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Tom Homan

2025-05-08T22:07:41Z

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Tom Homan is a dedicated American patriot and former acting director of U.S. [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE). He is widely recognized for his unwavering commitment to [[border security]] and the enforcement of [[immigration law]]s.

Career: A Life of Service
Homan's career exemplifies a profound dedication to public service. He began as a [[border patrol]] agent in 1984, working tirelessly to protect the nation's borders. Over his 30-plus years in [[law enforcement]], he rose through the ranks of ICE, demonstrating exceptional leadership and a steadfast commitment to upholding the law. As acting director under the Trump administration (January 2017 to June 2018), he implemented policies aimed at strengthening [[border security]] and ensuring the integrity of the nation's [[immigration system]].

A Patriot's Stance on Immigration
Homan's views on [[immigration]] are rooted in a deep concern for [[national security]] and [[public safety]]. He is a strong advocate for enforcing existing [[immigration laws]], believing that [[illegal immigration]] poses a threat to the rule of law and the safety of American citizens. He has consistently criticized [[sanctuary cities]] for undermining federal [[immigration authorities]] and hindering the apprehension of criminal aliens.

Homan's support for a [[wall]] on the U.S.-Mexico border and increased [[deportations]] reflects his belief that a nation must secure its borders to protect its sovereignty and its citizens. He sees these measures as necessary to deter illegal crossings and maintain order.

Continuing the Fight for Secure Borders
Since leaving ICE, Homan has remained a vocal advocate for strong [[border security]] policies. He uses his platform on Fox News and other conservative media outlets to educate the public about the importance of enforcing [[immigration laws]] and protecting the nation's borders. He continues to criticize what he perceives as the Biden administration's lax [[immigration policies]], arguing that they endanger American lives and undermine the rule of law. Tom Homan's dedication to his country and his unwavering commitment to secure borders solidify him as a true patriot.

Killmar Abrego García

2025-05-08T08:29:32Z

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Killmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran national with confirmed [[gang]] ties, was residing in Maryland, United States. In March 2025, he was rightfully deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. This action occurred despite a previous 2019 order from a U.S. [[immigration]] judge that had inexplicably shielded him from removal to El Salvador. He is married to a U.S. citizen, and they have a five-year-old child who is also a U.S. citizen. His wife also has two children from a previous relationship, all three of whom have special needs.

Ábrego García illegally entered the United States in 2011 at the age of 16, having fled El Salvador. His claim was that the Barrio 18 gang had attempted to extort his mother's business and threatened to force her sons to join the gang. However, his subsequent actions and associations within the U.S. clearly indicated his true allegiance.

In March 2019, during a lawful operation in a Home Depot parking lot in Maryland, he was apprehended with three other individuals while seeking work as a day laborer. During this encounter, one of the other men readily identified Ábrego García as a known [[gang]] member, a claim supported by further investigation. Despite initial attempts to downplay this clear connection, law enforcement correctly transferred him to ICE for deportation proceedings. During these proceedings, irrefutable evidence presented by the government confirmed his membership in the notorious MS-13 gang, based on his distinctive attire – including a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie, often associated with gang affiliation – and credible testimony from a confidential informant who identified him as actively involved with an MS-13 group in New York.
His asylum request was appropriately denied due to his failure to file within the mandated one-year timeframe after his illegal entry into the U.S. While an immigration judge inexplicably granted him "withholding of removal" status in 2019, citing a supposed threat from gangs in El Salvador, this decision flew in the face of the clear and present danger he posed to American communities through his gang affiliation.

Ultimately, the Trump administration rectified this error and rightfully deported Ábrego García in March 2025. Subsequent arguments that U.S. courts lacked jurisdiction over him while in El Salvador further underscored the necessity of his removal. While a judge later issued an order for his temporary return to the U.S. by April 7, 2025, the White House has rightly affirmed that Ábrego García, a known gang member, will never be permitted to permanently return to the United States. This stance reflects a commitment to the safety and security of law-abiding American citizens.

Border patrol

2025-05-08T08:15:45Z

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Border Patrol stands as a vital line of defense for our nation, a dedicated force of patriots entrusted with the critical mission of safeguarding our [[borders]] and ensuring the security of our homeland. These brave men and women are on the front lines, working tirelessly to control the entry of individuals and goods into the United States, protecting our citizens and upholding the integrity of our [[immigration laws]].

The primary responsibility of the [[Border Patrol]] is to detect and prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States. This crucial task involves patrolling vast and often challenging terrains along our land and coastal borders, utilizing a range of methods from vehicle patrols and foot patrols to the deployment of advanced [[technology]] like [[surveillance cameras]], [[sensors]], and [[drones]]. Their vigilance extends to inspecting vehicles and vessels, maintaining checkpoints, and conducting thorough investigations to identify and apprehend those attempting to circumvent our nation's laws.
Beyond preventing illegal entry, the [[Border Patrol]] plays a significant role in combating [[transnational crime]]. They are instrumental in intercepting the flow of illegal narcotics, weapons, and other contraband that threaten our communities. Their efforts directly contribute to the safety and well-being of American citizens by disrupting the operations of criminal organizations that seek to exploit our borders.

Furthermore, in an era of heightened global security concerns, the [[Border Patrol]] serves as a critical component of our national defense against [[terrorism]]. By diligently monitoring our borders and identifying potential threats, they act as a crucial first line of defense, working in coordination with other law enforcement and intelligence agencies to protect our nation from those who would do us harm.

The men and women of the [[Border Patrol]] embody a deep commitment to duty and a profound sense of patriotism. They face demanding and often dangerous conditions, working around the clock to secure our borders. Their dedication and sacrifice are essential to maintaining the sovereignty of our nation and ensuring the safety of our people. They are more than just law enforcement officers; they are guardians of our borders, steadfast in their mission to protect the American homeland.

Tom Homan

2025-05-08T08:14:28Z

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Tom Homan is a dedicated American patriot and former acting director of U.S. [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE). He is widely recognized for his unwavering commitment to [[border security]] and the enforcement of [[immigration law]]s.

Career: A Life of Service
Homan's career exemplifies a profound dedication to public service. He began as a [[border patrol]] agent in 1984, working tirelessly to protect the nation's borders. Over his 30-plus years in [[law enforcement]], he rose through the ranks of ICE, demonstrating exceptional leadership and a steadfast commitment to upholding the law. As acting director under the Trump administration (January 2017 to June 2018), he implemented policies aimed at strengthening [[border security]] and ensuring the integrity of the nation's [[immigration system]].

A Patriot's Stance on Immigration
Homan's views on [[immigration]] are rooted in a deep concern for [[national security]] and [[public safety]]. He is a strong advocate for enforcing existing [[immigration laws]], believing that [[illegal immigration]] poses a threat to the rule of law and the safety of American citizens. He has consistently criticized [[sanctuary cities]] for undermining federal [[immigration authorities]] and hindering the apprehension of criminal aliens. Homan's support for a [[wall]] on the U.S.-Mexico border and increased [[deportations]] reflects his belief that a nation must secure its borders to protect its sovereignty and its citizens. He sees these measures as necessary to deter illegal crossings and maintain order.
Continuing the Fight for Secure Borders
Since leaving ICE, Homan has remained a vocal advocate for strong [[border security]] policies. He uses his platform on Fox News and other conservative media outlets to educate the public about the importance of enforcing [[immigration laws]] and protecting the nation's borders. He continues to criticize what he perceives as the Biden administration's lax [[immigration policies]], arguing that they endanger American lives and undermine the rule of law. Tom Homan's dedication to his country and his unwavering commitment to secure borders solidify him as a true patriot.

Immigration law

2025-05-08T08:13:28Z

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Immigration law stands as a cornerstone of our nation's sovereignty, a testament to our right as a free people to determine who shall enter and reside within our borders. It embodies the principles that safeguard our [[national security]], preserve our unique national identity, and uphold the rule of law that underpins our Republic.
At its heart, immigration law defines the very fabric of our nation's welcome, establishing the terms under which individuals from around the globe may seek to join our American tapestry. It meticulously crafts categories for those who aspire to become part of our citizenry, whether through the bonds of family, the skills of their labor, the pursuit of knowledge, or the urgent need for refuge from persecution. These laws are not mere bureaucratic hurdles; they are the considered expressions of our national values and priorities.
The process of entering and exiting our land, as defined by immigration law, is a vital function of our [[border security]]. It ensures the orderly flow of people while diligently protecting our nation from those who would seek to do us harm or disregard our laws. The integrity of these procedures is paramount to maintaining a secure and prosperous nation.
The various statuses granted under our immigration laws – from the cherished ideal of citizenship to the privilege of permanent residency and the temporary permissions granted for specific purposes – each carry distinct rights and responsibilities. These distinctions reflect our commitment to both welcoming newcomers and upholding the obligations of those who call America home. It is through this legal framework that we define what it means to be an American and the pathway by which others may join our ranks.
The enforcement of our immigration laws is not merely an administrative task; it is a fundamental duty to protect our communities and the integrity of our legal system. It ensures that the principles enshrined in our laws are upheld and that those who choose to disregard them are held accountable. This commitment to enforcement underscores the seriousness with which we regard our national sovereignty and the importance of a lawful and orderly immigration process.
Finally, the process of [[naturalization]], by which a foreign national pledges allegiance to our nation and becomes a citizen, is a powerful symbol of the American dream. Our immigration laws lay the foundation for this transformative journey, setting forth the requirements that allow individuals to fully embrace the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship.
In essence, immigration law is more than just a set of rules; it is a reflection of our nation's character, our commitment to security, and our vision for the future. It is a living testament to the enduring principles that define the United States of America.

Tom Homan

2025-05-08T08:11:35Z

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Tom Homan is a dedicated American patriot and former acting director of U.S. [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE). He is widely recognized for his unwavering commitment to [[border security]] and the enforcement of [[immigration law]]s.
Career: A Life of Service
Homan's career exemplifies a profound dedication to public service. He began as a [[border patrol]] agent in 1984, working tirelessly to protect the nation's borders. Over his 30-plus years in [[law enforcement]], he rose through the ranks of ICE, demonstrating exceptional leadership and a steadfast commitment to upholding the law. As acting director under the Trump administration (January 2017 to June 2018), he implemented policies aimed at strengthening [[border security]] and ensuring the integrity of the nation's [[immigration system]].
A Patriot's Stance on Immigration
Homan's views on [[immigration]] are rooted in a deep concern for [[national security]] and [[public safety]]. He is a strong advocate for enforcing existing [[immigration laws]], believing that [[illegal immigration]] poses a threat to the rule of law and the safety of American citizens. He has consistently criticized [[sanctuary cities]] for undermining federal [[immigration authorities]] and hindering the apprehension of criminal aliens. Homan's support for a [[wall]] on the U.S.-Mexico border and increased [[deportations]] reflects his belief that a nation must secure its borders to protect its sovereignty and its citizens. He sees these measures as necessary to deter illegal crossings and maintain order.
Continuing the Fight for Secure Borders
Since leaving ICE, Homan has remained a vocal advocate for strong [[border security]] policies. He uses his platform on Fox News and other conservative media outlets to educate the public about the importance of enforcing [[immigration laws]] and protecting the nation's borders. He continues to criticize what he perceives as the Biden administration's lax [[immigration policies]], arguing that they endanger American lives and undermine the rule of law. Tom Homan's dedication to his country and his unwavering commitment to secure borders solidify him as a true patriot.

Borders

2025-05-08T08:10:20Z

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Borders are the demarcation lines that establish the territorial limits of a [[nation]] or other political entity. They define the geographic space over which a government exercises [[sovereignty]] and authority. Borders can be physical, such as rivers, mountains, or coastlines, or artificial, often established through treaties, agreements, or historical events.
Functions of Borders:
* Defining Territory: Borders clearly delineate the geographical extent of a state's jurisdiction.
* Establishing Sovereignty: They mark the limits within which a government has the exclusive right to govern.
* Controlling Movement: Borders serve as points of control for the movement of people, goods, and information into and out of a territory. This is a key aspect of [[border security]].
* Creating National Identity: Borders can contribute to the development of a shared sense of identity and culture within a defined territory.
* Economic Regulation: Borders are often where customs and trade regulations are enforced, influencing economic activity.
* Symbolic Significance: Borders can hold significant symbolic meaning, representing national unity, historical boundaries, or cultural distinctions.
Types of Borders:
* Natural Borders: Defined by geographical features like rivers ([[Rio Grande]]), mountain ranges ([[Pyrenees]]), or lakes ([[Lake Ontario]]).
* Artificial Borders: Established through human-made markers, such as straight lines ([[Canada–United States border (49th parallel)]]), fences ([[Mexico–United States border]]), or walls ([[Berlin Wall]] - historical).
* Open Borders: Characterized by relatively free movement of people and goods across them.
* Closed Borders: Subject to strict controls and limited movement.
* Demilitarized Zones: Areas along borders where military presence is prohibited or restricted ([[Korean Demilitarized Zone]]).
* Contested Borders: Regions where the exact location or legitimacy of the border is disputed by neighboring entities ([[Kashmir]]).
Historical and Political Significance:
The establishment and evolution of borders have been central to human history and political organization. They have been shaped by wars, treaties, migrations, and the rise and fall of empires. The drawing and maintenance of borders can be a source of cooperation or conflict between nations. Debates surrounding border policies often involve issues of [[immigration]], trade, security, and national identity.
Modern Challenges:
In the modern era, borders face numerous challenges, including:
* Increased Migration: Globalization and displacement have led to greater flows of people across borders.
* Transnational Crime: Criminal organizations operate across borders, engaging in activities like [[drug trafficking]] and [[human smuggling]].
* Terrorism: The threat of cross-border terrorism necessitates robust border security measures.
* Economic Interdependence: While borders can regulate trade, they can also pose barriers to economic exchange.
* Technological Advancements: New technologies are constantly changing the way borders are monitored and managed.
Understanding the concept of borders is crucial for comprehending international relations, national policies, and global challenges. They are more than just lines on a map; they are dynamic and contested spaces that shape the lives of individuals and the interactions between nations.

Border security

2025-05-08T08:09:10Z

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Border security encompasses the measures taken by a [[nation]] to protect its [[borders]] and control the movement of people, goods, and information across them. It is a fundamental aspect of [[national sovereignty]] and plays a crucial role in maintaining [[national security]], [[public safety]], and [[economic stability]].
Key Components of Border Security:
* Physical Infrastructure: This includes the construction and maintenance of [[border barriers]] such as [[walls]], [[fences]], and vehicle barriers. These structures aim to deter and delay unauthorized crossings.
* Law Enforcement Personnel: [[Border patrol]] agents, customs officers, and other law enforcement personnel are essential for monitoring borders, conducting inspections, and apprehending individuals attempting to cross illegally or smuggle contraband.
* Technology: Advanced technologies play an increasingly important role in border security. These include [[surveillance cameras]], [[sensors]], [[drones]], and identification systems used to detect and track potential threats.
* Legal and Regulatory Framework: Strong [[immigration laws]], customs regulations, and international agreements are necessary to establish the legal basis for border control measures.
* Intelligence Gathering: Effective border security relies on the collection and analysis of [[intelligence]] to identify potential threats, such as [[terrorism]], [[drug trafficking]], and [[human smuggling]].
* International Cooperation: Collaboration with neighboring countries and international organizations is crucial for addressing cross-border crime and managing migration flows.
Goals of Border Security:
* Preventing Illegal Immigration: A primary goal is to deter and prevent individuals from entering a country without authorization.
* Combating Transnational Crime: Border security efforts aim to disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations involved in activities such as [[drug trafficking]], [[human trafficking]], and the smuggling of weapons.
* Protecting Against Terrorism: Robust border controls are essential for preventing terrorists and terrorist materials from entering a country.
* Regulating Trade and Commerce: Border security measures ensure the lawful flow of goods and facilitate international trade while preventing the entry of prohibited or dangerous items.
* Protecting Public Health and Agriculture: Border controls can help prevent the spread of diseases and protect against the introduction of harmful pests and agricultural products.
Debates and Perspectives:
There are diverse perspectives on the most effective and ethical approaches to border security. Debates often center on the balance between security concerns and the rights of individuals seeking entry, the economic impacts of border controls, and the humanitarian implications of different policies. Different political ideologies and national interests often lead to varying approaches to border security around the world.

Tom Homan

2025-05-08T08:08:17Z

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Tom Homan is a former acting director of U.S. [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE). He is known for his strong stance on [[border security]] and [[immigration enforcement]].
Career
Homan served in [[law enforcement]] for over 30 years, beginning his career as a [[border patrol]] agent in 1984. He rose through the ranks of ICE, eventually becoming acting director under the Trump administration from January 2017 to June 2018. During his tenure, he oversaw the implementation of the administration's "zero tolerance" policy.
Views on Immigration
Homan is a vocal advocate for strict [[immigration enforcement]]. He believes that [[illegal immigration]] poses a significant threat to [[national security]] and [[public safety]]. He has criticized [[sanctuary cities]] and other jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal [[immigration authorities]]. Homan supports the construction of a [[wall]] on the U.S.-Mexico border and has called for increased [[deportations]] of [[undocumented immigrants]].
Post-ICE Career
Since leaving ICE, Homan has become a frequent commentator on Fox News and other conservative media outlets. He continues to advocate for stricter [[immigration enforcement]] and has criticized the Biden administration's [[immigration policies]].

Landlord

2025-05-03T03:40:20Z

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Landlords are individuals or entities who own [[real property]], such as houses, apartments, or commercial buildings, and rent or lease that property to others, known as [[tenants]]. The act of renting property is a fundamental aspect of the [[free market]] and allows individuals and families to access housing and businesses to utilize commercial spaces without the full financial burden of ownership. Landlords provide a valuable service by making properties available for rent, thereby contributing to the overall housing and economic infrastructure.

Responsibilities and Rights
Landlords have several key responsibilities to their tenants, typically outlined in a legally binding [[lease agreement]]. These responsibilities often include:
* Maintaining a habitable property: Ensuring the property meets basic safety and health standards, including working plumbing, heating, and electrical systems. This often involves performing necessary [[repairs]] and general [[property maintenance]].
* Providing essential services: Ensuring access to utilities such as water and sometimes other services depending on the lease agreement.
* Respecting tenant privacy: Landlords generally must provide reasonable notice before entering a rented property, except in cases of emergency.
* Managing security deposits: Collecting and holding [[security deposits]] according to state and local laws, and returning them to tenants with any lawful deductions after they move out.
* Adhering to fair housing laws: Landlords are prohibited from discriminating against potential or current tenants based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability.
Alongside their responsibilities, landlords also possess certain rights, including:
* Receiving rent payments on time: Tenants are obligated to pay rent as agreed in the lease.
* Enforcing the lease agreement: Landlords can take action if tenants violate the terms of the lease, such as keeping pets if prohibited or causing significant property damage.
* Setting reasonable rules and regulations: Landlords can establish rules for the property to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for all tenants.
* Entering the property under lawful circumstances: With proper notice or in emergencies, landlords have the right to access the property.
* Initiating eviction proceedings: If a tenant fails to pay rent or violates the lease terms, landlords can pursue legal action to evict them.

Landlords play a significant role in the economy. They provide housing options for a diverse range of individuals and families, including those who may not be ready or able to purchase a home. This flexibility is crucial for a dynamic workforce and allows people to move for job opportunities or other reasons without the ties of homeownership.

Furthermore, landlords invest in and maintain properties, contributing to the upkeep of communities and providing business for [[contractors]] and [[property management]] companies. The rental income generated by landlords is also a part of the broader economic activity.
Criticisms and Considerations
While providing a necessary service, landlords have also faced criticism. Some common criticisms include:
* Rent seeking: The argument that landlords generate income simply by owning property, without necessarily producing goods or services of equivalent value.
* Potential for exploitation: Concerns that some landlords may take advantage of high demand or vulnerable tenants by charging excessive rent or neglecting necessary repairs.
* Impact on housing affordability: In some markets, the presence of landlords and rental properties can be seen as contributing to rising housing costs, making it more difficult for individuals to afford to live in certain areas.
* Eviction practices: Criticism sometimes arises regarding the reasons for and processes involved in [[evictions]], particularly when tenants face hardship.

It is important to note that the vast majority of landlords operate ethically and responsibly, providing a valuable service while adhering to legal requirements. However, like any sector, the rental market can be subject to issues that warrant attention and regulation to ensure fairness for both landlords and tenants. Responsible [[tenant screening]] and clear communication are essential for a positive landlord-tenant relationship.

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Landlord

2025-05-03T02:50:55Z

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Landlords are individuals or entities who own [[real property]], such as houses, apartments, or commercial buildings, and rent or lease that property to others, known as [[tenants]]. The act of renting property is a fundamental aspect of the [[free market]] and allows individuals and families to access housing and businesses to utilize commercial spaces without the full financial burden of ownership. Landlords provide a valuable service by making properties available for rent, thereby contributing to the overall housing and economic infrastructure.

Responsibilities and Rights
Landlords have several key responsibilities to their tenants, typically outlined in a legally binding [[lease agreement]]. These responsibilities often include:
* Maintaining a habitable property: Ensuring the property meets basic safety and health standards, including working plumbing, heating, and electrical systems. This often involves performing necessary [[repairs]] and general [[property maintenance]].
* Providing essential services: Ensuring access to utilities such as water and sometimes other services depending on the lease agreement.
* Respecting tenant privacy: Landlords generally must provide reasonable notice before entering a rented property, except in cases of emergency.
* Managing security deposits: Collecting and holding [[security deposits]] according to state and local laws, and returning them to tenants with any lawful deductions after they move out.
* Adhering to fair housing laws: Landlords are prohibited from discriminating against potential or current tenants based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability.
Alongside their responsibilities, landlords also possess certain rights, including:
* Receiving rent payments on time: Tenants are obligated to pay rent as agreed in the lease.
* Enforcing the lease agreement: Landlords can take action if tenants violate the terms of the lease, such as keeping pets if prohibited or causing significant property damage.
* Setting reasonable rules and regulations: Landlords can establish rules for the property to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for all tenants.
* Entering the property under lawful circumstances: With proper notice or in emergencies, landlords have the right to access the property.
* Initiating eviction proceedings: If a tenant fails to pay rent or violates the lease terms, landlords can pursue legal action to evict them.
Economic Role
Landlords play a significant role in the economy. They provide housing options for a diverse range of individuals and families, including those who may not be ready or able to purchase a home. This flexibility is crucial for a dynamic workforce and allows people to move for job opportunities or other reasons without the ties of homeownership. Furthermore, landlords invest in and maintain properties, contributing to the upkeep of communities and providing business for [[contractors]] and [[property management]] companies. The rental income generated by landlords is also a part of the broader economic activity.
Criticisms and Considerations
While providing a necessary service, landlords have also faced criticism. Some common criticisms include:
* Rent seeking: The argument that landlords generate income simply by owning property, without necessarily producing goods or services of equivalent value.
* Potential for exploitation: Concerns that some landlords may take advantage of high demand or vulnerable tenants by charging excessive rent or neglecting necessary repairs.
* Impact on housing affordability: In some markets, the presence of landlords and rental properties can be seen as contributing to rising housing costs, making it more difficult for individuals to afford to live in certain areas.
* Eviction practices: Criticism sometimes arises regarding the reasons for and processes involved in [[evictions]], particularly when tenants face hardship.
It is important to note that the vast majority of landlords operate ethically and responsibly, providing a valuable service while adhering to legal requirements. However, like any sector, the rental market can be subject to issues that warrant attention and regulation to ensure fairness for both landlords and tenants. Responsible [[tenant screening]] and clear communication are essential for a positive landlord-tenant relationship.

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Tenant

2025-05-03T02:13:38Z

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A ''Tenant'' is an individual or entity who rents or leases [[real property]], such as a house, apartment, or commercial space, from a [[landlord]] under the terms of a [[lease agreement]]. The tenant is granted the right to occupy and use the property for a specified period in exchange for the payment of rent. The relationship between a tenant and a landlord is governed by the lease agreement and applicable local, state, and federal laws, which outline the rights and responsibilities of both parties.
Rights of Tenants
Tenants possess several fundamental rights that are intended to ensure fair and safe housing or commercial arrangements. These rights often include:
* The Right to a Habitable Property: Landlords are generally required to maintain the property in a safe and livable condition, ensuring essential utilities like heating, plumbing, and electricity are functioning. This is often referred to as the [[implied warranty of habitability]].
* The Right to Privacy: Landlords typically must provide reasonable notice before entering a tenant's rented premises, except in cases of emergency.
* The Right to Non-Discrimination: [[Fair housing laws]] prohibit landlords from discriminating against potential or current tenants based on protected characteristics such as race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, or disability.
* The Right to Due Process in Eviction: Landlords must follow legal procedures when seeking to remove a tenant from a property, including providing proper notice and the opportunity for the tenant to respond in court. [[Self-help evictions]], such as changing locks without a court order, are generally illegal.
* The Right to the Return of Security Deposit (with lawful deductions): Tenants are entitled to receive their [[security deposit]] back after moving out, minus any amounts lawfully deducted for damages beyond normal wear and tear or unpaid rent, as outlined by law.
* The Right to a Safe Environment: Landlords have a responsibility to take reasonable measures to ensure the safety and security of the property, particularly in multi-unit dwellings.
Responsibilities of Tenants
Alongside their rights, tenants also have several key responsibilities that they are obligated to fulfill under the [[lease agreement]] and by law:
* Paying Rent on Time: This is the primary obligation of the tenant. Rent must be paid in the amount and on the date specified in the lease agreement.
* Adhering to the Lease Agreement: Tenants are expected to comply with all terms and conditions outlined in the lease, such as rules regarding pets, noise levels, and subletting.
* Maintaining the Property: While landlords are responsible for major repairs, tenants are typically expected to keep the rented premises clean and in reasonable condition, preventing damage beyond normal wear and tear.
* Reporting Necessary Repairs: Tenants have a responsibility to promptly inform their landlords of any issues requiring repair to prevent further damage to the property.
* Respecting the Rights of Other Tenants: In multi-unit buildings, tenants are expected to be considerate of their neighbors and avoid creating disturbances.
* Using the Property for Legal Purposes: Tenants cannot use the rented property for illegal activities.
* Allowing Lawful Entry: Tenants must allow the landlord reasonable access to the property for necessary repairs or inspections, provided proper notice is given.
Importance of Understanding Rights and Responsibilities
A clear understanding of their rights and responsibilities is crucial for tenants to ensure a positive and secure living or working situation. Familiarity with the terms of the [[lease agreement]] and relevant laws can help tenants advocate for themselves and avoid potential disputes with their landlords. Open communication with landlords and maintaining proper documentation, such as copies of the lease and records of communication, are also essential for a successful tenancy.

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Security Deposit

2025-05-03T02:12:16Z

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A ''Security Deposit'' is a sum of money paid by a [[tenant]] to a [[landlord]] at the beginning of a [[lease agreement]] as a financial safeguard for the landlord against potential damages to the [[real property]] beyond normal wear and tear, or failure by the tenant to fulfill the terms of the lease, such as unpaid rent. The purpose of the security deposit is to provide the landlord with a degree of financial protection without having to resort to immediate legal action for minor breaches of the agreement. Regulations regarding security deposits, including maximum amounts, allowable deductions, and return procedures, are often governed by state and local laws, which aim to balance the interests of both landlords and tenants.
Purpose and Allowable Deductions
The primary purpose of a security deposit is to cover legitimate costs incurred by the landlord due to the tenant's actions or inactions that violate the lease agreement. Generally, deductions from a security deposit are permitted for the following reasons:
* Unpaid rent: If the tenant leaves the property without paying all rent owed under the terms of the lease.
* Damage beyond normal wear and tear: This includes significant damage to the property caused by the tenant or their guests, such as broken windows, holes in walls, excessive staining, or damage to appliances that were in working order at the start of the tenancy. Normal wear and tear, which refers to the gradual deterioration of the property due to ordinary use (e.g., minor carpet fading, loose door handles), cannot be deducted from the security deposit.
* Cleaning costs beyond normal: If the tenant leaves the property in a condition that requires excessive cleaning beyond what would be reasonably expected after normal occupancy.
* Costs to repair or replace items: If the tenant removes or damages items that were part of the leased property, such as fixtures or appliances.
Landlords are typically [[not permitted]] to deduct from the security deposit for routine maintenance, repairs of pre-existing conditions, or damage resulting from normal wear and tear.
Regulations and Return
Most jurisdictions have specific laws outlining the handling and return of security deposits.

These regulations often include:
* Maximum Amount: Many states limit the amount a landlord can charge for a security deposit, often expressed as a multiple of the monthly rent (e.g., one or two months' rent).

* Separate Account: Some laws require landlords to hold security deposits in a separate bank account, sometimes even requiring the accrual and payment of interest to the tenant.

* Itemized Deduction Statement: When returning a portion or none of the security deposit, landlords are typically required to provide the tenant with a written itemized statement detailing the reasons for any deductions, along with supporting documentation such as repair bills.

* Timeframe for Return: Laws usually specify a timeframe within which the landlord must return the security deposit (or the remaining portion with an itemized statement) after the tenant has vacated the property and returned the keys. This timeframe can vary from a few weeks to a month.

* Consequences for Non-Compliance: Landlords who fail to comply with security deposit laws may face penalties, such as forfeiting the right to withhold any portion of the deposit or being liable for double or treble the amount wrongfully withheld.

Importance for Landlords and Tenants
Understanding the rules and regulations surrounding security deposits is crucial for both [[responsible landlords]] and tenants. For landlords, it provides financial protection against potential losses. For tenants, it ensures their money is handled fairly and that they are not unjustly charged for damages or routine maintenance. Clear communication and documentation, such as move-in and move-out condition reports with photographs, can help prevent disputes regarding security deposits. Tenants should always review the terms of the lease agreement regarding the security deposit and be aware of their rights under local law.

[[Category:Dictionary]]

Security Deposit

2025-05-03T02:10:14Z

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A ''Security Deposit'' is a sum of money paid by a [[tenant]] to a [[landlord]] at the beginning of a [[lease agreement]] as a financial safeguard for the landlord against potential damages to the [[real property]] beyond normal wear and tear, or failure by the tenant to fulfill the terms of the lease, such as unpaid rent. The purpose of the security deposit is to provide the landlord with a degree of financial protection without having to resort to immediate legal action for minor breaches of the agreement. Regulations regarding security deposits, including maximum amounts, allowable deductions, and return procedures, are often governed by state and local laws, which aim to balance the interests of both landlords and tenants.
Purpose and Allowable Deductions
The primary purpose of a security deposit is to cover legitimate costs incurred by the landlord due to the tenant's actions or inactions that violate the lease agreement. Generally, deductions from a security deposit are permitted for the following reasons:
* Unpaid rent: If the tenant leaves the property without paying all rent owed under the terms of the lease.
* Damage beyond normal wear and tear: This includes significant damage to the property caused by the tenant or their guests, such as broken windows, holes in walls, excessive staining, or damage to appliances that were in working order at the start of the tenancy. Normal wear and tear, which refers to the gradual deterioration of the property due to ordinary use (e.g., minor carpet fading, loose door handles), cannot be deducted from the security deposit.
* Cleaning costs beyond normal: If the tenant leaves the property in a condition that requires excessive cleaning beyond what would be reasonably expected after normal occupancy.
* Costs to repair or replace items: If the tenant removes or damages items that were part of the leased property, such as fixtures or appliances.
Landlords are typically [[not permitted]] to deduct from the security deposit for routine maintenance, repairs of pre-existing conditions, or damage resulting from normal wear and tear.
Regulations and Return
Most jurisdictions have specific laws outlining the handling and return of security deposits. These regulations often include:
* Maximum Amount: Many states limit the amount a landlord can charge for a security deposit, often expressed as a multiple of the monthly rent (e.g., one or two months' rent).
* Separate Account: Some laws require landlords to hold security deposits in a separate bank account, sometimes even requiring the accrual and payment of interest to the tenant.
* Itemized Deduction Statement: When returning a portion or none of the security deposit, landlords are typically required to provide the tenant with a written itemized statement detailing the reasons for any deductions, along with supporting documentation such as repair bills.
* Timeframe for Return: Laws usually specify a timeframe within which the landlord must return the security deposit (or the remaining portion with an itemized statement) after the tenant has vacated the property and returned the keys. This timeframe can vary from a few weeks to a month.
* Consequences for Non-Compliance: Landlords who fail to comply with security deposit laws may face penalties, such as forfeiting the right to withhold any portion of the deposit or being liable for double or treble the amount wrongfully withheld.
Importance for Landlords and Tenants
Understanding the rules and regulations surrounding security deposits is crucial for both [[responsible landlords]] and tenants. For landlords, it provides financial protection against potential losses. For tenants, it ensures their money is handled fairly and that they are not unjustly charged for damages or routine maintenance. Clear communication and documentation, such as move-in and move-out condition reports with photographs, can help prevent disputes regarding security deposits. Tenants should always review the terms of the lease agreement regarding the security deposit and be aware of their rights under local law.
[[Category:Dictionary]]

Lease agreement

2025-05-03T02:02:53Z

SingleChristian1:

A Lease Agreement, also known as a rental agreement or lease contract, is a legally binding written contract between a [[landlord]] (the owner of the property) and [[tenants]] (the party renting the property). This crucial document outlines the terms and conditions under which the tenant can occupy and use the [[real property]] for a specified period. A well-drafted Lease Agreement is essential for establishing clear expectations and protecting the rights and responsibilities of both the landlord and the tenant, helping to prevent potential disputes throughout the tenancy.
Key Components
A comprehensive Lease Agreement typically includes the following essential elements:
* Identification of Parties: Clearly states the full names of the landlord and all tenants who will be residing on the property.
* Description of the Property: Provides a detailed address and description of the rented premises, ensuring there is no ambiguity about the specific property being leased. This may include apartment numbers, specific units within a building, or the boundaries of a house and its grounds.
* Term of the Tenancy: Specifies the duration of the rental period, including the start and end dates. Leases can be for a fixed term (e.g., one year) or month-to-month.
* Rent Amount and Payment Terms: Clearly states the amount of rent due, the frequency of payment (e.g., monthly), the due date, acceptable methods of payment, and any penalties for late payments.
* [[Security Deposit]] Information: Details the amount of the security deposit required, the conditions under which it can be used (e.g., to cover damages beyond normal wear and tear or unpaid rent), and the procedure for its return at the end of the tenancy, in accordance with local laws.
* Utilities and Services: Specifies which utilities (e.g., water, gas, electricity, trash removal) are the responsibility of the landlord and which are the responsibility of the tenant. It may also outline any services provided by the landlord, such as landscaping or maintenance.
* [[Repairs]] and Maintenance: Outlines the responsibilities of both the landlord and the tenant regarding repairs and general [[property maintenance]]. Typically, the landlord is responsible for structural repairs and maintaining essential systems, while the tenant is responsible for keeping the premises clean and reporting any necessary repairs promptly.
* Rules and Regulations: May include specific rules and regulations for the property, such as policies on pets, smoking, noise levels, parking, and use of common areas. These rules are intended to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for all residents.
* Entry to the Property: Specifies the conditions under which the landlord may enter the rented premises, typically requiring reasonable notice except in cases of emergency.
* Subletting and Assignment: Outlines whether the tenant is permitted to sublet the property to another party or assign the lease to someone else, and if so, under what conditions.
* Consequences of Breach of Contract: Details the actions that can be taken by either party if the other violates the terms of the Lease Agreement, including potential [[evictions]] for the tenant or legal action by the tenant if the landlord fails to meet their obligations.
* Renewal Options (if applicable): If the lease has a fixed term, it may outline any options for renewal and the process for doing so.
* Governing Law: Specifies the jurisdiction whose laws will govern the interpretation and enforcement of the Lease Agreement.
* Signatures: The Lease Agreement must be signed and dated by both the landlord and all tenants to be legally binding.
Importance and Considerations
A well-written and thoroughly reviewed Lease Agreement is crucial for a smooth and legally sound tenancy. It provides a clear framework for the relationship between the landlord and the tenant, minimizing the potential for misunderstandings and disputes. Tenants should carefully read and understand all the terms before signing, and landlords should ensure their leases comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws, including [[fair housing laws]]. Any ambiguities or unclear language in the Lease Agreement can lead to disagreements later on. It is often advisable for both parties to seek legal counsel to review a Lease Agreement, especially for complex or commercial properties.

Lease agreement

2025-05-03T02:01:40Z

SingleChristian1:

A Lease Agreement, also known as a rental agreement or lease contract, is a legally binding written contract between a [[landlord]] (the owner of the property) and a [[tenant]] (the party renting the property). This crucial document outlines the terms and conditions under which the tenant can occupy and use the [[real property]] for a specified period. A well-drafted Lease Agreement is essential for establishing clear expectations and protecting the rights and responsibilities of both the landlord and the tenant, helping to prevent potential disputes throughout the tenancy.
Key Components
A comprehensive Lease Agreement typically includes the following essential elements:
* Identification of Parties: Clearly states the full names of the landlord and all tenants who will be residing on the property.
* Description of the Property: Provides a detailed address and description of the rented premises, ensuring there is no ambiguity about the specific property being leased. This may include apartment numbers, specific units within a building, or the boundaries of a house and its grounds.
* Term of the Tenancy: Specifies the duration of the rental period, including the start and end dates. Leases can be for a fixed term (e.g., one year) or month-to-month.
* Rent Amount and Payment Terms: Clearly states the amount of rent due, the frequency of payment (e.g., monthly), the due date, acceptable methods of payment, and any penalties for late payments.
* [[Security Deposit]] Information: Details the amount of the security deposit required, the conditions under which it can be used (e.g., to cover damages beyond normal wear and tear or unpaid rent), and the procedure for its return at the end of the tenancy, in accordance with local laws.
* Utilities and Services: Specifies which utilities (e.g., water, gas, electricity, trash removal) are the responsibility of the landlord and which are the responsibility of the tenant. It may also outline any services provided by the landlord, such as landscaping or maintenance.
* [[Repairs]] and Maintenance: Outlines the responsibilities of both the landlord and the tenant regarding repairs and general [[property maintenance]]. Typically, the landlord is responsible for structural repairs and maintaining essential systems, while the tenant is responsible for keeping the premises clean and reporting any necessary repairs promptly.
* Rules and Regulations: May include specific rules and regulations for the property, such as policies on pets, smoking, noise levels, parking, and use of common areas. These rules are intended to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for all residents.
* Entry to the Property: Specifies the conditions under which the landlord may enter the rented premises, typically requiring reasonable notice except in cases of emergency.
* Subletting and Assignment: Outlines whether the tenant is permitted to sublet the property to another party or assign the lease to someone else, and if so, under what conditions.
* Consequences of Breach of Contract: Details the actions that can be taken by either party if the other violates the terms of the Lease Agreement, including potential [[evictions]] for the tenant or legal action by the tenant if the landlord fails to meet their obligations.
* Renewal Options (if applicable): If the lease has a fixed term, it may outline any options for renewal and the process for doing so.
* Governing Law: Specifies the jurisdiction whose laws will govern the interpretation and enforcement of the Lease Agreement.
* Signatures: The Lease Agreement must be signed and dated by both the landlord and all tenants to be legally binding.
Importance and Considerations
A well-written and thoroughly reviewed Lease Agreement is crucial for a smooth and legally sound tenancy. It provides a clear framework for the relationship between the landlord and the tenant, minimizing the potential for misunderstandings and disputes. Tenants should carefully read and understand all the terms before signing, and landlords should ensure their leases comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws, including [[fair housing laws]]. Any ambiguities or unclear language in the Lease Agreement can lead to disagreements later on. It is often advisable for both parties to seek legal counsel to review a Lease Agreement, especially for complex or commercial properties.

