The Human Face of Terror: Returned Israeli Hostage Speaks Out

First the back story on this young man, captured by Gazans on Oct 7th:  Freed Israeli hostage reveals unthinkable horror during captivity: ‘Something even the Nazis didn’t do’  Video.Do not look for this on MSNBC.

"A traumatized Israeli hostage held captive for more than two years in Gaza revealed that he was sexually assaulted and tortured so sadistically by Jew-hating terrorists that he begged them to let him starve to death.

"Rom Braslavski was kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Hamas ally, and subsequently stripped naked, starved and sexually abused until he was finally released earlier this year, he revealed in a chilling interview with Israeli media.

“I came back from a meeting with the devil,” Braslavski told Israel’s Channel 13. " . . .

. . . “It was sexual violence, and its main purpose was to humiliate me,” he said. “The goal was to crush my dignity. And that’s exactly what he did.”

"He said the abuse was frequent — and worse than Nazi torture." . . .

Meanwhile this young man is called a Nazi by Western Liberals in our streets. TD

Exposing the Left’s Selective Outrage 

. . . "This isn’t an isolated oversight. It’s a pattern in progressive activism, where causes that align with anti-Western narratives get amplified, while others languish in obscurity. The result? A movement that claims moral superiority but practices a form of boutique solidarity, prioritizing trendy issues over equally devastating ones.

"Defenders might blame media coverage, and there’s truth there. Gaza’s conflict generates endless viral footage, while Sudan’s war suffers from journalistic blackouts due to danger and inaccessibility. But this excuse falls flat when you consider that activists pride themselves on uncovering hidden injustices. If the left can mobilize against obscure corporate exploitations or niche environmental threats, why not amplify Sudan’s plight through their own networks? The BDS movement has built a global machine for Palestine; couldn’t similar energy spotlight Darfur?" . . .

President Trump must speak to the nation

  Allan J. Feifer

 "The most critical task ahead for our country is to institutionalize the vital progress made so far by passing laws, something that is increasingly foreign to the way sausage is made in Washington."

"Democrats just suffered their worst defeat in years. Dems are screaming for blood, and it’s doubtful that the once-powerful Chuck Schumer will survive as fellow Democrats seemed poised to oust him in a decidedly vicious manner. Today, we see Democrats cast into the wilderness without a leader or a clear vision. The question is: should we be celebrating?

"The answer is, not quite yet. Republicans have a nasty habit of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, most often because of our own hubris, passivity, or strategic miscalculations. How Republicans leverage this profound Democrat defeat will likely make or break our chances to retain control of the House, and even the Senate, next year. Nothing matters more now than keeping President Trump’s momentum going through the end of his presidency.

"Democrats just suffered their worst defeat in years. Dems are screaming for blood, and it’s doubtful that the once-powerful Chuck Schumer will survive as fellow Democrats seemed poised to oust him in a decidedly vicious manner. Today, we see Democrats cast into the wilderness without a leader or a clear vision. The question is: should we be celebrating?

"The answer is, not quite yet. Republicans have a nasty habit of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, most often because of our own hubris, passivity, or strategic miscalculations. How Republicans leverage this profound Democrat defeat will likely make or break our chances to retain control of the House, and even the Senate, next year. Nothing matters more now than keeping President Trump’s momentum going through the end of his presidency."...

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Trump parks his biggest hardware in Maduro's front yard

Monica Showalter 

"Meanwhile, the ship's presence is bound to catch the attention of the region's other bad actors  that have collaborated with Venezuela -- Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Cuba -- on transit." Now they must wait for a Democrat President.

USS Gerald R. Ford? pic.twitter.com/CsAw5wcV3M

— Cristian Crespo F. 🇨🇺 (@cristiancrespoj) November 11, 2025

"At this point, Venezuela's dictator, Nicolas Maduro, must be sleeping with two eyes open.

According to the U.K. Guardian:

The US navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean.

The deployment of the ship and the strike group it leads – which includes dozens of aircraft and destroyer ships – had been announced nearly three weeks ago, and its arrival marks an escalation in the military buildup between the US and Venezuela.

The regime of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, meanwhile, announced what it called a “massive deployment” of land, sea, air, river and missile forces, as well as civilian militia, to counter the US naval presence off its coast.

 

The US carrier joins other warships, a nuclear-powered submarine and aircraft based in Puerto Rico, forming the largest US military presence in the region in decades – seen as the biggest since the invasion of Panama in 1989.

