December 10, 2024
BLM Thug Calls for Strangling Random Whites
Timothy Birdnow
A Black Lies Muttered, er, Black Lives Matter thug leader named Hawk Newsome (and he sure is hawking some b.s.) is calling for murder by his peeps over the acquittal of Daniel Penny.
According to the Blaze article Newsome called for "vigilantes" to choke white folks:
I seem to remember there are laws against inciting violence in this fashion. Why isn't this guy being arrested for it?
I caught Daniel Penny in an interview and he said "this isn't racial" by which he meant HIS actions weren't racial, and I have no doubt that is so. But it is ENTIRELY racial, the crusade to imprison him. What we are seeing these days is an attempt to force whites, especially white men, into the shadows, to arrest and abuse them for some twisted idea of payback for slavery and Jim Crow. And it only works because we turned black folks into a protected class, largely untouchable unless caught red-handed in some major criminal action. The authorities fear going after blacks, and the media coddles them.
The fact is a new peer-reviewed study shows that police officers are NOT more likely to shoot black suspects than whites.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland , showed no correlation between the race of a police officer and the race of the perpetrator who was shot. Even the very liberal NPR was surprised the study made it into PNAS due to it not following the leftist script.
In fact the argument is made that BLACK officers are "biased against their own race" since they shoot blacks at the same rate as white cops. But what does that even mean? Cops are biased against rapists too when they rape a woman, aren't they?
The fact is blacks ARE shot more often than whites, but that is because they committ a disproportionate amount of crime and do it in a generally more aggressive way. A white criminal usually surrenders; many blacks do not, I might add.
All this argument is is a way to empower black leaders by eliminating policing and thus allowing thugs to run amok. I would add this is the way leftists traditionally take over countries; they dismantle civil authority then when chaos reigns provide the only alternative - a socialist state that will crush the criminals. Crime has long been a tool of the Left.
And that is what is happening with these BLM thugs; they are being empowered so as to torment the good citizens with the intent of establishing an authoritarian state.
It is regrettable when an innocent person is shot by cops, black or white. It happens to blacks more because they live in areas controlled by street thugs and thus are more likely to be in the line of fire, or to be mistakenly thought to be carrying a weapon. You used to see the same higher levels of police shootings of white people in Irish or Italian or other such areas back when these folks suffered with a strong criminal element.
To return to the BLM call for murder, how does that in any way improve the lot of any black person? All it does is double down on the criminality already causing so much suffering in the black community. Is it just a matter of pride for this creep? I would argue its pure racism, and if a white person said such a thing he would be prosecuted for it and unable to get a job or show his face in society after. But white people are fair gane these days, because, like "white privilege" and all.
Daniel Penny stopped an insane man from threatening and perhaps doing great harm to innocent folks on the subway, and that is grounds for the grievence industry to seek his destruction. His crime was basically walking while white.
if lynching a black man was wrong when it used to happen, isn't a legal lynching of a white man equally wrong? Does Newsome really hate white people that much? Many of those whom Penny protected were black themselves - and they were most grateful to him. He's a hero. But white people are just devils to guys like Newsome.
He really should look in a mirror if he wants to see who is the real devil.
A Black Lies Muttered, er, Black Lives Matter thug leader named Hawk Newsome (and he sure is hawking some b.s.) is calling for murder by his peeps over the acquittal of Daniel Penny.
According to the Blaze article Newsome called for "vigilantes" to choke white folks:
"It's like everybody else has vigilantes! We need some black vigilantes! People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud?! How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?" he yelled outside of the courthouse."
I seem to remember there are laws against inciting violence in this fashion. Why isn't this guy being arrested for it?
I caught Daniel Penny in an interview and he said "this isn't racial" by which he meant HIS actions weren't racial, and I have no doubt that is so. But it is ENTIRELY racial, the crusade to imprison him. What we are seeing these days is an attempt to force whites, especially white men, into the shadows, to arrest and abuse them for some twisted idea of payback for slavery and Jim Crow. And it only works because we turned black folks into a protected class, largely untouchable unless caught red-handed in some major criminal action. The authorities fear going after blacks, and the media coddles them.
The fact is a new peer-reviewed study shows that police officers are NOT more likely to shoot black suspects than whites.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland , showed no correlation between the race of a police officer and the race of the perpetrator who was shot. Even the very liberal NPR was surprised the study made it into PNAS due to it not following the leftist script.
In fact the argument is made that BLACK officers are "biased against their own race" since they shoot blacks at the same rate as white cops. But what does that even mean? Cops are biased against rapists too when they rape a woman, aren't they?
The fact is blacks ARE shot more often than whites, but that is because they committ a disproportionate amount of crime and do it in a generally more aggressive way. A white criminal usually surrenders; many blacks do not, I might add.
All this argument is is a way to empower black leaders by eliminating policing and thus allowing thugs to run amok. I would add this is the way leftists traditionally take over countries; they dismantle civil authority then when chaos reigns provide the only alternative - a socialist state that will crush the criminals. Crime has long been a tool of the Left.
And that is what is happening with these BLM thugs; they are being empowered so as to torment the good citizens with the intent of establishing an authoritarian state.
It is regrettable when an innocent person is shot by cops, black or white. It happens to blacks more because they live in areas controlled by street thugs and thus are more likely to be in the line of fire, or to be mistakenly thought to be carrying a weapon. You used to see the same higher levels of police shootings of white people in Irish or Italian or other such areas back when these folks suffered with a strong criminal element.
To return to the BLM call for murder, how does that in any way improve the lot of any black person? All it does is double down on the criminality already causing so much suffering in the black community. Is it just a matter of pride for this creep? I would argue its pure racism, and if a white person said such a thing he would be prosecuted for it and unable to get a job or show his face in society after. But white people are fair gane these days, because, like "white privilege" and all.
