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Which city is the gay capital of the world? There are many correct answers to that question, Tel Aviv appears to be the frontrunner, according to a recent video making the rounds on TikTok.
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I have no idea who Mr, Jarris is, so that doesn’t help.
Tel Aviv is very live and let live/celebrate life, in a conservative society in the middle of an extremely conservative region. I wouldn’t think the capitol of the entire world, because as far as I’m aware they are not hetero-unfriendly, unlike San Francisco… Lots of tech types and foodies, great clubs for music and dancing.
But to be fair, it is not the kind of thing I would know about. I don’t care what people do so long as no one is hurt and it’s not in my face.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by Mikhail Kolovangin
[REGNUM] In the depths of winter 2026, a London court once again becomes the scene of a battle between a member of the British royal family and a powerful media empire. Prince Harry arrived at the High Court in a fighting mood, ready to defend his family's honour in his third and, he said, final showdown with the British tabloids.
His opponent, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), which publishes the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, remains equally uncompromising, calling the prince's accusations "absurd" and declaring that its activities are fully in accordance with the law.
The trial, which begins on January 19, 2026, will mark the climax of the royal's years-long fight for justice, symbolising the wider conflict between celebrity privacy and the British press's appetite for sensational revelations.
BACKGROUND TO THE CONFLICT: TWO TRIUMPHS
The story of Prince Harry's confrontation with the British press does not begin with this trial.
This is the third offensive move in the long-running battle for justice. The previous two court cases demonstrate that the Duke of Sussex is capable of not only generating complaints but also achieving concrete, tangible victories in British courts.
In December 2023, Prince Harry filed a lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People.
The trial was of historic significance: for the first time in 130 years, a member of the British royal family appeared in person in a courtroom as a witness and gave evidence under oath.
Judge Timothy Fancourt, after reviewing 33 claims, found that information in 15 of them was obtained through phone hacking or other unlawful data collection methods. For this violation, the prince was awarded £140,600 in compensation.
Moreover, a general settlement agreement was reached between the parties, as a result of which MGN agreed to pay additional substantial amounts of compensation and assumed all legal costs.
But the legal success against MGN was only a prelude to a greater victory.
In January 2025, just days before the current trial began, News Group Newspapers (NGN), which controls The Sun and owned the now-defunct News of the World, reached a settlement with Prince Harry and his co-plaintiff Tom Watson.
Do they mean the Labour politician or some other guy?
The settlement amounted to over £10 million, although the bulk of it was allocated to cover legal costs.
Most significantly, News Group Newspapers has made its first formal admission of wrongdoing: the company issued a "full and categorical" apology, formally acknowledging the "serious intrusion" into the prince's privacy between 1996 and 2011.
It was a monumental admission of Rupert Murdoch's powerful newspaper empire, which had eluded justice for years.
These two judicial triumphs set a precedent.
They demonstrated that the prince had evidence capable of convincing British courts of the unlawfulness of his media practices and that he was willing to invest the necessary resources to achieve justice.
In this context, the fate of the Daily Mail takes on the role of the final test of the publishing house's resilience.
REASON: SYSTEMATIC INVASION OF PRIVACY
As Judge Matthew Nicklin raised his gavel, the courtroom filled with an atmosphere of historic significance.
Prince Harry appeared in court alongside six other prominent figures from British cultural life: musician Sir Elton John and his "husband"* David Furnish, actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost, activist Baroness Doreen Lawrence and politician Sir Simon Hughes.
They all come forward against ANL publishing with serious and well-documented allegations of systematic violations of their constitutional right to privacy.
The lawsuit covers a long period—from 1993 to 2018. According to the plaintiffs, the publishing house resorted to a wide range of illegal methods to collect information.
These include intercepting voice messages on mobile phones, eavesdropping on landline telephone conversations, planting bugs in cars and homes, fraudulently obtaining medical records and financial data, and recruiting corrupt law enforcement officials to obtain sensitive information.
In Prince Harry's case, the allegations concern fourteen newspaper articles that his lawyers claim were created using these illegal methods.
THE HEART OF THE CASE: EVIDENCE AND ACCUSATIONS
The charges against ANL lie at the intersection of criminal and civil violations.
Plaintiffs' attorney David Sherburne, speaking in court, detailed the mechanics of the alleged abuse. He pointed to the publishing house's "blatant, systematic, and sustained use of illegal information-gathering methods," spanning at least two decades and involving hired private investigators, newspaper reporters, and likely publishing house executives.
