Archive for June, 2021
3rd June 2021
BLM activist argues for reparations via land reapportionment from ‘wealthy white people’
NFL To Halt Using ‘Race-Norming,’ Will Review Past Scores For Racial Bias Follow The Science, unless it gets in the way of The Narrative, in which case Never Mind.
Baltimore City Homicide Rate Surpasses 2020 Rates Amid Rash Of Gun Violence
The Democrat Legacy of the Tulsa Massacre The elephant in the room is that this massacre was perpetrated in the 1920s, i.e. by Democrats.
Bowser’s About Face: DC Admits Using Tear Gas Against Protesters, Seeks To Dismiss BLM’s Lafayette Park Lawsuit
Former San Francisco Official Allegedly Attempted To Steal Potato Chips While Brandishing Knife At Food Bank, Police Say
Uber Driver Ambushed, Shot In The Head After Picking Up Four Robbers
Black lives don’t matter (to Liberals) If they did, they’d do something about the murder rate in Chicago and D.C.
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3rd June 2021
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Buckhead is a well-to-do district in Atlanta with around 86,000 residents. It has not been exempt from Atlanta’s crime wave (homicides in Atlanta are up 59 percent from this time last year, when the city ended up with its highest total in two decades). One new Buckhead resident was victimized by break-ins to her vehicles twice within a period of a few weeks. Then, there was a shootout on her street.
In response to this crime surge, some residents and business leaders are pushing for Buckhead to become its own municipality. This would enable residents to use their tax dollars to take effective crime prevention measures, something the city is failing to do.
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3rd June 2021
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I love sites like these, and only wished I knew something about music.
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3rd June 2021
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Workforce scholars find that employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office.
The Pandemic Panic has had the effect of a war — the economy was dislocated, and how is resurging in a substantially different form, workplaces have changed and are resurrecting also in a substantially different form, people have had their political sensibilities hammered, and basically things have taken a sharp turn in a new direction.
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3rd June 2021
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One of the reasons that Hamas felt emboldened enough to launch a rocket assault on Jerusalem last month – an action that provoked an 11-day intensive armed conflict with Israel – was because of its progress in building up its military-terrorist force.
With Iran’s help, Hamas entered this conflict with better rocket building know-how, and some 15,000 rockets of varying ranges. Most were made in Gaza, together with Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s 10,000 rockets. The conflict also came with a new battle doctrine designed to try to saturate Israeli air defenses with unprecedented large barrages.
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3rd June 2021
Severian is delightfully dyspeptic today.
The Z Man’s essay today is on electric cars, which prompted me to comment with a story from my professing days. You’ve heard me say quite often that the nicest car in the faculty lot always belongs to the wildest-eyed Marxist. Given what we know about the stiffness of the “most insane Marxist” competition among eggheads, it seems to follow that the faculty lot must look like a rap video — Bugattis and Bentleys and Maybachs everywhere. But that’s not the case, comrades.*
Not because academics are worried about anything so prole as hypocrisy — as we know, cognitive dissonance only affects the Dirt People — but because eggheads operate on a different scale of values. Bentleys etc. are what those people drive — we all know it, but we can’t say it — so professors have to kick it bobo style.** Thus the faculty lot is filled with Priuses (Prii?), Teslas, and so forth. Back when The Simpsons was funny, it had a throwaway joke about Ed Begley Jr. driving a car so eco-friendly, it was powered entirely by his own sense of self-regard. If they actually marketed those, every professor in America would have one… but since they don’t, the “eco-pimp my ride” competition continues unabated.
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3rd June 2021
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The breakthrough graphene aluminium-ion battery cells charge up to 70 times faster than lithium-ion cells, are more efficient, can discharge energy faster and have a longer lifespan. They’re also more sustainable and easier to recycle.
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3rd June 2021
Victor Davis Hanson.
During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded them.
They picked and chose which businesses could stay open without much rationale. They sent the infected into rest homes occupied by the weak and vulnerable.
Their rules of prosecuting those who violated social distancing, sheltering in place, mask-wearing, or violent protesting hinged on political grounds. Their spending bills on “infrastructure” and “health care” were excuses to lard up redistributive entitlements.
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3rd June 2021
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Ars Technica is yet another Woke tech ‘news’ site.
I have never understood that assertion that ‘gerrymandering’ (i.e. drawing districts so that people who presumably vote one way will all be in the same district) is somehow ‘undermining democracy’.
Which is a better implementation of ‘democracy’, a district where the elected representtaive gets 51% of the vote or one where the elected representitive gets 65% of the vote? Who is more ‘disfranchised’, the 49% who aren’t represented by the guy they voted for (and are ‘represented’ by the guy they voted against) in the former case or the 25% in the latter case?
