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April 16, 2020 | 7,908 Comments »

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  2. Hi, Mike: Close but no cigar. Little island called Manhattan. Same weather as Toronto though. I visited Toronto 30 years ago dressed for a winter in Alaska in October only to find the same pleasant autumn weather. 😀

  3. Hi, Bastien

    North by North East

    Toronto, I presume. No strangers to cold, wet winters. Thank you for posting. This cranky old man needs to go eat supper while it’s warm. All the best 🙂

  5. Mr. Felix, do you understand that, sometimes “Phd” is an acronym for Piled Higher and Deeper. That means = they know how to make a Bullsh-t sandwich and convince people to eat it. I used to have a beloved friend who was like that, mannn…. he was good. Many the times I watch his craft as he worked.

  7. @Laura Trump got out of the Iran Deal and imposed sanctions on Iran, as well as the Palestine Authority, whose ambassador and embassy he tossed out of Washington. Would October 7th have been prevented if those sanctions had remained in place? I hope you understand that he will be the Republican nominee. It’s between him and Biden in November. Any third party candidates will only serve as spoilers. On January 20, 2025, either President Biden or President Trump will assume office.

    Your choice.

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  8. @Laura

    Trump is a master of sleaze, lies and flip-flops.

    You really do need to get that TDS looked after before it completely confuses you about the greatest president the US has ever had, as well as the greatest ally which Israel has ever had.

    Trump won’t confront Iran militarily any more than Biden will.

    More delusional TDS. Trump’s entire mideast policy was based around confronting Iran. What would you describe turning Iran’s master military strategist and leader of the Quds Force, Suleimani, into a fine pâté, if not military confrontation. In fact, the only thing which kept Iran from buckling to Trump’s war against the Mullahs was the Dem promises, and a fraudulent 2020 election, which, let us recall, Iranian agents have been indicted for their role in tampering in that election. Yet, despite the role played by Iran in defrauding the American people of the control of their govt, their onslaught against American forces including the fresh murder of 5 soldiers, their slaughter of the Israeli people, and their dismantling Trump’s mideast policy, you believe that Trump will not confront Iran militarily? Sorry, but you are wrong. You dislike Trump, so you make false projections as to what he would likely do in response to these many acts of war raised against the US. Each of these actions demands a significant response from the US, and Trump will act to fill the void left lingering by the now corrupt and complicit administration in Washington today. Unlike your characterization of Trump, he is neither an isolationist nor a pacifist. He has an internationalist perspective which is particularly fashioned around American interests, and those interests do not support the toleration of a rogue terror state, especially one which has its hands well saturated with American and American allied blood, while expanding its nuclear program.

    Thankfully enough, the facts simply do not support your TDS delusions.

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  10. @Michael Da. North by North East. Comedian By disposition rather than trade though it’s rather a distinction without a difference (or difference without distinction for them that hates me jokes) in my case. I have a funny story about that I will regale you with when I am back on my laptop. On my phone, I just seem to be all thumbs. 😀 Anywho, thank you for your gracious apology and going forward, I promise to repay your
    Kindness with merciless ribbing, like the scorpion who asked the frog for a ride to the other side of the river. 😀 I presume you know that story, if not, ask – as the father who knew nothing said to his little son who was full of intelligent questions, “how else will you learn?” 😀

  13. Trump is a master of sleaze, lies and flip-flops.
    Solving the problem is very easy if there was the will to do so. Send a barrage of missiles towards the mullahs and destroy the Iranian military, especially their nuke facilities. Trump won’t confront Iran militarily any more than Biden will. Yet that is the only way to stop Iran. We need to purge the GOP of the likes of fucker Carlson, Ramaswamy and the rest of the isolationist/appeasement crowd.

    Trump is a master of thinking outside the box, that’s his particular genius. I’m very curious to see how he would go about solving this problem. Clearly, in this case, sanctions alone are a drop in the bucket.

  14. Hi, Sebastien. Please forgive me for my excessive angst. I didn’t know you were a comedian by trade. We had a couple staying with us for over a year recently, including an aspiring comedian. We would often banter about this and that; and more than once, he told me, “Don’t quit your day job”.

    I’m sorry you’ve had to put up with your heat going out. Are you in the NE US? There’s no comparison between our relatively mild “heat outages” where I am, and the weather in the NE, which is out to kill people. We have a backup fireplace and genrator, and room to put up stranded friends, neighbors and relatives. Of course, hardly anyone has a snowplow, or even a shovel, out here — where the ice forms, it stays — treacherous walking for the elderly, especially here in the hills.