Prince Harry's case contains specific details that create the image of an active invasion of his privacy.
Court documents allege that private investigators hired by the Daily Mail tracked the flight routes of his ex-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, gaining access to her flight bookings.
In his written testimony, the Duke said the publishing house's practices were a "horrific" intrusion into his family's affairs, placing it under "tremendous strain."
It is here that the prince's deep personal motivations are revealed: he directly links the tabloid activity to the breakdown of family unity, the growing tension within the royal house, and his own decision to leave Britain for California.
TABLOID'S RESPONSE: DENIAL AND COUNTERATTACK
Representatives of the publishing house Associated Newspapers Limited responded to the accusations with their characteristically combative stance.
The company categorically denies all allegations, calling them "nonsense," "utterly absurd," and devoid of any factual basis. Attorney Anthony White has offered a vigorous defense, characterizing the plaintiffs' position as "pathetic" and arguing that all the articles cited by Prince Harry were obtained through legitimate sources.
The ANL defensive line is built on several key elements.
Firstly, the publishing house points out that the social circle of celebrities, including Prince Harry, is extremely permeable, rife with information leaks from friends, colleagues and staff.
By this logic, there is no reason to assume that the Daily Mail journalists resorted to illegal methods, since the information could easily have been obtained from talkative members of these circles.
Secondly, ANL claims that the information was obtained from authorized sources, including official press secretaries of the royal house and the persons themselves.
Thirdly, the publishing house insists that paying large sums to private investigators is impossible due to the existence of strict internal audits: large money transfers would be detected by external auditors and would not go unnoticed in the accounting books.
It is important to note that ANL also makes a technical argument regarding the statute of limitations.
The publisher claimed the lawsuit was filed too late, as most of the alleged violations occurred many years ago. However, the court rejected this argument in 2023, acknowledging that the plaintiffs may have been misled about the publisher's methods, as well as due to the emergence of new evidence.
POSSIBLE OUTCOMES: BETWEEN JUSTICE AND LAWLESSNESS
The outcome of this trial will have a significant impact not only on Prince Harry himself, but also on the media landscape of the whole of Britain.
If the judge finds the evidence compelling and rules in favor of Prince Harry and his co-plaintiffs, the consequences will be staggering.
First, ANL would suffer enormous reputational damage by being formally convicted by a court of systemic and long-term human rights abuses.
Secondly, the amount of financial compensation could be significant – tens of millions of pounds sterling.
Thirdly, such a decision will give a “green light” to other victims of tabloid practices who will be able to claim compensation.
Most importantly, a victory for the plaintiffs will pave the way for demands for systemic reform in the British media industry, potentially leading to a new public inquiry and increased regulatory oversight.
If the court sides with ANL, it will mean that the theory of "permeable social circles" will be accepted by the court as a sufficient explanation of the sources of information.
In this case, the publishing house will gain a significant moral and legal advantage, strengthening its image as an organization capable of defending itself even against a member of the royal family.
It could also prevent future lawsuits against other media organizations based on allegations of using the same private investigators.
ASSESSING THE CHANCES OF THE PARTIES: THE SCALES OF JUSTICE
When analyzing the current situation, the parties' chances appear to be the subject of a complex judicial calculation.
On the one hand, Prince Harry has a serious precedent: two previous victories against Mirror Group and News Group create an image of systematic media abuse in the British tabloid industry.
However, there are also serious obstacles.
A key witness, private investigator Gavin Burrows, initially admitted to participating in illegal activity but later recanted, claiming his witness statement was forged. This creates a gap in the plaintiffs' evidentiary case.
Furthermore, much documentary evidence is missing: ANL claims that the mass deletion of emails occurred in accordance with a corporate data disposal policy, although the plaintiffs allege deliberate destruction of evidence.
IMPACT ON THE ROYAL FAMILY: INCREASED STRIFE
The ANL case cannot be considered in isolation from its impact on the reputation and unity of the British royal family.
Harry's legal battles have long been a bone of contention within the royal family.
Years of legal battles significantly contributed to Charles III's estrangement from his youngest son. Each new trial, each appearance of the prince in the witness box, deepens the rift in their relationship.
