BREAKING: Massive earthquake kills dozens, injures over 200 in Philippines

Dozens of people were killed and more than two hundred injured on Monday after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck the Philippines.

The tremor struck south of the island of Mindanao, shaking at least twenty-two million people with severe or moderate force. Officials confirmed at least thirty-two deaths, more than two hundred injuries, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of residents in what was described as the strongest earthquake to hit the country in nearly four decades.

The quake prompted tsunami warnings across the region, although American officials quickly stated that Hawaii faced no threat. Warnings were also issued for nearby areas including Taiwan, Japan, Guam, and Papua New Guinea.

"The national government is moving and we will not leave Mindanao behind," said Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. "I am in constant communication with our regional offices and local chief executives on the ground."

Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines and is home to more than twenty-seven million people. Earthquakes are common in the region. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, at least thirty-five earthquakes measuring above magnitude 7 have struck the area since 1900. 

Marcos Jr. also announced that he had ordered "the suspensions of all classes in all levels across affected areas in Mindanao until further notice. The safety of our children comes first."He urged residents to take tsunami warnings seriously, telling them to "move to higher ground now. Do not wait. Your life is more important than anything left behind."

The U.S. Geological Survey estimated a 42 percent chance that the death toll would fall between ten and one hundred people, and a 32 percent chance that fatalities could range from one hundred to one thousand. The agency also estimated a 39 percent probability that economic losses would total between one hundred million dollars and one billion dollars. Officials said the earthquake was caused by thrust faulting, a process in which one section of the Earth's crust moves upward over another along a fault line.

One local resident told The New York Times that he rushed to higher ground with his young daughter after the earthquake struck.

"I was very scared, my knees were trembling," Julius Golez said. "We were crying; so many other people were also crying."

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POTUS says the US is "starting the process of clearing out" Strait of Hormuz

The United States is beginning to clear sea mines laid by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz as the two-week ceasefire remains in effect, President Trump announced on Saturday morning.

Trump said the only threat that Iranian forces had left was that a ship may “bunk” into their sea mines, which the Islamic regime apparently can’t locate. Trump suggested this was the case because Iran doesn’t have the means to retrieve them.

“All 28 of their mine dropper boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea,” he wrote on Truth Social. [You gotta love 'mine dropper boats'. Technically they're called minelayers.]

“We’re now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz as a favor to Countries all over the World, including China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, and many others,” he said. “Incredibly, they don’t have the Courage or Will to do this work themselves.”

Shortly before the announcement, Axios reported several U.S. Navy ships crossed the strait on Saturday in a move that was not coordinated with the Islamic regime.

Iranian state media reported that Tehran threatened to attack a U.S. destroyer if it continued sailing toward the Strait of Hormuz, communicating their warning to a mediator in Pakistan. The U.S. did not receive word of such a warning, according to an Axios reporter.

Both sides are engaging in peace talks in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Saturday after a tentative deal to pause the fighting was made earlier this week. Vice President JD Vance is heading the U.S. delegation.

A U.S. official said the operation was “focused on freedom of navigation through international waters,” referring to the sea mine recovery efforts.

Trump continues to boast that much of Iran’s military capabilities are destroyed and its senior leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been killed.

“Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft apparatus is nonexistent, Radar is dead, [not Radar O'Reilly from M*A*S*H* since capitalizing that word might have confused older readers] their Missile and Drone Factories have been largely obliterated along with the Missiles and Drones themselves and, most importantly, their longtime ‘Leaders’ are no longer with us, praise be to Allah,” he said in a comment appearing to mock Islam.

Look, this is classic Trump, turning a military mop-up into a global public service announcement while the mullahs are still pretending they have a navy. The Iranians spent years bragging about their "asymmetric warfare" with those cheap little mine boats, and now all 28 of them are decorating the seafloor like some kind of underwater parking lot for losers.

The man is out here doing the world a solid, clearing the Strait of Hormuz so China and Europe do not have to get their soft little hands dirty, and they are still too cowardly to say thank you. 

Meanwhile, Tehran is issuing threats through Pakistani middlemen like it's 1979 all over again. Newsflash, guys, your destroyers are at the bottom of the ocean, your leaders are checking in with Allah and the Goats, and nobody in Washington even got the memo on your big scary warning.

This is what winning looks like when you actually have a president who is not interested in managed decline. The mullahs are finished, their toys are smashed, and Trump is out here mocking them in their own holy language. Praise be, indeed.

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BREAKING: 2,500 Marines head to Middle East

The United States Marine Corps is dispatching more than 2,000 men currently stationed in Japan to the Middle East, where the joint U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury grows ever more intense.

The Wall Street Journal and ABC News first reported this shift in deployment, with Fox News later confirming it through a conversation with a federal official. Fox’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin posted on X: “US defense official confirms to Fox News that the Pentagon is sending the USS Tripoli, a Marine Amphibious Ready Group, and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to Mideast. The Tripoli is stationed out of Japan and would take about 2 weeks to get to the Mideast. Accompanying the ARG and the MEU are approx. 2500 US Marines.”

Before the inevitable chorus of alarm over boots on the ground begins, it should be noted that this movement is tied chiefly to air and naval assets, the very instruments upon which Operation Epic Fury has relied from the outset, as ABC News made clear. The 31st MEU, permanently based in Japan and operating within the INDO-PACOM theater, has now received orders to proceed to the Middle East.

