{"id":157696,"date":"2024-10-20T07:09:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=157696"},"modified":"2024-10-21T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T01:15:15","slug":"decoding-the-middle-east-10-20-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=157696","title":{"rendered":"Decoding The Middle East (10-20-24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9KuLTvocDA?si=xe5G260Vnz-DWEhU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click to play at 03:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#180\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"180\">03:00<\/a> Why did Kamala change her media strategy? Because she knows she&#8217;s losing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m2QEhCjHQS8\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m2QEhCjHQS8<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 13:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#780\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"780\">13:00<\/a> Vice President Kamala Harris grilled on pivotal issues as election nears on &#8216;Special Report&#8217;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=80DaR2CVNNk\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=80DaR2CVNNk<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 35:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2100\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2100\">35:00<\/a> Why Democrats are panicking<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 38:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2280\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2280\">38:00<\/a> Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks no longer identifies as a Democrat after she was assaulted by a homeless man with an erection and liberals mocked her for reporting it<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 43:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2610\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2610\">43:30<\/a> US intelligence about Israel&#8217;s plans to attack Iran leaked, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NeV9eZUNerM\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NeV9eZUNerM<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 45:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2730\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2730\">45:30<\/a> US investigating leak of Israeli attack plans for Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_TBI7fet5A\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_TBI7fet5A<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 58:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3480\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3480\">58:00<\/a> The center and left in Israel put the highest priority on the release of Israeli hostages, while the right prioritizes the security and overall interests of Israel<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:07:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4020\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4020\">1:07:00<\/a> Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives), <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=145795\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=145795<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:28:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5280\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5280\">1:28:00<\/a> Council on Foreign Relations on Israel&#8217;s wars, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WSA5r4K2Jg8\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WSA5r4K2Jg8<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:32:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5550\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5550\">1:32:30<\/a> Israel&#8217;s remarkable string of victories, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4G6FIYNGBVk\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4G6FIYNGBVk<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:35:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5700\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5700\">1:35:00<\/a> Wendy Brown: \u201cJust as nothing is more corrosive to serious intellectual work than being governed by a political programme (whether that of states, corporations, or a revolutionary movement), nothing is more inapt to a political campaign than the unending reflexivity, critique and self-correction required of scholarly inquiry.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu\/2024\/10\/01\/wb\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu\/2024\/10\/01\/wb\/<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:42:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6120\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6120\">1:42:00<\/a> Former IDF General: Israel Societal Collapse Imminent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GJ6K-Kq6hhs\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GJ6K-Kq6hhs<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:44:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6240\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6240\">1:44:00<\/a> Kip joins to discuss the Jewish holiday of Sukkot<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:47:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6450\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6450\">1:47:30<\/a> Reality is another word for God <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:49:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6570\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6570\">1:49:30<\/a> Sex vs scholarship <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:55:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#6900\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"6900\">1:55:00<\/a> Kamala&#8217;s 89 days running for president, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Withdrawal_of_Joe_Biden_from_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Withdrawal_of_Joe_Biden_from_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:58:45\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7125\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7125\">1:58:45<\/a> 60-40 breakdown of Americans who take more from the government than they contribute <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:06:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7560\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7560\">2:06:00<\/a> How you work out is usually more important than what you work out or whether you work out <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:10:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7830\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7830\">2:10:30<\/a> Positional release aka strain-counter-strain therapy, <a href=\"https:\/\/gadibody.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/gadibody.com\/<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:12:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7920\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7920\">2:12:00<\/a> Aydin Paladin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AydinPaladin\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AydinPaladin<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:21:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#8460\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"8460\">2:21:00<\/a> You can kill your way to ending a terror organization <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:36:40\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#9400\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"9400\">2:36:40<\/a> The Significance of the Sinwar Killing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hxndHH7qiYk\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hxndHH7qiYk<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:52:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#10320\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"10320\">2:52:00<\/a> Daily Caller documentary Selling Sex: <a href=\"https:\/\/sellingsex.dailycaller.com\/home62483690\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/sellingsex.dailycaller.com\/home62483690<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 3:10:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#11400\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"11400\">3:10:00<\/a> NYT: Harris to Court Moderates With a Onetime Right-Wing Provocateur, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/19\/us\/politics\/harris-charlie-sykes-wisconsin.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/19\/us\/politics\/harris-charlie-sykes-wisconsin.html<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 3:13:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#11580\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"11580\">3:13:00<\/a> The right wing talk radio playbook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2008\/11\/talk-radio\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2008\/11\/talk-radio\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03:00 Why did Kamala change her media strategy? Because she knows she&#8217;s losing. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m2QEhCjHQS813:00 Vice President Kamala Harris grilled on pivotal issues as election nears on &#8216;Special Report&#8217;, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=80DaR2CVNNk35:00 Why Democrats are panicking38:00 Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=157696\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,20,42868],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-journalism","category-kamala-harris"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"03:00 Why did Kamala change her media strategy? 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