Moreover, the prince's memoirs, documentaries, and interviews in which he describes his perception of media attacks and lack of family support are seen by some members of the royal family as a betrayal and public humiliation of British institutions.
And the more dirty details of the interactions between the court, the police, and the press emerge during the process, the more the image of the monarchy may suffer.
A HISTORIC MOMENT ON THE PATH TO JUSTICE
Whatever the outcome of this nine-week trial, one thing is clear: Prince Harry has already left an indelible mark on British media culture.
His actions inspired other victims of tabloid abuse, demonstrating that even the most powerful media outlets can be held accountable.
And for the prince himself, regardless of the court's decision, this trial represents the end of his lengthy legal marathon with the British tabloid press – the final act of his personal rebellion against systemic media injustice.
My travels also took me to southeast Asia and again those damned BYD’s were all over the place. In Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, these BYD’s were everywhere, maybe even 30% of total vehicle traffic at times – most certainly well over 50% of all EVs – and there are digital billboards for “Build Your Dream” (BYD) all over the place throughout Asia.
Australia is stocked full of those things, and the middle east, yup, even there too. It became increasingly weird to notice. So many were visible I was wondering how the heck China can mass produce and ship this many cheap EVs so fast.
Then as serendipity would have it, I ran into a Chinese guy, professionally an actuary, in a hotel restaurant. He explained to me that China produces the BYD not to make money from the automobile, but rather to sell the carbon credits the automobile generates within the auto industry.
The actual value to Beijing is in selling the carbon credit worthiness to various automakers who are fined or penalized by their government for producing gasoline powered vehicles.
BYD is, in essence, not a car per se’, but a mechanism to generate a carbon credit certificate that can be sold to other car companies. It’s the carbon credit certificate that generates the revenue, not the sale of the vehicle. As my dinner guest explained, the auto insurance industry was having fits about this because the actuaries couldn’t accurately put a correct figure on the cost of the insurance warrantee within the industry (that’s another story).
The bottom line is that China is manufacturing a product to create a carbon credit certificate in response to the demand for carbon credits from all the world auto-makers. Any nation that has a penalty or fine attached to their climate goals is a customer. Those are nations with fines or quotas associated with the production of gasoline powered engines if the auto company doesn’t hit the legislated target for sales of electric vehicles.
In essence, EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN car companies buy Chinese car company carbon credits, to avoid the EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN fines. The Chinese then use the carbon credit revenue to subsidize even lower priced Chinese EVs to the EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN car markets, thereby undercutting the EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN car companies that also produce EVs.
Big Panda brilliantly exploits the ridiculous pontificating climate scam and has an interest in perpetuating -even emphasizing- the need for the EU/AU/RU/ASEAN countries to keep pushing their climate agenda. China even goes so far as to fund alarmism research about climate change because they are making money selling carbon credit certificates on the back end of the scam to the western fear mongers. This is friggin’ brilliant.
My dinner buddy was in the business of identifying the cost/benefit equation between the climate change fines and the prices Big Panda could charge for the carbon credit certificates. If, as an example, Brussels dropped the quotas for EVs, China would need to lower the price for the carbon credit certificates. So, Beijing wants Brussels to make sure they don’t drop the quotas. See how that works?
The climate change alarmists are helping China’s economy by pushing ever escalating fear of climate change. You just cannot make this stuff up.
What does the outcome look like?
Well, in this example we see thousands of unsold BYDs piling up in countries that emphasize climate regulations with no restrictions on the import of EVs (which most don’t even manufacture), which is almost every country. Big Panda doesn’t care about the car itself; they care about generating the carbon credit certificate to sell in the various carbon exchanges.
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He moves very well, but he’s still pudgy, you see. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is men doing female ballerina parts on pointe, and as a result they’re muscled like stevedores.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
(ColonelCassad] Denmark has cruelly oppressed Greenland.
1. Trump continues to insist that the United States will get Greenland one way or another. But the military option is not a priority. Trump clearly wants to annex Greenland by the fall of 2026, so that the Republicans can tout territorial gains in the midterm elections. I'd be happy if we just took back California and Minnesota
2. The main US proposal is that Denmark should sell Greenland to the United States for a large sum. A figure of $700,000,000 has been circulating in the media. Denmark refuses to discuss specific figures for Greenland.
