A review of recent scholarship on the shaping of the modern Middle East in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and how Islamist hate has roots in Nazi antisemitism.

Hezbollah’s escalation coincides with the recent visits by the leaders of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to Iran. Hamas and PIJ, both Iran-sponsored terrorists groups, fear an imminent Israeli offensive on their last-standing Gaza stronghold of Rafah.

Hezbollah’s actions in the north could be a bid to ease pressure on Iran-backed terrorists group in Gaza. Israel will score a major strategic victory if its captures Rafah, and thereby eliminating Gaza’s terrorist leadership, jihadist fighting forces and freeing the remaining hostages.

anon-ymous99
7 hours ago
“I got a year’s MREs stored in my basement, a 2500 gallon plastic clean water tank, rice, beans, antibiotics, medical supplies and tools. Whadda YOU got?”
“Not much. Just a rifle, and your address.” //

mikwcas DaveM
3 hours ago
I'd be happy to make it a month in a SHTF scenario. Other than that I am not even supposed to be of this present kingdom so I should win out anyhow. Just a thought. //

Min Headroom llme
6 hours ago
There’s at least two kinds of go-prep, as compared to hunker down prep:

• Movie type wide area apocalypse in which urbanites head for the boonies they aren’t prepared for and will be unwelcome in.

• Neighborhood or at most city wide disasters that need evacuating.

The latter includes things like local wild fires that rip through a neighborhood, hurricanes, floods, etc. This is the kind where driving 20 - 200 miles (if one can) will generally get one out of the disaster area, and “living off the land” can be as simple as using a credit card in a roadside diner. While it’s possible to be prepared for the latter with as little as a full gas tank and a credit card, it would likely be a lot easier with a go bag suitable for living a week or two in motels, shelters or whatever, and a big variable in what that includes would depend on the region. For example, being prepared for an emergency road trip in an Idaho winter (or Iowa’s either for that matter), is somewhat different from a road trip fleeing a Gulf coast location in the summer ahead of a hurricane.

In the latter kind of scenario, the advantage comes from being first out the door before the highways jam and/or whatever the disaster is catches up. So having a mind set and a prep that enables just grab and run is what’s needed. I grant this sort of prepping and disaster isn’t as exciting as a zombie apocalypse, but it’s a good deal more likely, and, good news, more survivable. //

TheOtherOne
7 hours ago
Well said. Preparing for an event (tornado, earthquake, hurricane) is doable and a good target. But a cataclysmic life altering event where society collapses? You can’t store enough water or food to wait it out. I’m hoping to go in the first wave personally. //

Louise1
6 hours ago edited
I try to buy emergency food that I don't have to cook. (Either the company selling the food has cooked it, or the food can be eaten raw.) Mountain House says you can eat their food (at least the stuff that I've bought) without cooking it. You soak it in cold water for twice the time that you'd soak it in boiling water.

Make sure that you store enough water to re-hydrate dried or freeze-dried food, besides storing drinking and cleaning water.

I have some prepared meals, like Mountain House meals. I can eat maybe one of them a day. But most are way too salty to eat nothing but them for a week or a month.

So most of my emergency food is canned, dried or freeze-dried fruit, vegetables, TVP, and food from Ready Harvest / Food Storage Depot. (I don't have to cook the TVP that I get.) No canned soup or chili; too salty.

I emailed Ready Harvest / Food Storage Depot customer service, and a lady replied:

Most of our products are 25-30 year shelf life with a couple exceptions. And you are right, we may not have fuel to heat up our foods. That is why we carry what we have in the store. All our products but popcorn and eggs can be eaten right out of the can. Some items require longer soaking in water, but all will soften even with cold water. I did a test with Belgian pasta. I heated the water in the microwave to just about boiling and then put the noodles in. They were perfect within 10 minutes. The pasta soaked in cold fridge water was done within 35 minutes. Beans/Potatoes took 2 to 3 hours with room temperature water. The rice 4 or 5 hours room temperature water. If you have hot water 20 minutes.