I should think that ‘democracy’, if it means anything other than ‘we’ll pretend to listen to the voters’, would best be served by maximizing the vote that one side will get in any given election. After all, it’s not as if anybody cares about the candidate more than they care about the Side that the candidate represents….
UPDATE: Is Gerrymandering About to Become More Difficult?
I suspect not, as long as it is in the hands of politicians or their tools.
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3rd June 2021
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Unfortunately it won’t fix the fact that United Airlines is the Worst. Airline. Ever.
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3rd June 2021
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I wonder if that applies to the guys who live in campers in the parking lot because they can’t afford an apartment in Cupertino?
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3rd June 2021
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The Big Tech social media giants are having to rethink their policy of censoring anybody who suggests that COVID originated from a lab near Wuhan, rather than through some local chowing down on sweet and sour pangolin testicles. This is because it now seems quite possible, if not probable, that the virus was kindly bestowed upon us by Chinese scientists. I don’t know either way, but I would suggest that a suspicion that the virus was man-made, given the proximity of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, scarcely qualifies as a lunatic conspiracy theory to be banned from public utterance. But that’s what the Big Tech companies decided — almost certainly for political reasons. They did not like Donald Trump making such aspersions, nor his tendency to refer to COVID as ‘Chinese flu’ (because it came from China) and still less ‘Kung flu’.
By and large the major liberal institutions concurred: the utterly hopeless World Health Organization refused to entertain the suggestion that the virus had leaked from the WIV and the major liberal broadcasters in the US scarcely covered the suggestion at all. A couple of leftish American journos were invited into the WIV and marveled at how clean everything was, what nice space suits everyone wore and how people definitely weren’t throwing chunks of COVID out of the windows every few minutes, and thus gave it a clean bill of health. The idea thus got pushed into the conspiracy theory dungeon, a realm of racists and reactionaries. The banning of this idea, that the virus was man-made and leaked from a Chinese lab, was not because it was wrong, necessarily, but because it came from the political right and challenged the liberal view. How kind it is of them, then, to think again.
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3rd June 2021
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The pandemic created a new, more diverse, more connected crop of homeschoolers. They could help shape what learning looks like for everyone.
WIRED is allegedly a tech news site, but they plush Wokeness along with the rest of the Narrative media. So factor in that bias as you read.
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3rd June 2021
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The Sarah Halimi case—a brutal anti-Semitic assassination followed by an ongoing denial of justice—may be construed as the “original sin” of the current French centrist administration headed by President Emmanuel Macron.
Sarah Attal Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish retired physician and a mother of three, lived alone in a modest apartment on Vaucouleurs Street, in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, a middle- and lower-middle-class neighborhood stretching from Republic Square and Bastille Circle to Nation Circle in the center of the city. On April 4, 2017, she was attacked in the middle of the night, beaten to death, and defenestrated by a 27-year-old Malian Muslim neighbor, Kobili Traore.
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3rd June 2021
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I guess they don’t get out much.
A two-dimensional material with similar physical properties to graphene has now turned out to blow graphene out of the water in terms of toughness.
The material is called hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and it’s so resistant to cracking that scientists are gobsmacked. The finding flies in the face of the fundamental description of fracture mechanics that scientists have been using to predict and define toughness since the 1920s.
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3rd June 2021
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Coates is a MacArthur “genius” and bestselling author, but even accomplished writers typically don’t rake in speaking fees nearly equivalent to the median household income of the city they are visiting. That sort of payment, however, is the industry standard for the rock stars of the new “wokeness,” a survey of nearly 20 contracts obtained through public records requests shows.
Being a Professional Negro apparently pays very well.
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3rd June 2021
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The “pandemic” is officially over: Walmart has removed the “stay six feet apart” decals on the floor of its checkout lines. Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam, in his infinite wisdom, decreed the end of social distancing restrictions last week, and Walmart jumped right on board. If Walmart is no longer following the protocols, the pandemic doesn’t exist. Period.
I posted my last mask report a couple of weeks ago after my trip through the deplorable hinterlands of Virginia. The farther away from the cities and larger towns, the less residue of the Coronamadness was to be found. I mentioned that a diner in a remote rural area was totally without masks, and had abandoned the social distancing restrictions even before the governor allowed them to.
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3rd June 2021
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This story reminds me of the facility that the Minnesota state government purchased last year at the start of the Coronamadness: $7 million for a former produce warehouse which was refitted as a refrigerated morgue for an expected wave of corpses of victims of the Wuhan Coronavirus. The building was never used. I think the state later asked the federal government to reimburse them for the cost, but I don’t know if the feds ever ponied up.
