Thursday • October 16 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XLII
Manchester, N.H.
In response to the audacious assault by Hamas, Israel acted swiftly to address the situation and protect its citizens. The immediate response included a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip to target Hamas militants and infrastructure while minimizing harm to Palestinian civilians. These airstrikes were a defensive measure to neutralize the threat posed by Hamas and underscored Israel’s commitment to protecting its citizens.
However, conducting military operations in densely populated areas posed a complex challenge – the risk of collateral damage was high. This presented a delicate balance for Israel, where the need for self-defense had to be reconciled with the obligation to minimize civilian harm.
Recognizing the situation’s urgency, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) established a situation room. This dedicated command center was crucial in facilitating communication, intelligence gathering, and decision-making. It demonstrated Israel’s commitment to securing the release of its citizens and ensuring their safety. The situation room reflected the importance of real-time information and communication in responding to crises, enabling Israel to assess the situation, formulate strategies, and negotiate if necessary.
The capture of Israeli civilians and soldiers, including festivalgoers, children, women, the elderly, and people with disabilities, raised grave concerns and heightened the urgency of securing their release. Hamas’s claim of capturing senior Israeli officers, including Maj Gen Nimrod Aloni, added complexity to the situation. The hostages’ safety and well-being were paramount, making their release a top priority for Israel. The nation grappled with the emotional toll and the challenging decisions it might face in negotiating for its freedom.
The scale and precision of the Hamas attack led to questions about a potential intelligence failure within Israel. The surprise assault caught the nation off-guard, revealing vulnerabilities in their intelligence and security apparatus. This event prompted introspection and a reassessment of Israel’s preparedness. Experts and analysts were puzzled by the audacious attack, leading to debates about Israeli intelligence and security.
Hamas’s attack, encompassing land, sea, and air operations, demonstrated a level of sophistication and coordination not seen before. The attackers managed to breach Israel’s defenses on multiple fronts, catching the nation off-guard. This audacious maneuver involved a surprise assault that overwhelmed Israel’s security measures, raising questions about the effectiveness of their intelligence apparatus.
One of the most alarming aspects of the attack was the bulldozer incident at the Gaza border. Hamas exploited a vulnerability in Israel’s defenses when a bulldozer was used to breach the border fence, allowing many fighters to infiltrate Israel. The timing of the attack, strategically launched during a Jewish holiday when many military personnel were off duty, further exposed Israel’s vulnerabilities. The element of surprise was a critical factor in Hamas’s success, revealing a lapse in Israel’s ability to anticipate and prevent such a large-scale operation.
Moreover, reports suggested that Israel’s highly regarded Iron Dome missile defense system was not operational when the Hamas rocket barrage began. If these reports were accurate, it would signify a significant lapse in Israel’s defense infrastructure.
In the wake of this attack, Israeli authorities and security experts initiated a process of introspection and reassessment of their nation’s preparedness. The Israeli government faced the challenge of addressing immediate security concerns while shoring up its intelligence and defense capabilities to prevent future surprises. Israel needed to learn from this event, identify gaps in their intelligence network, and take corrective measures to enhance national security.
The Hamas attack and the potential intelligence failure had broader implications for regional stability. The security of the Middle East was a matter of global concern, and Israel’s ability to defend itself against threats was pivotal to the region’s stability.
Hamas, a Palestinian militant organization, had a well-documented history of using extreme violence against Israeli civilians as a means to achieve its objectives. This history included suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and other acts of terror, earning the group a designation as a terrorist organization by several countries and international bodies.
The scale and precision of the recent attack indicated a level of planning and coordination that went beyond a simple act of retaliation. This operation involved land, sea, and air operations, revealing a high degree of sophistication in its execution. The timing of the attack during a Jewish holiday, when many Israelis were off guard and military personnel were on leave, suggesting a level of strategic planning to maximize the element of surprise.
While the immediate goal may have been to inflict damage and capture hostages, the broader aim might be to shift the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Furthermore, this incident served as a reminder of the dynamic and evolving nature of conflicts in the Middle East, emphasizing the importance of continuous adaptation and readiness in the face of emerging threats.
