INFOWAR WILL GO ON AND THE MILITARY CANNOT FIND ENOUGH RECRUITS FIT TO SERVE BECAUSE SO MANY ARE INTO DRUGS

Woke DAs kill stores, Infowars will rage on and other commentary

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New York Post 

August 8, 22022

 

 

Ex-prosecutor: Woke DAs Kill Stores

“Citing safety issues, Starbucks is closing stores in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Portland, and its hometown of Seattle” — all cities with radical prosecutors “dedicated to non-prosecution of even serious crimes,” laments Tom Hogan at City Journal. Drug stores, “the usual barometers of urban well-being,” are closing, too. Even big business (Boeing, Citadel) is “pulling out of cities neglected by woke prosecutors.” This will also push the “well-to-do” to “follow their jobs” to places “where prosecutors still prosecute,” leaving people “living in the troubled neighborhoods” to suffer most. Meanwhile, “the next time you can’t get a good cup of coffee in one of these cities, consider whom you voted for in the district attorney’s race.”

Liberal: Saving the US Armed Forces

“A dwindling number of Americans are able and willing to serve in uniform,” worries Michael R. Bloomberg at Bloomberg. “The Pentagon is still 15% short” of its fiscal-year goal for recruitment, with “the Army facing the biggest shortfall” at 60%. “Rising rates of youth obesity and drug use” shrink the recruiting pool, but “relaxing physical fitness standards” is the wrong answer. Give “greater priority . . . to retaining troops once they enlist” via “financial bonuses, faster promotion opportunities, and incentives for obtaining new skills.” And “investments in unmanned weapons systems, artificial intelligence and higher-precision munitions” can “reduce manpower requirements,” thus “keeping seasoned service members in uniform while harnessing the promise of new technologies.”

Culture critic: InfoWars Will Rage On

“Is this the end of Alex Jones?” wonders Ben Sixsmith at Spectator World. “Having confidently declared that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax and that the parents of the dead victims were actors,” the bombastic radio host just lost a lawsuit and is “ordered to pay almost $50 million,” with “more trials ahead.” Truth was never the 9/11 conspiracy theorist’s strong point: “This is a man who hawked a brand of toothpaste as a cure for Covid.” But progressives are wrong “to believe that to slay the monster of Alex Jones is to slay the monster of populist cynicism towards mainstream institutions.” People “raving about jet fuel and steel beams did not engender as much cynicism as the invasion of Iraq.” Jones “did not create the world we live in. He exploited it.”

I ADMIT I DIDN'T KNOW THAT

By Bob Walsh

 

Ivana Trump is buried in a private plot on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club

 

Did you know that in New Jersey property used as a cemetery is exempt from all taxes, rates and assessments?  Also cemetery corporations are exempt from real estate taxes, rates, assessments, business taxes, sales taxes, income taxes and inheritance taxes?  Did you also know that the recently deceased Ivana Trump, Donald Trump's first wife, is buried on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey just behind the first tee?

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THAT ONE WILL BE HARD TO BEAT

By Bob Walsh

More than 50 firefighters worked to clear out a huge blaze from Anne Heche’s Mini Cooper

 

It would seem that Anne Heche was on a podcast shortly before her major car crash, sucking up a fair quantity of both vodka and wine.  It might not make a difference because (depending on who you ask) she may not pull thru.  Various news-gossip reports say she is in stable condition, critical condition, extremely critical condition, on a respirator, unlikely to survive.  Fortunately for her she hurt nobody but herself so is not facing any felony criminal charges.  

You would think she would have enough money she could Uber, or have a gopher drive her around.  No matter which way it goes down for her this is going to be a very expensive drive for her.  I hope she had really good insurance.  

HOUSTON TRAVEL NURSE TRAVELS DOWN L.A. STREET AT 100 MPH, BLOWS THROUGH RED LIGHT, CRASHES LEAVING SIX DEAD AND HERSELF CHARGED WITH MURDER

Nurse who allegedly killed six in fiery Los Angeles crash faces murder charges 

 

By Evan Simko-Bednarski

 

 

New York Post 

August 8, 2022

 

 

Nicole Lorraine Linton

The nurse who allegedly caused the fiery Los Angeles car crash that killed six people — including a pregnant woman and her unborn child — was charged with murder on Monday, prosecutors said.

Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, was hit with six counts of murder, and also faces five counts of vehicular manslaughter, LA County District Attorney George Gascón told reporters, calling the wreck “a terrible tragedy.”

Linton, a nurse with Kaiser Permanente’s West LA Medical Center, is alleged to have been going more than 100mph in a 35mph zone shortly before blowing through a red light Thursday afternoon.