"Trump can park his biggest ships anywhere he likes around the world -- the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean. He's decided the coast of Venezuela would be a good place, and this being his best hardware, it signals that Venezuela is his biggest priority right now. And he's spent hundreds of millions to do it.

"Which is rather as it should be, given that Venezuela traffics drugs into the U.S., specifically, cocaine, obtained from coca paste from Bolivia and Colombia and serves not only as a transit center, but as a major, state-sponsored processor, turning out huge quantities of very pure drugs on an industrial scale to poison the fools who would take them in the U.S. and Europe, and ravage the quality of life for anyone who comes in their path. That's big dollars for them, but for us, it's an act of war.  They may be involved in other illicit drugs, too.

"It's still big question if the U.S. intends to use that aircraft carrier or if it's just passing through. Based on news reports, odds are good that the U.S. intends to bomb cocaine processing facilities inside Venezuela, which should create enough chaos for ambitious players to chase Maduro from office. Whether they are better or worse or legitimate or not is anyone's guess, but there's little doubt that the cocaine money is about to be gone, so there may be room for the legitimate winners of 2024's election if the U.S. plans its operations well." . . .

Trump’s Unyielding Defense of Persecuted Christians in Nigeria Shows Moral Courage 

 "In an era where weak-kneed globalists tiptoe around radical Islam’s atrocities, President Donald J. Trump has delivered a thunderbolt of truth and resolve, vowing “fast and vicious” action against the Islamic terrorists ravaging Nigeria’s Christian communities. Fresh off designating Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern” for its abysmal record on religious freedom, Trump isn’t mincing words: Cut off U.S. aid to this complicit regime and prepare to unleash American might if necessary to halt the slaughter. This isn’t reckless bluster; it’s the raw, unapologetic leadership the free world desperately needs, a stark rebuke to the Obama-Biden-Clinton doctrine of endless apologies and empty summits that left faith under fire. 

It’s not communism versus fascism; it’s freedom versus slavery

"The big problem for leftists is that they look bad opposing freedom, so they have to lie and claim it’s something else as a distraction.  But make no mistake: It’s a battle between freedom and slavery, good and evil.  As Senator Mike Lee stated, conservatism is about limited government, fascism is about total state control — leftist overreach on steroids.  Don’t fall for the leftist psy-op!"   D. Parker

The People's Cube.

It’s not communism versus fascism; it’s freedom versus slavery   

"It’s easy to make the case that communism and fascism are two collectivist, big government, authoritarian ideologies that are stunningly similar.  Those trying to claim they are vastly different require a constant psy-op of pure BS on their part to stay viable.

"This is because the plain fact is that evil can never be honest and identify itself; instead, it has to come in the guise of a talented and charismatic speaker offering freebies.  Evil doesn’t tell you that you have to give up your freedom in exchange for the seemingly boundless hoard of goodies being offered.

"It also has to deceive and distract with convenient lies that divert attention away from what is truly happening.

"In the case of the ever-violent collectivist left, they continually beat the drum that, while they might be communists, socialists, or whatever.  They are also constantly claiming that they are fighting against “fascism” at every turn.  The national socialist media and the violent collectivist left do this so often that it’s almost become background noise to our daily political discourse, but it’s important to knock down this lie because it obscures the true conflict and hides what is at stake.

"Ideologies can be classified as either collectivist or individualist, from a fundamental philosophical standpoint, with these corresponding to the left and right sides of the political spectrum.  Fascism is defined as collectivist by the very nature of the word: from the word fascio (plural fasci), “bundle, fasces, group.”  The symbolism is that an individual stick is weak and can easily be broken, whereas a collection of sticks bundled together is far stronger.    

Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.  —Robert A. Heinlein

"Heinlein’s words demarcate the left and right in a manner similar to collectivists and individualists.  There are those who desire power over all, while there are others who simply want to live their lives and leave everyone alone and have others treat them the same." . . .

