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Follow the Money Gaza Edition

Posted: August 28, 2024 by datechguy in economy, middle east
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Antonia: Nobody wants to work the high risk planets like Earth. Part of the incentive package is that the government will match any insurance payout for accident or death.

6th Doctor: Money! This [murder] has all been about money, filthy lucre.

Doctor Who, The Condemned 2008

About a dozen years ago back when I was doing door to door pitching for advertisers for the old DaTechGuy on DaRadio show I found myself in a Doctor’s office. He told me that his practice was restricted to immigrants, legal or otherwise, who were covered by Mass Health (our state’s universal healthcare system). Remembering the nature of my grandparents and the Italian immigrants who tended to downplay sickness I knew I expressed surprise that he could make a practice out of it. He told me that it was exactly the opposite, that the current batch of immigrants came in for every little thing and that he was constantly billing the state for it. As he put it, looking at my city, anyone who didn’t build his business model on this was a fool.

That’s what I thought about when I saw this write-up about Gaza:

Under the rule of Hamas in Gaza, beginning in 2005, the smuggling tunnel industry in Rafah (from Egypt) flourished, which in addition to arms also transported goods into Gaza and controlled the markets in Gaza. The tunnels served as a gold mine for a large group of Gazans, controlled by Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Dozens of them became millionaires (!) from that corrupt underground activity. from

Like Democrat non-profits in the US they didn’t let a crisis go to waste.

Gaza’s millionaires live in mansions overlooking the beach in Gaza, with luxury furniture smuggled from Europe and the Gulf countries, they are surrounded by servants, drivers, private tutors for their children, security and maintenance personnel. They drive in luxury cars, some of them own yachts in Qatar, they eat in prestigious restaurants and go on prestigious vacations all over the world, their children study in academies abroad. In all the mansions – there are underground shelters for protection against war.

In Gaza the wealth is not equally distributed, there is a layer of millionaires, even billionaires, who got rich from corruption and the industry of death and terrorism, many senior Hamas officials and their associates simply steal the donations money and the Qatari money that is transferred to support the Gazan population – into their own pockets. There is an intermediate layer that also prospers indirectly from these industries and the wages that Hamas pays its members, and there is a layer of very poor unemployed people who are completely dependent on them.

Gaza is neither an “open air prison” nor a “concentration camp”, it is tragically a society ruled by corrupt leaders who created extreme class gaps and send the poor to die for the continued maintenance of the bloody terrorist industry and the donations that enrich them personally beyond imagination.

And don’t think for one moment that the NGO’s and the UN administrators who are constantly seeking money here are not getting their cut. Again like US pols who divert taxfunds to dem NGO and reap campaign contributions from it.

Remember that the pullout of Israel from Gaza was to demonstrate to the world Israel’s good faith, instead all it did was create a money pit for those who wanted to get rich off terror. An entire economy built on death, sort of like the abortion industry.

What would they do once Israel was gone?

Chicken Run and Some Good Advice

Posted: August 26, 2024 by datechguy in Israel, middle east
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If you are living in a face/shame culture like Hezbollah these stories must really cut deep.

One Kuwaiti user named Fahed uploaded a picture of a dead chicken, adding cynically: “Allahu Akbar! Hassan Nasrallah’s response! Hezbollah’s response! The number of chicken injuries rose to 27 chickens, 5 of them are critically injured, with first-degree burns to the wings and beak, after the chicken pen was targeted in response to the assassination of Fouad Shukr. He says ‘Our missiles are accurate!’”

A parody account named after Syrian tyrant Bashar Al-Assad wrote “A video showing the result of Hezbollah’s response to Israel, where dozens of Israeli chickens were killed and wounded. Is it reasonable that my ally Hezbollah would respond to the assassination of the party’s top military commander by killing chickens?

This one is my favorite:

The Google translation:

Translated from Arabic by

The chicken massacre was not a coincidence, but a strategic plan! The goal? To prevent the opponents and enemies of the “resistance” from gloating after every bombing and saying “They didn’t even hurt a chicken.” Hezbollah finished off the chickens and chicks with premeditation and deliberation, in order to deprive us of the pleasure of joking and mocking its response and missiles! 😅🐔

All of that must cut deep but in the end there are a lot of resources being used to defend Israel here and I think Lindsey Graham gives the best advice when it comes to stopping this. Start worrying about the puppeteer rather than the puppets:

I’d include a demand concerning the attacks on the north but you get the picture.

Ismail Haniyeh Death Provides An Uncomfortable Truth For All Those Crying “Genocide” Over Gaza

Posted: August 2, 2024 by datechguy in Israel, Israel vs Hamas, Uncomfortable Truths
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Vorshak: But should you remain stubborn, it’ll be a long and painful business, so start talking.
Turlough: I’ve told him, and now I’m trying to tell you. We are not enemy agents, saboteurs
Nilson: Then why were you attempting to destroy the reactor?
Turlough: If the Doctor had intended to destroy it, it would be lying in pieces at your feet.

Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep 1984

The slaying of Ismail Haniyeh one of the heads of Hamas in what should have been practically the safest place in the Islamic world for him to be is a sold reminder of an inconvenient pair of facts that all in the Arab World know is true but none will admit aloud due to the nature of their “face/shame” culture but that many of the useful idiots in the left seem to forget.

Fact One:  

The only reason why there is any Jew left alive in Israel is the Arabs inability to kill them.  They will never forgive Israel for repeatedly beating them in 1947, 1954, 1967 and 1973 and in their minds that embarrassment can only be removed by the destruction of Israel and the end of the Jewish state.  If the Arabs could they would slaughter every single Jew in Israel and celebrate the Genocide they dream of producing.  

Fact Two:  

The only reason why there is any Arab alive in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank is that Israel does not want to kill them.  They have the military might and the logistical ability to completely annihilate every single Arab in general and Palestinian in particular and have had that ability over half a century.  If Israel wanted to commit Genocide against those Arabs who wish them dead they would be dead.

I strongly suspect due to their culture of shame the only thing that angers and embarrasses the Arabs more than the first fact is the truth of the second.

Paris and Majdal Shams: Realty Doesn’t Care About the Left’s Spin

Posted: July 28, 2024 by datechguy in catholic, Church doctrine, middle east
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I find the spin interesting.

In France the IOC is doing their best to pretend that their insult to Christians by parodying the last supper with drag queens didn’t happen. They are exercising copyright claims on sites that show the video in order to suppress the reaction.

But the reality is there. The people have seen it Christians and our allies around the world have condemned it (although the French Bishops have spun and the Pope has been silent) and the reality of the attack, which would never be done to Muslims is here.

Meanwhile in the village of Majdal Shams Hezbollah and their allies where all in on the rocket attack there and boasted of it, until it was revealed that they slew a bunch of Druze kids playing soccer.

Suddenly it became “Rockets? Moi?” and the media was all over downplaying the attack, omitting the death of the children and saying that it was unclear where the attack came from.

Both of these attacks and their denials are the same.

Both the organizers of the Paris Olympics and the Butchers of Hezbollah hit the targets they were aiming and are proud to have done so. It’s just that neither wish to deal with the temporal consequences of what they have done and all of their spin is to keep those temporal consequences from happening.

But the reality doesn’t care, those temporal consequences are coming and all the spin in the world won’t spot it.

As for the spiritual consequences, we must pray for them, because those consequences are coming too and as Catholics it’s is our duty to pray for these, our enemies.

It’s not easy but it’s also not optional.

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