Diversity Is A Strength: NYC Muslims and Jews Clash Over Jewish Settlement Of Palestinian Land

"Violent anti-Israel protesters yank woman’s hair, flash strobe light in boy’s face at disturbing NYC rally," reports the New York Times. The protests erupted over an event by Young Israel Senior Services promoting the purchase by Jews of real estate in Israel and the Palestinian territories in the West Bank. "The vitriolic demonstration came just after a chaotic clash last week at the historic Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, where hundreds of anti-Israel protesters descended on an event there hosted by Nefesh B’nefesh, a Zionist group that helps Jews immigrate from the US to Israel." 

Providence, RI, Values Blacks Stabbing White Women To Death

The New York Post reports that "[a] mural painted to honor Iryna Zarutska — the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered [by a black man] while riding a North Carolina train — is being taken down after outrage in Providence, Rhode Island." 

The office of Mayor Brett Smiley told Fox News that he wanted the artwork taken down, saying that the art is “divisive and does not represent Providence.”   

Providence is home to a street mural honoring "Black Lives Matter" (see also here); a second "Black Lives Matter" mural;  a "mural-like image of George Floyd" on a utility box; a "SAY THEIR NAMES" mural listing George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee; and others. For instance, this news story from 2020 reported that murals were going up all over Providence after George Floyd riots. All deeply divisive. 

    So the issue isn't "divisive" murals. It's that they hate white people, and so Zarutska's fate isn't, in their view, worth remembering.

We Get Parts Of Greenland

Stephen Green, at PJ Media, relates:

    The BBC reported early Tuesday that the Trump administration is "holding regular negotiations with Denmark to expand its military presence in Greenland," according to "the usual sources familiar with the discussions." ... [T]he discussions reportedly include more than just a handful of new military bases.

    One source told the Beeb that administration officials "floated an arrangement in which the three new military bases would be formally designated as U.S. sovereign territory."  

1st Circuit: Illegal Aliens Don't Have 2nd Amendment Rights

From The Truth About Guns: "Appeals Court Rules That Illegal Immigrants Don’t Have Second Amendment Protections." The article explains:

The ruling revolved around a case involving the prosecution of Alberto Rebollar Osorio, a Mexican citizen who had been living in the U.S. illegally for 11 years when he was taken into custody during a traffic stop in Maine. He had a firearm in his vehicle and was subsequently indicted on a charge of possessing a firearm as an “alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States.”  

Applying the Bruen standard, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that 8 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), which bans illegal aliens from possessing firearms, fits within the history and tradition of this nation’s regulation of firearms rooted in English law and because it was enacted in the context of modern societal concerns about security risks posed by immigrants unlawfully living in this country. The court reasoned:

“The relevant history reveals a longstanding concern about sovereign control over individuals who, although owing a temporary and local allegiance to this country, which subjects them to laws like § 922(g)(5)(A), belong to groups presumed allegiant to a foreign power and have not formally recognized the government’s authority,” Chief Judge David Barron wrote in the court opinion. “And, we further explained there, § 922(g)(5)(A) fits within that tradition as a measure that aims to reduce the threat posed by a group similarly lacking a regulable relationship with the government.”   

They shouldn't have needed to go down that route. The text of the Second Amendment reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".  As an illegal, Osorio is clearly not part of "the people". Unfortunately, past Supreme Court decisions have held illegals to be part of "the people" for other provisions of the Bill of Rights. 

    The 7th Circuit had previously also held that illegals do not have Second Amendment rights. As it should be. It is bad enough that the invaders are here, let alone that they be legally permitted to arm themselves.  

Without Rule Of Law: Chicago Street Takeover

From the New York Post: "Chicago teen takeover mob rams police cruiser backward, swarms car as onlookers cheer: video." The article relates:

    People in Chicago rammed into a police cruiser during a teen takeover on Wednesday while onlookers cheered and recorded the incident, video shows.

    The Chicago police car was rammed by another vehicle during a teen takeover in the Windy City on Wednesday at around 12:43 a.m., according to Fox Chicago.

    A group of people could be seen surrounding the two cars and jumping on the police cruiser while it was being pushed backward.

Only one teen, 19-year old Maximus Wyderski, was arrested. He was charged with misdemeanor reckless driving, fleeing/attempting to elude officers in addition to nine vehicle citations. Also: "A second street takeover happened on Friday night in the city’s Hegewisch neighborhood, according to Alderman Peter Chico." 

Wilder: On Black Swans

From John Wilder: "Black Swans: Interconnected, Nonlinear, and Ready to Ruin Your Day." He explains:

     I’ve read enough history to know that the world doesn’t change in smooth straight lines.  When change hits, it lurches.  One day everything seems stable and the peasants are happily tilling the fields, and the next they’re communists busy storming the Bastille.

    That’s the Black Swan.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb laid the definition out in his book The Black Swan.  A real Black Swan isn’t just a surprise.  It has three traits.

    First, it’s an outlier, so far outside what most expected that the past gives zero warning.

    Second, it carries an extreme impact, the kind that reshapes economies, governments, or entire ways of life.

    Third, after it hits, we humans can’t help ourselves: we retroactively “explain” it like it was obvious all along.  