Daniel Penny stopped an insane man from threatening and perhaps doing great harm to innocent folks on the subway, and that is grounds for the grievence industry to seek his destruction. His crime was basically walking while white.
if lynching a black man was wrong when it used to happen, isn't a legal lynching of a white man equally wrong? Does Newsome really hate white people that much? Many of those whom Penny protected were black themselves - and they were most grateful to him. He's a hero. But white people are just devils to guys like Newsome.
He really should look in a mirror if he wants to see who is the real devil.
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Was the United Healthcare Shooter a Mafiosa?
Timothy Birdnow
We now have a name in the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson - Luigi Mangione.
I want to know more about this fellow. Given his name one suspect Mafia ties.
Apparently Mangione was an U Penn graduate and hated capitalism. But was he being coerced into this?
According to The Blaze Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, where his family was rich and owned a couple of country clubs, lived in Honolulu, and had ties to San Francisco. He got a masters in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Here's more from the BBC.
The point is only immigrants would name their kid Luigi in America. He is no doubt first generation Italian-American. That doesn't mean he's necessarily mobbed up any more than it does for an Irish-American but it certainly is a possibility. This is the kind of thing the Mafia would do if they had sufficient cause, and the way they would do it.
Mangione may have been an expendable, in which case he won't live long.
The New York Times says he has a criminal record in New York. Suggestive, no?
Whether it was hatred of capitalism (which gave him his gentrified lifestyle) or a personal vendetta or a mob hit, Mangione was clearly on the Left side of the spectrum, another spoiled brat rich kid who thought he could get himself out of any trouble.
We now have a name in the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson - Luigi Mangione.
I want to know more about this fellow. Given his name one suspect Mafia ties.
Apparently Mangione was an U Penn graduate and hated capitalism. But was he being coerced into this?
According to The Blaze Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, where his family was rich and owned a couple of country clubs, lived in Honolulu, and had ties to San Francisco. He got a masters in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Here's more from the BBC.
The point is only immigrants would name their kid Luigi in America. He is no doubt first generation Italian-American. That doesn't mean he's necessarily mobbed up any more than it does for an Irish-American but it certainly is a possibility. This is the kind of thing the Mafia would do if they had sufficient cause, and the way they would do it.
Mangione may have been an expendable, in which case he won't live long.
The New York Times says he has a criminal record in New York. Suggestive, no?
Whether it was hatred of capitalism (which gave him his gentrified lifestyle) or a personal vendetta or a mob hit, Mangione was clearly on the Left side of the spectrum, another spoiled brat rich kid who thought he could get himself out of any trouble.
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Go Go Goofball!
Timothy Birdnow
Does Joe Biden remind anyone else of Colonel Kit Coyote from the old Go Go Gophers cartoon? Smugly overconfident and always wrong, he is made a fool of by the undisciplined Gopher Indians (nee Trump) every time.
Sadly Biden didn't have a reasonable Sargent to rein him in.
Does Joe Biden remind anyone else of Colonel Kit Coyote from the old Go Go Gophers cartoon? Smugly overconfident and always wrong, he is made a fool of by the undisciplined Gopher Indians (nee Trump) every time.
Sadly Biden didn't have a reasonable Sargent to rein him in.
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December 09, 2024
The War in Syria is Over so Naturally Biden Attacks
Timothy Birdnow
Biden has to go out with a bang, literally, as he has U.S. aircraft striking targets inside of war-torn Syria ostensibly to fight ISIS but probably just because it's been a while since he's ordered an airstrike and wanted to look tough.
FTA:
""The strikes against the ISIS leaders, operatives, and camps were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS, in order to prevent the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek to take advantage of the current situation to reconstitute in central Syria,” the news release said.
The release said B-52s, F-15s, and A-10s were used in the attacks.
The release there was no indication that civilians were killed in the attacks.
"There should be no doubt — we will not allow ISIS to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria,” Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla said in the release. "All organizations in Syria should know that we will hold them accountable if they partner with or support ISIS in any way.”
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Question; if we knew where these people were in the first place why didn't we strike before now? I mean, we waited until there was a clear power vacuum before moving, when we should have been going after ISIS before this. Either they posed a clear and present danger to us or they didn't.
Would they tell us if any civilians were killed? How would they even know?
No, I suspect this is a signal to other powers - notably Iran and Turkey and Russia - to stay away and let this play out on it's own.
Prudent perhaps but I hate the way Biden lies to us - and I also think we should stay out of it. Biden's attacks could actually escalate foreign involvement. Joe has been wrong on every single foreign policy issue throughout his life.
Biden has always been like the schoolyard bully's toadie; he acts tough but has no real courage and takes a free shot when opportunity presents. This is exactly his style.
Biden has to go out with a bang, literally, as he has U.S. aircraft striking targets inside of war-torn Syria ostensibly to fight ISIS but probably just because it's been a while since he's ordered an airstrike and wanted to look tough.
FTA:
""The strikes against the ISIS leaders, operatives, and camps were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS, in order to prevent the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek to take advantage of the current situation to reconstitute in central Syria,” the news release said.
The release said B-52s, F-15s, and A-10s were used in the attacks.
The release there was no indication that civilians were killed in the attacks.
"There should be no doubt — we will not allow ISIS to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria,” Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla said in the release. "All organizations in Syria should know that we will hold them accountable if they partner with or support ISIS in any way.”
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Question; if we knew where these people were in the first place why didn't we strike before now? I mean, we waited until there was a clear power vacuum before moving, when we should have been going after ISIS before this. Either they posed a clear and present danger to us or they didn't.
Would they tell us if any civilians were killed? How would they even know?
No, I suspect this is a signal to other powers - notably Iran and Turkey and Russia - to stay away and let this play out on it's own.
Prudent perhaps but I hate the way Biden lies to us - and I also think we should stay out of it. Biden's attacks could actually escalate foreign involvement. Joe has been wrong on every single foreign policy issue throughout his life.
Biden has always been like the schoolyard bully's toadie; he acts tough but has no real courage and takes a free shot when opportunity presents. This is exactly his style.
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IRS Beefing Up
Timothy Birdnow
The IRS enforcement division, you know, the guys who knock on your door in the dead of night, has recently expanded it's workforce by 11% According to the article, IRS-CI special agents, who are authorized to carry guns and use lethal force, now number 2,290 after a hiring spree added 146 employees to its ranks over the fiscal year.
