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Hugo Gurdon
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Hugo Gurdon
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Editor-in-Chief, Washington Examiner
Washington, DC Katılım Nisan 2013
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AOC: the Founders were really socialists.
Founder: "The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free."
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How many Western media outlets have already retracted the Hamas-fabricated claim that “70% of casualties in Gaza are women and children” — or even “75–80%,” according to the honorary PhD holder @FranceskAlbs?
This utterly false statistic was used for more than two years to buttress accusations of “genocide.” In reality, the casualties in Gaza are overwhelmingly male and of fighting age, while women and children were killed at rates far below their share of the population.
Does anyone care? In the Belgian and Dutch media — which repeated the “70%” blood libel repeatedly — I have seen absolutely nothing. No corrections, no retractions, not even fact-checks of Albanese’s deranged claims. Zilches.
“Adult male deaths in Gaza are 3.3x higher than adult female deaths, with older teenage males similarly disproportionate at 2.8x higher. Women and children were killed at rates far below their share of the population, which definitively contradicts claims of indiscriminate bombing or deliberate targeting of women and children.”
Aizenberg@Aizenberg55
This is one of the key charts of the war. It shows that adult male deaths in Gaza are 3.3x higher than adult female deaths, with older teenage males similarly disproportionate at 2.8x higher. Women and children were killed at rates far below their share of the population, which definitively contradicts claims of indiscriminate bombing or deliberate targeting of women and children. If such targeting were occurring, civilian deaths would at minimum resemble the population’s age and gender structure. Instead, the chart shows a large excess of adult male deaths, roughly 23,000 excess adult men, and when excess male teens, many of whom are documented combatants, are included, the total closely corroborates the IDF’s claim that about 25,000 combatants were killed, a figure publicly affirmed by the United States. Rather than contend with this evidence, critics have come up with a new talking point: men always die more than women in wars, so the pattern proves nothing. Meaning that they claim these excess male deaths are civilians not combatants, all said without evidence. With that logic in place it makes it impossible to ever identify large-scale combatant deaths, because any excess male mortality is dismissed by definition as “what happens in war.” Comparisons to other conflicts are also misplaced. Gaza is structurally different on many levels from the wars commonly cited as evidence, such as Yemen, Syria, Congo, or Tigray. For example, Gaza had repeated mass evacuations and was the only war in history where one side facilitated massive quantities of food and humanitarian aid throughout active combat. In another post I will show statistics that contradict this claim as well. Crucially, no affirmative evidence is presented that adult male civilians in Gaza died at much higher rates than women; that claim is simply assumed by analogy to other, dissimilar wars. The effect of this reasoning is to ensure that excess male deaths can never be attributed to combatants, while simultaneously sidelining specific, evidence-backed claims about Hamas losses. The irony is also striking; many of the same voices accusing Israel of targeting women and children must also argue that Gaza followed the standard wartime pattern of excess male deaths. Both cannot be true. Chart credited to @GabrielEpsteinX
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Somehow people on the Left are frequently either incapable of distinguishing substance from process or find it convenient to pretend that one is the other
Jay Caruso@JayCaruso
The examples cited almost all concern the executive branch overstepping its authority, and the court saying it is Congress's role. Somehow, that translates to courts "moving dramatically to the right on economic policy."
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The examples cited almost all concern the executive branch overstepping its authority, and the court saying it is Congress's role. Somehow, that translates to courts "moving dramatically to the right on economic policy."
The New Republic@newrepublic
The Supreme Court and other federal courts have moved dramatically to the right on economic policy as well as social and democracy policy. It’s time to take on that fight too. trib.al/tZSVobB
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How Jordan lost Judea and Samaria in the 1967 war
King Hussein of Jordan described in his own memoirs how he joined the war to his own detriment.
He made a deal with Nasser, the Egyptian leader, to join the fighting even though he personally did not want to.
Nasser promised him:
“We are going to finish them.”
Then the war started.
Hussein was at his home in Aqaba.
He writes that he went outside and looked west toward Eilat and saw many fighter jets flying from Egypt toward Israel.
He thought to himself:
“Wow. Nasser was right.”
What he was actually seeing were Israeli Air Force jets returning after destroying the Egyptian Air Force in Operation Moked.