 

Video of the crash showed Linton’s car speeding through the intersection

                  Aftermath of the crash inspected by LAPD and CHP officers

Nicole Lorraine Linton was arrested in connection to the fiery crash near Los Angeles on August 4, 2022 that killed six people

Linton was allegedly driving more than 100mph in a 35mph zone shortly before blowing through a red light Thursday afternoon.

Her Mercedes struck at least five other cars, setting at least three on fire.

Fox 11 Los Angeles reported that tears could be seen running down Linton’s face during her first court appearance on Monday.

 

Linton, tears flowing down her face during her first court appearance, was hit with six counts of murder, and also faces five counts of vehicular manslaughter

Asherey Ryan, who was pregnant, died in the crash, as did her 11-month-old son Allonzo, and her boyfriend Reynold Lester. The family was reportedly heading to a prenatal checkup at the time of the collision.

Two other women were killed in the crash. They have not yet been publicly identified. 

Six children and two adults were also injured in the wreck.

 

              Linton only appeared to suffer minor injuries in the horrible crash

Linton was among the injured, police said. She has since been released from the hospital and was being held in lieu of $9 million bail at LA County’s Century Regional Detention Facility, officials said earlier Monday.

  CHP and other officials investigate a fiery crash where multiple people were killed

A California Highway Patrol official said the aftermath of the crash “almost looks like a war zone,” describing a scene of crushed and burned-out vehicles with car parts scattered throughout the street.

$3K WORTH OF BRISKET? ..... QUICK GIT A ROPE, THEM'S A CAPITAL ORFENSE

Texas barbecue restaurant manager says thief stole almost $3K worth of brisket 

 

By Adam Sabes

 

 

Fox News

August 8, 2022

 

 

Thieves still nearly $3,000 worth of brisket from Texas barbecue restaurant

 

The general manager of a barbecue restaurant in Texas says that a thief stole almost $3,000 worth of brisket on the morning of Aug. 4.

Alison Clem, the general manager of la Barbecue in Austin, Texas, said that 20 briskets were stolen by someone who jumped a fence at around 4 a.m. and ran toward the smoker, according to FOX 7.

Clem said that she thinks the thief had been planning the theft.

“We’re kind of speculating that he’s been watching. You know, somebody that used to cook for us possibly. We haven’t had a turnover in our house since we’ve been here, so it wouldn’t be current. So, that’s also kind of strange that he knew.” Clem said.

She said the incident was caught on camera and went on for around 15 minutes.

“One of my strongest guys back there can barely lift 10 briskets in a box, and [the thief] lifted them over his head. So, I really just think that it was planned.” said Clem.

The cost of the meat, according to Clem, is $3,000 when seasoning and labor is factored in, she said.

Clem also said that while it’s the seventh or eighth time that the restaurant has been broken into, it’s the first time that meat has been stolen.

“I can only speculate that he possibly works for a food truck or a restaurant. I don’t know, een throwing a party. I have no idea,” Clem s

NO TERRORISTS FREED BY ISRAEL IN EXCANGE FOR CEASEFIRE

Jerusalem Clarifies: We Gave Nothing to the Islamic Jihad

PIJ Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhala claimed Israel had agreed to release its official Bassam al-Saadi in return for the ceasefire agreement. He warned his terrorist movement would resume fighting if he was not released

 

By Aryeh Savir 

 

TPS

August 8, 2022

 

 

Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in the southern Gaza Strip to celebrate attacks in Israel

 

Israel did not agree to the release of any of the detainees demanded by the Islamic Jihad, neither the administrative detainee nor the one who was arrested last week, a Jerusalem official clarified Monday following the end of Operation Breaking Dawn.

Ahead of the ceasefire that went into effect on Sunday night and ended 55 hours of warfare between the IDF and the Islamic Jihad terror organization in the Gaza Strip, the Islamic Jihad leadership demanded the release of several prisoners held by Israel, including Sheikh Bassam al-Saadi, the leader of the Islamic Jihad in Samaria region who was arrested last week and who was the supposed reason for the terror organization’s threats against Israel that led to the operation.

Although the Egyptians, who mediated between Israel and the Islamic Jihad and facilitated the ceasefire, asked to hear about the situation of the detainees, they did not say that Israel would release them, “and we did not agree for that,” the source said.

 

 

The Egyptians told the Islamic Jihad that they would make an effort to release the administrative prisoner Khalil Al-Awaweda for medical treatment and to work for the release of al-Saadi, but the terror organization knows that this promise has no practical value.