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3rd June 2021
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And who could blame them?
Austin, Texas, saw the largest influx of tech workers during the pandemic, with a net 217 software and information technology workers moving to the city per 10,000 existing workers. Nashville clocked in second with 154.7 net techies per 10,000, followed by Charlotte, NC, with 145.8; Jacksonville, Fla., with 136; and Denver with 130.4.
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3rd June 2021
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Billionaire Bill Gates’ advanced nuclear reactor company TerraPower LLC and PacifiCorp have selected Wyoming to launch the first Natrium reactor project on the site of a retiring coal plant, the state’s governor said on Wednesday.
TerraPower, founded by Gates about 15 years ago, and power company PacifiCorp, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, said the exact site of the Natrium reactor demonstration plant is expected to be announced by the end of the year. Small advanced reactors, which run on different fuels than traditional reactors, are regarded by some as a critical carbon-free technology that can supplement intermittent power sources like wind and solar as states strive to cut emissions that cause climate change.
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2nd June 2021
Barbershop Owner Allegedly Killed Customer Who Refused To Pay
LeBron James Quits On His Team, Goes To The Locker Room With Nearly 6 Minutes Left In Blowout Loss To The Suns
USPS driver ignores ‘Karen’ banging on his window and demanding her mail during his lunch break She’s white so she can wait.
Google head of diversity: ‘Jews have insatiable appetite for war and killing’
DaBaby Released, Rapper Wisdom Arrested For Attempted Murder In Miami South Beach Shooting Hey, they all look alike to me, too.
Stephen A. Smith Goes On A Rant About Race And Brad Stevens, Storms Off ESPN Set
Rapper Lil Uzi Vert Reportedly Gets Rid Of $24 Million Diamond He Implanted In His Forehead News from the left side of the bell curve.
Rep. Cori Bush Wants To ‘Defund The Police’ But Spent Taxpayer Money On Private Security For Herself
Editor Of Top Medical Journal Finally Ousted After Tweet Questioning ‘Structural Racism In Healthcare’
Destroying Black Babies and Families With Federal Dollars
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
Kay C. James.
As a black conservative for more than 40 years, I’m an expert on being canceled. I was canceled by the political left long before cancel culture was all the rage. If there’s one thing liberals and leftists dislike more than a conservative, it’s a black conservative.
Liberal America doesn’t want to hear from African American conservatives because we go counter to their narrative that black people needed liberal saviors, especially ones who come bearing gifts of more government.
But we weren’t just canceled by liberals. For decades, liberals worked to put a wedge between black conservatives and our own communities. As a result, many African American leaders wouldn’t invite us to the table and wouldn’t allow us to offer our ideas to help solve problems in our own communities. We weren’t considered “authentically black”—whatever that is.
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2nd June 2021
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Last year, Davon Brown, a former fashion model turned homeless activist, conned his way into an LA Ritz-Carlton luxury suite alongside Jed Parriot, the son of a producer on Grey’s Anatomy.
t was May Day, Brown was wearing a blazer and sunglasses. The former fashion model and son of a wealthy producer were there to ‘occupy’ a luxury suite for the homeless. And demand that the city take over hotel rooms and hand them out to the population of junkie vagrants.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti held a press conference and assured Brown that he would get him a room. When the son of the Grey’s Anatomy producer was asked how to spell his name, he sneered, ““Parriott, like Marriott—which has 900 empty rooms.”
Jed, a Democratic Socialists of America activist, appears to live in a $1.3 million home in Silver Lake owned by a trust controlled by his parents: a prolific TV producer and a TV actress.
Just good clean fun, right? Kids being kids?
Brianna Moore, a talented 18-year-old concert violinist with offers from MIT, decided to get involved in the summer of protests. After a series of Black Lives Matter marches, she joined the homeless cause, and died in an Echo Park tent after taking cocaine laced with fentanyl.
Think of it as evolution in action. Natural Selection doesn’t care about your good intentions, only about what you do.
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2nd June 2021
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A 10-year-old boy’s father allegedly took him on a fake drive-by shooting using a paintball gun, and was shot by a real bullet when a homeowner returned fire, the Miami Herald reported.
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2nd June 2021
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The Democrats’ race hustle permeated the low politics of the speech, which in that sense contributed to our current regression from equal rights and equal treatment without regard to race. Indeed, in the modern era, regression from equal rights has become Democratic Party orthodoxy.
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2nd June 2021
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A hybrid workforce is typically described as having both in-house and remote talent. The assumption is that productivity and communication tools are the foundation of this new world of work, but connecting distributed teams and building collaborative thought requires a much deeper effort and understanding.
