COVID-19 Booster uptake has been weak. By mid-October, it had barely scratched 2%, and six weeks later – despite all the advertising, cajoling – advertising, and (begging?), it has stalled at 7%. Over 90% of Americans are taking a hard pass.

 

A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot.

One expert called the rates “abysmal.”

The numbers, presented Thursday at a meeting held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, come from a national survey of thousands of Americans, conducted two weeks ago.

The data also indicated that nearly 40% of adults said they probably or definitely will not get the shot. A similar percentage of parents said they did not plan to vaccinate their children.

 

After roughly 70% lined up for one or more shots, this precipitous decline seems unprecedented. What happened? Not to the decision by most Americans to no longer be booster buddies, I’d like to know when the media stopped calling this behavior vaccine hesitancy and those who rejected government information on these “vaccines” as anti-vaxxers.

If memory serves, COVID is still a grandma killer (to which we can add RSV – there’s a lousy shot for that if you want one), and anyone who rejects the approved medical science and public health recommendations is (or was) a domestic terror threat. We get none of that from the Public Booster Shills at PBS. This is about as rough and tumble as they get.

 

One expert at the meeting, Dr. Camille Kotton of Harvard Medical School, called the numbers “abysmal” and said part of the problem may be patient confusion. She urged stepped-up public education efforts.

Dr. David Kimberlin, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, also expressed dismay.

“The recommendations are not being heard,” he said.

 

Patient confusion. Not being heard.

What if the problem is how badly you’ve all burned your credibility?

Nothing from PBS on that possibility either.

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Texas needs more good leaders, and Suzanne Harp, a sixth-generation Texan on her mother’s side, emerges as a compelling figure, vying for a seat in the United States Congress for Texas’s 3rd District, which is encompasses suburbs north and northeast of Dallas, including the cities of McKinney and Allen.

Her father, an immigrant from Athens, Greece, taught her to appreciate her country and yet be mindful of government overreach.  Thus, Harp’s unique perspective, strong Christian values, and commitment to challenging the status quo position her as a Washington outsider with the potential to bring about positive change.

Today, she is a vice president with a leading mergers and acquisitions investment bank, building win-win relationships and alliances within the professional communities of CPAs, wealth advisors, attorneys, financial services people, and consultants.

However, Harp says her most significant accomplishment is raising and home-schooling her four children in Judeo-Christian values with her husband, Bill. They cultivated a relationship with the Lord by studying God’s Word alongside the great philosophers to develop a Biblical worldview, a deep understanding of the Constitution, and the blessings of being an American.

It is good that she has decided to run for Congress. She could be the one that’s going to provide Texas’ 3rd Congressional district with the missing leadership and give it the much-needed voice to fight for religious liberties, election integrity, and border security, as well as counter human trafficking, runaway spending, and unconstitutional mandates.

In an interesting turn of events, Harp played a significant role in exposing a scandal involving another Republican candidate, Van Taylor, who had been caught in 2022 having an affair with an American-born widow of an Islamic State recruiter and dropped out of his race. She had been accused of using her position to reveal her rival’s affair though it certainly seemed to be in the public interest to know.

Harp’s policy priorities reflect her values and commitment to the American people. She is for preserving religious liberties, thus ensuring that individuals can practice their faith without government interference. Her various campaign speeches can be observed to emphasize the importance of election integrity in that she supports measures such as cleaning up voter rolls, implementing voter ID, and conducting audits to maintain public trust in the electoral process.

On the issue of border security, Harp proposes common-sense reforms to restore peace and security at the border, addressing illegal immigration. She is also keen on upholding the Second Amendment, underlying the fact that she stands firm in defending the right of Texans to keep and bear arms, resisting any attempts to infringe upon these rights.

In the realm of social issues, Harp advocates for pro-life policies, emphasizing the protection of the unborn and opposing laws that infringe upon these rights, including late-term abortion laws.

In an issue that’s popular in energy powerhouse Texas, she calls for renegotiating the Keystone XL pipeline, highlighting the need to bring back jobs and money and rebuild America.

While Harp’s campaign materials don’t explicitly outline strategies to combat runaway spending and unconstitutional mandates, her general stance as a candidate suggests supporting spending cuts in non-essential areas, advocating for constitutional limits on government power, promoting transparency and accountability, and encouraging public participation.

Suzanne Harp’s candidacy represents a fresh voice that blends business acumen with a commitment to constitutional principles.

As Texas contemplates its representation in Congress, Harp offers a unique perspective and a promise of unwavering dedication to the values that have defined her journey from a sixth-generation Texan to a candidate for national office.

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To be clear, I use the word ‘maybe’ in the headline with a smirk. The political left would happily fundraise over your corpse if it would advance their agenda. Your death as a result of progressive policy is a win for them, even if you were a Democrat voter. They may not need you anymore, which should be of some concern.

Elections being the way they are these days, why care about a body you can replace with a bit of code in a place where there are so many losing a few hardly matters? And of what danger do we speak?

The winter of 2022. Deliberate energy policy decisions at the state and federal level nearly cost tens of thousands of New Yorkers (perhaps more) their lives.