Israeli analyst Yoni Ben Menachem, of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), wrote that there is no Israeli commitment to release al-Saadi.

“He holds very important information about all the terrorist activities of the Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank,” he explained.

The Islamic Jihad was “forced to agree to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal and come down from the tree, now it is trying to present itself as the one who won the short round of fighting in which it suffered a severe blow from Israel,” he noted.

On the other hand, Israel achieved most of the goals it set for itself in the operation, and the decision to end it was correct.

“Now is the time to change the attitude towards the Gaza Strip and try to formulate a strategy that will bring long-term calm, this is a difficult task,” he said, “otherwise the next round of fighting will arrive in a short time.”

While the Islamic Jihad achieved nothing, the IDF emphasized its satisfaction with meeting the objectives of the operation  – causing significant damage to the Islamic Jihad’s chain of command.

Taysir al-Jabari, commander of the Islamic Jihad’s northern division, was eliminated on Friday, and the commander of the southern division, Khaled Mansour, was eliminated on Saturday night. Khatab ‘Amasi, Islamic Jihad’s commanding officer of the Rafah Brigade,  and Ziad Madalal, Mansour’s deputy, were also killed in the strikes.

MAYBE JUST A TAD OF OVER-REACTION ?

By Bob Walsh

 

 

 Back to the plantation fellas. No one is laughing at the Assistant Chief's joke now

 

Vincent, Alabama is a small town.  Total population of not quite 2,000 humans and overlaps into three different counties.  Until a couple of days ago they even had their own police department.  Three people.  Not any more.

It seems that a few days back someone within the department sent out a text on a social media platform.  It asked, "What do y'all call a pregnant slave?  The response was, "BOGO.  Buy one, get one free."  The city fathers were not amused and canned the Chief and Assistant Chief and shut down the department, 

Police coverage is now being provided by the Shelby County Sheriff's Office.

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: Over-reaction? Not by a long shot in today racial-sensitive society.

IF THERE WAS SOME SORT OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FOUR VICTIMS, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD CLUE

Possible serial killer targeting Muslims is on the lam in New Mexico 

 

By Ben Kesslen

 

 New York Post 

August 7, 2022

 

Authorities are investigating the possibility that a serial killer has been hunting Muslim people in Albuquerque, New Mexico after four men of the faith were murdered there in the past year.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday that she deployed additional state police to help with the probe into the “targeted killings.”

“The targeted killings of Muslim residents of Albuquerque is deeply angering and wholly intolerable,” she wrote on Twitter.

“We will not stop in our pursuit of justice for the victims and their families and are bringing every resource to bear to apprehend the killer or killers — and we WILL find them,” the Democrat said in a statement.

She added: “I am angered and saddened that this is happening in New Mexico, a place that prides itself on diversity of culture and thought. This is not who we are.”

The statement did not provide details on whether investigators have any leads or confirm if the killings are connected.

An unnamed Muslim man was murdered Friday night, following the shooting of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain on Monday, police said.

Hussain’s killing comes after Aftab Hussein was murdered on July 26 and Mohammad Ahmadi was killed in November 2021.

Hussain and Hussein were both Pakistani and went to the same mosque, according to the New York Times. The slayings have prompted an outcry in Albuquerque’s close-knit Muslim community. Less than one percent of the two million people in New Mexico are Muslim, according to the Pew Research Center.

 

Ahmad Assed, president of the Islamic Center of New Mexico, condemned the series of murders against Muslims in the Albuquerque community
Mourners sprinkle dirt over the grave of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain during his burial at Fairview Memorial Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Aug. 5, 2022

“We are incredibly sickened with the idea that someone has this much hate against innocent people,” Ahmad Assed, leader of the Islamic Center of New Mexico, said, according to the Times. “We’re scared for our families, we’re scared for our children. And we are incredibly confused about why this is happening.”

President Biden expressed solidarity with the local Muslim community on Sunday.

“While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims’ families, and my administration stands strongly with the Muslim community,” Biden said in a Twitter post. “These hateful attacks have no place in America.”

 

Muhammad Afzaal Hussain was shot and killed near his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico Altaf Hussain, brother of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, cries over his grave during his burial at Fairview Memorial Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Aug. 5, 2022

THESE TWO JERKS SHOULD BE LOCKED UP AT THE GRAYBAR HOTEL ... AND FOR MANY YEEARS TOO

Georgia couple charged with using their adopted children to make child porn 

 

By Patrick Reilly

 

New York Post

August 7, 2022

 

 

William and Zachary Zulock have been charged with using their two adopted children to make child pornography

 

A Georgia couple has been charged with using their two adopted children to record child pornography, police said.

