Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Israel Challenges New York Times to Publish Photo of Starving Hostage; UPDATED

 Israel Challenges New York Times to Publish Photo of Starving Hostage

"As Breitbart News reported, Hamas filmed Evyatar David, 24, being forced to dig his own grave. The video was approved for release by his family — though Hamas’s clear purpose was to create alarm and to pressure the Israeli government to accept a ceasefire on unfavorable terms.

"Last weekend, many major media outlets published images falsely purporting to be of starving Palestinian children. In reality, many suffered from other maladies. The New York Times in particular was forced to issue a correction to its front-page photo once the truth emerged.

Well-fed Greta

"Israel had pushed back vehemently on claims that Palestinian children were starving, saying that there is no starvation in Gaza and that whatever bottlenecks in food distribution existed were being created by Hamas in its effort to loot humanitarian aid, or by the United Nations’ incompetence.

"The only people confirmed to be starving in Gaza are the 20 [Israeli] hostages who are thought to be alive, among 50 who still remain there."

. @nytimes @BBC @CNN @Daily_Express — do you see this? Evyatar David — just 24, one of 50 hostages — is being starved, tortured, and forced to dig his own grave in Palestinian Hamas captivity. "Let’s see who’s on your front page tomorrow.


NYT Editors Knew That [child's] Photo Was Deceptive – HotAir    . . . "We know that they knew the photo was false because there are internal Times emails that show they did. In fact, the editors had rejected a different photo because they knew that printing a photo of a child suffering from a genetic disease did not back their story, and demanded it be replaced. 

"The replacement, though, was of a child with a genetic disease as well. " . . .

Yes, Blame the Hamas Death Cult for Every Single Ounce of Suffering in Gaza   

..."I don’t find it productive to engage with people who are very dishonest and who noisily occupy the moral low ground while dressing it up as something noble. But I will reiterate that the Hamas Death Cult started this heinous war with a massacre of unimaginable savagery. That Death Cult has rejected every viable path to ending the misery they’ve inflicted, has refused to surrender, and has refused to release the remaining living hostages they stole (and are currently starving). They boast that their butchery was a great success. They vow to repeat their genocidal atrocities as often as possible. They revel in Jewish death, and also accept Palestinian death as propaganda opportunities."
This is why they are a Death Cult. And they rely on lies from their odious allies around the world to survive to fight and kill another day. It’s ghastly and evil."

Emphases in the original. 

UPDATE: Zyklon B heiress to set sail on next flotilla to Gaza | World Israel News   "Marlene Engelhorn, an Austrian heiress who inherited $27 million from the company that produced Zyklon B, the poison used in Nazi gas chambers, is joining a flotilla aiming to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, according to the Jerusalem Post.

"Engelhorn is a descendant of the German industrialists who founded BASF, which merged with IG Farben in the 1920s. Under the Nazi regime, IG Farben manufactured the cyanide-based gas used in the Holocaust.

"Though IG Farben was dissolved after World War II, BASF was reestablished in 1952 and remained under Engelhorn family control until the mid-1990s, when it was sold for more than $4 billion.

"She inherited approximately $27 million from her grandmother in 2021.

"Engelhorn has accused Israel of “genocide, apartheid and illegal occupation,” and is actively involved in anti-Israel demonstrations.

“ 'We continue to fight to break this illegal siege and bring humanitarian aid to Gaza,” she said in a video posted by the Global Movement to Gaza Austria." . . .

Doesn't she at least owe the captives of Hamas a slice of bread?

Hamas Releases Captured IDF Soldier's CHILLING Plea for Food, Water

"Youth-oriented". Meaning geared to those miseducated rioters with their signs and shouts of "genocide", hoping to preserve the rule of Hamas and continue showering the homes and families of Israel with rockets. Watch this sickening video made for those on the streets of the West as they support Hamas, and those who kill infants with their bare hands. This video will do well in the Hamas supporting, anti-Netanyahu news outlet Haaretz.com. TD

Oneindia News    "In a harrowing video released by Saraya Al-Quds, Hamas' military wing, captured IDF soldier Ron Breslavsky makes a chilling plea for food and water, revealing the brutal conditions of his nearly two-year captivity in Gaza. Emaciated and visibly distressed, Breslavsky blames Israel's Operation Gideon Chariots for the suffering endured by both hostages and Gazan civilians. His emotional message highlights starvation, medical neglect, and the mental toll of war—accusing Israeli leadership of abandoning its own."

