Thank you for writing this honest broker memorial. It’s so important there be witnesses While it’s inexplicable what Hamas did, it’s more inexplicable there are people who agree like 74% of gazans and even more inexplicable the hate from around the world and in our country.
I don’t know the answer but it cannot be to give in to evil. It must be eradicated.
Thank you for writing this honest broker memorial. It’s so important there be witnesses While it’s inexplicable what Hamas did, it’s more inexplicable there are people who agree like 74% of gazans and even more inexplicable the hate from around the world and in our country.
I don’t know the answer but it cannot be to give in to evil. It must be eradicated.
With respect, read the Koran and you will find that is not inexplicable. Indeed was predictable there would be an increase in support for Islamic terrorism once Barack Obama was elected POTUS.
Part of the answer is to stop quavering in the face of true evil. Why is Ilan Omar still in our country after having committed immigration fraud? Why is Tlaib still sitting in Congress? Why have foreign students who harass our own American Jewish students at universities not been immediately deported? Why?
The Republican Cheney Presidency intentionally destroyed the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE (in reporting/journalism) and created the polarized propagandist ping pong non dialogue now battering, abusing and distorting the healthy American national conversation that "..we the people..." deserve. Thankfully "subscription journalism" has allowed us a fall back position.
So, how powerful is a truth/fact based social/political/financial reality? Is it possible to remain sane in a madhouse? We're going to find out.
I agree: TikTok is symptom not disease. And the disease is (again) 20th Century A-Bomb retro politics running cover for an ascending would be criminal financial world monarchy. It is purely the same hubris and runaway pathological narcissism and megalomania which, despite any ideological belief, senselessly murdered millions of human beings last Century. Boiled to basics, regardless of any shiny objects in the jungle path, it is about fascist access to cheap throwaway labor and the exploitation of natural resources without consequence. Crisis to manufactured crisis, no solutions forthcoming, behind it all, the greatest upward transfer of wealth in human history. Capital (DNC/CCP/EU/Davos etc.) has abandoned the American Constitutional Republic and is betting that cultural/social/financial collapse, chaos and division will bring free citizens to their knees. None of this is new phenomena. There is no one in this conversation who can't provide examples. New jackboot. Different shine.
The connection you draw between Western" capital" and the CCP, regardless of propagandist saber rattling, is important. The GRAYZONE recently ran a NATO propaganda film outlining the intent to rebuild the Ukraine as, for all practical purposes, a "fifteen minute" country. The RACKET NEWS report on corporate attempts to overlay a CCP style surveillance system on the American Republic can not be overlooked. Now add Professor Shoshana Zuboff's 700 page report on surveillance capitalism and the literal commodification of human life by both corporate/tech fascism and the surveillance bureaucracy. Ultimately it is enslavement and exploitation without constraint, the gun thug and the company store all over again. A great leveling of both mind and spirit is underway. And, not by accident.
What has this to do with Mr. Murray's report? Hamas BILLIONAIRES control and are literally holding the Palestinian people hostage to an IDEOLOGICAL LIE. Don't want to go along? You die. Meanwhile you live a surveilled life in poverty amid squalor and cultural disintegration while working for below subsistence wages. It's good herd management. The preferred M.O. of all slavers. No education. No future. Dreamers die.
Say, you've hit on something Our Government does brilliantly! Building Evil for brain-dead reasons! As you say, the CCP that was gonna evolve to be Just Like Us! The Iranians, who were gonna be the counterweight to Israel in the middle east and result in Wonderfulness! (Must be others but the chemo brain kicked in...)
Omar will continue to get re-elected as most of her constituents are Sudanese, like her. Tlieb will continue to get re-elected as most of her constituents are Palestinian, like her. Not much we can do about that.
Why? Because too many of us have become cowards. Too concerned about blow back to speak up and denounce. Too lazy to read and understand history. So much easier to be spoonfed what to think and then believe you are a virtuous defender of a colonized victim group.
Mille grazie to you Douglas Murray for invoking Oriana Fallaci’s name. She, like you, saw clearly what Islamism is and also spoke of it with impeccable courage.and candor. We must now to take seriously her admonition made nearly 25 years ago regarding Islam, “Wake up, West, wake up! They have declared war on us, we are at war! And war we must fight”. Time to take that proverbial “leap over Niagara Falls “.
And because our clueless president and others still think there can be a peaceful two state solution. Would you want a next door neighbor whose sole purpose was to murder you? In most history of wars, the only resolution has been complete defeat and surrender of one side of the conflict. There is no other lasting solution.
That’s because there was a two-state arrangement in place until Russia violated it by invading Ukraine and seizing Crimea and part of Eastern Ukraine. And now it falls to Ukraine to try to defeat the Russian invader and re-establish the two independent countries.