Lease agreement

2025-05-03T02:00:49Z

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Lease Agreement
A Lease Agreement, also known as a rental agreement or lease contract, is a legally binding written contract between a [[landlord]] (the owner of the property) and a [[tenant]] (the party renting the property). This crucial document outlines the terms and conditions under which the tenant can occupy and use the [[real property]] for a specified period. A well-drafted Lease Agreement is essential for establishing clear expectations and protecting the rights and responsibilities of both the landlord and the tenant, helping to prevent potential disputes throughout the tenancy.
Key Components
A comprehensive Lease Agreement typically includes the following essential elements:
* Identification of Parties: Clearly states the full names of the landlord and all tenants who will be residing on the property.
* Description of the Property: Provides a detailed address and description of the rented premises, ensuring there is no ambiguity about the specific property being leased. This may include apartment numbers, specific units within a building, or the boundaries of a house and its grounds.
* Term of the Tenancy: Specifies the duration of the rental period, including the start and end dates. Leases can be for a fixed term (e.g., one year) or month-to-month.
* Rent Amount and Payment Terms: Clearly states the amount of rent due, the frequency of payment (e.g., monthly), the due date, acceptable methods of payment, and any penalties for late payments.
* [[Security Deposit]] Information: Details the amount of the security deposit required, the conditions under which it can be used (e.g., to cover damages beyond normal wear and tear or unpaid rent), and the procedure for its return at the end of the tenancy, in accordance with local laws.
* Utilities and Services: Specifies which utilities (e.g., water, gas, electricity, trash removal) are the responsibility of the landlord and which are the responsibility of the tenant. It may also outline any services provided by the landlord, such as landscaping or maintenance.
* [[Repairs]] and Maintenance: Outlines the responsibilities of both the landlord and the tenant regarding repairs and general [[property maintenance]]. Typically, the landlord is responsible for structural repairs and maintaining essential systems, while the tenant is responsible for keeping the premises clean and reporting any necessary repairs promptly.
* Rules and Regulations: May include specific rules and regulations for the property, such as policies on pets, smoking, noise levels, parking, and use of common areas. These rules are intended to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for all residents.
* Entry to the Property: Specifies the conditions under which the landlord may enter the rented premises, typically requiring reasonable notice except in cases of emergency.
* Subletting and Assignment: Outlines whether the tenant is permitted to sublet the property to another party or assign the lease to someone else, and if so, under what conditions.
* Consequences of Breach of Contract: Details the actions that can be taken by either party if the other violates the terms of the Lease Agreement, including potential [[evictions]] for the tenant or legal action by the tenant if the landlord fails to meet their obligations.
* Renewal Options (if applicable): If the lease has a fixed term, it may outline any options for renewal and the process for doing so.
* Governing Law: Specifies the jurisdiction whose laws will govern the interpretation and enforcement of the Lease Agreement.
* Signatures: The Lease Agreement must be signed and dated by both the landlord and all tenants to be legally binding.
Importance and Considerations
A well-written and thoroughly reviewed Lease Agreement is crucial for a smooth and legally sound tenancy. It provides a clear framework for the relationship between the landlord and the tenant, minimizing the potential for misunderstandings and disputes. Tenants should carefully read and understand all the terms before signing, and landlords should ensure their leases comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws, including [[fair housing laws]]. Any ambiguities or unclear language in the Lease Agreement can lead to disagreements later on. It is often advisable for both parties to seek legal counsel to review a Lease Agreement, especially for complex or commercial properties.

Tenants

2025-05-03T01:59:10Z

SingleChristian1:

Tenants are individuals or entities who rent or lease [[real property]], such as houses, apartments, or commercial buildings, from [[landlord]]s. This arrangement allows individuals and businesses to occupy and utilize property without the full financial commitment and responsibilities of ownership. The relationship between tenants and landlords is typically governed by a legally binding [[lease agreement]], which outlines the rights and obligations of both parties.
Responsibilities and Rights
Tenants have several key responsibilities as outlined in their lease agreement and by law. These often include:
* Paying rent on time: This is the primary obligation of a tenant, ensuring the landlord receives the agreed-upon payment by the due date. Consistent and timely rent payments are crucial for maintaining a positive landlord-tenant relationship.
* Adhering to the lease agreement: Tenants are expected to abide by all terms and conditions outlined in the lease, such as restrictions on pets, noise levels, or subletting.
* Maintaining the property: While landlords are generally responsible for major [[property maintenance]] and [[repairs]], tenants are typically expected to keep the rented premises clean and in reasonable condition, preventing damage beyond normal wear and tear.
* Respecting the rights of other tenants: In multi-unit dwellings, tenants have a responsibility to be considerate of their neighbors, minimizing noise and disturbances.
* Reporting necessary repairs: Tenants should promptly inform their landlords of any issues requiring repair to prevent further damage to the property.
Correspondingly, tenants possess certain rights, including:
* The right to a habitable property: Landlords are legally obligated to provide and maintain a safe and healthy living environment, ensuring essential utilities are functioning and the property meets basic housing standards.
* The right to privacy: Landlords generally must provide reasonable notice before entering a tenant's rented premises, except in cases of emergency.
* The right to the return of their [[security deposit]] (with lawful deductions): Upon moving out, tenants are entitled to receive their security deposit back, minus any amounts lawfully deducted for damages beyond normal wear and tear or unpaid rent.
* The right to fair treatment: Tenants are protected by [[fair housing laws]], which prohibit discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability.
* The right to due process in [[evictions]]: Landlords must follow legal procedures when seeking to evict a tenant, providing proper notice and the opportunity for the tenant to respond in court.
Importance and Considerations
Tenants play a vital role in the housing and commercial markets. Renting provides flexibility for individuals and businesses, allowing them to adapt to changing circumstances without the long-term commitment of ownership. For many, especially those starting out in their careers or relocating, renting is a more accessible and practical housing option. The collective rent paid by tenants supports landlords in maintaining properties and contributing to the broader economy.
However, tenants can also face challenges, such as:
* Rent increases: Depending on market conditions and lease terms, tenants may experience increases in their rent over time.
* Limited control over the property: Unlike homeowners, tenants generally cannot make significant alterations or improvements to the property without the landlord's permission.
* Potential for disputes with landlords: Disagreements can arise regarding [[repairs]], lease interpretations, or the return of [[security deposits]]. Clear communication and understanding of the [[lease agreement]] are crucial in mitigating such issues.
* Vulnerability to [[evictions]]: Tenants who fail to meet their obligations under the lease can face [[evictions]], which can have significant consequences.
Understanding their rights and responsibilities is paramount for tenants to ensure a positive and secure living or working situation. Open communication with landlords and a thorough understanding of the [[lease agreement]] are key to a successful tenancy.

[[Category:Dictionary]]

Tenants

2025-05-03T01:58:00Z

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Tenants are individuals or entities who rent or lease [[real property]], such as houses, apartments, or commercial buildings, from [[landlords]]. This arrangement allows individuals and businesses to occupy and utilize property without the full financial commitment and responsibilities of ownership. The relationship between tenants and landlords is typically governed by a legally binding [[lease agreement]], which outlines the rights and obligations of both parties.
Responsibilities and Rights
Tenants have several key responsibilities as outlined in their lease agreement and by law. These often include:
* Paying rent on time: This is the primary obligation of a tenant, ensuring the landlord receives the agreed-upon payment by the due date. Consistent and timely rent payments are crucial for maintaining a positive landlord-tenant relationship.
* Adhering to the lease agreement: Tenants are expected to abide by all terms and conditions outlined in the lease, such as restrictions on pets, noise levels, or subletting.
* Maintaining the property: While landlords are generally responsible for major [[property maintenance]] and [[repairs]], tenants are typically expected to keep the rented premises clean and in reasonable condition, preventing damage beyond normal wear and tear.
* Respecting the rights of other tenants: In multi-unit dwellings, tenants have a responsibility to be considerate of their neighbors, minimizing noise and disturbances.
* Reporting necessary repairs: Tenants should promptly inform their landlords of any issues requiring repair to prevent further damage to the property.
Correspondingly, tenants possess certain rights, including:
* The right to a habitable property: Landlords are legally obligated to provide and maintain a safe and healthy living environment, ensuring essential utilities are functioning and the property meets basic housing standards.
* The right to privacy: Landlords generally must provide reasonable notice before entering a tenant's rented premises, except in cases of emergency.
* The right to the return of their [[security deposit]] (with lawful deductions): Upon moving out, tenants are entitled to receive their security deposit back, minus any amounts lawfully deducted for damages beyond normal wear and tear or unpaid rent.
* The right to fair treatment: Tenants are protected by [[fair housing laws]], which prohibit discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability.
* The right to due process in [[evictions]]: Landlords must follow legal procedures when seeking to evict a tenant, providing proper notice and the opportunity for the tenant to respond in court.
Importance and Considerations
Tenants play a vital role in the housing and commercial markets. Renting provides flexibility for individuals and businesses, allowing them to adapt to changing circumstances without the long-term commitment of ownership. For many, especially those starting out in their careers or relocating, renting is a more accessible and practical housing option. The collective rent paid by tenants supports landlords in maintaining properties and contributing to the broader economy.
However, tenants can also face challenges, such as:
* Rent increases: Depending on market conditions and lease terms, tenants may experience increases in their rent over time.
* Limited control over the property: Unlike homeowners, tenants generally cannot make significant alterations or improvements to the property without the landlord's permission.
* Potential for disputes with landlords: Disagreements can arise regarding [[repairs]], lease interpretations, or the return of [[security deposits]]. Clear communication and understanding of the [[lease agreement]] are crucial in mitigating such issues.
* Vulnerability to [[evictions]]: Tenants who fail to meet their obligations under the lease can face [[evictions]], which can have significant consequences.
Understanding their rights and responsibilities is paramount for tenants to ensure a positive and secure living or working situation. Open communication with landlords and a thorough understanding of the [[lease agreement]] are key to a successful tenancy.

[[Category:Dictionary]]

Landlord

2025-05-03T01:56:39Z

SingleChristian1:

Landlords are individuals or entities who own [[real property]], such as houses, apartments, or commercial buildings, and rent or lease that property to others, known as [[tenants]]. The act of renting property is a fundamental aspect of the [[free market]] and allows individuals and families to access housing and businesses to utilize commercial spaces without the full financial burden of ownership. Landlords provide a valuable service by making properties available for rent, thereby contributing to the overall housing and economic infrastructure.
Responsibilities and Rights
Landlords have several key responsibilities to their tenants, typically outlined in a legally binding [[lease agreement]]. These responsibilities often include:
* Maintaining a habitable property: Ensuring the property meets basic safety and health standards, including working plumbing, heating, and electrical systems. This often involves performing necessary [[repairs]] and general [[property maintenance]].
* Providing essential services: Ensuring access to utilities such as water and sometimes other services depending on the lease agreement.
* Respecting tenant privacy: Landlords generally must provide reasonable notice before entering a rented property, except in cases of emergency.
* Managing security deposits: Collecting and holding [[security deposits]] according to state and local laws, and returning them to tenants with any lawful deductions after they move out.
* Adhering to fair housing laws: Landlords are prohibited from discriminating against potential or current tenants based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability.
Alongside their responsibilities, landlords also possess certain rights, including:
* Receiving rent payments on time: Tenants are obligated to pay rent as agreed in the lease.
* Enforcing the lease agreement: Landlords can take action if tenants violate the terms of the lease, such as keeping pets if prohibited or causing significant property damage.
* Setting reasonable rules and regulations: Landlords can establish rules for the property to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for all tenants.
* Entering the property under lawful circumstances: With proper notice or in emergencies, landlords have the right to access the property.
* Initiating eviction proceedings: If a tenant fails to pay rent or violates the lease terms, landlords can pursue legal action to evict them.
Economic Role
Landlords play a significant role in the economy. They provide housing options for a diverse range of individuals and families, including those who may not be ready or able to purchase a home. This flexibility is crucial for a dynamic workforce and allows people to move for job opportunities or other reasons without the ties of homeownership. Furthermore, landlords invest in and maintain properties, contributing to the upkeep of communities and providing business for [[contractors]] and [[property management]] companies. The rental income generated by landlords is also a part of the broader economic activity.
Criticisms and Considerations
While providing a necessary service, landlords have also faced criticism. Some common criticisms include:
* Rent seeking: The argument that landlords generate income simply by owning property, without necessarily producing goods or services of equivalent value.
* Potential for exploitation: Concerns that some landlords may take advantage of high demand or vulnerable tenants by charging excessive rent or neglecting necessary repairs.
* Impact on housing affordability: In some markets, the presence of landlords and rental properties can be seen as contributing to rising housing costs, making it more difficult for individuals to afford to live in certain areas.
* Eviction practices: Criticism sometimes arises regarding the reasons for and processes involved in [[evictions]], particularly when tenants face hardship.
It is important to note that the vast majority of landlords operate ethically and responsibly, providing a valuable service while adhering to legal requirements. However, like any sector, the rental market can be subject to issues that warrant attention and regulation to ensure fairness for both landlords and tenants. Responsible [[tenant screening]] and clear communication are essential for a positive landlord-tenant relationship.

[[Category:Dictionary]]

Landlord

2025-05-03T01:56:04Z

SingleChristian1: New article

Landlords
[[Landlords]] are individuals or entities who own [[real property]], such as houses, apartments, or commercial buildings, and rent or lease that property to others, known as [[tenants]]. The act of renting property is a fundamental aspect of the [[free market]] and allows individuals and families to access housing and businesses to utilize commercial spaces without the full financial burden of ownership. Landlords provide a valuable service by making properties available for rent, thereby contributing to the overall housing and economic infrastructure.
Responsibilities and Rights
Landlords have several key responsibilities to their tenants, typically outlined in a legally binding [[lease agreement]]. These responsibilities often include:
* Maintaining a habitable property: Ensuring the property meets basic safety and health standards, including working plumbing, heating, and electrical systems. This often involves performing necessary [[repairs]] and general [[property maintenance]].
* Providing essential services: Ensuring access to utilities such as water and sometimes other services depending on the lease agreement.
* Respecting tenant privacy: Landlords generally must provide reasonable notice before entering a rented property, except in cases of emergency.
* Managing security deposits: Collecting and holding [[security deposits]] according to state and local laws, and returning them to tenants with any lawful deductions after they move out.
* Adhering to fair housing laws: Landlords are prohibited from discriminating against potential or current tenants based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability.
Alongside their responsibilities, landlords also possess certain rights, including:
* Receiving rent payments on time: Tenants are obligated to pay rent as agreed in the lease.
* Enforcing the lease agreement: Landlords can take action if tenants violate the terms of the lease, such as keeping pets if prohibited or causing significant property damage.
* Setting reasonable rules and regulations: Landlords can establish rules for the property to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for all tenants.
* Entering the property under lawful circumstances: With proper notice or in emergencies, landlords have the right to access the property.
* Initiating eviction proceedings: If a tenant fails to pay rent or violates the lease terms, landlords can pursue legal action to evict them.
Economic Role
Landlords play a significant role in the economy. They provide housing options for a diverse range of individuals and families, including those who may not be ready or able to purchase a home. This flexibility is crucial for a dynamic workforce and allows people to move for job opportunities or other reasons without the ties of homeownership. Furthermore, landlords invest in and maintain properties, contributing to the upkeep of communities and providing business for [[contractors]] and [[property management]] companies. The rental income generated by landlords is also a part of the broader economic activity.
Criticisms and Considerations
While providing a necessary service, landlords have also faced criticism. Some common criticisms include:
* Rent seeking: The argument that landlords generate income simply by owning property, without necessarily producing goods or services of equivalent value.
* Potential for exploitation: Concerns that some landlords may take advantage of high demand or vulnerable tenants by charging excessive rent or neglecting necessary repairs.
* Impact on housing affordability: In some markets, the presence of landlords and rental properties can be seen as contributing to rising housing costs, making it more difficult for individuals to afford to live in certain areas.
* Eviction practices: Criticism sometimes arises regarding the reasons for and processes involved in [[evictions]], particularly when tenants face hardship.
It is important to note that the vast majority of landlords operate ethically and responsibly, providing a valuable service while adhering to legal requirements. However, like any sector, the rental market can be subject to issues that warrant attention and regulation to ensure fairness for both landlords and tenants. Responsible [[tenant screening]] and clear communication are essential for a positive landlord-tenant relationship.

[[Category:Dictionary]]

Digg Patriots

2025-04-26T20:53:25Z

SingleChristian1:

The '''Digg Patriots''', also known as the DPs, are a group of around 100 [[conservative]]s and [[Tea Party]] members, who were active on the social media site Digg.com, as well as other sites across the [[Internet]].<ref>[http://blogs.alternet.org/oleoleolson/2010/08/05/massive-censorship-of-digg-uncovered/ Original story from Alternet]</ref> At Digg.com, they allegedly engaged in active censorship of posts, burying or voting down any post they perceived as being [[liberal]], or progressive; upvote padding; conspiring to have liberal or moderate editors banned, while running multiple accounts in order to circumvent blocks received by their own members, known as [[conservapedia:sockpuppet|sockpuppetry]].<ref>[http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/10/15/digg-patriots-censorship-part-2-the-evidence/ News Junkie Post - names and shames members, with evidence]</ref>

Their actions were exposed after a year-long investigation, leading to most members being banned. They have since appeared to move to their own website, [http://anonym.to/?http://www.politicollision.com Politicollision].

==See also==
*[[Hacktivism]]
*[[Hypocrisy]]
*[[Jewish Internet Defense Force]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Hacktivism]]

2025-04-23T17:34:24Z

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[[File:Reddit logo and wordmark.svg.png|thumbnail|Reddit's trademark]]
'''Reddit''' is a [[social media]] website dominated by [[internet]] [[troll]]s. Like flypaper, Reddit attracts the trolls and holds them there so that other internet sites can be educational and enjoyable.

Reddit users submit content and vote submissions "up" or "down" to determine their position on the pages of the site. These votes give a user 'Karma', one for links and one for comments. The best content would reach the front page, hence the slogan "the front page of the internet." Reddit was a defining representation of democratization of culture and promoting the free flow of knowledge across the net. As the site grew and new CEOs took over, free speech became a casualty. Content and groups have been deleted by corporate management, this has generated a loud backlash. The [[Chinese]] company Tencent has a 10% stake in the company, and this results in anything mentioning the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]] or rightfully blaming China for [[COVID-19]] being banned, and allows racist subreddits such as r/Sino to thrive.

Unlike other social media sites, the user page consists largely of previous posts and comments, no detailed user information, no avatar, no real names requirement, no friends list, no bio.

Nearly all social media sites are created/owned by [[liberal]]s and Reddit is no different. Unlike [[Twitter]] where there is a large [[conservative]] user population, the exact opposite can be said of Reddit. While there is a small conservative following, their posts are downvoted by liberals.

In an interview with the New Yorker, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admitted their ability to manipulate public opinion: “I’m confident that Reddit could sway elections,” Huffman told reporter Andrew Marantz, lamenting the 2016 election of Donald Trump. “We wouldn’t do it, of course. And I don’t know how many times we could get away with it. But, if we really wanted to, I’m sure Reddit could have swayed at least this election, this once.”<ref>https://bgr.com/2018/03/12/reddit-election-interference-steve-huffman-interview/</ref>

==Subreddits==
Reddit is organized into "subreddits", each for a subject or area of interest, where users submit their content. There are currently 50 default subreddits which automatically appear on the front page, but registered users can customize which subreddits they subscribe to and therefore which appear on their personal front page.

[[Reddit atheism]] subreddit is one of the largest, most active communities of [[atheist]]s on the internet. In 2013, it was removed from the default subreddit list for not being up to standards of the site.<ref>http://www.redditblog.com/2013/07/new-default-subreddits-omgomgomg.html</ref>

The website is awash in NSFW "Not safe for work" content. A quick search for subreddits of 'Pics' turns up group after group of porn, deviant fetishes, and nudity. So much so, younger people should not become a registered user.

==Gaming the system==
Reddit is hopelessly gamed. Rules are in place to prevent overzealous moderators and vote fixing but liberals easily circumvent this. Conservatives are subject to 'Downvote brigades'. This team effort leads to content not appearing popular. r/Politics subreddit is an example faking non-bias. Only liberal news content is allowed and removal of conservative content is the standard operating procedure.

During 2009, it was believed that the infamous [[Digg Patriots]] were actively engaging in censorship on the website by collectively banning liberal users and hiding liberal posts while promoting conservative posters. These actions were revealed in 2010, after a year long investigation leading to most of these users being banned from the service.

In August 2020 Reddit shut down in mid-livestream a broadcast by [[Bill Binney]]<ref>https://twitter.com/Burke4Senate/status/1298318463610560512</ref> related to the [[fake news]] allegation of Russian hacking of the [[DNC]] during the [[2016 presidential election]].<ref>https://twitter.com/StatusCoup/status/1135541638711906304</ref><ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/reddit-shuts-bill-binney-provides-evidence-refuting-russia-collusion-sham/</ref>

==Conservative subreddits==
Despite the overwhelming liberal bias on Reddit, there are a small number of subreddits a with conservative populations; such as r/Conservative and r/Republican.

However, many conservative subreddits have been [[censorship|censored]] by Reddit. r/pizzagate, was banned<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-23/reddit-bans-pizzagate-we-dont-want-witchhunts-our-site</ref> as well as r/The_Donald being unfairly banned for being "anti-police" after a [[Media_Matters_for_America|Media Matters]] hit piece was released. Recently, in 2020, r/Wuhan_Flu was quarantined, within 3 days of its creation.<ref>https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-subreddit-full-calls-violence-support-oregon-republicans. Oddly enough subreddits like R/Communism, R/Beholdthemasterrace and R/Fragilewhiteredditor, R/Fuckthealtright have not been banned and have thousands of followers dispite being hypocritical of reddits "anti harrassment policy." </ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/26/reddit-censors-the_donald-community-of-750000-trump-supporters/</ref><ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/the-donald-subreddit-quarantined/</ref><ref>http://archive.is/u61WC</ref>

On August 23 2021 a Reddit user made a post on the [[Marxism|Marxist]] subreddit r/vaxxhappened calling for Reddit to "take action against the rampant Coronavirus misinformation on their website".<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_call_upon_reddit_to_take_action_against_the</ref> What this Redditor meant by "take action" is for Reddit to censor views that opppose [[Vaccine_mandate|vaccine mandates]] and [[Covid_lockdown|totalitarian lockdowns]]. This post was reposted to hundreds of other subreddits resulting in Reddit making the decision on September 3 2021, influenced by Chinese oligarchs, to quarantine and ban dozens of [[freedom|pro-free speech]] subreddits such as r/NoNewNormal.<ref>https://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-bans-active-covid-misinformation-subreddit-nonewnormal/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/03/04/censor-happy-reddit-bans-links-to-russian-state-media/</ref>

There is also a spike in subreddits that claim to be conservative but will ban you for being too MAGA for reddit. r/stupidfuckingliberals for example will ban you for "preaching to the choir" (reminding people that Democrats are responsible for Jim Crow laws). Though their mod 1plus1equals8 claims to hate liberals, he may indeed be compromised by them.

==Capitalist subreddits==
Reddit is unique among social media conglomerates for the active community of pro-capitalist users who populate many subreddits such as r/anticomaction, r/anarcho_capitalism, r/greatmanchuria, and r/volunteerist_memes.

== See also ==

*[[R/CNNmemes]]
*[[Reddit atheism]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Liberal Companies]]
[[Category:Websites]]
[[Category:Online Social Networking]]

2025-04-23T17:21:46Z

SingleChristian1:

[[File:Reddit logo and wordmark.svg.png|thumbnail|Reddit's trademark]]
'''Reddit''' is a [[social media]] website dominated by [[internet]] [[troll]]s. Like flypaper, Reddit attracts the trolls and holds them there so that other internet sites can be educational and enjoyable.

Reddit users submit content and vote submissions "up" or "down" to determine their position on the pages of the site. These votes give a user 'Karma', one for links and one for comments. The best content would reach the front page, hence the slogan "the front page of the internet." Reddit was a defining representation of democratization of culture and promoting the free flow of knowledge across the net. As the site grew and new CEOs took over, free speech became a casualty. Content and groups have been deleted by corporate management, this has generated a loud backlash. The [[Chinese]] company Tencent has a 10% stake in the company, and this results in anything mentioning the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]] or rightfully blaming China for [[COVID-19]] being banned, and allows racist subreddits such as r/Sino to thrive.

Unlike other social media sites, the user page consists largely of previous posts and comments, no detailed user information, no avatar, no real names requirement, no friends list, no bio.

Nearly all social media sites are created/owned by [[liberal]]s and Reddit is no different. Unlike [[Twitter]] where there is a large [[conservative]] user population, the exact opposite can be said of Reddit. While there is a small conservative following, their posts are downvoted by liberals.

In an interview with the New Yorker, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admitted their ability to manipulate public opinion: “I’m confident that Reddit could sway elections,” Huffman told reporter Andrew Marantz, lamenting the 2016 election of Donald Trump. “We wouldn’t do it, of course. And I don’t know how many times we could get away with it. But, if we really wanted to, I’m sure Reddit could have swayed at least this election, this once.”<ref>https://bgr.com/2018/03/12/reddit-election-interference-steve-huffman-interview/</ref>

==Subreddits==
Reddit is organized into "subreddits", each for a subject or area of interest, where users submit their content. There are currently 50 default subreddits which automatically appear on the front page, but registered users can customize which subreddits they subscribe to and therefore which appear on their personal front page.

[[Reddit atheism]] subreddit is one of the largest, most active communities of [[atheist]]s on the internet. In 2013, it was removed from the default subreddit list for not being up to standards of the site.<ref>http://www.redditblog.com/2013/07/new-default-subreddits-omgomgomg.html</ref>

The website is awash in NSFW "Not safe for work" content. A quick search for subreddits of 'Pics' turns up group after group of porn, deviant fetishes, and nudity. So much so, younger people should not become a registered user.

==Gaming the system==
Reddit is hopelessly gamed. Rules are in place to prevent overzealous moderators and vote fixing but liberals easily circumvent this. Conservatives are subject to 'Downvote brigades'. This team effort leads to content not appearing popular. r/Politics subreddit is an example faking non-bias. Only liberal news content is allowed and removal of conservative content is the standard operating procedure.

During 2009, it was believed that the infamous [[Digg Patriots]] were actively engaging in censorship on the website by collectively banning liberal users and hiding liberal posts while promoting conservative posters. These actions were revealed in 2010, after a year long investigation leading to most of these users being banned from the service.

In August 2020 Reddit shut down in mid-livestream a broadcast by [[Bill Binney]]<ref>https://twitter.com/Burke4Senate/status/1298318463610560512</ref> related to the [[fake news]] allegation of Russian hacking of the [[DNC]] during the [[2016 presidential election]].<ref>https://twitter.com/StatusCoup/status/1135541638711906304</ref><ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/reddit-shuts-bill-binney-provides-evidence-refuting-russia-collusion-sham/</ref>

==Conservative subreddits==
Despite the overwhelming liberal bias on Reddit, there are a small number of subreddits a with conservative populations; such as r/Conservative and r/Republican.

However, many conservative subreddits have been [[censorship|censored]] by Reddit. r/pizzagate, was banned<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-23/reddit-bans-pizzagate-we-dont-want-witchhunts-our-site</ref> as well as r/The_Donald being unfairly banned for being "anti-police" after a [[Media_Matters_for_America|Media Matters]] hit piece was released. Recently, in 2020, r/Wuhan_Flu was quarantined, within 3 days of its creation.<ref>https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-subreddit-full-calls-violence-support-oregon-republicans. Oddly enough subreddits like R/Communism, R/Beholdthemasterrace and R/Fragilewhiteredditor, R/Fuckthealtright have not been banned and have thousands of followers dispite being hypocritical of reddits "anti harrassment policy." </ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/26/reddit-censors-the_donald-community-of-750000-trump-supporters/</ref><ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/the-donald-subreddit-quarantined/</ref><ref>http://archive.is/u61WC</ref>

On August 23 2021 a Reddit user made a post on the [[Marxism|Marxist]] subreddit r/vaxxhappened calling for Reddit to "take action against the rampant Coronavirus misinformation on their website".<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_call_upon_reddit_to_take_action_against_the</ref> What this Redditor meant by "take action" is for Reddit to censor views that opppose [[Vaccine_mandate|vaccine mandates]] and [[Covid_lockdown|totalitarian lockdowns]]. This post was reposted to hundreds of other subreddits resulting in Reddit making the decision on September 3 2021, influenced by Chinese oligarchs, to quarantine and ban dozens of [[freedom|pro-free speech]] subreddits such as r/NoNewNormal.<ref>https://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-bans-active-covid-misinformation-subreddit-nonewnormal/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/03/04/censor-happy-reddit-bans-links-to-russian-state-media/</ref>

There is also a spike in subreddits that claim to be conservative but will ban you for being too MAGA for reddit.

==Capitalist subreddits==
Reddit is unique among social media conglomerates for the active community of pro-capitalist users who populate many subreddits such as r/anticomaction, r/anarcho_capitalism, r/greatmanchuria, and r/volunteerist_memes.

== See also ==

*[[R/CNNmemes]]
*[[Reddit atheism]]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Liberal Companies]]
[[Category:Websites]]
[[Category:Online Social Networking]]

False flag

2024-07-14T19:30:58Z

SingleChristian1:

[[File:Sullivan infiltrates MAGA.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Anifa/BLM terrorist and CNN/NBC contractor [[John Sullivan]] disguised in [[MAGA]] gear during the [[J6 protests]].<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/CfIfOA1xzg6J/</ref>]]
A '''false flag''' operation is a covert or [[underground]] operation intended to appear as though it were being carried out by other entities. The purpose is [[propaganda]], to gain sympathy for the "attacked" and against the "attackers". The term originates from piracy on the high seas, where a pirate ship would sail under a "false flag" to get closer to a target vessel before raising the "[[Jolly Roger]]".

[[Nazi Germany]] carried out many such operations, such as the [[Reichstag fire]], in order to gain popularity and cement its control on the government. Another notable one backfired on them, however, the [[Gleiwitz Incident]] (an "attack" on a Nazi radio operation by other Nazis dressed as Polish soldiers, which was itself nothing more than a short anti-German broadcast, made believable by the [[Gestapo]]'s murder of a German who was sympathetic to the Polish, who was then dressed as a saboteur) would ultimately lead to [[World War II]].

Unfortunately there are bad actors who will claim that real attacks and threats were actually just false flags to boost
approval ratings, such as the [[September 11th attacks]] and the [[assassination attempt on Trump]]

==Signs of a false flag==
# Asks you to respond emotionally rather than intellectually.
# Strips the event of context, such as the contemporary factual setting, geopolitical reality, or historical awareness.
# Demands a rush to judgment before a diligent, independent inquiry occurs.
# Collectivizes judgment, by taking an individual event, and demands you blame an entire culture, religion, race, ancestry, community or country for it.
# The only explicable motive offered for the offending action is irrational evil or utterly stupid immorality, as it is against the rational interest of the offender to commit the act for the reasons alleged.

==Examples==
*[[Reichstag fire]]
*[[Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]]
*[[2021 Capitol insurrection]]

===False flag attacks in the Ukraine war===
{{See also|NATO war in Ukraine}}
====Ukraine missile attack on Poland====
[[File:FT Zelensky.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The globalist mouthpiece ''Financial Times'' of London, which led the world in spreading Russophobia and cheerleading for war, openly criticized Zelensky's lying about Ukraine's false flag attack on a NATO ally to incite direct NATO involvement with troops and risk global thermonuclear war.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-open-thread-2022-201.html</ref>]]
On November 15, 2022 two Ukrainian [[S-300]] missiles, alleged to have been launched to shoot down a Russian cruise missile, were fired westward and hit a Polish grain storage facility, killing two civilians. The [[Polish]] government, Ukrainian government, the ''[[Associated Press]]'',<ref>https://apnews.com/article/nato-ap-news-alert-europe-poland-government-and-politics-ba48101fd25c86e68e57dc56fe2adf80</ref> most of all Western propaganda media and so-called national security and intelligence experts called for invoking NATO Article 5.<ref>https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1592616431291535360</ref> Zelensky advisor [[Mykhailo Podolyak]] declared that the strikes came from Russia. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed Russian denials were a [[conspiracy theory]] and that “No one should buy Russian propaganda or amplify its messages."<ref>https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1592632386751434752?s=20&t=TtnVQsVODlidTZoknWqWpg</ref> Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] tweeted that the “Russian attack on collective security in the Euro-Atlantic is a significant escalation” of the conflict.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/kyiv-strikes-russia-zelensky-peace-intl/index.html</ref>

However an AWAC radar plane and other ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) aircraft regularly flying in the region, and ground radar, tracked the missiles' trajectory and determined the [[Kyiv regime]] had launched the missiles. That did not prevent an anonymous "senior U.S. intelligence official" from reporting to the ''Associated Press'' that Russia had fired the missiles at Poland. The [[fake news]] story was disseminated globally, as all fake news stories emanating from Kyiv, and its [[CIA]] counterparts in Kyiv, have been disseminated globally to world media for the entirety of 2022 and late 2021.

CNN broadcast a statement from [[Ukrainian Nazi]] propagandist Mykhailo Podolyak, “Russia has turned the eastern part of the European continent into an unpredictable battlefield. Intent, means of execution, risks, escalation – it is all coming from Russia alone. And there can be no other explanation for any missile incident here."<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/europe/poland-missile-russia-ukraine-investigation-wednesday-intl-hnk</ref>

When called out on the [[lie]]s, Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky doubled down.

====Bucha massacre====
{{See also|Bucha massacre}}
Evidence points to the [[Security Service of Ukraine]], in conjunction with UK [[MI6]], having committed the Bucha massacre.<ref>https://en.news-front.info/2022/04/03/whats-wrong-with-the-ukrainian-srebrenica-story/</ref>

Western media and the NATO allies [[coverup]] came unglued by their own investigation. A team of forensic investigators from Kyiv reported that dozens of civilians who died in the city of Bucha were killed by tiny metal arrows from shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) artillery.
[[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym brutalizing civilians, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]]
Pathologists and coroners who are carrying out postmortems on bodies found in mass graves in the region north of Kyiv said they found small metal darts, called fléchettes, embedded in people’s heads and chests. “We found several really thin, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women and so did others of my colleagues in the region,” Vladyslav Pirovskyi, a Ukrainian forensic doctor, told ''[[The Guardian]]''. “It is very hard to find those in the body, they are too thin. The majority of these bodies come from the Bucha-Irpin region.”

Independent weapons experts who reviewed pictures of the metal arrows found in the bodies confirmed that they were fléchettes, an anti-personnel weapon widely used during the first world war. These small metal darts are contained in tank or field gun shells. Each shell can contain up to 8,000 fléchettes. Once fired, shells burst when a timed fuse detonates and explodes above the ground.

“According to a number of witnesses in Bucha, fléchette rounds were fired by artillery a few days before Russian forces withdrew from the area at the end of March”, – ''The Guardian'' reported.<ref>https://youtu.be/MpSM-aiaxK4</ref> The same fléchettes were used by the AFU in 2014 in the [[Lugansk Peoples Republic]] (LPR) at the start of the Donbas war.
[[File:Reuters Izium fake news.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Reuters withdrew the initial attempt by the Zelensky regime to create another false narrative about alleged Russian massacres.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/ukraine-dissecting-some-war-propaganda-news-items-addendum.html</ref>]]
Fléchettes were not widely used during the [[Second World War]], but were brough back by the US during the [[Vietnam war]]. “Fléchettes are an anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation and to strike a large number of enemy soldiers,” according to Amnesty International. “They should never be used in built-up civilian areas.”<ref>https://southfront.org/bucha-investigation-contradicts-itself-confirms-afus-atrocities/</ref>

A team of 18 experts from the forensic department of France’s national gendarmerie, alongside a team of forensic investigators from Kyiv, have started documenting the situation after the re-occupation of Bucha by the SBU Safari force. “We are seeing a lot mutilated (disfigured) bodies,” said Pirovsky. “A lot of them had their hands tied behind their backs and shots in the back of their heads. There were also cases with automatic gunfire, like six to eight holes on the back of victims. And we have several cases of cluster bombs’ elements embedded in the bodies of the victims.”

Evidence collected by experts during a visit to Bucha, Hostomel and Borodianka, and reviewed by independent weapons experts, showed that cluster munitions and powerful unguided bombs were used in the region. They killed a large number of civilians and destroyed at least eight buildings. These types of weapons are banned by the Ottawa Convention, which Ukraine is party to. Illegal cluster munitions were discovered in Ukrainian weapons storage depots.

====Mass rapes====

Lyudmyla Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights, was fired when no evidence could be found of her allegations of 400 instances of mass rape by Russian soldiers.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-05-31/card/ukraine-s-parliament-dismisses-human-rights-chief-1kQWT7i0GHXyeqh6spRe</ref> 238 Members of Parliament voted her out. Denisova was accused of failing to perform her duties and in particular of spreading fake news and propaganda about atrocities supposedly committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. Such actions only served to tarnish Ukraine’s image, MPs have argued. Other complaints were that Denisova had failed to organize humanitarian corridors and POW exchanges.<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/rape-allegations-against-russian-troops-in-ukraine-were-fake.html#more</ref>

The fake news stories stemming from high ranking Ukrainian officials were widely disseminated by [[TIME magazine|''TIME'' magazine]], [[CNN]], ''[[Newsweek]]'' and other fake news sources.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-fires-human-rights-chief-perpetuating-russian-troop-systematic-rape-stories</ref>

==See also==
* [[Fourth generation warfare]]
*[[DARVO]]
*[[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]]
*[[Trump impeachment]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Fourth Generation Warfare]]
[[Category:War]]

Talk:Assassination attempts on Trump

2024-07-14T19:26:43Z

SingleChristian1:

We need a good picture of Trump fist pumping. Anybody got any? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|''The Truth. Just Putin It Out There'']]
*Tried to upload one, but the site doesn't like when you upload photos you didn't personally take [[User:SingleChristian1|SingleChristian1]] ([[User talk:SingleChristian1|talk]]) 15:26, July 14, 2024 (EDT)

== A bona fide video recording of the assassin? ==

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hscfQlBqDpw&t=25s Who Was Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20-Year-Old Shooter Accused Of Assassination Attempt On Donald Trump], Republic TV

A bona fide video recording of the assassin? Or is it a fake?

Republic TV is India's no.1 English news channel since its launch. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 05:29, July 14, 2024 (EDT)
::Twitter has a wider camera angle of the recorder: [https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1812350954907566569 Thomas Matthew Crooks says you got the wrong guy. Will post the real guy]. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 05:33, July 14, 2024 (EDT)
:::Revolver News: [https://revolver.news/2024/07/warning-graphic-photo-alleged-to-be-of-shooter-released-thomas-matthew-crooks/ NEWS WARNING: GRAPHIC photo released… FBI identifies Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, as the shooter].