"Oneindia News is a youth-driven channel that brings you stories that need your attention, are popular, informative, and entertaining." . . .

Hamas Video Shows Israeli Hostage Forced to Dig Own Grave The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas filmed Israeli hostage Evyatar David being forced to dig his own grave in a tunnel underneath Gaza, in a propaganda video meant to pressure the Israeli government to end the war.

Monday, August 4, 2025

Journalism adjacent; Treason, Epstein, And ‘Distractions’ — A Guide For The Perplexed

 Issues & Insights  

"Distraction (n.): Events or scandals that threaten the interests of a Democrat; Anything that doesn’t fit the media’s anti-Republican narrative"

Toon added by TD

"Shortly after President Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of treason – an epithet that has been thrown at Trump practically every day – Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said: “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”

"Distraction from what?

"Rodenbush didn’t have to say, because the media have been busy filling in that blank.

“Trump tries to distract from Epstein by casually accusing Obama of treason,” is how MSNBC put it.

"CNN’s headline blared that “Trump’s longtime rage at Obama roars back amid Epstein furor.”

“Critics say Trump is trying to distract from Epstein by talking about everything but that,” is how ABC News put it.

"Let’s see if we understand this.

"We’ve just learned that hundreds of pages of declassified documents appear to show that Barack Obama orchestrated a phony Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) report, issued just before Trump first took office in 2017, that accused Vladimir Putin of ordering an “influence campaign” to “denigrate” Clinton and “help” Trump win the 2016 election, in a apparent attempt to sabotage Trump’s presidency." . . .

. . . The Daily Beast provides yet another example of how this works, with its headline over the weekend that “Trump Floats Prosecuting Oprah as Latest Epstein Distraction Tactic.”

"So, we decided to write down the official media definition of 'distraction.”

Distraction (n.):

  1. Events or scandals that threaten the interests of a Democrat
  2. Anything that doesn’t fit the media’s anti-Republican narrative

We hope this clears things up.

Leftist Elites Seek to Divide Us by Race

 Victor Davis Hanson   

"The diversity/equity/inclusion industry, the defund-the-police madness, and the perpetual left-wing hunt for “white racism/white privilege/white rage” —from the prior Pentagon hierarchy to the lunatic fringe of Jasmine Crockett, Joy Reid, and Zohran Mamdani—have all legitimized double standards . . ."


"Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling several white adults in downtown Cincinnati.
"The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion. But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all.
"Numerous male and female black youths sucker-punched a middle-aged woman and a man. Others continued to kick or body slam the victims, who were sprawled on their backs and seemingly unconscious.
"There were many disturbing aspects to the beat-downs.
"One, the violence broke out along racial and age fault lines. After the initial one-on-one dispute, groups of black youths swarmed solitary older white bystanders to pound them.
"Two, the surrounding assembled group of black youths not only failed to intervene to restrain the bullies. They also recorded the beatings for social media and were heard cheering on the one-sided violence.
"Three, there was neither a police presence nor any timely Good Samaritan interventions.

Instead, what ended the attacks was simply the fact that at least two of the targets appeared nearly comatose. So their assailants apparently concluded that their agenda of beating whites into unconsciousness was mostly complete." ... More...    How can we forget Joe Biden's first speech as President when he proclaimed our first and foremost issue as a nation was "white supremacy? TD


Trump and Abbott End Run Around Democrat 2026 Hopes, and a Total Freak-Out Ensues

 GOP map draws Texas Rep. Crockett's home outside her current district 


"A gerrymandered map proposed by the Texas GOP would kick firebrand Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett out of her own district and likely add more House seats to the Lone Star's Republican delegation.

"Last week, Texas House Republicans introduced a redistricting proposal that could net five new GOP seats. The draft congressional map, which is likely to change before approval by both state legislative chambers, aims to redraw district lines to include more Republican-leaning areas in Democratic strongholds like Dallas and Houston.

"Crockett, who serves Texas’ 30th Congressional District, which represents a large part of Dallas, has called the redistricting effort "a power grab to silence voters." . . .