They have been flush with cash thanks to Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have had problems with the IRS for a few years now, with them going after me for taxes prepared by our CPA accounting firm. They wouldn't even waive interest and penalties on a fine they socked me with for receiving too much on my return by their own mistake. I returned the money, which they sent me by mistake, but they still charged me! I doubt I'd have these kinds of problems if there weren't so many new IRS workers with their thumbs in the pie.
There is no way this massive buildup of IRS enforcers was ever going to be anything but a tool to harrass middle class folks. They didn't have enough work to do going after true criminals or real tax cheats.
When I called to speak to someone at the IRS I was hung up on by the first "customer service rep" after she told my wife to shut up and ONLY answer HER questions. She kept saying "I didn't ax you dat". When I got on and objected she hung up, and My cell phone couldn't call back without getting into a voice mail black hole. I switched to our land line and got through and spoke to a woman who seemed fine but when I asked for a receipt showing I had paid "in case this becomes a legal matter" she went ballistic, screaming at me that I was threatening her. I asked "how is that threatening you? I would ask for a receipt from Walmart if I purchased something, and it becomes a legal matter if I have to hire a tax lawyer." Eventually she calmed down but didn't solve my problem, just told me to send in a form requesting the penalties be dropped. After almost five months we got a new bill with the same charges - they refused to waive them, even though it was their mistake. I eventually had to pay them over six hundred bucks for their screwup.
I hate those bloodsuckers; as bad as any Mafia protection racket.
The IRS enforcement division, you know, the guys who knock on your door in the dead of night, has recently expanded it's workforce by 11% According to the article, IRS-CI special agents, who are authorized to carry guns and use lethal force, now number 2,290 after a hiring spree added 146 employees to its ranks over the fiscal year.
They have been flush with cash thanks to Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have had problems with the IRS for a few years now, with them going after me for taxes prepared by our CPA accounting firm. They wouldn't even waive interest and penalties on a fine they socked me with for receiving too much on my return by their own mistake. I returned the money, which they sent me by mistake, but they still charged me! I doubt I'd have these kinds of problems if there weren't so many new IRS workers with their thumbs in the pie.
There is no way this massive buildup of IRS enforcers was ever going to be anything but a tool to harrass middle class folks. They didn't have enough work to do going after true criminals or real tax cheats.
When I called to speak to someone at the IRS I was hung up on by the first "customer service rep" after she told my wife to shut up and ONLY answer HER questions. She kept saying "I didn't ax you dat". When I got on and objected she hung up, and My cell phone couldn't call back without getting into a voice mail black hole. I switched to our land line and got through and spoke to a woman who seemed fine but when I asked for a receipt showing I had paid "in case this becomes a legal matter" she went ballistic, screaming at me that I was threatening her. I asked "how is that threatening you? I would ask for a receipt from Walmart if I purchased something, and it becomes a legal matter if I have to hire a tax lawyer." Eventually she calmed down but didn't solve my problem, just told me to send in a form requesting the penalties be dropped. After almost five months we got a new bill with the same charges - they refused to waive them, even though it was their mistake. I eventually had to pay them over six hundred bucks for their screwup.
I hate those bloodsuckers; as bad as any Mafia protection racket.
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Penny Not Guilty!
Timothy Birdnow
The verdict is in - NOT GUILTY!
I didn't think it could happen in a New York jury room.
The verdict is in - NOT GUILTY!
I didn't think it could happen in a New York jury room.
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Ice Free?
Timothy Birdnow
From Tony Heller at Realclimate:
Paul Beckwith predicted the Arctic would be ice-free in 2013, and now he is warning of accelerated melting timelines.
From Tony Heller at Realclimate:
Paul Beckwith predicted the Arctic would be ice-free in 2013, and now he is warning of accelerated melting timelines.
Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada
There has been no trend in the Arctic sea ice minimum, mean or maximum extent for eighteen years.
https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/N_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv
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Climate Realists Arrested
Timothy Birdnow
The Biden Administration is starting to arrest activists for the great crime of not accepting the orthodoxy on climate change and opposing the Gang Green.
This is one tyrannical regime and we can't be rid of it soon enough.
Frankly, there has been a kind of silence since the election I find ominous. These people will do anything to hold onto power.
The Biden Administration is starting to arrest activists for the great crime of not accepting the orthodoxy on climate change and opposing the Gang Green.
This is one tyrannical regime and we can't be rid of it soon enough.
Frankly, there has been a kind of silence since the election I find ominous. These people will do anything to hold onto power.
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Florida Only One of Four States WITHOUT Open Carry
Timothy Birdnow
Florida,which is one of the most conservative states in the Union and was the first state to adopt unrestricted concealed carry, STILL does no allow open carry of firearms.
Open carry is wonderful; it makes it clear to the bad guys that there is anarmed citizenry who are ready and able to act against them.
Missouri,my home state, has unrestricted carry - no licensing required and you can walk around with agun strapped to you as you please.
Ron DeSantis is a big proponent of open carry, but many in the state legislature still fear it - and fear the gun control lobby.
Only New York, California,and Illinois - the three People's Republics - still ban open carry. And Florida. Nobody else does.
The Republican Senate leader Ben Albritten is a staunch opponent of open carry despite the fact that it has been a success in every other state. I would add that Florida has more than it's share of mass shootings and one wonders if that isn't a function of their banning open carry? Certainly the knowledge of an armed citizenry often acts as a deterrent.
Florida,which is one of the most conservative states in the Union and was the first state to adopt unrestricted concealed carry, STILL does no allow open carry of firearms.
Open carry is wonderful; it makes it clear to the bad guys that there is anarmed citizenry who are ready and able to act against them.
Missouri,my home state, has unrestricted carry - no licensing required and you can walk around with agun strapped to you as you please.
Ron DeSantis is a big proponent of open carry, but many in the state legislature still fear it - and fear the gun control lobby.