If it's an emergency, and I have to eat my emergency food, then the power probably will be out. So I won't be able to cook my food. So I want not-too-salty food that I don't have to cook.

Louise1
6 hours ago edited
I try to buy emergency food that I don't have to cook. (Either the company selling the food has cooked it, or the food can be eaten raw.) Mountain House says you can eat their food (at least the stuff that I've bought) without cooking it. You soak it in cold water for twice the time that you'd soak it in boiling water.

Make sure that you store enough water to re-hydrate dried or freeze-dried food, besides storing drinking and cleaning water.

I have some prepared meals, like Mountain House meals. I can eat maybe one of them a day. But most are way too salty to eat nothing but them for a week or a month.

So most of my emergency food is canned, dried or freeze-dried fruit, vegetables, TVP, and food from Ready Harvest / Food Storage Depot. (I don't have to cook the TVP that I get.) No canned soup or chili; too salty.

I emailed Ready Harvest / Food Storage Depot customer service, and a lady replied:

Most of our products are 25-30 year shelf life with a couple exceptions. And you are right, we may not have fuel to heat up our foods. That is why we carry what we have in the store. All our products but popcorn and eggs can be eaten right out of the can. Some items require longer soaking in water, but all will soften even with cold water. I did a test with Belgian pasta. I heated the water in the microwave to just about boiling and then put the noodles in. They were perfect within 10 minutes. The pasta soaked in cold fridge water was done within 35 minutes. Beans/Potatoes took 2 to 3 hours with room temperature water. The rice 4 or 5 hours room temperature water. If you have hot water 20 minutes.

If it's an emergency, and I have to eat my emergency food, then the power probably will be out. So I won't be able to cook my food. So I want not-too-salty food that I don't have to cook.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been making bad Hamas terrorists into good Hamas terrorists since shortly after the Oct. 7th massacre last year ... //

The IDF Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit has uncovered caches of weapons and un-alived two more senior Hamas operatives. //

International pressure for a cease-fire notwithstanding, this isn't the time for the IDF to stop revoking Hamas members' birth certificates. //

And if Hamas's leadership continues to press for a Palestinian state, point them towards Jordan and tell them to start walking.

anon-9ung
7 hours ago
The same people mad about this cheer the use o sold aborted baby parts, go figure. //

Green River mountain fan
6 hours ago edited
Folks ought to read an English translation of the original Hippocratic Oath. What we usually hear is a short summary of medical ethics. “First, do no harm”. What we don’t hear is the command to not give pregnant women poison to kill their babies, and a command to not participate in assisting a suicide.

Current levels of medical ethics and morality are atrocious and sometimes purely Satanic. Doctors and nurses who participate in abortions or euthanasia will meet their Maker on the Day of Judgement.

I stopped by Biden-Mart.com and was greeted with the message:

Putting food on the table has become harder than ever thanks to "Bidenomics." As costs for everyday items continue to rise, American families are struggling more and more to foot the bill.

Check off the items from the list below to compile your weekly grocery list and see how much more expensive your bill has become under Joe Biden. //

Grocery prices have jumped by 25 percent over the past four years as Americans are routinely shocked by the cost of a typical visit to the store. //

And now Biden is proposing a $7.3 trillion budget bloated with social justice efforts and green energy giveaways.

Learning how to use the Fire TV Stick isn't exactly easy, as its menus may feel a bit laborious and features can seem a bit hidden. Once you smarten up how to use your brand new Fire stick to stream live TV or binge-watch amazing shows like A League of Their Own and The Boys. And now that Amazon has a new Fire TV remote, the Fire TV Stick is even easier to use than before.

Keeps Smack-Fu Master, in training
23y
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sryan2k1 said:

I'd pay any amount of money for a Roku remote with ABCD buttons I could configure rather than the streaming platforms of the month (seriously, buy a replacement remote and it's buttons are unlikely to be the same as the one it is replacing). But they know what makes them money, unfortunately.