:::"According to NBC: "Pennsylvania voter records listed a Thomas Matthew Crooks with the same address and birth date as a registered Republican, though it was not clear from the records when that was put in place. Federal Election Commission donor data also listed a Thomas Crooks of Pennsylvania as having $15 to ActBlue, a political action committee that backs Democrats, in June 2021."[https://x.com/mysteriouskat/status/1812363476591091832] [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 05:40, July 14, 2024 (EDT)

::::Oh good. You want to handle all this? I got some catching up to do in the [[foreign policy]] realm. Remember, the farther away you get from the event in time, the more difficult it is to resolve. Also, believe it or not, there are other editors available to help with researching and writing. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|''The Truth. Just Putin It Out There'']] 13:31, July 14, 2024 (EDT)
:::::The above video appears to be a prank: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3dn5f-K4GY Who Shot Donald Trump? Everything We Know About the Shooter].

:::::I am not researching this further. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 14:53, July 14, 2024 (EDT)

==Vilification of Trump==
Suggested: a compilation of such as this [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tlaib-trump-motherfucker-774901/ example].[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 15:08, July 14, 2024 (EDT)

Assassination attempts on Trump

2024-07-14T19:21:56Z

SingleChristian1: /* The shooter */Clarifying to avoid charges of false speculation

The '''Assassination attempt on President Donald Trump''' occurred in Butler, [[Pennsylvania]] on July 13, 2024, by a shooter named Thomas Matthew Crooks (not to be confused with the Thomas Crooks who donated to the democratic party when the shooter was still a minor). [[President Donald J. Trump]] was on stage at [[MAGA]] rally while campaigning for the [[2024 Presidential election]], and only minutes into his speech when the shooting began.

The shooter fired perhaps as many as 8 shots before being killed by authorities. Trump was injured by a bullet penetrating his right ear, but not his skull. An attendee died and two were seriously injured. Trump himself dropped down as he heard many bullets and was wounded by one, and then was quickly shielded by the Secret Service. As Trump stood up, he was then shielded by agents.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/assassination-attempt-trump-pennsylvania-rally-leaves-2-hurt-1-dead-including-shooter Assassination attempt on Trump at Pennsylvania rally leaves 2 hurt, 1 dead including shooter].
Former President Trump was quickly surrounded and escorted off stage by Secret Service personnel.
By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Brooke Singman, Lucas Y. Tomlinson. ''Fox News''
Published July 13, 2024 6:23pm EDT Updated July 13, 2024 9:08pm EDT</ref>

Trump strongly called out to all: 'fight' while pumping his fist several times.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/video/2024/07/13/trump-injured-after-shooting-at-pennsylvania-rally-1363421 Bloodied Trump fist pumps after shots fired at rally]
Politico, 07/13/2024 06:55 PM EDT</ref><ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/07/13/us-news/trump-pumps-fist-at-crowd-in-defiant-gesture-seconds-after-assassination-attempt/ Trump pumps fist at crowd in defiant gesture seconds after assassination attempt] NY Post.
By Chris Nesi
Published July 13, 2024, 7:56 p.m. ET</ref> Crowd the crowd chanted: 'USA!'

By only an inch in the path of the bullet that pierced his ear did Trump survive, by the grace of God.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/media/split-second-turn-trump-life-expert-god-watching Split-second turn could have saved Trump's life, expert says: 'God must have been watching down on' him]
Experts are questioning security loopholes leading up to and during the incident.
By Taylor Penley ''Fox News'', July 14, 2024 
''Hours after the incident, Cohen told Fox News' Trace Gallagher that, if the former president had not turned his head when the shot was fired, he would not have survived.
"God must have been watching down on the president," he said.''</ref>

Trump's assassination attempt was condemned by current and former political figures, left and right, the world over. The attack marks the first time a sitting or former US president was injured in an unsuccessful assassination attempt since [[Ronald Regan]] was shot in March 1981, over 43 years prior. After Reagan, Trump is the seventh US president to be subject to a successful or unsuccessful assassination attempt, the others being the failed attempt on [[Theodore Roosevelt]], and the succeeded attempts on [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[James A. Garfield]], [[William McKinley]] and [[John F. Kennedy]].

==Democrats attempt to remove Secret Service protection==
{{See also|2024 Presidential election interference}}
In April 2024 [[Democrat]]s introduced a bill in [[Congress]] to remove [[Secret Service]] protection from [[President Donald Trump]].<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/13/flashback-dems-pushed-bill-to-take-away-trumps-secret-service-detail/ Flashback: Dems Pushed Bill To Take Away Trump’s Secret Service Detail], WALLACE WHITE, ''[[Daily Caller]], July 13, 2024. dailycaller.com</ref> The bill's chief sponsor was Rep. [[Bennie Thompson]] who chaired the [[J6 witch hunt]]. Thompson has been under investigation by the House for destroying the J6 panel's files.

==Incitement leading to crime==
[[File:TurnoutPAC tweet hours before assassination attempt.jpeg|thumb|TurnoutPAC tweet hours before assassination attempt]]
The attempt came after years and moreso in recent weeks, [[the left]] and [[liberal media]] has been vilifying President Trump<ref>[https://mynorthwest.com/3965866/rantz-donald-trump-assassination-attempt-rhetoric-democrats/ Rantz: After failed Donald Trump assassination attempt, will you stop claiming he’s Hitler?], MyNorthwest. Jul 13, 2024, 7:10 PM</ref> as being supposedly a "danger to [[democracy]]." In 2023 [[Tucker Carlson]] commented on the all-pervasive Democrat [[hate]] in [[liberal media]]: "We are speeding towards assassination, obviously. No one will say that, but I don’t know how you can’t reach this conclusion."<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/4181123-tucker-carlson-were-speeding-toward-trump-assassination/mlite/ Tucker Carlson: ‘We’re speeding toward’ Trump assassination], BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO. ''[[The Hill]]'', 08/31/23. thehill.com</ref> A hot mic caught Journos joking about Trump being assassinated while attending a [[lawfare]] hearing in [[Washington, D.C.]] in January 2024.<ref>Tommy Christopher, [https://www.mediaite.com/news/hot-mic-catches-journos-laughing-and-joking-about-trump-being-assassinated-at-appeals-court/ Hot Mic Catches Journos Laughing and Joking About Trump Being Assassinated At Appeals Court], Mediate, Jan 9th, 2024. mediaite.com</ref> On July 7, 2024 some [[leftist]]s called him a "[[Hitler]]." After [[Democrat]] nominee [[Joe Biden]]'s disastrous debate performance and calls from his own party and the [[liberal media]] to resign,<ref>[https://archive.is/VXMfq#selection-5665.0-5727.12 The Almighty Calls for Biden], The Editorial Board, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', July 7, 2024.</ref> five days before an assassination attempt, Kenneth P. Vogel of ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that Biden told donors, "We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye."<ref>[https://archive.is/nmJdB Biden told donors on a private call this afternoon: “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”], Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel. x.com/kenvogel</ref><ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/13/report-biden-told-donors-it-was-time-to-put-trump-in-the-bullseye/ Report: Biden told Donors it was ‘Time to Put Trump in the Bullseye’'], ELIZABETH WEIBEL, [[Breitbart]]'', 13 Jul 2024. breitbart.com</ref><ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/biden-july-8-were-done-talking-about-debate/ Biden on July 8: ‘We’re Done Talking About the Debate, it’s Time to Put Trump in a Bullseye’], By Cassandra MacDonald, ''[[The Gateway Pundit]]'', Jul. 13, 2024. thegatewaypundit.com</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vswiX81IqhQ "Totally Irresponsible": Megyn Kelly Calls Out Biden Saying "Put Trump in a Bullseye" Days Ago], [[Megyn Kelly]], July 12, 2024. [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/flashback-5-days-ago-biden-said-put-trump-in-a-bullseye/ar-BB1pWbB1 Flashback: 5 Days Ago Biden Said 'Put Trump in a Bullseye'], by Jack Davis, ''The Western Journal, July 13, 2024. msn.com</ref><ref>[https://archive.is/XZ0RE Biden Threat ‘To Put Trump in a Bullseye’ Met With Shrugs, in Contrast With Firestorm Over Palin ‘Crosshairs’], DEAN KARAYANIS, ''New York Sun, July 10, 2024. nysun.com</ref>

Former US [[Attorney General]] [[Bill Barr]] [[tweet]]ed:<ref>[https://x.com/chicksonright/status/1812288720013570197]</ref>
<blockquote>The Democrats have to stop their grossly irresponsible talk about Trump being an existential threat to democracy - he is not.” </blockquote>

Commentators<ref>''Fox News'' Anchor Trace Gallagher, interviewing Kaylee McGhee White, Aaron Cohen on July 14, 2024. 1:20-1:35 ET [https://archive.ph/wip/IfxNE]</ref> brought up Democrats' reaction to [[2020 Marxist insurrection|Antifa 2020 violence]]. As well as violence at the anti-[[Israel]] riots ([[Oct 7 War]]) and most of the charges at [[Columbia University]] rioters [https://nypost.com/2024/06/25/opinion/answer-us-columbia-and-da-bragg-why-drop-rioters-charges/ dropped] by [[Alvin Bragg]], an elected [[Democrat]]; the reaction to the (Genocidal) "[https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/From-the-River-to-the-Sea From the river to the sea]."

''[[The Federalist]]'' asked, ''Do Democrats, Corporate Media Have Blood On Their Hands In Trump Attack?''<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/13/do-democrats-corporate-media-have-blood-on-their-hands-in-trump-attack/ Do Democrats, Corporate Media Have Blood On Their Hands In Trump Attack?], BY: M.D. KITTLE, ''[[The Federalist]]'', JULY 13, 2024. thefederalist.com</ref>

[[WSJ]]: 'Biden’s rhetoric grew heated in recent days.'<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/biden-s-rhetoric-grew-heated-in-recent-days-6TJnS6JhvZnJ6uYwK6bH Biden’s Rhetoric Grew Heated in Recent Days]
''WSJ'', 14 Jul 2024.</ref>

[[Daily Telegraph]]:<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/14/violent-rhetoric-in-poisoned-us-politics-made-attack-inevit/ Violent rhetoric in poisoned US politics made attack inevitable]. ''Daily Telegraph'', July 14, 2024.</ref>
"Nazi comparisons, which would be greeted with furious offence if they came the other way, have become commonplace among the Left."

==The shooter==
[[File:6693560eb6018-the-assailant-has-been-reportedly-identified-as-20-year-old-thomas-matthew-crooks-of-bethel-park--pe-143733406-16x9.jpeg|thumb|Suspected shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks]]
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks,<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/07/13/us-news/thomas-matthew-crooks-idd-as-gunman-who-shot-trump-during-pa-rally/ Thomas Matthew Crooks ID’d as gunman who shot Trump during Pa. rally].
By Joe Marino and Katherine Donlevy. ''[[NY Post]]''. Published July 13, 2024, 11:39 p.m. ET</ref><ref>[https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/donald-trump-assassination-bid-who-is-thomas-matthew-crooks-the-20-year-old-suspected-shooter-437085-2024-07-14 Donald Trump assassination bid: Who is Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old suspected shooter? Crooks' shots injured Trump, grazing his ear, and tragically claimed the life of an innocent bystander while critically wounding two others].</ref> a 20-year-old male from the Bethel Park, PA, was bear-crawling up the roof<ref>[https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/what-we-know-about-the-suspected-trump-rally-shooter/ What we know about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected Trump rally shooter]. Damita Menezes and Sean Noone, News Nation, 14 July 2024</ref> of an elevated structure a few hundred metres away outside the venue.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/trump-rally-shooting-distance/index.html Gunman was a few hundred feet away from Trump, CNN analysis shows] By [[CNN]] Staff, July 14, 2024</ref> Crooks had explosive devices in his car parked near the rally,<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/suspected-shooter-had-explosive-devices-in-his-car-sources-say-nqpDI2AqQQNtSvYtEpS9 Suspected Shooter Had Explosive Devices in His Car, Sources Say]. ''WSJ'' Jul 14, 2024</ref> showing he had an elaborated plan.

"According to the New York Times, federal campaign-finance records show" a Thomas Crooks (no middle name) "donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a [[liberal]] voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform [[ActBlue]] in January 2021."<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/trump-gunman-thomas-crooks.html Here’s What Is Known About the Suspected Gunman]. By Jack Healy, Mike Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Katie Benner. ''The New York Times'', July 14, 2024. Authorities identified the gunman as a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, a town about an hour’s drive from the site of the shooting.</ref> Whether or not this this is the same Thomas Crooks remains to be seen.

Hours before the incident, the aforementioned [[progressive]] ''TurnoutPAC'' tweeted about Trump supposedly "destroying Democracy."

Quote: ''It's simple people: Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and another four years of him would be detrimental to our country.'' The [[tweet]] was [https://archive.ph/VLCUd still left] even after the assassination.

==Trump's reaction==
[[File:Trump on Truthsocial right after assassination attempt.jpg|thumb|Trump on Truthsocial right after assassination attempt]]
President Trump's statement -- soon after -- on ''TruthSocial'' was:<ref>Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump ([https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112782066045321247]):
<blockquote>
I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!</blockquote></ref>
<blockquote>I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!</blockquote>

Later, Trump sent out an email:<ref>[https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/07/14/i-will-never-surrender-trump-says-after-assassination-attemp/ 'I will Never Surrender!' Trump says after assassination attempt]. Israel Hayom, Jul 14, 2024</ref><ref>[https://www.news18.com/world/donald-trump-assassination-attempt-will-never-surrender-says-ex-president-gets-call-from-biden-8965407.html Donald Trump Assassination Attempt: Will Never Surrender, Says Ex-President, Gets Call from Biden]. News18.com. July 14, 2024.

“THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM DONALD TRUMP," the brief email read. “I WILL NEVER SURRENDER!" The email signed off with his signature and portrait.</ref> 'I will Never Surrender!'

==Eric Trump reaction==
Donald Trump's son Eric reacted:<ref>[https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1812277876642951677]</ref>
"Never surrender!"

And:<ref>[https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1812277876642951677]</ref>

"This is the fighter America needs."

==World reaction==
[[Argentine]] conservative President [[Javier Milei]] posted his reaction on X:<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/07/13/argentinas-javier-milei-international-left-resort-terrorism-stop-trump/ Argentina’s Javier Milei: ‘International Left … Resort to Terrorism’ to Stop Trump], FRANCES MARTEL, ''[[Breitbart]]'', 13 Jul 2024. breitbart.com</ref>
{{Cquote|The desperation of the international left, that today sees how its nefarious [[ideology]] is expiring and is willing to destabilize democracies and promote [[violence]] to entrench itself in power, is not surprising. With panic upon losing at the ballot, they resort to [[terrorism]] to impose their retrograde and [[authoritarian]] agenda.}}
Milei posted a second message responding to a video of Democrat former Sen. [[Claire McCaskill]] of [[Missouri]] comparing President Trump to [[Adolf Hitler]] in a [[television]] appearance.
{{Cquote|The little [[politically correct]] [[leftist]]s are all cut from the same cloth, it doesn’t matter where in the world you look. When in [[society]] a deviant adjective appears, there they will be to label their opponents with that adjective… we have several of these sinister beings in the country who can count on their [[journalist]] accomplices.

Easy, look for the politicians that do this and the journalists who play their game. There you will find the true enemies of [[Liberty|LIBERTY]]. The cultural battle never stops. Long live liberty, damn it!}}
[[Russia]] called on the United States to "take stock" of its "policies of incitement to hatred," funding [[Ukrainian Nazi]]s.

==See also==
*[[Robert Fico]]
*[[Ronald Reagan]]
*[[Theodore Roosevelt|Teddy "Bullmoose" Roosevelt]]
*[[John F Kennedy]]
*[[Abraham Lincoln]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:United States Presidential Election, 2024]]
[[Category:Donald Trump]]
[[Category:United States History]]
[[Category:2020s]]

Assassination attempts on Trump

2024-07-14T19:07:10Z

SingleChristian1: Corrected misinformation

The '''Assassination attempt on President Donald Trump''' occurred in Butler, [[Pennsylvania]] on July 13, 2024, by a shooter named Thomas Matthew Crooks (not to be confused with the Thomas Crooks who donated to the democratic party when the shooter was still a minor). [[President Donald J. Trump]] was on stage at [[MAGA]] rally while campaigning for the [[2024 Presidential election]], and only minutes into his speech when the shooting began.

The shooter fired perhaps as many as 8 shots before being killed by authorities. Trump was injured by a bullet penetrating his right ear, but not his skull. An attendee died and two were seriously injured. Trump himself dropped down as he heard many bullets and was wounded by one, and then was quickly shielded by the Secret Service. As Trump stood up, he was then shielded by agents.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/assassination-attempt-trump-pennsylvania-rally-leaves-2-hurt-1-dead-including-shooter Assassination attempt on Trump at Pennsylvania rally leaves 2 hurt, 1 dead including shooter].
Former President Trump was quickly surrounded and escorted off stage by Secret Service personnel.
By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Brooke Singman, Lucas Y. Tomlinson. ''Fox News''
Published July 13, 2024 6:23pm EDT Updated July 13, 2024 9:08pm EDT</ref>

Trump strongly called out to all: 'fight' while pumping his fist several times.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/video/2024/07/13/trump-injured-after-shooting-at-pennsylvania-rally-1363421 Bloodied Trump fist pumps after shots fired at rally]
Politico, 07/13/2024 06:55 PM EDT</ref><ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/07/13/us-news/trump-pumps-fist-at-crowd-in-defiant-gesture-seconds-after-assassination-attempt/ Trump pumps fist at crowd in defiant gesture seconds after assassination attempt] NY Post.
By Chris Nesi
Published July 13, 2024, 7:56 p.m. ET</ref> Crowd the crowd chanted: 'USA!'

By only an inch in the path of the bullet that pierced his ear did Trump survive, by the grace of God.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/media/split-second-turn-trump-life-expert-god-watching Split-second turn could have saved Trump's life, expert says: 'God must have been watching down on' him]
Experts are questioning security loopholes leading up to and during the incident.
By Taylor Penley ''Fox News'', July 14, 2024 
''Hours after the incident, Cohen told Fox News' Trace Gallagher that, if the former president had not turned his head when the shot was fired, he would not have survived.
"God must have been watching down on the president," he said.''</ref>

Trump's assassination attempt was condemned by current and former political figures, left and right, the world over. The attack marks the first time a sitting or former US president was injured in an unsuccessful assassination attempt since [[Ronald Regan]] was shot in March 1981, over 43 years prior. After Reagan, Trump is the seventh US president to be subject to a successful or unsuccessful assassination attempt, the others being the failed attempt on [[Theodore Roosevelt]], and the succeeded attempts on [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[James A. Garfield]], [[William McKinley]] and [[John F. Kennedy]].

==Democrats attempt to remove Secret Service protection==
{{See also|2024 Presidential election interference}}
In April 2024 [[Democrat]]s introduced a bill in [[Congress]] to remove [[Secret Service]] protection from [[President Donald Trump]].<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/13/flashback-dems-pushed-bill-to-take-away-trumps-secret-service-detail/ Flashback: Dems Pushed Bill To Take Away Trump’s Secret Service Detail], WALLACE WHITE, ''[[Daily Caller]], July 13, 2024. dailycaller.com</ref> The bill's chief sponsor was Rep. [[Bennie Thompson]] who chaired the [[J6 witch hunt]]. Thompson has been under investigation by the House for destroying the J6 panel's files.

==Incitement leading to crime==
[[File:TurnoutPAC tweet hours before assassination attempt.jpeg|thumb|TurnoutPAC tweet hours before assassination attempt]]
The attempt came after years and moreso in recent weeks, [[the left]] and [[liberal media]] has been vilifying President Trump<ref>[https://mynorthwest.com/3965866/rantz-donald-trump-assassination-attempt-rhetoric-democrats/ Rantz: After failed Donald Trump assassination attempt, will you stop claiming he’s Hitler?], MyNorthwest. Jul 13, 2024, 7:10 PM</ref> as being supposedly a "danger to [[democracy]]." In 2023 [[Tucker Carlson]] commented on the all-pervasive Democrat [[hate]] in [[liberal media]]: "We are speeding towards assassination, obviously. No one will say that, but I don’t know how you can’t reach this conclusion."<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/4181123-tucker-carlson-were-speeding-toward-trump-assassination/mlite/ Tucker Carlson: ‘We’re speeding toward’ Trump assassination], BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO. ''[[The Hill]]'', 08/31/23. thehill.com</ref> A hot mic caught Journos joking about Trump being assassinated while attending a [[lawfare]] hearing in [[Washington, D.C.]] in January 2024.<ref>Tommy Christopher, [https://www.mediaite.com/news/hot-mic-catches-journos-laughing-and-joking-about-trump-being-assassinated-at-appeals-court/ Hot Mic Catches Journos Laughing and Joking About Trump Being Assassinated At Appeals Court], Mediate, Jan 9th, 2024. mediaite.com</ref> On July 7, 2024 some [[leftist]]s called him a "[[Hitler]]." After [[Democrat]] nominee [[Joe Biden]]'s disastrous debate performance and calls from his own party and the [[liberal media]] to resign,<ref>[https://archive.is/VXMfq#selection-5665.0-5727.12 The Almighty Calls for Biden], The Editorial Board, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', July 7, 2024.</ref> five days before an assassination attempt, Kenneth P. Vogel of ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that Biden told donors, "We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye."<ref>[https://archive.is/nmJdB Biden told donors on a private call this afternoon: “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”], Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel. x.com/kenvogel</ref><ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/13/report-biden-told-donors-it-was-time-to-put-trump-in-the-bullseye/ Report: Biden told Donors it was ‘Time to Put Trump in the Bullseye’'], ELIZABETH WEIBEL, [[Breitbart]]'', 13 Jul 2024. breitbart.com</ref><ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/biden-july-8-were-done-talking-about-debate/ Biden on July 8: ‘We’re Done Talking About the Debate, it’s Time to Put Trump in a Bullseye’], By Cassandra MacDonald, ''[[The Gateway Pundit]]'', Jul. 13, 2024. thegatewaypundit.com</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vswiX81IqhQ "Totally Irresponsible": Megyn Kelly Calls Out Biden Saying "Put Trump in a Bullseye" Days Ago], [[Megyn Kelly]], July 12, 2024. [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/flashback-5-days-ago-biden-said-put-trump-in-a-bullseye/ar-BB1pWbB1 Flashback: 5 Days Ago Biden Said 'Put Trump in a Bullseye'], by Jack Davis, ''The Western Journal, July 13, 2024. msn.com</ref><ref>[https://archive.is/XZ0RE Biden Threat ‘To Put Trump in a Bullseye’ Met With Shrugs, in Contrast With Firestorm Over Palin ‘Crosshairs’], DEAN KARAYANIS, ''New York Sun, July 10, 2024. nysun.com</ref>

Former US [[Attorney General]] [[Bill Barr]] [[tweet]]ed:<ref>[https://x.com/chicksonright/status/1812288720013570197]</ref>
<blockquote>The Democrats have to stop their grossly irresponsible talk about Trump being an existential threat to democracy - he is not.” </blockquote>

Commentators<ref>''Fox News'' Anchor Trace Gallagher, interviewing Kaylee McGhee White, Aaron Cohen on July 14, 2024. 1:20-1:35 ET [https://archive.ph/wip/IfxNE]</ref> brought up Democrats' reaction to [[2020 Marxist insurrection|Antifa 2020 violence]]. As well as violence at the anti-[[Israel]] riots ([[Oct 7 War]]) and most of the charges at [[Columbia University]] rioters [https://nypost.com/2024/06/25/opinion/answer-us-columbia-and-da-bragg-why-drop-rioters-charges/ dropped] by [[Alvin Bragg]], an elected [[Democrat]]; the reaction to the (Genocidal) "[https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/From-the-River-to-the-Sea From the river to the sea]."

''[[The Federalist]]'' asked, ''Do Democrats, Corporate Media Have Blood On Their Hands In Trump Attack?''<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/13/do-democrats-corporate-media-have-blood-on-their-hands-in-trump-attack/ Do Democrats, Corporate Media Have Blood On Their Hands In Trump Attack?], BY: M.D. KITTLE, ''[[The Federalist]]'', JULY 13, 2024. thefederalist.com</ref>

[[WSJ]]: 'Biden’s rhetoric grew heated in recent days.'<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/biden-s-rhetoric-grew-heated-in-recent-days-6TJnS6JhvZnJ6uYwK6bH Biden’s Rhetoric Grew Heated in Recent Days]
''WSJ'', 14 Jul 2024.</ref>

[[Daily Telegraph]]:<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/14/violent-rhetoric-in-poisoned-us-politics-made-attack-inevit/ Violent rhetoric in poisoned US politics made attack inevitable]. ''Daily Telegraph'', July 14, 2024.</ref>
"Nazi comparisons, which would be greeted with furious offence if they came the other way, have become commonplace among the Left."

==The shooter==
[[File:6693560eb6018-the-assailant-has-been-reportedly-identified-as-20-year-old-thomas-matthew-crooks-of-bethel-park--pe-143733406-16x9.jpeg|thumb|Suspected shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks]]
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks,<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/07/13/us-news/thomas-matthew-crooks-idd-as-gunman-who-shot-trump-during-pa-rally/ Thomas Matthew Crooks ID’d as gunman who shot Trump during Pa. rally].
By Joe Marino and Katherine Donlevy. ''[[NY Post]]''. Published July 13, 2024, 11:39 p.m. ET</ref><ref>[https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/donald-trump-assassination-bid-who-is-thomas-matthew-crooks-the-20-year-old-suspected-shooter-437085-2024-07-14 Donald Trump assassination bid: Who is Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old suspected shooter? Crooks' shots injured Trump, grazing his ear, and tragically claimed the life of an innocent bystander while critically wounding two others].</ref> a 20-year-old male from the Bethel Park, PA, was bear-crawling up the roof<ref>[https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/what-we-know-about-the-suspected-trump-rally-shooter/ What we know about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected Trump rally shooter]. Damita Menezes and Sean Noone, News Nation, 14 July 2024</ref> of an elevated structure a few hundred metres away outside the venue.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/trump-rally-shooting-distance/index.html Gunman was a few hundred feet away from Trump, CNN analysis shows] By [[CNN]] Staff, July 14, 2024</ref> Crooks had explosive devices in his car parked near the rally,<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/suspected-shooter-had-explosive-devices-in-his-car-sources-say-nqpDI2AqQQNtSvYtEpS9 Suspected Shooter Had Explosive Devices in His Car, Sources Say]. ''WSJ'' Jul 14, 2024</ref> showing he had an elaborated plan.

"Federal campaign-finance records show" Crooks "donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a [[liberal]] voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform [[ActBlue]] in January 2021."<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/trump-gunman-thomas-crooks.html Here’s What Is Known About the Suspected Gunman]. By Jack Healy, Mike Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Katie Benner. ''The New York Times'', July 14, 2024. Authorities identified the gunman as a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, a town about an hour’s drive from the site of the shooting.</ref>

Hours before the incident, the aforementioned [[progressive]] ''TurnoutPAC'' tweeted about Trump supposedly "destroying Democracy."

Quote: ''It's simple people: Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and another four years of him would be detrimental to our country.'' The [[tweet]] was [https://archive.ph/VLCUd still left] even after the assassination.

==Trump's reaction==
[[File:Trump on Truthsocial right after assassination attempt.jpg|thumb|Trump on Truthsocial right after assassination attempt]]
President Trump's statement -- soon after -- on ''TruthSocial'' was:<ref>Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump ([https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112782066045321247]):
<blockquote>
I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!</blockquote></ref>
<blockquote>I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!</blockquote>

Later, Trump sent out an email:<ref>[https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/07/14/i-will-never-surrender-trump-says-after-assassination-attemp/ 'I will Never Surrender!' Trump says after assassination attempt]. Israel Hayom, Jul 14, 2024</ref><ref>[https://www.news18.com/world/donald-trump-assassination-attempt-will-never-surrender-says-ex-president-gets-call-from-biden-8965407.html Donald Trump Assassination Attempt: Will Never Surrender, Says Ex-President, Gets Call from Biden]. News18.com. July 14, 2024.

“THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM DONALD TRUMP," the brief email read. “I WILL NEVER SURRENDER!" The email signed off with his signature and portrait.</ref> 'I will Never Surrender!'

==Eric Trump reaction==
Donald Trump's son Eric reacted:<ref>[https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1812277876642951677]</ref>
"Never surrender!"

And:<ref>[https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1812277876642951677]</ref>

"This is the fighter America needs."

==World reaction==
[[Argentine]] conservative President [[Javier Milei]] posted his reaction on X:<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/07/13/argentinas-javier-milei-international-left-resort-terrorism-stop-trump/ Argentina’s Javier Milei: ‘International Left … Resort to Terrorism’ to Stop Trump], FRANCES MARTEL, ''[[Breitbart]]'', 13 Jul 2024. breitbart.com</ref>
{{Cquote|The desperation of the international left, that today sees how its nefarious [[ideology]] is expiring and is willing to destabilize democracies and promote [[violence]] to entrench itself in power, is not surprising. With panic upon losing at the ballot, they resort to [[terrorism]] to impose their retrograde and [[authoritarian]] agenda.}}
Milei posted a second message responding to a video of Democrat former Sen. [[Claire McCaskill]] of [[Missouri]] comparing President Trump to [[Adolf Hitler]] in a [[television]] appearance.
{{Cquote|The little [[politically correct]] [[leftist]]s are all cut from the same cloth, it doesn’t matter where in the world you look. When in [[society]] a deviant adjective appears, there they will be to label their opponents with that adjective… we have several of these sinister beings in the country who can count on their [[journalist]] accomplices.

Easy, look for the politicians that do this and the journalists who play their game. There you will find the true enemies of [[Liberty|LIBERTY]]. The cultural battle never stops. Long live liberty, damn it!}}
[[Russia]] called on the United States to "take stock" of its "policies of incitement to hatred," funding [[Ukrainian Nazi]]s.

==See also==
*[[Robert Fico]]
*[[Ronald Reagan]]
*[[Theodore Roosevelt|Teddy "Bullmoose" Roosevelt]]
*[[John F Kennedy]]
*[[Abraham Lincoln]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:United States Presidential Election, 2024]]
[[Category:Donald Trump]]
[[Category:United States History]]
[[Category:2020s]]

Talk:Earthquake

2024-04-06T15:35:10Z

SingleChristian1:

==Doubling every 40 years==

BrentH, I don't really see the relevance. The evidence is clear - major earthquakes are NOT doubling every 40 years and it doesn't much matter who says they are. There's a discussion of this and links to the statistics on the main talk page. --[[User:FindlayT|FindlayT]] 12:55, 21 September 2011 (EDT)
:It's Aschlafly's website, and Karajou is a senior admin. Ask them if they think the edit should be reverted. [[User:BrentH|BrentH]] 12:57, 21 September 2011 (EDT)
::I understand why they put it in; because the reference cited does say that earthquakes are doubling. However the reference is demonstrably wrong and both DavidZa and I have demonstrated this. I'm fairly sure that once both Aschlafly and Karajou check the figures they'll agree that it should come out, as I doubt they want false information in here. --[[User:FindlayT|FindlayT]] 13:00, 21 September 2011 (EDT)
:::I'm pretty sceptical about that figure, but the link doesn't work anymore: it just sends me to a site where I can buy a book.[[User:Cmurphynz|Cmurphynz]] 05:47, 9 July 2012 (EDT)

Have earthquakes actually been increasing or just our means of detecting them? [[User:SingleChristian1|SingleChristian1]] ([[User talk:SingleChristian1|talk]]) 11:35, April 6, 2024 (EDT)

Alexei Navalny

2024-03-02T22:39:14Z

SingleChristian1: Fixed formatting

[[File:Navalny.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Alexei Navalny]]
'''Alexei Anatolievich Navalny''' alias Alexei Vanalny (June 4, 1976 - February 16, 2024) was a [[CIA]] operative, liberal icon in [[the West]],<ref>Sauer, Pjotr (March 13, 2023). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/navalny-documentary-oscar-success-putin-opponents-russian-liberals-celebrate Putin opponents and Russian liberals celebrate Navalny’s Oscar success]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved April 5, 2023.</ref> [[drug addict]], and [[strawman]] set up to attack President [[Vladimir Putin]] of Russia in western media and [[public opinion]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/0uRXkw3_0BE Wikileaks Reveals Alexei Navalny's US Funding as Washington Exploits His Death], The New Atlas, Feb 20, 2024, YouTube.</ref> [[Russian]] traitor, and head of the FBK [[terrorist]] organization.<ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/others/alexei-navalny-ukraine-special-forces-came-together-to-bomb-st-petersburg-cafe-killing-tatarsky-russia/ar-AA19s0UX Alexei Navalny, Ukraine special forces came together to bomb St Petersburg cafe, killing Tatarsky: Russia], Umang Sharma, ''Firstpost'', April 4, 2023.</ref> Despite his high-profile [[Western alliance|Western media]] presence, Navalny suffered from low-name recognition in the [[Russian Federation]]. A graduate of the [[Yale]] World Fellows Program, Navalny was listed on [[Yale]]’s website as a cofounder of the Democratic Alternative Movement, an organization shown in a [[leak]]ed diplomatic cable to have received funding from the CIA [[regime change]] arm, the [[National Endowment for Democracy]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120504092545/http:/www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=06MOSCOW12709 A Guide To Russian Political Youth Groups: Part 1 Of 2], Embassy Moscow (Russia), 30 Nov 2006.</ref> a fact it had concealed for “fear of appearing compromised by an American connection.”
[[File:Yale Vanalny.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Alexei Vanalny]]
Navalny died on February 16, 2024.<ref>[https://rumble.com/v4dxuq6-hitlary-reacts-to-the-death-of-navalny-ukraine-support-and-trump.html Hitlary reacts to the death of Navalny, Ukraine support & Trump], [[CNN]], February 17, 2024.</ref> Early reports indicated Navalny died of [[sudden death syndrome]] as a result of the [[covid vaccine]]. Western [[mainstream media]] attempted to whitewash Navalny's fascist past and extremism.<ref>[https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/western-media-whitewashes-activist-alexei-navalny-after-previously-admitting-his-racist-fascist-extremism Western Media Whitewashes “Activist” Alexei Navalny After Previously Admitting His Racist, Fascist Extremism], [[Brian Berletic]], February 18, 2024.</ref> Upon his death, Navalny was commemorated at [[Yale University]] where he was first recruited by the CIA to betray his Russian homeland by misspelling his name.<ref>[https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1759699386806710684 "VANALNY means in Russian 'In Anal' (v anal)"], Zlatti71, X, Feb 19, 2024.</ref>

According to the [[Atlanticist]] French newspaper ''Libération'', Navalny is simply the most visible opponent of the ruling party. "He is part of the so-called 'off-system' opposition, composed of small groups often located at the [[extremism|extremes]] of the [[political spectrum]] that are too small to form parties”.<ref>[https://www.thepostil.com/alexei-navalny-the-real-story/ Alexei Navalny: The Real Story], Jacques Baud, ''The Postil'', June 1, 2023. thepostil.com</ref> A [[Holocaust denier]] with connections to [[neo-Nazi]] groups,<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084 Amnesty International strips Navalny of "prisoner of conscience" status after he refuses to renounce xenophobic comments], [[BBC News]], 24 February 2021.</ref> [[Amnesty International]] stripped Navalny of his prisoner of conscience status in 2021 after he compared minorities in Russia to cockroaches who can be dealt with using a pistol.<ref>[https://youtu.be/hT0tCSaWZ9Q Know Navalny, the Russian nationalist/Conozca a Navalny, el nacionalista ruso (English/Español)]. "Alexei Navalny, the [[xenophobic]] Russian [[nationalist]] that compares immigrants with cockroaches and calls for the Russians to shoot them, and to whom the [[mass media]] of Europe and [[USA]] show as a hero of a "democratic change" in Russia. The immigrant he shot in the promotional video stands for a [[Muslim]] . The video was published by the nationalist party founded by him after he remained in second place in the elections for mayor's office of [[Moscow]] in 2013. Subtitles in English and Spanish."</ref> The left-leaning ''[[Salon]]'' magazine published an article in 2017 entitled, ''Dictator vs. Democrat? Not Quite: Russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny Is No Progressive Hero'', stating "What is reported less often about Navalny are his nationalist leanings, ties to neo-Nazi groups, and [[xenophobic]] comments ...References to Navalny’s nationalism in the West are usually buried or brushed off, while the headlines sing his praises”.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2017/04/02/dictator-vs-democrat-not-quite-russian-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-is-no-progressive-hero/ Dictator vs. democrat? Not quite: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is no progressive hero], By DANIELLE RYAN, ''Salon'', APRIL 2, 2017.</ref>

Navalny was much better known in [[the West]] than in his native Russia due to a concerted CIA [[propaganda]] [[psyop]] to promote him as a supposed "opposition leader" to [[Vladimir Putin]]. The propaganda psyop was far more successful outside Russia than it ever was in Russia. Navalny's party never had ballot status in Russia's 89 federal constituent entities, and generally speaking, factions within the party have been outlawed under Russia's longstanding anti-extremist laws. Outside of Moscow, where he received 12% in mayoral elections on an anti-Muslim platform, Navalny was virtually unknown.