This redeployment does not signal an intention to employ the unit as a conventional ground force inside Iran. Rather, it furnishes commanders with a suite of land, amphibious, and aviation capabilities should they prove necessary. The MEU in question includes a squadron of F-35 fighter jets and a squadron of MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft.

For half a century the terrorist regime in Iran has killed Americans directly or through its proxies, constructed a vast international network of murder, and at intervals butchered its own citizens who have the temerity to rise against the rigors of sharia law (more than 40,000 in January alone). As Donald Trump remarked on Thursday: “They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”

Trump clearly believes the campaign is advancing with such success that its conclusion draws near. He declared: “We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning. Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.”

This is the language of resolution, not hesitation; of a determination long deferred but now fully engaged. The spectacle of a regime that has sown terror across decades finding itself dismantled with precision and speed ought to concentrate the mind wonderfully on the consequences of sustained ideological malice.

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Japanese "journalist" denies Hamas atrocities

Mrs. Hanky 

Miki Otaka, a fake news "journalist" in Japan is being bashed for denying that on October 7th, Hamas raped, murdered, beheaded, burned and generally did atrocious things to people for being Jewish.

Otaka denied Hamas and civilian Gazans raped Israeli women and girls, and committed horrible atrocities during the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel. After making these obviously anti-Semitic claims, she accused Israel of using unconventional weapons to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip. She also said Israel fabricated the massacre altogether, in spite of Hamas bragging about it and using Go-Pro cameras to film their barbarism, and called home to mommy and daddy to brag about how many Jews they killed.

In the Japanese-language podcast, the POS also accused Israel of spreading radioactive material in Gaza to “eliminate” the local population. She is a tool of Hamas and is clearly someone who needs to find other work, perhaps in the Middle East.

“October 7th was a fabrication,” the lying Otaka said. “Israel uses depleted uranium bombs to eliminate Gaza in the future. The land in Gaza is already contaminated with radioactive soil. In fact, there are already cases of children inhaling smoke from depleted uranium bombs and suffering from pneumonia, radioactive contamination, and cancer.”

And she knows this how?

“Israel has a vision for Gaza, as a first step, and then it wants to settle Jews there. A UN report says the radiation will remain there for 450 years,” Otaka continued in her lies.

The 55-year-old Tokyo-born journalist went on to falsely claim that Gazans are denied drinking water. Israel currently supplies the coastal enclave with water, including during the ongoing conflict, in spite of photographic evidence to the contrary.

“There is no drinking water in Gaza. The only way is to drink seawater, and of course, this water is not healthy. Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza. The Palestinian ambassador said the main reason for the attack on Rafah is to lock all Palestinians in, so they will never leave the ghetto. If all supplies, food, medicine, and water brought there are cut off, these people will die.”

If you've been drink seawater you can expect to die. It's extremely dangerous and leads to severe dehydration, kidney failure due to high salt concentration, and eventually death. There is zero evidence that Gaza's water supply has been cut off. In fact, the evidence of food and water denial is caused by Hamas stealing it and in some cases reselling it to Gazans.

But the disgusting anti-Semite continued: “There were videos and photos of the atrocities committed by Hamas. However, a report came out saying these were actually fabrications,” Otaka claimed without backing up her bull crap.

“I’m not saying all of them, but… the biggest justification for retaliation against Hamas is that Hamas beheaded 40 babies; even Biden said that. And mass rape of women by Hamas. I also met with the Palestinian ambassador, and the ambassador told me: ‘How could they afford to do that when they entered Israel, risking their lives?’ Meaning they were in a high-alert combat situation in enemy territory, so they probably didn’t even think about raping women.”

In response to her balderdash, the Simon Wiesenthal Center filed a protest with the Japanese government, calling on Tokyo to condemn Otaka’s comments.

SWC Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda Rabbi Abraham Cooper penned a letter to Japan’s ambassador to the United States, Shigeo Yamada, urging him to denounce Otaka’s false claims.

“Ambassador Yamada, we all know the power of social media to influence people and in the case of Ms. Otaka, there are those who would take this journalist’s screeds as fact since she is influential enough to regularly write for a publication that carries articles written by members of the Japanese Diet.”

Rabbi Cooper also noted that “she has ‘liked’ a pernicious and lurid online posting that alleges that there was a nursery in Auschwitz and links Holocaust denial to the denial of Oct 7th.”

Miki Otaka is a garbage human being who supports obvious terrorists.

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Israel Under Attack by Iran: latest information

On Saturday night into early Sunday morning, Israel was the target of over 350 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-fired weapons. These weapons included rockets, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), and special missiles such as Cruise missiles.

The initial estimated totals of some of these weapons are 185 UAVs., 36 Cruise missiles, and 110 ballistic missiles. However, the number of weapons has grown and some of Israel's defense systems were tested for the first time under real fire.

Zero UAVs and Cruise missiles reached Israel while a handful of ballistic missiles did, injuring a 7-year-old girl and damaging an IAF base in Negev. The child is in the hospital in intensive care and the attack on the air base did not cause operations on the base to stop.

Due to the distance between Iran and Israel, it takes about two hours for a UAV to reach the Jewish State as they are slow moving and when spotted, sitting suicide ducks. Most were destroyed over Jordan, Iraq, and Syria, by the U.S., Israeli, UK, French and Saudi Arabia.

Iran has switched to a deadlier drone known as the Sahab 238, replacing the 136 model used by the Russians against Ukraine. The 238 is faster but it turned out to be no match for Israel's newest air defense systems known as David's Sling and Arrow. Both systems were tested in combat for the first time and did a great job of dashing Iran's hopes of killing Jews.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said of the attack by Iran, "We intercepted; we stopped it, we will win."