That's a pretty low bar for all the money! That's how I've run my Roku for the past ten or fifteen years; any universal remote that can send arbitrary REST commands can do this.

All you do is send a "POST /launch/<appid>" command, where <appid> is a unique number for the app inside Roku's database. That ID used to be exposed in the web addresses on https://channelstore.roku.com, now it's obfuscated somewhat, but you can go to http://<Roku IP Address>:8060/query/apps to get a list of all the installed apps and their IDs on any particular Roku.

Depending how fancy you want to get with the remote, Roku even hosts thumbnails for each app on its internal web server, so that http://<Roku IP Address>:8060/query/icon/<appid> gives you each specific icon, and you can build a copy of the app list with direct launching and everything. There are other commands and features, but it looks like I caught Roku half-transitioned to a new website - the old documentation was here: https://developer.roku.com/docs/developer-program/debugging/external-control-api.md And the new documentation looks like it's started to be here: https://github.com/tispratik/docs-1/blob/master/develop/guides/remote-api-ecp.md And neither seems to be complete at the moment.

The app buttons at the bottom of the newest Fire TV Remotes and Fire TV Smart TV remotes can either be fantastic or useless. They’re great if it’s an app that you use often, but they’re a complete waste if you don’t even have the app that they’re for installed. This guide will show you how to reassign the app buttons to open any app you want. This method uses my Remapper app and works for Netflix, HBO, Hulu, PS Vue, Disney+, CTV, Crave, DAZN, TVNOW, and other buttons. It works on the new remote paired to a Fire TV, Fire TV Cube, and Firestick, as well as Fire TV Edition devices from Element, Toshiba, Insignia, Onida, Grundig, JVC, and more.

The following tutorial will show you How to Block Amazon Firestick & Fire TV automatic updates.

6. Acquire the Downloader app. There are multiple ways to install Kodi, but the simplest way is with the free Downloader app. You can find it in the Amazon Appstore.

7. Point Direct Downloader to the Kodi website. The best URL to use is http://www.kodi.tv/download, but you can use other sources, if you prefer.

8. Select the Android app. The Fire TV’s operating system is an Android branch, so the Kodi Android app will work just fine.

9. Choose the 32-bit installation. In my experience, this version of the app works best with Fire TV devices, but you can try others if you want to experiment.

10. Click Install. You can also use this screen to review Kodi’s permissions.

EaseUS RecExperts offers tons of cool functions to make your recording easy

A Simple & Smart Screen Recorder for Perfect Captures

Take a look at the best screen recorders available for Linux. Learn its key features, pros, and cons.

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.

You can download YouTube videos with VLC or even trim videos with it.

Another such unusual use of VLC is for screen recording.

I still recommend using a proper screen recorder for this task, you are welcome to explore this VLC feature for fun.

Screen recording with VLC
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While I was able to use VLC for recording desktop screen, I could not record any sound and my mouse cursor. In my opinion, it's not a replacement of a proper screen recording tool.
To record your screen using VLC, open it and click on Media and select Convert/Save. (Or directly click on Media → Open Capture Device)

Select Convert/ Save option
Go to the "Capture Device" Tab and select Desktop from the Capture Mode dropdown list.

Douglas Proudfoot
5 hours ago
Part of any Russian decision to use nuclear weapons has to be an evaluation of how likely it is that the weapons will actually work as designed, and how Russian soldiers will react.

The reliability of Russian military equipment and ammunition in Ukraine has been spotty at best. At least 10% of conventional Russian missiles misfire or fall short. Firing the nuclear versions of these weapons is not an attractive option. They could detonate in Russia or on Russian held Ukrainian territory.