Leftists routinely slap “fascist” on conservatives, but they’re wrong
Fascism isn’t conservatism gone too far—it’s the *opposite*
Conservatism is about limited government
Fascism is about total state control—leftist overreach on steroids
Don’t fall for the leftist psy-op! pic.twitter.com/cAsABAFsiq

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) November 8, 2025 (Republican Senator)

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REPORT: Olympic Committee Moves to BAN ALL Transgender Athletes from Women’s Events — Cites “Scientific Evidence of Advantages to Being Born Male”

Infidel Bloggers

"The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is reportedly preparing to ban all transgender women athletes from participating in the women’s category of Olympic competition. "The decision is grounded in “unambiguous scientific evidence” that individuals born male retain significant physical advantages, even after hormonal transition. "According to The Times, the IOC is on the brink of finalizing eligibility rules that would effectively bar transgender women, and those with differences in sexual development (DSD) who started after male-puberty, from competing in the female category beginning with the 2026 Winter Games in Milan-Cortina. "This marks a dramatic reversal from policies over the past decade which permitted transgender women to compete if they met specific testosterone thresholds and other criteria.' "

UPDATED: The BBC announces the BBC has launched a coup against the BBC

 The Times (London) 

"Meanwhile, Trump is suing the BBC for a reported $1 billion in damages, the damage having been done in a broadcast that was made shortly before his landslide election victory, and of which he has only now become aware." . . 

"Traditionally, you know there’s been a coup when a man in military fatigues turns up on the state broadcaster to announce that there hasn’t been a coup.

"So when the familiar voice of the state broadcaster, that of the BBC’s Nick Robinson, keeps waking you up at 7am to warn that a coup at the BBC is under way, you know it’s probably OK to go back to sleep.

"Not just OK, but positively encouraged. If you try to actually understand what’s going on at the BBC you might not sleep again until you’ve sat in a dark room for quite some time, with a wet towel wrapped around your head.

" 'All we can know for sure, at this point, is that the director-general, Tim Davie, and the chief executive of BBC News, Deborah Turness, have resigned. Technically this was because last year, without anyone actually noticing until now, someone on BBC Panorama casually snipped out a minor, inconsequential, 50-minute-long segment of President Trump’s notorious speech on January 6, 2021, and welded together the front end and back end of what was left. What was broadcast was a cut-and-shut of a speech, which, with terrible inevitability, has now been involved in a horrific accident." . . .

UPDATE: The president said the BBC ‘butchered’ his Jan. 6, 2021, speech and ‘made it sound radical.’   . . . "The Epoch Times has reached out to the BBC for comment.

"A letter from Trump’s attorney Alejandro Brito has demanded that the BBC immediately retract “the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements,” apologize, and “appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused,” or face legal action for $1 billion in damages.

“ 'If the BBC does not comply with the above by November 14, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. EST, President Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce his legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for no less than $1,000,000,000 (One Billion Dollars) in damages,” the letter, obtained by The Epoch Times, states.

"A BBC spokesperson told The Epoch Times by email on Nov. 11 that it will review the letter and “respond directly in due course.”

"The broadcaster issued an apology after the resignations of its director-general, Tim Davie, and its CEO of news, Deborah Turness, on Nov. 9." . . .

AAG Dhillon Lowers the Boom on UC Berkeley After TPUSA Violence

 Nick Arama

"My colleague Jennifer Oliver O'Connell did a great report on the violence at the TPUSA event at the University of California at Berkeley on Monday. 

"Things got way out of hand with violence breaking out, and with radical leftists trying to break down the barriers keeping them back from the sold-out event.

We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017. @UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case.
The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA. https://t.co/aN7JzouXwl

— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) November 11, 2025

"Then there was this exchange, which started with the agitators harassing an attendee who was wearing Charlie Kirk's "Freedom" t-shirt and trying to talk about Jesus Christ. It ended in violence and with an arrest. "Chinga la Migra" means basically "F**k the immigration authorities.". . .

 

"One of the agitators harassed the guy in the red shirt, calling him "white boy," as agitators tried to "de-arrest" the other man and pull him away from the police. They were unsuccessful.

"The Berkeley Police are now alleging that the man in the plaid shirt, Jihad Dphrepaulezz, took the chain that the Freedom shirt guy had around his neck and that the man was trying to get it back. Police said Dphrepaulezz was booked on suspicion of robbery and battery resulting in injury.

"Now Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has weighed in on the matter, and she's not happy with how Berkeley handled the matter. Sounds like Berkeley has got a lot of explaining to do. She noted that there had been problems there before." . . .

PANIC in NYC as Mamdani’s SCAMS Just BLEW UP in His Face

This is what happens when IDIOTS elect an IDIOT.