Israel's war cabinet will be meeting to discuss future plans in the war.

President Biden called for a G7 conference call to discuss whatever his handler tells him to discuss and will be written out for him on official White House index cards. The nations include, UK, U.S., France, Japan, Germany, Italy, and even Canada, eh.

While it may surprise some that Jordan and the Saudis helped Israel in the attack by Iran, both Turkey and Qatar asked for restraint by the Shi'a nation. 

Am Yisrael Chai!

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Kim Jong Un promises 'death blow' to his enemies, ignores our VIC

North Korea Supreme Leader for Life Kim Jong Un, held a meeting with his military officials last week and vowed an overwhelming assault on any possible enemy, totally ignoring the U.S. VIC [Vegetable In Chief] Joe Biden's request for "compamanonopan" [i.e., cooperation].

Kim made the statement on Wednesday while speaking at Kim Jong-il University of Military and Politics (Go Emaciates!) as reported by Yonhap News Agency. They said that Kim was poised to make a "death blow" to enemies.

"[Kim Jong Un] said that now is the time to be more thoroughly prepared for a war than ever before and that the DPRK should be more firmly and perfectly prepared for a war, which should be won without fail, not just for a possible war," North Korean state media reported.

"DPRK" stands for "Democratic People's Republic of Korea," the country's official name, but it's an oxymoron to believe that it belongs to the people.

"It is an immutable law of war victory to neutralize the numerical and military and technical superiority of the enemy by means of superiority in ideology and war methods," Kim Jong Un said in Korean, thoroughly confusing himself and Yonhap News Agency.

He reportedly added that "now is the time to be more thoroughly prepared for a war than ever before and that the DPRK should be more firmly and perfectly prepared for a war, which should be won without fail, not just for a possible war."

The dictator's aggressive tone shoots down any prospect of cooling tensions growing between North Korea, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S.

Alleged U.S. President Joe Biden mumbled an appeal Wednesday for Kim to accept a Japanese proposal for international talks.

"We welcome the opportunity of our allies to initiate dialogue with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea," Biden mush-mouthed during a joint press conference with Kishida. "As I’ve said many times, we’re open to dialogue ourselves without preconditions with the DPRK."

"The window of a discussion with North Korea is open," Kishida said at the same conference. "The establishment of a meaningful relationship between Japan and North Korea is in the interests of both Japan and North Korea and it could be hugely beneficial to the peace and stability of the region."

North Korea has taken an even more caustic international posture than usual in recent months, abandoning its symbolic goal of reunification with South Korea and declaring them their "primary foe" and "principal enemy."

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A Boeing 737 turns back mid-flight due to cockpit window crack

Japan's All Nipon Airway 737-800 carrying 59 passengers and six crew had to turn back mid-flight after a crack developed in the cockpit window, where Safelite Repair had no access.

The passenger jet returned to Sapporo-New Chitose Airport once the crack was discovered--it was originally heading to Toyama Airport

The crack was found in the most outward of four cockpit windows, but it wasn't clear whether it was the pilot side or first officer side of the plane, although that really makes no difference.

This latest incident comes at a time when airlines emphasizing Diversity Equity and Inclusion [DEI] among staff face closer scrutiny over safety concerns amid an uptick in crashes and malfunctions. Everyone is scratching their collective heads over the matter. What could it be?

“The crack was not something that affected the flight’s control or pressurization,” an airline spokesperson said, unless it developed into a wider crack and the window eventually blew out completely sucking out the pilot and first officer into the clouds. 

Aviation expert John Strickland said the crack may have been caused by the plane hitting a bird or also could have been a stress fracture. Had it happened at the airport one might blame it on protestors, for whatever the protest of the day happened to be.

“These things do sometimes happen, something may have struck the window, for example a bird, a large hailstone, it’s not unheard of,” he told the BBC. “You might occasionally get a stress fracture too, from wear and tear.”

The incident comes less than two weeks after a plane crashed into a Coast Guard plane on the runway in Tokyo, Japan and burst into flames. Fortunately, the 379 passengers and crew on board escaped with their lives while five of the six people in the Coast Guard plane were killed.

And then there's us. In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating Boeing after a piece of plane belonging to Alaska Airlines was blown out mid flight causing emergency depressurization. It had to make an emergency landing in Oregon, with the more than 170 passengers. That happened on a Boeing 737 Max 9. In that event, a child's shirt was sucked out into the clouds without the child in attendance.

As a result, the FAA has temporarily grounded all Boeing 737 Max 9 planes and called for more stringent safety inspections. Boeing said it will fully comply with the FAA’s investigation and will cooperate “transparently.” Because it has no choice if it wants to stay in business.

“Safety is our top priority and we deeply regret the impact this event has had on our customers and their passengers,” Boeing spokeswoman Jessica Kowal said in a statement. “We agree with and fully support the FAA’s decision to require immediate inspections of 737-9 airplanes with the same configuration as the affected airplane.”

Truthfully, air travel is incredibly safe, which is why any accident or emergency is newsworthy because it is so rare compared to automobile travel.

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Confused POTUS salutes his own reflection in Japan as Doctor Jill watches him almost take a header down the stairs

"No, no, no, no, no. Salute like this, Jack"

The alleged President of the United States of America, Joseph Robinette Biden, has found himself in Japan along with his esteemed wife, Doctor Jill Biden, for the G7 get together. Their arrival comes smack dab in the middle of debt negotiations which would not have been the case had Biden worked with the Republicans and negotiated.