Walton County Sheriff’s Office raided a home in Loganville July 27 on reports that a man there was downloading child porn.

After interviewing the suspect, who was not identified, police said they learned there was another suspect in the county who was “producing homemade child sexual abuse material with at least one child who lived in the home,” the sheriff’s office said Thursday.

Around 11:30 p.m. that same night, executed a search warrant in Oxford at the home of William Dale Zulock, 32, and Zachary Jacoby Zulock, 35. 

Walton County’s Division of Family and Child Services joined deputies in responding to the home to help protect the two brothers who lived there.

During their search, deputies found evidence the pair, who were the children’s adoptive fathers, “were engaging in sexually abusive acts and video documenting this abuse,” the sheriff’s office said.

Early the next morning, the Zulocks were both booked at the Walton County Jail.

Both men were charged with aggravated child molestation, sexual exploitation of a child and enticing a child for indecent purposes, WSBTV reported. William Zulock was additionally charged with child molestation.

Both men were charged with aggravated child molestation, sexual exploitation of a child and enticing a child for indecent purposes, WSBTV reported. William Zulock was additionally charged with child molestation.

TEXAS GOV. ABBOT IS FORCING NY MAYOR ADAMS TO ASK BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FOR HELP

Mayor Adams furious after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent dozens of migrants to New York City against their will

Gov. Abbott hopes Mayor Eric Adams will welcome the migrants arriving in the Big Apple.

 

By Marcia Kramer and Ali Bauman  

CBS New York

August 5, 2022

 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott accused Democrats of causing a “historic and preventable crisis.”

Fox & friends interviews a migrant 

NEW YORK -- A red state, blue state border war has erupted after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent dozens of migrants to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, taking advantage of New York City's right to shelter law as he fights with President Joe Biden over immigration policy.

 

Mayor Eric Adams is furious, CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported Friday.

 

The Port Authority Bus Terminal became the scene of the crime - what city officials think is a political crime by Abbott.

 

 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the first bus full of migrants has arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal

 

The Texas governor bused over 40 migrants - men, women and children - to New York City, his new drop-off location, to remove them from border towns in a challenge to the Biden administration's open border policies. 

 

"Governor Greg Abbott is continuing to play with the lives of human beings. We think this is cruel, it's disgusting and it's pure cowardice," said Manuel Castro, commissioner of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. 

 

A spokesperson for Adams called the move "an embarrassing stain on the state of Texas," but stressed that as a right to shelter city, he would welcome the asylum seekers with open arms. 

 

In a statement, Adams' press secretary Fabien Levy said, "... but we are asking for resources to help do so. We need Washington, D.C.'s assistance in dealing with the cruel political games being played by inept politicians like the governor of Texas."

 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that although Texas has been organizing bus rides for migrants to the U.S. capital, he has not been busing them to the Big Apple like Adams has claimed in recent weeks. Abbott said he will continue busing migrants to Democratic-run cities so they can understand the border crisis

 

Abbott has been busing migrants to Washington, D.C. but said New York City will be a new location. 

 

"New York City is the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within in the sanctuary city. I hope he follows through on his promise of welcoming all migrants with open arms so that our overrun and overwhelmed border towns can find relief," Abbott said in a statement. 

 

Castro said some of the migrants were confused to arrive in the Big Apple and relief workers who met the buses said many had no idea they were coming to New York City. 

 

"I spoke to another family who thought were coming to Maryland, and in fact, their paperwork from immigration says that they were going to these destinations, but they were lied to in Texas and now they're being sent to New York City," Castro said.  

"Some of them weren't even supposed to be in New York. I mean there's people going to Portland, Oregon. We had to get them tickets to North Carolina, Washington, D.C. and all sorts of other places. So they were kind of inappropriately brought to New York," said relief worker Andrea Garbarini. 

Kathryn Kliff, a legal aid attorney, said she's also worried that Abbott sent people here against their will. 

"By their own choice, have endured horrific things before they got here and this is just an additional trauma to be sent somewhere that's not where you want to be," Kliff said.

CBS2's Ali Bauman spoke with a 44-year-old single father of three from Venezuela who wants to stay anonymous because he fears for his safety.

He has been staying in Queens with his three sons since they arrived a few days ago.

In Spanish, he spoke about their journey.

"I spent five days in the jungle from Colombia to Panama," he said. "I got robbed, all my food and money was taken, so my kids and I spent two days in the jungle with no food."

Eventually, they made it to Texas.

"This charity in Texas sent us a voucher so we could fly from Texas to Chicago to New York," he said.

He added he feels blessed to have shelter, food and fresh clothing here, and he and his children say they're excited about the future.