Only New York, California,and Illinois - the three People's Republics - still ban open carry. And Florida. Nobody else does.
The Republican Senate leader Ben Albritten is a staunch opponent of open carry despite the fact that it has been a success in every other state. I would add that Florida has more than it's share of mass shootings and one wonders if that isn't a function of their banning open carry? Certainly the knowledge of an armed citizenry often acts as a deterrent.
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Defund Activist Cries Cops Didn't Help
Timothy Birdnow
Karma is a bitch!
‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: ‘The cops didn’t do s—!’
Karma is a bitch!
‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: ‘The cops didn’t do s—!’
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Fall of Syria Tied to Israel's War
Timothy Birdnow
Well,well, well....looks like Bibi Netanyahu had a hand in the fall of Assad.
FTA:
Naturally this Yahoo article twisted like a pretzel to deny Bibi any credit for this, finding some academics (who undoubtedly support the liberals in Israel) to dismiss the notion.
Uh, Citrinowicz, Sun Tzu said and I quote "opportunities multiply as they are seized" and Netanyahu seized them. I rather suspect he knew that putting this kind of pressure on Iran and Hizbollah would undermine Assad and the Syrian regime, who were also friends to the terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza.
The leftist media can never just give credit where credit is due when it's a formally disavowed person involved.
Another source quoted in the article pointed out it's like dominoes; one falls and the others topple along with it.
Frankly, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn the Mossad was working with some of the rebels and aided them in the attack.
At any rate, this has always been the way to handle this, yet for 76 years it's been negotiate and pull back, offer concessions and let the terrorists rearm and reorganize. And in so doing Tin horn potentates like Assad could hold toy soldier empires because they faced no real resistance and helped aid those groups that attacked Israel with foreign aid. Now with the squeeze on we learn none of this situation was at all real or natural and would have fallen of it's own weight had the great powers - most notably America - stayed the hell out of it. But America restrained Israel for decades out of fear of the Soviets coming in and world war, and then just out of habit and a desire to maintain stability for Arab oil. Now there is an entrenched "peace process professional class" who keep trying the same things over and over and getting the same results. Nobody really wants to solve the problem.
Netanyahu does. Now too does President Trump. And we are seeing the problem solve itself before our very eyes just by some decisive action and willingness to fight this out.
Another of my favorites from Sun Tzu is this:
It works in warfare or politics equally. Sadly the Republicans never understood that and that is why they were so bumbling. They feared taking the fight to the enemy,and when they did they but dipped a toe in the water, finding it chilly they withdrew and got creaned.
Israel was often that way too when it came to Hamas and Hezbollah and other such groups. But the current P.M. is made of sterner stuff and understands you don't go in half-heartedly. It's do, ordo not (to quote Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back).
So Israel has gone on the offensive in a big way and all sorts of amazing things are now happening. This is not coincidence.
Look; this stuff just isn't that complicated. It only appears complicated because we have an academic class that muddies the waters all the time and devices all sorts of Rube Goldberg machines that ultimately do nothing of any use. It justifies their jobs as consultants.
Take a look at Reagan and the U.S.S.R.; for decades we fiddled around with policies devised by "experts" such as George Kennan's "containment" strategy and in the meantime we propped the Soviets up, giving them food and treating them like civilized men when in fact they were just barbarians. We twisted ourselves into pretzels with a series of arms reduction treaties, with multiple alliances like NATO or SEATO, with all the spy v. spy nonsense. But all we had to do was compete with them economically and they folded. Reagan knew that is how it would go and he was right. So simple and many folks here in flyover country knew that was how it would go all along. But try telling academics that, or bureaucrats whose jobs depended on the military industrial complex.
And in the process we became the very evil we were resisting. Eisenhower warned that could happen. Ike warned as much about the rising power of academia and the technocrats as he did about the military and big corporations. He was right.
All of this could have been avoided had we just squeezed the Soviets harder economically. But then men like Armand Hammer were helping to craft policy towards the Russians and they wanted Russia to succeed.
So we see here yet again how simple it is. It just takes the courage to do it.
Well,well, well....looks like Bibi Netanyahu had a hand in the fall of Assad.
FTA:
"Speaking while under growing domestic pressure over the fate of Israeli hostages in Gaza and a corruption trial, Netanyahu said Assad's demise was "a direct result of the blows we have inflicted on Iran and Hezbollah, Assad's main supporters".'
Naturally this Yahoo article twisted like a pretzel to deny Bibi any credit for this, finding some academics (who undoubtedly support the liberals in Israel) to dismiss the notion.
"Danny Citrinowicz, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, told AFP that while it was true Israel helped precipitate events in Syria, Assad's fall was an unintended consequence.
"It's obvious that what Israel did has definitely led to that, but I doubt that they had a strategy to do so," he said.
Netanyahu warned Assad on November 27, the day Syria's rebel offensive began, that he was "playing with fire" by supporting Hezbollah and helping to transfer weapons to Lebanon.
"But, he never knew that Jolani intended to start an attack," Citrinowicz said, referring to Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the Islamist chief of the rebel group that led the offensive in Syria.
"And, of course, nobody calculated how the fact that Iran and Hezbollah were so weakened would damage Assad's ability to protect himself and his regime."'
"It's obvious that what Israel did has definitely led to that, but I doubt that they had a strategy to do so," he said.
Netanyahu warned Assad on November 27, the day Syria's rebel offensive began, that he was "playing with fire" by supporting Hezbollah and helping to transfer weapons to Lebanon.
"But, he never knew that Jolani intended to start an attack," Citrinowicz said, referring to Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the Islamist chief of the rebel group that led the offensive in Syria.
"And, of course, nobody calculated how the fact that Iran and Hezbollah were so weakened would damage Assad's ability to protect himself and his regime."'
Uh, Citrinowicz, Sun Tzu said and I quote "opportunities multiply as they are seized" and Netanyahu seized them. I rather suspect he knew that putting this kind of pressure on Iran and Hizbollah would undermine Assad and the Syrian regime, who were also friends to the terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza.