    BTW, having Biden for President is like having a permanent leadership power outage and ice storm: very dangerous going, for the average citizen.

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  15. Mudar Zahran tweeted today:

    Military sources; tonight’s Israeli bombing of the Rafah crossing targeted senior Hamas leaders who were being smuggled through the tunnels to the Egyptian border…
    Israel used two smart Bunker Buster bombs, the hits were so precise they missed the Egyptian border line by just few centimeters…

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  16. Trump is a master of thinking outside the box, that’s his particular genius. I’m very curious to see how he would go about solving this problem. Clearly, in this case, sanctions alone are a drop in the bucket.

  18. “US offers $10 million for Hamas financial information
    Reuters
    January 5, 20249:20 AM ESTUpdated 25 days ago

    WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) – The United States is offering up to $10 million for information on five Hamas financiers or anything leading to the disruption of the Palestinian militant group’s financial mechanisms, the State Department said on Friday.
    The reward offering follows four rounds of U.S. sanctions on Hamas after the group’s deadly incursion into Israel on Oct. 7, which Israel says killed 1,200 people. Israel’s subsequent military retaliation in Gaza has killed 22,600 people, local health officials say, and left much of the enclave in ruins.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offers-10-million-hamas-financial-information-2024-01-05/

    “which Israel says…”

    “retaliation has killed” in Gaza…

    “militant group”

    “local ‘health’ officials.” 😀 Who? Dr. Mengele?
    “Out of the mouths of [terrorists]”

    “Objective” “news” reporting at it’s putative best, I’m sorry to say.

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  20. Alleged Hamas financier holds stake in Cyprus company that mines Egyptian gold, leaked files reveal
    Sudanese businessman Abdelbasit Hamza — whose company holdings feature in Cyprus Confidential documents — has been accused of being “a central figure in Hamas’ investment portfolio.”

    By Uri Blau and David Kenner
    December 20, 2023

    https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/alleged-hamas-financier-holds-stake-in-cyprus-company-that-mines-egyptian-gold-leaked-files-reveal/

  22. A short excerpt from an interview with Mudhar Zahran popped up on my FB page, since I follow him, in which he mentioned Hamas having a vast real estate empire in the UK so I googled it and found a few things. For starters:

    “PRESS RELEASES
    United States and United Kingdom Take Coordinated Action Against Hamas Leaders and Financiers
    November 14, 2023”

    https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1907

  23. @Felix

    Has no education in Epidemiology

    What claptrap. Did the big hair guy tell you that? Well, guess you can’t trust everything your being told.
    https://www.cureus.com/users/310078-peter-a-mccullough

    As you can see, McCullough has a degree in Public Health which is an interdisciplinary degree which includes the field of epidemiology. He obtained this degree from the University of Michigan which is rated as having one of the top five such programs in the US.

    Still, as I have noted previously, this is not about McCullough, nor Wilson. This is about the scientific facts being attested in the very significant paper to which I provided a link. So instead of telling me how uneducated McCullough is, tell me why any one of the conclusions drawn in that paper is actually false.

  25. @Edgar
    She is your daughter, so I would expect nothing less of her than to be brilliant and a dogged reseacher.

    In truth, I am quite impressed with the efforts of Dr. McCullough and others who are part of the Medical Freedom movement, but really, we just need to consider the scientific principles which were specifically abandoned during the fake pandemic which caused known harms to people who needed help.

    For instance, never before were sick people diagnosed with a seriously life threatening disease and asked to wait til they literally were turning blue to seek treatment, only to be treated with a highly toxic drug Remdisavir, a very moderate amount of steroid, and nothing else. Also, there are documented cases, many of them, where people were essentially euthanized with overdoses of morphine and tranquilizers which suppress the breathing mechanism, which for a patient suffering from pneumonia is outrageous. Others, such as Veronica Wolski, the famous “Bridge Lady” of Chicago, was denied basic nutrition. Meanwhile hospitals went to court to try to prevent patients from being treated with Ivermectin, which is known as a very safe drug, irregardless of the merits of its application, which has been seen to be impressively helpful.