3. Denmark officially refuses to sell or transfer Greenland to the United States. The United States demands an official paper refusal to negotiate in order to take further steps based on an official diplomatic refusal, in order to blame Denmark for the possible consequences of the Greenland crisis.
4. Meanwhile, during negotiations with the NATO Secretary General, the option of "perpetually leasing" a portion of Greenland to the United States was raised, allowing the United States to build military bases and various infrastructure there with impunity, but preserving Denmark's formal sovereignty over Greenland.
5. Yesterday, Trump waived part of the 10% tariffs imposed on countries that sent troops to Greenland and then fled. Trump clearly views tariffs as a tool for coercing Europeans into submission.
6. Putin yesterday stated that Denmark is oppressing Greenland and behaving like a colony. Overall, the Kremlin is not opposed to Trump buying Greenland. Putin compared the possible purchase of Greenland from Denmark to the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire. Apparently, in the spirit of Anchorage, condemnation of the seizure of Greenland from Denmark is not to be expected.
7. Denmark plans to deploy up to 1,000 personnel to the island in the coming months and has urged local residents to stockpile food and supplies for a week in case of an emergency.
8. A large-scale military deployment aimed at directly occupying the island has not yet been recorded, nor has there been significant activity by American warships in the Greenland area. However, if necessary, the US could quickly airlift special forces to Greenland to control key points.
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Leasing is likely a prudent option. I understand that a large number of the residents are welfare recipients. I doubt we need another group of 'nanny state' people who perpetually vote democratic.
[JOHNKASSNEWS] One year ago, young and beautiful Katie Abraham was in a car with her college friends, waiting at a red light in Urbana, Illinois.
Julio Cucul Bol, a 29-year-old citizen of Guatemala—and in the United States illegally having adopted fake Mexican identity—was driving drunk behind her.
He was coming up on Katie’s car at speeds approaching 80 miles an hour. Then the crash. Abraham, 20 was killed. Also killed was 21-year-old Chloe Polzin of Deerfield.
But by the luck of the demons, Bol lived and ran away, to eventually be arrested days later about an hour south of Dallas. He was trying out an assumed identity as a Mexican.
And what have we seen since?
Chaos as the left, once again, uses force to impose its will on Americans. They lost in the elections as President Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected president. But rather try to win elections to Congress and lawfully change immigration law, the Democrats have used chaos and violence and media mouthpieces, even attacking Christian churches to loudly enter the sanctuary as people prayed, to denounce worshippers in Minnesota and frighten the children.
And grieving parents are abused by local media and powerful Democrat politicians like Illinois’ Gov. J.B. Pritzker, because by the mere presence it reminds us of parents mourning the loss of their children—the result of wrong-headed and deadly immigration policy. Their presence remind the politicians and their media mouthpieces of what they don’t want to acknowledge:
That they are responsible for Katie’s death. That Illinois Sanctuary state policy attracted Julio Cucul Bol and other illegals like him to Illinois. And sanctuary policy continues to attract them to Illinois, putting others at risk of their lives. All of this is an irritant to left wing newspapers like the Tribune that now defend the politicians like J.B. Pritzker who push such policy and inflame the public square with incendiary rhetoric.
"No, I think this is a game, especially for Governor Pritzker. He’s in it for the game. He doesn’t care about Illinois or Illinois citizens," said Joe Abraham on the Chicago Way podcast. I leave the podcast link live here so you can hear Joe Abraham’s voice for yourself.
He went on to talk about Pritzker’s indifference to the family.
"For example, here’s a year he hasn’t acknowledged Katie at all as far as I’m concerned to me. And then the minute something happens like the Rene Good (shooting) up in Minnesota, two seconds in, he’s in front of a microphone talking about it. So, number one, you can’t even run this state properly."
Minnesota, run by leftist weaklings, is a disaster. The hard, hard left is on the attack, including in churches. But finally some good news came with announcements that the Department of Justice had subpoenaed the political ringleaders in a federal investigation: Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are targets in the investigation alleging they conspired to impede federal immigration officers.
And for days, Frey, Walz and Ellison have called on leftist mobs to stop immigration officers. And while the Department of Justice should figure out how U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar was broke only a few years ago, but is now worth at least $30 million.
If the Department of Justice didn’t act, I expected right wing activists to join the chaos with guns the next time the left attacks a Christian church. And the left would have gotten what they’ve desired for so long.
"The only people that think this state is running well are the people running it, right? I don’t think anyone can objectively say this state’s a well-run state.