The audacity of this attack stunned Israel and garnered international attention, leading to an escalation of hostilities, with Israel launching airstrikes on Gaza in response. The situation remained highly volatile, with the potential for further violence and instability in the region.
The international community closely watched these developments, with leaders from various countries condemning Hamas’s actions and expressing concern for the safety of Israeli civilians. They emphasized the need to de-escalate the conflict and find a peaceful resolution. Truth be told, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not about land and will not be solved by the two-state solution. It is and has always been about pushing the Jews into the sea. The Hamas attack only underscores the urgency of addressing this reality.
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The funny thing about getting politicians to promise you immunity from prosecution is that there are limitations to what can be excused. Take deliberate deception and fraud.
If you hide details that lead to harm, the political rats will abandon your ship faster than you can say mRNA Vaccines.
That’s the boat Pfizer may soon find itself in, and it should not expect its Pfederal Pfriends to lift a finger to help, noting that any who might have probably “retired” and have packed their”stipends” and inducements in their saddle bags as they ride into the sunset. Any still on the payroll (wink-wink) also got what they wanted. A full-scale global tyranny test that a majority of the Western World Pfailed.
Rules were bypassed to get here from there, safety measures sidelined, and immunity from prosecution promised. But as we’ve learned, Pfizer lied, and the FDA and CDC either took the idea of Warp Speed to mean they could be loose with their obligations or were pressured to ignore safety signals.
It hardly matters for Pfizer. The ‘crats (Demo and Bureau) will feign surprise and outrage if the weight of truth becomes too much for the narrative damn to hold back, they will find the nearest microphone and throw Pfizer under the bus. The Pfeds will lose the Pf and launch investigations while states bring lawsuits to take whatever settlement they can manage as “compensation” for being fooled or in on the scam.
And the Jabernauts in the Pfizer Glee Club will be the first to hold your hand, bend it behind your back, and slip in some handcuffs.
So, what’s the safety signal suggesting Pfizer is in trouble? Igor Chudoz posted their stock chart, and it does not look like that of a company whose business plan raked in billions of guaranteed sales from billions of doses of product. It seems like a company investors see as a risk. As Chudove notes,
Take a look at this chart: Pfizer’s stock (PFE) is valued at 25% less than it was five years ago, despite the billions of dollars it received from the sales of COVID vaccines, and the stock market and the pharmaceuticals index having gone up:
He then compares it to the demise of Purdue Pharma, which peddled opioids, bought doctors and media, and lied to everyone else until it came to kill their business.
If so, the following are similarities between Pfizer and Purdue Pharma:
- Reckless disregard for the dangers to recipients of their products. Pfizer abandoned any semblance of care for Covid vaccine safety. Pfizer tested their recent vaccines on several mice only – just one example.
- Corporate greed is exemplified by risky decisions to chase billions in immediate profits at the risk of bankruptcy in the long run.
- Buying off the press and regulators to corruptly obtain support for their products.
- Hiding deaths and adverse effects from the public.
Purdue Pharma was able to play its game for years. Finally, the deaths were too many, and the lawsuits took it down.
If the stock price of Pfizer is any guide, the capital markets now see that the same may eventually happen to it.
Hopefully, the people who suffered various ills from COVID vaccines would be entitled to compensation.
Pfizer may also be the perfect player to throw under the bus to save other Covid pandemic players.
Pfizer, however, does not have enough money to compensate every victim fairly.
And while the potential demise of Pfizer might put a smile on a few faces, it is not enough. Absent criminal penalties, massive fines, and jail time in actual prisons for the people in both Big Pharma and Big Government who denied recipients fully informed consent – and we know they knew about all the badness – it is meaningless.
Taking away the golden goose after they’ve collected so many eggs is no disincentive, and while some might dance around the ashes of Pfizer, the Government is to blame.