 

In bone-dry language, the report “Inquiry into Bulk-Power System Operations During December 2022 Winter Storm Elliott,” explains how the gas pipeline network in New York nearly failed last Christmas when temperatures plummeted during the bomb cyclone. Freeze-related production declines, combined with soaring demand from power plants, homes, and businesses, led to shortages of gas throughout the Northeast. The lack of gas, as well as mechanical and electrical issues, resulted in an “unprecedented” loss of electric generation capacity totaling some 90,000 megawatts. While the lack of electricity was dangerous, the possibility of a loss of pressure in the natural gas network should send a bone-chilling shiver through the sacroiliac of every politician and bureaucrat in Washington, D.C., New York and the Northeast.

The report explains that if the gas pipeline system had failed, the recovery process in New York City would have taken “months.” In addition, the property damage due to damaged water pipes in homes and buildings would likely have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.

Left unsaid in the report is that the collapse of the gas grid during the period in which temperatures in New York City stayed below freezing would have caused a calamity unlike any other in U.S. history. The cold that lasted from December 23 to December 28 could have resulted in thousands, or even tens of thousands, of deaths. The damage from burst water pipes would have rendered untold numbers of residential and office buildings in New York City unusable.

 

This was not the first such close call, and the current trajectory suggests they will get closer and likely become a reality, and that appears to be the point.

First, they scare you by suggesting catastrophic climate catastrophes. New York City Underwater from Sea Level Rise. They insist on a program of changes – despite never getting a single prediction correct – that will create climate disaster. Anyone who pushes back gets labeled a denier, called names, pilloried out of their profession, or canceled online (a scheme used for every other lousy idea advanced by the political left).

2022 was just last year. Energy policy continues its Marist March. Shut down coal, end fossil fuels, no nuclear, on the path to an all-electric future lacking production and capacity to meet even essential needs.

 

A friend who works for the federal government in Washington, D.C., and is familiar with the FERC/NERC report told me last week that the loss of gas in New York City would have required evacuating most of the people in the city. Let that soak in for a minute. New York City has roughly 8.5 million residents. Evacuating even 25% of Gotham’s residents during extreme cold would have required a herculean effort. But even assuming such an evacuation could be accomplished, imagine how the country would handle 2 million displaced New Yorkers who could not return to their homes for months. And while you’re at it, imagine if those 2 million New Yorkers had their homes soaked by broken water pipes.

In short, the U.S. narrowly averted both a humanitarian and economic crisis that could have put the country’s economy into a tailspin. Imagine America’s financial capital in such disarray that money center banks and Wall Street could not function because their office buildings didn’t have heat.

 

New York City may have survived the Winter of 2022, but can it survive any of them before the mystical benchmark of 2030? And that’s just one city. Add everyone around it up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

It sounds like a joke, but it’s not. You are the carbon they are trying to reduce.

 

 

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Parents are asking where the SAU16 DEIJ Director stands on political issues. Andres Mejia holds the position of Vice Chair on the board of Seacoast Black Lives Matter, and he serves as the DEIJ director in SAU16.

Parents have already criticized SAU16 for hostility aimed at Christian students, so what will Jewish students face? That’s what one parent is asking the school board. 

A parent sent the following emails to the SAU16 school board questioning Mejia’s intentions. This is fair since he is working in a public school, and paid with public dollars. Parents want to know if his views align with Black Lives Matter and what that means for Jewish families who reside in the district:

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Dear SAU16, school board and administration,
Our nation just witnessed the greatest execution of Jewish people since the Holocaust. On October 7th, 2023, Hamas committed acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Families at SAU16 have received multiple emails from the administration regarding different tragic events. Why has there been silence from SAU16?

In Aug 2021 Andres Mejia who currently sits on the board of directors of Seacoast BLM stated, “I am black, and I can never separate myself from Black Lives Matter. ” I hope it’s time for Andres to separate himself from this group if he continues to teach in our public schools because there is a conflict of interest. The Chicago division of BLM just posted a picture of a Hamas terrorist flying into the concert in Israel and BLM as an organization has come out publicly stating, “We support Palestine.” BLM is an organization that has shown its true colors and has abandoned the Jewish population.

It’s a terrible time to be Jewish and it’s difficult to see the groups that many Jewish people have supported not be as vocal on their behalf. The Black Lives Matter Chicago and LA’s horrible support of Hamas is incredibly disturbing.

My niece is Jewish. Many Jewish children and families in schools across the nation are feeling unbelievably vulnerable. Hamas is a terrorist group that wants the extermination of Jewish people.

I will continue to teach my children that a Palestinian child’s life matters just as much as a Jewish child’s life. I want them to pray for peace and recognize that ALL lives matter…full stop.

The parents who had concerns about the way SAU 16 teaches diversity is valid. Teaching implicit bias is dangerous and at its worst DIEJ believes the world is separated into two groups, the oppressed and the oppressors. I will not accept those toxic narratives and reject it for my children. Sadly, look at what’s happing on college campuses, children have been taught to have a “us” versus “them” worldview and it’s wrong.

Many on this administration signed a paper stating, “the color of your skin matters to us.” I found that statement unbelievable. I teach my children what Martin Luther King preached, “It’s not about the color of your skin is about the continent of your character.” Anyone that signed that paper should face consequences.