"So, you can’t even take care of your own house, but you’re going to go interject yourself in another state?
"You can’t even run this state... Maybe don’t say anything about the state. Maybe Minnesota shouldn’t be your purview.
"Why don’t you work on your state? You’re a guy that nullified federal law, and then open the doors, kick the side door open in the middle of the night, let in hundreds of thousands of, you don’t even know who."
Here’s what we do know: That leftist activist mom Renee Good interfered with federal law enforcement officers making an arrest in Minneapolis. She all but ran over a federal agent and got herself shot dead.
And Gov. Tim Walz used the homicide to cover his role in allowing billions of dollars’ worth of fraud in Minnesota.
That’s politics. It’s filthy.
It’s one reason I so loathe politics. There is not enough de-greaser, hot water and soap to clean up after a life in politics.
But there is benefit.
Waltz and his sniveling Richie Rich, the mayor of Mogadishu Minnesota (Minneapolis) whom we call Mayor Jacob Frey both get something.
They got media facetime, which to such politicians is like blood to a vampire. They get to cover their groveling to Somali fraudsters who took $19 billion of our American tax dollars while spending it on luxury products. In this, they’re like the Communists of Black Lives Matter. They took all that corporate George Floyd hush money, and spent it on themselves, not on poor kids from Minneapolis enrolled in "Food for the Future" programs.
They spent it on Somali Mercedes and jewels.
And if you’re following this story, you know that the hard left has stormed churches, screaming curses at the Christian congregation to register their Democrat Party’s hatred of immigration law.
Pritzker gets to shield himself and his policies. He denounces President Trump as he appeals to leftist Democrats who he spins up to the edge of chaos.
And the Tribune avoid the real issue, but not before nuzzling up to the Abraham family to obtain photos. Joe explained to me that the newspaper appeared, vaguely interested (they said) in a story from Joe’s point of view, then receded after they got the photos. I’ve been there. It’s a necessary and distasteful part of the job of being a reporter or vulture:
You ingratiate yourself to the broken, mourning family, promise them almost everything, BUT GET THE PHOTO. GET THE PHOTO! And then you can try and convince yourself that journalism is the noble pursuit of truth.
The left? What does the left get? The Democrat left gets to use violence and the threat of violence, rather than the law to bend policy and get what they want. They get to defend alleged rapists, murderers and child sex maniacs from arrest. Aren’t they proud? Don’t ask them. They don’t care. They’re in one news silo. And they know you’re in another. And they know you won’t ever enter that silo. Their fantasy is that they’re safe.
This is like the summer of love in 2020, though we’re not making a hero of the violent thug and druggie George Floyd. Although the left-wing PBS is still trying to elevate the deceased Renee Good into the next George Floyd.
And what does Katie Abraham get?
The grave.
And her father?
"I’m in that grave with her," Joe Abraham told me on Tuesday. "We played by the rules, but Pritzker would not protect her here. So now I’m there in that grave too, and I’ll be there forever as long as I live."
He said:
"It would be unjust and unreasonable to separate my family’s loss from the policies that failed us. We did everything right. We worked hard, obeyed the law, paid our taxes, and trusted that government would protect us in return. That trust was broken. Our leaders — from the governor’s office on down — have treated immigration as a numbers game, not as a matter of public safety or national security. Governor Pritzker is filling Illinois’ census rolls with unvetted illegal aliens simply to preserve congressional seats and get more federal funding. Katie paid for his scheme with her life. "
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...I really think that if the idiots who hit the church in Minneapolis walk (and it's not out of the question; jury nullification is a thing again) you're going to see churches simply say no more and start defending their churches. They may get in, but they won't get back out without some broken parts.
[IsraelTimes] Trump’s son-in-law adviser imagines high-rises, tourism, state-of-the-art port, but doesn’t address need for de-mining and says plan hinges on terror regime handing over weapons
Modern cities with sleek high-rises, a pristine coastline that attracts tourists and a state-of-the-art port that juts into the Mediterranean.
This is what Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... ’s son-in-law and Middle East adviser, says Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... could become, according to a presentation he gave at an economic forum in Davos, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... In his 10-minute speech on Thursday, Kushner claimed it would be possible — if there’s security — to quickly rebuild Gaza’s cities, which are now in ruins after two years of war between Israel and the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terror group.