This father is one of the 4,000 migrants seeking asylum who have come to New York City this summer.

Adams, meanwhile, is now turning to the federal government for more resources.

"We already have a housing crisis. Help us here because not only it's housing, it's translation services, it's education, it is food," he said.

The city is helped by nonprofits like Catholic Migration Services in Brooklyn, which provides legal services.

"We have the knowledge to help them. We just need more resources to be able to," said Raluca Oncioiu, an attorney with Catholic Migration Services' immigration program.

She says they're now receiving hearing notices for immigration court for people who are not their clients and they cannot contact.

"A number of them have told us that it was the officers at the border who put the address on the papers," she said. "Processes that have been put in place to ensure that people have their day in court, that they can actually seek asylum, those processes are being bypassed."

The city says it is increasing its capacities across the board for additional beds in the shelter system, as well as interpreters and legal services.

Legal Aid is asking Adams and Castro to provide a plan for addressing the needs of the migrants who have arrived here. 

BLAMING SURGE IN CRIME ON BAIL REFORM

Ex-NYPD top aide John Miller: Bail reform was ‘atom bomb’ that ‘set us back a decade’ 

 

By David Propper

 

 

New York Post 

August 7, 2022

 

 

John Miller argued bail reform laws were pushed by "advocates for people who commit crimes."  

A former top NYPD official said Sunday that state lawmakers “set us back a decade” by dropping an “atom bomb” on the criminal-justice system with their 2019 bail-reform laws.

Ex-Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller blasted the state’s bail-reform measures as “all ideology over common sense,” saying the laws were pushed by “advocates for people who commit crimes.”

Miller, who retired from the NYPD a few weeks ago after nearly a decade there, told radio’s “Cats Roundtable” that violent crime was at its lowest in 2018 and 2019 — before bail reform was passed in Albany.

“And then you saw crime start to climb, and it really set us back a decade in terms of shootings and murders, which is shame,” Miller told AM 770 host John Catsimatidis. “It’s like having a cure for a disease and then having the hospital take the vaccination away.”

Miller said state lawmakers “literally took every proposal that had been sitting on the shelf that they couldn’t pass because common-sense people wouldn’t let it happen, they blew the dust off them, and they passed them all at once.”

Critics of bail reform, including NYC Mayor Eric Adams, have blasted the laws for allowing repeat offenders back on the streets and not jailing people accused of violent crimes before trial.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has suggested that judges are to blame for the ongoing surge of violence.

“[Legislators] balled [the reforms] into one budget bill and then snuck them out in the middle of the night. And we’ve been suffering from it ever since,” Miller said. “I don’t think anybody bothered to read them. I think it was all ideology over common sense.

 

A person was fatally shot on W 124th Street around 12:45 a.m. on July 23

Police respond to reports of multiple shots fired in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on July 28

“And I think the criminal-justice system is a complex ecosystem where you can make changes and adjustments, and there are reforms that made sense that are in there,” he said. “But you can’t do all of that at once and drop it like an atom bomb on a system that that’s complicated and not expect turmoil.

“District attorneys don’t like it. Judges don’t like it. Police officers don’t like it. And citizens don’t like it. So that leaves one universe — the advocates — who think it’s terrific. They are advocates for people who commit crimes, who get caught in the system,” he said. “And where are the advocates for everybody else?”

ISRAEL WILL BE CONDMNED FOR OVERREACTING TO 600 ROCETS FIRED AT THE JEWISH STATE FROM GAZA

Quick Break Down of Operation Breaking Dawn

As we publish this, rockets are still being fired at Israeli civilians from Gaza, and reports are circulating that Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have agreed to an Egypt-mediated ceasefire. The coming hours will tell

 

By Stan Goodenough 

 

Israel Today

 August 7, 2022

 

  

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, above the southern Israeli city of Sderot on August 6, 2022

 

Upwards of 600 rockets are believed to have been fired “into” Israel from the Gaza Strip since Friday night – which is when the Israel Defence Forces seized the initiative and went to war against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

For the reader who has not been following events, they unfolded as follows:

Israel’s security forces have been working in recent months to limit efforts by the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad to recruit followers among the stateless Arabs in Samaria and Judea.

These efforts have proven successful, incensing the PIJ.  Then, on August 1, Israel took a senior leader in the organisation, Sheikh Bassam al-Saadi, into custody.  It is thought likely that Israel’s Shin Bet internal security services would have been working on al-Saadi to gather vital intelligence needed to combat the PIJ in both “the West Bank” and in Gaza.