Everand     "New York City is facing a political and economic crisis following the election of Democratic socialist Zoran Mdani, who has publicly vowed to obstruct federal immigration enforcement. The backlash includes threats of arrest from President Trump and a withdrawal of funding promises from Governor Kathy Hochul, leaving Mdani's ambitious agenda in jeopardy. With businesses fleeing the city due to proposed tax increases and a failing economic plan, Mdani's administration is quickly unraveling, serving as a stark warning of the consequences of radical political ideologies clashing with fiscal realities. –Patriot wins, victories, faith renewal & momentum—all in one uplifting Friday email. Join the Weekly Wrap-Up free today at https://turley.pub/recapHighlights:"“Zoran Mdani's victory leads to immediate economic panic and business exodus.”""“Trump threatens arrest over Mdani's plans to obstruct federal immigration law.”""“Governor Hochul dismantles Mdani's funding promises, leaving his agenda in tatters.”""“Failure to understand tax systems highlights the dangers of electing radical ideologies.”"–Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode."

Bill Maher Finally Speaks Out AGAINST Gavin Newsom On Live TV

Agenda Insight  Comments to this video included.   "Bill Maher takes California Governor Gavin Newsom to task live on TV in a moment that’s got everyone talking. Maher challenges Newsom on key issues like homelessness, taxes, and the state’s ongoing struggles — sparking a heated and honest exchange.

"Watch the full clip and see why this conversation is making headlines across the country.

"Newsom refused to listen. Everything Maher said fell on deaf ears. If this man Newsom EVER becomes President, America will become one big California, with absolutely no apologies from Newsom. You've been warned.

"Roads in Los Angeles (at least) are crap, broken tar, ruts from the heat and constant 18 wheeler traffic. The movies lie, they only shoot on the the more rare 'good' roads. The stuff we drive on every day is absolute garbage, an obstacle course. Thats why people drive SUVs, bigger tires and suspensions that deaden the hammering cars take from these roads. Yet Cal Trans has a $16 BILLION annual budget... theft?

Trump plans a billion-dollar lawsuit against the liars at the BBC who interfered with OUR election.

Don Surber; Substack 

"BBC sounds just like AP, NYT, WaPO and every TV network in America except Fox when it comes to these biases. In the Telegraph report, the Beeb checks all the current boxes of fanatical liberalism."

"The British call the BBC the Beeb, which makes sense only if Beeb is the plural of boob. The broadcaster—paid in large part through a licensing fee, which is a property tax on television sets in England—doctored President Trump’s speech to a quarter million supporters on the National Mall on January 6, 2021. BBC edited his speech to make it sound like he was inciting a riot at the Capitol . . .

. . . "The New York Times headlined its version of the story, “BBC says Trump threatened to sue over how a program edited his speech.”

"Bad headline, but Paragraphs 5 and 6 were devastating:

The hourlong documentary—titled “Trump: A Second Chance?”—was broadcast as part of the BBC’s Panorama series days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. It spliced together three quotes from two sections of the 2021 speech, delivered almost an hour apart, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and “fight like hell.” Among the parts cut out was a section where Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

In a resignation letter to staff, [Tim Davie, drector general of the BBC] said: “There have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility.”

This was not an honest mistake. This was dishonest reporting by charlatans who wanted to meddle in an American election.

The New York Times reported:

A highly critical letter, written by a former external adviser to the BBC board, Michael Prescott, said that a documentary called “Trump: A Second Chance?,” broadcast before the presidential election last year, at one point spliced together footage from comments that Mr. Trump made about 50 minutes apart. In his speech on Jan. 6 to supporters in Washington as Congress was certifying the results that showed Joseph R. Biden Jr. had won the election, Mr. Trump said, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.”

But the documentary, produced as part of the BBC’s long-running Panorama series, cut that together with a previous sentence in which the president said, “I’ll be there with you,” and with a much later quote from his speech. The edited version suggested that he had said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol … and I’ll be there with you … and we fight. We fight like hell.”

The documentary is no longer available to watch on the BBC’s online player. Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, said in a letter Monday that complaints about the editing of the clips had been discussed by the standards committee in January and May, and that the points raised in the review had been relayed to the Panorama team.

“With hindsight, it would have been better to take more formal action,” he wrote. He added: “We accept that the way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action. The BBC would like to apologize for that error of judgment.”

Hindsight? . . .

