Got word yesterday morning from my sister-in-law that my nephew reported his US military installation in Iraq had intercepted a missile headed straight for them.

He just arrived over there a few weeks ago and is already in grave danger! Needless to say, the whole family is praying for his safety during his deployment! It is also safe to say that this whole mess is suddenly more personal, in a way that I wish it wasn't!!!

https://www.jpost.com/health-a...lness/article-769250

Hamas terrorists who carried out a surprise attack on October 7 were found to be under the influence of Captagon, a synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant that has been clandestinely produced in southern Europe and trafficked through Turkey to the consumer markets on the Arabian Peninsula, as reported by Nir Dvori of Channel 12.

The pills were recovered from the pockets of many terrorists who lost their lives on Israeli soil.

This stimulant drug, also known as the "cocaine for the poor," allowed the terrorists to commit heinous acts with a sense of calmness and indifference. Simultaneously, it kept them highly alert for extended periods and suppressed their appetite.

Captagon gained notoriety in 2015 when it was discovered to be used by ISIS fighters to suppress fear prior to carrying out terrorist operations. As the influence of terrorist organizations like ISIS diminished, Lebanon and Syria took the reins and began producing and distributing the drug on a large scale.

Gaza, in particular, became a popular market for the drug, especially among addicted young individuals.

Captagon belongs to the amphetamine family and was initially developed to address attention disorders, narcolepsy, and depression. Despite its highly addictive nature and potential for inducing psychotic reactions, it continues to enjoy popularity in the Middle East due to its affordability and ease of manufacturing. In poorer countries, the drug can be purchased for a dollar or two, while in wealthier nations, it may cost up to 20 dollars per pill.

Once a source of revenue for ISIS members through drug smuggling, Captagon has now become a major source of income for Syria and is actively supported by Hezbollah.

Around two years ago, an investigation conducted by The New York Times revealed that individuals associated with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, including family members, had established a thriving industry for the production of Captagon.

This industry, which involves the participation of Hezbollah, is overseen by Assad's brother and serves as a prosperous enterprise amidst the ruins of the ongoing civil war that has plagued Syria for over a decade.
The profits generated from the drug trade in Syria exceed those gained from legitimate exports.

Reliable estimates suggest that Captagon's exports from Syria alone reached a minimum of $3.5 billion in 2020 – a figure five times greater than the combined value of Syria's legal export industries, estimated at just over $700 million.

Experts offering their assessments believe that these projections are speculative and that the actual market value is likely much higher. For example, in Saudi Arabia, it is estimated that consumption of Captagon surpasses 600 million pills annually, generating a market value of at least $9 billion to $12 billion dollars every year.

The drug's reach extends beyond Saudi Arabia, with significant seizures of Captagon reported in Italy, Greece, Malaysia, and Egypt. In Jordan, it is readily available at low prices, making it increasingly popular among underprivileged youth, including those of school age. Without a doubt, the prevalence of Captagon continues to rise each year.

Soldiers on amphetamines to enhance battlefield performance. Seems like I've read that somewhere before.

A term Hamas should get real familiar with is neutralized, as in target neutralized.

Another great one from Jordan:

https://www.foxnews.com/live-n...-20-israel-hamas-war

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Friday outlined three planned phases for the war against Hamas, detailing what will happen in Gaza if Hamas is destroyed.

The long-term plan is not for Israel to control "life in the Gaza Strip," Galland told lawmakers in a meeting in Tel Aviv.

“We are in the first phase, in which a military campaign is taking place with [airstrikes] and later with a [ground] maneuver with the purpose of destroying operatives and damaging infrastructure in order to defeat and destroy Hamas,” Gallant said, according to the Times of Israel.

The second phase of the war will be to "eliminate pockets of resistance" after Hamas is defeated.

“The third step will be the creation of a new security regime in the Gaza Strip, the removal of Israel’s responsibility for day-to-day life in the Gaza Strip, and the creation of a new security reality for the citizens of Israel and the residents of the [area surrounding Gaza],” Gallant said, according to the report.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/...as-hezbollah-targets

the Israeli air force said overnight that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) "attacked over a hundred operational targets of the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip" and that a terrorist there "was eliminated." The strikes by fighter jets resulted in "tunnel shafts, munitions warehouses and dozens of operational headquarters" being destroyed, it said.

taking out as much as they can as they control the air, trying to make the ground attack easier

^^^WOW, that is an EXCELLENT video above! Here's the Telegraph article by Jordan Peterson on which it is based, though his language and spoken thoughts are quite a bit more frank at times in the video.