==References==
{{reflist}}

--External link==
*[https://www.thepostil.com/about-alexei-navalny/ About Alexei Navalny]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Navalny, Alexei}}
[[Category:Russian People]]
[[Category:Racists]]
{{liberalism}}

Alexei Navalny

2024-03-02T22:38:22Z

SingleChristian1:

[[File:Navalny.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Alexei Navalny]]
'''Alexei Anatolievich Navalny''' alias Alexei Vanalny (June 4, 1976 - February 16, 2024) was a [[CIA]] operative, liberal icon in [[the West]],<ref>Sauer, Pjotr (March 13, 2023). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/navalny-documentary-oscar-success-putin-opponents-russian-liberals-celebrate Putin opponents and Russian liberals celebrate Navalny’s Oscar success]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved April 5, 2023.</ref> [[drug addict]], and [[strawman]] set up to attack President [[Vladimir Putin]] of Russia in western media and [[public opinion]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/0uRXkw3_0BE Wikileaks Reveals Alexei Navalny's US Funding as Washington Exploits His Death], The New Atlas, Feb 20, 2024, YouTube.</ref> [[Russian]] traitor, and head of the FBK [[terrorist]] organization.<ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/others/alexei-navalny-ukraine-special-forces-came-together-to-bomb-st-petersburg-cafe-killing-tatarsky-russia/ar-AA19s0UX Alexei Navalny, Ukraine special forces came together to bomb St Petersburg cafe, killing Tatarsky: Russia], Umang Sharma, ''Firstpost'', April 4, 2023.</ref> Despite his high-profile [[Western alliance|Western media]] presence, Navalny suffered from low-name recognition in the [[Russian Federation]]. A graduate of the [[Yale]] World Fellows Program, Navalny was listed on [[Yale]]’s website as a cofounder of the Democratic Alternative Movement, an organization shown in a [[leak]]ed diplomatic cable to have received funding from the [[Cia]] [[regime change]] arm, the [[National Endowment for Democracy]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120504092545/http:/www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=06MOSCOW12709 A Guide To Russian Political Youth Groups: Part 1 Of 2], Embassy Moscow (Russia), 30 Nov 2006.</ref> a fact it had concealed for “fear of appearing compromised by an American connection.”
[[File:Yale Vanalny.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Alexei Vanalny]]
Navalny died on February 16, 2024.<ref>[https://rumble.com/v4dxuq6-hitlary-reacts-to-the-death-of-navalny-ukraine-support-and-trump.html Hitlary reacts to the death of Navalny, Ukraine support & Trump], [[CNN]], February 17, 2024.</ref> Early reports indicated Navalny died of [[sudden death syndrome]] as a result of the [[covid vaccine]]. Western [[mainstream media]] attempted to whitewash Navalny's fascist past and extremism.<ref>[https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/western-media-whitewashes-activist-alexei-navalny-after-previously-admitting-his-racist-fascist-extremism Western Media Whitewashes “Activist” Alexei Navalny After Previously Admitting His Racist, Fascist Extremism], [[Brian Berletic]], February 18, 2024.</ref> Upon his death, Navalny was commemorated at [[Yale University]] where he was first recruited by the CIA to betray his Russian homeland by misspelling his name.<ref>[https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1759699386806710684 "VANALNY means in Russian 'In Anal' (v anal)"], Zlatti71, X, Feb 19, 2024.</ref>

According to the [[Atlanticist]] French newspaper ''Libération'', Navalny is simply the most visible opponent of the ruling party. "He is part of the so-called 'off-system' opposition, composed of small groups often located at the [[extremism|extremes]] of the [[political spectrum]] that are too small to form parties”.<ref>[https://www.thepostil.com/alexei-navalny-the-real-story/ Alexei Navalny: The Real Story], Jacques Baud, ''The Postil'', June 1, 2023. thepostil.com</ref> A [[Holocaust denier]] with connections to [[neo-Nazi]] groups,<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084 Amnesty International strips Navalny of "prisoner of conscience" status after he refuses to renounce xenophobic comments], [[BBC News]], 24 February 2021.</ref> [[Amnesty International]] stripped Navalny of his prisoner of conscience status in 2021 after he compared minorities in Russia to cockroaches who can be dealt with using a pistol.<ref>[https://youtu.be/hT0tCSaWZ9Q Know Navalny, the Russian nationalist/Conozca a Navalny, el nacionalista ruso (English/Español)]. "Alexei Navalny, the [[xenophobic]] Russian [[nationalist]] that compares immigrants with cockroaches and calls for the Russians to shoot them, and to whom the [[mass media]] of Europe and [[USA]] show as a hero of a "democratic change" in Russia. The immigrant he shot in the promotional video stands for a [[Muslim]] . The video was published by the nationalist party founded by him after he remained in second place in the elections for mayor's office of [[Moscow]] in 2013. Subtitles in English and Spanish."</ref> The left-leaning ''[[Salon]]'' magazine published an article in 2017 entitled, ''Dictator vs. Democrat? Not Quite: Russian Opposition Leader Alexey Navalny Is No Progressive Hero'', stating "What is reported less often about Navalny are his nationalist leanings, ties to neo-Nazi groups, and [[xenophobic]] comments ...References to Navalny’s nationalism in the West are usually buried or brushed off, while the headlines sing his praises”.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2017/04/02/dictator-vs-democrat-not-quite-russian-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-is-no-progressive-hero/ Dictator vs. democrat? Not quite: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is no progressive hero], By DANIELLE RYAN, ''Salon'', APRIL 2, 2017.</ref>

Navalny was much better known in [[the West]] than in his native Russia due to a concerted CIA [[propaganda]] [[psyop]] to promote him as a supposed "opposition leader" to [[Vladimir Putin]]. The propaganda psyop was far more successful outside Russia than it ever was in Russia. Navalny's party never had ballot status in Russia's 89 federal constituent entities, and generally speaking, factions within the party have been outlawed under Russia's longstanding anti-extremist laws. Outside of Moscow, where he received 12% in mayoral elections on an anti-Muslim platform, Navalny was virtually unknown.

==References==
{{reflist}}

--External link==
*[https://www.thepostil.com/about-alexei-navalny/ About Alexei Navalny]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Navalny, Alexei}}
[[Category:Russian People]]
[[Category:Racists]]
{{liberalism}}

Falun Gong

2024-03-01T19:09:00Z

SingleChristian1:

[[File:Fran-falun-2-jpg.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Falun Gong practitioners.]]
'''Falun Gong''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 法轮功; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 法輪功; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Fălúngōng), also known as '''Falun Dafa''' (Simplified: 法轮大法; Traditional: 法輪大法; pinyin: Fǎlún Dàfǎ) is a modern [[Chinese]] "system of mind and body cultivation", founded in 1992 by Li Hongzhi, an anti-miscegenationist and noted [[pagan]] <ref>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/inside-falun-gong-master-li-hongzhi-the-mountain-dragon-springs/12442518?nw=0</ref>. The teachings of Li stress high moral standards, respect for human life, and spiritual development specifically focusing on Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance (真，善，忍).<ref>Hongzi, L. [http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg_2006.htm ''Falun Gong''] (English Version, 5th Translation edition); Falun Dafa Association; (July 2006)</ref>

Since 1999, the [[communism|communist]] government of the [[People's Republic of China]] has taken a harsh stance towards followers of Li, imprisoning many. Allegations of [[torture]] have been made by former prisoners.<ref>United Nations Information Service. [https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/hrcn1073.doc.htm ''CHAIRPERSON OF WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE ADDRESSES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION'']; Press Release HR/CN/1073; (2nd April, 2004)</ref>

In 2006, reports have been made that compulsory organ harvesting has been performed on Falun Gong Practitioners. In 2012, Wang Lijun, the Head of the Chongqing Public Security Agency, defected to the US consulate in Chongqing, and handed the relative files to the US.

==Persecution==
In 1989, after the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]], the Chinese Communist Party established a registry of social organizations, in order to head off political upheaval. Falun Gong was registered with the Chinese government in 1992. It soon attracted “tens of millions of adherents,” the political-science professor Maria Hsia Chang writes in ''Falun Gong: The End of Days.''' Falun Gong started holding enormous gatherings; by the mid- 1990s, there were more than two thousand Falun Gong practice stations in [[Beijing]] alone. Troubled by the possibility that a large part of the population was becoming more loyal to Falun Gong than to the Communist Party, the government began cracking down on groups and banning sales of Falun Gong publications.

By 1999, the CCP estimated that the group had seventy million adherents; that year, more than ten thousand of them staged a silent protest in Tiananmen Square. An arrest warrant was issued for Li Hongzhi, the groups founder, who had by then immigrated to Queens, New York. The Chinese National Congress subsequently passed, and began [[violent]]ly enforcing, an "anti-cult law".<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20101127131821/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/16/world/china-expels-53-foreign-falun-gong-followers.html</ref>

In order to stir anti-Falun Gong sentiment domestically and internationally, the CCP staged a fake self-immolation hoax in [[Tiananmen Square]] on January 23, 2001, the eve of Chinese New Year celebrations.<ref>http://en.minghui.org/cc/88/</ref>

===610 Office===
The [[610 Office]] is the main organization created to eliminate Falun Gong. It is nominally subordinate to the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC). The Political and Legal Affairs Committee purview was expanded after the 610 Office was incorporated into it.

With a structure extending from top to bottom throughout the Party, government, and [[military]], it has the power to command all police and judicial organs. This organization is akin to the [[Chinese Communist Party]]’s Central Cultural Revolution Group, and is dedicated to carrying out the systematic eradication of the practice of Falun Gong. It is an ''ad hoc'' agency at the highest levels endowed with extraordinary and extralegal power.

The 610 Office derives its name from the date of its founding, June 10th, 1999. After that date, almost every Party branch, from the province to the county to the district level, established its own 610 Office. The source of the 610 Office’s ability to operate extralegally and with impunity is not drawn from the State. Neither the People's Congress nor the State Council has authorized its actions. Rather, approval and support for its deeds comes from the CCP. Each 610 Office takes orders from the 610 Office one level above it, going up to the Central Committee 610 Office. The local 610 Offices also take orders from the leadership team of the CCP Committee at its same organizational level.<ref>http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/droi/dv/506_yiyangxia_/506_yiyangxia_en.pdf</ref>

It later changed its name to the Central Leading Group on Dealing with Heretical Religions or Office of Maintaining Stability.

Official data of the annual reported expenditures of 13 local 610 Offices in various counties and districts across nine provinces in 2014 and 2015 are available online. The total expenditure for these branches, covering a population of some 14 million, was 8.9 million yuan ($1.37 million). If that ''[[per capita]]'' investment is applied to China’s total population of 1.37 billion, the estimated annual budget for all 610 Offices nationwide is 879 million yuan ($135 million). This represents only one part of the party-state apparatus involved in the suppression of Falun Gong.

Various forms of economic incentives and exploitation have given individuals within the party-state apparatus a financial interest in repression. They include:
*Opportunistic extortion, bribe taking, or theft of property by local police
*Officially sanctioned bonuses or financial demerits for security personnel, rewards for residents who report Falun Gong activities, and fines imposed on adherents by the courts
*Systematic forced labor by detained Falun Gong adherents, a phenomenon that continues at prisons and transitional detention centers even after the abolition of Reeducation Through Labor camps

The ultimate form of financial exploitation has been reported: the killing of Falun Gong detainees and the extraction of their organs to be sold at high prices to Chinese patients and foreign “transplant tourists” as part of a multibillion-dollar industry.<ref>
https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/FH_2017_BattleForChinasSpirit_Falun_Gong_0.pdf </ref>

===Military involvement===
:{{See also|People's Liberation Army}}
In April 2006, a person who identified himself as a senior military doctor who belonged to the General Logistics Department of the Shenyang Military Command wrote to ''[[The Epoch Times]]'':
{{quotebox|“China is the center of international live organ trading, and has accounted for more than 85% of the total number of live organ transplants in the world since 2000. According to the data reported to the Central Military Commission, a few people have been promoted and became Generals due to their ‘achievements’ in this field. ”

“The military acts as the organ transplantation management system. This type of management and organizational core belongs to the military system. This is something that the local government cannot match, because once it becomes a military secret, no one can acquire the information. We all understand how the military system works. There is a huge source of living organs, and many military hospitals report their transplants to their supervising authorities. At the same time, they also carry out organ transplants on a large scale in private. This leads to the fact that actual numbers are much higher than the official statistics.”

“The [[Central Military Commission]] authorizes relevant military personnel and units to manage military affairs. All related information is regarded as military secrets. Personnel responsible for military control have the authority to arrest, detain or execute any doctors, police, armed police, and researchers who leak information.”<ref>[http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/6/4/30/n1303902.htm Military Doctor Discloses the Chinese Communist Party’s Official Process of Stealing and Selling Falun Gong Organs], ''The Epoch Times'', April 2006</ref>}}

===Testimony===
On December 10, 2009, an armed police officer in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province reported and testified via phone to the World Organization to Investigate Persecution of Falun Gong that he had guarded one of the organ harvesting sites and personally witnessed the entire scene of two military doctors excising organs from a [[female]] Falun Gong practitioner.<ref>[http://www.upholdjustice.org/node/336 WOIPFG: Additional Testimony Provided by Eyewitness of Organ Harvesting from Living Victim(s)].</ref>

The armed guard was an eyewitness to a [[surgery]] on April 9, 2002, in an operating room on the 15th floor of the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Command, People’s Liberation Army. He observed two military doctors extract organs from a female Falun Gong practitioner. The Military Identification No. of one of the doctors is 0106069. The victim was a middle school teacher in her thirties. Before the doctors killed her, she had been subjected to a month of severe [[torture]], molestation and [[rape]]. He stated:
{{quotebox|“No anesthetic was given. The knife dug straight into the chest. Their hands didn’t even shake. If it were me, my hands would definitely shake…”}}
In 2002, this witness worked in the Liaoning Province Public Security system and participated in the arrest and torture of Falun Gong practitioners, including this female practitioner. She was covered in wounds from the ordeal. On April 9, 2002, the Liaoning Public Security department sent two military doctors to the scene – one from the Shenyang Military Command General Hospital and another who had graduated from the Second Military Medical University. This female practitioner was fully conscious when her [[heart]], [[kidney]], and other organs were removed without [[anesthesia]]. The witness, armed with gun, guarded the scene throughout the whole process. He also stated that Wang Lijun, head of Jinzhou City Public Security, gave an order that they “must destroy Falun Gong practitioners completely.”

==Related organizations==
Falun Gong practitioners founded the [[The Epoch Times|Epoch Times]] newspaper and the [http://www.ntd.com New Tang Dynasty (NTD)] digital television channel, which collectively make up part of the New York City-based '''Epoch Media Group'''. Because of how the ''Epoch Times'' has a more [[conservative]] stance, the newspaper, have come under attack from the mainstream media, who in turn attack Falun Gong in order to tarnish credibility of the Epoch Times <ref>https://faluninfo.net/nbc-journalists-distort-and-malign-falun-gong-to-strengthen-attack-on-rival-media/</ref>.

In 2006, Falun Gong practitioners also founded the [[Shen Yun]] traditional Chinese dance show which is banned in China.<ref>https://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/spirituality/challenges-we-face</ref>. Like the Epoch Times, Shen Yun has also come under attack from the mainstream media due to anti-[[evolution]] and anti-[[atheism]] content in its programming, as well as its supposed connection to conservative media (Shen Yun and the Epoch Media Group are, in fact, separate organizations)<ref>https://www.insider.com/shen-yun-show-falun-gong-2019-3</ref>.

==See also==
*[[Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation]]
*[[Shen Yun]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party - Part 5, [http://en.epochtimes.com/news/4-12-18/24972.html On the Collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party to Persecute Falun Gong], ''The Epoch Times'', Dec 18, 2004.
*[http://www.upholdjustice.org/node/260 Jiang Zemin Ordered the Harvesting of Organs from Falun Gong Practitioners for Transplantation], WOIPFG, Sept. 30, 2014.
*[http://www.falundafa.org Falundafa.org]
*[http://www.faluninfo.net Falun Dafa Information Center]
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Falun Gong

2024-03-01T19:08:39Z

SingleChristian1:

[[File:Fran-falun-2-jpg.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Falun Gong practitioners.]]
'''Falun Gong''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 法轮功; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 法輪功; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Fălúngōng), also known as '''Falun Dafa''' (Simplified: 法轮大法; Traditional: 法輪大法; pinyin: Fǎlún Dàfǎ) is a modern [[Chinese]] "system of mind and body cultivation", founded in 1992 by Li Hongzhi, an anti-miscegenationist and noted [[pagan] ] <ref>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/inside-falun-gong-master-li-hongzhi-the-mountain-dragon-springs/12442518?nw=0</ref>. The teachings of Li stress high moral standards, respect for human life, and spiritual development specifically focusing on Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance (真，善，忍).<ref>Hongzi, L. [http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg_2006.htm ''Falun Gong''] (English Version, 5th Translation edition); Falun Dafa Association; (July 2006)</ref>

Since 1999, the [[communism|communist]] government of the [[People's Republic of China]] has taken a harsh stance towards followers of Li, imprisoning many. Allegations of [[torture]] have been made by former prisoners.<ref>United Nations Information Service. [https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/hrcn1073.doc.htm ''CHAIRPERSON OF WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE ADDRESSES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION'']; Press Release HR/CN/1073; (2nd April, 2004)</ref>

In 2006, reports have been made that compulsory organ harvesting has been performed on Falun Gong Practitioners. In 2012, Wang Lijun, the Head of the Chongqing Public Security Agency, defected to the US consulate in Chongqing, and handed the relative files to the US.

==Persecution==
In 1989, after the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]], the Chinese Communist Party established a registry of social organizations, in order to head off political upheaval. Falun Gong was registered with the Chinese government in 1992. It soon attracted “tens of millions of adherents,” the political-science professor Maria Hsia Chang writes in ''Falun Gong: The End of Days.''' Falun Gong started holding enormous gatherings; by the mid- 1990s, there were more than two thousand Falun Gong practice stations in [[Beijing]] alone. Troubled by the possibility that a large part of the population was becoming more loyal to Falun Gong than to the Communist Party, the government began cracking down on groups and banning sales of Falun Gong publications.

By 1999, the CCP estimated that the group had seventy million adherents; that year, more than ten thousand of them staged a silent protest in Tiananmen Square. An arrest warrant was issued for Li Hongzhi, the groups founder, who had by then immigrated to Queens, New York. The Chinese National Congress subsequently passed, and began [[violent]]ly enforcing, an "anti-cult law".<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20101127131821/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/16/world/china-expels-53-foreign-falun-gong-followers.html</ref>

In order to stir anti-Falun Gong sentiment domestically and internationally, the CCP staged a fake self-immolation hoax in [[Tiananmen Square]] on January 23, 2001, the eve of Chinese New Year celebrations.<ref>http://en.minghui.org/cc/88/</ref>

===610 Office===
The [[610 Office]] is the main organization created to eliminate Falun Gong. It is nominally subordinate to the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC). The Political and Legal Affairs Committee purview was expanded after the 610 Office was incorporated into it.

With a structure extending from top to bottom throughout the Party, government, and [[military]], it has the power to command all police and judicial organs. This organization is akin to the [[Chinese Communist Party]]’s Central Cultural Revolution Group, and is dedicated to carrying out the systematic eradication of the practice of Falun Gong. It is an ''ad hoc'' agency at the highest levels endowed with extraordinary and extralegal power.

The 610 Office derives its name from the date of its founding, June 10th, 1999. After that date, almost every Party branch, from the province to the county to the district level, established its own 610 Office. The source of the 610 Office’s ability to operate extralegally and with impunity is not drawn from the State. Neither the People's Congress nor the State Council has authorized its actions. Rather, approval and support for its deeds comes from the CCP. Each 610 Office takes orders from the 610 Office one level above it, going up to the Central Committee 610 Office. The local 610 Offices also take orders from the leadership team of the CCP Committee at its same organizational level.<ref>http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/droi/dv/506_yiyangxia_/506_yiyangxia_en.pdf</ref>

It later changed its name to the Central Leading Group on Dealing with Heretical Religions or Office of Maintaining Stability.

Official data of the annual reported expenditures of 13 local 610 Offices in various counties and districts across nine provinces in 2014 and 2015 are available online. The total expenditure for these branches, covering a population of some 14 million, was 8.9 million yuan ($1.37 million). If that ''[[per capita]]'' investment is applied to China’s total population of 1.37 billion, the estimated annual budget for all 610 Offices nationwide is 879 million yuan ($135 million). This represents only one part of the party-state apparatus involved in the suppression of Falun Gong.

Various forms of economic incentives and exploitation have given individuals within the party-state apparatus a financial interest in repression. They include:
*Opportunistic extortion, bribe taking, or theft of property by local police
*Officially sanctioned bonuses or financial demerits for security personnel, rewards for residents who report Falun Gong activities, and fines imposed on adherents by the courts
*Systematic forced labor by detained Falun Gong adherents, a phenomenon that continues at prisons and transitional detention centers even after the abolition of Reeducation Through Labor camps

The ultimate form of financial exploitation has been reported: the killing of Falun Gong detainees and the extraction of their organs to be sold at high prices to Chinese patients and foreign “transplant tourists” as part of a multibillion-dollar industry.<ref>
https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/FH_2017_BattleForChinasSpirit_Falun_Gong_0.pdf </ref>

===Military involvement===
:{{See also|People's Liberation Army}}
In April 2006, a person who identified himself as a senior military doctor who belonged to the General Logistics Department of the Shenyang Military Command wrote to ''[[The Epoch Times]]'':
{{quotebox|“China is the center of international live organ trading, and has accounted for more than 85% of the total number of live organ transplants in the world since 2000. According to the data reported to the Central Military Commission, a few people have been promoted and became Generals due to their ‘achievements’ in this field. ”

“The military acts as the organ transplantation management system. This type of management and organizational core belongs to the military system. This is something that the local government cannot match, because once it becomes a military secret, no one can acquire the information. We all understand how the military system works. There is a huge source of living organs, and many military hospitals report their transplants to their supervising authorities. At the same time, they also carry out organ transplants on a large scale in private. This leads to the fact that actual numbers are much higher than the official statistics.”

“The [[Central Military Commission]] authorizes relevant military personnel and units to manage military affairs. All related information is regarded as military secrets. Personnel responsible for military control have the authority to arrest, detain or execute any doctors, police, armed police, and researchers who leak information.”<ref>[http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/6/4/30/n1303902.htm Military Doctor Discloses the Chinese Communist Party’s Official Process of Stealing and Selling Falun Gong Organs], ''The Epoch Times'', April 2006</ref>}}

===Testimony===
On December 10, 2009, an armed police officer in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province reported and testified via phone to the World Organization to Investigate Persecution of Falun Gong that he had guarded one of the organ harvesting sites and personally witnessed the entire scene of two military doctors excising organs from a [[female]] Falun Gong practitioner.<ref>[http://www.upholdjustice.org/node/336 WOIPFG: Additional Testimony Provided by Eyewitness of Organ Harvesting from Living Victim(s)].</ref>

The armed guard was an eyewitness to a [[surgery]] on April 9, 2002, in an operating room on the 15th floor of the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Command, People’s Liberation Army. He observed two military doctors extract organs from a female Falun Gong practitioner. The Military Identification No. of one of the doctors is 0106069. The victim was a middle school teacher in her thirties. Before the doctors killed her, she had been subjected to a month of severe [[torture]], molestation and [[rape]]. He stated:
{{quotebox|“No anesthetic was given. The knife dug straight into the chest. Their hands didn’t even shake. If it were me, my hands would definitely shake…”}}
In 2002, this witness worked in the Liaoning Province Public Security system and participated in the arrest and torture of Falun Gong practitioners, including this female practitioner. She was covered in wounds from the ordeal. On April 9, 2002, the Liaoning Public Security department sent two military doctors to the scene – one from the Shenyang Military Command General Hospital and another who had graduated from the Second Military Medical University. This female practitioner was fully conscious when her [[heart]], [[kidney]], and other organs were removed without [[anesthesia]]. The witness, armed with gun, guarded the scene throughout the whole process. He also stated that Wang Lijun, head of Jinzhou City Public Security, gave an order that they “must destroy Falun Gong practitioners completely.”

==Related organizations==
Falun Gong practitioners founded the [[The Epoch Times|Epoch Times]] newspaper and the [http://www.ntd.com New Tang Dynasty (NTD)] digital television channel, which collectively make up part of the New York City-based '''Epoch Media Group'''. Because of how the ''Epoch Times'' has a more [[conservative]] stance, the newspaper, have come under attack from the mainstream media, who in turn attack Falun Gong in order to tarnish credibility of the Epoch Times <ref>https://faluninfo.net/nbc-journalists-distort-and-malign-falun-gong-to-strengthen-attack-on-rival-media/</ref>.

In 2006, Falun Gong practitioners also founded the [[Shen Yun]] traditional Chinese dance show which is banned in China.<ref>https://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/spirituality/challenges-we-face</ref>. Like the Epoch Times, Shen Yun has also come under attack from the mainstream media due to anti-[[evolution]] and anti-[[atheism]] content in its programming, as well as its supposed connection to conservative media (Shen Yun and the Epoch Media Group are, in fact, separate organizations)<ref>https://www.insider.com/shen-yun-show-falun-gong-2019-3</ref>.

==See also==
*[[Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation]]
*[[Shen Yun]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party - Part 5, [http://en.epochtimes.com/news/4-12-18/24972.html On the Collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party to Persecute Falun Gong], ''The Epoch Times'', Dec 18, 2004.
*[http://www.upholdjustice.org/node/260 Jiang Zemin Ordered the Harvesting of Organs from Falun Gong Practitioners for Transplantation], WOIPFG, Sept. 30, 2014.
*[http://www.falundafa.org Falundafa.org]
*[http://www.faluninfo.net Falun Dafa Information Center]
[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:China]][[Category:Chinese History]]

Falun Gong

2024-03-01T19:08:12Z

SingleChristian1:

[[File:Fran-falun-2-jpg.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Falun Gong practitioners.]]
'''Falun Gong''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 法轮功; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 法輪功; [[Hanyu pinyin]]: Fălúngōng), also known as '''Falun Dafa''' (Simplified: 法轮大法; Traditional: 法輪大法; pinyin: Fǎlún Dàfǎ) is a modern [[Chinese]] "system of mind and body cultivation", founded in 1992 by Li Hongzhi, an anti-miscegenationist and noted [pagan] <ref>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/inside-falun-gong-master-li-hongzhi-the-mountain-dragon-springs/12442518?nw=0</ref>. The teachings of Li stress high moral standards, respect for human life, and spiritual development specifically focusing on Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance (真，善，忍).<ref>Hongzi, L. [http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg_2006.htm ''Falun Gong''] (English Version, 5th Translation edition); Falun Dafa Association; (July 2006)</ref>

Since 1999, the [[communism|communist]] government of the [[People's Republic of China]] has taken a harsh stance towards followers of Li, imprisoning many. Allegations of [[torture]] have been made by former prisoners.<ref>United Nations Information Service. [https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/hrcn1073.doc.htm ''CHAIRPERSON OF WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE ADDRESSES HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION'']; Press Release HR/CN/1073; (2nd April, 2004)</ref>

In 2006, reports have been made that compulsory organ harvesting has been performed on Falun Gong Practitioners. In 2012, Wang Lijun, the Head of the Chongqing Public Security Agency, defected to the US consulate in Chongqing, and handed the relative files to the US.

==Persecution==
In 1989, after the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]], the Chinese Communist Party established a registry of social organizations, in order to head off political upheaval. Falun Gong was registered with the Chinese government in 1992. It soon attracted “tens of millions of adherents,” the political-science professor Maria Hsia Chang writes in ''Falun Gong: The End of Days.''' Falun Gong started holding enormous gatherings; by the mid- 1990s, there were more than two thousand Falun Gong practice stations in [[Beijing]] alone. Troubled by the possibility that a large part of the population was becoming more loyal to Falun Gong than to the Communist Party, the government began cracking down on groups and banning sales of Falun Gong publications.

By 1999, the CCP estimated that the group had seventy million adherents; that year, more than ten thousand of them staged a silent protest in Tiananmen Square. An arrest warrant was issued for Li Hongzhi, the groups founder, who had by then immigrated to Queens, New York. The Chinese National Congress subsequently passed, and began [[violent]]ly enforcing, an "anti-cult law".<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20101127131821/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/16/world/china-expels-53-foreign-falun-gong-followers.html</ref>

In order to stir anti-Falun Gong sentiment domestically and internationally, the CCP staged a fake self-immolation hoax in [[Tiananmen Square]] on January 23, 2001, the eve of Chinese New Year celebrations.<ref>http://en.minghui.org/cc/88/</ref>

===610 Office===
The [[610 Office]] is the main organization created to eliminate Falun Gong. It is nominally subordinate to the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC). The Political and Legal Affairs Committee purview was expanded after the 610 Office was incorporated into it.

With a structure extending from top to bottom throughout the Party, government, and [[military]], it has the power to command all police and judicial organs. This organization is akin to the [[Chinese Communist Party]]’s Central Cultural Revolution Group, and is dedicated to carrying out the systematic eradication of the practice of Falun Gong. It is an ''ad hoc'' agency at the highest levels endowed with extraordinary and extralegal power.

The 610 Office derives its name from the date of its founding, June 10th, 1999. After that date, almost every Party branch, from the province to the county to the district level, established its own 610 Office. The source of the 610 Office’s ability to operate extralegally and with impunity is not drawn from the State. Neither the People's Congress nor the State Council has authorized its actions. Rather, approval and support for its deeds comes from the CCP. Each 610 Office takes orders from the 610 Office one level above it, going up to the Central Committee 610 Office. The local 610 Offices also take orders from the leadership team of the CCP Committee at its same organizational level.<ref>http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/droi/dv/506_yiyangxia_/506_yiyangxia_en.pdf</ref>

It later changed its name to the Central Leading Group on Dealing with Heretical Religions or Office of Maintaining Stability.

Official data of the annual reported expenditures of 13 local 610 Offices in various counties and districts across nine provinces in 2014 and 2015 are available online. The total expenditure for these branches, covering a population of some 14 million, was 8.9 million yuan ($1.37 million). If that ''[[per capita]]'' investment is applied to China’s total population of 1.37 billion, the estimated annual budget for all 610 Offices nationwide is 879 million yuan ($135 million). This represents only one part of the party-state apparatus involved in the suppression of Falun Gong.

Various forms of economic incentives and exploitation have given individuals within the party-state apparatus a financial interest in repression. They include:
*Opportunistic extortion, bribe taking, or theft of property by local police
*Officially sanctioned bonuses or financial demerits for security personnel, rewards for residents who report Falun Gong activities, and fines imposed on adherents by the courts
*Systematic forced labor by detained Falun Gong adherents, a phenomenon that continues at prisons and transitional detention centers even after the abolition of Reeducation Through Labor camps

The ultimate form of financial exploitation has been reported: the killing of Falun Gong detainees and the extraction of their organs to be sold at high prices to Chinese patients and foreign “transplant tourists” as part of a multibillion-dollar industry.<ref>
https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/FH_2017_BattleForChinasSpirit_Falun_Gong_0.pdf </ref>

===Military involvement===
:{{See also|People's Liberation Army}}
In April 2006, a person who identified himself as a senior military doctor who belonged to the General Logistics Department of the Shenyang Military Command wrote to ''[[The Epoch Times]]'':
{{quotebox|“China is the center of international live organ trading, and has accounted for more than 85% of the total number of live organ transplants in the world since 2000. According to the data reported to the Central Military Commission, a few people have been promoted and became Generals due to their ‘achievements’ in this field. ”

“The military acts as the organ transplantation management system. This type of management and organizational core belongs to the military system. This is something that the local government cannot match, because once it becomes a military secret, no one can acquire the information. We all understand how the military system works. There is a huge source of living organs, and many military hospitals report their transplants to their supervising authorities. At the same time, they also carry out organ transplants on a large scale in private. This leads to the fact that actual numbers are much higher than the official statistics.”

“The [[Central Military Commission]] authorizes relevant military personnel and units to manage military affairs. All related information is regarded as military secrets. Personnel responsible for military control have the authority to arrest, detain or execute any doctors, police, armed police, and researchers who leak information.”<ref>[http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/6/4/30/n1303902.htm Military Doctor Discloses the Chinese Communist Party’s Official Process of Stealing and Selling Falun Gong Organs], ''The Epoch Times'', April 2006</ref>}}

===Testimony===
On December 10, 2009, an armed police officer in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province reported and testified via phone to the World Organization to Investigate Persecution of Falun Gong that he had guarded one of the organ harvesting sites and personally witnessed the entire scene of two military doctors excising organs from a [[female]] Falun Gong practitioner.<ref>[http://www.upholdjustice.org/node/336 WOIPFG: Additional Testimony Provided by Eyewitness of Organ Harvesting from Living Victim(s)].</ref>

The armed guard was an eyewitness to a [[surgery]] on April 9, 2002, in an operating room on the 15th floor of the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Command, People’s Liberation Army. He observed two military doctors extract organs from a female Falun Gong practitioner. The Military Identification No. of one of the doctors is 0106069. The victim was a middle school teacher in her thirties. Before the doctors killed her, she had been subjected to a month of severe [[torture]], molestation and [[rape]]. He stated:
{{quotebox|“No anesthetic was given. The knife dug straight into the chest. Their hands didn’t even shake. If it were me, my hands would definitely shake…”}}
In 2002, this witness worked in the Liaoning Province Public Security system and participated in the arrest and torture of Falun Gong practitioners, including this female practitioner. She was covered in wounds from the ordeal. On April 9, 2002, the Liaoning Public Security department sent two military doctors to the scene – one from the Shenyang Military Command General Hospital and another who had graduated from the Second Military Medical University. This female practitioner was fully conscious when her [[heart]], [[kidney]], and other organs were removed without [[anesthesia]]. The witness, armed with gun, guarded the scene throughout the whole process. He also stated that Wang Lijun, head of Jinzhou City Public Security, gave an order that they “must destroy Falun Gong practitioners completely.”

==Related organizations==
Falun Gong practitioners founded the [[The Epoch Times|Epoch Times]] newspaper and the [http://www.ntd.com New Tang Dynasty (NTD)] digital television channel, which collectively make up part of the New York City-based '''Epoch Media Group'''. Because of how the ''Epoch Times'' has a more [[conservative]] stance, the newspaper, have come under attack from the mainstream media, who in turn attack Falun Gong in order to tarnish credibility of the Epoch Times <ref>https://faluninfo.net/nbc-journalists-distort-and-malign-falun-gong-to-strengthen-attack-on-rival-media/</ref>.

In 2006, Falun Gong practitioners also founded the [[Shen Yun]] traditional Chinese dance show which is banned in China.<ref>https://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/spirituality/challenges-we-face</ref>. Like the Epoch Times, Shen Yun has also come under attack from the mainstream media due to anti-[[evolution]] and anti-[[atheism]] content in its programming, as well as its supposed connection to conservative media (Shen Yun and the Epoch Media Group are, in fact, separate organizations)<ref>https://www.insider.com/shen-yun-show-falun-gong-2019-3</ref>.

==See also==
*[[Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation]]
*[[Shen Yun]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party - Part 5, [http://en.epochtimes.com/news/4-12-18/24972.html On the Collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party to Persecute Falun Gong], ''The Epoch Times'', Dec 18, 2004.
*[http://www.upholdjustice.org/node/260 Jiang Zemin Ordered the Harvesting of Organs from Falun Gong Practitioners for Transplantation], WOIPFG, Sept. 30, 2014.
*[http://www.falundafa.org Falundafa.org]
*[http://www.faluninfo.net Falun Dafa Information Center]
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[[Category:China]][[Category:Chinese History]]

Akkadians

2024-03-01T18:46:28Z

SingleChristian1:

'''Akkadians''' were the [[Eastern Arabian]] people that unified under [[Sargon]] in the 2300s BC, their name refers to their capital Agade. Under [[Sargon]] leadership they conquered [[Mesopotamia]] replacing the [[Sumeria]]n dynasty and language with an Akkadian one.

==See also==

* [[Akkadian Empire]]

[[Category:Ancient History]]

Hamas

2024-03-01T18:45:40Z

SingleChristian1:

{{PoliticalParty
| party_name = Hamas
| party_logo =
| website = [http://hamas.ps/en hamas.ps]
| leader = Ismail Haniya
| Parleader =
| foundation = 1987
| headquarters = [[Gaza City]]
| ideology = [[Islamism]] [[Antisemitism]]
| position =
| international = [[Muslim Brotherhood]]
| colors = green
| footnotes =
}}
[[Image:Hamas.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Hamas]]
'''Hamas''' ([[Arabic]]: '''حركة حماس''' "zeal") is a radical [[Islamic]] [[fascism|fascistic]]<ref>Richard Cohen, [https://www.nydailynews.com/2010/06/28/the-evil-ideology-that-fuels-hamas-the-term-islamic-fascism-is-completely-apt The evil ideology that fuels Hamas: The term 'Islamic fascism' is completely apt], ''NY Daily News'', Jun 28, 2010. [https://archive.ph/5mOn3].</ref><ref>J Herf, [https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/08/01/why-they-fight-hamas-too-little-known-fascist-charter/ Why They Fight: Hamas’ Too-Little-Known Fascist Charter], Aug 1, 2014. [https://archive.ph/AKiFK].</ref><ref>Meir-Levi, D. (2010). History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression. Canada: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
[https://www.asmeascholars.org/history-turned-upside-down--the-roots-of-palestinian-fascism-and-the-myth-of-israeli-aggression The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression]</ref> political and [[terrorist]] organization in [[Gaza]] and the [[West Bank]] known for their usage -en masse- of civilians as [[Human shields by terrorists|human shields]].<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hamas-rsquo-s-human-shields Operation Cast Lead: Hamas’s Human Shields]. ''Jewish Virtual Library''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref>Katz, Yaakov (March 15, 2010). [https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Hamas-used-kids-as-human-shields 'Hamas used kids as human shields']. ''The Jerusalem Post''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-hamas-civilians-human-shields Does Hamas use civilians as human shields?]. ''4 News''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref>Fredericks, Bob (August 5, 2014). [https://nypost.com/2014/08/05/hamas-manual-details-civilian-death-plan-israel/ Hamas’ disturbing ‘human shields’ manual]. ''New York Post.'' May 2, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://nypost.com/2015/05/02/un-report-outlines-how-hamas-used-kids-as-human-shields/ UN report outlines how Hamas used kids as human shields]. ''New York Post''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref name=wt-2018>Wilson, Joe (May 31, 2018). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/31/the-inhumanity-of-hamas-human-shields/ The inhumanity of Hamas' human shields]. ''Washington Times''. Retrieved April 20, 2021.</ref><ref name=wt-2021/><ref>Hamas admits using civilians as human shields, All Arab News Staff, June 9, 2021.
<blockquote>Israel accuses Hamas of double war crimes for such fighting – firing at Israeli civilians from within civilian population centers.

In a speech to the head of the Hamas political bureau in Gaza after the end of the war between Hamas and Israel last month, Yahya Sinwar admitted that his organization has several military headquarters embedded in residential buildings – something Israel has been accusing the organization of all along.

Hamas has always denied the existence of military and security headquarters among Gaza residents. This contradicts videos published by the Israeli army which indicate that rockets were launched from among the residential areas.

Now, in a video that is making its way around the media, Sinwar admits as much...</blockquote></ref><ref>Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) Tweeted:
Hamas arrests 20-year-old Mustafa Asfour, from Khan Yunis, after he criticized Hamas for storing weapons in residential areas in the Gaza Strip. [https://twitter.com/KhaledAbuToameh/status/1424462364657737728 August 8, 2021]. 
[https://www.israel365news.com/195802/hamas-arrests-palestinian-for-criticizing-the-policy-of-storing-weapons-in-residential-centers/ Hamas arrests Palestinian for criticizing the policy of storing weapons in residential centers]. Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Israel 365 News, Aug 9, 2021.
''Israeli Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh tweeted on Sunday that Hamas arrested 20-year-old Mustafa Asfour, from Khan Yunis, after he criticized Hamas for storing weapons in residential areas in the Gaza Strip.''
 

Hillel Neuer's tweet - "20-year-old Mustafa Asfour of Gaza did something our Western correspondents rarely do: He risked his life to call out Hamas for using Palestinians as human shields by storing bombs in residential areas. That’s a war crime under the Geneva Conventions that Ken Roth never mentions. " - Trendsmap
[https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1424880984454012930 Aug 10, 2021] 
Lise Korson (@LiseKorson) Tweeted:
.Mustafa Asfour & other #Gazans
just want #Hamas to STOP! following the practices of their #Iran patron who taught #Hezbollah to store weapons in civilian areas.
We all saw what happened in Beirut blast last August! https://t.co/XI3fzoNghw [https://twitter.com/LiseKorson/status/1424504874943848448?s=20 Aug 9, 2021]. 
@GogoIsrael2
Replying to @afagerbakke:
But, but, according to the greatest NGO's E.V.E.R. that's not the case. #Israel is targetting residential area's without any proof of weapon storage or missile platforms. Correct, Kenny @KenRoth @hrw? Are you just a blatant #Israel basher and denying your ancestry? ..
[https://twitter.com/GogoIsrael2/status/1424500877889519618 Aug 9, 2021].
 