So many of SAU 16’s policies the last few years will be devastating to children for generations. I can’t believe what’s happening in our public schools.
Thank you.
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(edit: After I sent this SAU16 did send me their statement on the Israel/ Palestine conflict, although I never received it via email from the school. I did however receive one for Lewiston Maine.)



On Sat, Nov 4, 2023, 10:05 AM
Good morning SAU16, school board and administration,
Seacoast Black Lives Matter chapter posted, “Join us at the State House, LET GAZA LIVE, No more aid to Israel!” Thursday night at the State House they were chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” and “there is only one solution Intifada revolution!” The Anti-Defamation League defines these chants as antisemitic, they are calling for the extermination of Jewish people, the terminology is laced with genocidal, intent.

You can watch the video below. I know it says New Hampshire Youth Movement, however, Seacoast Black Lives Matter promoted and attended this event.

Andres Mejia holds the position as the Vice Chair on the board of Seacoast BLM and works in our schools as our DEIJ director. For many Jewish students, “never again,” is now. Antisemitic incidents have gone up 400% since October 7th.

I understand that this is a difficult time, however, I can’t imagine having a teacher in our schools allowed to be part of ANY organization where members are actively calling for genocide. Words matter. We must teach our children to pray for peace, pray for a cease-fire and pray for real solutions for Palestinians and Israeli’s.

I reject having DEIJ taught in our schools and the 6 billion dollar industry of Social Emotional Learning and its connection to failed Common Core. DEI urges students to embrace radical ideologies, including that people should be treated differently due to their race. We should prohibit school leaders from forcing teachers or students to accept the idea that they are guilty of prejudice just because of their skin color.

Sadly we are witnessing the repercussions take place on many college campuses.

Please do the right thing and have Andres step down from his position at BLM if he continues to work in our district.

I will close with these quotes;
Elie Wiesel, author of, “Night,” in his own words:
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

“Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone—and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.”
“In any society, fanatics who hate don’t only hate me—they hate you, too. They hate everybody.”
Thank you,
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BLM has taken a definitive stand in support of Hamas by praising Hamas’s attack against Israel on October 7. https://www.newsweek.com/black-lives-matter-praises-hamas-sparks-backlash-1833630?fbclid=IwAR0_fRNXExrcF4Rd61x0X2asSDJm2SksSco7FgfUWEYeLWDUILIyUklNPPM

What is missing from BLM is any condemnation against the brutal attack. This was barbaric murders. Women were raped, and paraded around. Infants were taken from their parents, and the elderly were murdered live on Facebook. Raped and beaten women were being sat on and spit on.

How does any organization supposedly supporting human rights, ignore this attack?

BLM has stood for boycotting white-owned businesses https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/black-lives-matter-boycott-white-companies?fbclid=IwAR1aCS1xmzFWg3s4N_6xX0vlhDR70ooq892CVpNO1KacS2tZ4oXLOFAEJ1Y

Are these the views of SAU16’s DEIJ Director? Why is he not issuing a statement? Does BLM Seacoast speak on his behalf? If so, what does that mean for the Jewish families in the district? These are fair questions to ask when someone is hired but maintains a position on an extreme political organization.

Do Black Lives Matter? Absolutely, so does the lives of Jews and Palestinians. But BLM is an extreme political organization that represents an extreme political segment of society. Some of the BLM founders are Marxists like Alicia Garza. BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution.

Much of their goal is to indoctrinate children into this extreme ideology. Parents are already questioning why 1st grade children in the district are scheduled to attend a field trip to meet with political activists this month.

BLM Seacoast didn’t condemn the attacks in Israel: https://www.facebook.com/blklivesmatterseacoast/
 Why doesn’t Mejia simply issue a statement and condemn the attack? Is it so hard to stand up against that kind of violence and brutality?

The taxpayers pay his salary. Mejia is working directly with their children, and parents deserve to know who they are employing. A field trip for 1st graders to learn how to become political activists plays right into the playbook for BLM and political organizations attempting to influence young children.

A school focused on academic excellence teaches first graders social studies academic content. This district has prioritized political action over academic excellence for their students, and the decline in their proficiency scores reflect this change. Parents need to start asking themselves, do you want your child on a path to becoming a radical political activist, or do you want them educated so they can think for themself?

Take a look at what Core Knowledge includes in their scope and sequence for Social Studies. Scroll down to 1st grade to see what your child should be learning in Social Studies.  A well educated child will have opportunities in life. A student who is indoctrinated in Marxism will need Marxism in the real world. A student who receives an excellent education won’t need Marx in the real world. Marxism is a utopia where opportunity is described as oppression. Marxists ignore historical data that shows that few people who work in low-wage jobs stay in them long, and move on to better jobs. Marxists have a disdain for the rich and middle class, and blames an unjust economy for the plight of the poor. But they never take into account dysfunctional behavior or bad choices that people make that prevents them from escape poverty.

Instead of refocusing their commitment to provide the students a quality education, they continue to dabble in political activism. This is why many families have left the district, and why other options are becoming attractive to parents who simply want their children to receive a quality education.