    Another thing about Ivermectin, which is irregardless of its ability to ‘cure’ (I really hate that word) Covid, is that it seals the nucleus of a patient’s cells. The importance of this is that the toxic shots had fragments of DNA included in the injections, inside the LNP which allowed it to pass into the cells and then into the nucleus. If the DNA fragments enters the nucleus, it can be introduced into the DNA of the cell and new, aberrant, potentially lethal, potentially cancer causing, proteins can be synthesized as a result. If IVM does nothing else, it is an absolute known fact that it seals the nucleus in what a friend of mine likes to describe as a 3-lock box, ie the DNA fragments are blocked from entering the nucleus and prevents such integration from taking place. And the evidence is impressively demonstrative that IVM does more than just this, but for this precaution alone, IVM would be well suited to be prescribed to people suffering from post shot illnesses, as it would be to people who are suffering from Covid itself. Yet, IVM has been purposefully withheld from people suffering from both of these conditions. Pharmacists, doctors and nurses have been manipulated into not permitting this well known safe drug from being allowed to patients, even if they demand it, even to the point of going to court to prevent them from having IVM even added to their treatment, even if they are on deaths doorstep. This is not an accident, it is no oversight, and it is not debatable. These are malicious attempts being taken to prevent a drug with a safety profile based on decades long treatment being applied. There is no explanation which passes the test of reasonableness, even for those who have no knowledge of anything beyond the fact that IVM is a safe medication, safer than aspirin, tylenol or ibuprofen, and when was the last time a hospital went to court to prevent someone asking for an aspirin.

    One more thing to share, is the fact that the precautionary principle of medicine has been completely abandoned. This principle is a foundational concept of medicine which requires that even if there is even the slightest bit of danger to the patient being treated with a given drug, the drug should be withheld. And the evidence is clear, that people have died within minutes of being treated with the shots, even as the shots are being administered by non-medical professionals in non-medical surroundings, such as at the local drug store by some unskilled pharmacist. The opposite application of the precautionary principle has likewise been abandoned, such that a drug which is known to be safe and even if it has a debated benefit without associated harms, the drug should be administered, particularly when the patient is compliant or demanding that it be administered.

    Just some other, more meaningful, less challenging, tidbits for your daughter to consider in her research.

  26. PELONI-
    Thank you for your exhaustive detailed account. I shall present it to my daughter tonight. The only way I can do this is to ask her to read the Israpundit comments. Normally she is extraordinarily brilliant with an exceedingly high IQ, and digs very deeply into anything which interests her.

  27. People on both sides of every issue can make money from it. Saying this or that person made money from his position is an ad hominem and doesn’t prove or disprove their position.

    For every person who made money from opposing the jab, there are probably more who have lost opportunities. How about tennis player Novak Djokovic who wasn’t allowed to play tennis without a vax. How about me, who couldn’t leave Bulgaria without a vax, so I just had to wait a year until the unvaxxed were allowed to travel.

    Not a proof of anything either way, let’s just stick to the facts. Most likely, that thing kills people and they’re still trying to force it on everyone.

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  28. @Edgar
    I would suggest that your daughter’s research, while easily reproducible I am sure, is not well based. In fact McCullough was one of the most highly accredited cardiologists in the world, who even carved out a niche of expertise in nephro-cardiac medicine (medicine associated with the heart and kidneys, the medical considerations of which are usually pulling in different directions). During the pandemic, while the big money was being spent on producing an injection product with marginal testing which was marred by gross fraud, McCullough and his allies began researching the effects of different protocols to benefit patients, so that these patients did not need to wait for two weeks without treatment, infecting those around them, with absolutely no treatment.

    The investigations which were pursued by McCullough and his colleagues around the world produced the first comprehensive treatment protocol of Covid. For his efforts, which are still ongoing, he has been vilified, stripped of his vast credentials, faced a lawsuit without any merit by his employer, and brought to the point of bankruptcy. He has withstood the propaganda war waged against him, which your daughter and others likely base their judgements upon, and is still persevering in his efforts to demonstrate the false pretense that the toxic shots are either safe or effective.

    As to the paper which he recently published, it has nearly 300 citations, and persevered thru the peer review process which is politically geared to specifically reject papers which challenge the state narrative by demonstrating that old Safe ‘n Effective is either dangerous or unprotective.