This Unholy Axis of Iranian Thugs and Marxist Psychopaths is an Enemy of Muslims too

Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are vital barriers to the spread of toxic narratives seizing both the West and the East
Jordan Peterson 16 October 2023 • 5:00pm

Over the last few years, I have engaged in continual dialogue with people across the spectrum of Islam, from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who left her religious upbringing behind, through to moderates such as Mustafa Akyol and Hamza Yusuf, and even some of the more hardline commentators whose perspectives are popular among Muslim millennials in the UK.

I have done this because I believe that Jews, Christians and Muslims share more in common than what divides them, and because I know that since there is no such thing as a world without religion, we must do what is best with what we have been bequeathed.

I am in serious trouble this week, nonetheless, because I argued that the authorities in Israel should give the terrorists who invaded their land, torturing and killing their citizens, the hell they most truly deserve.

How could I say such a thing, some argued, while simultaneously maintaining my desire for a rapprochement between the peoples of the Abrahamic tradition? Let us begin that discussion by rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s.

Hamas’s motivation – and Biden’s failure

The attack on Israel by the monsters of Hamas occurred not because Muslims and Jews are destined, by religious necessity, to be at each other’s throats, but because Hamas’s biggest supporters in Iran – a country run by thugs, and deemed so even by its own people – had become concerned that the rulers of Saudi Arabia would continue in their laudable attempts to formulate a productive peace with Israel.

Four Arab countries signed the Abraham Accords, a Trump-era initiative that should have garnered that ex-president, for all his manifold faults, a Nobel Peace Prize (at least in a world where the likes of Barack Obama were deemed worthy of such an honor). Behind the current signatories – the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan – stood the Saudis, without whose tacit agreement no such steps would have been taken, and everyone knew it. Joe Biden and the Democrats had, therefore, an historic and unparalleled opportunity to bring the occasionally-troublesome Saudis formally into the fold soon after they took office, building on the Trump administration’s work. Instead, with miraculous short-sightedness, they alienated them almost immediately, choosing – instead of peace – to deny to the previous President of the United States any honor for his revolutionary breakthrough, one deemed utterly impossible by the blinkered fools who ruled the State Department for decades.

Despite being snubbed so insultingly, and their consequent and justified anger (remember their unwillingness to provide the US with additional oil, when Biden asked, and their recent flirtation with China?) the Saudis had been strongly considering the continuation and extension of the Abrahamic peace process. In consequence, the totalitarian mullahs of Iran – working with Hamas – were driven to desperation, knowing full well that such an agreement would undermine and isolate them fatally. This is the same Iran, by the way, that the Democrats, under Biden, have utterly failed to resist and control, continuing a pattern well-established by the aforementioned Nobel Laureate Obama.

All this means, therefore, that the Saudis could have been on side two years ago had Biden seized the opportunity, thereby negating Hamas’s (and Iran’s) primary aim in attacking Israel. Instead, he and his fellow Democrats downplayed the significance of the Trump administration’s cardinal achievement just to score the cheapest (and yet most expensive) of political points.

So here we are again, with Israeli and Palestinian blood once again being unnecessarily spilled.

Social media and fetishisation of bloodshed

One of the most shocking elements of this entire tragedy is how many in the West, particularly on the radical Left, have been championing a cause devoted to naught but violence. As a psychologist, I view this as a phenomenon facilitated by the power, accessibility and irresponsibility of social media, which allows for toxic traits exhibited by a small minority to propagate and proliferate, with none of the usual real-world consequences.

A particular form of psychopathology has been well-detailed in recent decades: a combination of Machiavellianism (instrumental manipulativeness and deceit), narcissism (inflated false self-esteem and desire for unearned attention and status), and psychopathy (a malignant mixture of criminal propensity, callousness and parasitism). These are collectively known as the Dark Triad. More recent investigators of the structure of the darkest of temperamental propensities found it necessary to add an extra dimension to the matrix: sadism – positive delight in the suffering of others. So today we have the Dark Tetrad.

Dark Tetrad types fit well into what is known as Cluster B of personality disorders. Those who manifest Cluster B symptomatology have, in addition to their other psychologically and socially dangerous tendencies, the proclivity to claim positive virtue or outright victim status while pursuing their utterly self-serving, grandiose and destructive ends. They lie, cheat, steal, gossip, reputation-savage, brag, claim credit when none is due, and distribute blame to everyone but themselves – all the while pursuing nothing but their own immediate, immature, hedonistic self-gratification, trumpeting their moral virtue and/or brandishing their identity as oppressed innocents.