So what about the Jewish families in the district. Will Mejia remain silent and leave families to speculate, or will he do the right thing, and distance himself from such an extreme position BLM has taken?

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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do.  My last “normal” meme post.  In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.

 

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New information site:

HOME | Israel War Portal (warinisrael.org)

 

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Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on.  Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic Jew hate and why that matters to today’s events.

Also note that these posts do not usually repeat information – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts.  Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you:

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

Please post this, tweet & email it out, share it widely.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/child-slaves-in-tunnels.mp4

 

What Makes Hamas Worse Than the Nazis (freebeacon.com)

A very interesting pointing out of a critical difference.

 

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(Image source)

 

Remember from prior posts: The Koran DEMANDS that any land, every square inch, that was once – ever – controlled by Islam must be reconquered for Islam.  This, and a lot more, in this video; Robert Spencer has forgotten more about Islam and the Koran, etc., than most people ever knew:

 

The TRUTH About The War & Islam They’re Hiding (w/ Robert Spencer)

 

 

Note, in particular, the passage 2:191 “Drive them out from where they drove you out”, mentioned specifically early on.  This is universally understood to mean – again, as I’ve been saying repeatedly over multiple posts – that there is a Koranic command that ANY LAND that was once held by Islam MUST BE retaken for Islam.  Israel falls into this category.

Spencer’s book: The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process

Another critical book by Palestinian Media Watch: Deception: Betraying the Peace Process

Two other videos from that channel – links only:

They’re LYING About THE LAND?? (w/ Robert Spencer) – YouTube

Hamas’s Goal was NEVER Freedom! (w/@ApostateProphet) – YouTube

 

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WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

Hamas Can Be Destroyed, but What about Islamic Supremacism? :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)

This is the bigger question.  Until Islam can – somehow – be reformed and get it to abandon its hard-coded Jew hatred, the wars will continue.  Related, at least to me:

When Neutrality is Immoral: Israel, Hamas, and the Problem of Moral Equivalence :: Gatestone Institute

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THEY’RE ALL IN ON IT: UN, Red Cross, WHO, Gazan Doctors, Nurses, Legacy Media, All Knew Shifa Hospital Was Hamas Command Central Where Hostages Were Forcibly Taken and Murdered – Geller Report

Betrayal at a fundamental level.  More (link in the original, bolding added):

The Red Cross’s Gaza Scandal – Seth Mandel, Commentary Magazine

Over the weekend the IDF released footage from al-Shifa hospital showing Hamas fighters bringing hostages to the medical compound on Oct. 7, the day of its bloody incursion into Israel. One hostage, an Israeli soldier, was likely killed there. Fighters dragging the hostages can be seen interacting freely with medical personnel at the hospital, in case anyone still tries to argue that hospital officials have plausible deniability. And as some have pointed out, there was no way for the hostages to get to Shifa without being taken past several other hospitals on the way, so they were not brought in for medical care.

More about Shifa hospital:

Into the “Gaza Metro” Terror Tunnels: First Look into Hamas’ Underground City Beneath Shifa Hospital | The Gateway Pundit | by Richard Abelson

Hamas detainee admits jihadis used hospitals as bases for launching attacks while disguised in civilian clothing (jihadwatch.org)

Even guerilla soldiers are required to wear insignia according to the Geneva Convention.  Those who don’t are… wait for it… war criminals.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/hamas-uses-civilians.mp4

 

They say it.  They admit it.  The evidence is there.  More:

VOICES FROM GAZA that the talking heads ignore (barenakedislam.com)

See “Pallywood” below for more on the gullibility of the useful idiots.

Palestinians: ‘Extreme’ Support for Terrorist Group Hamas, Israel’s Destruction :: Gatestone Institute

There Are No Innocent Civilians in Gaza – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

“Ordinary Gazans” had a chance to save a Jewish hostage. Instead, they handed him back to Hamas. ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

“We are all Hamas” (barenakedislam.com)

School students call to murder Jews, “strike and burn Tel Aviv,” “blow up the Zionist’s head,” “The Zionist is Allah’s enemy!”

PA calls for unity with Hamas: “Our arms and hearts are open” to Hamas

Hamas calls for exterminating Jews and destroying Israel.  The PA does the same.  With whom is Israel supposed to negotiate?

 

The DISGUSTING Reactions to The War

 

 

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Why Egypt and Arab Muslim nations refuse to accept any Palestian refugees (barenakedislam.com)

And herein lies the fundamental problem.  They tried to take over Jordan.  They did take over Lebanon.  And the Arab nations know this, and don’t want that to happen to them.

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Islam vs. The West: Conflict Unfortunately Seems Inevitable :: Gatestone Institute

Jihad on Churches in France :: Gatestone Institute

It Is Time Biden Publicly Acknowledged This Is Iran’s Mullahs’ War Against Israel and the United States :: Gatestone Institute

Even more broadly, it is Islam’s war against the infidel.  Learn the history – two excellent books:

Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS

And secondary books too:

The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran

Mohammed’s Koran: Muhammad’s Quran

And an always-good resource:

The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker

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Israel’s 15 ceasefires – Don Surber (substack.com)

After Palestinians have broken 15 ceasefires, AP and other propaganda outlets are demanding a 16th ceasefire.

Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.  Fool me 15 times?

But RTWT.  Related:

Dennis Ross tries to save Hamas | World Israel News

Though apparently he’s changed his mind (MHO: covering his behind):

Opinion | I Might Have Once Favored a Cease-Fire With Hamas, but Not Now – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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Mossad Has Been Given Instructions to Hunt Down Hamas Leaders Living in Luxury (townhall.com)

OOH, needed.  These people sit in luxury.  OTOH, once someone gets capped, in Qatar or elsewhere, it’s going to become very… “difficult” politically & diplomatically.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/hamas-leaders-2.mp4

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/hamas-leaders.mp4

 

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

Former Grand Mufti of Egypt: After Israel is destroyed, Muslims will defeat America and Russia (jihadwatch.org)

Itching for the battle of civilizations.  A world-wide conflagration.  One conquered by Islamic-rules war:

HAMAS BREAKS CEASEFIRE 15 minutes after it started (barenakedislam.com)

What baffles me is how, time and time and time and time and time again, Hamas does this… but people bleat “Ceasefire” like it has any actual meaning.

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Hamas’ threats to “cut off heads,” slit throats,” and “slaughter every Jew on the planet” in 2019 were ignored

Ever since the Jews refused Mohammed, Muslims have hated Jews.  Period.  End of story.

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Look what was found in a mosque.

 

 

 

ATROCITIES

This section has pictures, videos, and links to graphic stuff.  BE WARNED.  But… IMHO it’s critical to know what the enemy is capable of doing.

Warning: difficult footage. Nova survivors believed they were safe in Kibbutz Alumim. Unfortunately, Hamas terrorists got to them and kept no one alive.  (Link only.)

Nova survivors at Kibbutz Alumim

Through Israel’s Story

More:

More Hamas Atrocities Documented, Strongly Supported By Palestinians and Ignored By Western Feminists (legalinsurrection.com)

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“Not just killed, barbarically mutilated and gang raped” (barenakedislam.com)

What ever happened to “believe all women”?

 

 

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Hamas terrorists live-streamed killing of Gali’s daughter and abduction of others | Keshet News 12

 

 

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

25% Of New Yorkers Think Israel And Jews Had It Coming – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Yeah, when someone screams ALLAHU AKHBAR and shreds you and your whole family with a shrapnel bomb… don’t look to me for tears.

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Equity, Equality and Hamas – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

The moral DNA of society was completely rewritten so that everything from freedom of expression to the value of human life had to be weighed in terms of identity politics. Even the most basic moral questions came down to the paradigms of oppressor and oppressed. Right and wrong were determined purely in terms of ‘punching up’ or ‘punching down’.

“Is it wrong to murder, rape and kidnap people?” was a question to which the answer was no longer “yes”, but “were the victims or the killers members of an oppressed group?”

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Baruch College student tears down posters of kidnapped Israelis, says ‘Jews are all sh*t and need to die’ (jihadwatch.org)

Nice guy.

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A question for the #metoo people:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/a-question-for-feminists.mp4

 

 

PALLYWOOD

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/dont-eat-rotten-data.mp4

 

For the IDF, It’s Going to be a Long Slog Uncovering Tunnels Under Shifa Hospital (jihadwatch.org)

But the convincing proof has already been given. The media just refuses to consider it sufficient. The dozens of AK-47s, the grenades, the piles of ammunition, the soldiers’ uniforms, and more uncovered every day, all testify to a Hamas presence inside the hospital. So do the recently revealed CCTV videos of Hamas soldiers bringing hostages into the hospital. So does the discovery, on November 19, of the entry, inside the hospital, to one of the largest Hamas tunnels so far uncovered anywhere in Gaza — it is 55 meters long. To those with anti-Israel animus, all this mounting evidence is treated as unconvincing; the tone seems to be “you’d better come up with a lot more than that, if you expect us to believe you.”

It never ceases to amaze me that people who scrutinize every single image or video or statement released by Israel – examined with a microscope – accept at face value the press releases and data released by a people whose religion says that it is acceptable to lie.

Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)

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About all those Arab Muslims living in Israel… (barenakedislam.com)

Some “apartheid”.  Video, less than a minute.

 

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I’ve posted several Israel-related videos by Bill Whittle.  I just found this to add:

 

BILL WHITTLE: THE CASE FOR ISRAEL

 

 

For several years now I’ve adopted an olive tree for Bill & company:

 

 

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TERROR COMING HERE?

“They Came To Slaughter Us”: Machete Armed Migrant Mob Attacks Teenagers at Village Hall Dance in France, ONE DEAD, SEVERAL STABBED – Geller Report

Gang of African migrants goes on a stabbing spree in rural France, and the media accuses the ‘far-right’ of fanning ‘controversy’ – American Thinker

Say, how’s that mass migration working out for the “Welcome the stranger” Jews?

An Open Letter to Pro-Migration / SJW Jews – Urban Scoop

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-west-is-next.mp4

 

One media outlet inciting violence in ‘Crusaders’ lands (wnd.com)

They WILL attack in the West.  Gaza is only an excuse.  See what they’re screaming:

WATCH: “All Military Aged Males….En Route To Europe Chanting “Allah Akbar” – Geller Report

Canada: ‘There is only one solution! Intifada revolution!’ (jihadwatch.org)

Will people who say such things eventually resort to violence in Canada? There is no doubt about it.