Biden's original plan was to stay away and have another 'vaca' after the G7 but he was called out and shamed by Speaker McCarthy (R-CA).

For now Biden is busy in Japan and embarrassing the country he pretends to run.

While meeting with real leaders of other countries, Biden did what he is supposed to do and some things he wasn't supposed to do. He took photos, shook hands, wore his signature smile with dentures as white as snow, and tried to look sentient.

However, when he got out of the SUV to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, he needed to be led by the hand of his handler, the eminent Doctor Jill Biden, as he appeared lost, bothered and bewildered.  This is most obvious at about 53 seconds into the video below.

You can see his stiff gait and the short swing of his arms, a fairly common way confused people ambulate, as he heads toward PM Kishida and his wife. When he is introduced to the rather short first lady of Japan, he made a strange movement that appeared to mock her height as he bent over, then clenched both fists like a boxer while greeting her. If he wasn't the President of the United States, one might see him as that weird old uncle who thinks he's funny at parties but really is seen as a doofus.

Kishida had to direct Biden to his spot since he didn’t seem to be getting where he was supposed to stand. “We’ll figure it out,” Jill said as Joe finally was helped figuring it out.

Then later that day, the Bidens went to meet the leaders at the Itsukushima Shrine. He reportedly stared intently at the eight steps down to meet Kishida, then tried it and still tripped in the process down the stairs. It isn't funny--it's frightening that this clown is our president.

Biden against the stairs. Biden 0 stairs 1 pic.twitter.com/UHPDxKS5G6

— Anastasia🌺 (@NastyaPanda006) May 19, 2023

But Joe doesn't seem to fall down the stairs as much as he falls going up the stairs.

Kishida had to direct him to where the other leaders were, with a soft nudge on his back, as you could see the confusion on Biden’s face.

Biden needs directions to locate the group of other world leaders gathered at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan pic.twitter.com/ERZMliLufE

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 19, 2023

Here he was getting miffed as he waited to be told where to go.

Biden grows a bit impatient as he waits for his handler to instruct him to go pic.twitter.com/jGOmA2Y7Tt

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 19, 2023

Our so called president is so confused that his handlers have to write down to remind him to "thank Fumio" in his notes of his remarks, caught in another Getty photo.

Here are the "TALKING POINTS" Biden is using at the G7 Summit in Japan pic.twitter.com/kqmhQPu3Wq

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 19, 2023

If Biden needs a note to remember to thank his host, just how badly is his cognitive decline? We know it exists because we're blessed with brains that work along with vision and hearing. But this is truly bad and a clear sign that Biden needs to either step down [but not on stairs] or be impeached.

If everything he says at the G7 has to be read off to the members, why not just send an email to them? He can do the same at the fake press briefings he occasionally attends. Just send out their questions and give he can give his answers on a press release that his handlers write for him.

His dementia isn't folksy or cute. It should not be acceptable to the American people and something needs to be done, and soon. 

Imagine if he was a Republican.

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NoKo fires off ICBM capable of destroying California's French Laundry restaurant

While the Biden administration is feverishly shooting down Chinese spy balloons and Party City mylar party balloons with Sidewinder missiles that cost $450,000 a pop, North Korea quietly launched an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) that has the capability of hitting California a few days ago.

So with all the talk of China, balloons, Ukraine, Putin and people jumping out of Russian windows in an attempt to fly, we seem to be taking our eyes off the ball . . . istics. 

The nuclear-capable Hwasong-15 flew to an altitude of over 3,500 in flight then fell back down into the ocean between North Korea and Japan. The flight lasted over an hour.

Kim described the test as a demonstration of his “fatal nuclear attack capacity”  that "kill long time." Analysts think the Hwasong-15 can reach mainland USA if fired at a normal launch trajectory and utterly destroy the delusions of progressive Americans. And then there's Chinese balloons and finger traps. 

North Korea said Sunday its latest ICBM test was meant to further bolster its “fatal” nuclear attack capacity against its rivals, as it threatened additional powerful steps in response to the planned military training between the United States and South Korea, to which Rear Admiral Rachel Levine said, "Booster shots prevent the spread of COVID-19. I'm wearing pearls underneath my dress."

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said its launch of this ICBM was organized “suddenly” without prior notice at the direct order of leader for life and Dennis Rodman goombah, Kim Jong Un.

After the NoKo test launch, the United States began its planned military exercises with South Korea, Japan, and other Asian allies. This was announced in advance and gave Kim shade for launching the ICBM. So let's get ready boys and girls--it's either going to be a war or a hockey game, but I repeat myself.

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Five Olympic ski jumpers disqualified for failing to allow Chinese ski jumpers to win

ZHANGJIAKOU — Five fearless women ski jumpers were disqualified from Tuesday's mixed team jump event for insisting they planned to jump higher, faster and further than the Chines Communist ski jumpers and thus steal away the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals from the host Communists. 

Chinese spokesman Hoo Flung Dong said that the host nation has gone out of its way to provide the best experience possible for foreign athletes and that China, in turn, should at least win.

The women represent Austria, Germany, Japan and Norway in alphabetical order.

The women were disqualified because they wore loose fitting clothing that Chinese "experts" deemed that it gave them more lift and therefore extra distance down the hill. But evidently, the "experts" were okay with the loose fitting suits on previous jumps. Maybe they were saving the best part for last.