The leftist media can never just give credit where credit is due when it's a formally disavowed person involved.
Another source quoted in the article pointed out it's like dominoes; one falls and the others topple along with it.
Frankly, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn the Mossad was working with some of the rebels and aided them in the attack.
At any rate, this has always been the way to handle this, yet for 76 years it's been negotiate and pull back, offer concessions and let the terrorists rearm and reorganize. And in so doing Tin horn potentates like Assad could hold toy soldier empires because they faced no real resistance and helped aid those groups that attacked Israel with foreign aid. Now with the squeeze on we learn none of this situation was at all real or natural and would have fallen of it's own weight had the great powers - most notably America - stayed the hell out of it. But America restrained Israel for decades out of fear of the Soviets coming in and world war, and then just out of habit and a desire to maintain stability for Arab oil. Now there is an entrenched "peace process professional class" who keep trying the same things over and over and getting the same results. Nobody really wants to solve the problem.
Netanyahu does. Now too does President Trump. And we are seeing the problem solve itself before our very eyes just by some decisive action and willingness to fight this out.
Another of my favorites from Sun Tzu is this:
"When invading hostile territory, the general principle is, that penetrating deeply brings cohesion; penetrating but a short way means dispersion."
It works in warfare or politics equally. Sadly the Republicans never understood that and that is why they were so bumbling. They feared taking the fight to the enemy,and when they did they but dipped a toe in the water, finding it chilly they withdrew and got creaned.
Israel was often that way too when it came to Hamas and Hezbollah and other such groups. But the current P.M. is made of sterner stuff and understands you don't go in half-heartedly. It's do, ordo not (to quote Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back).
So Israel has gone on the offensive in a big way and all sorts of amazing things are now happening. This is not coincidence.
Look; this stuff just isn't that complicated. It only appears complicated because we have an academic class that muddies the waters all the time and devices all sorts of Rube Goldberg machines that ultimately do nothing of any use. It justifies their jobs as consultants.
Take a look at Reagan and the U.S.S.R.; for decades we fiddled around with policies devised by "experts" such as George Kennan's "containment" strategy and in the meantime we propped the Soviets up, giving them food and treating them like civilized men when in fact they were just barbarians. We twisted ourselves into pretzels with a series of arms reduction treaties, with multiple alliances like NATO or SEATO, with all the spy v. spy nonsense. But all we had to do was compete with them economically and they folded. Reagan knew that is how it would go and he was right. So simple and many folks here in flyover country knew that was how it would go all along. But try telling academics that, or bureaucrats whose jobs depended on the military industrial complex.
And in the process we became the very evil we were resisting. Eisenhower warned that could happen. Ike warned as much about the rising power of academia and the technocrats as he did about the military and big corporations. He was right.
All of this could have been avoided had we just squeezed the Soviets harder economically. But then men like Armand Hammer were helping to craft policy towards the Russians and they wanted Russia to succeed.
So we see here yet again how simple it is. It just takes the courage to do it.
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Lara Trump Leaves RNC
Timothy Birdnow
This is our loss, although it suggests that perhaps Ron DeSantis is planning on naming her to the Senate.
Lara Trump Steps Down from RNC
Lara did an amazing job there, preventing the Big Steal the Democrats hoped to use to push Kamala Harris across the goal line. She will be missed in that job.
I hope her replacement is even better!
But she'll make an amazing Senator, no question, assuming she gets the nod.
This is our loss, although it suggests that perhaps Ron DeSantis is planning on naming her to the Senate.
Lara Trump Steps Down from RNC
Lara did an amazing job there, preventing the Big Steal the Democrats hoped to use to push Kamala Harris across the goal line. She will be missed in that job.
I hope her replacement is even better!
But she'll make an amazing Senator, no question, assuming she gets the nod.
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Elton John Hit by Pipe
Timothy Birdnow
Well, he always did like hard, stiff objects...
Still Standing: Elton John Left Bloodied, Blacked Out Onstage After Being Hit by a Metal Pipe
"The Rocket Man was taken off from his piano amid fears that shots had been fired in the middle of a concert in Greensboro, North Carolina, according to a report published Thursday by RadarOnline. It was later revealed that a person in the crowd allegedly threw a metal pipe onto the stage that struck the legendary singer in his temple. John recalled that he had blood streaming down his face from the shocking incident and said he blacked out as a result of the injury."
John said this isn't the first time someone threw something at him on-stage. Maybe he needs to have special glasses with ABM systems installed so they can shoot down incoming missiles.
In all seriousness this was a terrible thing to do to him and let us all pray for a speedy recovery for the pop and rock icon.
Well, he always did like hard, stiff objects...
Still Standing: Elton John Left Bloodied, Blacked Out Onstage After Being Hit by a Metal Pipe
"The Rocket Man was taken off from his piano amid fears that shots had been fired in the middle of a concert in Greensboro, North Carolina, according to a report published Thursday by RadarOnline. It was later revealed that a person in the crowd allegedly threw a metal pipe onto the stage that struck the legendary singer in his temple. John recalled that he had blood streaming down his face from the shocking incident and said he blacked out as a result of the injury."
John said this isn't the first time someone threw something at him on-stage. Maybe he needs to have special glasses with ABM systems installed so they can shoot down incoming missiles.
In all seriousness this was a terrible thing to do to him and let us all pray for a speedy recovery for the pop and rock icon.
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Hamas Quaking in Fear
Timothy Birdnow
Hamas is currently identifying hostages for release when Trump gets into office.
According to the Times of Israel:
Trump's people have been busy negotiating in Dohar to get a deal set up before he enters office.
One wonders how long before someone brings up the Logan Act. I see a Democrat Congress impeaching Trump based on that. But Trump is doing the right thing and everyone knows it. Many Americans are still being held hostage.
I remember the Iran Hostage Crisis in the Carter years; we had daily reports and it made Ted Koppel's career as host of "America Held Hostage" later renamed Nightline. That was when the media still had some journalism in it. Now they won't talk of thingsthat embarrass their chosen side.