Nope the Israelis are much more newsworthy. Israelis and Jews are media and print foder - in Professor Dershowitz words “if it bleeds it leads” and this is exactly what has happen this time round to, except the savagery and the brutality of Hamas, Gazans and Palestinians in the 21st century is beyond belief. Think it’s going to be very difficult to eradicate please God the Israelis succeed.
Bruce, I believe that those are rhetorical questions, because you KNOW the answer, but it is too risky to voice it, even in the USA, the supposed bastion of "free speech"! The sad fact of the matter is that the same conditions that existed in Israel that allowed "palestinians" to enter their country as workers already exists in the USA! Belief that all people want peace and love is the common denominator, and that if we show love and support to the Gazans, then they will be thankful and want to propagate peace in the area. But that is a FALSE god of peace. They all want death, so give it to them, and then turn out those despicable people who support the death cult. George Santos gets turned out for LYING? But those who support Hamas are allowed to spout their hate in Congress without sanction? What is wrong with this picture? You KNOW!
Rush didn't author that belief. It has been around for quite a while. The natural condition of mankind, according to Thomas Hobbes, is a state of war in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” because individuals are in a “war of all against all”
Are you at war with your wife and kids, your siblings and parents, your friends and neighbours? Do you take time out to kick NYT journalists in the balls? No mate, we are not in a war of all against all. Don't be silly.
A lot of our sociopolitical ideas probably derive from the basic conflict between Hobbes’ views and Locke’s views. Using a VERY broad brush, the Lockian side would correspond to “liberalism”; the Hobbesian side to “conservativism”.
These were not MY words, they were the words of philosopher Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679). And yes, we ALL are in conflict with each other. The problem is that you may define conflict as physical fighting. Conflict is the state of competing interests bumping up against each other. Husband/wife/children/ family, you cannot deny that there are no competing interests, even in the most stable of families. The key to survival though is compromise, learning how to balance those interests. On the MACRO scale this means national interests, and here also there needs to be compromise to function well. War is just the breakdown in compromise into physical confrontation.
AH yes, and this brings up an uncomfortable fact that conflict brings about human flourishing. General peace leads to apathy and stagnation. The human being needs tension and conflict in order to stretch and grow. It is like lifting weights, you must have pain in order to have growth. Not WAR, necessarily, but that is the ultimate stressor.
Just making an observation, here. Rush was an observer of the human condition, so it was impossible to NOT know the above quote. He may not have quoted Hobbes word for word, but he DID know the human condition.
Remember when James O’Keefe parked a van in front of Pfizer HQ and ran a loop of that guy who described all sorts of Pfizer dirt to a potential date? (Wonder whatever happened to that guy). Anyway, how about vans driving around NYC with videos of the atrocities? Sometimes all that works is shock. Let’s give it to them.
Bravery is not a quality that is admired in our Congress, much less the actual populace of this country. Cowardice is easy because it involves saying nothing and doing nothing in the face of evil. And bravery is rarely rewarded with re-election.
The glue that holds societies together is the law. One reason why America has prospered from the beginning is our fealty to the rule of law and the equal application of it.
These barbarians of the Left are the enemies of that. Biden - and his henchman, Garland - need to be called to account for their desecration of our rule of law.
Perhaps it's simpler? As in: It doesn't matter who casts the ballots, it's who counts them.... It doesn't matter who makes the laws (or even what they are!), it's who enforces them.
They do this for the exact same reason. It is easier to arrest law abiding people than criminals! Easier is the name of the game in DC. Easier to push off responsibility to un-elected bureaucrats than to pass actual legislation that means something and accomplishes anything! Easier to go along with these (small number) loud voices, than to put them in their place and shut them up! Life isn't easy for anyone, except those in Congress.
Thank you for writing this honest broker memorial. It’s so important there be witnesses While it’s inexplicable what Hamas did, it’s more inexplicable there are people who agree like 74% of gazans and even more inexplicable the hate from around the world and in our country.
I don’t know the answer but it cannot be to give in to evil. It must be eradicated.
Hamas behaviour inexplicable, Unwoke?? They've been broadcasting this for over two decades..
"I f*** knows what to do with a whole generation Hamas has indoctrinated into hate, then be my guest. Any takers? Any?
*** = anyone, anywhere. Lotta how we got here. Squat on solutions.
I think it was a brutally cold and calculated observation. I also think more are in order.
I saw it as more as a plaintive cry of hope that -- just maybe -- there IS a solution.
I hope you are right, but I think I am.
Don't get me wrong; I sure don't see it either.
Here's the survey from a Palestinian institute in Ramallah that shows 78% Palestinians support the Oct 7 atrocities
https://www.jns.org/three-in-four-palestinians-support-hamass-massacre/
Unwokein Idaho
With respect, read the Koran and you will find that is not inexplicable. Indeed was predictable there would be an increase in support for Islamic terrorism once Barack Obama was elected POTUS.
