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Israel, Zionism, Jews, and Anti-Semitism
“In some quarters anger at Israel’s brutal occupation has undoubtedly spilled over to an animus toward Jews generally. But however lamentable, it’s hardly cause for wonder…. Should it really surprise us if the cruel occupation by a self-declared Jewish state engenders a generalized antipathy to Jews?… [I]f many Jews themselves repudiate any distinction between Israel and world Jewry, indeed, if they denounce such a distinction as itself anti-Semitic; if mainstream Jewish organizations lend uncritical support to every Israeli policy, however, criminal, indeed, abetting the most virulent tendencies inside Israel and muzzling principled dissent outside Israel; if Israel defines itself juridically as the sovereign state of the Jewish people, and Jews abroad label any criticism of Israel anti-Jewish — the real wonder is that the spillover from antipathy toward Israel to Jews generally hasn’t been greater.”
–Norman G. Finkelstein, Beyond Chutzpah:
On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, 2008
Great Resource on the History of Communism
Vladimir Putin’s paternal grandfather, Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, was the personal live-at-home cook for Lenin and Stalin.
Daily Wire’s “Empire of Terror”, the case against communism is Bill Whittle’s stellar effort.
Social proof is a thing.
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Saturday Snippets 6 April 2024
Like all things, drone racing is the cutting edge of pressing the technology into the future, not government.It’s these small and arcane subculture that drive innovation.
Did I say not government?
The Drone Racing League with tens of thousands of members. The market delivers.
Mike Rowe does drones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reUd7kWU78A
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How the US Navy spends your money.
And you thought the idea of the Soviet political commissar, zampolit, was dead?
CDR Salamander has been doing Diversity Thursday for years; a rich gold mine of government perfidy, incompetence and rake-stomping.
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/diversity-thursday-879
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IED kills Boeing, news at eleven…
This is a chaos avalanche of IED, the murder of the work ethic, the natural inability of the government to ever dynamically regulate anything with a competent hand and the inevitable result of a government K-PhD education system that institutionally cannot create critical thinkers and instead creates massive subsidized cartels of the dumbest people in human history.
“Boeing is the most visible example because every problem—like, say, a bolt that falls off—gets amplified. But this is happening everywhere around us, and it is going to have a huge effect. DEI and ESG became a way to stop talking honestly to employees.
We need to tear off the veil of all this coded language that is being used everywhere, and our elites need to recover some sense of service to people. They think they have it already because they are reciting these shibboleths of moral virtue: “I am serving because I am repeating what everyone else is saying about DEI.” It’s a form of cheap self-love that is being embraced by leaders. If you pay the tax to the DEI gods or the ESG gods and use coded language with your workforce, it absolves you of the hard work of really leading.”
To quote VanDiego:
“Regulatory agencies are not competent to oversee Boeing, much less any other company or industry. They are like shaman that engage in chanting and trickery to convince their unsuspecting victims that they have actual power. The problems were not one of incorrectly designed or uncorrected installed parts. The problems were systemic and beyond the purview or ability of regulatory bureaucrats to understand, much less correct. The moving of the HQ, the hiring of incompetent leadership, the change in goals from product competition to rent seeking through government contracts and protection, are what caused these troubles. The faulty parts are simply the physical manifestation of bad systems in place. No amount of regulation can deal with this.”
https://www.city-journal.org/article/insider-explains-what-has-gone-wrong-with-boeing
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Israel’s Andersonville
The barbarian sadists that rule historic Palestine, here’s what they do:
“Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event,” the physician said in the letter. He said inmates are fed through straws, defecate in diapers, and are held in constant restraints, which violate medical ethics and the law.
American Israel supporters are to blame for the next terrorist attacks on our country. Their support for these Zionist torturers, killers, liars and thieves is treason against the United States and our people.
NY Times: Fed Money Printing Doesn’t Cause Price Inflation!
Perusing New York Times articles directly related to the topic of price inflation, one can find an “Inflation FAQ” purporting to explain what inflation is and what causes it.
As an example, a February 29 article by Jeanna Smialek titled “A Key Inflation Measure Moderated in January” featured the FAQ below a lead paragraph claiming that “price increases are coming back under control”.
Naturally, there is no explicit acknowledgment from the Times that the price inflation occurring after the implementation of COVID‑19 lockdown measures was a consequence of the monetary “stimulus” used to pay the costs for the government’s lockdown madness.
This, of course, is because the Times was a cheerleader for the lockdown insanity and is a steadfast cheerleader for the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy.
Why I Pick on Israel
People close to me ask why I criticize Israel while ignoring the other bad governments in the world. (I guess they don’t count the U.S. government as bad.) I have many reasons, but here’s a big one: no other government (besides the U.S. government) claims to act in my name. I object to that. (For the record, years ago I declared my exit from the disparate worldwide collection of people that Israel presumptuously claims to speak for.)
Jill Biden: Stop it now! Joe Biden: She did not mean ‘stop’ it.
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