Chicago Declares War on Faith

 Townhall  

"If America is to remain the land of the free, we must defend the right of every citizen—and every college, ministry, or school—to live by the truth they profess, even when it’s unpopular. The founders of this nation enshrined religious liberty as the first freedom for a reason. Without it, every other right eventually crumbles."

"Chicago’s public school bureaucracy has decided that the faith of a Bible college is suddenly disqualifying—and that should chill every freedom-loving American to the bone.

"In a lawsuit now drawing national attention, the Moody Bible Institute alleges that Chicago Public Schools barred its students from student-teaching positions because Moody’s hiring practices require faculty and staff to affirm a biblical statement of faith and live accordingly. In plain English: because Moody hires Christians to teach in a Christian school, Chicago says they can’t send their students to teach in public classrooms.

"Let’s be clear—Moody isn’t discriminating against anyone. It’s being discriminated *against* for daring to live out its faith.

"What Chicago has done isn’t some paperwork misunderstanding. It’s a direct assault on the idea that religious institutions have the right to exist openly, consistently, and without apology in accordance with their own beliefs. CPS demanded that Moody sign a nondiscrimination policy that would forbid it from limiting employment to those who share its Christian confession. When Moody refused to violate its own conscience, CPS responded by kicking them out of the district’s student-teaching program.

"That’s not inclusion. That’s coercion. And it’s the kind of governmental overreach our Founders specifically wrote the First Amendment to prevent.

"The irony is rich. Chicago will gladly accept teachers from almost any secular institution that preaches every kind of ideology imaginable—but if your worldview happens to be biblical, you’re unfit to teach? What Moody believes about human nature, morality, and truth is not a PR slogan—it’s the foundation of their education model. Expecting them to “turn off” their faith to participate in a government program is like asking a doctor to renounce medicine before performing surgery. It’s absurd." . . .

. . . "Chicago Public Schools may think they’re punishing one Bible college, but what they’re really testing is whether the First Amendment still means what it says. Moody Bible Institute is right to fight back. They are right on principle, right on the law, and right for the country. Because if we don’t draw the line here—we may never get another chance."

Michelle Obama tries so hard to play the victim that she instead provides comedy gold

Miranda Devine   

. . . "Poor Michelle. Has any flesh-and-blood human ever gotten more universally favorable media coverage than her? Well, besides her husband? This was the woman, after all, whose last unscripted utterance was back in 2008, when she told an adoring crowd, “Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country — and not just because Barack has done well but because I think people are hungry for change.”  Source

It’s no coincidence that multimillionaire Michelle Obama is on a self-pity jag as she promotes her latest expensive coffee table memoir as her husband’s Democratic Party succumbs to its socialist fringe.

"You see it everywhere. Democratic Marie Antoinettes moaning about their plight and the ingratitude of the serfs as the revolution devours their dominion.

"For the former first lady, a week of softball interviews for her new $50 tome, “The Look,” has been dominated by bizarre complaints about her time in the White House with President Barack Obama.

"She is rewriting history to claim bitterly that, as the first black first couple, “we didn’t get the grace that I think some other families have gotten.”

"Whom does she think she’s kidding? Martians?

"Melania Trump would like a word. There was no grace in the daily savaging that President Trump’s wife was subjected to in her first term in the White House. There were invasive questions about her marriage designed to damage it, dirty gossip packaged as news, xenophobic attacks on her accent and Slovenian origins. Even her Christmas decorations were slammed as ugly and cold.

"Despite being a successful international model who always dressed impeccably, and without complaint, she was never asked to grace the cover of Vogue, while far frumpier first ladies who dressed like sofas were lavishly showcased in the fashion mag two or three times each. No wonder she has retreated into herself in her husband’s second term.

"By contrast, it’s hard to remember another presidential couple so swooned over by the media as the Obamas, even by the standards of Democrat privilege. They were treated like Camelot Redux.

"But Michelle Obama, with all her millions, is at such pains to portray herself as a victim that she inadvertently provides us with comedy gold while begging more questions than she explains." . . .  More...

What's the Worst, Most Divisive Thing Michelle Obama Has Said as First Lady?

"While delivering the commencement speech at City College in New York City, Michelle Obama notably referred to waking up every day in a house built by slaves. Mrs. Obama never misses an opportunity to bait racism and divide the country. She's made many divisive remarks during her tenure as first lady."  "Which is the worst?" . . .