Florida Imam Dr. Fadi Kablawi: The West Is Collapsing | MEMRI

Colorado Imam Karim AbuZaid on Martyrdom Rewards | MEMRI

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD front group teaches Muslim kids in the U.S. to sing songs about beheading their Jewish enemies in Israel (barenakedislam.com)

NYC: Jewish Teacher Had to Barricade Herself In Locked Office as Hundreds of Rabid Students Tried to Storm Her Office at Hillcrest High School – Geller Report

They’re here.  And this:

Anti-Israel Activists Throw Smoke Bombs and Red Paint At Home of AIPAC President (legalinsurrection.com)

How soon before it becomes more than smoke bombs?

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One of the big charges is ETHNIC CLEANSING.  Not really.  But this is:

 

 

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Jews Outside Israel – Protect Yourselves (amyisroelchai.com)

While this post has an open call to make aliyah, there’s a message there as well for Jews everywhere:

A dear friend of mine told me that last Shabbat, a group of 20 pro-Hamas demonstrators stood outside one of the biggest shuls in London with signs – in Arabic – that said, “Kill the Jews”. My response to him was very clear. Find 30 tough Jews to make sure those protestors can’t walk for 6 months because if not, the 20 protestors will turn into 100 rock-throwing rioters who will eventually burn the shul down. Now is the time to act!

I take no joy in saying this, but FORCE and VIOLENCE are the only language these people understand.

“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”

― William Tecumseh Sherman

I know… “Team Humanity”.  Well, when someone says they want to kill all Jews and sweep on to enslaving the world entire, I have the moral courage to take them at their word.

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms”

— Robert A. Heinlein in “Starship Troopers”

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Who remembers that Arab doctor who advocated giving erroneous prescriptions for Jewish patients?

Ohio doctor fired for anti-Semitic tweets, including threats to give Jews “the wrong meds” – CBS News

 

 

TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

Biden Administration’s $10 Billion Prize to Iran: Just A Small Thank You for Engineering a War, Wounding 56 US Troops and Trying to Drive the US Out of The Middle East. :: Gatestone Institute

Biden Talking Out of Both Sides of His Mouth on Israel – PJ Media

Beyond useful idiots | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

It’s increasingly obvious to me that President Biden intends to suppress Israel’s campaign to eliminate Hamas. I may be mistaken, but that’s the way the wind is blowing, isn’t it?

Report: Biden Apologized to Muslim-American Leaders for Questioning Death Tolls Given by Hamas (legalinsurrection.com)

Well, duh. You are a moron if you accept anything from Hamas, a legit terrorist organization.

Just how long is it going to take American Jews to grasp that the Democrats, no matter how much they voice support for Israel, are really backing the Islam contingent?  Why?  Votes.

 

 

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The Curious Case of Rob Malley :: Gatestone Institute

This guy was pro-Iran from the very beginning.  And it says a lot that he was chosen for the position he’s in.

The puzzling thing is that throughout his career, Malley has been so pro-Iran, so pro-Hamas, and so anti-Israel that the wonder is: “Why is this just now becoming news?”

Malley has been consistent in supporting America’s Middle East adversaries throughout his government and think tank service.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Jewish Security Chiefs Endorse Qatar? :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)

Are you f*cking kidding me?

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Another “Team Humanity” member murdered.

 

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How many times to these people, who have reached out to the Arabs to build bridges, have to get murdered by the very people they’re trying to contact for them to get the fundamental point: when someone says they hate you and want you dead… believe them.

 

 

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

Despite all the evidence I’ve compiled over all these posts that the Islamists in Gaza view Israel only as a stepping-off point to global jihad against all kaffirs… articles, references, websites, etc., there are so many many people who simply will not accept at face value that this could be true.

Note that I have no special knowledge of the Koran or of Islam, aside from what I’ve been compelled to learn over the past few years, and especially the last several weeks.  No, just a healthy sense of curiosity.  So how is it that amateur me can learn all this, but professional journalists… let alone whole news organizations… cannot do so.

There is, I believe, a blindness in humanity towards seeing the bad in people.  It represents an unwillingness to consider you might have been fooled.

 

 

It’s often said One subject, two Jews, you’ll get three opinions in four minutes.  Or some variation of the same.  And often non-Jews as well.  And that’s fair – people see different news sources, etc., and come to different conclusions.  But there’s something pathological in the rejection of veritable avalanches of the rapes, and beatings, and murders.  Eye-witness testimony.  Security camera footage.  Bodycam footage from the terrorists themselves.  And their plain-spoken words about killing Jews and world conquest.  And still people can’t come to admit it.  These deniers are TWENTY-NINERS (bolding in original, italics replaced by underlining):

Hence my term, “Twenty-Niners”.  People who cannot grasp that anything that could radically change the situation in which they live are actual possibilities, and completely dismiss concerns that others present even when backed by evidence.