 

Masked militants of the Saraya al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, march in an anti-Israel rally in Gaza

 

The PIJ reacted with fury to the sheikh’s arrest, and vowed in increasingly violent terms to unleash hell against Israelis – to bomb and kill Jews in the heart of the country.

As fears of an attack grew, Israelis living in proximity to the Gaza Strip were to all intents and purposes incarcerated in their homes for four days by order of the IDF. Farmers were banned from caring for their crops and fields. Their anger at being held hostage to Arab terror in this way was directed against Israel’s interim government which – it is thought also out of electoral considerations – decided to go to war against the PIJ in Gaza.

Israel’s leadership publicly proclaimed Friday that it would not let any attack on its citizens go unanswered, and launched “Operation Breaking Dawn” against the PIJ.

 

Smoke billows from a building struck during an Israeli air strike which is thought to have killed an Islamic Jihad commander in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 7, 2022

Hundreds of Palestinians have taken to the streets to protest against the violence amid Israel's airstrikes which have killed 31, including more than 15 civilians, since Friday

Islamic Jihad rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022

 

Interceptor missiles are fired by Iron Dome anti-missile system as a rocket is launched by Palestinian militants towards Israel 

Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood

 

This picture taken from the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon shows Palestinian rockets fired from the Gaza Strip today 

 

Rockets are launched by Palestinian militants into Israel today amid Israeli-Palestinian fighting on the Gaza Strip 

 

An Iron Dome anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile as a rocket is launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, at the sky near the Israel-Gaza border August 7, 2022

 

This picture taken from the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon shows Palestinian rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on August 7

 

In the course of the action, the IDF succeeded in killing the two senior-most leaders of the organisation – Taysir al-Jabari, commander of the Islamic Jihad’s northern division, and Khaled Mansour, commander of the southern division.

Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders Khaled Mansour (right) and Tayseer Jabari (left) were killed in separate Israeli attacks

From Friday night through Sunday afternoon, the PIJ fired hundreds of rockets, launching them from behind the human shield of their own civilian population, and directing them deliberately at Israel’s civilian population – a double war crime.  Over 100 Israeli properties have reportedly been damaged by the rockets.

Israel does everything possible to avoid causing civilian casualties among the Arabs. In vivid contrast to Muslim values, the significance the Jews place on human life is very high. Also, in these conflicts, images of dead or wounded Arab children are used to galvanise global opinion against Israel – something the Arab side knows, and cynically exploits.

Thus were images of dead children in one of Gaza’s residences used on Saturday to provoke international condemnation of Israel.  These innocent children were “the victims of brutal Israeli aggression” according to not only the PIJ spokesman, but also to Israeli Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi (a virulent anti-Semite).

After carefully checking the reports and going over its coverage of the conflict, the IDF published an unedited video Sunday showing clearly how a PIJ missile had misfired, gone off course, and hit the building, killing the Arab children who were inside.

“Israeli security forces did not strike in Jabaliya in the past few hours. It has been unequivocally proven that this incident was the result of the misfiring of a rocket launched by Islamic Jihad,” stated the IDF.

At least two more Palestinian Arabs were killed in another, separate, rocket misfiring incident.

While the IDF had let it be known Sunday morning that it was prepared to keep fighting the PIJ for at least a week, massive international pressure is mounting for a ceasefire between the parties.

U.S. TO ISSUE SPECIFIC I.D. CARDS TO UNDOCUMENTED DEMOCRATS

By Bob Walsh

Immigrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico on June 22, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona

 

La Migra is going to start issuing specific photo identification cards to undocumented democrats (formerly known as illegal aliens) in what is at least allegedly an attempt to reduce paperwork and help those poor victims of society stay current on required court hearings and other stuff they are supposed to need to know.  

The pilot program has not yet ramped up.  The ID card is not supposed to be legal identification and would, in theory, allow the holder to use the card to make online access of information about their cases.  So I guess a computer will recognize it but people are not supposed to.  

 

Joe and Kamala smile at the expected vote for Democrats by illegal immigrants

So far ICE wants $10 million to crank up the ICE SECURE DOCKET CARD.  It is not clear just yet how secure the document would be.  It is not yet clear if TSA would accept it.  Actually very little is clear on the program.  

This is one of those things that COULD be a smart idea, if........Remember what Barack Obama said about Joe Biden's chief skill? 

THE BATTLE FOR A STINKING 'PESTILENTIAL HELLHOLE' ..... WE MUST NEVER FORGET!

America Turns the Tide: The Meaning of Guadalcanal

An anniversary that reminds us of what greatness required. 