    As to Felix’ claims that ‘anti vaxxers’ are making millions, I would mention the billions and trillions of dollars in revenue being scarfed up by any given vaccine addict’s favorite company is plenty enough reply to demonstrate that the greater financial motivation for McCullough and his allies would have been to have ‘named their price’. In fact, McCullough’s position at Baylor was such that he would never have jeopardized his position on a lark.

    Regretfully, the open debate on this topic has been forced from the realm of academia, by the universities, by the medical journals, by the medical boards, and the medical bureaucrats. This is the first time in history in which the determination of the pursuit of medical protocol was reduced to the level of right-think, particularly as the science has never been produced to support the right-think being pushed by these medical elites was either safe or effective. And it is this last point, an examination of the science behind the claims that old Safe ‘n Effective is actually safe or effective, which this recent paper is intended to openly challenge. While I would disagree with the findings of your daughter’s research, claiming that McCullough’s pursuit of a curative treatment (let us not use the word cure) for Covid is ‘fraudulent and misrepresenting’ is irrelevant to the set of facts which are raised in this current paper. Either the claims as documented in this paper are accurate or they are not. Such scientific debate should be based upon the science, the material facts, and not the personalities on one side or the other. For instance, if the science could boast that the toxic shots were effective, it wouldn’t be necessary to count all those who contract Covid after their injection for two weeks or more as having been uninjected, and yet this has been the standard of the science being pursued to support the claim that the shots were protective.

    In any event, if your daughter has any specific complaint about the evidence presented in the paper, you or she can share the details and we can have a discussion as it relates to the facts, rather than what be McCullough’s motivation, as opposed to that of Fauci et al.

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  29. Edgar

    There’s a whole industry of anti-vaxxers and they are making millions of it. McCullough and Malone have been promoted hete

  30. At Sundance, Noa Tishby shows protester ignorance of Mideast geography
    The former antisemitism envoy tackles the basics: What river and what sea do all those signs refer to?

    “…He also tells her that “the occupation is illegal. Even chocolate is not allowed. Wedding dresses are not allowed” (eliciting an eye roll from Tishby). “It’s been that way for 15 years.”…” 😀

    https://www.jns.org/at-sundance-noa-tishby-shows-protester-ignorance-of-mideast-geography/

  33. The “Revelations” by Dr. Peter McCullough that are featured in your list are I’ve heard pretty dicey.

    He has been exposed as fraudulent and misrepresenting a variety of paeudo cures for COVID and they are considering having him stricken off the Rolls of Physicians.

    He has been mired in controversy and conspiracy theories for the past sevreal years, and presently makes his living by boosting Health products.

    I sent the ISRAPUNDIT report to my daughter and what I’ve just posted is what she responded after some research. She says she’s known about him for a few years already.

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  34. Reading around on tweets on Holocaust Day surely it’s a special day devoted to the Jews as remembrance cum atonement?

  35. American Jews Begin To Come Home En Masse

    “In a recent Times of Israel article on Dec 23, Nefesh b’Nefesh was quoted as pointing to “an unprecedented increase” of more than 100% in aliyah applications compared to the same time span in 2022. In the same article it was reported that the chair of the Jewish Agency recently told an Israeli news station that he expects 1 million new Jewish immigrants in the coming years.”

    https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/american-jews-begin-to-come-home-en-masse/2024/01/28/

    Jewish Agency chairman: Expect one-million olim due to antisemitism
    By ZVIKA KLEIN
    NOVEMBER 21, 2023 19:45
    Updated: NOVEMBER 21, 2023 21:22

    https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-774452

  36. @Felix

    Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It
    ‘Average global temperature’ is a meaningless measure, and comparisons to 125,000 years ago are preposterous.
    By Steve Milloy
    July 7, 2023 5:38 pm ET

    The global-warming industry has declared that July 3 and 4 were the two hottest days on Earth on record. The reported average global temperature on those days was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature.

    One obvious problem with the updated narrative is that there are no satellite data from 125,000 years ago. Calculated estimates of current temperatures can’t be fairly compared with guesses of global temperature from thousands of years ago.

    A more likely alternative to the 62.6-degree estimate is something around 57.5 degrees. The latter is an average of actual surface temperature measurements taken around the world and processed on a minute-by-minute basis by a website called temperature.global. The numbers have been steady this year, with no spike in July.

    Moreover, the notion of “average global temperature” is meaningless. Average global temperature is a concept invented by and for the global-warming hypothesis. It is more a political concept than a scientific one. The Earth and its atmosphere is large and diverse, and no place is meaningfully average.