The dud rate is also a problem. If Putin uses a nuke, and it fails to detonate, Putin gets huge embarrassment. The corruption rampant in the Russian military makes this outcome possible, even probable. Nuclear weapons require careful component storage and maintenance. They’re fragile. The overall Russian record on Russian military storage and maintenance is really poor. The weapons have to be assembled and readied by technical people who know what they’re doing.

If the Ukrainians pick up a Russian dud nuke, nothing will stop them from rebuilding it and using it on Belgorod, Russia. Ukraine most certainly has the knowledge to do it.

Few of the Russian troops in Ukraine have been issued any protection equipment for nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons. Some barely have complete uniforms and are using bolt action rifles designed for World War I. Hardly any have been trained for NBC. They are in no condition to suvive the use of NBC on the battlefield. They would most likely flee in panic from any use of NBC.

My guess is that beyond the usual risk considerations of nuclear retaliation, Putin has to worry, a lot, about the reliability of his nuclear weapons and soldiers. Combining all these risks, in my opinion, increases the uncertainty to the point that no rational Russian Commander in Chief would order a nuclear attack on Ukraine. Even if Putin isn’t completely rational, his subordinates definitely are. They could react to an order to use nukes by overthrowing Putin. //

And, very importantly, the gloves would come off; no more restrictions by US/NATO on what Ukraine can target and the West would supply more and better.

And don't forget the China angle. There is NO way China permits Putin to do this. A tac nuke strike by Putin would leave him out to dry b/c China's not stupid; China would almost certainly decouple from Russia. No way China allows its Long Game to be affected by Putin's stupidity.

By Frank Hawkins

Young Bill Ayers
America has undergone enormous change during the nearly eight decades of my life. Today, America is a bitterly divided, poorly educated and morally fragile society with so-called mainstream politicians pushing cynical identity politics, socialism and open borders. The president of the United States is threatened with impeachment because the other side doesn’t like him. The once reasonably unbiased American media has evolved into a hysterical left wing mob. How could the stable and reasonably cohesive America of the 1950s have reached this point in just one lifetime? Who are the main culprits? Here’s my list of the 10 most destructive Americans of the last 80 years.

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Wow. Guyana's president tells the climatists to shove it.
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A must watch!

This is my hero!

He is Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana.

#Oil #Guyana
Embedded video https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1773813984015127005
4:46 PM · Mar 29, 2024 //

BBC host Stephen Sackur essentially asked him during an interview isn't it a bad thing for you guys to extract $150 billion of oil and gas off your coast because of the carbon emissions that would ultimately be released into the atmosphere?

Ali's response is just pure gold. He stops Sackur cold and then just rips him a new one. //

First, Ali tells him they have a huge forest in Guyana that basically makes them carbon neutral because of how large it is, "a forest we have kept alive."

Sackur says, "Does that give you the right to release all of this carbon...."

Ali interrupts him, "Does that give you right to lecture us on climate change?"

"I will lecture YOU on climate change!" he said, pointing his finger at Sackur. Then he ripped him to pieces, using their own terms on him.

"Because we have kept this forest alive, that stores 90.5 gigatons of carbon. That you enjoy. That the world enjoys. That you don't pay us for...That you don't see a value in...Guess what? We have the lowest deforestation rate in the world." He said even with the greatest amount they could extract, they would still be "net zero." //

There was a little bit more that didn't make the above clip, where Ali explained the importance of paying for the development of the country.

Sackur complained that Greenpeace said the world needs to keep the majority of the world’s remaining fossil fuels in the ground.

But Ali was not having it.

“You just said that we are 6-feet below sea level. Who is going to pay for the infrastructure? Who is going to pay for the drainage and irrigation? Who is going to pay for the development and advancement of our country?” The President questioned. //

anon-pabn
a minute ago
That is perfect. We need to shame these climate alarmist, hypocrites. Set aside the current arguments, they are telling little Guyana not to drill after the rest of the world has drilled and prospered because of it. What balz! Drill, Baby, Drill. And congrats on your forest....better than any other countries efforts