“The [International Ski Federation] destroyed everything with this operation. I think they have destroyed women’s ski jumping,” said Katharina Althaus, a three-time Olympian and 2018 silver medalist, after the disqualifications were issued. “I have been checked so many times in 11 years of ski jumping, and I have never been disqualified once. I know my suit was compliant.”

Rumor has it the brand of ski suit worn by some of the jumpers was MyJumpSuit by Mike Lindell. The first layer keeps the jumper warm, the second layer wicks away sweat, the third layer collects the sweat and shoots it out the rear back portion of the suit, and the fourth layer is just for looks.

Althaus later shared her frustration on Instagram. “160 World Cup starts, 5x World Championships, 3x Olympic Games and I got DSQ for the first time,” she wrote. “My heart is broken.”

“We stick together no matter what!” fellow German jumper Karl Geiger wrote on social media. Geiger was counting on a good showing. “Nevertheless, I have to ask myself whether the regulations for the women were changed overnight, with so many disqualifications?!? It was neither the right time nor the right place to disqualify so many athletes from different nations.”

“It is just strange that they have been using the same suits yesterday and there was no problem,” German coach Stefan Horngacher said. “It is annoying that this happens at the Winter Olympic Games. This should all be cleared before.”

“I am sorry on behalf of ski jumping,” Norwegian ski jumping chief of sports Clas Brede Braathen said. “This is something we should have cleaned up in before the Olympics. The sport of ski jumping has experienced one of its darker days today.” 

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He noted that the DQs threaten to undo all the recent forward strides made by ski jumping, which has a less-than-stellar record of accommodating women, especially women who are afraid of heights.

"I'm lost for words, really," Braathen added with words he just found. "This is very painful for the athletes. I'm in pain on behalf of our sport. We were going to introduce a new event. The girls were to get a new event in the Olympics, and that's how it ends. And why are only girls being disqualified?"

Hey, skiiers. Got Commie?

Don't watch even one minute of this crap.

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BLM supports Hamas against Israel

Black Lives Matter (BLM) has declared its "solidarity" with Palestinians and thereby the Hamassholes the Palestinians elected, in the quest to kill every last Jew on Earth, but first destroy Israel. 

BLM's official Twitter account said that it "always will be" partnered with the cause of "Palestinian liberation," whatever that means. People from so-called Palestine, a place that is not actually a country.

In 1917, during the First World War, the British army occupied Jerusalem. On Nov. 2, 1917, British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour issued he Balfour Declaration for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."

After the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the San Remo conference, held on April 19, 1920, was convened by four WWI Allied Powers: Britain, France, Italy and Japan. They adopted the Mandate for Palestine which specified that Palestine will be responsible for carrying out the Balfour Declaration for the establishment of the Jewish State.

By 1922, England allocated almost 80 percent of Palestine to Transjordan [although the men identified as men, and the women as women--there were no Jordanian transgenders]. Thus, Jordan covers the majority of the land of Palestine under British Mandate. Jordan also includes the majority of the Arabs who lived there. In other words, Jordan is the Arab portion of Palestine.

In 1923, the modern Republic of Turkey signed the Lausanne Treaty which agreed to transfer territories (including Palestine) to the control of the British Empire. So Israel, the Biblical land of the Jews, was under British control.

Under their rule, the residents of Palestine were called "Palestinians." Since Palestine included both modern day Israel and Jordan, BOTH Arab and Jewish residents of this area were referred to as "Palestinians." The Arabs had not cornered the market on the term.

It was only after the Jews re-inhabited their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria, after they won the Six-Day War, that the myth of an Arab Palestinian nation was created and marketed worldwide.

So, to be clear, Jews come from Judea, not Palestinians.

To deny the historical tie of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel, Arabs began using the name "West Bank" for the territories that were known as Judea and Samaria, you know, where the Jews came from.

There is no language known as Palestinian. Not so ironically, in Arabic even the letter "p" does not exist.

There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. There is no flag, no language and definitely no history.

The rebirth of Israel was accompanied by economic prosperity for the region. Arabs migrated to this area to find employment and enjoy a higher standard of living.
Even the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Yassar Arafat, was not a "Palestinian," the Nobel Peace Prize winning terrorist was actually born in Egypt.

But historical facts were never things to stop anti-Semites from making false claims and perpetrating their hatred of the Jewish People. Evidently, BLM fits in that category.

“Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. ( always have. And always will be ),” the organization ignorantly, but loudly said.

There are others in Congress like Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) who praised Palestinian activists and who overtly denounce Israel. Bush, by the way, is a piece of human garbage who previously called for the death of police officers and on Twitter.

Individual Black Lives Matter organizations have also declared their own allegiance to Hamassholes and its causes. BLM of Patterson, New Jersey, was perhaps the most vocal, issuing a lengthy statement on the “occupation” and calling Israel a “repressive apparatus.”

So Hamas fires thousands of rockets into Israel's civilian areas and somehow Israel is the "repressive apparatus?" 

What the Far-Left hates the most is that Israel is fighting back.

Lastly, BLM is also heavily involved with the explicitly anti-Semitic Boycott-Divest-Sanction, or BDS, movement, which calls for countries to strand Israel politically and cut off trade. They believe if you can't blow them up, starve them.

Scumcrumpets.