Here We Go: Texas Dems Run to Illinois to Deny a Quorum for Redistricting, and Now the Real Fun Begins – RedState    "As expected, Texas Democratic legislators have fled the state to deny a quorum for Gov. Greg Abbott's redistricting push. The members flew to Illinois on Sunday, which qualifies as peak irony given that the blue state is arguably the most gerrymandered in the country. 

"This plan was reportedly hatched with Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), and the 30 odd Democrats will spend at least a week there. Given what we saw when they did this in 2021, denying a quorum for an election reform vote, there is no doubt a lot of grandstanding, dramatics, and cringe singing on the way. 

In an extraordinary move to counter Republican redistricting in Texas, dozens of Democrats in the state House of Representatives are heading here Sunday to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with those efforts." . . . 

New: Texas Democrats Make an Even Dumber Move, and You Just Have to Laugh at This Point

Greg Abbott Drops Bombshell on TX Dems Who Fled State: Return Today or Be Removed, Face Felony Charges   . . . "Abbott, in his statement, cites a 2021 Attorney General opinion (KP-0382) that could let him petition a court to declare their seats vacant. On top of that, he’s dangling the sword of felony charges, alleging their fundraising to cover $500-a-day fines might violate bribery laws.

" 'Real Texans do not run from a fight," Abbott wrote. "But that’s exactly what most of the Texas House Democrats just did."

" 'Rather than doing their job and voting on urgent legislation affecting the lives of all Texans, they have fled Texas to deprive the House of the quorum necessary to meet and conduct business."

"His statement outlines the legal consequences that House Democrat members face for breaking quorum, including the potential loss of their seats and felony violations.

"Abbott further explains, as RedState's Bonchie reported Sunday evening, that the Texas state constitution allows for such actions - including tracking down and arresting House members - to combat their politically motivated stunt." . . .

Memo to All Demanding Palestinian Statehood: Hamas Still Has Hostages

  The American Spectator   "I can’t write about the issue without noting the failure of news organizations to pin the onus on Hamas."  Debra J. Saunders

How Shiri Bibas, sons Ariel and Kfir were 'brutally murdered' by Hamas in Gaza

. . . "First French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would recognize the state of Palestine ahead of the General Assembly confab.

"Then British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the U.K. would recognize Palestine as a state — unless Israel takes substantive steps to end the “appalling situation in Gaza.”

"Then Canada climbed onto the bandwagon. “Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!” Trump cheekily responded.

"At Thursday’s White House briefing, of course, a reporter asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt if Trump would recognize a Palestinian state. Leavitt responded, “That’s rewarding Hamas at a time where Hamas is the true impediment to a ceasefire and to the release of all of the hostages.”

"Exactly right. I can’t write about the issue without noting the failure of many news organizations to pin the onus on Hamas, when they know Hamas is to blame.

"Cue the Wednesday New York Times editorial that opined, “Israel’s often reckless administration of its war and occupation has helped create this emergency, and Israel has a unique power to alleviate it. It must do so.”

“ 'If your ideology dictates that Israeli Jews are symbols of racism and colonialism, and Palestinians symbols of Third World innocence, then a story that makes Israelis seem constructive and Palestinians obstructive must be avoided even if it’s true, because it serves the wrong people,” observed Matti Friedman, a Jerusalem-based columnist for The Free Press." . . .

‘They are in the same state I was in’: Holocaust survivors ‘hurt and angered’ by latest hostage videos  . . ."Holocaust survivors have reacted with horror to Hamas' latest propaganda videos which showed starving hostages "near death".

"The images of Evyatar David, 24 and Rom Braslavski, 21, showed the captives visibly emaciated and in poor health. On Saturday, the first day of Tisha B'Av, N12 News showed the pictures to two Holocaust survivors.

"One of them was Naftaly Furst, 93, who survived the extermination camps and death marches. He was kept in the concentration camp block where "the dying men" were housed." . . .

Kamala and Colbert

 "My favorite part of the interview was that the former VP Harris now thinks that the system is broken. She even wrote a book about it. Why is it that the system always breaks down when the GOP wins? That’s what she thinks of the voters or the ones who broke the system."


When Kamala met Stephen  . . . "The two spoke about a lot of things but said little. In the end, neither one understands where the country is, no matter how often the crowd applauds them.