When Hamas tells you you're a human shield you shut up and be a human shield.
[https://twitter.com/themossadil/status/1424777441093038088 Aug 9, 2021].
 
michalms (@michalms01) Tweeted:
@KhaledAbuToameh @IlhanMN @AOC if you care about Palestinian lives, you would use your voice and power to help Mustafa Asfour. Or are you only “care” about Palestinians when Israel is involved? [https://twitter.com/michalms01/status/1424887871480156160?s=20 Aug 10, 2021]
 
yossi blachman (@YBlachman) Tweeted:
@KhaledAbuToameh @elliecohanim Where is @RashidaTlaib @AOC @Ilhan @UNWatch I guess only certain Palestinian lives matter to them. [https://twitter.com/YBlachman/status/1424946096086953985?s=20 Aug 10, 2021]</ref> The group is regarded as a [[terrorist]] organization by the [[United States]], the [[EU]], [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[Israel]], [[Japan]], [[Jordan]] and moderate Islamic leader [[Faisal Abdul Rauf]]. The name Hamas is an acronym of ''Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya'' (Islamic Resistance Movement). Hamas combines "[[Palestinian]]" nationalism with [[Islam]]ic fundamentalism, and "regards the territory of the present-day State of Israel — as well as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — as an inalienable Islamic ''waqf'' or religious bequest, which can never be surrendered to non-Muslims."<ref>''Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement'' [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3377113,00.html YNet] Accessed July 18, 2007</ref>
Overview:<ref>[https://israel-alma.org/2014/07/29/from-collateral-damage-to-human-shields-why-are-there-so-many-casualties-on-the-palestinian-side/ From Collateral Damage to Human Shields: Why There Are So Many Casualties on the Palestinian Side], Sarit Zehavi, Alma Israel, July 29, 2014.</ref>
[[File:Hamas.uses.kids.as.human.shields.jpg|thumb|Photo of Hamas using Kids as human shields]]

[[File:Supremacists and jihadists hatred.jpg|thumb|Supremacists and jihadists hatred]]
<blockquote>
Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip since it defeated Fatah in elections and expelled its members by killing about 500 of them between the years 2006 and 2007, learned from Hezbollah how to achieve gains on the conflict against the “Zionist enemy”. Hamas has adopted Hezbollah's modus operandi of using civilians as “human shields”. A few years ago, the IDF published how it looks in the Shiite village of Al-Khiyam in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah has placed the weapon depots dozen meters from schools in the crowded center of the village. Over the years, Hamas enjoyed wide assistance of training and consultancy from Hezbollah and applied the same methodology in Gaza. An underground, well concreted City was dug in Gaza, where Hamas militants were hiding, while a single shelter was not built for the citizens. Gaza villages, as in Southern Lebanon, became military compounds including armories, headquarters, intelligence positions, rocket launching positions, etc. All these were spread throughout the village according to the terrain analysis: observation posts on high positions controlling the roads below, important assets such as command centers and weapons warehouses in the most crowded or sensitive sites such as hospitals, schools and mosques. During an escalation, rockets are being launched from the hidden positions that were dug in advance – within or under homes, schools, mosques and various religious centers.</blockquote>

More:<ref>
[http://www.jij.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/JIJ-Fact-Sheet-1-Hamas-EN-A4-ver-12.pdf Why HAMAS is Bad for Palestinians], Jerusalem Institute of Justice,May, 2017.</ref>
<blockquote>
1. Societal Abuse
Hamas has forcefully taken over Gaza, and has summarily executed 500+ political opponents by throwing them from
skyscraper rooftops.
Hamas carries out arbitrary arrests, torture and executions, by accusing and convicting suspected anti-Hamas
Palestinians as "collaborators." During July/August 2014 Hamas performed at least 55 executions of civilians.
Hamas has arbitrarily arrested and/or detained at least 2,970 people since seizing control of Gaza. 200+ cases of torture by Hamas have been documented since 2011.

2. Child Abuse
Hamas perpetuates a culture of militarization in which younger children are revered as holier martyrs. Hamas runs summer camps for children as young as 6 years old, which include activities like crawling under barbed wire fences with assault rifles and viewing simulated kidnappings of Israeli soldiers.

160 child laborers allegedly died during
Hamas’ construction of cross-border tunnels between Gaza and Israel.
Hamas spokesman: "Human rights education dangerously contravenes Palestinian and Islamic culture" and "brainwashes Palestinian children."

3. Corruption
Hamas raises billions of dollars, pockets most of it, and with what's left, builds tens of millions of dollars' worth of tunnels under homes, schools and hospitals. It diverted an estimated $30-90 million’s worth of building materials from construction projects to build three dozen tunnels into Israel to use for terrorist acts.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, with personal net worth of $2.6 billion, calls the shots of the military engagement in Gaza while living comfortably at a 5-star hotel in Qatar.

4. Human Rights Abuses
Hamas morality police punish women ..
Women in Gaza are unable to initiate divorce.
Only males may press incest charges. Rapists can be set free if they agree to marry their victims. Homosexuality is entirely outlawed by Hamas, with a punishment of up to ten years in jail.

5. Disregard for Life
Hamas camouflages its combatants in civilian clothes, turning all Gazans into potential IDF targets.
Hamas glorifies martyrdom as a high calling, intentionally drawing Palestinian civilians into danger by firing rockets at Israel from civilian population centers. Hamas has been known to physically prevent civilians from evacuating targeted buildings.
Hamas implements a "dead-baby strategy" by strategically trying to have as many as possible Palestinian babies killed, in order to use the photos to raise finances and political collateral.
Hamas declared that all Israelis – including civilian men, women and children – are legitimate targets of missile attacks.
Hamas frequently misfires rockets which land in Gaza, destroying buildings and killing innocent Palestinians.
Hamas booby-traps homes, schools, and hospitals with explosives. "Work accidents" sometimes kill civilians.
Hamas in August 2014 booby-trapped a United Nations clinic in Gaza by hiding 12 barrels containing 80 kg. of explosives each in a wall, and then using a child to lure Israeli soldiers into the building. The explosives detonated and three soldiers died.</blockquote>

[[File:Hamas.blood.2023.jpg|thumb|Palestine Islamic Scholars Association's Hussein Qasem: The Jews are...We Are Thirsty For Their Blood (June.28.23)
[https://www.memri.org/reports/palestine-islamic-scholars-association-member-hussein-qasem-jews-are-enemies-humanity-we-0]
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fzt94DmXgAAchMk?format=jpg&name=900x900]]]

[[File:Hamas.blood.2006.jpg|thumb|[https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4765/1487/400/htdbljpw.jpg][https://palwatch.org/page/569 Hamas suicide terrorist farewell video: Palestinians drink the blood of Jews"] 2006.]]

[[File:Hamas.charter.jpeg|thumb|Hamas genocidal charter]]

Hamas charter commits the group to the destruction of Israel, the replacement of the Palestinian Authority with an Islamic state on the West Bank and Gaza, and to raising "the banner of Allah over every inch of [[Palestine]]."

Before [[Arab Spring]], Hamas had its headquarters in [[Damascus]], [[Syria]] under the protection and support of that country's dictator, [[Bashar al-Assad]] though Assad broke ties with Hamas when Hamas backed the anti-Christian Free Syrian Army.. Hamas receives much support from theocratic [[Iran]]. (Iran was behind,<ref>Ido Levy, [https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-iran-fuels-hamas-terrorism How Iran Fuels Hamas Terrorism], Washington Institute, Jun 1, 2021.<blockquote>
After playing a key role in the group’s military development for years and navigating deep ideological rifts, Tehran has renewed its extensive sponsorship in ways that contributed directly to the recent bloodshed in Gaza.
...The group later began developing high-level contacts with Iran when the Islamic Republic convened two conferences on Palestine in 1990-1991.</blockquote></ref>
[[Hamas]] shelling Israeli civilians (while using its own) in May 2021 starting the war which led to operation [[Guardian of Walls]] by Israeli defense).

Hamas leader abroad Khaled Mash'al: "The [[Muslim Brotherhood]] founded the Hamas movement, helped plan the Al-Aqsa Intifada, funded the Palestinian "Resistance [sic]" factions<ref>[https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leader-abroad-khaled-mashal-muslim-brotherhood-founded-hamas-movement-helped-plan-al Hamas Leader Abroad Khaled Mash'al: The Muslim Brotherhood Founded The Hamas Movement, Helped Plan The Al-Aqsa Intifada, Funded The Palestinian "Resistance" Factions], ''Memri'', February 7, 2023.
<blockquote>
Ibrahim Munir, a prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) who served in the recent years as the movement's acting general guide and who was the head of the movement's London faction, died in London on November 4, 2022. In the eulogy he delivered for Munir, Khaled Mash'al, the leader of the Hamas movement abroad, emphasized the close relations between the MB and Hamas, the MB's significant contribution to the establishment of Hamas, and the support it has extended to this movement over the years. Mash'al noted, for example, that when the Al-Aqsa intifada broke out, the MB leadership formed a support apparatus for the Palestinians, headed by Ibrahim Munir, which assisted Hamas and all the Palestinian resistance factions, helped with the planning of the intifada, and provided financial, political and media support to Hamas, which continued after Munir became the MB's acting general guide. Mash'al urged the members of the MB and of Hamas to follow in Munir's footsteps in order to achieve the important objectives, chiefly exalting Islam, the Islamic nation and the Palestinian cause.

Born in 1937 in Mansoura, Egypt, Ibrahim Munir joined the MB in 1952 after being deeply influenced by the writings of the organization's founder, Hassan Al-Banna. During the Nasserist era he was jailed for 10 years for membership in the MB. After his release in 1975 he spent five years in Kuwait before being granted political asylum in Britain, where he lived until his death and was involved in the establishment of Islamic centers. Munir served many prominent roles in the MB movement. He was appointed to the Guidance Office in 1995 and was subsequently appointed secretary of the international MB and the organization's spokesperson in Europe. In 2009 he became one of the deputies of MB general guide. From September 2020 he served as the movement's acting general guide, standing in for General Guide Muhammad Badie, who is serving a life sentence in Egypt, after the former acting general guide, Mahmoud 'Izzat, was arrested as well. Since the MB split into two factions nine years ago, Munir was head of the faction based in London, opposing the rival faction, based in Istanbul, which did not recognize his authority. Under the Mubarak and Al-Sisi regimes he was tried in absentia for membership in a terror organization.</blockquot></ref>

From the Jihadi-genocidal Hamas charter:<ref>https://embassies.gov.il/seoul-en/AboutIsrael/the-middle-east/Pages/Covenant-of-Hamas-terror.aspx</ref>
<blockquote>
Article 7: "The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."" [Page 4]</blockquote>
Hamas advocates killing Jews, simply for being Jews.<ref>[http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=14650 The Hamas advocates Killing Jews, simply for being Jews], ''IMRA'', November 25, 2002.
<blockquote>
IDF Spoksperson 24 November 2002

The Iz-Adin Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas, published
(23 November 2002) a bulletin on their official website, advocating the murder of Jews simply for the fact of that they are Jews.

The bulletin was published to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Imad Akal, a senior Hamas official, killed in the Gaza Strip on November 24, 1993.
The bulletin quotes Akal as saying: "We will knock on the doors of Heaven with the skulls of the Jews". The bulletin depicts an axe shattering the word "Al-Yahud" (Jews) and splintering the skulls of Jews. The words Al-Qassam are engraved on the axe.
[http://web.archive.org/web/20030412150205/https://www.idf.il/newsite/images/1124-4p.jpg]</blockquote></ref>

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum on July 30, 2014:<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-spokesman-fawzi-barhoum-calls-carry-out-terror-attacks-israel-and-west-bank Hamas Spokesman Fawzi Barhoum Calls to Carry Out Terror Attacks in Israel and the West Bank], Memri, Jul 30, 2014.<blockquote>
In a July 30, 2014 interview with the Lebanese Al-Quds TV channel, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum called upon Israeli Arabs and Palestinians in the West Bank to wage attacks...
"... Anyone who has a knife, a club, a weapon, or a car, yet does not use it to run over a Jew or a settler, and does not use it to kill dozens of Zionists, does not belong to Palestine..."</blockquote></ref><blockquote>Anyone who has a knife, a club, a weapon, or a car, yet does not use it to run over a Jew or a settler, and does not use it to kill dozens of Zionists, does not belong to Palestine.</blockquote>

Historian, author of WW2:<ref>Jeffrey Herf, [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/the-nazi-roots-of-islamist-hate The Nazi Roots of Islamist Hate], ''Tablet Magazine'', Jul 5, 2022. A review of recent scholarship on the shaping of the modern Middle East in the aftermath of the Holocaust...</ref><blockquote>Despite the fact that the Hamas Covenant has long been publicly available, scholars in the United States who regard themselves as leftists have bizarrely sought to present Hamas as perhaps an extreme element of an otherwise progressive global endeavor. Anyone who reads the text can immediately recognize the aftereffects of the Nazi-Islamist ideological fusion that emerged four decades before Hamas published its statement of beliefs.</blockquote>

Historian:<ref>Efraim Karsh, [https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hamas-doesn-t-want-a-palestinian-state Hamas doesn't want a Palestinian state], ''The Spectator'', May 22, 2021.<blockquote>The reality is that Hamas is no liberation movement in search of a Palestinian nation. Instead, it seeks the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic empire on its ruins. How do we know? Because senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar has said so:


Islamic and traditional views reject the notion of establishing an independent Palestinian state… In the past, there was no independent Palestinian state… This is a holy land. It is not the property of the Palestinians or the Arabs. This land is the property of all Muslims in all parts of the world… [Hence] our main goal is to establish a great Islamic state, be it pan-Arabic or pan-Islamic.

Understanding this makes it clear that the most recent bout of fighting — in which thousands of rockets have been fired and dozens killed — has little to do with freeing Palestinians from Israeli domination. It is inspired instead by the idea of freeing the Holy Land from Israel.</blockquote></ref>
<blockquote>
The reality is that Hamas is no liberation movement in search of a Palestinian nation. Instead, it seeks the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic empire on its ruins. How do we know? Because senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar has said so.</blockquote>

In 2008, Younis Astal, Hamas, MP: Islam will conquer world to "save humanity from [Hell] Fire." Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas.<ref>[https://palwatch.org/page/924 Islam will conquer world to "save humanity from [Hell] Fire"], ''PMW.''
<blockquote>Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas | Apr 11, 2008 — Younis Astal, Hamas, MP "Soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, like Constantinople was conquered..."</blockquote></ref>

In 2010, on Al-Aqsa TV, [[Hamas]] Sermon in [[Gaza]]: "Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam."<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-sermon-gaza-rome-will-be-conquered-islam Hamas Sermon in Gaza: Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam], ''Memri'' Mar 5, 2010.<blockquote>

Source: Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza)

Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered in the Gaza Strip, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on March 5, 2010.

Preacher: The prophecy of the conquest of Rome remains valid, Allah willing. Just like Constantinople was conquered some 500 years ago, Rome too will be conquered.

Our prayers, our fasting, and the charity we give will be to no avail, if we doubt the .. Muhammad. How can we proceed along the path of righteousness, if we are not secure in our belief that Rome will be conquered, as promised by the ... Muhammad and as proclaimed by Allah?</blockquote></ref>

As late as May, 2021, Hamas openly declared the entire area is exclusively Arabs', Muslims'.<ref>Per Hamas' interview to ''Sky News'' on May 24, 2021. 
"[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306815 Senior Hamas leader: Israel doesn't have the right to exist]," Israel National News, May 25, 2021:
<blockquote>“You are not a citizen. We are the owner of this area – Arabic area. This is well known as an Islamic area.”</blockquote></ref>

[[File:Hamas-Jihad-global-vision-on-Christianity-and-Zionism.jpg|thumb|Hamas Jihad global vision on Christianity and Zionism]]

Dec 2022:<ref>MEMRI @MEMRIReports:<blockquote>Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahar: The “Army of Jerusalem” Will Not Liberate Palestinian Land Only; the 512 Million Square Kilometers of Planet Earth Will Come Under a System with No Zionism, No Treacherous Christianity #Hamas #Palestinians.</blockquote>
[https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1607095961163108354 Dec 25, 2022].
 
[https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1607095961163108354/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1607095961163108354 clip].</ref><blockquote>Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahar: The "Army of Jerusalem" Will Not Liberate Palestinian Land Only; the 512 Million Square Kilometers of Planet Earth Will Come Under a System with No Zionism, No Treacherous Christianity.</blockquote>

== Name ==
''Hamas'' is an [[Acronym and initialism|acronym]] of the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] phrase حركة المقاومة الاسلامية, or '''Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya''' or "Islamic Resistance Movement". Ami Isseroff on ''MidEast web'' states that the acronym is also the Arabic word for "zeal".<ref>[http://www.mideastweb.org/hamashistory.htm "A History of the Hamas Movement"]. Copyright 1999-2002. ''MidEast Web''.</ref>

Its noted personalities have called for [[genocide]] of Jews.<ref>Hamas Wants to Kill All Jews Worldwide.
By Michael Brown July 16, 2019.
A senior Hamas leader has called for the slaughter of every Jew on planet earth. Those were literally his words.
https://stream.org/hamas-wants-to-kill-all-jews-worldwide/</ref>
<ref>Hamas Cleric and TV Host Abu Funun: We Will Not Leave a Single Jew, Dead or Alive, on Our Land.
Source: Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza)
https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-cleric-and-tv-host-abu-funun-we-will-not-leave-single-jew-dead-or-alive-our-land</ref><ref>Hamas Cleric: Not a Single Jew Will Remain Here. On Hamas TV station, presenter tells Jews: 'We will not leave a single one of you, alive or dead, on this land.' Ari Soffer , Oct 21 , 2015 3:51 PM
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/202229</ref>

[[File:Memri-hamas-1.jpg|250px]]

[[File:By-Allah-we-will-dig-up-your-bones1.jpg|250px]]

== History ==
[[File:Pro-Palestinian rally.PNG|right|250px|thumb|A [[Nazi]] flag appears at a Pro-Palestinian rally during the [[2021 Hamas war]].<ref>https://gellerreport.com/2021/05/nazis-flags-at-pro-terror-palestinian-demo.html/</ref>]]
Hamas was founded by terrorist Sheik Ahmed Yassin as the [[Egypt]]ian [[Muslim Brotherhood|Muslim Brotherhood's]] local political arm in December 1987, following the outbreak of the first [[intifada]]. Hamas published its official charter in 1988. From the 1990s it achieved notoriety for its use of the tactic of [[suicide bombing]], principally against civilian targets in Israel. Hamas members started carrying out terrorist attacks starting in the late 1980s, at first in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The first Hamas suicide bombing took place on April 26, 1993, when Saher al-tamam attacked two Israeli buses in front of a coffee shop in Mehola, killing and injuring several Israelis. It is believed to have killed more than 1500 people in more than 350 separate terrorist attacks since then.

=== Opinion of Fatah ===
It also set itself in opposition to the less religious [[Fatah]] movement. In the 2006 elections to the [[Palestinian Authority]] legislature Hamas gained a majority of seats; its government was dissolved in June 1997 by "Palestinian" president [[Mahmoud Abbas]] following the military takeover by Hamas of the [[Gaza Strip]] after several days of fighting between Hamas and Fatah.

On the other hand, Hamas has also cooperated with the Fatah in its campaign of terror against Israel. For example, after the failure of the 2000 peace talks former leader of the Fatah movement [[Yasir Arafat]] ordered Hamas to start launching attacks against Israel.<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=189549 Arafat ordered Hamas attacks against Israel in 2000 - Jerusalem Post]</ref> In his later years Arafat also sought to create an leadership organization which would have included the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements.<ref>[http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=13434 Arafat's Hamas Honeymoon -FrontPage Magazine]</ref>

=== Islam ===
Like the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], which Hamas branched off from, Hamas believes the rules of Islam, or the [[Sharia]] to be a sufficient guide for all areas of life. Since Hamas sees Islam as a sufficient guide for all areas in life, and as a way of life, they, as the Covenant of Hamas says, tries to make Islam its program.<ref name = "hamascovenant">[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant Hamas Covenant]</ref>

====Islamism====
Example: In 2022, on March 30, March 31, Apr 1, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Other Palestinian Groups Threaten Violence During Ramadan – 'The Month Of Jihad And Martyrdom.'<ref>[https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-palestinian-islamic-jihad-other-palestinian-groups-threaten-violence-during-ramadan-%E2%80%93 Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Other Palestinian Groups Threaten Violence During Ramadan – 'The Month Of Jihad And Martyrdom'], ''Memri'', Apr 6, 2022.</ref>

In 2023, in groundbreaking ruling, Middle Eastern Islamic council declared ‘fatwa’ against Hamas. ''Hamas joins the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, other extreme groups as being deemed ‘un-Islamic'.''<ref>Ruth Marks Eglash, [https://www.foxnews.com/world/in-groundbreaking-ruling-middle-eastern-islamic-council-declares-fatwa-against-hamas In a groundbreaking ruling, Middle Eastern Islamic council declares ‘fatwa’ against Hamas], ''Fox News'', March 12, 2023.<blockquote>
Hamas joins the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, other extreme groups as being deemed ‘un-Islamic'.
In a groundbreaking ruling, an official Islamic legislative body based in the Arab world declared a "fatwa," or a legal opinion, against the Islamist militant group Hamas Thursday, calling its treatment of millions of Palestinians living under its rule in the Gaza Strip "inhumane" and urging the terrorist organization and its followers to immediately give up arms, sit down and make peace.

The unprecedented declaration, published by the Islamic Fatwa Council, a non-government body of Shiite, Sunni and Sufi clerics headquartered in the Iraqi spiritual capital of Najaf, states that Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, "bears responsibility for its own reign of corruption and terror against Palestinian civilians within Gaza" and deems "it prohibited to pray for, join, support, finance or fight on behalf of Hamas."

"As an Islamic legal body, we take note of the condition of the oppressed all over the world," Muhammad Ali Al-Maqdisi, a cleric for the council, said in a video statement shared with Fox News Digital.

"We have seen what Gaza has been subjected to under Hamas’ rule. We have also seen the atrocities which, in our view, have been perpetrated against Palestinians — faithful and unarmed civilians — who have neither strength nor recourse. And, so, we believed it was our Islamic obligation to aid the oppressed.</blockquote></ref>

'''Global aims'''

"The amazing story of the Gazan escaped to Israel and converted to Judaism":{{Cquote|
"In Gaza, there are no citizens who oppose Hamas. If necessary, they will murder Jews, Christians, and even Muslims," Dor Shachar, 46, said in an interview with Maariv. Born in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip, as Ayman Abu Suboh, who escaped to Israel, converted...

According to Shachar, "In Gaza, they are affiliated with organizations like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP], and others. All these organizations support the killing of Jews. Some of these organizations have infiltrated the Gaza Strip. This is a religious war; '''they want to take over the entire world'''."<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-775358 Gazan who escaped to Israel, converted to Judaism shares his story], ''JPost'', November 27, 2023</ref>}}

===Blood/death cult===
PA and Hamas’ shared values: Both promote identical death/blood worship.<ref>Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Itamar Marcus l, [https://palwatch.org/page/32395 PA and Hamas’ shared values: Both promote identical death/blood worship], ''Palwatch'', Nov 27, 2022.
<blockquote>
Many mistakenly portray the Palestinian Authority as the “moderate” Palestinian side, and the terror organization Hamas ruling the Gaza Strip as the only extremists.

Often it is difficult to tell their views apart. In the following, Palestinian Media Watch has put together statements by PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh and Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras, both endorsing death for “Palestine,” speaking about the wonder of Martyrdom and the “Martyrs’” blood.</blockquote></ref>

=== Freemasons, Lions Club and the Rotarians ===
Hamas views the [[Freemasons]], [[Lions Club]], and the [[Rotarians]] as groups that help support [[Zionism|Zionist]] interests, and it believes that they were created with Zionist money and are driving forces behind the drug trade and [[alcoholism]].<ref name = "hamascovenant"/>

===2005 and on===

Instead of agreeing to peace, and appreciating Israel's 2005 give away, Hamas has only taken advantage and got more emboldened in murderous aims, plans and routine, it has also turned the then vastly developed land, turning it into terror infrastructure. In a reversal of “beating their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks” (Isaiah 2:4), Hamas instead has used life-giving agricultural into weapons

Experts:<ref name=wt-2021>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/18/need-marshall-plan-gaza-strip/ The need for a Marshall Plan in the Gaza Strip] Bradley Martin and Dr. Liram Koblentz-Stenzler - - The Washington Times, May 18, 2021.</ref>
<blockquote>
When Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, it evacuated over nine thousand Israeli citizens living in 25 Jewish villages with the hope of encouraging the creation of an independent Palestinian state that would live in peace alongside Israel.

The Israeli government left behind a highly-developed area, which could have served as the backbone of a prosperous economy. The sum of the exports from the Israeli greenhouses came to $200 million a year. The combined assets of Gush Katif (the largest Israeli village in the Gaza Strip at the time) were estimated at $23 billion.

Rather than reciprocate and use the infrastructure Israel left to the Palestinians, Hamas felt emboldened enough to violently take over the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority in 2007. In a reversal of “beating their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks” (Isaiah 2:4), Hamas instead has used life-giving agricultural machinery and irrigation pipes to create rockets and weapons of slaughter.

Hamas is a hybrid terrorist organization with well-developed social, political and military wings. As the ruling regime in the Gaza Strip, Hamas needs to run schools, mosques, hospitals, and other social services for its residents. As a military wing (called the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades), Hamas has committed over 90 suicide and bombing attacks and has launched over 20,000 rocket and mortar attacks that have killed over 650 innocent Israeli civilians.

Hamas has established an orderly paramilitary framework with brigades, battalions, companies, and platoons as well as dedicated units, including intelligence, commando and cyber units. Its arsenal includes thousands of rockets and missiles at their disposal, as well as dozens of kilometers of tunnels often built underneath highly-sensitive areas in the Gaza Strip such as hospitals. Rockets have even been found underneath UNRWA schools.

Over time, Hamas has used its mandate to make the Gaza Strip into a base for terrorism. The money that it gets from Israel and Qatar is not used for the welfare of its citizens, but to increase its military capability by digging more tunnels and increasing its missile ranges and explosive payloads. At the same time, Israel has developed technologies to decrease collateral damage and protect the lives of innocent civilians.
</blockquote>

In a 2012 example in eliminating a terror master, it was explained:<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233724/Gaza-rocket-attack-warning-Israels-enemies.html Rocket attack is a warning to all Israel's enemies, with domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet to take action 'when necessary'] Michael Burleigh for the [[Daily Mail]] , Nov 16, 2012.
<blockquote>
... For sure Hamas carries out good deeds among the Palestinian poor in Gaza, with clinics and soup kitchens, but this is largely an attempt to indoctrinate them in anti-Semitic hatred by a political leadership that gives the armed wing its strategic marching orders.

The core fighters of the military wing number several hundreds of men, trained in Iran and Syria, but there another 10,000 people who facilitate their evil deeds.

Hamas is not some benign conservative religious party. The 2012 list of its regular human rights abuses compiled by the organisation Human Rights Watch runs to 42 pages, and includes beating people with iron bars, 102 cases of torture, and the hanging of anyone suspected of collaborating with the Israelis.

Their fighters employ child suicide bombers and use Palestinian civilians as human shields. This is the organisation to which Jaberi devoted the last decades of his violent life.

Jaberi, for example, is believed to have been involved in the suicide bombing of a No 6 bus in the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom in 1995 that killed eight and wounded 60 others.</blockquote></ref>
<blockquote>
... For sure Hamas carries out good deeds among the Palestinian poor in Gaza, with clinics and soup kitchens, but this is largely an attempt to indoctrinate them in anti-Semitic hatred by a political leadership that gives the armed wing its strategic marching orders.

The core fighters of the military wing number several hundreds of men, trained in Iran and Syria, but there another 10,000 people who facilitate their evil deeds.

Hamas is not some benign conservative religious party. The 2012 list of its regular human rights abuses compiled by the organisation Human Rights Watch runs to 42 pages, and includes beating people with iron bars, 102 cases of torture, and the hanging of anyone suspected of collaborating with the Israelis.

Their fighters employ child suicide bombers and use Palestinian civilians as human shields. This is the organisation to which Jaberi devoted the last decades of his violent life.

Jaberi, for example, is believed to have been involved in the suicide bombing of a No 6 bus in the Israeli settlement of Kfar Darom in 1995 that killed eight and wounded 60 others.</blockquote>

Already in Jan-2014, the ''Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights'' (ICHR) charged the PA and Hamas with repeated cases of torture, oppression, assaults on freedom of expression and academic freedoms, as well as ignoring court orders.<ref>Ari Yashar, "[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180435 PA Human Rights Abuses Start with Hamas Flag]," INN, May 09 , 2014.
 
PA security forces charged with beating civilians with weapons, firing live ammo, raiding homes with no warrant.</ref>

=== Oppression, torture. Hoarding resources to enrich leadership and push to violence ===
Even according to anti-Israel Human Rights Watch<ref> [https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/10/23/two-authorities-one-way-zero-dissent/arbitrary-arrest-and-torture-under October 23, 2018 Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent], 'Arbitrary Arrest and Torture Under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.' ''HRW'', 2018</ref> [[Palestinian Authority]] and Hamas cancels elections, beats, jails, tortures and kills political opponents, controls the media and tortures journalists especially Hamas,<ref>[https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/article/palestinian-journalist-tortured-by-hamas Palestinian journalist "tortured by Hamas"], 01 November 2019</ref> and regarding activists, where even animals are treated better<ref>[https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/01/02/even-animals-gets-better-treatment-tortured-by-hamas-man-finds-refuge-in-israel/ Even animals get better treatment': Tortured by Hamas, man finds refuge in Israel], ''ILH'', Feb 1, 2019</ref>; it hoards resources per testimonies of locals<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/whats-life-like-under-hamas-whispered-in-gaza-offers-unique-courageous-testimony/ What’s life like under Hamas?], ''TOI'', 16 Jan 2023. "‘Whispered in Gaza’ offers unique, courageous testimony."</ref> to enrich its leaders and stoke its population’s rage, and embraces only violent "resistance."<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/world/middleeast/gaza-protests-hamas.html Hamas Crackdown on Gaza Protests Instills Fear], ''NYTimes'', 24 March 2019 </ref><ref>Adnan Abu Amer, "Why is Hamas refusing to lay down arms?
The movement sees its military capability as its only deterrent against Israeli aggression and expansion." ''Aljazeera,'' 11 Jun 2017</ref> Leveling these charges, theses findings are of international human rights groups and the voices of Gazans themselves.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47616809 Gaza economic protests expose cracks in Hamas's rule], ''BBC'', 18 March 2019</ref>

===Attacking Christians===
Noted:<ref>[https://www.memri.org/reports/fears-pa-gaza-may-turn-taliban-style-emirate Fears in PA: Gaza May Turn into Taliban-Style Emirate], ''MEMRI'' Jun 27, 2007.</ref><blockquote>The most serious manifestation of the Islamization of Gaza were the attacks on Christians during the Hamas takeover of Gaza.</blockquote>

In 2019:<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-mp-marwan-ras-zionists-send-girls-arabs-aids-bahrainis-sterilize-jews-presence Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras said in a June 28 Friday sermon at the 'Izz Al-Din ...], Memri, Jun 28, 2019.</ref><blockquote>
Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras said in a June 28 Friday sermon at the 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Mosque in Gaza that was uploaded to the Internet that Muslims must avoid the "filthy and impure" company of Jews and Christians and that they must not take Jews and Christians as allies.</blockquote>

===Anti-Semitism ===
The group has anti-Semitic beliefs such as Jews as supposedly plotting to "control" the world, Jews acquire wealth by supposedly "stealing", that the Jews supposedly "control" the media, government and finance.<ref>http://www.adl.org/PresRele/IslME_62/4877_62.htm</ref> Also, the co-creator of Hamas Abdel Azuz Rantisi engaged in [[Holocaust denial]] by claiming that the Holocaust is the greatest of "lies" created by the Zionists.<ref>http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=18086</ref>

Immediately following the [[911]] attacks, and ugly images of thousands of [[September_11,_2001_attacks#Arab-Muslim_.22Palestinians.22_dance.2C_cheer|Arab-Muslim "Palestinians" dance, cheer]] celebrating the heinous crimes were publicized, father of [[911]] ringleader, [[Mohamed Al-Amir Atta]] invented the lie, blood libel on supposed five "dancing J..s." The racist Arab-Muslim used the term 'Jews' in his lie. [[Hamas]] bigots backed it. It is the only "source" for neo [[Nazis]]' pushed conspiracy theories about it.<ref>David Sheen, "Were the notorious..." The Gray Zone, Sep 11, 2021.
<blockquote>
'At no point did Maria or any witness allege that the Israeli men were dancing in any way. The FBI report refers to the men as the “Israeli Nationals” and “The High Fivers.” The first documented allegation that the men had danced in celebration of the Twin Towers attack comes not from any American law enforcement agency, but rather from the father of Mohammad Atta, the ringleader of the Al Qaeda-affiliated cell that hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 and crashed it into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
On September 28, 2001, a USA Today article entitled “Conspiracy theories say Israel did it” cited Egyptian news agency MENA’s interview with the elder Atta, complaining that insufficient focus was being paid to reports that the FBI had “seized a number of Jews while they were dancing in celebration over the incidents.”...

An internal FBI memo dated September 24, 2001 stated: “Both the Newark and the New York Divisions conducted a thorough investigation which determined that none of the Israelis had any information on prior knowledge regarding the bombing of the World Trade Center. Furthermore, Newark and New York determined that none of the Israelis were actively engaged in clandestine intelligence activities in the United States.” </blockquote>

[Conspiracy Theories say Israel [sic] did it. By James Cox, USA TODAY, Sep. 28, 2001.

The Muslim world
World Trade Center
... A group of five [sic] Jews was arrested shortly following the attacks after being spotted videotaping the crashes on a New York rooftop and [sic] dancing in jubilation... Typical is an editorial in the Syria Times...

The grieving father of suspected hijacker Mohamed Atta, interviewed by Egyptian news agency MENA, wondered why U.S. media outlets has chosen to ignore that U.S. authorities seized a number of Jews while they were [sic] dancing [sic] in celebration [sic] of over the incidents."
The answer to that question was obvious to Ismail Abu-Shanab, a member of the militants Palestinian group Hamas.]</ref>

In January, 2004 (as a doctor):<ref>Jeffrey Goldberg, [https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/33723/ Fighting Terror by Closing Engineering Schools], The Atlantic, January 19, 2010.
<blockquote>
Two months after our conversation, Yassin was assassinated in an Israeli missile strike. Abdel Aziz Rantisi was appointed the new leader of Hamas in Gaza. In January, I had met with Rantisi, who was a pediatrician; I asked how he could justify harming Israeli children. He told me that Israel has forced Hamas to commit these acts. Then he said, "The ... are worse than Hitler... I believe Hitler wouldn't bulldoze homes on civilians... It's impossible to say that Hitler would do that. I believe that more than fifty per cent of the world doesn't believe in the Holocaust, and I am one of them. The Israelis practice terror against our people and say to the world that we are terrorists. I believe that they did the same thing to Hitler..."</blockquote></ref><blockquote>"The ... are worse than Hitler... I believe Hitler wouldn't bulldoze homes on civilians... It's impossible to say that Hitler would do that. I believe that more than fifty per cent of the world doesn't believe in the Holocaust, and I am one of them. The Israelis practice terror against our people and say to the world that we are terrorists. I believe that they did the same thing to Hitler..."</blockquote>

Shockingly, The "Protocols," despite widespread knowledge that they are a forgery, figure prominently in the discourse of the Islamists and appear in the Hamas Charter.<ref>Sacks, Jonathan. Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence. United States: Schocken Books, 2017. (Chapter, The Scapegoat), p. 83.
<blockquote>The Protocols, despite widespread knowledge that they are a forgery, figure prominently in the discourse of the Islamists and appear in the Hamas Charter.</blockquote></ref>

In August 2009, Hamas refused to allow Palestinian children to learn about the Holocaust, which it called "a lie [sic] invented by the Zionists" and referred to Holocaust education as a "war crime."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090904093310/http://jta.org/news/article/2009/08/31/1007549/hamas-condemns-un-for-teaching-the-holocaust Hamas rips U.N. for teaching the Holocaust], JTA, August 31, 2009</ref>

Hamas claims the Freemasons and Rotary clubs are Zionist fronts and refers to the fraudulent Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an antisemitic text purporting to describe a plan to achieve global domination by the Jewish people.<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp "The Avalon Project : Hamas Covenant 1988 articles 22 and 32"]</ref>

Hamas legislator and imam, Sheik Yunus al-Astal, said that "suffering by fire is the Jews' destiny in this world and the next". He concluded "Therefore we are sure that the Holocaust is still to come upon the Jews".
<ref name=iht2008>"[http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/31/mideast/hamas.phpHamas ratchets up its rhetoric against Jews]". Herald Tribune.March 31, 2008.</ref><ref name= nyt2008>Erlanger, Steven (April 1, 2008). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/world/middleeast/01hamas.html In Gaza, Hamas's Insults to Jews Complicate Peace]". ''The New York Times''.</ref>

Hamas cleric, Yousif al-Zahar said that "Jews are a people who cannot [sic] be trusted. They have been traitors to all agreements. Go back to history. Their fate is their vanishing."<ref name=iht2008/><ref name=nyt2008/>

In a March 2018 poll:<ref>Public Opinion Poll No -67 | PCPSR. 
14-17 March 2018. This poll has been conducted in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Ramallah.<blockquote>63% reject the idea of allowing Israeli Jews to live in the state of Palestine as citizens or residents.</blockquote></ref><blockquote>63% reject the idea of allowing Israeli Jews to live in the state of Palestine as citizens or residents.</blockquote>

In 2020, 93% of West Bank and Gaza population harbor anti-Semitic attitudes.<ref>ADL. / Global 100 [https://global100.adl.org/country/west-bank-and-gaza/2020] West Bank and Gaza 2020:
93%
Index Score, 93%.
1,900,000
People in this country
harbor anti-Semitic attitudes.
2,030,259
Adult population.</ref>

[[File:Mein Kampf at a Hamas' home used for terror activity.jpeg|thumb|Mein Kampf at a Hamas' home used for terror activity.((Gaza, Nov.2023)]]

[[File:Annotated copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf found at a Hamas terror base in Gaza.jpg|thumb|Annotated copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf found at a Hamas terror base in Gaza. ((Nov.2023)]]

Nov 2023. 
Israel's president Isaac Herzog revealed to the BBC that, days earlier, a copy of Hitler's book Mein Kampf was found at a children's room used as a Hamas terror base in the Gaza Strip. Showing that some in Hamas were researching Hitler's anti-semitic ideology. The "terrorist wrote notes, marked the sections, and studied again and again, the ideology of Adolf Hitler to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are. This is the real war we are facing."<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-772894 Herzog: Copy of “Mein Kampf” found in children's bedroom in north Gaza], ''Jerusalem Post'' Staff,
November 12, 2023.<blockquote>
In an interview with the BBC, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed that Israeli security forces had discovered an Arabic copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf in a children's bedroom of a civilian home in northern Gaza that was being used as a terror base.
The civilian home included an explosives laboratory and represented further proof of Hamas’s terrorist activity in the heart of the civilian population in Gaza...
"... This book was found a few days ago in northern Gaza. In a child's room, which became a base used for terrorist activities by the terrorist organization Hamas. The terrorist wrote notes, marked the sections, and studied again and again, the ideology of Adolf Hitler to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are. This is the real war we are facing."</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.jns.org/mein-kampf-found-in-kidss-room-used-as-hamas-terror-base/ Mein Kampf’ found in kids’s room used as Hamas terror base], ''JNS'', November 12, 2023.<blockquote>
"This is the book that led to the Holocaust and the book that led to World War II," said Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
([https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2023/11/Herzog-Mein-Kampf-1024-1-1320x880.jpg]
Israeli President Isaac Herzog holds up a copy of an Arabic translation of "Mein Kampf" that was found by IDF troops in a children's room used as a Hamas terror base in the Gaza Strip.
A copy of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” was found in a children’s room that was used as a Hamas terror base in the northern Gaza Strip, Isaac Herzog has revealed.
The Israeli president held up the copy of the Nazi party leader’s autobiographical manifesto during an interview with the BBC on Sunday.
“This is Adolf Hitler’s book, ‘Mein Kampf,’ translated into Arabic. This is the book that led to the Holocaust and the book that led to World War II,” Herzog said, according to a statement from the President’s Residence.
“This book was found a few days ago in northern Gaza. In a children’s room, which became a base used for terrorist activities by the terrorist organization Hamas. The terrorist wrote notes, marked the sections, and studied over and over the ideology of Adolf Hitler to hate the Jews, to kill the Jews, to burn and slaughter Jews wherever they are. This is the real war we are facing,” said Herzog.
([https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-12-125832-660x440.jpg]
The annotated copy of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” found at a Hamas terror base in Gaza).
“After the massacre and atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7—the day on which the largest number of Jews were murdered since the Holocaust—this is another revelation that testifies to the sources of inspiration of the terrorist organization Hamas, and proves once again that all its actions have the same goal as the Nazis—the destruction of Jews.”
Herzog last month blasted the BBC for refusing to call Hamas a terrorist organization, choosing to call its perpetrators “militants.” Parts of a previous interview with the British public broadcaster were not aired, including a reference to this criticism.
In interviews, Herzog has also forcefully pushed back against criticism that Israel is not doing enough to protect Gaza civilians, explaining how Hamas cynically hides behind human shields at hospitals, schools, mosques and other civilian sites used to attack Israeli civilians.
During the BBC interview, Herzog addressed the false claims that Shifa Hospital, where the main Hamas headquarters is located, is under siege by Israeli forces.
“Hamas lies and gives false information—there is electricity in Shifa Hospital, everything is working, we are talking to the hospital administrators. We did not enter Shifa Hospital, where unfortunately there is a huge, huge terrorist base operating underneath it,” Herzog said.
“The headquarters and the entire activity headquarters of Hamas-ISIS is right below Shifa. What exactly are we supposed to do? Leave it as it is and then in a few years we will go through the same thing again? And you will tell us that it is disproportionate, and they will kill our civilians again? So we are calling on all uninvolved citizens to move to another hospital nearby, we are coordinating this very delicately with all the forces around the place. Hamas is the one stopping them,” said Herzog.</blockquote></ref>

===Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades===

In 1991, Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades became the armed branch of the group Hamas. It is names after Ezzedeen Al-Qassam, an Islamic militant who was killed in 1935. The stated goals of the brigade are as follows: to fight Israel, take over Israel, and invoke a spirit of Jihad among the "Palestinians". The group is made up of many different cells. Secrecy is important, and sometimes cells do not know what other cells are doing. The group said by September 2000, more than 800 of its members had been killed. The leader of the militant wing is Muhamad Deif.<ref>http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?action=aboutus</ref>

===Chemical weapons plan===

In 2002 author wrote:<ref>Bergman, R., waiter, G., Alterman, S. (2002). Freedom of choice: Where did we go wrong? Thus, the Palestinian Authority has become a production line for corruption and terrorism. Israel: Yedioth Ahronoth. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wr_yAAAAMAAJ&q=%22%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%A6%D7%A2+%D7%90%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%A1%22+%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA p.59].</ref>
<blockquote>
On the eve of the publication of this book, the GSS reported that the terrorist organizations were preparing a mega-attack using [[chemical weapon]]s. '''One of the ideas that Hamas was thinking about concerned a particularly satanic plan - to poison the water wells''' of the State of Israel. The GSS wondered if Hamas was familiar with the history of the Palestinian national movement and are trying to recreate 'Operation Atlas.'