At the same time, Nasser, already knowing that Egypt had lost almost all of its planes, called Hussein and told him:
“We are crushing them. Come join.”
Believing Egypt was winning, Hussein ordered Jordanian forces to bomb West Jerusalem and Netanya.
This was after Israel had sent him a clear message: Do not join the war. If you stay out, we will not attack you.
But once Jordan attacked, Israel had no choice but to respond to those attacks out of self-defense.
That is how Israel ended up controlling Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria.
Not by plan.
Not by conquest.
By self-defense.
A protective war under international law.
Adapted from King Hussein’s memoirs and later analysis by Chanan Amiur.
🇮🇱 The Nation of Israel Lives!🇮🇱
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🚨 Gavin Newsom’s wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom paid herself & her company $3.9 million from her “gender justice” charity — 33% of its entire annual revenue.
IRS filings show:
$1.8M salary to her + $2.1M to her for-profit film company for school-funded documentaries.
Taxpayer money from CA public schools.
#Newsom #California #TaxpayerFunded
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The only thing that “speaks volumes” here is Kaine’s dishonesty. The Democrats asked the court to consider the questions at hand only after the referendum had been held. The court agreed. Now the same people are demagoguing the court for doing what they demanded of it.
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Tim Kaine responds to the Virginia Supreme Court overturning the will of the people: “The timing of this ruling speaks volumes.” “The Virginia General Assembly let the people decide for themselves in a free and fair election. If the Virginia Supreme Court had legitimate concerns about this referendum, the time to stop it would have been before three million Virginians cast their ballots.”
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1984, by George Orwell.
Published by Bürgers in 1950. Cover by Kurt Hilscher.
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Doctors Without Borders said two days ago that all of Gaza was experiencing severe malnutrition.
You literally cannot make this up.
GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga@GAZAWOOD1
Marathons, football matches, luxury restaurants packed with diners, upscale supermarkets, and massive parties. The other Gaza reality mainstream media is hiding from the world. (May 8 2026 - Gaza 📍)
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The HEU stockpile was guaranteed by the JCPOA. And it was produced starting in 2021 when Rob Malley was busy appeasing the regime as special envoy. Trump is saving the world from the Obama-Biden disaster. And that is an understatement.
Robert Malley@Rob_Malley
In other words the war’s objectives are to recover an HEU stockpile that wouldn’t exist had Trump not torn up the deal, and to reopen the strait of Hormuz that would not be shut had he not initiated the war …
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AB Hernandez won all three events today — long jump, high jump and triple jump.
He continues to steal from young women. Shameless.
Jennifer Sey@JenniferSey
Protest underway at a CIF prelims where male athlete AB Hernandez will compete in the long jump, high jump and triple jump.
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For Pete’s sake stop trying to build something else. Let private citizens do the building. Just run a proper military and otherwise get out of the way.
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
Welcome back to Canada, President @BarackObama. Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us.
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Long-debunked 19th century economics
Mark Hemingway@Heminator
This is essentially the folksy version of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value.
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Because you launched a lawless evil war on a peaceful neighbor? Just a guess.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Putin: Finland, why did it join NATO? Did we have any territorial disputes with Finland? Everything had long been settled.
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It was great to attend the big protest on Whitehall against anti-Jewish hate and racism. It was attended by many British Jews but also many many British friends and supporters who are alarmed as we are by the darkening horizon here. The Chief Rabbi spoke very well. The biggest and warmest cheers were when
@KemiBadenoch took the stage and her unvarnished passionate support for British Jews and against extremism racism calumnies and violence that the community faces. She really has shown great leadership and courage here.
Thanks to other speakers from Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform.
Thanks for everyone who came especially non Jewish friends: you are so appreciated.
Elad Simchayoff@Elad_Si
Huge cheers at the protest against antisemitism when @KemiBadenoch took the stage
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This is precisely the sort of totally fabricated, self righteous anti Jewish calumny and vicious poison that is being tolerated on our streets right now - despite all the pabulum of antiracism and 'we stand together' by politicians - and which directly incites violence against the British Jewish community...
James Heartfield@JamesHeartfield
Look at this revolting carnival of Jew-hatred being played out on London’s streets - thanks to the vile scum like @TheGreenParty @Novaramedia and @owenjonesjourno Jones who peddle these lies
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