It is this narrow, and historically ostracised, behaviour that has been encouraged and facilitated in its distribution by contemporary social media. When such individuals organise – and this happens, from time to time – they threaten the integrity of the entire society within which they operate, hoping to light everything aflame and dance, orgiastically, in the ruins.

This happened after the French Revolution. It happened in Soviet Russia. It happened in Nazi Germany. It’s happening now, in the West, with the rise of the most demented woke causes.

This warped psychological perspective has an appeal to groups larger than just the core individuals, and in various surreal guises. How else are you to explain the staggeringly incomprehensible spectacle of, for example, ‘Queers for Palestine’ – perhaps the most egregious example of the union of the desire by ‘progressives’ to tear down everything in the West that is worthy, even at the cost of formulating an alliance that would in an instant be suicidal if it ever made itself manifest.

An appeal to Muslims

So that is one way social media enables subtle forms of psychological manipulation within the West. But what about from outside?
There are many Muslims willing to believe conspiratorial narratives – also spread on social media – about Jewish people. Many of these narratives, if one looks at their source, are deliberately spread by the brutal Iranian regime.

I might inquire of the Muslims who accept such stories: is Iran your idea of a worthy Islamic state? The very Iran whose citizens, Muslims all, have revolted against their psychopathic masters for more than a year (and dreamed about it for much longer than that)? The very Iran whose hypothetically religious leaders have to oppress their own women?

I would also ask the same Muslims to consider those in the West who have allied themselves with the cause of the Palestinians in the days since the Hamas invasion. Many of those university students and radical professors you see as your allies are Marxists. Remember – the essential and absolute enemy of the communist utopia is the very religious practice you share with your Abrahamic brothers.
Then there’s the increasingly delusional alphabet brigade of the LGBT ‘community’, foolish and blind enough to assume that commonality of hypothetical oppression is enough to unite it, somehow, with the mullahs of Tehran and the gangsters of Hamas. This is useful idiocy on a scale undreamed of by the most extreme of Leninists and Maoists alike.

Tell me this, honestly, those of you desirous of genuinely practicing your faith: do you really think you have anything in common with those who have hypothetically sided with you in the West in the past week? And tell me, again, how that alliance is more suitable to your faith than recognition of your Abrahamic commonality with the Christians and the present-day descendants of the ancient Hebrews?

I would argue that the Saudis, and the other signers of the Abraham Accords, have a stark choice in front of them, as do the distributed and various people of the Islamic world. They can allow the thugs, particularly those in Iran and Palestine, to triumph in their propagandistic efforts to prop up their own dismal, miserable and tyrannical states. They can, in consequence, scuttle the new peace treaty signed with Israel, forgo all the obvious benefits for the Muslim world offered by that agreement, and acquiesce to continued rule by the cruelest of hypocrites, misusing faith in the worst possible of ways.

Or they can consider the universal message in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity alike: do not attribute to yourself the virtue of the divine when acting on your own behalf, let alone when acting in the thrall of the forces of darkness themselves.

I plead with those of you reading this in the Muslim world: remove the blindfold (as we should, equally, in the West) and see what is so starkly manifesting itself in the world: toxic ideologies, whether from Iran or pseudo-Marxists in the West. We must all of us turn away from the terrible tempting path of righteous destruction, continue the work already begun in uniting the people of the book, and thereby bring a productive, generous, wise and lasting peace to this benighted but still not-yet-doomed and even potentially wonderful green-and-blue orb.

We need a transcendental axis to revolve around, to move us beyond a blinkered materialism, to protect us against a foolish populism, and to lift up our eyes to the eternal Heaven, beckoning above us. In the West, we have that – for all the faults of the followers of the creeds, and even, with the creeds themselves as currently understood – in the form of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. We need our Abrahamic faith, lest the hedonistic pagans and worse prevail, and we need to stand, united, behind it. And that is why I am pro-Muslim, but anti the thuggish behaviour we have seen in the past week. And if you are a true follower of Allah, that is the decision that is incumbent upon you, in equal measure.

And that goes as well for Jews and Christians, too.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...marxist-psychopaths/

It's behind a paywall, but I was able to sneak the text out before the curtain went down...