Suppose we don’t or can’t fix that. What’s to stop Next-Gen Fauci and Company from working another pharmaceutical company into a tizzy with promises of immunity at the expense of Americans’ quality of life or their very lives?
Nothing.
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The Biden Administration has had a credibility issue from day one. Its problem with the truth and transparency is rooted in the President. It has become Standard Operating Procedure with every member of the Administration, right down to Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s Press Secretary.
The last couple of weeks since the initial terrorist acts inflicted on Israel by Hamas. When the country and world needed facts and truth from a strong United States President, they got Joe Biden and a package of indecisive actions, questionable information, and lies. In actuality, we got what we should have expected, for this is who Joe Biden has been for the half-century he has been in Washington. What has always been explained as Biden gaffes are actually lies.
Before we recap history, let’s discuss the interview on 60 Minutes on Sunday evening.
Compound these mistruths with those about the Economy, bad investments in Green Energy companies, the banning of countless gas appliances we rely on, his numerous lies about his interactions with his son, Hunter, and how he has weaponized his Justice Department and Intelligence Agencies.
Joe Biden promised the most transparent Administration in history, which was the first lie. After the first, all subsequent lies are easy. We can believe nothing from the White House and must rely on our eyes, ears, and research. When you cannot trust your leader, you have none.
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When it comes to Israel, the unofficial position of the political left is they hate it. Western Jews are encouraged to do that too and to facilitate the hate, they perpetuate myths.
Ben Shapiro has quick some thoughts to share about history, facts, truth, and the lies the left stands on to justify murder. Feel free, as always, to agree, disagree, or agree to disagree below in the comments.
You’re Being Lied To About Israel And Palestine
pic.twitter.com/yqZDZM8eL8— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 15, 2023
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Mao’s Agrarian reform growing into Klaus Swab’s WEF, Great Reset and the UN Agenda 30 plans will control every aspect of our lives. The Harold Ware Communist Party Cell planted in the Agriculture Department in 1933 sprouted the American “War on The Farmers.”
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Soviet agent Alger Hiss started his career of espionage there, later becoming Roosevelt’s Advisor at YALTA and co-authoring the UN Charter. Hiss’ policy of paying farmers not to grow crops puts farmers on welfare, which has far-reaching consequences to this day.
Today, the war on the food supply is on steroids, with our farmers feeling the impact of Karl Marx’s plan to destroy private property. Forced property surrendered under the banner of eminent domain is authorizing Carbon Capture pipelines to ruin countless acres of rich agriculture in the heartland. A few days ago, the John Birch Society (JBS) Leadership Conference in Des Moines, Iowa (see link below), revealed an international scam called “Carbon Capture.” Navigator CO2’s application to implement a Carbon Capture pipeline was denied by the South Dakota Public Utilities, thanks to the JBS. Several weeks before, Summit Carbon Solutions’ application for the pipeline was also denied by the North Dakota Public Service Commission.
In contrast, a public hearing before the Iowa Utilities Board to investigate a similar process in Iowa was met with a kangaroo court atmosphere. Officials simply did not listen to the opposition. The pipeline company even hired security personnel to intimidate and harass the opposition. Why would other states deny these applications to infringe on private rights while Iowa’s process ruled against the farmers? Because members of the Iowa Utilities Boards are appointed by the governor. Other states continue to prove the power of the people is superior to governors appointing bureaucrats who promote job security with no vested interest in protecting personal property rights.
Usurpation of power by governors appointing commissions to destroy property rights must be stopped! This scheme is based on fraudulent science that claims the opposite of our Creator’s balance in nature. Digging ditches all over America’s heartland to store carbon below the earth amounts to promoting doom and gloom environmentalism for profit.
While power and money cabals hype up their cause to save the earth, don’t forget that all the foundation pillars that have made America great are at stake. Environmentalist utopia is control over every aspect of your life. Don’t let them take your property! Biden’s Green Power Executive Order has usurped congressional power. Don’t let them continue to cower in silence while the “Great Reset, Build Back Better, Karl Marx’s dream” destroys our liberty. Demand your Senators and Representatives stand up and do their job.