 

 

by Jack Park

 

The American Spectator  

August 6, 2022  

 

 

 

 

 U.S. Marines in the Battle of Guadalcanal

 

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 7, 1942, American Marines went ashore on the tropical islands of Guadalcanal and its tiny neighbors Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo. This marked the first sustained offensive action by American land forces in the Pacific. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, America and its allies had been chased out of the Philippines, Wake Island, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. It was as Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto said, the time of “running wild” for six months, with no “expectation of success” thereafter. The Japanese had awoken a sleeping giant by attacking Pearl Harbor.

Guadalcanal was the first step on the way to Tokyo Bay. But that road was a long, grinding one.

In April 1942, America turned the Japanese forces away from an attempt to turn the corner on New Guinea and capture Port Moresby. The Battle of the Coral Sea is seen as a tactical American defeat and a strategic victory. Had the Japanese succeeded, they would have been on Australia’s doorstep. They were turned back, though, and never tried again.

In June, the American Navy delivered a resounding victory at Midway, sinking four Japanese aircraft carriers and losing one. Again, they turned the Japanese away from a planned invasion of Midway Island. As Craig Symonds notes in The Battle of Midway, six months after Pearl Harbor, the “instrument” of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor “had been smashed beyond recovery.”

After Midway, American codebreakers learned that the Japanese Army was building an airfield on Guadalcanal. That airfield posed a threat to the American shipping lanes to Australia. Adm. Ernest King, the Navy’s commander-in-chief, decided to defuse that threat by taking the island.

From the sea, Guadalcanal looked like paradise, but that view was deceptive. James Jones, the future author of From Here to Eternity, found the island to be a stinking “pestilential hellhole.” It was hot, humid, and very rainy, and that combination meant that it never dried out. Donald Miller, who has written about D-Days in the Pacific, writes, “The vine-choked forest blocked out the sun and was filled with slimy mud and rotting vegetation. This damp growth gave of a vile, unforgettable smell and was a breeding ground for voracious insects and dozens of debilitating jungle diseases.” One Marine observed, “If God ever created a hell-on-earth contest the island … would have made it to the finals.”

The Marines were unopposed as they came ashore on Guadalcanal. They quickly took over the airfield and established a perimeter. The Japanese reacted, however, bringing in reinforcements for the construction workers who were there when the Marines arrived.

The Marine position quickly became tenuous because their supporting Navy vessels left the area without having fully unloaded. The admiral commanding the three aircraft carriers, which were operating to the south of Guadalcanal, and their supporting vessels was concerned about land-based Japanese air power. So, he moved his carriers away from Guadalcanal out of Japanese range, and the incompletely unloaded transport vessels soon went with them. But, not before a Japanese fleet made a devastating night attack, rendering the Allied naval forces largely hors de combat. The Japanese commander returned to his base at Rabaul without attacking the transports; he was concerned about the possibility of being caught by American aircraft when day arrived.

The Marines on Guadalcanal soon completed the airfield, and, by Aug. 18, the field was ready to receive American planes of any kind. The dynamic began to shift as the Americans controlled the daylight hours and the Japanese planes and ships controlled the night. The battle turned into one of attrition, in which America held the advantage. The American Navy performed better than it had when surprised on Aug. 8, 1942, as it took advantage of its radar capability; the improvement became even more apparent when Adm. William Halsey Jr. took over in October 1942. Japanese supply runs became more and more difficult to perform as American aircraft and patrol torpedo boats took a larger and larger toll on the Japanese supply effort.

                     Some of the 24,000 Japanese soldiers that died fighting in the Battle of Guadalcanal

In the end, the Japanese decided to cut their losses and evacuated their surviving troops from Guadalcanal in February 1943. With that evacuation, the United States was on its way to an eventual victory.

I COME TO BURY JOURNALISM, NOT TO PRAISE IT

Ex-Time reporter: The day I knew journalism had died in America 

 

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

 

 

 New York Post 

August 6, 2022

 

A young Kenneth Timmerman (left) was axed from Time magazine in 1994 after digging up dirt on the administration of then-President Bill Clinton

 

I have covered war, espionage and intrigue for major news organizations in the United States and around the world, including the New York Times, Newsweek, Time magazine, Reader’s Digest, CBS 60 Minutes, ABC News, Le Monde, L’Express, Le Point, and many others. That was when these organizations still tried to be “mainstream” and did not pull punches, self-censor and lie to protect their political allies. 

Only when I was fired by Time in 1994 for investigating a story that threatened President Bill Clinton and many senior officials in his administration did I begin to understand that the mainstream media was dead. 