Trump is showing that this stuff really isn't that complicated and never was, which iswhy the Deep State cannot tolerate him or his success. I really don't think Trump will serve out his term; he'll either be assassinated or one of the many bogus scandals will bring him down. Probably the former; the Deep State must make it plain to everyone that this cannot be done, they cannot be cut out.
We're in for a wild ride.
Hamas is currently identifying hostages for release when Trump gets into office.
According to the Times of Israel:
Sources within various Palestinian terror groups in Gaza say that Hamas has told them to compile information on the hostages they hold in preparation for a ceasefire and hostage deal with Israel.
Hamas has told factions including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front and the Popular Resistance Committees to prepare information such as whether their hostages are alive or dead, the sources tell AFP [Agence France-Presse].
[...]
Qatar’s prime minister said yesterday that there was renewed "momentum” for a ceasefire and hostage release deal following the election of Donald Trump in the United States.
Hamas has told factions including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front and the Popular Resistance Committees to prepare information such as whether their hostages are alive or dead, the sources tell AFP [Agence France-Presse].
[...]
Qatar’s prime minister said yesterday that there was renewed "momentum” for a ceasefire and hostage release deal following the election of Donald Trump in the United States.
Trump's people have been busy negotiating in Dohar to get a deal set up before he enters office.
One wonders how long before someone brings up the Logan Act. I see a Democrat Congress impeaching Trump based on that. But Trump is doing the right thing and everyone knows it. Many Americans are still being held hostage.
I remember the Iran Hostage Crisis in the Carter years; we had daily reports and it made Ted Koppel's career as host of "America Held Hostage" later renamed Nightline. That was when the media still had some journalism in it. Now they won't talk of thingsthat embarrass their chosen side.
Trump is showing that this stuff really isn't that complicated and never was, which iswhy the Deep State cannot tolerate him or his success. I really don't think Trump will serve out his term; he'll either be assassinated or one of the many bogus scandals will bring him down. Probably the former; the Deep State must make it plain to everyone that this cannot be done, they cannot be cut out.
We're in for a wild ride.
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War is Peace According to Mitch
Timothy Birdnow
Mitch McConnell calls for more endless wars.
FTA:
"Speaking at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, after which he received a standing ovation, the Kentucky Republican invoked the hawkish legacy of the 40th president, arguing that "influential voices” are forgetting the lessons of the Cold War amid growing threats from China and Russia.
"Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America’s place,” McConnell said.
"But let’s be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,” McConnell said, paraphrasing Trump’s longtime campaign slogan."
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Soooo....
Our "greatness" depends on our fighting wars all over the globe, oftentimes where we have zero national interest!
He considers not bankrupting ourselves as "managing the decline" rather than prudently managing our RESOURCES so we can fight another day when needed.
No sir; it is Mr. McConnell who has managed the decline, and contributed to it in a large way by wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars, dollars he stole from future generations.
He is too stupid to learn from Orwell "war is peace". Orwell saw clearly that endless war was nothing but a tool for the tyrants. Read 1984.
Yes, Reagan was aggressive in his use of American power but he did that with a conscious sense of WHY he was using it. We had played pattycake with the Soviets for decades with "containment" and "d'etente" and Reagan understood we could end the Cold war and then would be able to stop with this military intervention. He fought to attain peace, not to embroil us in one unnecessary fight after another.
I point out the dangers of endless war as illustrated by Eisenhower in his farewell address; Ike warned in it that we were facing a very dangerous situation because we were empowering the military, the big coprorations, and the bureaucracy and higher education. He worried these forces would create a dictatorship and he was right.
That's what McConnell now promotes, and what these idiots at this Reagan forum applauded. Reagan was first and foremost about protecting FREEDOM, not just fighting wars that did not concern us. He did not want America to be the world's policeman; he just wanted to fight the Communists wherever they threatened to destroy them. It was STRATEGIC. This is just war because it's fun and profitable.
It is way past time China Mitch leaves the scene.
Mitch McConnell calls for more endless wars.
FTA:
"Speaking at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, after which he received a standing ovation, the Kentucky Republican invoked the hawkish legacy of the 40th president, arguing that "influential voices” are forgetting the lessons of the Cold War amid growing threats from China and Russia.
"Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America’s place,” McConnell said.
"But let’s be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,” McConnell said, paraphrasing Trump’s longtime campaign slogan."
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Soooo....
Our "greatness" depends on our fighting wars all over the globe, oftentimes where we have zero national interest!
He considers not bankrupting ourselves as "managing the decline" rather than prudently managing our RESOURCES so we can fight another day when needed.
No sir; it is Mr. McConnell who has managed the decline, and contributed to it in a large way by wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars, dollars he stole from future generations.
He is too stupid to learn from Orwell "war is peace". Orwell saw clearly that endless war was nothing but a tool for the tyrants. Read 1984.
Yes, Reagan was aggressive in his use of American power but he did that with a conscious sense of WHY he was using it. We had played pattycake with the Soviets for decades with "containment" and "d'etente" and Reagan understood we could end the Cold war and then would be able to stop with this military intervention. He fought to attain peace, not to embroil us in one unnecessary fight after another.
I point out the dangers of endless war as illustrated by Eisenhower in his farewell address; Ike warned in it that we were facing a very dangerous situation because we were empowering the military, the big coprorations, and the bureaucracy and higher education. He worried these forces would create a dictatorship and he was right.
That's what McConnell now promotes, and what these idiots at this Reagan forum applauded. Reagan was first and foremost about protecting FREEDOM, not just fighting wars that did not concern us. He did not want America to be the world's policeman; he just wanted to fight the Communists wherever they threatened to destroy them. It was STRATEGIC. This is just war because it's fun and profitable.
It is way past time China Mitch leaves the scene.
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A Penny Saved (sort of)
Timothy Birdnow
The prosecution (that means Alvin Bragg) is dropping the manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny for his "choke hold" accidental killing of a crazed threatening man on the subway in New York City.
The manslaughter charge was the big one.