    Average global temperature also changes on seasonal basis: Temperatures are higher globally during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer because of more sunlight-trapping land. In this case, the Climate Reanalyzer’s estimated temperatures in early July were skewed by a heat wave in the Antarctic, where areas may have warmed some Antarctic temperatures by as much as 43 degrees. This is likely the explanation for the difference between the 62.6-degree and 57.5-degree estimates.

    Another problem is that our temperature data are imprecise. It has been estimated that 96% of U.S. temperature stations produce corrupted data. About 92% of them reportedly have a margin of error of a full degree Celsius, or nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit. The lack of precision of reported temperatures, whether estimated or measured, is not reassuring.

    Temperature stations also tend to be limited to populated areas. Much of the Earth’s surface isn’t measured at all. Although the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration likes to present global temperatures starting in 1880, regular temperature collection in places such as the north and south poles began much later.

    It isn’t plausible to characterize Earth’s warming in a single average number, especially when we don’t really know what that number is today, much less from 125,000 years ago.

    Mr. Milloy is a senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/hottest-days-ever-dont-believe-it-global-temperature-north-sole-poles-6e64a991

  38. Seb

    Greta played the lost nymph a little much and at 16 had no knowledge..she stumbled into climate and soaked up impressions her little brain drowning. She’s so full of herself which is a bad thing.

  40. Season premiere of popular US TV series “Law & Order” tackled the issues of the hostages in Gaza and the antisemitism on US campuses.

    Arutz Sheva today

  43. @Michael Really interesting essay on the role of humor in Judaism and Jewish tradition. Some highlights.

    “The tradition of humor in Judaism dates back to the Torah and the Midrash from the ancient Middle East, but generally refers to the more recent stream of verbal and often anecdotal humor of Ashkenazi Jews which took root in the United States over the last hundred years, including in secular Jewish culture. European Jewish humor in its early form developed in the Jewish community of the Holy Roman Empire, with theological satire becoming a traditional way of clandestinely opposing Christianization.[1]…

    ‘…Jewish humor is rooted in several traditions. Recent scholarship places the origins of Jewish humor in one of history’s earliest recorded documents, the Hebrew Bible, as well as the Talmud.[5] In particular, the intellectual and legal methods of the Talmud, which uses elaborate legal arguments and situations often seen as so absurd as to be humorous, in order to tease out the meaning of religious law.[6] For example:

    The Mishnah states: If a fledgling bird is found within fifty cubits of a dovecote, it belongs to the owner of the dovecote. If it is found outside the limit of fifty cubits, it belongs to the person who finds it.

    Rabbi Jeremiah asked: If one foot of the fledgling is within fifty cubits and one foot is outside of it, what is the law?

    It was for this question that Rabbi Jeremiah was thrown out of the House of Study

    — Talmud (Bava Batra 23b)…”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_humor

  44. “The sunk cost fallacy is a psychological barrier that ties people to unsuccessful endeavors simply because they’ve committed resources to it.”

  45. @Michael Yes, I posted about Fetterman a few weeks ago. Apprently, he’s always sympathized with Israel but he didn’t make an issue of it and nobody noticed. And his wife isn’t calling the shots. It’s freezing here, too, and I have no heat, but don’t tell Felix. You’ll just upset him. And, anyway, that’s my job. I’m a comedian like Trump, like Zelensky, like nearly every priest, minister, or rabbi, whose outfit I played in or attended, like BIBI, who knew? He’s got a wicked sense of humor. He should let it out more, ya know?

    ““I fight Hamas, and you fight me. That’s the division of labor,” says Netanyahu.” 😀 marvelous one-liner.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-denies-harming-ties-with-egypt-says-he-does-not-retract-his-criticisms-of-qatar/

  50. I must say that I’m impressed with John Fetterman of late. He has turned out to be reasonable with a strong moral compass and not the radical I had assumed he would be. And I love the way he is taunting the antisemites and is not intimidated. I couldn’t believe when he won the election, but his presence in the Senate has turned out not to be such a bad outcome.

    Pro-Palestinian and Hamas Supporters laid Siege to the Home of U.S. Democratic Senator, John Fetterman in Braddock, Pennsylvania tonight, with Senator Fetterman having Responded to the Harassment by going onto his Roof and Waving an Israeli Flag.

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