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MSNBC's Heilemann Compares Bernie's Campaign to "Bataan Death March"

Well, at least MSNBC analyst John Heilemann didn't go all out hyperbolic and compare Sen. Bernie Sanders' (Communist-VT) to Adolf Hitler or Mitsuo Fuchida [google him]. He merely compared Sanders' presidential campaign to the Bataan Death March--a human atrocity perpetrated by the Japanese Empire in World War Two.

"Bernie Sanders is going to fight," Heilemann said. "He's got unlimited resources effectively, he's going to fight for the next three months. Nothing is going to stop this from being a kind of Bataan Death March over the course of the next three months, with each of these candidates going at each other hammer and tongs. That is not avoidable I think."

What a schmuck. Seriously, what a schmuck. But hey, it's MSNBC--Major Schmucks Nothing But Crap. What else can one expect?

"Bataan Death March," anchor Andrea Mitchell repeated.

Heilemann--not the sharpest bayonet on a rifle--compared the Sanders campaign to the aftermath of April 9, 1942, when 12,000 Americans and 58,000 Filipino soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces at the Bataan Peninsula following a months-long battle. 

Thousands died being force-marched to a labor camp. The atrocity came to be known as the Bataan Death March. By comparing it to the Sanders campaign, Heilemann trivialized the atrocity.

Prisoners were starved and randomly shot, beaten, and stabbed [Sanders-style, Heilemann supposes] throughout the ordeal. 

After the war, Japanese lieutenant general Homma Masaharu, who commanded imperial troops in the Philippines, was convicted in a war crimes tribunal and executed in Manila. 

Unfortunately, he could only be executed once.

This trend of making comparisons to horrible atrocities, and especially Hitler comparisons, has got to stop. It's stupid and it distorts history into a political narrative that dilutes the horrors of the reality of what actually occurred.

It's no better than Holocaust denial.

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Rocket Man launches 2 short range missiles: flips off POTUS

Kim Jong-un launched a pair of short range missiles in a show of defiance to President Trump and all he tweets for.

South Korean military leaders say the surprise launch took place in the Wonsan region in east of the rogue state.

Both missiles travelled approximately 270 miles before falling into the Sea of Japan, reports from North Korea say.

It is the first missile test reported since President Trump and the chubby NoKo leader met at the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas at the end of June, shook hands and smiled at each other like old friends.

The White House, Pentagon and US State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment because they were probably slightly embarrassed over Kim's open defiance.

However, the joint chiefs said South Korean and US militaries were reportedly analyzing details of the launches.

A US defense official said the secret launch appears to be similar to the recent May 2019 launch where two short range missiles were also fired off.

"North Korea is clearly upset that the US and South Korea are conducting joint military exercises," Harry Kazianis of Washington's Center for the National Interest explained.

"We should not be shocked by this move and, in fact, we should have seen it coming."

Then why didn't we see it coming? And why didn't Kazianis warn us of the probable missile launchings? Who exactly is Harry Kazianis really working for? And what about Trump?

Pyongyang restarted missile testing following a moratorium of over a year, as negotiations with President Trump over disarmament and denuclearization stalled.

North Korea's most recent test was in May when a pair of missiles timed precisely 9 minutes before and 9 minutes after a US test of a nuclear Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

In a brazen taunt, the corpulent dictator Kim watched the firing of the weapon at North Korea's Academy of Defence Science.

And issuing a chilling warning, Kim said the test "serves as an event of very weighty significance in increasing the combat power of the People's Army," state media reported. Kim should never use the word "weighty."

North Korea warned the US it faces "undesired consequences" if it doesn't meet its demands in nuclear talks by the end of the year.

Yes, we face the undesired consequences of having to destroy North Korea if they test us enough,

Kim's regime is demanding the Trump administration show more flexibility - or else it will go back on its promise to scrap its deadly nuclear arsenal, a promise they never intended to keep.

Pyongyang says it will only ditch its weapons program if the US agrees to scrap crippling economic sanctions on the country. Of course, Kim is lying--if he gives up his nuclear weapons program, he might as well give up his dictatorship and put a gun to his head. Kim has made similar promises to other naive presidents such as Bill "It's Just a Cigar" Clinton and GW Bush.

In a chilling threat, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said in Korean: "Changing paths is not a privilege that only the United States has - but it could be our own choice if we make up our mind."

She added wantonly: "If the United States fails to reestablish its position within the timeline we gave, it will see truly undesired consequences."

On April 21, 2018, merely one day after Adolf Hitler's birthday, Kim Jong-un said the hermit nation was suspending long-range nuclear missile tests and shutting its test sites. He lied as he always does.

Trump: "Kim likes me and I like him."

At the Singapore summit on June 11, 2018, just 108 years after the birth of Jacques Cousteau, Trump and Kim agreed to start the denuclearization "very quickly." A very imprecise Trump-esque timeline, but at least he didn't hold Kim and himself to "very, very quickly."

"Ze water ees deep"

The US President said the meeting had gone "better than anyone could have expected," but a few of us were expecting it to go better.

"We are going to sign this historic agreement," said Kim. "The world will see a major change," he lied.

In the agreement, Kim overtly committed to "complete denuclearization of Korean Peninsula," as he covertly flipped the U.S. the North Korean "bird."

However, despite the pledge, the North Koreans have never halted their nuclear activities, the UN's nuclear watchdog said.

The Pentagon believes North Korea has about 200 missile launchers hidden within the country and these can fire short- and medium-range rockets.

The most likely target of such a missile launch would be South Korea, Japan, Australia and possibly US territories in the Pacific Ocean.