This is a real danger.  I wrote about the decay of the survival instinct in the first of my three-part series on the biological roots of civilizational collapse (for reference, Part 2 and Part 3).  Survival demands threat recognition.  Muslims all over the world openly speak of global conquest.  Muslims openly speak that rape of kaffir women is permitted.

I have the moral courage to take them at their word.  Why is this so difficult?  Or are we at this point, observed by Teddy Roosevelt?

“THE CURSE OF EVERY ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WAS THAT ITS MEN IN THE END BECAME UNABLE TO FIGHT. MATERIALISM, LUXURY, SAFETY, EVEN SOMETIMES AN ALMOST MODERN SENTIMENTALITY, WEAKENED THE FIBRE OF EACH CIVILIZED RACE IN TURN; EACH BECAME IN THE END A NATION OF PACIFISTS, AND THEN EACH WAS TRODDEN UNDER FOOT BY SOME RUDER PEOPLE THAT HAD KEPT THE VIRILE FIGHTING POWER THE LACK OF WHICH MAKES ALL OTHER VIRTUES USELESS AND SOMETIMES EVEN HARMFUL.”

— PRESIDENT THEODORE “TEDDY” ROOSEVELT

Will Islam and the seemingly-unending streams of migrants from Arab and African countries prove to be that ruder people that treads us underfoot?  If so, it will largely be by our own doing.  Alas.

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I no longer shop at Target, but that started years ago. Their website always sucked, and I rarely had a good experience there. Transitioning to #woke groomers just made it easier. And then there’s Amazon.

I use Amazon. I’m a prime member, and that’s not changing, but they continue to get our attention for the sorts of things behemoth businesses do—some good, some bad, and others somewhere in between. Today, for example, someone sent me a link. Amazon has a selection of Free Palestine gear. Free them from what? Hamas? The Palestinian Authority? A cycle of co-dependent violence.

I could support that, but the gear is unclear. We are meant to understand, but I’ve taken the liberty to amend it as pictured above. Isn’t that what we should be talking about?

The people living in Gaza and the West Bank are people, and they deserve some peace. To be free… from Hamas, Iran, and anyone else using them as proxies. But choosing or allowing terrorists to control your government and engage in those acts of violence in your name is not going to free you from anything.

Nor is standing with them when Israel says we could free you from them, or at least try.

The Left likes to bitch about that, mostly because they are Jew-Hating anti-Semities, but if these people want to be free, Israel is literally their best and only chance. The surrounding Arab countries fuel the conflict – or, at best, sit back and watch what passes for violent reality television. They don’t care what happens to the people in Gaza. If they did, they would take them in and care for their refugees or defend them and help them remove Hamas. They don’t.

If Israel were wiped out, they’d be fine with that, too.

Free Palestine. Of what? Violence or Jews? If the Jews win, ‘Palestine’ could be peaceful. If Hamas wins, do you think it will stop their violence? If you do, you’re an imbecile.

Israel doesn’t want the land back; they want the terrorists gone, which makes them the best chance anyone, anywhere in Palestine, has of being free.

Yeah, civilians will be injured or die and have, on both sides, but that’s what happens when you get trapped in a cycle of violence with people who use you as human shields. The question isn’t whether the people living in Gaza deserve to be free. It is what does that look like and how do we get there.

If you think the best path is to continue to encourage Hamas leadership and their Jew-hating backers in their commitment to killing millions of Israelis, the gear you want has Swastikas on it, and yes, you can probably find something on Amazon.

Feel free to be offended by that, too. The Swastika was an ancient symbol of power until the National Socialists ruined it. Strangely enough, Islamist Socialists have ruined the chances of freedom – to at least be left alone – for the people of Gaza. And only the people of Gaza, with some help form Israel, can fix that.

 

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Joe Biden is always quick to point the finger at Donald Trump, MAGA Republicans, and the Supreme Court for the dire state of the country. The truth is, he should be pointing at the man in the mirror he sees each morning. Joe Biden impulsively opted to change the direction of every aspect of American life, not because he had a better plan but to spite Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters. Joe Biden was so wrong and taken America so far off course that it will take years of Conservative control of the White House and Congress to get this train back on track.

For years, beginning with the Basement Campaign that Biden parlayed into a win, the Media has been compromising its credibility to support Joe and every decision he made. Even with obvious debacles like the Afghanistan Retreat or Southern Border, the Media has chosen to ignore the situation rather than criticize the actions and decisions of the President. The Media has begun to change their handling of the President. This redirection is not necessarily a voluntary choice.

Still, the state of the country under Biden has deteriorated so much in three years that to continue to ignore sensitive topics will expose their complicity with the Administration. To this point in Biden’s term, anyone who gets their news from the mainstream media has been kept in the dark. Now that the media has severed their outright support, they must make another choice. Support the President and look ignorant and oblivious, or move toward the Right and openly criticize the President and his staff. This loss of support is going to cripple the President’s reelection bid.

Other than preserving their own credibility, another reason for the change is they finally realize there is no way this man can fulfill the duties of the office for a second term. Joe Biden has been on “vacation” for the equivalent of a full year of the 35 months he has been in office. A four-day week is the norm for this aging President. He also rarely has more than one event on his daily schedule, and the “lid” is typically on by 1 PM. That means the President rarely works after he has lunch. We can look at this two ways. The Right is thrilled any time Joe Biden is not playing President, but then the country deserves a full-time Commander in Chief. Joe Biden is long past able to work full-time.