"In the Middle East, they build cities like this... in three years," said Kushner, who helped broker the ceasefire that came into effect in October 2025. "And so stuff like this is very doable, if we make it happen."
They do? Where?
That timeline is at odds with what the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and Paleostinians expect will be a very long process to rehabilitate Gaza.
It’s a war zone. Hamas boobytrapped and mined it to a fair-thee-well, and that after digging hundreds of kilometers of tunnels underneath everything that also were boobytrapped and mined to a fair-thee-well. So all that will have to be cleared by bomb experts before building can commence...
Across the territory of roughly 2 million people, former apartment blocks are hills of rubble, unwent kaboom! ordnance lurks beneath the wreckage, disease spreads because of sewage-tainted water and city streets look like dirt canyons.
The United Nations Office for Project Services says Gaza has more than 60 million tons of rubble, enough to fill nearly 3,000 container ships. That will take over seven years to clear, they say, and then additional time will be needed for de-mining.
Possibly they overestimate what a non-inshallah, American-style work crew can achieve. But it certainly won’t be like building MBS’s futuristic city in the virgin desert.
Kushner spoke as Trump and an assortment of world leaders gathered to ratify the charter of the Board of Peace, the body that will oversee the ceasefire and reconstruction process.
Here are key takeaways from the presentation, and some questions raised by it:
RECONSTRUCTION HINGES ON SECURITY
Kushner said his reconstruction plan would only work if Gaza has "security" — a big "if."
It remains uncertain whether Hamas will disarm. Clashes have continued amid the ceasefire, with three Israel Defense Forces soldiers and hundreds of Paleostinians killed.
Officials from the terror group say they have the right to "resist" what they characterize as Israeli occupation, though they’ve said they would consider "freezing" their weapons as part of a process to achieve Paleostinian statehood — an Israeli nonstarter for now.
In the face of these challenges, the Board of Peace has been working with Israel on "de-escalation," Kushner said, and is turning its attention to the disarmament of Hamas, a process that would be managed by the US-backed Paleostinian committee overseeing Gaza.
It’s far from certain that Hamas will yield to the committee, which goes by the acronym NCAG and, under Trump’s plan for Gaza, may eventually hand over control of Gaza to a reformed Paleostinian Authority. Hamas says it will dissolve the government to make way, but has previously rejected disarmament and been vague about what will happen to its forces or weapons. Hamas violent mostly peacefully seized control of Gaza in 2007 from the Paleostinian Authority.
Another factor that could complicate disarmament: the existence of competing gangs in Gaza, which Kushner’s presentation said would either be dismantled or "integrated into NCAG." During the war, Israel has supported some anti-Hamas gangs in Gaza, reportedly including the Abu Shabaab militia, in what it says is a move to counter the terror group.
Without security, Kushner said, there would be no way to draw investors to Gaza or stimulate job growth. The latest joint estimate from the UN, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the World Bank is that rebuilding Gaza will cost $70 billion.
Reconstruction would not begin in areas that are not fully disarmed, one of Kushner’s slides said.
PLAN AVOIDS MENTION OF WHAT PALESTINIANS WILL DO IN MEANTIME
When unveiling his plan for Gaza’s reconstruction, Kushner did not say how de-mining would be handled or where Gaza’s residents would live as their areas are being rebuilt. At the moment, most families are sheltering on a stretch of land that includes parts of Gaza City and most of Gaza’s coastline.
In Kushner’s vision of a future Gaza, there would be new roads and a new airport — the old one was destroyed by Israel more than 20 years ago, amid the Second Intifada — plus a new port, and an area along the coastline designated for "tourism" that is currently where most Paleostinians live.
The plan calls for eight "residential areas" interspersed with parks, agricultural land and sports facilities.
Also highlighted by Kushner were areas for "advanced manufacturing," "data centers," and an "industrial complex," though it is not yet clear what industries they would support.
Kushner said construction would first focus on building "workforce housing" in Rafah, the southern Gaza city that was devastated during the war and is currently controlled by Israeli troops. He said rubble-clearing and demolition were already underway there.
The United Nations says unwent kaboom! shells and missiles are everywhere in Gaza, posing a threat to people searching through rubble to find their relatives, belongings, and kindling.
Rights groups say rubble clearance and de-mining activities have not begun in earnest in the zone where most Paleostinians live because Israel has prevented the entry of heavy machinery, citing its potential for "dual use" (civilian and military purposes).