The jury was deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict so the prosecution has dropped the charge hoping to get some charge to stick rather than just a mistrial via hung jury.
Penny is still facing negligent homicide charges since the judge, who was reluctant to allow the charges to be dropped, caved in and agreed to allow the lesser charge to proceed.
The decedent - Jordan Neely - was a black man who was threatening other passengers on the train when Penny, a former military man, intervened.
The prosecution (that means Alvin Bragg) is dropping the manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny for his "choke hold" accidental killing of a crazed threatening man on the subway in New York City.
The manslaughter charge was the big one.
The jury was deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict so the prosecution has dropped the charge hoping to get some charge to stick rather than just a mistrial via hung jury.
Penny is still facing negligent homicide charges since the judge, who was reluctant to allow the charges to be dropped, caved in and agreed to allow the lesser charge to proceed.
The decedent - Jordan Neely - was a black man who was threatening other passengers on the train when Penny, a former military man, intervened.
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The Importance of Being Ernst
Timorthy Birdnow
Joni Ernst went native and the former hog farmer is now just one of the pigs.
Joni Ernst went native and the former hog farmer is now just one of the pigs.
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Russia Closes Polish Consulate
Timothy Birdnow
Russia has just closed it's Polish consulate, accusing Poland of "sabotage and terrorism".
This could mark a whole new level of hostility and perhaps suggests the war in Ukraine is about to turn into a whole eastern Europena war - and if it does that means all of NATO will come to Poland's defense, meaning we are in a full blown hot world war.
IF this stuff is going to happen it will happen now, during the interim between Biden and Trump. We currently have no President, just some shadowy politcal star chamber running things.
The Russians issued this statement:
"If acts of diversion and terrorism continue, I will close down the rest of the Russian consulate presence in Poland,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters after Moscow announced the closure of its St. Petersburg consulate."
This was apparently in retaliation for Poland closing the Russian consulate in the city of Poznan.
While it does not signal war just yet it is another sign war may be on the horizon.
Polish military officers have been arguing for the interception of Russian missiles aimed at Ukraine. Poland has been a major supply depot for Western military equipment being sent to Ukraine.
Russia has just closed it's Polish consulate, accusing Poland of "sabotage and terrorism".
This could mark a whole new level of hostility and perhaps suggests the war in Ukraine is about to turn into a whole eastern Europena war - and if it does that means all of NATO will come to Poland's defense, meaning we are in a full blown hot world war.
IF this stuff is going to happen it will happen now, during the interim between Biden and Trump. We currently have no President, just some shadowy politcal star chamber running things.
The Russians issued this statement:
"If acts of diversion and terrorism continue, I will close down the rest of the Russian consulate presence in Poland,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters after Moscow announced the closure of its St. Petersburg consulate."
This was apparently in retaliation for Poland closing the Russian consulate in the city of Poznan.
While it does not signal war just yet it is another sign war may be on the horizon.
Polish military officers have been arguing for the interception of Russian missiles aimed at Ukraine. Poland has been a major supply depot for Western military equipment being sent to Ukraine.
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Damascus Has Fallen
Timothy Birdnow
Damascus has fallen
Assad has had to flee his capital after rebels took the city.
What will Russia do? Russia can ill-afford to let Syria turn into a Western satellite, nor even a neutral state. It is their primary Mediterranean port.
The rebel groups consist of theocratic Islamists and moderate forces (such as Kurds) and who will wind up in control of this key Middle Eastern state is unclear. Turkey will no doubt be backing the Islamists (like the Syrian Liberation Front) and that is not really in Russia's interest,but it will work fine for Erdogen.
If Syria turns theocratic it will pose an existential threat to peace in the Middle East and most especially to Israel. Israel can no longer not worry about their northern borders.
If the moderates take power (and when has that ever happened when faced by aggressive Islamists?) then Russia will face a very difficult choice. Do they take action to help install the radicals or do they back a counter-insurgency to reinstate Assad?
It will be hard for Russia to take military action there, but they are conducting a major naval exercise in the region and it wouldn't be hard for them to use that to assist the baathists.
Also, what will Iran do?
This is a volatile, explosive situation. Syria hac chemical weapons at least as late as 2013, and possibly other weapons of mass destruction. Maybe biological. Probably not nuclear, as their reactor was destroyed by Israel and the international community believes they have adhered to the treaty they signed. But then they clearly received SOMETHING from Iraq when the U.S. invaded. Who knows what they are sitting on? Quite possibly nothing. One would think they would have used them on the insurgents if they did, but that would have made them anathema to all other nations plus killed a lot of innocents.
One thing is clear; this greatly complicates an already unstable situation.
Damascus has fallen
Assad has had to flee his capital after rebels took the city.
What will Russia do? Russia can ill-afford to let Syria turn into a Western satellite, nor even a neutral state. It is their primary Mediterranean port.
The rebel groups consist of theocratic Islamists and moderate forces (such as Kurds) and who will wind up in control of this key Middle Eastern state is unclear. Turkey will no doubt be backing the Islamists (like the Syrian Liberation Front) and that is not really in Russia's interest,but it will work fine for Erdogen.
If Syria turns theocratic it will pose an existential threat to peace in the Middle East and most especially to Israel. Israel can no longer not worry about their northern borders.
If the moderates take power (and when has that ever happened when faced by aggressive Islamists?) then Russia will face a very difficult choice. Do they take action to help install the radicals or do they back a counter-insurgency to reinstate Assad?
It will be hard for Russia to take military action there, but they are conducting a major naval exercise in the region and it wouldn't be hard for them to use that to assist the baathists.
Also, what will Iran do?
This is a volatile, explosive situation. Syria hac chemical weapons at least as late as 2013, and possibly other weapons of mass destruction. Maybe biological. Probably not nuclear, as their reactor was destroyed by Israel and the international community believes they have adhered to the treaty they signed. But then they clearly received SOMETHING from Iraq when the U.S. invaded. Who knows what they are sitting on? Quite possibly nothing. One would think they would have used them on the insurgents if they did, but that would have made them anathema to all other nations plus killed a lot of innocents.