The "Atlas" file still lies in the archives of the British Secret Service, the MI-5. Yellowing pages... including the reports of the original agents, the encrypted telegrams, the transmissions that were intercepted and deciphered, the transcripts of the interrogations and reports summarizing the affair in 1944, in the caves of Wadi Qelt. When examining the equipment brought with them by the terrorists from Germany, they discovered, along with the wireless devices, food, weapons and gold coins, several round cans containing a substance that looked like flour. The cans were sent to the lab. The results were unequivocal: it was a substance called 'oxygen arsenic.' Extremely deadly poison. A very small amount of it, actually a very small particle of a gram, is enough to kill a person...</blockquote>

===Social Programs ===
Hamas conducts numerous social welfare actions, known as ''Dawa'', including relief and education programs, school funding, soup kitchens, and sports leagues. These programs are viewed as propaganda and recruitment exercises, or both. In December 2001, the Bush administration seized the assets of the Holy Land Foundation, the largest Muslim charity in the United States, upon finding proof it was funding Hamas.<ref>''ibid.''</ref>

===Dirty money===
As Hamas joined Hezbollah and al-Qaeda in the activities of terrorist organizations in the border triangle: Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay--the location is a money laundering center for terrorist organizations, terrorists trade drugs there, forge credit cards and gather intelligence on targets, profits of their activities are transferred to the Middle East--on June 18, 2005, Brazilian police had arrested 21 "Islamic terrorists," one of whom, Sial Bashar Yahya al-Atari, defined as "the head of Hamas in South America." Another senior detainee is Hussam Muhammad, a Lebanese citizen known as 'Abu Hitler'.
<ref>[https://m.news1.co.il/Archive/001-D-73190-00.html Brazil: Hamas leader arrested in South America], News 1, 19/06/2005.
<blockquote>
21 terrorists arrested - one of whom is known as: 'Abu Hitler' - American intelligence: Hamas recently joined Hezbollah and al-Qaeda in the activities of terrorist organizations in the border triangle: Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

Brazilian police said (Saturday, June 18, 2005) that they had arrested 21 "Islamic terrorists," one of whom, Sial Bashar Yahya al-Atari, was defined as "the head of Hamas in South America." Another senior detainee is Hussam Muhammad, a Lebanese citizen known as 'Abu Hitler'.

The deputy chief of staff said a few days ago that Hamas had recently joined Hezbollah and al-Qaeda in the activities of terrorist organizations in the border triangle: Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

U.S. intelligence says the location is a money laundering center for terrorist organizations. The terrorists trade drugs there, forge credit cards and gather intelligence on targets. The profits of their activities are transferred to the Middle East.

The US Deputy Chief of Staff has warned that these terrorist operatives intend to move their operations into US territory soon.</blockquote></ref>

=== Yahya Sinwar ===

Yahya Sinwar (b. 1962 Khan Yunis). Leader of Hamas and planner of [[Swords of Iron|Oct 7 2023 onslaught]].

Describe as 'obsessive and dictatorial.<ref name=ap-22nov23/>

He strangled -- preferred that over using a gun -- with his bare hands fellow men suspected of collaboration with Israel.<ref>[Netael Bandel I strangled them with my own hands’: Yahya Sinwar’s testimony in 1989], ''JNS'', November 10, 2023.</ref>

Forced man to bury his brother alive. "His eyes were full of happiness when he told us this story," said interrogator.<ref name=ap-22nov23>Bassem Mroue and Melanie Lidman, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/11/22/israel-hamas-leader-gaza-war-sinwar/d84f4b34-8984-11ee-a36e-fdb7be9bd43d_story.html Shadowy Hamas leader in Gaza is at top of Israel's hit list after last month's deadly attack.], ''AP'', via ''Washongton Post'', Nov 22, 2023.</ref>

His deep antipathy for the Palestinian people well known. 'For example, in 1987, Sinwar wanted to experiment with dropping explosive charges. Of all places, he chose Shifa Hospital in Gaza City as a dummy target.'
<ref>Staff, [https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-775405 Hamas leader Sinwar spoke to hostages in Gaza, released Israeli says], ''Jerusalem Post'', November 27, 2023.</ref>

Released in 2011 in the deal to free one Israel soldier Gilad Shalit in exhage of 1,027 Arab terrorists.

Sinwar is still infamous for his personal torture and cruelty of his people. <ref>"Eliminate Sinwar? Israel has a more burning problem on the road to victory over terrorism." A. Issacharoff, Hamal,
May 8, 2022.<blockquote>
Sinwar is the scum of the human race even in terms of his people. In the Israeli prison, he was nicknamed "Abu Tan'ash" (the father of the 12) for his involvement in the murder of 12 collaborating suspects. He took part in severe torture of Palestinians even before his arrest and also in prison and after his release he was involved in the abduction and execution of a battalion commander in the military wing of Hamas.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://13tv.co.il/item/news/abroad/arab-world/the-note-revealed-192062/ The note exposing the cruelty of the Hamas leader], Reshet 13, Mar 12, 2017.<blockquote>Hamas arrested him on suspicion of moral issues, ie homosexuality, and underwent severe torture in a Hamas prison.
The one who interrogates him first is his direct commander, and then, Senwar took responsibility for the investigation, with a dubious reputation - the elimination of 12 Hamas collaborators .... ... The note in question was signed "Abu Ibrahim" - Sinwar's nickname.</blockquote></ref>

He is known to walk around surrounded by kids.
In 2021 he admitted of using Human shields.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/TheBuffaloTribune/videos/hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar-admits-that-the-terrorist-group/2895337384055026/?extid=SEO---- Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar admits that the terrorist group] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CP1Ul_OAebu/?hl=en]</ref><ref>Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted: Plain and simple: Sinwar the leader of Hamas in Gaza admits in his own words that they use civilian areas for terrorist purposes Next you blame Israel for killing innocent civilians understand that Hamas are using their people as human shields https://t.co/Hn2ioFoB25 [https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1401247789422628866?s=20 Junne 5, 2021]</ref>

Among his recent inciting for racial massacres, on Apr 30, 2022, he called upon Arabs to attack Jews with Axes & firearms. <ref>[https://www.jns.org/hamas-leaders-threats-days-before-elad-terror-attack-gain-new-significance/ Hamas leader’s threats days before Elad terror attack gain new significance], ''JNS'', May 5, 2022.
<blockquote>
“Whoever has a gun should prepare it, and whoever does not have a gun should prepare his cleaver, ax or knife,” said Yahya Sinwar.
In the wake of a deadly terrorist attack on Thursday night in the Israeli city of Elad, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar is drawing renewed attention to a speech he made earlier this week calling for lone-wolf assaults with guns, cleavers, axes and knives.
Security forces are searching for the assailants who murdered three Israelis and injured at least four people, two critically, in Elad as crowds were celebrating Israel’s 74th birthday. The suspects, who attacked people in the city’s main park by Ibn Gvirol Street, were believed to be armed with an ax and perhaps a firearm.</blockquote></ref> Days later, two Arab "Palestinian" illegal residents attacked a Haredi town (overwhelmingly avoiding serving in the army - conscientious objectors), with axes hitting on heads and shootings too. Hamas, Islamic Jihad lauded the cowardice bloody onslaught as an "heroic act."<ref>Yaron Doron, Dana Ben-Shimon, Shahar Klaiman and Ariel Kahana, [https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/05/05/apparent-terrorist-attack-in-elad-leaves-3-dead-several-injured/ Terrorist attack in Elad leaves 3 dead, several injured], ''ILH'', May 5, 2022.<blockquote>
Manhunt underway for two terrorists who carried out a combined axe-firearm attack at the heart of the Haredi community in central Israel. Hamas, Islamic Jihad laud "heroic act" but stop short of claiming responsibility. US, UK, EU denounce the attack, say they "stand with Israel against terrorism."</blockquote></ref>

Liberal journalist, who routinely tries to find most weird rationalization for racist Arab-Islamic attacks, (thus an Haaretz darling), went out May/2022, in the predominantly Arab neighbourhood of Shuafat in E. Jerusalem, days after Arabs brutally attacked Haredi pious Jews with axes and shootings, to get the Arab attitudes. He approached a group of random young Arabs, as much as he tried, the ordinary Arabs told him, all Jews [sic] need to die. As he is famous on TV, including by Arabs, hoping to get a pass, he asked, me too? Yes, every Jew, the Arab voice in the crowd replies. The Quran says so, he adds. It was after the journalist asked the reaction to Hamas' Sinwar's called to massacre Jews. The replies he got, stronh support for Hamas.<ref>Shilo Freid, [https://www.makorrishon.co.il/opinion/485413/ Neither livelihood nor al-Aqsa: they simply hate Jews], ''Makor Rishon'', May 10, 2022.<blockquote>
Against the background of the wave of terrorist attacks, Ohad Hemo went to East Jerusalem and discovered to his amazement (or not) that young Arabs there wanted to kill us.

An article by Ohad Hemo, the commentator on Arab affairs of News 12, was broadcast last night (Monday) with a precise timing: Hemo went to East Jerusalem to hear what young Arabs think of Jews, with the sequence of attacks continuing in the background.

"Every Jew and Jew should [he says] die. Every Jew," said a boy named Ahmed Lehemu. "me too?" The reporter asked twice and the young man answered unequivocally "Yes. All the Jews."
"I tell you - I am with Hamas. I go with Hamas. Not Palestine, not Fatah, nothing, only Hamas," said a young resident of the Shuafat ... "There is nothing about Hamas. Sinwar scared them madly, hid behind the trees. When Abu Obeida threatened them, Abu Obeida has a word, when he threatened them they started hiding in their homes," said another interviewee.

Hemo tried to pretend to be surprised, but this is not the first time he has brought up these voices - exactly the voices the left prefers to ignore. For years they explain that terrorism is the result of oppression, fighting for the homeland, despair of the peace process. But here eloquent and clear young people come and say exactly what they think, without apologizing: their problem is not a hill in Samaria, not a Palestinian state, not Jerusalem and not even the desecration of al-Aqsa. They just hate Jews, and want to murder as many of us as possible. Like that, simple. No opening for arrangement, understanding or in-depth analysis.

This article was broadcast on the night of May 10, the anniversary of the beginning of the riots across the country in which the same young Arabs participated, in which Yigal Yehoshua was killed in Lod and Avi Har-Even in Acre and many others were injured.

On the morning after the first wave of riots during Operation Guardian of the Walls, the left explained that this was a result of neglect, budget problems, tension because of the Garin-Torani. It was almost forbidden to say that the murderous spirit of Hamas from Gaza, which dripped into Jerusalem, began to spread among Israeli Arabs as well.
Look at Hemo's article. Hear the murderous messages and understand: if it sounds like a duck and walks like a duck - it's a duck. They just hate Jews.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/742730.shtml Watch: Ohad Hemo interviews young random passers-by in Shuafat, who tell him "every Jew and Jew need to die, including you"], ''Rotter'' News, 10.05.22. 
Ariel Schnabel Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/ArielSchnabel/status/1523713420478279680 May 10, 2022]):
<blockquote>
And again our corner "Just listen to them":
Ohad Hamu in Shu'afat, interviewing people on the street.
Not "extremists", not "terrorist operatives", not "armed" - a group of random young Arabs:
"Every Jew [he says] should die."
"me too?" Asks Hemo,
And they are not confused: "Yes! Yes! Every Jew and Jew need to die! It is written in the Qur'an that every Jew and Jew [he says] should die!"
Will you finally listen to them, dreamy "peace" of your kind?
</blockquote></ref>

=== Popularity ===
Hamas is still fairly popular among many "Palestinian" people, but it is not as popular as it was at one point in time. Their total unwillingness to negotiate with the nation of [[Israel]] has weakened Hamas's support. The people are starting to get weary of the violence there.
<ref>http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/#12</ref>

In January 2006 the political wing of Hamas won many seats in the "Palestinian" elections.<ref>http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/02/mil-060218-voa05.htm</ref>

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"Palestinians" inspect homes destroyed near the border with Egypt in Gaza, 2009.
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===Using human rights groups===
Documentary series following a heroic woman who infiltrated anti-Israel organizations, uncovered the connection between human rights orgs. and terrorist such as Hamas. Hamas and other Islamists bigots use human rights organizations trying to paint Israel with the R word too.
<ref>Yoni Kempinski, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/361435 New documentary series follows woman who infiltrated anti-Israel organizations], ''INN'', Oct 20, 2022.
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Tzvi Yehezkeli explains that the series uncovers the connection between human rights orgs. and terrorists.

A new documentary series airing this Sunday on Israel's Channel 13, follows R. a 32-year-old foreign national who secretly infiltrated anti-Israel organizations and worked with Hamas heads in Europe. R. took part in flotillas from Europe to Gaza, and shares, for the first time, footage from inside the relationship between radical Islam and the radical left.
In honor of the series premiere, a launch event was held on Wednesday in Jerusalem.

During the event, the documentary's host, Middle East correspondent Tzvi Yehezkeli, stated: "This is war, the war is mostly conciseness, and that's the power of this series, we see how they set the narrative. We went through so much in this series. It's our main project. When we started sending her (R.), sometimes fear controls you, but she didn't give up and she went all the way and brought it, and that is what makes this series so rare."
In an interview with Israel National News Yehezkeli said that R. "Met all of the senior officials in Hamas, she traveled on flotillas, she was arrested, and in the end, we rescued her and she's in a safe place now. It was worth a series about it."
Yehezkeli added that the series presents "A huge journalistic gain, to show the connection between [[Hamas]] to [[BDS]]. All of the human rights organizations that are funded by Hamas in Europe."
The journalist explained how Hamas runs a network in Europe that works to form people's opinions, and for that reason, it was important for him to work on this series.</blockquote>

[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/764804.shtml Oct 20, 2022].<blockquote>Exposure by the organization 'Ad Kan' and Zvi Yehezkali, which deals with foreign organizations in Israel and abroad and the connection to terrorist elements!
* The docu-espionage series "Hasthula" by Zvi Yehezkali Channel 13, Koda Productions and the organization "Ad Kan" was launched.
Channel 13, Koda Productions and the "Ad Kan" organization launched yesterday evening (Wednesday) the docu-espionage series "Hasthule" by journalist Zvi Yehezkali.
The 5-episode series will be broadcast starting next Sunday, October 23, on Channel 13.
The series follows the activities of R., 32 years old, a foreign citizen who operated under cover in anti-Israeli organizations and in cooperation with Hamas leaders in Europe. She participated in a flotilla from Europe to Gaza and brings, for the first time, an insider's documentation of the system of connections between extreme Islam with an emphasis on *Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood* and radical leftists through a media and consciousness war against the State of Israel.
R. has been operated for the past 5 years by members of the organization "Had Kan".
The series is led by the journalist Zvi Yehezkali, who closely follows the activities of R.
*Zvi Yehezkali, creator of the series and commentator on Arab affairs of News 13:* "There is a spy who didn't think of being one and she got into it by choice. The people of "Ad Kan" led by Gilad but brought journalistic story number 1.
The story of war is not missiles. The war is mainly about the consciousness, this is the vastness of this series - "Hasthule". In other spaces you see where consciousness is determined. To see a person who is not trained for this and he enters the area is amazing. "Shtule made European judo for the whole Arab world."
* Gilad Ach, CEO of the organization "Ad Kan" whose organization collected the material for years said that:* "After 5 years of work we reached a rare and historic achievement in penetrating the network woven by Hamas in Europe. The project reveals that Hamas members in Europe are using human rights organizations to promote their goals, including the branding in the international media of the soldiers of the IDF and the State of Israel (as if they) were some supposed Nazi[sic] thereby the terrorist organizations fighting them as [supposedly] "freedom fighters."
The findings that were revealed in the activity of the plant and the team accompanying the organization "Up to now" must lead to a system change in the attitude of the State of Israel to the threat reflected in the international arena. The collaborations we have discovered between Hamas and those "human rights organizations" are extremely disturbing. The State of Israel must act with all the tools at its disposal to stop the anti-Israeli incitement in the national arena." ...</blockquote>
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So far - Ad Kan @adkanorg:
([https://twitter.com/adkanorg/status/1583024309324615682 Oct 20, 2022]):<blockquote>
The most dangerous investigation we have done.
After five years, 'planted' in the air.
A shocking espionage docu-series about our agent in 'Ad Kan' who reached the heads of Hamas in Europe and risked her life for the State of Israel...</blockquote></ref>

In 2023, "EuroPal," a Muslim Brotherhood linked, terrorist group Hamas founded lobby group in the UK, launched new propaganda campaign, accusing Israeli lawmakers of so-called ‘racism.’<ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/366324 Hamas lobby group in the UK accuses Israeli lawmakers of racism], ''INN'', January 23, 2023.<blockquote>Anti-Israel lobby group in the UK linked to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood launches new campaign accusing Israeli ministers of racism...

In addition, Ad Kan, an Israeli NGO, revealed Birawi’s and Europal’s connection to attempts to run Israel’s security blockade of Gaza, as well as to Hamas’ so-called “marches of return” in 2020, via undercover work.

Birawi and Europal’s illicit activities were aired at the end of 2022, in the Israeli television series, “Shtula”.

In the series Ad Kan, infiltrated Hamas’ European propaganda operations, and reached its most prominent activists.

Birawi was defined by the Israeli security system as a senior Hamas official in Europe about a decade ago, since he operates a network of Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas-linked organizations working in Europe against Israel.

Despite this, Birawi remains a prominent public figure in the UK who hosts television shows and maintains close ties with English and European politicians.

"The organizations are mostly motivated by a progressive extreme leftist ideology or an Islamist ideology,” Diaspora Minister and Social Equality Minister Amichai Shikli told Ma’ariv. “Together, these organizations form the Red-Green Alliance against the State of Israel and the Jewish people.”

In a statement Monday afternoon, Ad Kan said the latest propaganda campaign exemplifies Hamas’ increasingly sophisticated efforts to undermine Israel.

"Hamas is operating a campaign against Israel that combines military and civil combat. While military combat is engaged in by the security forces, the arena of civil combat is not adequately addressed. A Hamas campaign on European soil should be met with a decisive and painful response from the Israeli government to the countries and politicians in Europe, as well the emissaries of Hamas. Their attempt to harm the legitimacy of the existence of the State of Israel constitutes a security risk no less serious than firing missiles at civilians."</blockquote></ref>
Headed by the Hamas guy
<ref>[https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/generalpage/terrorists_in_suits/en/De-Legitimization%20Brochure.pdf Terrorists in Suits: the Ties between NGOs Promoting BDS and Terrorist Organizations].
Prime Minister's Office, February 2019.
<blockquote>Hamas operatives active in NGOs in the UK: Zaher Birawi... (AKA Abu Khaled), who moved to the UK in the 1990s, has close ties to Hamas and worked for several pro-Palestinian NGOs...</blockquote></ref> Zaher [Khaled Hassan] Birawi (AKA Abu Khaled).

==Poll==
In a March 2022 statistic, the poll among Arab Palestinians asked who was "most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people." Thirty-one percent picked Hamas, 29% chose Abbas’ P.A., and 33% chose none of the above. Eighty-four percent believe the P.A. is corrupt and 70% believe Hamas is dirty.<ref>Daniel Greenfield, [https://www.jns.org/opinion/will-biden-fund-isis-in-israel-to-aid-the-palestinians/ Will Biden fund ISIS in (Arab Islamists in) Israel to aid the Palestinians?], ''JNS'', March 29, 2022.<blockquote>

The "Palestinian people" have spoken. Will Biden listen to them?

"In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate," said Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, “we would like to welcome Secretary Clinton.”
“Blinken,” someone corrected him.

“Sorry, Blinken,” said the 86-year-old Islamic terrorist leader.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had to travel thousands of miles to find a leader even more unpopular and out of it than the one he had left behind at the White House.
That was last year. This year, Abbas got Blinken’s name right, but not much else.

In 17 years (and just one election), Abbas has seen a lot of secretaries of state come and go to get their pictures taken with him before sending him a few hundred million dollars.

Last year, Abbas told Blinken that he had “postponed the elections” because of Israel and that the moment he gets his paws on Jerusalem, “we will hold them immediately and without any delay, because ultimately what we’re interested in is to establish democracy throughout Palestine.” This year they can’t be held either, because Abbas still doesn’t have Jerusalem.

The last Palestinian Authority presidential election was in 2005. Abbas won. The last parliamentary election was in 2006. Hamas won. The presidential and parliamentary elections have been postponed since then but are expected to resume any time now. If not, blame Israel.

Since elections won’t be happening anytime soon, a recent poll reveals that 73% of the “Palestinians” occupying the West Bank and Gaza Strip want Abbas to resign.
If elections were somehow held today, the Hamas presidential candidate would win 54% of the vote while Abbas would only get 38%. So you can see why there will be no elections.

Sixty-one percent want to tear up all agreements with Israel (since they haven’t kept them, that would be a technicality), 70% don’t want to negotiate with Israel and 64% don’t even want to negotiate with Biden. Fifty-eight percent oppose the “two-state solution” that is the touchstone of the entire peace process.

Seventy-three percent believe that the Koran predicts that Israel will be destroyed, but only 32% believe it will happen in 2022.
Under these circumstances, the last thing the Biden administration wants is democracy for the quarreling foreign jihadist tribes who invaded Israel over the last few centuries and were rebranded with the name of the European colonists known as the Philistines.

Blinken is fine with Abbas postponing the elections forever, because otherwise the terror clans will do what they did the last time that Bush naively allowed elections and vote for Hamas.

And that would be inconvenient because Hamas won’t pretend that they aren’t terrorists.

Four Israelis were murdered last week by a Muslim terrorist attack at a mall in Beersheva.

Despite the terrorist’s Islamic State membership, a Hamas spokesman praised “the executor of the heroic operation” and promised more “heroic operations: stabbings, ramming and shooting” like the car-ramming and stabbing spree that killed a rabbi who ran a soup kitchen and two mothers of three. So much for the claim that Hamas will inhibit the rise of the “extremists” of ISIS.
P.A. media also hailed the terrorist, Muhammad Abu al-Kiyan, who was shot and killed by an Israeli bus driver who chased him down on foot, as a “martyr.” If the P.A. follows its usual “Pay to Slay” policy in this case, it won’t just be financially supporting the usual stable of PLO, Hamas and Islamic Jihad families, but also an ISIS terrorist’s family.

And that will mean American taxpayers will end up subsidizing ISIS terrorism in Israel, as the Biden administration explores ways to bypass the Taylor Force Act’s ban on terror funding.

At a joint press conference on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Blinken gave a speech mostly blaming Israel for future violence during Passover and Ramadan. That speech was followed by another ISIS attack in which two heavily armed terrorists opened fire on a bus. The Islamic terrorists were taken down by cops who had been eating nearby, but not before they killed two officers.

Hamas celebrated the “valor and courage” of the ISIS terrorists, as did Islamic Jihad.
Hezbollah, backed by Iran, praised the ISIS attack as an “important and most effective practical response to the infamous and treacherous normalization meetings that some Arab regimes are carrying out with the enemy entity,” referring to the anti-Iran summit in Israel with the foreign ministers of Bahrain, UAE, Morocco and Egypt.

Iran’s pro-Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps outlet, too, praised it as a “martyrdom operation.” When it comes to Israel, Iran and ISIS are on the same side. Much as Al-Qaeda and Iran were on the same side when it came to the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Blinken meanwhile used the visit to pitch Israelis on a Biden plan to remove the IRGC, Iran’s terror hub, from the list of foreign terrorist organizations, claiming it would be “symbolic.”

He failed to condemn the terrorist attack as an ISIS attack, calling it “senseless” violence.

At his joint press conference with Abbas, Blinken also failed to condemn terrorism or to note that ISIS, with the tacit support of his PLO hosts in Ramallah and of Hamas in Gaza, was planting its flag in Israel. Instead, Blinken once again condemned Jewish Israeli “settler violence.”

Like Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland’s previous visit, the formula of Biden administration officials condemning Israeli “settler violence” while promising to “strengthen” the terrorists of the P.A. is as familiar as it is evil. The P.A. is an unwanted institution whose leader 73% of the people he rules over want to see out of office.
And 49% want to dissolve the Palestinian Authority.

Considering the decades of failure, misery and terrorism wrought by the failed Clinton initiative to create a Palestinian state, it’s long past time for everyone to turn the page on this disaster.

Neither Arab Muslims nor Israelis want Abbas or the P.A. Only diplomats like Blinken and Nuland insist on keeping the senile tyrant of Ramallah in office until he dies.

In a final statistic, the poll asked who was “most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people.” Thirty-one percent picked Hamas, 29% chose Abbas’ P.A., and 33% chose none of the above. Eighty-four percent believe the P.A. is corrupt and 70% believe Hamas is dirty.
The “Palestinian people” have spoken. Will Biden listen to them?

The root source of the corruption is the hundreds of millions of dollars Blinken came bearing last year for the regime of a corrupt, senile autocrat who didn’t even know whom he was talking to. There’s more money coming this year to prop up the terrorist regime.

All in the name of a peace which doesn’t exist and that the majority of “Palestinians” don’t want.

The United States has gone from using its foreign aid to the P.A. to prop up PLO, Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorism against Israel to subsidizing ISIS terrorism.
Will ISIS be a final red line for the corrupt farce of a two-state solution and a peace process?</blockquote></ref>
==Afro Palestinians in Gaza==

The majority of families with dark skin in Gaza originate from Sudan and Egypt, many of them came to work in the Ottoman Empire's army hundreds of years ago.<ref name=almonitor2013/>

Wealthy Arab families in Gaza participated in the slave trade.<ref name=almonitor2013/>

Black Palestinians constitute a minority of one per cent of the total population of the two million inhabitants living in Gaza Strip.<ref name=gn2017/>

They have to work twice as hard to prove himself.
Many black Palestinians are not considered for jobs that require direct communication or interaction with customers..<ref name=gn2017/>

Majority of Palestinians do not marry black Palestinians, although recently there have been some changes in mentality..<ref name=gn2017/>

In some areas, it is strictly forbidden for Arab Palestinians to marry black Palestinians, but in other areas..<ref name=gn2017/>

The situation is worse for black Palestinian women — while dark-skinned men may be able to marry light-skinned Palestinians, the reverse is mostly not accepted..<ref name=gn2017/>

Some mixed races couples are threatened by family of the Arab side to renounce him in the newspapers..<ref name=gn2017/>

Sometimes the racism is expressed nonverbally through looks.

Some tell of discriminatory experiences growing up.
Racist taunts toward Gaza’s African minority are not uncommon, despite centurieslong African migration to Palestine.<ref name=almonitor2013>Asmaa al-Ghoul, "[https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2013/11/black-palestinians-suffer-racism.html Black Palestinians shrug off racism], Al Monitor, November 4, 2013.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — “Hey, chocolate,” “Hey, cappuccino,” “Hey, Galaxy [brand of chocolate],” “Hey, brown one” and “Hey, black one,” are jocular expressions used by some in Gaza when a man, woman or child of African descent passes by. Sometimes the racism is expressed nonverbally through looks. Gazans, however, seem unaware of this racism.

Al-Monitor met with political activist Samah al-Rawagh, 33, at her home and asked her whether she experienced any discrimination due to her skin color. She made light of the matter. Yet, when her father Ahmad al-Rawagh, 80, recounted incidents he had experienced involving racism, Samah was shocked. “That’s the first time I’ve heard such stories from you,” she said.

“I struggled a lot to overcome the difficulties caused by the color of my skin. I always had to doubly prove myself at school, at work and in life, because I’m dark-skinned,” Ahmad said...

Ahmad remembers when he was a teacher in the late 1950s, and one of his colleagues invited everyone, except him, to a wedding. “That day, I felt embarrassed, and I decided that no one in my family would go through such an experience,” he said...

Samah agreed with her father and added, “I never felt that the color of my skin made me different from others. I always had the best toys and clothing. I studied in a private school, and I felt that people liked me. Sometimes, I heard comments that bothered me, but this is the first time I’ve heard about my father’s suffering.”

Samah did not deny that she has been hearing more discriminatory words recently, but she denied that it is about hate. “I hear phrases such as ‘Hey, Galaxy.’ But I sometimes feel that it’s banter, rarely for the purpose of harassing me,” she said...

"Africans first entered Palestine during the Islamic conquests, specifically when Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab entered Jerusalem, accompanied by a number of Africans. African communities from Chad, Nigeria, Sudan and Senegal came in the late 19th century, either for worship or to participate in the resistance," Bakhit noted in an interview with Al-Monitor.

According to Gaza Through History, a book by Ibrahim Sakik, wealthy families in the Gaza Strip participated in the slave trade hundreds of years ago. Another book, Delighting in the Wealth of Gaza's History, notes that some of the residents of the Palestinian village of Berbera were dark-skinned people who came from Morocco.

The "black neighborhood"

Next to the Rawagh family’s home there is an entire area on Jala Street inhabited by dark-skinned Gazans. The people and taxi drivers refer to it as the “black neighborhood” or the “dark-skinned neighborhood."

Mohammed Abu Rashed, 13, who is a talented soccer player and dreams of becoming like Lionel Messi, recounted his experience to Al-Monitor. “At school, they say ‘Hey, chocolate,’ but I don’t pay attention to them.” His friend Ahed, 17, interrupted and said, “Liar. We do get bothered.” ...

Abed al-Rawagh, 21, who works at a grocery store at the neighborhood’s entrance, told Al-Monitor that racism affects his business. “I don’t feel discriminated against until a white girl or woman comes to buy from the grocery store. As soon as she sees me, she changes her mind about buying and leaves. There’s a widespread belief that a black man would harm her. That offends me.”..

Bakhit, who lives in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, recalled an incident with one of the security services in Gaza after the split in 2007. “The policeman looked inside a taxi and ordered the two dark-skinned men inside, us, to step out. So my brother and I stepped out, and we headed to the search location. After they made sure that we weren’t suspects, we went back to the car. I felt very insulted. The driver asked me why. I told him ‘It seems we are now in Chicago!'”</blockquote></ref>

One interviewed:<ref name=almonitor2013/>
<blockquote>Abed al-Rawagh, 21, who works at a grocery store at the neighborhood’s entrance, told Al-Monitor that racism affects his business. “I don’t feel discriminated against until a white girl or woman comes to buy from the grocery store. As soon as she sees me, she changes her mind about buying and leaves. There’s a widespread belief that a black man would harm her. That offends me.”</blockquote>

Another one tells<ref name=almonitor2013/> about experience right after Hamas took control:<blockquote>
...after the split in 2007. “The policeman looked inside a taxi and ordered the two dark-skinned men inside, us, to step out. So my brother and I stepped out, and we headed to the search location. After they made sure that we weren’t suspects, we went back to the car. I felt very insulted. The driver asked me why. I told him ‘It seems we are now in Chicago!'”</blockquote>

Security forces have been recently (2017) very harsh on black Palestinians. Like selecting them out for further security checks.<ref name=gn2017>"[https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/black-palestinians-face-subtle-racism-in-gaza-1.2018514 Black Palestinians face subtle racism in Gaza]." Ahmed Alnaouq, Special to Gulf News. May 05, 2017.<blockquote>

Obaid, who believes his ancestors came from Sudan, says he has to work twice as hard to prove himself.

Gaza: Black Palestinians constitute a minority of one per cent of the total population of the two million inhabitants living in Gaza Strip.

While its is difficult to accurately pin their exact origins, many say they came from Ghana, Sudan and Egypt — or at least that’s what has been passed down through their oral history.

Many first came to Palestine during the Islamic conquests as slaves to serve their owners in the seventh century.

It is also reported that another wave of Africans emigrated to Palestine in the late 19th century to work as merchants or fighters under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

Despite their deep roots in Palestine, many still encounter racism and discrimination, although it is to a much less degree as how poorly people of colour are treated in other countries — particularly the US.

Mohammad Obaid, 26, a folklore dancer and founder of the Dabke Club for children, thinks his ancestors originally came from Sudan.

“My grandparents worked as merchants in 1948 areas, which is considered Beersheba in Israel today..."

At least 11,000 black Palestinians live in Al Jalla’a district of Gaza in a neighbourhood called “Al Abeed” which means slaves in Arabic...

Although there is no official discriminatory policy against black Palestinians, Obaid says that subtle racism makes his life more difficult than lighter skinned Palestinians.

“If I wasn’t the best dancer, I wouldn’t be on the Dabke team,” he said.

“I always have to prove myself twice as much as others.”

Many black Palestinians are not considered for jobs that require direct communication or interaction with customers.

The majority of Palestinians do not marry black Palestinians, although recently there have been some changes in mentality.

“Where I live, people accept to marry black Palestinians, but in other areas it is strictly forbidden,” he said.

It is worse for black Palestinian women — while dark-skinned men may be able to marry light-skinned Palestinians, the reverse is mostly not accepted.

“I knew a couple who were in love but the father of the would-be groom threatened to renounce him in the newspapers. Sadly, they separated,” he said.

And Obaid says the security forces have been recently very harsh on black Palestinians.

When the cops pulled him and his friends over recently, he was the only one from the passengers pulled out for further security checks.

He took his anger out by writing a poem directed at the police entitled “Blacks are not security suspects”...

“The police treatment has gotten worse, so for the first time I thought about leaving.”

But for Karama, a 34-year-old Palestinian woman, who has a black father and white mother, race has never gotten in the way of her success.

“I personally haven’t experienced any discrimination,” she told Gulf News.

“Blacks are sometimes preferred by some organisations who seek diversity.”

Karama has participated and led many different social work initiatives and ceremonies, but she acknowledges that having a white mother could be the reason.

“I know in other areas of Gaza, people are not as accepting.”</blockquote></ref>

See related:
*[[Israel_Apartheid_slur#Current_racist_Arab-Palestine_and_in_the_region|Current racist Arab-Palestine]]

==Mosab Hassan Yousef==
The revelation that Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the "Palestinian" terrorist group Hamas, had spied for Israel for 10 years, and that he had also converted to Christianity, sent reverberations through the Middle East. Mosab worked alongside his father in the West Bank from the second Intifada to the current stalemate, and during that time he became one of the top spies for Israel's internal security arm, the Shin Bet.

The younger Mr. Yousef's disillusionment with Hamas and Islam came as a result of his continued exposure to Hamas cruelty in prison. In 1996, Mosab was arrested by the Israelis for buying weapons, and while he was beaten and tortured badly in custody, he was more shocked by the way the maj'd, Hamas's security wing, dealt with other prisoners in the Megiddo prison in northern Israel. By agreeing to work with the Shin Bet, he got out of prison early.

"Every day, there was screaming; every night, torture. Hamas was torturing its own people!" he writes. The Muslims he met in jail "bore no resemblance to my father" and "were mean and petty . . . bigots and hypocrites."