Wilder looks at several black swans over the past century starting with the Assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand setting in motion the events that led to WWI up through the shutdowns due to Covid-19 in 2020. He also explains why he thinks we are more susceptible to a Black Swan event than we have been in a long time:

    We are in a world where I think more Black Swans are imminent, because there are groups that are actively shaking the foundations of the way the world words.

    Like China.  China’s economic ascendency isn’t some slow rise.  It’s unrestricted economic warfare, exactly like the Chinese generals described in their book.  They’ve gutted our manufacturing base while we cheered “free trade.”  They control rare earths, solar panels, pharmaceuticals, and now a big chunk of silver production and refining.  One policy tweak in Beijing and entire U.S. industries seize up.

    That’s not theory.  It’s happening.

But that is not all that could topple the global house of cards.  John goes over some other shaky foundation stones. 

    I like to think back to the so-called Arab Spring. Do you remember what touched off the protests across the Arab world? A guy in Tunisia setting himself on fire because of the petty corruption and harassment from government officials. Now that was a black swan. 

    The set up for the Bronze Age Collapse was decades long droughts that strained the relationship between the rulers and ruled as crops failed. And because of the strong interlinked trade relationships, it impacted not just the countries suffering from the drought but groups that lived outside the great Bronze Age civilizations. And then one day something snapped: people started burning the cities of their rulers, others became pirates, local rulers started raiding other settlements, and over a matter of decades, the  wealthy kingdoms and empires of the Late Bronze Age had mostly collapsed and the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East entered a dark age. 

    And the reason that I focus on the Bronze Age Collapse is because I view our world as being more like that of the Late Bronze Age than the closing days of the Western Roman Empire. We live in a world of multitude of countries so closely connected and dependent on trade that the fall of one or two major players will set off a cascade that will drag down most of the rest of the great powers. 

A Discussion Of Gog In The Septuagint

As you may already know, there are differences between the older Septuagint and the much more recent Masoretic text from around 1000 AD. I've previously linked to videos that discuss differences concerning the lifespan of the patriarchs and other information important to dating the Exodus. But in this video, well known Biblical scholar, Joel Richardson, examines some of the references to Gog in the Septuagint that do not show up in the Masoretic text. He also explains from this that the Gog prophesied about in Ezekiel is the Antichrist of Revelation.  

 VIDEO: "The Hidden Identity of Gog (Buried in the Septuagint)"
Joel Richardson (15 min.)

History: "Why the CIA Secretly Operated an Airline in Southeast Asia for Decades"

 An article on Air America, an airline and air transport company operated in Southeast Asia by the CIA. The article opens:

    Air America was designed with deniability in mind.

    So don’t be surprised if you’ve never heard of the CIA-administered airline that employed more than 5,000 people, including hundreds of ex-military and bush pilots, to service America’s logistical needs throughout Southeast Asia campaigns from 1950 to the mid-1970s. 

    The CIA remained so tight-lipped about its biggest proprietary that for decades, many Americans only knew of Air America through press reports of daring pilots and alleged opium-running in Laos or via the eponymous 1990 action-comedy flick starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. 

    However, a more comprehensive accounting of Air America, told eventually through declassified documents and carefully reported books such as William Leary’s Perilous Missions and Christopher Robbins’ Air America, shows how integral the CIA’s covert airline was to American servicemen and civilians in the region. 

Asking the Important Questions: "Were the Nazis socialists?"

The Quotulatiousness blog risks the gnashing and wailing of leftists as he answers the question: "Were the Nazis socialists?" Short answer is "yes". The longer answer:

    Many people assume Nazis could not have been socialists, despite all the time and energy they devoted to jumping up and down screaming “We are socialists!”, because they were “right-wing” and socialism is supposed to be “left-wing”.

    Except “right-wing” and “left-wing” don’t have rigid definitions outside the context of the French revolution. In any other context, they’re just a metaphor.

    So why did the NATIONAL Socialist German Workers’ Party and the INTERNATIONAL Marxist-Leninist Socialist Workers’ Movement hate each other so much?

    It’s pretty obvious when you look at the names.

    National.

    International.

    To Nazis, the race and culture of a people are everything. They are what the state is supposed to represent. Ein Volk, as they would say. The purpose of Nazi socialism is to control capital assets, subordinating them to the will and welfare of the ethnostate.

    But Marxist-Leninists seek to abolish all ethnostates. They are a globalist movement, seeking to place all capital assets under the control of a universal proletariat in theory, which is in practice represented by one world government.

    Thus, Nazis sought to use socialist policies for the welfare of the German people and Marxist-Leninists seek to abolish “German” as a meaningful distinction, along with all other cultures.

    The antipathy between Nazis and communists was a sectarian struggle within socialism. Same methods, but different sacred groups.

    Since the defeat of National Socialism by International Socialism in WW2, all modern socialism is pretty much of the international variety.  

NY Post: More Swastikas Spray Painted Across NYC

The New York Post reports: "More swastikas found spray-painted at parks across NYC: ‘We will not accept this as normal’." Nothing definitive on who was responsible. But I have to admit that when I read the article, my mind went back to an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker entitled "Horror in the Heights" where Kolchak investigates a spate of swastikas being painted everywhere in a certain neighborhood; but rather than neo-Nazis, the responsible party was a Hindu priest painting them to drive off a rakshasa.