"This is from The New York Post:

Kamala Harris’ visit Thursday to Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” was a fine reminder of why both of them are failures." . . .

 Stephen Colbert’s Costly Mistake   

Bear in mind that this is late-night TV. Americans are either getting ready to head to bed or already tucked in, slowly starting to doze off to dreamland. The last thing they want after a long day of work and kids is some humorless alleged comedian acting like a jack lecturing them on politics.

. . . "That problem? His obsession with President Donald Trump.

"One of the reasons for the continual success for the man known back in the day as “The King of Late Night” — that would be NBC’s Johnny Carson — was that he made sure that when he or his guests went after the president of the moment, it was always done for laughs. 

"Take a look here from this clip now on YouTube. Carson’s guest of the moment was the comedian/impressionist Rich Little — and, as you can see, Little’s Nixon routine was not some serious lecture on Nixon’s politics and issues of the day. To the contrary, Little did his best Nixon imitation, exaggerating Nixon’s mannerisms to the max and leaving both his audience and Carson in stitches. 

"Alas, Colbert is utterly unwilling or unable to go down the road of making humor out of a president. What Colbert is about is thinly veiled humor that is so obviously a stern, humorless lesson promoting far-left politics. And, in doing so, he usually includes a stern lecture about Trump. Or addresses the president directly, as just in the last few days when  Colbert looked into the camera and told Trump…

"Hmmm. This being a family publication, I will not print what he said." . . . 

After blacks in Cincinnati beat white adults, why was there no nationwide racial outrage?

 Victor Davis Hanson

"City leaders, the chief of police and the media variously blamed the mass black-on-white violence on 1) social media, 2) the original dispute, 3) alcohol, 4) the lack of civilian intervention to stop the violence and 5) a festival atmosphere — anything except endemic racial hatred shown toward whites from the crowd of black youths"

The woman, identified as “Holly,” was sucker-punched by a man in the disturbing attack that elicited “ooos” from a crowd of onlookers, some of whom filmed on their phones instead of coming to her aid.

"Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling white adults in downtown Cincinnati.

"The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion. But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all.

"Numerous male and female black youths sucker-punched a middle-aged woman. Others continued to kick or body-slam the victims.

"There were many disturbing aspects to the beatdowns.

One, the violence broke out along racial and age fault lines. After the initial dispute, groups of black youths swarmed solitary older white bystanders to pound them.

Two, the surrounding assembled group of black youths not only failed to intervene to restrain the bullies, they recorded the beatings for social media and were heard cheering on the one-sided violence.

"Three, there was neither a police presence nor any timely good Samaritan interventions.

"Four, oddly few of the usual black spokespeople who habitually comment on interracial violence were to be seen.

"During the fake Jussie Smollett attack, self-appointed leaders from Al Sharpton to Kamala Harris immediately issued warnings about so-called systemic white racism that had reared its ugly head to victimize Smollett.

"Yet when it was revealed that Smollett had concocted the entire charade — and even hired his own assaulters — there were few if any retractions from those once so eager to shout “Racist!”

"Such demagoguery is a well-known pattern dating back to the days of the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, the Duke Lacrosse charade, the Covington kids ruse, the Michael Ford “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” fabrication or the NASCAR noose fable." . . .

2019: Giving HIV On Purpose Should NOT Be Crime, Says Gay Candidate, Pete Buttigieg

 

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Giving HIV On Purpose Should NOT Be Crime, Says Gay Candidate, Pete Buttigieg   "U.S. Democratic presidential primary candidate, Pete Buttigieg – a homosexual man and mayor of Southbend, Indiana – says that giving someone HIV on purpose should not be a crime.

"Being asked by Anderson Cooper, a CNN pundit who also happens to be gay, asked Buttigieg about laws that penalize those who transmit HIV when they knowingly have the virus but choose not to disclose it. In doing so, Anderson said the laws were “antiquated.”"

Buttigieg agreed and said, “It’s not fair and it needs to change.”

"Laws requiring disclosure of HIV before sexual activity started to be passed in the 1990s after it was discovered that the deadly disease was being transmitted from one sexual partner to another, often when the already-diseased partner knew they were sick but would not notify the other party. In some cases, hundreds of individuals contracted HIV because a promiscuous and infected individual chose not to inform their partners of their contagious illness.