The first war I went to cover was the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. As a Left-Bank expat living in Paris, I naturally sympathized with the Palestinians and planned to embed with a pro-Palestinian NGO in beseiged West Beirut. I wanted to write about the plight of innocent civilians whose lives had been shattered by war.

 

Timmerman (left) during one of his numerous visits to Iraq with an unidentified acquaintance. The journalist came to know many of the top arms dealers in the Middle East

I wanted to write about the “little” people, not about politics and politicians.

What I eventually learned went far beyond my wildest nightmares. The Palestinians rejected my credentials from their own diplomats in Europe, and threw me in an underground cell as a suspected Israeli spy. 

 

The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 was the first war Timmerman covered. As a progressive, he initially expected to sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians. Instead, the Palestinians threw him in jail and beat him

There were 15 of us packed in the cell, which couldn’t have measured more than 16 by 10 feet. There were Lebanese Christians and Palestinians seeking to flee West Beirut, Kurds, Syrians and even a Somali. All of them smoked to hide the kerosene-fringed stench of the latrine bucket and their own clothes, and I smoked with them, but it just made the air thicker and more fetid. For 24 days and nights, we got pounded incessantly by Israeli fighter-jets, naval guns, tanks and artillery. The building had eight floors when I arrived, and was reduced to one and a half floors and pancakes by the time I was released. 

One day two American reporters, guests of the PLO, took refuge in the underground shelter during an air raid. A cellmate, a French foreign legionnaire, started whistling the French national anthem and I joined him. Then we whistled the Star Spangled Banner and the two journalists, terrified, turned their backs on us and studiously ignored what they were hearing.

 

Timmerman’s reporting uncovered attempts by China to buy sensitive military equipment from US manufacturers with the benediction — or at least, a blind eye — from Clinton administration officials

Later, I was taken upstairs for a “bastonnade,” a beating on the soles of the feet using three lengths of metal-shielded electric cable, twisted together and bound with tape. The pain was beyond anything I could imagine, and eventually I passed out.

I certainly learned more about the “little people” as a hostage than I ever could at a press briefing or from some senior official. Speaking directly to the bit players of world history — not the stars — became a habit I have kept to this day.

Before the first Gulf War I made many trips to Iraq, where I got to know virtually every Western arms dealer. (Hint: arms dealers love to talk). I also tracked down and interviewed the heads of Iraq’s ballistic missile, nuclear and chemical weapons programs, before anyone even knew their names.

 

During his time at Time magazine (former headquarters above), Timmerman said it became apparent that editors sought to serve the interests of the Democratic party, rather than uncover the truth

I returned to the States after 18 years overseas to work for Congressional Democrat Tom Lantos as a specialist on weapons of mass destruction, and subsequently joined a new investigative team at Time magazine. Sources in the AFL-CIO Machinists Union tipped me off to strange doings at the B-1 bomber plant in Columbus, Ohio, midnight visits by Chinese intelligence officers, and frustrated US Customs agents. As I investigated, encouraged by Time editors, I uncovered and documented a massive effort by China to buy sensitive military production gear from US weapons plants, seemingly with the benediction — or at least, a blind eye — from Clinton administration officials. 

 

Timmerman said he was shown a complaint from an assistant secretary under Clinton, which was faxed to the editor-in-chief of Time. The story was spiked and Timmerman got fired

Eventually, along with other reporters, I put together a four-page story on the scheme that was scheduled to run in mid-July 1994. After a Friday lunchtime staff meeting, the Washington, DC, editor, came into my cubicle. “You’ve pissed off people in the administration with your questions,” he said.

“I thought it was my job to ask difficult questions of the administration,” I said.

He fired me on the spot and pulled the story, which ran a year later under the title “China Shops” in the conservative American Spectator magazine. Three years after I was fired, the exporter, McDonnell Douglas, was indicted for export violations, and Sen. Fred Thomson and Rep. Christopher Cox launched massive investigations into the Clinton sell-off of sensitive US technology to Communist China that led to the creation of the US-China Security Commission, which continues to investigate Chinese misdeeds today.

 

 

A source at the Commerce Department later showed me the complaint that his predecessor, an assistant secretary, had faxed to the editor-in-chief of Time magazine the day before I was fired. It was explicit, and called for them to pull the story.

Time’s editors showed in July 1994 that they believed their job was not to uncover the truth but to provide political cover to Democrats in Washington. It’s only gotten worse since then, but I believe this incident formally marks the end of the “mainstream media” as we once knew it. Like many other countries in Europe and elsewhere, we now have a politicized media in the United States. But unlike other countries, in all but a few cases our media refuses to acknowledge its ideological affiliation. So added to bias, you have hypocrisy.