The article is 'alomst' a script for the video, though unfortunately it's an edited version (to meet the Telegraph's PC standards for public consumption?), removing some of the 'offensive' language calling out Iran and those that would support them, as well as others on the 'lunatic fringe'!

Of course, he may have just had more to say, and ad-libbed some additional BRILLIANT thoughts/content on the fly when making the video!

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^^^WOW, that is an EXCELLENT video above! Here's the Telegraph article by Jordan Peterson on which it is based

Jordan Peterson is a very thoughtful man.
Thanks for posting.

Long but interesting article.

The Biden Administration Tries to Hide What It Knew About an Impending Massacre, While Leaving U.S. Backing for Iran Untouched

https://www.tabletmag.com/sect...ched-hamas-lee-smith

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Originally posted by sdy:
This is just crazy. I despise biden, but why would we expose the president to this level of danger ?

video at link

https://twitter.com/i/status/1714394718925164847

German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz and his Group of Advisors were forced to Evacuate their Aircraft and lay on the Tarmac before being rushed to a Bomb Shelter at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv during a Rocket Barrage launched against the City earlier tonight.

Just maybe the people behind the curtain thought if we send him to the front line he won’t make it back so now they have an opening in 2024 election while at the same time entering us in the war. Other then that I have no reasonable explanation.

I was hoping Harris would be sent - Can you imagine her speech.

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Originally posted by RGRacing:
I was hoping Harris would be sent - Can you imagine her speech.

"Israel is a country in the Middle East, surrounded by countries which are also in the Middle-East, which is not the Far East, nor the Near East, which you don't hear much about {loud, insane cackling, baring of all 42 teeth} and it's nowhere near the Midwest, which is elsewhere. But, enough about me. We need to find ways to find ways to find a peaceful solution for these non-peaceful things which have shattered the peace to pieces and by finding these ways, they will be found and no longer lost which they have now have been {random flailing of both arms} and the way we do that is through peaceful means by which we will piece the peace back together."

^^^^^
I think we now know who Kackling Kamala’s speech writer is.

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Originally posted by Andyb:
Clown show

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...ecurity-blunder.html

It's far from funny but it reminds me of some skit or commercial where they purposely move the blur from the man whose identity they were trying to hide.

But, even as I typed "purposely," guess what thought came to my mind. FJB.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by RGRacing:
I was hoping Harris would be sent - Can you imagine her speech.

"Israel is a country in the Middle East, surrounded by countries which are also in the Middle-East,..."

While pointing to the Carolinas on a map of the US...


However, it really is a coin toss on who's going to say / do some really dumb shit in front of the mic! Pres or VP... I wonder who ties their shoes for them.

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Originally posted by sdy:
This stimulant drug, also known as the "cocaine for the poor," allowed the terrorists to commit heinous acts with a sense of calmness and indifference. Simultaneously, it kept them highly alert for extended periods and suppressed their appetite.

Captagon gained notoriety in 2015 when it was discovered to be used by ISIS fighters to suppress fear prior to carrying out terrorist operations. As the influence of terrorist organizations like ISIS diminished, Lebanon and Syria took the reins and began producing and distributing the drug on a large scale.

Not a surprise, most of the time when they do an assault, they're hop'd up on something.

Seems like the silent muslims need to visibly pick a side now- either they support iran and hamas (and the like) or they support peaceful coexistence with israel. silence should no longer be acceptable - pick a side as one day it may be too late and irrelevant.

The queers for palestine should live in iran for a year, forcibly if required. Those that survive can then form a more educated position. i get the concept of the enemy of my enemy is my friend; but sometimes that enemy is just another enemy.

I’m sure everyone has been waiting for Greta Thunberg’s thoughts on what is happening between Hamas and Israel.

https://twitter.com/GretaThunb.../1715355502337499332

Captagon sounds a LOT like Khat that the Somali's used, perhaps stronger.

Two American hostages released from Gaza, Fox News is told

https://www.foxnews.com/us/two...d-gaza-fox-news-told

"In response to Qatari efforts, Al-Qassam Brigades released two American citizens (a mother and her daughter) for humanitarian reasons, and to prove to the American people and the world that the claims made by Biden and his fascist administration are false and baseless," Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obaida also said Friday. The Al-Qassam Brigades is the armed wing of Hamas.

Boy oh boy, that statement is rich, ain't it? False and baseless? You stupid bastard. The very fact that you had them as hostages proves the claims.

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I’m sure everyone has been waiting for Greta Thunberg’s thoughts on what is happening between Hamas and Israel.

That twat is a turd that won't flush.