Today, the @nytimes chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press.
In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused.
Israel - whose citizens were the victims of the most horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on October 7, and whose hostages were later subjected to further sexual abuse - is portrayed as the guilty party.
This publication is no coincidence. It is part of a false and well-orchestrated anti-Israel campaign aimed at placing Israel on the UN Secretary-General’s blacklist.
Israel will fight these lies with the truth - and the truth will prevail.
⚡️The von der Leyen quote is one of the most revealing things a European leader has said in the last decade and almost nobody is going to process it correctly.
“The cheapest energy is the one you don’t use.”
That is a sentence spoken by a person presiding over civilizational decline who has decided to reframe the decline as virtue. It’s not a policy statement. It’s a theological position. The energy crisis isn’t a problem to be solved by producing more energy. It’s an opportunity for Europeans to need less. To want less. To consume less. To live smaller lives in smaller apartments heated to lower temperatures with less travel and less activity and less economic output. The scarcity isn’t a failure. It’s the goal.
This is the thing Americans and everyone outside of Europe cannot fully grasp about where European elite thinking has landed. They genuinely believe that reducing European energy consumption is morally good regardless of the economic consequences, because European consumption is tied to European environmental guilt which is tied to European colonial guilt which is tied to a broader belief that European civilization has been net negative for the world and should shrink. The energy crisis gives them political cover to implement policies that would otherwise be unpopular. Now they can say circumstances force the reduction when the reduction was always the plan.
Von der Leyen is not an aberration. She represents the consensus view among the European political class. Macron believes this. Scholz believes this. The entire EU Commission believes this. They don’t say it this directly usually because it polls badly, but every major policy they implement is consistent with this worldview. Degrowth is not a fringe academic position in European politics. It’s the operating framework at the top.
The American version of this framing would be “the cheapest energy is the one we produce ourselves at scale.” That’s what actually reduces cost and increases resilience. Building more nuclear, extracting more gas, expanding the grid, investing in new production. The European version is the opposite. Don’t build anything. Don’t extract anything. Don’t produce anything. Just use less. And when citizens can’t heat their homes or fly for work, frame it as virtue.
This is why Europe can’t recover from the current trajectory. The recovery would require a complete reversal of the ideological framework that produced the decline, and that framework is held most strongly by exactly the people who have the power to change it.
They’re not going to reverse it because they don’t see the trajectory as a problem.
They see it as necessary and good.
Orthodox Christianity’s Holy Fire Ceremony is always a special experience. More so this year after holy sites were shut, under attack from Iran.
Back to normal happens quickly in Israel. Inspirational. Spiritual.
@ChrisO_wiki You spend so much time crying over Iranian targets.. not a whisper on Iran semi randomly hurling warheads into civilian neighborhoods all over the Mideast.
But yeah, those poor pistachios
@pepel_klaasa Well - hard to predict the future! But I’m confident the pathetic euro “do nothing and wait” is worse.
Hypothetically, if Ukraine bombed all of Russia’s navy, airforce, and industrial complexes, would Russia be a weaker or stronger threat?
@GergelyOrosz What you’re missing is that most enterprise consumers only use a fraction of the features anyway. This actually allows every business to build a solution tailored exactly to their needs.
Does anyone know where I can attend the protests for these five young people tomorrow? I heard that it's at the corner of No Jews Avenue and No News Boulevard. Can anyone confirm?