After Rafah will come the reconstruction of Gaza City, Kushner said, or "New Gaza," as his slide calls it. The new city could be a place where people will "have great employment," he said.
WILL ISRAEL AGREE?
Nomi Bar-Yaacov, an international lawyer and expert in conflict resolution, described the board’s initial concept for redeveloping Gaza as "totally unrealistic" and an indication that Trump views it from a real estate developer’s perspective, not a peacemaker’s.
A project with so many high-rise buildings would never be acceptable to Israel because each would provide a clear view of its military bases near the border, said Bar-Yaacov, who is an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
What’s more, Kushner’s presentation said the NCAG would eventually hand off oversight of Gaza to the Paleostinian Authority after it makes reforms.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has adamantly opposed any proposal for postwar Gaza that involves the Paleostinian Authority. And even in the West Bank, where it governs Paleostinian population centers, the Paleostinian Authority is widely unpopular because of corruption and perceived collaboration with Israel.
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It is cultural extermination, assuredly: I don't see any poo ponds or rocket launch sites anywhere in that image. Not even a single tent for the fire balloon assembly teams to gather in — how is it to be borne!
Excerpts from an interview with Bart Sibrel
[Lies are Unbekoming] Don't really pay attention to the "facts", what we're looking for here is a pattern you always see with conspiracy theorists.
They'll cherry-pick things and end up with the conclusion they want to reach. This explains so much about where we are today.
Learn to spot these patterns, humans are really good at this.
Once you've been exposed to enough of this it jumps right out at you when you see it.
Oprah Winfrey’s first guests — a gentleman by the name of Bill Kaysing. He had the second-highest security clearance to Wernher von Braun, the Nazi rocket designer. Kaysing would edit confidential memos going from von Braun to the Pentagon, English not being von Braun’s native language, and grammar not being the West Point graduates’ forte at the Pentagon. In the process, he read a memo from von Braun warning the Pentagon that the likelihood of meeting Kennedy’s goal by the end of the decade — to go to the moon on the first attempt with untried 1960s technology — was only a 1 in 10,000 chance.
If you can imagine, reaching the South Pole, just here on Earth, took six attempts to land successfully. No aviation accomplishment has ever worked on the first occasion. Not the Wright Brothers’ plane, nothing. It’s never happened in the history of aviation that the first time they tested a vehicle, it worked — except for the most complicated one of all time.
Then at age fourteen, I saw a television interview on Oprah — one of Oprah Winfrey’s first guests — a gentleman by the name of Bill Kaysing. He had the second-highest security clearance to Wernher von Braun, the Nazi rocket designer. Kaysing would edit confidential memos going from von Braun to the Pentagon, English not being von Braun’s native language, and grammar not being the West Point graduates’ forte at the Pentagon. In the process, he read a memo from von Braun warning the Pentagon that the likelihood of meeting Kennedy’s goal by the end of the decade — to go to the moon on the first attempt with untried 1960s technology — was only a 1 in 10,000 chance.
If you can imagine, reaching the South Pole, just here on Earth, took six attempts to land successfully. No aviation accomplishment has ever worked on the first occasion. Not the Wright Brothers’ plane, nothing. It’s never happened in the history of aviation that the first time they tested a vehicle, it worked — except for the most complicated one of all time.
That’s what led Kaysing to realize: if they went to the moon when he read that they couldn’t, then they must have falsified it. If you play poker, you know you can win with a bad hand if you just pretend you have a good hand. That’s what they did.
That planted the seed in my mind. After I watched that interview, I went back to my shrine of Apollo pictures and started looking at them with critical eyes. There’s a saying: eyes wide shut. Sure enough, there was a part of each picture, horizontally left to right, where the soil was real and grayish colored, and then it would suddenly change color and focus — a fake backdrop.
There it is! Right there! Get a good look! pay attention to all the should, could, must, all these words are tells. None of them have a shred of proof to them but he's just sure there's a conspiracy.
The liar's punishment is that he cannot believe anyone else.
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Fun Fact Tangent: A Business Entity that Epstein was in control of, won the lottery. So by default, among everything else, Epstein was a lottery winner.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
One year ago, young and beautiful Katie Abraham was in a car with her college friends, waiting at a red light in Urbana, Illinois.
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