See the complete JBS event that covers aspects of this imminent tyranny creeping, now swiftly upon us, at JBS.org/DesMoines2023. Warning: Google doesn’t like the truth! Download DuckDuckGo to reach this link.
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If you’re a Middle-Class American who feels like life is getting harder. You are correct. Middle-class Americans are worse off today than they were 20 years ago. That is the finding of a new study. What does this mean for the future of this country?
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The new study comes from researchers at USC and Columbia. Together, they released a study showing average Americans near retirement are worse off today than 20 years ago. They started with this question: How are people doing in this country in terms of their economic and physical well-being? Of particular interest were people who were “middle class” and getting close to retirement.
So here’s their methodology. They used a data set from the University of Michigan’s Health and Retirement Survey. This survey has over 20,000 Americans who are age 50 and older. They also used a microsimulation called the Future Elderly Model. The things included were: physical health, private income, housing, disability, and an estimated future life expectancy.
The researchers compared the data from today with comparable Americans from 20 years ago. What they found is not surprising to those who live it. Lower class and lower middle class Americans are largely worse off today than 20 years ago. They are living shorter lives, more sickly and filled with disability. The ailments include hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. Today if you are an average 60 year old American woman in the lower-middle class you will likely live to 84, but 40% of your remaining years will be lived with a disability. The percentage of life you live disabled has risen since 1994.
Researchers also found lower middle class Americans have flatlined in terms of financial health too. This is true in terms of income and housing. The gap between the wealthy and working class is getting wider with respect to home ownership. The gap has tripled in size as compared to 1994.
The researchers suggest we ought to increase the social safety net for these Americans. Do you think we can afford to pick up the slack with more Medicaid, housing vouchers and food stamps? Those are the findings and data coming to us from USC and Columbia Universities. The key takeaway is: For the average American, things are not good.
About two weeks ago, there was a young man named Oliver Anthony from Farmville, VA that had a song go viral. It’s called Rich Men North of Richmond a song about the rich men and politicians in Washington DC. As of Friday 8/25/23, Rich Men North of Richmond is the most played song in all of America… for good reason.
Oliver gives life to the pain and struggles of the average American of his generation and those of his parents and grandparents; the people included in this study out of USC and Columbia University. His songs are about being a factory worker, his struggle with addiction and obesity. He’s giving America a primal scream that things aren’t good, things aren’t right.
He makes you feel what this university data can only say. Predictably, the media turned it into a fight about Left vs Right. They call this young man racist and bigoted. What they’re saying is a crock of excrement. Listen to the song for yourself and you’ll hear that.
Oliver said in response to his sudden fame, “I appreciate the compliments, but … I’m not a good musician. I hardly know my way around the guitar. My singing’s OK. That’s not what made this song a success. It’s about you, and the struggles in your life. That’s what’s made this what it is.”
You can say things with facts and data. But the struggling of the average American you can now feel. Bill Clinton and Republicans in Congress absolutely gutted factory towns across the country when they allowed China into the World Trade Organization 20 years ago. Researchers at MIT and others have proven that.
NAFTA, now called USMCA, is doing much the same. Chinese companies are now planting themselves in Mexico to skirt tariffs and take advantage of us and our workers.
America’s social fabric is fraying. Data show that we’re less connected to each other now than we were 20 or 50 years ago There’s research on that stemming from the book Bowling Alone.
Our children are increasingly being raised in single families. This includes 49% of black children, 28% of Hispanic kids, and 21% of white children. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/children.html Compare that to data from 1960, when only 7% of kids lived with just one parent.
These facts and data show things are not ok in this country. We need to center our conversations on that topic. It is time to focus on what is true , not just what we feel. Maybe feelings have a place in the conversation. Maybe we need to scream that things aren’t ok through our music, through our tears, to our politicians.
So what do we do about this? What do we do with a country that is not well? When the working people in small towns and big cities are in trouble, in pain, are getting poorer and more desperate will we throw them an anchor like Bidenomics or a life preserver like a return to what made America once prosperous?
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