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Category Archives: Iran
White Man’s Burden
Comment: “Haaretz ran this interesting story back in 2003 about the genesis of the Iraq War. Suffice it to say no respectable journalist in the US could have run this without ruining their career.” Haaretz: The war in Iraq was … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Neoconservatives
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Video of Cory Booker (D-NJ) Dancing with Shmuley Boteach on His Back in a Clown Suit
It’s naive to expect that Jews and blacks will have a lot in common. They are about as different as two peoples can be. Sure, at times, they are both cooperating members of the Coalition of the Fringe and have … Continue reading
10 reasons why Persian Jews support Trump
Afshine Ash Emrani writes for the Jewish Journal: 1. The accusations against Trump are overblown by a biased and hostile media that easily forgive Clinton’s criminal investigation but exaggerate Trump’s speech. In all of his years in business and during … Continue reading
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Did the Israeli-American Stuxnet virus launch a cyber world war?
According to this documentary 35 minutes in, Israel knew it did not have the military capability to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, but they hoped that if they started the job, the Americans would step in and finish it. From Haaretz: … Continue reading
Washington Post Editorial: ‘Iran’s ‘moderates’ and the Holocaust’
Washington Post: “AT THE heart of the Obama administration’s diplomatic engagement with Iran is the notion that the regime is divided among hard-liners who foment its terrorism and regional aggression and more moderate forces who are open to cooperation with … Continue reading
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Forced secularization always unravels in a Muslim country?
Comments to Steve Sailer about Turkey: * Every less intelligent race is prone to conspiracy theory thinking, which is just another word for magical thinking. Blacks love it and it’s very entertaining listening to a black man hold forth about … Continue reading
Soviet Scientists by Ethnicity as of 1973
Steve Sailer writes: On Unz.com, Anatoly Karlin displays an interesting graph of scientists per capita of over 50 Soviet ethnic groups as of 1973. Not surprisingly, the #1 most scientific ethnicity in the Soviet Union were the Jews and the … Continue reading
LAT: Her pink Taser, poisoned hamburger patties and an iPhone: the story of a wife who lured an Orange County fugitive out of Iran
How is this woman allowed to practice law in California? Los Angeles Times: When three men escaped from the Orange County jail, officials quickly decided only one of the escapees possessed the cunning and resourcefulness to mastermind it: Hossein Nayeri, … Continue reading
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Divide, Conquer, Colonize
Dan Sanchez writes: As US-driven wars plummet the Muslim world ever deeper into jihadi-ridden failed state chaos, events seem to be careening toward a tipping point. Eventually, the region will become so profuse a font of terrorists and refugees, that … Continue reading