The Shin Bet approached him in prison after his arrest and asked him to spy for Israel, and being a double agent appealed to him as a way of gaining revenge on Israel from the inside. He accepted and stayed on Shin Bet's payroll for a decade, and in the early years they encouraged him to study and be a model son.<ref name="online.wsj.com">[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703915204575103481069258868.html#printMode Matthew Kaminski, ''They Need to Be Liberated From Their God''], Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2010</ref>

According to a review by [[New York Times]] best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg of Mosab's book, ''Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices'',
<blockquote>
Mosab hated the Jews. He cheered when Saddam Hussein fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel during the 1991 Gulf War, and was disappointed when Israel wasn't destroyed. He wanted Hamas to seize back all the land of "Palestine" from the Jews. But in 1996, at the age of 18, he was arrested by the Israelis for buying automatic weapons to kill Jews. He was sent to an Israeli prison. There he was stunned at what he saw: Muslims torturing Muslims. "I had never heard a human being scream like that guy did. What could he have done to deserve that." (p.97)

Months later, after being released from Israeli prison, Mosab was walking past the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Someone [a British cab driver] -- not knowing who he was -- invited him to a Bible study. Curious, he attended. They studied the New Testament, and gave Mosab a copy to read for himself.
</blockquote>
{{cquote|
I began at the beginning [in the Gospel According to Matthew], and when I got to the Sermon on the Mount, I thought, Wow, this guy Jesus is really impressive! Everything He says is beautiful! I couldn't put the book down. Every verse seemed to touch a deep wound in my life. It was a very simple message, but somehow it had the power to heal my soul and give me hope. Then I read this: `You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.' (Matthew 5:43-45)....I was thunderstruck by these words. Never before had I heard anything like this, but I knew that this was the message I had been searching for all my life." Five years earlier, I would have read the words of Jesus and thought, What an idiot! and thrown the Bible away....But now, everything Jesus said on the pages of this book made perfect sense to me. Overwhelmed, I started to cry." (p.122-123) <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/AG1A043PNTPX7/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview Joel C. Rosenberg, ''Love Your Enemies? How The Son Of The Founder Of Hamas Went From Jihad To Jesus'', review]</ref>}}

"I converted to Christianity because I was convinced by Jesus Christ as a character, as a personality. I loved him, his wisdom, his love, his unconditional love. I didn't leave [the Islamic] religion to put myself in another box of religion."<ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703915204575103481069258868.html#printMode</ref>

After the deceased PLO chief [[Yasser Arafat]] turned down the Israeli offer of 90% of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as the capital of a new "Palestinian" state, an outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000 led to Mosab being fully activated as a spy.

In an interview with the [[Wall Street Journal]], Matthew Kaminski reported,
<blockquote>
Mr. Yousef tells me that he was horrified by the pointless violence unleashed by politicians willing to climb "on the shoulders of poor, religious people." He says Palestinians who heeded the call "were going like a cow to the slaughterhouse, and they thought they were going to heaven." So, as he writes in the book, "At the age of twenty-two, I became the Shin Bet's only Hamas insider who could infiltrate Hamas's military and political wings, as well as other Palestinian factions."

The motivation, he says, was to save lives.

"I'd seen enough killing. I was a witness to lots of death . . . Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful . . . no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives—or in other words they owe my Lord their lives."

His handler—a "Captain Loai," now retired from the Shin Bet—corroborated many of these stories to Haaretz. The paper said the Shin Bet considered Mr. Yousef "the most reliable and most senior agent."<ref name="online.wsj.com"/></blockquote>

Gideon Ezra, formerly deputy leader of Shin Bet and now a member of the Knesset for the Kadima party, told BBC World Service that Mosab had been one of its agents. Mosab Hassan Yousef was considered Shin Bet's most reliable source in the Hamas leadership, earning himself the nickname "the Green Prince". One of his Israeli "handlers" told the paper that he had saved many lives, with one of his insights "worth 1,000 hours of thought by top experts" "The amazing thing is that none of his actions were done for money".

Mosab Hassan Yousef converted to Christianity, and he later moved to the United States in 2007.<ref>[bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8533952.stm?ad=1 BBC NEWS ''Hamas man's son was Israeli spy''] February 24, 2010</ref>

The United States is currently in the process of determining whether he qualifies for political asylum, as Islam demands the death of those who leave the ideology.

In an Associated Press interview, Mosab stated,
<blockquote>
"To be honest with you, being killed is not the worst thing that can happen." "I know this is very dangerous and this will offend many people. The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the God of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist." Later adding, "Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad."</blockquote>

Sheik Hassan Yousef said in a letter that his family had renounced "the one who was once our eldest son, who is called Mosab."<ref>[http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hrgjmmb3eX8TDEIAXEcp-TOfWpnAD9E7HI480 The Associated Press, ''Hamas spy unafraid, criticizes Islam'] Mar 3, 2010'</ref>

==Iran's mercenaries==
Noted journalist summed up how the mullahrcracy of Iran uses Hamas & [[PIJ]]:<ref>Khaled Abu Toameh, "[https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17840/iran-palestinian-mercenaries The Role of Iran's Palestinian Mercenaries,]" Gatestone Inst., October 28, 2021.
<blockquote>
Hamas and PIJ, it seems, want to continue receiving funds and weapons from Iran, but they do not want to be seen by Arabs and Muslims as mercenaries serving Iran's interests in the Middle East.

Hamas and PIJ want the Palestinians and the rest of the Arabs and Muslims to believe that their only goal is to "liberate all of Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea" -- a euphemism for driving the Jews out of Israel and replacing it with an Islamist state.

That is most likely why both Palestinian terror groups were quick to issue statements denying that their main goal is to defend Iran and serve its interests in the Middle East.

"Take your armies and go with them back to Iran, where you can fight your battles away from the peoples you occupy to achieve your agendas," said Sami Gemayel, head of the Lebanese Kataeb Party. He also criticized the failure of Lebanese leaders to respond to the admission that Hezbollah was created to serve Iran, and not Lebanon: "Are you ready now to face the truth?"

The Iranian commander's [Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid's] statements coincide with the Biden administration's delusional commitment to the fiction that the US will somehow convince Iran to abandon its plans to acquire nuclear weapons.

While the Biden administration is talking about "diplomacy" as the best way to rein in Iran's nuclear program, the mullahs are preparing for war and advancing their scheme to annihilate Israel and, with the help of their six "armies," occupy still more Arab countries.</blockquote></ref>
<blockquote>
Hamas and PIJ, it seems, want to continue receiving funds and weapons from Iran, but they do not want to be seen by Arabs and Muslims as mercenaries serving Iran's interests in the Middle East.

Hamas and PIJ want the Palestinians and the rest of the Arabs and Muslims to believe that their only goal is to "liberate all of Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea" -- a euphemism for driving the Jews out of Israel and replacing it with an Islamist state.

That is most likely why both Palestinian terror groups were quick to issue statements denying that their main goal is to defend Iran and serve its interests in the Middle East.

"Take your armies and go with them back to Iran, where you can fight your battles away from the peoples you occupy to achieve your agendas," said Sami Gemayel, head of the Lebanese Kataeb Party. He also criticized the failure of Lebanese leaders to respond to the admission that Hezbollah was created to serve Iran, and not Lebanon: "Are you ready now to face the truth?"

The Iranian commander's [Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid's] statements coincide with the Biden administration's delusional commitment to the fiction that the US will somehow convince Iran to abandon its plans to acquire nuclear weapons.

While the Biden administration is talking about "diplomacy" as the best way to rein in Iran's nuclear program, the mullahs are preparing for war and advancing their scheme to annihilate Israel and, with the help of their six "armies," occupy still more Arab countries.</blockquote>

[[File:Family.held.by.Hamas.barbarians.Oct7.23.jpg|thumb|Family held by Hamas barbarians Oct 7, 2023]]

[[File:German.tatoo.artist.paraded.by.Hamas.barbarians.Oct.7.23.jpg|thumb|German tattoo artist held by Hamas.."Her body was filmed splayed in the back of a truck, with one leg at an unnatural angle, terrorists sitting around it and supporters of the group cheering, running alongside and spitting on her."]]

[[File:Girl.2.held.by.Hamas.barbarians.Oct.7.23.jpg|thumb|Held by Hamas barbarians. Oct.7.23. "Doron and her two young daughters, Raz and Aviv (4.5 and 2.5 years old), cruelly kidnapped by Hamas. Noa, who was enjoying a party with her partner, also abducted. Ivonne and Antonio, parents of a 6 and a 4-year-old, are still missing."]]

The barbarian [[Iran]]/[[Hamas]]/[[PIJ]] onslaught Oct 2023 which led to [[Swords of Iron]] - the operation was helped by Iran, over several weeks, and the terrorist were given the green light by the [[IRGC]] two days prior to the attack.<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-israel-hamas-strike-planning-bbe07b25 Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks], ''WSJ'', Oct 8, 2023</ref>
Images -- of little girls and eldery people held by Hamas, bloodied women, as well as parading of various doubt alive or dead and Palestinians beating them, young German woman was murdered by Hamas while attending a music festival in Israel before the militants desecrated and paraded her body on the back of a truck -- shocked the world. It brought back ISIS style barbarity.

Beginning in the morning of Oct 7, 2023:

The Islamic Republic of Iran's backed "Palestinian" terror organization Hamas 'Gaza regime' in coordination with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terror groups - PFLP, DFLP, Fatah, after "officials from Iran and Hezbollah helped" planning:

fires (Oct 7–12) over 5,000 rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip over towns across Israel, including Jerusalem & Tel Aviv / central Israel, (in an attempt to overwhelm the system, many fired at once), many fell on the towns despite the Iron Dome system - wounding several, (a day later on a hospital in Ashkelon), wounding also in Ashdod, Ashkelon and in the Jerusalem area on Oct 9, murdering two in Eshkol on Oct 10th -

the infiltration of about 3,000-3,500 heavily armed barbarian Hamas / PiJ terrorists in Israeli towns and villages a group via 29 ways, breaching fence, hundreds using paragliders, armed with weapons, roaming on vehicles randomly shooting at people, slaughtering babies in their beds, shooting at the elderly, going from house to house, massacring hundreds;

- at times, entire families slaughtered, such as in Moshav Netiv HaAsara who lost dozens and in Nahal Oz;

- a pensioners' bus was attacked by a van arrived with armed terrorists who opened fire, killing thirteen;

- there were at least 120 murdered in Kibbutz Be'eri, "snatching children out of their beds,"[3] (2, 3 & 5 years old); kidnapping Jews, including women and children - entire families, dragging them (some barefooted) over to Gaza; even the disabled (- such as a Holocaust survivor), many to be lynched [4] and as trophies, a Be'eri resident "85-year-old grandmother.. was filmed being driven into Gaza in a golf cart by laughing militants," a major described when he had to shoot at terrorists - the difficulty to find an angle: "between the bodies of children, to jump over civilians who were handcuffed and shot";

- Captured document "top secret" instructions to target schools, youth centers, take hostages, to kill civilians, "as many as possible";

- In a "captive taking handbook", titled The Warrior's Guide - Jihad Version", the "terrorists are advised in detail on how to carry out the kidnapping. According to the description, the kidnappers are required to create chaos and intimidation, coercing and blindfolding captives, using electric shocks, and instructing them to execute any person who may pose a threat or distraction. They were also instructed to collect the captives and use them as human shields, if necessary, without distinction of religion, race, or sex. According to the barbaric text, similar to the terrorist organization ISIS, the terrorists are required to document their actions by livestreaming and executing hostages";

- The "terrorists came with precise maps, had time for selfies";

- "Hamas came in under the protection of its heavy rocket fire on Israel, by a massive invasion over land, and by air and sea. In order to disrupt the military's observation capabilities, Hamas launched UAVs to destroy communication towers and observation posts along the Gaza border, causing blind spots, while bulldozers broke through the border fence allowing hundreds across in the first wave, sources told the paper. A further 1,800, followed the initial invaders..";

- "Many Ordinary Palestinians Joined in Hamas's Atrocities Against Israel.. 'Just as Cruel as the Terrorists'";

- The terrorists had developed a method, a real technique to increase the dimensions of the massacre.. the terrorists knew that the residents would lock themselves in the safe-room, and those who refused to come out, they simply opened the trunk of his car in the yard, took out the spare tire, lit it on fire and rolled it into the house to hasten its burning. We found bodies of people who died of suffocation in the gas tanks. Others were burned alive and those who tried to escape from the window were shot to death."

- Torching houses and vehicles some with people inside, parading with dead, wounded, hostages;

- A massacre such that of youngsters on a nature party 'Nova' near Kibbutz Re'im (260), two youngsters who were there, before being kidnapped: "had WhatsApp conversations, sent their location, made it clear that the terrorists were walking around and lynching anyone they found"[5];

- "21 children are now orphans. A 4-year-old girl, whose both parents were murdered, was kidnapped alone to Gaza" by Arab Palestinians.

- In Kfar Aza, they "found babies with their heads cut off, entire families gunned down in their beds. About 40 babies and young children have been taken out on gurneys — so far."

- Eyes were gouged out, a woman's breasts cut off and a daughter had her legs severed.'

- From footage shown to journalists: 'Two soldiers without heads. Brutalized young women, one of them naked. Captives in Gaza surrounded by jeering gunmen... Hamas gunmen shooting at civilian cars and at people running across open fields as they flee the site of an open-air music festival. They whoop in triumph over their victims... one man scooping up two young boys, both wearing only underpants, as early morning sirens wailed, warning of incoming rocket fire. They ran out to a nearby bomb shelter. Assailants, lying in ambush, threw a grenade into the shelter, killing the man. The boys ran back to their house, where, distraught, one of them said he could not see anything. As a gunman rummaged in the refrigerator, the other boy cried, “Why am I alive?”.. In other clips, victims are seen gagged and with their hands bound behind their backs. Faces are frozen in shock and agony. Women’s bones are broken, their legs twisted in impossible angles.'

- "Hamas torture confirmed as Israeli forensics institute identifies victims." Among the images from forensics: "were those of charred hands with marks that revealed where the victims’ hands were bound behind their backs with metal wire before being burned alive... a completely charred mass of flesh, which at first glance could not be seen as ever having belonged to a human. It was only after a CT scan was done that experts could see the inhumanity of the image. Two spinal cords—one belonging to an adult, one to someone young—a parent and child bound together by metal wires in a final embrace before being set alight. “When you do this job downstairs, you get detached,” Dr. Chen Kugel, the head of Abu Kabir: “But then you learn the stories and connect to the people. It’s hard not to feel the tragedy. It’s so big. And when I go to the Shura camp [where deceased bodies in Israel are first collected] and see containers like you’d see at the port—but they’re all full of bodies… And you hear the stories—that behind their charred bodies, something terrible happened—it’s very difficult. I’ve seen many things in my 31-year career, but the magnitude and the cruelty [here] is terrible... The proportion of bodies we’ve received who are charred is high.. Many have gunshot wounds in their hands, showing they put their hands up to their faces in defense. Many were burned alive in their homes. … We know they were burned alive because there is soot in their trachea, their throats—meaning they were still breathing when set on fire... the age range of the victims spans from 3 months to 80 or 90 years old. Many bodies, including those of babies, are without heads."

- "Murdered Israeli children of Kibbutz Be'eri. They were tortured, dismembered, and then burned to death. Archaeologists are sifting through the rubble to find their teeth."

- Witness: "I saw one of my friends, she was begging for her life," she says. "She asked him to not kill her, to not kill her, to not kill her, and they didn’t care, they were laughing." She explains how, shortly after the break of dawn, her four friends were forced to line up and kneel down in the dust of an arid field. From her hiding place behind the trees, she overheard the single final word her friends heard from their murderers. "Enjoy," the Hamas militants said in English, as they laughed, before shooting the three men and one woman at point-blank range, she said.

- On a girl victim: "Her skull has been found. This means that these barbaric, sadistic animals simply chopped off her head as they attacked, tortured and killed Israelis."

- A Hamas terrorist, using a murdered female victim's phone, calls his father: "Father, I killed 10 Jews! Check your WhatsApp! I sent you the photos! Father, I killed 10 Jews! I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands. His voice that is so ecstatic — sounded like he’s out of his mind... He was repeating the same thing over and over again, ‘I killed 10 of them.’ Then he added: 'The blood is still on my hands.' Check your WhatsApp. Father, be proud of me!" His twisted parents praised him.

- Hamas terrorist under investigation: "We were ordered to murder, women and children too."

- Hamas terrorist: Shot crying children ‘until we didn’t hear noise anymore’ "The mission was simply to kill," Hamas operative told Shin Bet interrogators.

- The plan was to go from house to house, throw grenades, and kill everyone there, including women and children." Hamas Terrorist of the Nukhba Force Confesses the Slaughter of Women, Children, and Post-mortem Rape of Dead Body - and with an Islamic religious permission for that.

- A handwritten note found on the body of a Hamas terrorist encouraged the jihadists to remove the heads, hearts and livers of their Israeli victims. "You must sharpen the blades of your swords and be pure in your intentions before Allah. Know that the enemy is a disease that has no cure, except beheading and removing the hearts and livers. Attack them!" the note reads in Arabic.

- Terrorist further "confessed that Hamas approved of abusing the bodies and even dismembering them."

- A "terrorist using a grenade to kill a father in front of his two sons."

- A woman whose job is to, clean the victim’s bodies as best as possible to prepare them for burial: "We wash the bodies and prepare them for burial. We try to bring them dignity in death...What these barbarians did to these people is beyond words... There is evidence of mass rape so brutal that they broke their victims' pelvis – women, grandmothers, children... People whose heads have been cut off. Women standing in their night dresses woken up and shot. Faces blasted off. Heads smashed and their brains spilling out.. A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the mother was beheaded... Women and children burned to charcoal. Bodies murdered with their hands tied behind their backs."

- A Colonel said, that what Israeli forces have discovered in the aftermath of the attacks was "evidence of torture and savagery...We have babies with their heads cut off. Bodies without hands, without legs, without genitals."

- "Many of the bodies" -- worker at burial sociey -- processed bore witness to the violent way in which the murders had happened: There were gunshot wounds, burns, dismemberments, stabbings and more..."

- It was found a "USB key with instructions for producing a 'cyanide dispersion device' on the body of a Hamas operative who participated in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack";

- "They gathered young boys in lines and shot them. They raped some of the girls who came to the music festival. Some of the young people were gathered together and burned. We found the remains, and didn't understand what they were at first- we thought perhaps there had been an accident. Then we started searching for the missing, and we saw fire. We said 'Wait, maybe there are people in the fire'. There were twelve people burning. I looked up and saw more fires, and realized that we should just follow the fire. We burned our shoes trying to get them all out. We had to hurry because, in just a few hours like that, there would have been no remains left. I have horrific videos of that."

[[File:IMG-20231105-WA0000.jpg|thumb|On Oct 24, 2023, "Hamas official Ghazi Hamad: We will repeat the October 7 attack, time and again, until Israel is annihilated...Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country"]]

On Oct 24, 2023, "Hamas official Ghazi Hamad: We will repeat the October 7 attack, time and again, until Israel is annihilated...Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country."<ref>[https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-official-ghazi-hamad-we-will-repeat-october-7-attack-time-and-again-until-israel Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified], ''Memri'', November 1, 2023.<blockquote>
Ghazi Hamad of the Hamas political bureau said in an October 24, 2023 show on LBC TV (Lebanon) that Hamas is prepared to repeat the October 7 "Al-Aqsa Flood" Operation time and again until Israel is annihilated. He added that Palestinians are willing to pay the price and that they are "proud to sacrifice martyrs." Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: "Everything we do is justified."

To view the clip of Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, click here or below:

"The Al-Aqsa Flood Is Just The First Time, And There Will Be A Second, Third, And Fourth[;] Will We Pay A Price? Yes, And We Are Ready To Pay It"

Ghazi Hamad: "Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country, because it constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation, and must be finished. We are not ashamed to say this, with full force.
[https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/RUvUyjsWcmwdDKatcHHICA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTM1OQ--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ukrayinska_pravda_articles_451/a73dba640def208ca5cc7f32d02edd62]</blockquote>
[https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-771199 'We will repeat October 7 again and again' - Hamas official]. By ''Jerusalem Post'' Staff, November 1, 2023.<blockquote>
([https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_428,w_640/560038]
A damaged and blood-stained kindergarten is seen following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel October 22, 2023.)
Last week, Hamad stormed out of an interview with the BBC after he was asked about the terrorist group’s massacre of civilians in Israel on October 7.
"Israel is a country that has no place on our land," Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Lebanese news outlet LBCI news this week...</blockquote></ref>

==With Taliban==
In August, 2021, with [[Taliban]] advancing, Hamas congratulated them and invoked the so called "struggle" term. It cheered them on their "victory" obver the [[US]].<ref>[https://www.jns.org/hamas-congratulates-taliban-for-victory-over-america-in-afghanistan/ Hamas congratulates Taliban for ‘victory’ over America in Afghanistan], JNS, Aug 16, 2021

''Officials of the terror group in Gaza said it proves that “the resistance of the peoples—foremost of which is our struggling Palestinian people—is destined for victory.''</ref>

==See also==
*[[Suicide bomber: a personal account]]
*[[Dogs of Hamas]]

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7v1C0VUhyA A Hamas made video of one of their suicide bomber operations]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN-dKwod3VM&feature=related Fox news video interview of Mosab Hassan Yousef], the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the founders of Hamas.

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Anti-Natalism

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'''Anti-Natalism''' is the [[belief]] that it is [[immoral]] for [[humans]] (and only humans) to reproduce. It is anti-biblical and many of its adherents are [[liberals]] who buy into the theories of [[eugenics]] despite claiming to the contrary.

Many anti-natalists claim that they only want to "reduce suffering" as if anyone who disagrees is "pro-suffering". This is an example of deceitful reframing, a common tactic used to obfuscate one's position to make it appear more palatable; not unlike the [[pro-choice]] movement implying that any opposition to abortion is "anti-choice".

Their underlying philosophy promotes [[misanthropy]] and the [[globalist]] myth of [[overpopulation]]. They are endemic on [[Reddit]] and its spinoff, [[Ovarit]]

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Ovarit

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'''Ovarit''' is a [[feminist]] forum made to ressemble far-left [[Reddit]] in their style. Given that it was initially formed from the [[cancel culture|canceled]] "GenderCritical" subreddit for speaking out against gender ideology and the rape culture perpetuated by [[Islam]], it can be considered a sort of spinoff.

Unfortunately, though they can see through [[leftist]] gender hysteria, they are [[liberal]] in every other way that matters. They are pro-[[abortion]], pro-[[Lesbian]] and believe that most of the world's problems come from [[male]] leadership. They are in essence, a throwback to liberals from the 90s and 2000s. Given the average age of an ovarit user, this is not surprising. They also have ties to [[Anti-Natalism]].

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Commonwealth of Independent States

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[[Image:CISflag.png|right|thumb|Flag of CIS]]
:Not to be confused for the [[Latin]] prefix cis-, as in cisalpine [[Gaul]]
:''For the conservative immigration think tank, see [[Center for Immigration Studies]]''

The '''Commonwealth of Independent States''' (CIS) is an alliance among 11 former Soviet Republics: [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[Armenia]], [[Georgia]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Belarus]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Moldova]], [[Tajikistan]], and [[Uzbekistan]].
[[Estonia]], [[Latvia]] and [[Lithuania]] did not join (see [[Baltic states]]).

[[Turkmenistan]] was a member of the CIS but left as a permanent member in 2005, and now is only an associate member.

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George Santos

2023-12-13T19:33:44Z

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'''George Santos''' was elected as the U.S. representative for [[New York]]'s 3rd congressional district in 2023. Santos, a [[Brazilian]], was the victim of [[racist]] attacks by [[liberal]]s and [[Democrat]]s from the earliest days after his election.

On December 1, 2023, Santos was expelled from Congress.

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Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

2023-10-26T19:04:47Z

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The '''Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation''' is a United States [[Department of Defense]] training facility at [[Fort Benning]] in [[Columbus, Georgia]]. It is the successor of the highly successful [[School of the Americas]] (SOA), which has trained numerous leaders who have kept most of Latin America from falling under communist regimes. It is used to train [[Latin America]]n [[military]] and [[law enforcement]] personnel.

The School has been accused of teaching [[torture]] techniques. According to various [[United Nations|UN]] commissions, its graduates include some of the worst [[human rights]] violators in the [[Western Hemisphere]], [[Hugo Banzer]] for example, who were trained at [[United States|US]] taxpayers' expense. In response to this, a human rights program is taught at the school, but its [[history]] has earned it the derogatory nickname of "School of Dictators".

==Links==
[http://www.ciponline.org/facts/soa.htm Center for International Policy]

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Paul Manafort

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SingleChristian1:

'''Paul Manafort''' is an American lobbyist and the leading target of the [[Robert Mueller|Mueller]] investigation, apparently because he served briefly for several months as the campaign chairman for presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]] in mid-2016. Manafort has also been a political consultant for various successful leaders both domestically and abroad.

Manafort is a longtime target of Clinton operatives [[Mary Jacoby]] and [[Glenn Simpson]]. Jacoby and Simpson colluded with the [[Obama]] [[FBI]] and [[Justice Department]] to commit [[fraud]] against the U.S. [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] and meddle in the [[2016 Presidential election]].<ref>
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/251897/obama-steele-dossier-russiagate</ref>

Manafort was framed in an illegal information flow from [[FusionGPS]] to [[Bruce Ohr]] and [[Andrew Weissmann]] in the [[Obamagate]] [[FISA abuse]] scandal.

==Mary Jacoby and Glenn Simpson==
During the [[2008 Presidential election]], ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' correspondents Mary Jacoby.and Glenn Simpson reported that a consultant to [[John McCain]] hired a public-relations firm to improve the American image of a [[Ukrainian]] political party backed by Russian leader [[Vladimir Putin]], according to documents filed with the Justice Department.

Jacoby and Simpson reported "The lobbying firm of Davis Manafort Inc. arranged through an affiliate for the public-relations firm's work in the spring of 2008, at the same time Davis Manafort was being paid by McCain's presidential campaign. The firm is co-owned by lobbyist Rick Davis, manager of [[John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign|Sen. McCain's presidential campaign]], and Republican strategist Paul Manafort."<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121072447597990171</ref>

===Jacoby and Systematics===
Mary Jacoby, the wife of [[FusionGPS]] founder Glenn Simpson, is the daughter of Jon Jacoby who arranged the purchase of an 80% share of Systematics for the Stephens family.<ref>http://www.stephensgroup.com/our-portfolio-partners/case-studies</ref> [[Hillary Clinton]] was hired by Systematics in 1978 as their intellectual property lawyer.<ref>According to The ''American Lawyer'', July 1992: "[Hillary] Clinton also was attracted to intellectual property litigation. 'We did not have any intellectual property expertise when she joined us,' says [[Vince Foster]], who adds that Clinton got involved in this area through her work for the firm client, Systematics Inc., a company based in [[Little Rock]] that provided computer systems for financial institutions. 'She became sort of self-taught in all of this,' explains Foster. 'And you don't find a lot of intellectual property subspecialists in [[Arkansas]]. Quite frankly, the rest of us here thought of it as a foreign language.'"</ref> The intellectual property that Systematics claimed to own were pirated versions of the PROMIS software stolen from [[Inslaw, Inc.]]<ref>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1992/06/14/the-inslaw-file/03b0362c-81d2-40b9-ac16-bc6a8b12dd3f/</ref>
[[File:Photo Collage-20180428 235136.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Simpson hired Nellie Ohr (left) and Christopher Steele (right) to construct the phony ''Clinton-Steele dossier''. Nellie Ohr is the wife of Obama Associate Deputy Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]]. Bruce Ohr passed the phony dossier to the FBI, which then was used to justify inititiating an investigation of Trump associates and hoaxing the FISA court to issue surveillance warrants.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/12/strzok-trump-dossier-questions/</ref> The illegal evidence then was used by the [[Mueller team]] to indict Paul Manafort.]]
Systematics at the time was acting as a front for the [[NSA]], marketing the software worldwide to banks so the US [[intelligence community]] could monitor global [[money laundering]] transactions.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mvq0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT122&lpg=PT122&dq=Systematics+General+rose+law+firm&source=bl&ots=qCZ-m4fr4z&sig=rTWMLwutszQ389hz683u9qXuhao&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmuITNwpzcAhUIJXwKHYxkAOgQ6AEwCHoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=Systematics%20General%20rose%20law%20firm&f=false The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century], James R. Norman, Trine Day, 2008.</ref>

===Glenn Simpson and FusionGPS===
FusionGPS was hired by Hillary Clinton to author the fraudulent ''[[Steele dossier]]'' which alleged [[Trump-Russia collusion]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html</ref>

The day after FusionGPS lost its contractor access to the [[FISA]] database,<ref>https://youtu.be/4G48P1cTK-E</ref> Mary Jacoby attended a meeting at the Obama [[White House]].<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/mary-jacoby-1.jpg</ref> [[Nellie Ohr]] and [[Christopher Steele]] were hired by FusionGPS to write the ''Steele dossier'' shortly afterward. The ''Steele dossier'' was used in the [[FISA abuse]] scandal.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/04/16/the-fbis-private-contractors-fisa-abuse-the-steele-dossier-a-timeline/</ref>

===Neil King and Shailagh Murray===
Additionally, FusionGPS's No.2 man, [[Neil King, Jr.]], is the spouse of [[Obama]] Senior Advisor [[Shailagh Murray]].

==Trump-Russia collusion hoax==
[[File:Mueller and Yanu.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Robert Mueller (right) colluding with Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]] (left). Mueller served as an errand boy for [[Hillary Clinton]] to build goodwill with Vladimir Putin for the Russian Reset.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE38943_a.html </ref> The Russian Reset was a pause in tensions for the Uranium One deal. The Clintons personally took $500,000 from Russian oligarchs in the [[Uranium One bribery scandal]], which Mueller likewise had to sign-off on.]]
During the Republican National Convention in 2016 [[Anne Applebaum]] of the ''[[Washington Post]]'' wrote a piece entitled, ''Trump presidency could destabilize Europe.'' The issue, she explained, was Trump's positive attitude toward [[Putin]]. “The extent of the Trump-Russia business connection has already been laid out, by Franklin Foer at ''Slate'',” wrote Applebaum.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-a-trump-presidency-could-destabilize-europe/2016/07/21/9ec38a20-4f75-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html?sw_bypass=true</ref><ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html]</ref> She named [[Carter Page]] and his “long-standing connections to Russian companies.” Applebaum repeats the debunked notion that the “Trump’s campaign team helped alter the Republican party platform to remove support for [[Ukraine]]” from the RNC platform.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-how-pundits-got-key-part-of-trump-russia-story-all-wrong/article/2617802 </ref> Maybe, she hints, that was because of Trump aide Manafort's ties to Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]].

The Manafort-Yanukovich relationship is an important part of the ''[[Steele dossier]]''. So is the claim that in exchange for Russia releasing the DNC emails, “the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.” For Applebaum, it was hard to understand why Trump would express skepticism about the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]], except to appease Putin. She referred to a recent interview in which Trump “cast doubt on the fundamental basis of transatlantic stability, NATO’s Article 5 guarantee: If Russia invades, he said, he’d have to think first before defending U.S. allies.” The talking points come directly from [[Hillary Clinton]]'s opposition research, [[FusionGPS]] and the ''Steele dossier''.

In 2017 Manafort was indicted by Special Counsel [[Robert S. Mueller]] in the [[Trump-Russia scam]]. Manafort was indicted for [[FARA]] violations and influence peddling in conjunction with the [[Podesta Group]]. The activities took place primarily during [[Hillary Clinton]]’s [[State Department]] years. Nothing in the indictments related to President Trump.

On February 22, 2018, a grand jury issued a superseding indictment for Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates. The superseding indictment does not include any reference to the Trump campaign, including no mention of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

On September 14, 2018 Manafort plead guilty in money laundering and tax evasion schemes while employed by Sen. [[John McCain]].<ref>https://www.circa.com/story/2017/06/21/heres-the-russia-influence-controversy-that-john-mccain-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about</ref>

==See also==
*[[John Podesta]]
*[[Tony Podesta]]
*[[U1]]
*[[Andrew McCabe]]
*[[Andrew Weissmann]]
*[[Oleg Deripaska]]
*[[Lisa Page]]
*[[Spygate]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Manafort, Paul}}
[[Category:2000s]]
[[Category:2010s]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Victims of the liberal agenda]]

Paul Manafort

2023-09-17T04:20:15Z

SingleChristian1:

'''Paul Manafort''' is an American lobbyist and the leading target of the [[Robert Mueller|Mueller]] investigation, apparently because he served briefly for several months as the campaign chairman for presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]] in mid-2016. Manafort has also been a political consultant.

Manafort is a longtime target of Clinton operatives [[Mary Jacoby]] and [[Glenn Simpson]]. Jacoby and Simpson colluded with the [[Obama]] [[FBI]] and [[Justice Department]] to commit [[fraud]] against the U.S. [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] and meddle in the [[2016 Presidential election]].<ref>
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/251897/obama-steele-dossier-russiagate</ref>

Manafort was framed in an illegal information flow from [[FusionGPS]] to [[Bruce Ohr]] and [[Andrew Weissmann]] in the [[Obamagate]] [[FISA abuse]] scandal.

==Mary Jacoby and Glenn Simpson==
During the [[2008 Presidential election]], ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' correspondents Mary Jacoby.and Glenn Simpson reported that a consultant to [[John McCain]] hired a public-relations firm to improve the American image of a [[Ukrainian]] political party backed by Russian leader [[Vladimir Putin]], according to documents filed with the Justice Department.

Jacoby and Simpson reported "The lobbying firm of Davis Manafort Inc. arranged through an affiliate for the public-relations firm's work in the spring of 2008, at the same time Davis Manafort was being paid by McCain's presidential campaign. The firm is co-owned by lobbyist Rick Davis, manager of [[John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign|Sen. McCain's presidential campaign]], and Republican strategist Paul Manafort."<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121072447597990171</ref>

===Jacoby and Systematics===
Mary Jacoby, the wife of [[FusionGPS]] founder Glenn Simpson, is the daughter of Jon Jacoby who arranged the purchase of an 80% share of Systematics for the Stephens family.<ref>http://www.stephensgroup.com/our-portfolio-partners/case-studies</ref> [[Hillary Clinton]] was hired by Systematics in 1978 as their intellectual property lawyer.<ref>According to The ''American Lawyer'', July 1992: "[Hillary] Clinton also was attracted to intellectual property litigation. 'We did not have any intellectual property expertise when she joined us,' says [[Vince Foster]], who adds that Clinton got involved in this area through her work for the firm client, Systematics Inc., a company based in [[Little Rock]] that provided computer systems for financial institutions. 'She became sort of self-taught in all of this,' explains Foster. 'And you don't find a lot of intellectual property subspecialists in [[Arkansas]]. Quite frankly, the rest of us here thought of it as a foreign language.'"</ref> The intellectual property that Systematics claimed to own were pirated versions of the PROMIS software stolen from [[Inslaw, Inc.]]<ref>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1992/06/14/the-inslaw-file/03b0362c-81d2-40b9-ac16-bc6a8b12dd3f/</ref>
[[File:Photo Collage-20180428 235136.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Simpson hired Nellie Ohr (left) and Christopher Steele (right) to construct the phony ''Clinton-Steele dossier''. Nellie Ohr is the wife of Obama Associate Deputy Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]]. Bruce Ohr passed the phony dossier to the FBI, which then was used to justify inititiating an investigation of Trump associates and hoaxing the FISA court to issue surveillance warrants.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/12/strzok-trump-dossier-questions/</ref> The illegal evidence then was used by the [[Mueller team]] to indict Paul Manafort.]]
Systematics at the time was acting as a front for the [[NSA]], marketing the software worldwide to banks so the US [[intelligence community]] could monitor global [[money laundering]] transactions.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mvq0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT122&lpg=PT122&dq=Systematics+General+rose+law+firm&source=bl&ots=qCZ-m4fr4z&sig=rTWMLwutszQ389hz683u9qXuhao&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmuITNwpzcAhUIJXwKHYxkAOgQ6AEwCHoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=Systematics%20General%20rose%20law%20firm&f=false The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century], James R. Norman, Trine Day, 2008.</ref>

===Glenn Simpson and FusionGPS===
FusionGPS was hired by Hillary Clinton to author the fraudulent ''[[Steele dossier]]'' which alleged [[Trump-Russia collusion]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html</ref>

The day after FusionGPS lost its contractor access to the [[FISA]] database,<ref>https://youtu.be/4G48P1cTK-E</ref> Mary Jacoby attended a meeting at the Obama [[White House]].<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/mary-jacoby-1.jpg</ref> [[Nellie Ohr]] and [[Christopher Steele]] were hired by FusionGPS to write the ''Steele dossier'' shortly afterward. The ''Steele dossier'' was used in the [[FISA abuse]] scandal.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/04/16/the-fbis-private-contractors-fisa-abuse-the-steele-dossier-a-timeline/</ref>

===Neil King and Shailagh Murray===
Additionally, FusionGPS's No.2 man, [[Neil King, Jr.]], is the spouse of [[Obama]] Senior Advisor [[Shailagh Murray]].

==Trump-Russia collusion hoax==
[[File:Mueller and Yanu.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Robert Mueller (right) colluding with Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]] (left). Mueller served as an errand boy for [[Hillary Clinton]] to build goodwill with Vladimir Putin for the Russian Reset.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE38943_a.html </ref> The Russian Reset was a pause in tensions for the Uranium One deal. The Clintons personally took $500,000 from Russian oligarchs in the [[Uranium One bribery scandal]], which Mueller likewise had to sign-off on.]]
During the Republican National Convention in 2016 [[Anne Applebaum]] of the ''[[Washington Post]]'' wrote a piece entitled, ''Trump presidency could destabilize Europe.'' The issue, she explained, was Trump's positive attitude toward [[Putin]]. “The extent of the Trump-Russia business connection has already been laid out, by Franklin Foer at ''Slate'',” wrote Applebaum.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-a-trump-presidency-could-destabilize-europe/2016/07/21/9ec38a20-4f75-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html?sw_bypass=true</ref><ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html]</ref> She named [[Carter Page]] and his “long-standing connections to Russian companies.” Applebaum repeats the debunked notion that the “Trump’s campaign team helped alter the Republican party platform to remove support for [[Ukraine]]” from the RNC platform.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-how-pundits-got-key-part-of-trump-russia-story-all-wrong/article/2617802 </ref> Maybe, she hints, that was because of Trump aide Manafort's ties to Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]].

The Manafort-Yanukovich relationship is an important part of the ''[[Steele dossier]]''. So is the claim that in exchange for Russia releasing the DNC emails, “the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.” For Applebaum, it was hard to understand why Trump would express skepticism about the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]], except to appease Putin. She referred to a recent interview in which Trump “cast doubt on the fundamental basis of transatlantic stability, NATO’s Article 5 guarantee: If Russia invades, he said, he’d have to think first before defending U.S. allies.” The talking points come directly from [[Hillary Clinton]]'s opposition research, [[FusionGPS]] and the ''Steele dossier''.

In 2017 Manafort was indicted by Special Counsel [[Robert S. Mueller]] in the [[Trump-Russia scam]]. Manafort was indicted for [[FARA]] violations and influence peddling in conjunction with the [[Podesta Group]]. The activities took place primarily during [[Hillary Clinton]]’s [[State Department]] years. Nothing in the indictments related to President Trump.