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2nd June 2021
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2nd June 2021
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I first saw this vehicle in THE PRESIDENT’S ANALYST, a great Coburn flick.
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1st June 2021
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Denmark must be doing something right, because both the United Nations and the European Union oppose its plan to move its asylum application facilities to the African continent.
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1st June 2021
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Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections—warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story—of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned.
A database on voting rules worldwide compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center, which I run, shows that election integrity measures are widely accepted globally, and have often been adopted by countries after they’ve experienced fraud under looser voting regimes.
Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe—a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy—all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote. The exception is the U.K., and even there voter IDs are mandatory in Northern Ireland for all elections and in parts of England for local elections. Moreover, Boris Johnson’s government recently introduced legislation to have the rest of the country follow suit.
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1st June 2021
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1st June 2021
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1st June 2021
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1st June 2021
Mothers Say Black Lives Matter Profiting Off Their Dead Sons
Pregnant woman caught in crossfire, shot while leaving church, Dallas police say
Time to challenge Argentina’s white European self-image, black history experts say (The Guardian) Can’t have that, can we?
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‘You Must Burn’: Grieving Father Of Miami Mass Shooting Victim Interrupts News Conference
Man Who Allegedly Punched Asian Woman In The Face Unprompted Facing Hate Crime Charges
Compromise: Mayor Lightfoot Agrees To Half-Interview With Half-Black Journalist Babylon Bee.
On Centennial Of Tulsa Race Massacre, Biden Admin Announces Moves To Address Wealth Gap For Black Communities How is this the business of the Federal government? What about the ‘wealth gap’ in white communities? If you’re passing out Jeff Bezos’ money, I’d like a share.
REPORT: DaBaby Detained After Alleged Involvement In Miami South Beach Shooting
One Dead, Four Injured In Memorial Day Block Party Shooting By Sailer’s Law, the perp was probably a POX.
‘Why Are We So Unpopular?’ Says BLM Protester While Chucking Brick At Pedestrian Babylon Bee.
Mothers Of Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor Criticize Black Lives Matter: “Benefitting Off The Blood Of Our Loved Ones” C’mon, that’s what being a race pimp is all about.
Google Diversity Head Said Jews Have ‘Insatiable Appetite for War’
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1st June 2021
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1st June 2021
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House, and in effect the country. It’s still not out of the question, but it’s beginning to look more like Chief of Staff Ron Klain, unelected and not confirmed by the Senate, is the real president. This should make all Americans uncomfortable.
Klain, who was the vice president’s chief of staff when Biden held that office, has been called “the man executing Biden’s mission” (which seems to be carrying out the Cloward-Piven model that advocates manufacturing a political and economic crisis so that politicians can accrue more power in order to fix it, and use that power to kill off capitalism). He’s also been called Biden’s “co-pilot and fixer.”
Yes, those descriptions could be used to define the chief of staff for any president of any party. There are times, however, and this appears to be one of them, when a chief of staff wields too much authority.
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1st June 2021
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A nonbinding, off-season ballot initiative in rural Oregon isn’t normally the most viscerally exciting of events, couched as they generally are in terms agonizing over whether to ‘note’ or ‘reaffirm’ a past proposal, or to ‘endorse’ or ‘refer’ a more recent one for further consideration. But just the other day, out of the tepid depths of yet more interminable debate on local timber-harvest regulations, or supplemental sport-fishing laws, something of genuine significance happened. The voters of five Oregon counties let it be known that they would like to secede from their state and join Idaho instead.
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1st June 2021
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Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a technology that improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can be used to directly observe finer structures and details in living cells.
The technology turns a conventional light microscope into what’s called a super-resolution microscope. It involves a specially engineered material that shortens the wavelength of light as it illuminates the sample—this shrunken light is what essentially enables the microscope to image in higher resolution.
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1st June 2021
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Following a two-week-long war with Israel this month in which Hamas and other terror groups bombarded the Jewish state with missiles funded and provided by Iran, Hamas is moving to restock is weapons cache.
“With the end of the Israeli regime’s latest aggression, the Palestinian resistance has resumed the process of rocket production,” Fathi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s politburo, was quoted as saying over the Memorial Day weekend by Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency. “Our factories and workshops have restarted producing thousands of rockets to stop [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s intransigence in Al-Quds [Jerusalem] and Tel Aviv.”
Hamas leaders also said that despite the current calm between the sides, “This war will last forever.”
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1st June 2021
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For one thing, they keep recycling photos of the same ‘killed’ child.
You’d think that Israel started it by randomly firing rockets at Gaza, rather than Hamas randomly firing rockets at Israel.
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1st June 2021
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