Part of the answer is to stop quavering in the face of true evil. Why is Ilan Omar still in our country after having committed immigration fraud? Why is Tlaib still sitting in Congress? Why have foreign students who harass our own American Jewish students at universities not been immediately deported? Why?
For the same reasons Shitty Schiff in still in the House after lying about Trump. $$$
"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing".
Just as true today as it was in the 19th century.
Because foreign students are a big revenue source for colleges and universities, that is why.
Much like Lenin's rope salesmen?
Money
And we must get rid of Tik Tok! If India can outlaw Tik Tok, we can as well. What happened to that initiative?
The Republican Cheney Presidency intentionally destroyed the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE (in reporting/journalism) and created the polarized propagandist ping pong non dialogue now battering, abusing and distorting the healthy American national conversation that "..we the people..." deserve. Thankfully "subscription journalism" has allowed us a fall back position.
So, how powerful is a truth/fact based social/political/financial reality? Is it possible to remain sane in a madhouse? We're going to find out.
I agree: TikTok is symptom not disease. And the disease is (again) 20th Century A-Bomb retro politics running cover for an ascending would be criminal financial world monarchy. It is purely the same hubris and runaway pathological narcissism and megalomania which, despite any ideological belief, senselessly murdered millions of human beings last Century. Boiled to basics, regardless of any shiny objects in the jungle path, it is about fascist access to cheap throwaway labor and the exploitation of natural resources without consequence. Crisis to manufactured crisis, no solutions forthcoming, behind it all, the greatest upward transfer of wealth in human history. Capital (DNC/CCP/EU/Davos etc.) has abandoned the American Constitutional Republic and is betting that cultural/social/financial collapse, chaos and division will bring free citizens to their knees. None of this is new phenomena. There is no one in this conversation who can't provide examples. New jackboot. Different shine.
The connection you draw between Western" capital" and the CCP, regardless of propagandist saber rattling, is important. The GRAYZONE recently ran a NATO propaganda film outlining the intent to rebuild the Ukraine as, for all practical purposes, a "fifteen minute" country. The RACKET NEWS report on corporate attempts to overlay a CCP style surveillance system on the American Republic can not be overlooked. Now add Professor Shoshana Zuboff's 700 page report on surveillance capitalism and the literal commodification of human life by both corporate/tech fascism and the surveillance bureaucracy. Ultimately it is enslavement and exploitation without constraint, the gun thug and the company store all over again. A great leveling of both mind and spirit is underway. And, not by accident.
What has this to do with Mr. Murray's report? Hamas BILLIONAIRES control and are literally holding the Palestinian people hostage to an IDEOLOGICAL LIE. Don't want to go along? You die. Meanwhile you live a surveilled life in poverty amid squalor and cultural disintegration while working for below subsistence wages. It's good herd management. The preferred M.O. of all slavers. No education. No future. Dreamers die.
GOT CONSTITUTION?
Say, you've hit on something Our Government does brilliantly! Building Evil for brain-dead reasons! As you say, the CCP that was gonna evolve to be Just Like Us! The Iranians, who were gonna be the counterweight to Israel in the middle east and result in Wonderfulness! (Must be others but the chemo brain kicked in...)
Yes, the idea that Iran would become a respectful regional power that could balance Israel, has been proven wrong.
But do you think Barack Obama or Joe Biden or Tony Blinken would acknowledge that foolishness ?
Not a chance.
Any journey starts with one small step.
Omar will continue to get re-elected as most of her constituents are Sudanese, like her. Tlieb will continue to get re-elected as most of her constituents are Palestinian, like her. Not much we can do about that.
Aayan Hirsi Ali is Somalian. And a far, far cry from.the odious Omar.
Ayaan is a very special person for sure.
I read Infidel shortly after it came out. One of the most important books I have read.
I think Ilhan Omar is from Somalia, not Sudan.
You are correct. She is in a very safe district.
Yes, Somalia is correct.
I think you’re correct…thanks.
Why? Muslim immigration.
I agree
Why? Because too many of us have become cowards. Too concerned about blow back to speak up and denounce. Too lazy to read and understand history. So much easier to be spoonfed what to think and then believe you are a virtuous defender of a colonized victim group.
Mille grazie to you Douglas Murray for invoking Oriana Fallaci’s name. She, like you, saw clearly what Islamism is and also spoke of it with impeccable courage.and candor. We must now to take seriously her admonition made nearly 25 years ago regarding Islam, “Wake up, West, wake up! They have declared war on us, we are at war! And war we must fight”. Time to take that proverbial “leap over Niagara Falls “.
