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Category Archives: Terror
NYT: ‘Commander of Iraqi Militia Accused of Plotting Attacks on Jewish Sites in U.S.’
The New York Times says: “The complaint said that Mr. al-Saadi planned to kill Americans and Jews in Los Angeles and New York City and that he had started planning an attack on a synagogue in New York City.” ChatGPT … Continue reading
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Decoding Counter-Insurgency Expert David Kilcullen
David Kilcullen does not fit neatly into the usual categories. He is not a think-tank hawk pushing for the next intervention, and he is not a pure academic writing for journals nobody reads. He came up through the counterinsurgency wars … Continue reading
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Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (2006) by John Mueller
John Mueller argues in his 2006 book Overblown that the threat of terrorism is statistically minuscule and that the “terrorism industry”—politicians, bureaucrats, and media—systematically inflates the danger to serve their own ends. We can decode why this inflation occurs and … Continue reading
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Police Shot & Killed The Yom Kippur Manchester Synagogue Security Guard
Pious pronouncements from leading British politicians in the immediate aftermath of the horrifying news praised first responders to the Yom Kippur terror attack in Manchester, England. It turns out the police didn’t do such a great job. On the other … Continue reading
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WP: Inspired by ISIS: From a Taylor Swift plot in Vienna to carnage in New Orleans
The more freedom we have, the more painful our loser status becomes. Washington Post: By the time he came up with the idea of bombing a Taylor Swift concert, Beran Aliji’s young life had completely broken down. In July, amid … Continue reading
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Terror Attack In New Orleans Kills 10 (1-1-25)
01:00 Terror attack in New Orleans, https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/01/us/new-orleans-vehicle-crash04:00 WP: Years of inaction on ‘crisis’ at Secret Service set stage for Trump shooting in Butler, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/12/31/butler-trump-secret-service-shooting/11:00 Donald Trump transformed the culture, https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/29/culture-wars-trump-woke-democrats-0019542416:30 Have Biden’s Infirmities Destroyed Liberalism?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVN0ao5E80Q59:00 Why Loners Suck At … Continue reading
Manchester
Can't believe jihadis struck at one of our most sacred institutions: Scantily clad prostitutes selling sexually charged pop music to minors. — BoomerNationalism (@boomermindset) May 23, 2017 Comments at Steve Sailer: * According to BBC accounts: Today a terrible accident … Continue reading
Haaretz Columnist David Rosenberg: ‘Ignore the Hysteria: Europe Can Live With Terror’
Shorter David Rosenberg: F*** the goyim. From Haaretz March 24, 2016: Violence is mounting, but it is not nearly serious enough to push the economy over the edge. Europe should sit tight: Islamic State is past its peak… The warnings … Continue reading
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Terror Attack In Tel Aviv
Israeli resident Brad Salzman posts on FB: A terror attack in Tel Aviv last night wounded 20 Jews and killed 4. Not looking forward to all the sadface hashtags and FB posts whining about how Israel is a victim and … Continue reading
Seymour Hersh: Saudis Paid Pakistan to Hold bin Laden To Prevent U.S. Interrogation
Tyler Durden writes: In the aftermath of the most signifiant geopolitical event of my lifetime, the attacks of September 11,2001, the U.S. government proceeded to concoct a fairytale for public consumption in order to advance imperial ambitions overseas and a implement a … Continue reading