"According to the Centers for Disease Control, 19 states have laws penalizing sex without disclosure of HIV (other figures put the number at 26). The CDC championed such laws only a few years ago as necessary for public health. Additionally, federal law penalizes prostitutes and blood-donors for not disclosing their HIV status, although it leaves penalizing the intentional transmission of HIV in “casual” sexual encounters to the states.

"Elizabeth Warren also agreed with Buttigieg, who advised easing up on transmitting HIV. Corey Booker, a long-shot odds candidate claimed that there was “no scientific evidence” that an HIV-positive individual intentionally having unprotected sex without disclosing it has anything to do with the spread of HIV.

"Science, of course, demonstrates their opinions are as silly as fluid gender.

"Two-percent of men in the United States are homosexuals but account for 59% of new HIV infections and more than 60% of other venereal diseases. They also have four to five times the number of lifetime sexual partners and are more than twice as likely to have “unprotected sex.” Science matters."Facebook

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Tsunami Earthquake Explained: How It All Started?

 AI Telly #tsunami   "A tsunami earthquake usually starts when a large earthquake occurs beneath the ocean, especially in subduction zones where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another.

"In these zones, immense stress builds up as an oceanic plate pushes against and slowly slides underneath a continental plate. "When this stress becomes too great, the edge of the overriding plate snaps and moves suddenly, often causing vertical displacement of the seafloor—either lifting it up or pushing it down. "This sudden movement displaces a massive column of seawater, creating either a bulge or a dip on the ocean’s surface. "Gravity then pulls the water back to its normal state, which triggers powerful tsunami waves that travel rapidly away from the epicenter across the ocean. In the deep sea, these tsunami waves might be barely noticeable, appearing as small swells. "But as they approach shallow coastal waters, they slow down and increase dramatically in height, sometimes rising into walls of water that flood coastal areas." . . .

Take A Personal Guided Tour Of The B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. Including Rare Cockpit Footage.

 It has a bed and a toilet.



Take A Personal Guided Tour Of The B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. Including Rare Cockpit Footage.   Bing Videos

"For the past 20 years, the left has made heroes of some of the biggest drekh in the world." . . .

 Alan Joseph Bauer 

. . . "Not the left. They embraced Hamas from day one of the pogrom against the Jews. When clear evidence of mass rape, murder, torture, theft, and kidnapping became indisputable, the left never abandoned their new heroes. They wore their keffiyehs and demanded their goals: the death of Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel." . . . 


"There was a time long ago when the Democrats found their heroes in people who were at least on the surface somewhat inspiring: JFK, RFK (Sr.), Martin Luther King and others were at least in their public personae people of hope and positive approach to life. That has gone. For quite some time now, the left/Democrats have thrown their lot with human garbage. The question is why.

"I started to notice that the Democrats turned losers into heroes with the story of Michael Brown in 2014. Brown was a small-time criminal in Ferguson, Missouri. The actual events on the day he died seem to be as follows: he went to a store where he was recorded on camera stealing a box of cigars. When confronted by police who found him and a friend walking down the middle of the street and interfering with traffic, he attacked an officer and tried to take his gun. After he ran away from the squad car, he charged at the officer who went after him. The officer shot Brown dead. The multiple autopsies disappointed the left when the “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative died with the bullets having entered the criminal’s front as he faced the policeman whom he charged.

"So you have a criminal who was involved in criminal activity. No, he did not kill a dozen people or walk off with the Mona Lisa. But he was a criminal and the police—the same police on whom we rely for order in our society—came to deal with him. He tried to take a policeman’s gun and he turned to attack the policeman for a second time when neutralized. Though the aggressive federal investigation into the actions of the cop could not find that he did anything wrong, the policeman had to change his name and move away from his home in Ferguson.

"Why would the left tie their wagon to such a horrible horse? The fellow had little redeeming in his life and the only factor that they could try to hang on to was police brutality. The autopsy and multiple state and federal investigations showed that the cops did no wrong. That should have been the end of it with everyone praising the cops. But the left had bought into the story and could not give it up. Their hero was a local criminal when the real hero should have been the cop who stopped him." . . .