I found this substack by Yuri Bezmenov - the reprint of Vaclev Havel's explanation into the post communist world of control to be very instructional. https://open.substack.com/pub/yuribezmenov/p/power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=fuu7o
And because our clueless president and others still think there can be a peaceful two state solution. Would you want a next door neighbor whose sole purpose was to murder you? In most history of wars, the only resolution has been complete defeat and surrender of one side of the conflict. There is no other lasting solution.
Yes, they must fight until belligerence on one side is eliminated.
Funny, we never hear about a two state solution for the Ukraine--Russia conflict
That’s because there was a two-state arrangement in place until Russia violated it by invading Ukraine and seizing Crimea and part of Eastern Ukraine. And now it falls to Ukraine to try to defeat the Russian invader and re-establish the two independent countries.
Nope the Israelis are much more newsworthy. Israelis and Jews are media and print foder - in Professor Dershowitz words “if it bleeds it leads” and this is exactly what has happen this time round to, except the savagery and the brutality of Hamas, Gazans and Palestinians in the 21st century is beyond belief. Think it’s going to be very difficult to eradicate please God the Israelis succeed.
We heard about a three state solution for seven or eight years... from Moscow until they got fed up and annexed.
Bruce, I believe that those are rhetorical questions, because you KNOW the answer, but it is too risky to voice it, even in the USA, the supposed bastion of "free speech"! The sad fact of the matter is that the same conditions that existed in Israel that allowed "palestinians" to enter their country as workers already exists in the USA! Belief that all people want peace and love is the common denominator, and that if we show love and support to the Gazans, then they will be thankful and want to propagate peace in the area. But that is a FALSE god of peace. They all want death, so give it to them, and then turn out those despicable people who support the death cult. George Santos gets turned out for LYING? But those who support Hamas are allowed to spout their hate in Congress without sanction? What is wrong with this picture? You KNOW!
Then Rush was right, as he so often was. He kept saying the default position of the world is brutality and war.
Rush didn't author that belief. It has been around for quite a while. The natural condition of mankind, according to Thomas Hobbes, is a state of war in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” because individuals are in a “war of all against all”
Are you at war with your wife and kids, your siblings and parents, your friends and neighbours? Do you take time out to kick NYT journalists in the balls? No mate, we are not in a war of all against all. Don't be silly.
A lot of our sociopolitical ideas probably derive from the basic conflict between Hobbes’ views and Locke’s views. Using a VERY broad brush, the Lockian side would correspond to “liberalism”; the Hobbesian side to “conservativism”.
I think that’s what Mr. Moore was referencing...
These were not MY words, they were the words of philosopher Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679). And yes, we ALL are in conflict with each other. The problem is that you may define conflict as physical fighting. Conflict is the state of competing interests bumping up against each other. Husband/wife/children/ family, you cannot deny that there are no competing interests, even in the most stable of families. The key to survival though is compromise, learning how to balance those interests. On the MACRO scale this means national interests, and here also there needs to be compromise to function well. War is just the breakdown in compromise into physical confrontation.
Patton said war is part of human nature (paraphrased).
AH yes, and this brings up an uncomfortable fact that conflict brings about human flourishing. General peace leads to apathy and stagnation. The human being needs tension and conflict in order to stretch and grow. It is like lifting weights, you must have pain in order to have growth. Not WAR, necessarily, but that is the ultimate stressor.
Did I say Rush authored that? Why no I didn’t. I said Rush said it all the time.
Just making an observation, here. Rush was an observer of the human condition, so it was impossible to NOT know the above quote. He may not have quoted Hobbes word for word, but he DID know the human condition.
Then let's stop being cowards. Now. Stand up. Or everything we hold dear will be lost.
Remember when James O’Keefe parked a van in front of Pfizer HQ and ran a loop of that guy who described all sorts of Pfizer dirt to a potential date? (Wonder whatever happened to that guy). Anyway, how about vans driving around NYC with videos of the atrocities? Sometimes all that works is shock. Let’s give it to them.
Bravery is not a quality that is admired in our Congress, much less the actual populace of this country. Cowardice is easy because it involves saying nothing and doing nothing in the face of evil. And bravery is rarely rewarded with re-election.
The glue that holds societies together is the law. One reason why America has prospered from the beginning is our fealty to the rule of law and the equal application of it.
These barbarians of the Left are the enemies of that. Biden - and his henchman, Garland - need to be called to account for their desecration of our rule of law.
Well said. In essence it is what is meant by we the people as citizens, not subjects.
Perhaps it's simpler? As in: It doesn't matter who casts the ballots, it's who counts them.... It doesn't matter who makes the laws (or even what they are!), it's who enforces them.
They do this for the exact same reason. It is easier to arrest law abiding people than criminals! Easier is the name of the game in DC. Easier to push off responsibility to un-elected bureaucrats than to pass actual legislation that means something and accomplishes anything! Easier to go along with these (small number) loud voices, than to put them in their place and shut them up! Life isn't easy for anyone, except those in Congress.