The Left is in a difficult conundrum. They are looking at the polls and now the media coverage and realize Joe Biden does not have a favorable shot at four more years in the White House, but nobody has had the ability to convince Joe Biden to step down. Many names have been bandied about, but if Joe does step down, nobody in the Democrat Party wants to see Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket. Gavin Newsom has been campaigning behind the scenes, and though he looks the part, when people start breaking down his governing of San Francisco as mayor and California as governor, he is not the guy. The Democrat bench is weak. When you are even hinting at Governors Hochul or Whitmer, you expose the Democrat problem, and that problem is monumental.

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There have been several talented politicians who are adept at messing with the media, and I’m not taking anything away from them, but I love this guy. Pierre Poilievre.

His polite indifference. The nonchalance with which he unwinds the press-pundit narratives, taking the opportunity they hand him to point out where misinformation originates. He’s brilliant with the press.

Who is he? Poilievre is a seven-term member of the Canadian Parliament, the opposition party leader, and is running to replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada.

 

Pierre became Leader of His Majesty’s Official Opposition in September 2022, and is running to be the Prime Minister of Canada. He believes in a country where the state is servant, not master. Where smaller government makes room for bigger citizens. Where people have the freedom to build a business without red tape and heavy tax.

To make room for personal freedom and responsibility, he believes in limiting government. He has been one of the loudest voices in the past several years fighting out-of-control deficit spending and tax increases, as Liberal addiction to debt became a crisis.

 

Grokster Rick Olson pointed him out to me over the weekend, beginning with the apparently infamous Apple video. Poilievre is at an apple farm eating an apple, and a reporter tries to ask him a question (2 min clip). This is brilliant, and the talking head Lat Debate folks (second half of the video) agree. He does not let himself be pushed around by journalists.

 



 

The Conservatives currently enjoy a 12-point polling lead over Truduea’s Liberals.

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Recent signals by Pope Francis that the Catholic Church may soften its stance on homosexuality have created division and distress for traditional Catholic believers who seek to adhere to Scripture. Influenced by liberation theology (premised on Marxist tenets), the Pope increasingly employs social justice terminology, universalism, and naive globalist aspirations in his proclamations.

The apparent contradictions of this shift appear lost on a naive Pope who embraces a New World Government that advocates for abortion as “life-giving care” and indoctrinates young children into sexuality and transgenderism. This tension strains scriptural truths to the point of abandonment.

The Pope and Schwab

Pope Francis makes no effort to obscure his admiration for Klaus Schwab. He echoed POTUS Biden’s call to “build back better” following COVID and called for a New World Order in 2021:

In true globalist phraseology, Pope Francis has called for a “new world order” following the COVID-19 “pandemic.” He also advocated for global change on “green” issues, warning that “we cannot waste any more time.” He called the COVID “pandemic” an “alarm signal on which humanity is forced to reflect,” referring to the “cornerstones of reconstruction” which would be a key part of his new world order. “This time of trial can thus become a time of wise and far-sighted choices for the good of humanity, of all humanity,” he added.

This is not a tenuous connection – the Davos parish (where the WEF meets) has conducted “silence and prayer” vigils during WEF meetings “to pray precisely for the intention that good decisions might be made for a more just and peaceful world.” The Pope promotes a “new economic system” and has partnered with the UN despite its abortion advocacy and support for comprehensive sex education:

Such deepening ties with globalist corporations and leaders lend further credence to beliefs that Pope Francis is aligned with the WEF’s call for a “Great Reset.” He has referenced a “supranational common good” and said that “there is need for a special legally constituted authority capable of facilitating its implementation.”

The WEF’s Pope

These deepened ties include the Pope’s appeals to the WEF. In his “Message of the Holy Father to the Executive Chairman of the “World Economic Forum,”” Pope Francis makes a patently humanist social justice appeal:

In these years, the World Economic Forum has offered an opportunity for the engagement of diverse stakeholders to explore innovative and effective ways of building a better world. The overriding consideration, never to be forgotten, is that we are all members of the one human family. The moral obligation to care for one another flows from this fact. [It] is incumbent upon business sectors and governments alike, and is indispensable in the search for equitable solutions to the challenges we face. May your deliberations lead to a growth in solidarity, especially with those most in need, who experience social and economic injustice and whose very existence is even threatened.

An Improper Alliance

This melding of liberation theology with social justice toxicity is evident in phraseologies such as “equitable solutions,” “economic injustice,” and “growth in solidarity.” This is the language not of Christian theology but neo-Marxist secular globalist hegemony. Denigrating individualism and calling to amplify the moral authority of globalist government, the Pope appears to have forgotten Revelation’s caution about End Times:

“All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world” (Revelation 13:8).

Christians of all denominations must resist global socialist government of any kind. The immoral proliferation by the UN and WEF of abortion, as well as transgender and sexual indoctrination of children, make these dubious allies for people of scripture-based faith. Including Pope Francis.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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