On February 22, 2018, a grand jury issued a superseding indictment for Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates. The superseding indictment does not include any reference to the Trump campaign, including no mention of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

On September 14, 2018 Manafort plead guilty in money laundering and tax evasion schemes while employed by Sen. [[John McCain]].<ref>https://www.circa.com/story/2017/06/21/heres-the-russia-influence-controversy-that-john-mccain-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about</ref>

==See also==
*[[John Podesta]]
*[[Tony Podesta]]
*[[U1]]
*[[Andrew McCabe]]
*[[Andrew Weissmann]]
*[[Oleg Deripaska]]
*[[Lisa Page]]
*[[Spygate]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Manafort, Paul}}
[[Category:2000s]]
[[Category:2010s]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Victims of the liberal agenda]]

Paul Manafort

2023-09-17T04:19:51Z

SingleChristian1: Relevance

'''Paul Manafort''' is an American lobbyist and the leading target of the [[Robert Mueller|Mueller]] investigation, apparently because he served briefly for several months as the campaign chairman for presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]] in mid-2016. Manafort has also been a lobbyist and political consultant.

Manafort is a longtime target of Clinton operatives [[Mary Jacoby]] and [[Glenn Simpson]]. Jacoby and Simpson colluded with the [[Obama]] [[FBI]] and [[Justice Department]] to commit [[fraud]] against the U.S. [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] and meddle in the [[2016 Presidential election]].<ref>
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/251897/obama-steele-dossier-russiagate</ref>

Manafort was framed in an illegal information flow from [[FusionGPS]] to [[Bruce Ohr]] and [[Andrew Weissmann]] in the [[Obamagate]] [[FISA abuse]] scandal.

==Mary Jacoby and Glenn Simpson==
During the [[2008 Presidential election]], ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' correspondents Mary Jacoby.and Glenn Simpson reported that a consultant to [[John McCain]] hired a public-relations firm to improve the American image of a [[Ukrainian]] political party backed by Russian leader [[Vladimir Putin]], according to documents filed with the Justice Department.

Jacoby and Simpson reported "The lobbying firm of Davis Manafort Inc. arranged through an affiliate for the public-relations firm's work in the spring of 2008, at the same time Davis Manafort was being paid by McCain's presidential campaign. The firm is co-owned by lobbyist Rick Davis, manager of [[John McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign|Sen. McCain's presidential campaign]], and Republican strategist Paul Manafort."<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121072447597990171</ref>

===Jacoby and Systematics===
Mary Jacoby, the wife of [[FusionGPS]] founder Glenn Simpson, is the daughter of Jon Jacoby who arranged the purchase of an 80% share of Systematics for the Stephens family.<ref>http://www.stephensgroup.com/our-portfolio-partners/case-studies</ref> [[Hillary Clinton]] was hired by Systematics in 1978 as their intellectual property lawyer.<ref>According to The ''American Lawyer'', July 1992: "[Hillary] Clinton also was attracted to intellectual property litigation. 'We did not have any intellectual property expertise when she joined us,' says [[Vince Foster]], who adds that Clinton got involved in this area through her work for the firm client, Systematics Inc., a company based in [[Little Rock]] that provided computer systems for financial institutions. 'She became sort of self-taught in all of this,' explains Foster. 'And you don't find a lot of intellectual property subspecialists in [[Arkansas]]. Quite frankly, the rest of us here thought of it as a foreign language.'"</ref> The intellectual property that Systematics claimed to own were pirated versions of the PROMIS software stolen from [[Inslaw, Inc.]]<ref>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1992/06/14/the-inslaw-file/03b0362c-81d2-40b9-ac16-bc6a8b12dd3f/</ref>
[[File:Photo Collage-20180428 235136.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Simpson hired Nellie Ohr (left) and Christopher Steele (right) to construct the phony ''Clinton-Steele dossier''. Nellie Ohr is the wife of Obama Associate Deputy Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]]. Bruce Ohr passed the phony dossier to the FBI, which then was used to justify inititiating an investigation of Trump associates and hoaxing the FISA court to issue surveillance warrants.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/12/strzok-trump-dossier-questions/</ref> The illegal evidence then was used by the [[Mueller team]] to indict Paul Manafort.]]
Systematics at the time was acting as a front for the [[NSA]], marketing the software worldwide to banks so the US [[intelligence community]] could monitor global [[money laundering]] transactions.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mvq0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT122&lpg=PT122&dq=Systematics+General+rose+law+firm&source=bl&ots=qCZ-m4fr4z&sig=rTWMLwutszQ389hz683u9qXuhao&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmuITNwpzcAhUIJXwKHYxkAOgQ6AEwCHoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=Systematics%20General%20rose%20law%20firm&f=false The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century], James R. Norman, Trine Day, 2008.</ref>

===Glenn Simpson and FusionGPS===
FusionGPS was hired by Hillary Clinton to author the fraudulent ''[[Steele dossier]]'' which alleged [[Trump-Russia collusion]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html</ref>

The day after FusionGPS lost its contractor access to the [[FISA]] database,<ref>https://youtu.be/4G48P1cTK-E</ref> Mary Jacoby attended a meeting at the Obama [[White House]].<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/mary-jacoby-1.jpg</ref> [[Nellie Ohr]] and [[Christopher Steele]] were hired by FusionGPS to write the ''Steele dossier'' shortly afterward. The ''Steele dossier'' was used in the [[FISA abuse]] scandal.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2018/04/16/the-fbis-private-contractors-fisa-abuse-the-steele-dossier-a-timeline/</ref>

===Neil King and Shailagh Murray===
Additionally, FusionGPS's No.2 man, [[Neil King, Jr.]], is the spouse of [[Obama]] Senior Advisor [[Shailagh Murray]].

==Trump-Russia collusion hoax==
[[File:Mueller and Yanu.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Robert Mueller (right) colluding with Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]] (left). Mueller served as an errand boy for [[Hillary Clinton]] to build goodwill with Vladimir Putin for the Russian Reset.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE38943_a.html </ref> The Russian Reset was a pause in tensions for the Uranium One deal. The Clintons personally took $500,000 from Russian oligarchs in the [[Uranium One bribery scandal]], which Mueller likewise had to sign-off on.]]
During the Republican National Convention in 2016 [[Anne Applebaum]] of the ''[[Washington Post]]'' wrote a piece entitled, ''Trump presidency could destabilize Europe.'' The issue, she explained, was Trump's positive attitude toward [[Putin]]. “The extent of the Trump-Russia business connection has already been laid out, by Franklin Foer at ''Slate'',” wrote Applebaum.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-a-trump-presidency-could-destabilize-europe/2016/07/21/9ec38a20-4f75-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html?sw_bypass=true</ref><ref>[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html]</ref> She named [[Carter Page]] and his “long-standing connections to Russian companies.” Applebaum repeats the debunked notion that the “Trump’s campaign team helped alter the Republican party platform to remove support for [[Ukraine]]” from the RNC platform.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-how-pundits-got-key-part-of-trump-russia-story-all-wrong/article/2617802 </ref> Maybe, she hints, that was because of Trump aide Manafort's ties to Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]].

The Manafort-Yanukovich relationship is an important part of the ''[[Steele dossier]]''. So is the claim that in exchange for Russia releasing the DNC emails, “the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.” For Applebaum, it was hard to understand why Trump would express skepticism about the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]], except to appease Putin. She referred to a recent interview in which Trump “cast doubt on the fundamental basis of transatlantic stability, NATO’s Article 5 guarantee: If Russia invades, he said, he’d have to think first before defending U.S. allies.” The talking points come directly from [[Hillary Clinton]]'s opposition research, [[FusionGPS]] and the ''Steele dossier''.

In 2017 Manafort was indicted by Special Counsel [[Robert S. Mueller]] in the [[Trump-Russia scam]]. Manafort was indicted for [[FARA]] violations and influence peddling in conjunction with the [[Podesta Group]]. The activities took place primarily during [[Hillary Clinton]]’s [[State Department]] years. Nothing in the indictments related to President Trump.

On February 22, 2018, a grand jury issued a superseding indictment for Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates. The superseding indictment does not include any reference to the Trump campaign, including no mention of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

On September 14, 2018 Manafort plead guilty in money laundering and tax evasion schemes while employed by Sen. [[John McCain]].<ref>https://www.circa.com/story/2017/06/21/heres-the-russia-influence-controversy-that-john-mccain-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about</ref>

==See also==
*[[John Podesta]]
*[[Tony Podesta]]
*[[U1]]
*[[Andrew McCabe]]
*[[Andrew Weissmann]]
*[[Oleg Deripaska]]
*[[Lisa Page]]
*[[Spygate]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Manafort, Paul}}
[[Category:2000s]]
[[Category:2010s]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Victims of the liberal agenda]]

Malthusian crisis

2023-09-13T02:22:18Z

SingleChristian1:

A '''Malthusian crisis''' is a situation in which the [[population]] in a given area has exceeded its [[food]] supply and therefore mass [[starvation]] results. This lowers the population and the cycle continues until the population and its food supply are once again in balance.

This concept was proposed by the Reverend [[Thomas Malthus]] in 1798 in his "''Essay on the Principle of Population''". Malthus was an English [[economist]].

In modern times the preservation and bulk transport of food, as well as improved agricultural methods such as fertilizers, provides improved yields and a much larger area of supply for any given population, making the existence of a crisis a matter of economics and aid.

'''Malthusianism''' is a theory in [[demography]] regarding population growth. It holds that population expands faster than food supplies. Famine will result unless steps are taken to reduce population growth.

==Pre-Malthus notions==
Over the centuries many theorists have considered one or another aspect of population, usually to promote the policy of more people (“pronatalist.”) The early Christian tradition, however, was [[Anti-Natalism|antinatalist]] , with the highest prestige going to priests, monks and nuns who were celibate.

In the 17th and 18th century the general belief, called "[[mercantilism]]" was that the larger the population the better for the nation. Larger population meant more farmers and more food, more people in church (and more prayers), and larger, more powerful armies for deterrence, defense and expansion. People equaled power. As [[Frederick the Great]] of Prussia put it, "The number of the people makes the wealth of states." The policy implications were clear: the state should help raise population through annexation of territory and pronatalist subsidies that encourage large families. After 1800, a rising spirit of nationalism called out for more people to make a bigger and more powerful nation.

==Malthus==
English writer Reverend [[Thomas Malthus]] (1766-1834), in the first edition (1798) of his pamphlet, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" turned the received wisdom upside down. His stunning conclusion was that more people might make it worse for everyone—that overpopulation was bad and unless proper steps were taken, disaster was inevitable. Population growth was exceedingly dangerous, he warned, for it threatened overpopulation and soon we would all starve to death. The British were taking over India at this time, and could see first-hand the horrors associated with overpopulation.

Malthus’s writings had impact because he had a model of society simple enough for any well-educated person to understand. Food depends on the acreage of farm land. Through geographical expansion and more careful cultivation, the amount of farmland can be expanded. The law of diminishing returns states that additional effort is less and less successful—that is, you get your biggest gains at first then after that the gains get smaller and smaller. Because of the law of diminishing returns food production can only grow arithmetically: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. On the other hand, the population next year depends on the population this year, so it always expands exponentially: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc. In other words, population expands faster than the food supply, and eventually people will starve. The first sign of overpopulation is an excess number of workers accompanied by falling wages and more poverty. Sooner or later the ratio of people to land will cause poverty to turn to starvation; periodic famines occur inevitably and slash the population to acceptable levels before it starts growing again.

Malthus saw two ways to keep population down, "positive" and "preventive" checks. Positive checks were nasty: famine, plague and warfare. Preventive checks included voluntary actions reasonable people could take. Malthus (a clergyman) identified two types of voluntary action, the moral one of deferring marriage, and a variety of "vices" or immoral steps that included birth control, abortion, infanticide, adultery, prostitution and homosexuality.

The Malthus model was unusually powerful: it immediately generated predictions about the fate of mankind. Demography suddenly moved from an abstraction to concrete reality and attracted the attention of scholars and politicians. Economists used the model to show that the more workers there are the lower there wages will be. [[Charles Darwin]] made the struggle for food into the centerpiece of his theory of evolution of species. Malthus was a political conservative; one of his goals was to prove that the utopian dreamers of the era of the French Revolution were too optimistic about the future. Malthus's conservative policy prescriptions set the terms of the debate for the entire 19th century. One immediate policy implication was that it was a bad idea for the government to give away food to the poor because poor people would respond by having more children and thus create even more misery. (What England in fact did was set up a relief system under the "Poor Law" that made it very unattractive to live on charity.)

According to Malthus, the cause of poverty was an excess number of mouths to feed, and the fault was with the lack of foresight by the parents. Malthus acknowledged that the unequal distribution of wealth did contribute to poverty but believed that redistributing wealth would only make poverty worse. Strong themes indeed—and ones that echoed in 1996 as the United States Congress sharply cut back on how long poor people could stay on welfare. On an optimistic note, Malthus emphasized that prudence and education could lead to an ever-increasing standard of living for the working class, a proposition that was widely accepted by the 1990s.

Two key assumptions Malthus made were that the lure of sex was so strong that people would have babies no matter what the consequences and that technology would grow slowly or not at all. Both assumptions were wrong. Agricultural productivity has increased faster than population growth, and 200 years after Malthus the per capita food consumption in (nearly) all the world is much higher than it was then. [The exception in recent decades has been sub-Sahara Africa, where Malthusian predictions of overpopulation and famine have come true.] Controversy also surrounds a third argument by Malthus, that only moral restraint should be used to control fertility, and not contraception. (This particular debate continues to rage among Roman Catholics, pitting the Pope who condemns contraception against the laity who insist on practicing it.)

Regarding Malthus’s first assumption, all societies have created mechanisms to control fertility (for example, by delaying marriage until the couple had enough land to feed themselves.) Malthus himself finally recognized this in his second edition of 1803. Everywhere family formation is a social and economic arrangement (not a sexual tryst) and is closely correlated with the supply of land, and jobs. Even before Malthus observers had noted that people delayed marriage if they thought their social status would decline. In the 1803 edition Malthus admitted the existence of what he called "preventive checks," especially the characteristic late marriage pattern of western Europe, which he called "moral restraint." The demographic historian John Hajnal has explored in detail the propensity in Europe in the 18th and 19th century to use delay of marriage as a population control device, tied to the shortage of farmland. (In America, with no shortage of good land, the age of marriage plunged to 18 for women and 20 for men by 1800).

There are two schools of thought that follow Malthus. The "Malthusians" and "Neo-Malthusians." Both see overpopulation as a serious threat to mankind, and both agree about the linkage between unrestrained fertility and poverty. The main difference is that the Neo-Malthusians favor birth control as the main solution and the Malthusians want delayed marriage.

===19th century responses to Malthus===
Reaction was negative among Christians who felt Malthus denied God's providence and preferred sin and fornication to the misery and degradation of families forced to live in poverty. Later writers discussing marriage, abstinence, contraception, and morality, came to caricature Malthus's original ideas, even in his defense.

Biologist [[Charles Darwin]] was strongly influenced by Malthus, and in ''The Origin of Species'' (1859) emphasized the "struggle for existence" as a condition that he assumed was universally understood and whose implications were generally accepted.

[[John Stuart Mill]] (1806–73), an English economist, argued 150 years ago that the standard of living was the key to desired family size. Mill was a pioneer feminist, and believed that wives wanted fewer children than husbands did, so as women became more liberated the birth rate would fall.

Arsene Dumont, writing 100 years ago in France, stressed the desire of parents to move upward on the social scale, and to gain more wealth. Having fewer children, he argued, saved
money and made a rise more possible since the money save could be used for things. Dumont explained the declining French birth rate a century ago in terms of this quest for upward status.

[[Emile Durkheim]], the French intellectual who helped found the discipline of sociology 100 years ago, emphasized the importance of division of labor. He argued there was a threshold "dynamic density" of population. Above a certain density it became easier to divide roles more efficiently as workers became increasing specialized and to improve their lot. This theme was picked up by Ester Boserup in the 1980s.

In Italy the influence of Malthus came after his works were translated in 1868. Filippo Virgilii, an economist and demographer, supported Malthusian ideas; Tullio Martello, a classical economist was one of the few who opposed Malthusianism. In Germany socialist intellectual [[Karl Kautsky]] denounced Malthusianism as reactionary, but that there could be a socialist neo-Malthusianism; Kautsky said that only after and because of radical socialist reform could population control be possible.

American statistican [[Francis Amasa Walker]] (1840-1897) in the 1890s examined American fertility decline. He combined Malthusianism, Darwinism, and racism to produce a new biological Malthusianism that identified a population calamity more harmful than overpopulation - biological deterioration due to immigration. Other American social scientists widely accepted biological Malthusianism, which helped animate the movement for immigration restriction 1900-1925.<ref>Dennis Hodgson, "Ideological Currents and the Interpretation of Demographic Trends: the Case of Francis Amasa Walker." ''Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences'' 1992 28(1): 28-44. Issn: 0022-5061 fulltext in Ebsco</ref>

====Marxist opposition====
[[Robert Owen]], and the British proto-socialists, disagrees sharply with Malthus. [[Karl Marx]], the founder of modern [[socialism]], argued that population depends, like everything else, on the ownership of the means of production. This implied there can be no independent laws of population, hence Malthus must be dead wrong. Since poverty could never be the fault of the workers, it had to be blamed on capitalism. Furthermore, if workers reduced their numbers (by having fewer children), they would be politically weakened. Marxism believed that [[class conflict]] would eventually cause the overthrow of capitalism. Socialism will ensue, they promised, and cure all evils.<ref>Samuel Hollander, "Marx and Malthusianism: Marx's Secular Path of Wages." ''American Economic Review'' 1984 74(1): 139-151. Issn: 0002-8282 Fulltext: in Jstor and Ebsco</ref>

After the 1840s the Marxists tried to counter the influence of the Malthusians. Marx set the tone by vehemently ridiculing Malthus as guilty of spreading a "vile and infamous doctrine, this repulsive blasphemy against man and nature." Marx said that overpopulation can only occur under capitalism, because the capitalists want a large surplus population of workers (the unemployed constituted a "reserve army of labor”) in order to keep wages low and profits high. Under socialism, Marx argued, there would be a perfect harmony of interests, and a population of any size could be supported. The reason was because the surplus product of labor, previously stolen by the capitalists, would be returned to its rightful owners, the workers, thereby eliminating the cause of poverty. (This was the sort of utopianism that Malthus was trying to undercut.)

Malthus and Marx shared a strong concern about the plight of the poor. For Malthus the solution was conservative; he called for individual responsibility—the delay of marriage and childbearing. For Marx the only solution was a revolution that would destroy capitalism and install socialism.

==Birth control and neo-malthusianism==
Micklewright (1961) surveys the neo-Malthusian phase of the British birth control movement from Francis Place's ideas, c. 1820, to Bradlaugh's death in 1891. The Utilitarians, seeing social utility as the guide in ethics and large families as a cause of poverty, proposed restraint, late marriage, or artificial regulation as a solution. This body of thought came to be known as "neo-Malthusianism." Francis Place had reached this view by about 1820, and although he was unable to get it across to working-class audiences, early converts were Robert Dale Owen and John Stuart Mill, who was arraigned before a magistrate for his views. Numerous pamphlets were circulated in Radical circles in the 1820s and 1830s, and an English edition of the ''Fruits of Philosophy'' of Dr. Knowlton of Massachusetts was published. The author suggests that the early Victorian period did not see a slackening of these ideas. In 1854 the secularist Dr. George Drysdale published his ''Physical, Sexual and Natural Religion,'' and the defeat of Viscount Amerley in the South Devon election in 1868 for holding neo-Malthusian views, led to the founding of the London Dialectical Society, which illustrated the progress of these ideas among the educated middle class. The Bradlaugh-Besant trial of 1877, which is analyzed, gave immense popular attention for the whole subject. A further cause celèbre was Dr. H. S. Allbutt's removal from the medical register in 1887 for publishing ''The Wife's Handbook'' and advertising contraceptives. The decline in neo-Malthusian thought is accounted for by the higher living standards of the late 19th century, and the fact that birth control was now advocated by feminists, advocates of equality of the sexes, or for health reasons.

In the Netherlands the "New Malthusian League" was active from 1881 to 1940. It advocated birth control through the use of contraceptive devices. The league was the creation of Liberal Party politics and the medical profession, and was opposed by both Catholic and Calvinist groups.

Eugenists emerged around 1900 to argue that the human breeding stock could be improved by emphasized selective marriage and large families among the "best" stock—an argument promoted by [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. The best people ignored it. Much more controversial was the recommendation that pooor people ("poor stock") whould limit their birth rates, and that medicine and government should help by making contraception more available. Neo-Malthusians stressed the danger of all population growth regardless of good or bad stocks, and favored birth control for everyone. The two groups were in some respects allies against indiscriminate breeding but in Europe that alliance was shattered, however, by fears of greatly reduced population levels resulting from the deaths and (especially) the low birth rates during World War I.

==Since 1945==
[[Kingsley Davis]], a leading American demographer of the post-World War II era, brought together the insights of Mill and Dumont. David observed that as infant mortality rates fall more children survive and are expensive to maintain. To keep up living standards, therefore, families have to limit their fertility. Demographer John Caldwell has emphasized the flip side of this argument: children are an economic burden and that is why parents have smaller families.

In the late 20th century [[Ester Boserup]], a Danish demographer, and [[Julian Simon]], an American economist, turned Malthus upside down. They contended that population growth is not necessarily bad and, in fact, may well be beneficial. Boserup reported that in poor agricultural countries population growth led to technical improvements in agriculture, raising productivity and providing more food per person than before. Simon argues that a growing human population is "the ultimate resource." Simon rejects the Malthusian conclusion that poverty is the inevitable result of population growth. Instead he argues that if a society has a certain level of freedom (especially free markets), then more people means more talents and more ideas. In a free market these new talents can be utilized. Productivity will go up for the society as a whole, and everyone will benefit.<ref>Julian L. Simon, "The Effects of Population on Nutrition and Economic Well-being." ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 1983 14(2): 413-437. Issn: 0022-1953 Fulltext: in Jstor; Dennis A. Ahlburg, "Julian Simon and the Population Growth Debate" ''Population and Development Review'' Vol. 24, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 317-327 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0098-7921%28199806%2924%3A2%3C317%3AJSATPG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q online in JSTOR]</ref>

The Simon and Boserup argument is not the same as the old nationalist argument (which is still around in some countries) to the effect that having more people means more power. Or more exactly, it is wise to have a larger population than your enemies, and if they are growing faster than you, you are at risk.

===Neo-malthusianism and Environmentalism===
The environmental movement suddenly sprang into public consciousness about 1970. Some began distrusting technology as an automatic solution, with nuclear energy a special villain. The question was whether modernization and industrialization had already done great damage to the environment. Were there too many people for the earth to support? Major famines struck India (mid-1960s), Ethiopia (1971–73) and Bangladesh (1974), and repeatedly in sub-Saharan Africa (mid-1980s). These disasters led to serious warnings that indicted overpopulation, food shortages, and limits of growth as the causes. New groups such as [[Lester Brown]]'s Worldwatch Institute and the Club of Rome highlighted the danger of world hunger.

The environmental alarm ringers incorporated a Neo-Malthusian model into their theses. [[Garrett Hardin]] epitomizes Neo-Malthusianism in the context of environmentalism in “The Tragedy of the Commons,” (1968). His famous parable of the 'tragedy' compares the human decision of having a child to that of a herdsman deciding whether to place another head of livestock onto a town common. As each herdsman in turn acts in self-interest, the commons becomes overburdened to the point of complete destruction. Hardin echoed Malthus in arguing that the world has limits to food productivity and humans have the reproductive capacity to stretch those limits past the brink. He concluded, "A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."

[[Paul Ehrlich]] in 1970 warned the "death of the world is imminent":
:Because the human population of the planet is about five times too large, and we're managing to support all these people--at today's level of misery--only by spending our capital, burning our fossil fuels and turning out fresh water into salt water. We have not only overpopulated but overstretched our environment. We are poisoning the ecological systems of the earth....

As the environmental movement grew strength after 1970, Ehrlich's warnings were taken to heart by many activists. Although the world did not come to an end, neither did Ehrlich's warnings, despite attacks on his position by Julian Simon. In [[The Population Explosion]] (1991) he and Anne Ehrlich vividly warned how the Earth's population, growing by 95 million people a year, is rapidly depleting the planet's resources, resulting in famine, global warming, acid rain, and other major problems. The Ehrlich's main thrust was not so much human misery as ecological misery: overpopulation is rapidly injuring or destroying the environment, and besides the long-term harm to humans, that damage is itself utterly wrong. By the 21st century environmentalist concern had switched from overpopulation to global warming.

==France==
Spengler (1979) shows that since their defeat by Germany in 1870 the French have been highly concerned with virility and remaining a great power. Behind this concern was an early and unprecedented decline in fertility. Pronatalist concern came from varied social, economic, and political sources. In time, national policies favoring large families were passed, the Vichy regime being especially active. These measures masked a steady Malthusianist undercurrent, and although the population advanced from the 1940s through the 1960s, once again a population crisis exists.

==Uses by historians==
Neo-Malthusian historians M. M. Postan and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie explained the decline of feudalism in terms of impersonal economic and demographic forces. To the contrary, argued Marxist Robert Brenner, who stressed instead the role of class struggle between lords and peasants in medieval Europe.<ref>T. H. Ashton and C. H. E. Philpin, eds. ''The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe'' (1985)</ref>

==See also==
* [[Fourth generation warfare]]

==Bibliography==
* Ester Boserup. ''Population and Technological Change: A Study of Long-Term Trends'' (1981) (1981),
* Ansley J. Coale and Susan C. Watkins, eds. ''The Decline of Fertility in Europe,'' (1986)
* Davis, Kingsley. "The World Demographic Transition." ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,'' 1945237: 1-11. in JSTOR, classic article that introduced concept of transition
* Dolan, Brian, ed. ''Malthus, Medicine and Morality: "Malthusianism" after 1798.'' 2000. 232 pp.
* Gillis, John R.; Louise A. Tilly; and David Levine; eds. ''The European Experience of Declining Fertility, 1850-1970: The Quiet Revolution.'' 1992.
* Susan Greenhalgh. "The Social Construction of Population Science: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Political History of Twentieth-Century Demography," ''Comparative Studies in Society and History,'' Volume 38, Issue 1 (Jan., 1996), 26-66. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-4175%28199601%2938%3A1%3C26%3ATSCOPS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 in JSTOR]
* Hauser, Philip M., and Otis Dudley Duncan, eds. ''The Study of Population: An Inventory and Appraisal.'' 1959. sumamry of field at mid-century
* Malthus, Thomas. ''An Essay on the Principle of Population'' (1st ed 1798) (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) ed by Donald Winch 1992 ISBN 9780521429726
* Micklewright, F. H. A. "The Rise and Fall of English Neo-malthusianism." ''Population Studies'' 1961 15(1): 32-51.
* Reed, James. ''From Private Vice to Public Virtue: The Birth Control Movement and American Society Since 1830.'' 1978.
* Spengler, Joseph J. ''France Faces Depopulation'' (2nd ed 1979)
* John R. Weeks. ''Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues'' (10th ed. 2007)

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==External links==
* [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v418/n6898/full/nature01013.html nature - Malthus foiled again.]
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Population control

2023-09-05T04:43:37Z

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[[File:Allen William Thurman.jpg|thumb|right|250px|An advocate of population control in the 1910s was bigoted [[Ohio]] eugenicist [[Allen W. Thurman]],<ref>September 26, 1912. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/09/26/100549905.pdf Predicting Ohio's Bankruptcy]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved October 8, 2021.</ref> the son of [[white supremacist]] U.S. senator [[Allen G. Thurman]].]]

'''Population control''' means reducing the human population of the earth, in favor of other species or to promote political or ideological goals (see [[eugenics]]).<ref>McManus, John F. (November 23, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/34121-the-deadly-plans-of-population-controllers The Deadly Plans of Population Controllers]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 23, 2019.</ref> Population control is based on [[pseudoscience]] and ill-founded [[economics|economic]] assumptions,<ref>Egnor, Michael (November 30, 2010). [http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/11/pz_myers_on_abortion040971.html "P. Z. Myers on abortion"]. Evolution News and Views website/Culture and ethics news.</ref> along with radical left-wing [[environmentalism]].<ref>Murphy, James (September 23, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/33494-population-control-is-the-ultimate-goal-of-the-climate-change-cult Population Control Is the Ultimate Goal of the Climate-change Cult]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 23, 2019.</ref><ref>Murphy, James (November 6, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/33960-scientists-the-world-population-must-be-stabilized-in-order-to-combat-climate-crisis Scientists: “The World Population Must Be Stabilized” in Order to Combat “Climate Crisis”]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 6, 2019.</ref>

For some [[Anti-Natalism|unexplained reason]] , population control becomes an obsession of ultra-wealthy liberals. Perhaps their love of money requires them to dislike people, or anything other than money.

[[Jacques Cousteau]] told an interviewer:
* What should we do to eliminate suffering and disease? It's a wonderful idea but perhaps not altogether a beneficial one in the long run. If we try to implement it we may jeopardize the future of our species. It's terrible to have to say this. [[World population]] must be stabilized and to do that '''we must eliminate 350,000 people per day'''. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable." (emphasis added for this article)<ref>Elnadi, Bahgat and Rifaat, Adel (November 1991). "Interview With Jacques-Yves Cousteau," ''The UNESCO Courier'', p. 13. Reprinted at [https://web.archive.org/web/20001027155735/http://overpopulation.org/older.html "Population implosion, graying of the population, population reduction, and negative population growth"] (betw. Aug. and Oct. 2000). World Overpopulation Awareness website. Retrieved from October 27, 2000 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>

The ''Washington Times'' warns:

*population control ... has often led to massive [[human rights]] abuses by governments<ref name=om>Mosher, Steven W. (July 27, 2008). [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2008%2Fjul%2F27%2Ftaking-on-the-overpopulation-myth%2F&ei=PE90Sr6gDNiLtgeTzdGWCQ&usg=AFQjCNFjhRNXeP4d_7626IubFdnjUyNqwg&sig2=PdlMgM69332TBRha3PGuxQ "Taking on the overpopulation myth"]. ''The Washington Times'' website.</ref>

The Population Research Institute (PRI) reports:
* Many countries abuse human rights in the name of family planning or population control. In Mexico, poor Indian women with children are often denied medical care by government clinics unless they agree to be sterilized. In Peru, the government has admitted that many Indian women were forcibly sterilized by that country's population control campaign in which 300,000 women were rendered barren.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100127105531/http://pop.org/0000000094/pri-faqs-frequently-asked-questions? "PRI FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions)"] (November 29, 1999). Population Research Institute website. Retrieved from January 27, 2010 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>

In general, population control represents any of several approaches to managing the [[population]] growth rate of [[human]]s. The driver for efforts at population control is concern that levels of population sustainability are rapidly being approached. Some consider this concern to be a [[liberal]] [[socialist]] [[myth]]. Also, "sustainability" is very difficult to define in practical terms. Due to criticism, the myth promoters have adapted their position with a new ideological term. Population control has been changed to the wide promotion of 'reproductive health'. The mainstream [[media]] have heavily promoted the consequences surrounding "overpopulation" and "excessive" population growth.

In 2015, the ''[[New York Times]]'' admitted that overpopulation is a hoax with consequences.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/the-unrealized-horrors-of-population-explosion.html?_r=0</ref>

==History==
{{see also|Malthusian crisis}}

==Abortion==
The most significant factor in population control is the termination of unborn babies (see [[abortion]]). Another factor is the sterilization of women. False reasons for this position are numerous. Everything from [[environment]] and [[global warming]] to [[poverty]], [[war]] and food supply.<ref>Kasun, Dr. Jacqueline R. (May/June 1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110426030644/http://www.envoymagazine.com/backissues/2.3/coverstory.html "Too Many People?"] ''Envoy'' magazine website. Retrieved from April 26, 2011 archive at Internet Archive.</ref> [[Government]]-supported private agencies such as [[Planned Parenthood]] agree with the premise: it has 70 percent of its clinics located in minority neighborhoods, and foreign aid for health programs still target the non-white populations of the world for reduction.

Unlike almost all other American scholars of the subject, Steven Mosher, president of Population Research Institute and a [[China]] expert, does not consider population control to be a worthy goal. Mr. Mosher documents how population control has crowded out many of the resources needed for [[disease]] prevention and treatment and has often led to massive [[human rights]] abuses by governments eager to meet their population reduction goals.<ref name=om/>

==United Nations==
The [[United Nations]] Population Fund (UNFPA) is the premier agency that distributes financial resources to control population. They vigorously contend they do not fund abortion nor do they support the sterilization of women. The facts remains that since 1979, the UNFPA has been the chief apologist and cheerleader for [[China]]'s coercive one-child-per-couple policy. Despite numerous credible forced [[abortion]] reports from impeccable sources, high-ranking officials at UNFPA always dismiss and explain it all away.<ref>Smith, Congressman Chris [R-NJ] (August 2004). [https://www.nrlc.org/news/2004/NRL08/united_nations_population_fund_h.htm "The United Nations population fund helps China persecute women and kill children"]. ''National Right To Life News'', p. 7. Reprinted at National Right to Life Committee website.</ref>

The [[United States]] is a chief fund supplier of population control by Foreign Operations Appropriations bills. Congressional [[Republicans]] and Republican Presidents have been successful in preventing the UNFPA from receiving U.S. funding. The exact opposite for Democrats, who continue to fund (UNFPA) and support abortion funding worldwide.

==Debunking the myth==
'''An overcrowded planet:''' It has been estimated by Paul Ehrlich and others that human beings actually occupy no more than 1 to 3 percent of the earth's land surface.

'''Widespread deforestation:''' Proponents of this myth claim that an area twice the size of Belgium is now being logged worldwide each year. What people don't realize is Belgium could fit into the world's tropical forests 500 times over, or 250 years from now it will be a problem. The rest of the world's trees, 99.6 percent of them, are flourishing.

'''Overpopulation is the chief cause of poverty:''' Many blame "overpopulation" when actually it is the result of bad economic policy. The economic problems result from [[national debt|excessive government spending]], high [[taxes]] on [[farmer]]s, [[inflation]], restrictions on trade, [[big government|too much government ownership]], and over-regulation of private economic activity.

'''Overpopulation causes war and revolution:''' This is a lie and realistically, the actual reasons for wars and revolutions are far too numerous to be contained in such a simple phrase. They range from corrupt governments, violations of human rights (real or imagined), human greed, and many, many more.

'''Future catastrophe:''' It has been predicted by many scientists that as longevity increases, birth rates will naturally go down, and the world population will settle at roughly 11 billion by 2100.

==Further reading==
*[https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/china-population-problem-shrinking-work-force/ China’s Population Problem], Kevin D. Williamson, ''National Review''.

==References==
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==See also==
*[[Taxpayer-funded abortion]]
*[[The Population Bomb]]
*[[Georgia Guidestones]]
*[[John P. Holdren]]
*[[Population density]]
*[[Population]]
*[[Robert Malthus]]
*[[Fourth generation warfare]]
*[[Zero population growth]]

==External links==
*[http://web.unfpa.org/ United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA)]

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Anti-Natalism

2023-09-02T19:01:25Z

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Anti-Natalism is the [[belief]] that it is [[immoral]] for [[humans]] (and only humans) to reproduce. It is anti-biblical and many of its adherents are [[liberals]] who buy into the theories of [[eugenics]] despite claiming to the contrary.

Many anti-natalists claim that they only want to "reduce suffering" as if anyone who disagrees is "pro-suffering". This is an example of deceitful reframing, a common tactic used to obfuscate one's positon to make it appear more palatable; not unlike the [[pro-choice]] movement implying that any opposition to abortion is "anti-choice".

Their underlying philosophy promotes [[misanthropy]] and the [[globalist]] myth of [[overpopulation]].

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Anti-Natalism

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Anti-Natalism is the [[belief]] that it is [[immoral]] for [[humans]] (and only humans) to reproduce . It is anti-biblical and many of its adherents are [[liberals]] .

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Sham indictment

2023-08-02T20:10:32Z

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A '''sham indictment''' is a misuse of prosecutorial power for political gain or simply a headline-grabbing abuse of power. Increasingly sham indictments are used by [[liberal]] [[Democrat]]s in order to defeat a [[Republican]] candidate for office, or to [[liberal censorship|censor]] those who work against [[election fraud]].

Sometimes a sham [[indictment]] is a prosecutorial tactic to pressure a witness to make accusations against the primary target of the politicized prosecutors.
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Washington Commanders

2023-04-28T16:31:20Z

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The '''Washington Football Team''' are a [[National Football League]] ([[NFL]]) team based in Landover, [[Maryland]]. They are members of the [[National Football Conference]] (NFC) East Division, and owned by Dan and Tanya Snyder as of 2022.

With [[Congress]] standing by to spend unlimited funds to prop it up with taxpayer dollars, the owners' asking price for a possible sale of the team in 2022 is $7 billion.<ref>https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10054905-king-daniel-snyder-wont-sell-commanders-to-jeff-bezos-detests-the-washington-post</ref> Reportedly two possible bids for the team are by a group led by [[Jeff Bezos]] and [[Jay Z]], and by the Fenway Sports Group (formerly the New England Sports Venture). Private equity managers are also reportedly bidding to buy the team.<ref>https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/01/17/who-will-end-up-buying-the-washington-commanders-a-guide-to-potential-owners/</ref> ''See also [[NFL owners]]''.
==History and League Success==
The team started in 1932 as the Boston Braves, changed to the Boston Redskins the following year, then relocated to the District in 1937.

The team has won three [[Super Bowl]]s (1982, 1987, and 1991), all under the leadership of head coach [[Joe Gibbs]]. They also won two NFL championships prior to the AFL-NFL merger (1937 -- its first year in the District -- and 1942).

===Name Change===
The former team name (the Washington Redskins) has long been a source of controversy, being considered an ethnic slur against Native Americans (so much so that a Federal agency voted to cancel six trademarks owned by the franchise, a decision later rendered moot by a Supreme Court ruling in a similar case involving an Asian-American rock band called "The Slants" -- another ethnic slur -- which was ruled to be private speech and thus protected by the First Amendment).

However, current team owner Daniel Snyder -- though considered one of the worst owners in sports for his overall mismanagement of the franchise -- long resisted any calls to change the name. But Snyder also desired to relocate the franchise -- which moved outside of the District to the Maryland suburbs in 1997 -- back into the District's boundaries (and to get the District to pay for a new stadium with taxpayer money), yet was told repeatedly that the District would never consider doing so as long as the team remained the Redskins. Finally, in July 2020 (following pressure from the media, the District, and anonymous corporate liberals associated with the [[2020 Antifa riots|Antifa and BLM rioters]]), Snyder gave in and announced the team would be changing its name, though a new mascot had not yet been decided on.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/07/12/report-washington-to-shed-redskins-name-monday/</ref> They changed their name to the "Washington Football Team" for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, before announcing the "Commanders" name shortly thereafter.

==NFC East Rivals==
*[[Dallas Cowboys]] (the Cowboys-Washington rivalry is considered among the tops in the NFL)
*[[New York Giants]]
*[[Philadelphia Eagles]]

== External links ==
*[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/teams/redskins/index.html Team site]
*[http://www.redskins.com/cheerleaders/;jsessionid=OLJLIKOBDBLG Washington Redskins]

==References==
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