbial bird’s eye view of the whole situation.
There are three groups currently vying for world control. They are: the Chinese Communists, Muslim fundamentalists, and the Luciferian globalist elites with their plan for a New World Order/One World Government/Great Reset.
We might also include the Nazis’ vaunted plan for a Thousand Year Reich—but though we’re seeing Nazi eugenicist elements involving the mRNA vaccines, etc., we can include this element as a subset within the globalist NWO cabal—though to give the Nazi’s their due, the whole global plan is both communistic and fascistic in nature.
The Davos Elites, aka the globalist cabal, are the ultimate people without a state, as they have no loyalty to their own countries where they hold citizenship. Indeed, they coined the phrase "citizens of the world"—but that’s ostensibly meant for We the Serfs, as they prod us closer and closer to their planned Global Government. They clearly plan to be "rulers of the world," not mere citizens. But they have no army or navy of their own, so how are they going to conquer the rest of us?
In part through the United Nations, which they fund generously—think about those whopping donations from great "philanthropists" like Bill Gates, who gave $1.2 billion in 2022 alone, Warren Buffett, who donates lavishly to the Gates Foundation which funds the UN and the WHO, and Ted Turner, who’s given $1 billion to the UN since 1997, etc. In fact, what they have is trillions of dollars and control of many governments through bought-and-paid-for government officials. As they say, money talks.
And of course we know they plan to force us all to use a digital currency they control, while monitoring and surveilling us 24/7, so they can zap us with Social Credit Score violations, giving them excuses to turn off our access to our money. Shades of the Mark of the Beast, and a dastardly underhanded way to starve the "dissidents" to death who refuse their enslavement.
Still, they have no physical force, no shock troops, no military of their own.
[ZERO] A new report from Consumer Reports found that electric vehicles have almost 80% more problems and are "generally less reliable" than conventional internal combustion engine cars. Good thing every major government around the world is subsidizing their use in the name of 'climate change', right?
Even worse than electric vehicles were plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, which were found to have 150% more issues than traditional ICE vehicles, CBS reported. Ordinary hybrids are the best of the breed, with about 25% less problems than gas cars, the study found.
The study encompassed information from over 330,000 vehicles produced from 2000 to 2023, including a limited number of reports on brand-new 2024 models.
The recent vehicle reliability report from Consumer Reports coincides with a time when car purchasers have the benefit of a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 when buying an electric vehicle.
But, as CBS noted in their summary, the adoption of EVs by consumers has been slower than initially anticipated. One contributing factor to this slower adoption is the higher maintenance costs associated with EVs compared to conventional vehicles, along with the necessity for additional equipment like home electric charging stations.
EV owners most commonly reported issues related to the battery and charging systems, as well as issues with the fit and finish of the vehicle's body panels and interior components. Consumer Reports observed that EV manufacturers are still in the process of mastering new power systems and suggested that as they gain expertise, the overall reliability of EVs would improve.
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My neighbor's hybrid died on the freeway at 100K miles because the main battery had a failure, even though the 'starter' battery for the gasoline powered motor (and that motor) was working just fine.
I must have missed that almost all hybrids either just quit, or won't even start, if the main battery fails. Always thought that the gas engine would always run, but apparently not.
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I'm sure that "feature" could be bypassed, but then you'd have an underpowered vehicle dragging around a huge unnecessary weight.
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12/01/2023 8:15 Comments ||
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There are sixty thousand more problems before even driving it off the lot.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] We're in the best of hands.