Revised estimates suggest the total number of missiles the rogue state has is believed to be between 13 and 21. And the regime is estimated to have at least four nuclear warheads.

Should North Korea attempt to strike any of these targets, the little country will be able to glow in the dark.


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UPDATED: North Korea launches another missile around 3 p.m. ET

UPDATE: According to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, the missile was an ICBM and it has flown further than any previous tests performed by North Korea.

North Korea may be able to complete its nuclear missile program with a year as Lil' Rocket Man's scientists are progressing faster than originally anticipated, warns South Korea's unification minister, Cho Myoung-gyon at a Seoul event. 

They are on the road to developing a long-range nuke and that is definitely not a good thing.

Cho said: "Experts think North Korea will take two to three more years but they are developing their nuclear capabilities faster than expected.

"We cannot rule out the possibility Pyongyang may declare the completion of their nuclear program in a year."

His words came as a Japanese diplomat revealed a group of radio signals detected from North Korea could mean another missile launch is imminent.

Just this year alone, Lil' Rocket Man has carried out 15 missile tests, including two which flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, known for its delicious seafood, particularly crab, as well as its own ramen noodles.

The tests confirm that NoKo now has a functioning ICBM and a functioning idiot leading the country. 

So it looks as if the new sanctions aren't stopping the idiot from slowing his nuclear ambitions. The missile was launched at around  3:00 a.m. local time. It isn't clear if today's launch was of an ICBM or not, and it was headed east of North Korea (see map).

This is a  developing story and more will be posted as information become available.


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Kim threatens missile launch TONIGHT while Trump visits SoKo

North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un wants to have another testosterone contest with President Trump and send a message by having the biggest ever missile launch tonight.

Trump will be in South Korea today as he tours Asia and meets with President Moon Jae-in. He will be in Seoul, just 35 miles from the DMZ with NoKo and 120 miles from Pyongyang.

Spies believe NoKo will be planning a massive missile launch as a warning to Trump, who will be in the closest physical proximity to the lard laden leader of the hermit nation. 

Missile movements have been detected across North Korea and U.S. and South Korean spy planes have been working diligently to sniff out what Kim is planning.

According to experts, a "battle-ready" launch will be NoKo's next step. Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest said, "they [the missiles] are going to go over Japan and drop it into the mid-Pacific."

On a happier note, the U.S. has North Korea surrounded by warships, bombers, missiles and 80,000 troops ready to kick butt.

Trump will have the world's biggest military war machine poised at the ready should things go south in the north. 

All three aircraft carrier battle groups of the 7th Fleet will be fully loaded with up to 90 warplanes and choppers. Alongside are their escorts of 14 missile-destroyers and submarines.

Earlier in the week, a squadron of a dozen F-35 fighter jets landed at their new base in Japan.

There are more than 100 bases are scattered across the islands with about 50,000 military personnel stationed there and another 30,000 stationed in South Korea.

If Pyongyang does something stupid, they will pay for it dearly.


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200 dead in North Korea at nuclear site

As many as 200 North Korean laborer/slaves have been killed from a mineshaft collapse at the hermit nation's nuclear test site, according to Japan's Asahi TV.

North Korean sources told the news channel that a tunnel being excavated by around 100 workers at the Punggye-ri test site collapsed several weeks ago.

In a rescue attempt of the laborers, an additional 100 rescuers were sent into the tunnel when it collapsed a second time.

While a precise date for the disaster wasn't provided, the tragedy comes soon after North Korea conducted its sixth underground nuclear test at the site. That was the most powerful test to date.

Pyongyang claims the September 3rd test under Mount Mantap was a hydrogen bomb. Monitors suggest the explosion was equivalent to an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale. 

Some experts put the yield of the bomb at 280 kilotons and seismologists recorded signs of underground collapses in the hours and days after the blast.

Satellite images of the area taken immediately after the test revealed extreme damage to surface features, including landslips. 

A study published Oct. 17 by the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University and published on the 38 North web site suggest this last test caused "substantial damage to the existing tunnel network under Mount Mantap." 

For more on this go here.   

And while there are clear signs of "tired mountain syndrome," there are no indications that the site was being abandoned for future nuclear tests.

Nam Jae-chol, head of South Korea's Meteorological Administration, warned before parliament on Monday that further tests at Punggye-ri could cause the mountain to collapse and release radioactivity into the environment.

Chinese scientists have issued similar warnings.

It will be interesting to see what Kim Jong Un is going to do.

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Little Rocket Man promises 'nuclear clouds' on Japan after eating a burrito

North Korea, that country we've grown to hate, is now threatening to bring "nuclear clouds" to Japan, which was initially thought to mean that dictator Kim Jong Un (aka Little Rocket Man) was planning to release his burrito inspired flatulence upon them. He actually meant nuclear clouds from nuclear weaponry. 

Kim mocked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for acting like a "headless chicken" at the U.N. General Assembly when he urged the U.N. members to force the rogue nation to end its nuclear and missile programs. 

The hermit nation claimed Japan was escalating tension in the Korean peninsula, and saying their plea to end NoKo's nuclear goal a "suicidal deed" that will end with a nuclear attack to sink the island, which indicates Kim has probably no idea what islands actually are.

The statement read: "Japan's such rackets inciting the tension of the Korean peninsula is a suicidal deed that will bring nuclear clouds to the Japanese archipelago. No one knows when the touch-and-go situation will lead to a nuclear war, but if so, the Japanese archipelago will be engulfed in flames in a moment. This is too self-evident."