One thing is clear; this greatly complicates an already unstable situation.
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Revival?
Timothy Birdnow
Is this a real revival or just scared Americans fearing the Tribulation for now? We may well slide back into the cesspool at any time.
Here’s Why U.S. Bible Sales are Booming
According to the Wall Street Journal Bible sales are up 22%.
Can America truly restore what was lost? Time will tell.
The U.S. has had Divine protection from the beginning. George Washington recognized this during the Revolution, stating:
" By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho' death was levelling my companions on every side. "
He also escaped the trap laid for him by Benedict Arnold, who was going to surrender West Point to the British to coincide with a visit by his good friend Washington (and they planned to hang him as a traitor). It was the purest of "coincidences"; highwaymen robbed a traveler who turned out to be a British agent carrying correspondence from Arnold and they turned it over to a local commander (they sympathized with the Patriots) who, being closer to Washington than West Point, handed it over to Washington, who naturally gave it a casual glance. He exclaimed "My God! Arnold's turned traitor!" and subsequently vowed to hang him from the nearest tree. To this day the U.S. government is forbidden from writing the words "benedict arnold" in any capacity - he's been erased from our history. Even at Saratoga where he won the day he is only referred to as "a young American officer".
The victory at Yorktown was an act of Providence; Washington was there and Wellington worked out a nearly foolproof plan to win the war once and for all. He landed at Yorktown, a flat, sandy peninsula between the James and Susquehanna rivers. The plan had the British navy sailing up the rivers and cutting Washington off, closing his escape so Wellington could cut him to pieces. But the British Navy failed to sail from Halifax; their commander became terribly ill with dysentery,and they replaced him with a doddering old admiral who delayed the fleet. In that time the French moved their fleet up from the West Indies and sailed into the rivers, putting Wellington into the very trap he laid for Washington.
Interestingly enough Washington didn't even realize it and wanted to move north to attack New York City again. The French had to tell him he had won the war.
And there were multiple other things; eerie fogs forming just when Washington needed, hiding his forces so they could retreat and fight another day, for instance. There was the strange lethargy that came over almost all the British commanders who just wouldn't pursue Washington. I could go on but it was clear to Washington and many others America was not founded by Americans but by God Himself.
Then there was the War of 1812.
The British seized and burned Washington and rued the day; they were attacked by completely unbelievable events - a tornado went right through their camp. There was an eerie fog, and even some hail. They RETREATED from Washington without a shot being fired at them! The British truly believed God Himself fought in our favor.
Despite our losing most of the battles in that war we ended up pretty much winning it.
These types of events a strewn throughout our history. This prompted Otto Von Bismarck to famously state:
'God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.'
But we have grown apostate and God has been withdrawing His providence in recent years. That is why we keep losing wars we should win, and why we suffered with such terrible leaders as Obama and Biden and watched the disasters of the Afghan withdrawal
Hopefully we learned our lesson and are at the point of a major spiritual revival.
2 Chronicles 7:14
"…if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
One would hope that is in the offing now. If not we may have a short spring and winter will then never end.
Is this a real revival or just scared Americans fearing the Tribulation for now? We may well slide back into the cesspool at any time.
Here’s Why U.S. Bible Sales are Booming
According to the Wall Street Journal Bible sales are up 22%.
Can America truly restore what was lost? Time will tell.
The U.S. has had Divine protection from the beginning. George Washington recognized this during the Revolution, stating:
" By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho' death was levelling my companions on every side. "
He also escaped the trap laid for him by Benedict Arnold, who was going to surrender West Point to the British to coincide with a visit by his good friend Washington (and they planned to hang him as a traitor). It was the purest of "coincidences"; highwaymen robbed a traveler who turned out to be a British agent carrying correspondence from Arnold and they turned it over to a local commander (they sympathized with the Patriots) who, being closer to Washington than West Point, handed it over to Washington, who naturally gave it a casual glance. He exclaimed "My God! Arnold's turned traitor!" and subsequently vowed to hang him from the nearest tree. To this day the U.S. government is forbidden from writing the words "benedict arnold" in any capacity - he's been erased from our history. Even at Saratoga where he won the day he is only referred to as "a young American officer".
The victory at Yorktown was an act of Providence; Washington was there and Wellington worked out a nearly foolproof plan to win the war once and for all. He landed at Yorktown, a flat, sandy peninsula between the James and Susquehanna rivers. The plan had the British navy sailing up the rivers and cutting Washington off, closing his escape so Wellington could cut him to pieces. But the British Navy failed to sail from Halifax; their commander became terribly ill with dysentery,and they replaced him with a doddering old admiral who delayed the fleet. In that time the French moved their fleet up from the West Indies and sailed into the rivers, putting Wellington into the very trap he laid for Washington.
Interestingly enough Washington didn't even realize it and wanted to move north to attack New York City again. The French had to tell him he had won the war.
And there were multiple other things; eerie fogs forming just when Washington needed, hiding his forces so they could retreat and fight another day, for instance. There was the strange lethargy that came over almost all the British commanders who just wouldn't pursue Washington. I could go on but it was clear to Washington and many others America was not founded by Americans but by God Himself.
Then there was the War of 1812.
The British seized and burned Washington and rued the day; they were attacked by completely unbelievable events - a tornado went right through their camp. There was an eerie fog, and even some hail. They RETREATED from Washington without a shot being fired at them! The British truly believed God Himself fought in our favor.
Despite our losing most of the battles in that war we ended up pretty much winning it.
These types of events a strewn throughout our history. This prompted Otto Von Bismarck to famously state:
'God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.'
But we have grown apostate and God has been withdrawing His providence in recent years. That is why we keep losing wars we should win, and why we suffered with such terrible leaders as Obama and Biden and watched the disasters of the Afghan withdrawal
Hopefully we learned our lesson and are at the point of a major spiritual revival.
2 Chronicles 7:14
"…if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
One would hope that is in the offing now. If not we may have a short spring and winter will then never end.
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