After calling Abe a "headless chicken," North Korea said Japan could be "the first victim of nuclear disaster in the world."

North Korea isn't shy about firing missiles over Japan--they've done it twice in the last two months. In September, the missile flew to an altitude of 480 miles and cruised 2,300 miles, which puts Guam in its crosshairs. Afterward, Pyongyang threatened to "sink" Japan and turn the U.S. into "ashes and darkness."

"The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) wrote.

A high ranking government spokesman for Japan called the threat outrageous and provocative.

The North Korean nuclear situation is growing and worsening. This has pushed Abe to seek a public mandate on his tougher diplomatic and defense policies. Abe has dissolved the lower house of parliament and called for a snap election to be held this month.

North Korea's bellicose threats have continued after President Trump promised to "totally destroy" Kim's dictatorship when he spoke at the UNGA. NoKo's foreign minister Ri Yong-ho (no relation to Heidi-ho) called Trump's words a "declaration of war." The White House insisted that they must be smoking something.

Over the weekend, Trump again went after "Little Rocket Man" in a series of presidential tweets after Secretary of State Tillerson said there was "lines of communication" to Pyongyang. The president urged Tillerson to "save [his] energy" adding that he was "wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man."

While this isn't very presidential, it's kind of funny.


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NoKo says strike on US is 'inevitable' as we fly bombers off coast

North Korea's foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, (aka 'Young Ho') under threat of being anti aircraft-gunned by the rogue nation's leader, called U.S. President Trump "a mentally deranged person full of megalomania." Ironically, Ho has no background in psychology, other than an evening adult ed class, so it's quite possible that his diagnosis of President Trump is wrong, especially given the fact that he never interviewed him diagnostically or otherwise.

As his daughter, Heidi, sat in the audience, Ho promised that  a strike on the U.S. mainland was "inevitable" in the speech he made at the UN General Assembly.

The Ho address began as the Pentagon announced that it had flown some badass bombers and fighter jet escorts to the farthest point north of the Korean DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), going farther than any such U.S. aircraft this century.

Ho

Defense Department spokesman, Dana White, said in a statement "This mission is a demonstration of U.S. resolve and a clear message that the president has many military options to defeat any threat."

White added, "North Korea's weapons program is a grave threat to the Asia-Pacific region and the entire international community. We are prepared to use the full range of military capabilities to defend the U.S. homeland and our allies."

According to the Pentagon, B-1B bombers from Guam, and F-15C Eagle fighter escorts from Okinawa, Japan, flew in international airspace over waters east of North Korea on Saturday.

Unlike other "show of force" missions, our birds were not accompanied by South Korean or Japanese planes. We simply wanted to show North Korea just how big our gonads are.

"While conducted unilaterally, this mission was coordinated with regional allies--namely the Republic of Korea [aka South Korea] and Japan--and was a strong testament to our ironclad alliance," U.S. Pacific Command spokesman Cmdr. Dave Benham told Fox News.

On Friday, Trump went on the rhetorical offensive against Adipose Kim.

"Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before," Trump tweeted. He had previously announced increased economic sanctions against NoKo on Thursday. The sanctions will target any countries that do business with North Korea, but this is really aimed at China, who does almost 90 percent of the North's trade.

Due to the fact that President Trump spoke about North Korea, the liberal mainstream media and Democrats tried to put words in his mouth, accusing him of threatening NoKo preemptively.

Trump's words:

"North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile development is a grave threat to peace and security in our world and it is unacceptable that others financially support this criminal, rogue regime."

Kim (aka 'Rocket Man') went ballistic hours later saying Trump was "deranged."

Photo: Senior Airman Quay Drawdy

It's like the pot calling the kettle 'stoned'.

On a positive note, it looks like Trump has gotten China and Russia on board with the sanction program and it's possible that China could severely impede NoKo's ability to fund its missile and nuclear program.

And while fat Kim is saying Trump would "pay dearly" for threatening to "totally destroy" his hell-hole of a country if the U.S. had to defend ourselves or our allies against a North Korea attack, hopefully the sanctions will put an end to the bluster.


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Chubby Kim wants to shut U.S. up about military options

"Look Kim, a dead bird"

Seoul -- North Korea is looking to acquire military "equilibrium" with the U.S. in order to put an end to talks about using military options for dealing with Pyongyang, the obese dictator Kim Jong Un said after he launched another missile over Japan's mainland.

Corpulent Kim told his top missile unit that NoKo would continue to run "full speed and straight" toward military parity with us, reported the state fake news agency known as Korean Central News Agency (KCNA; aka Comedy Centrifuge).

The latest missile launch was the second one in three weeks. This time it flew over 2,300 miles from the launch site in Pyongyang and over the northern Japanese city of Hokkaido, home to some of Japan's finest sakes and world renown Sapporo Beer.

And Kim better not mess with our beer.

Fortunately for the fat man and Japan, the missile landed in the Pacific Ocean, but with a range like that, it could have easily reached Guam, which is about 2,100 miles from the launch site.

Kim has been threatening to "envelop" Guam with missiles, but if he did, it's highly likely we'd envelop his fat butt with enough fire power to make Pyongyang and the rest of NoKo indistinguishable from a Smokey the Bear nightmare.

In the meantime however, President Trump and other world leaders have retaliated with strong words of condemnation, which we all know scares the bejeezus out of Kim and will get him to think hard about what he has done.

Not!


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