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[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Erdogan has spent nearly $1 billion building a global school network that investigators say is used to export political Islam and target his opponents abroad.

According to a report by the Belgium-based human rights group Solidarity with Others, Turkey's state-funded Maarif Foundation educates around 30,000 students in 34 countries while helping Ankara seize control of schools previously linked to the Gülen movement.

Since 2016, the foundation has reportedly been involved in the closure, confiscation, or forced transfer of 162 schools across 29 countries, taking direct control of 131 institutions and affecting around 7,800 teachers and staff.

The report alleges Turkey used diplomatic pressure, security agreements, raids, deportations, and property seizures to force countries including Afghanistan, Mali, Niger, Sudan, Venezuela, Zambia, and Liberia to hand schools over to Maarif.

State funding for the foundation has exceeded 27.7 billion lira (about $900 million) since its creation. The report concludes there is a reasonable basis to investigate the campaign as persecution amounting to a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute.

Turkey is just one of several state actors that fund Islamists on a global scale.
Iran and Qatar are two other examples, with both heavily focused on spreading Islamism in Europe.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

A guy who just became an American citizen eight years ago sat at George Washington’s desk and lectured us about what it means to be an American on our nation’s 250th birthday.

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

In honor of my mother, Flora Klein, who at 14 years of age was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, I will be at the White House July 4th honoring our veterans from WW II July 4th. Alongside me, will be 10 surviving WW II veterans. God bless our veterans.

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

Zohran Mamdani, the Ugandan-born radical, has the audacity to lecture Americans on what America is, while surrounding George Washington’s desk with foreigners.

This is not America. This is an invasion.

The Founders did not bleed for a nation of communist 3rd world imports hell-bent on destroying our civilization. They built it for Americans, by Americans.

This Fourth of July, reject the replacement. Reclaim our Republic. No apologies. 🇺🇸

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The best evidence that @NYCMayor Mamdani has not held a job is the fact that he is sitting on the wrong side of the desk.

And listen to his words. On a day when we, and in particular, our leaders should be celebrating the 250 years of our nation’s history, he attacks us and what makes our country great.

Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists are grave threats to our present and our future.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Imagine your family worked for a generation to save enough money to buy a brownstone occupied with rent stabilized tenants on the Upper West Side. The family financed the purchase with a mortgage from a bank based on the premise that rents and cash flow would at least keep pace with inflation so you could pay interest and principal on the mortgage and hopefully have some cash flow left as a return on your investment.

While you had rent stabilized tenants, you were led to believe that the NYC Rent Guidelines Board would be required to adjudicate rental increases each year by taking a measure of the inflation of costs to own and operate a building and setting rental increases appropriately.

You believed the RGB would do its job as the board is comprised of two representatives each for landlords and tenants and five independent representatives that represent the general public.

Now, a new mayor @NYCMayor Mamdani is elected on the promise of freezing rents. There are about two million rent stabilized renters that benefit if rents are frozen so by promising frozen rents the new candidate for mayor buys votes and wins the election.

The new mayor achieves his objective by stacking the RGB with directors who do not follow their obligations and simply vote for a rent freeze as a preordained conclusion as evidenced by the statements of an RGB director who resigned in protest for this very reason.

Meanwhile, inflation in NYC is rampant in utilities, real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, etc. and now your rents are frozen. Real estate is a high operating leverage business which means that frozen rents and inflating expenses will cause property cash flows to plummet and your after debt service cash flow to go negative.

I expect therefore there will be hundreds if not thousands of small NYC property owners who are now or will shortly be underwater on their mortgages, and without any cash flow to maintain their assets.

If you remember the images of the South Bronx burning in the mid 1970s, you can viscerally understand what is happening to small NYC real estate owners.

While the rent freeze appears to be short-term good news (long term it will lead to poorly maintained apartments) for 2 million NYC renters, it is bad news for the 2 million or more renters in the 1 million market rate apartments in the City because a landlord-hostile market is not likely to add meaningfully more supply and market rents will likely continue to escalate at a high rate.

All of this seems quite unfair and wrong unless I missing something?

Why am I wrong?

For disclosure: I do not own any NYC rental apartments.

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

Just another day of globalizing the intifada…

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

If anyone showed up outside of a mosque fully masked and threatening Muslim New Yorkers, Zohran Mamdani would’ve shut it down before it even started.

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

Notice that none of the Jews are wearing masks to hide their identity

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

This @nytimes piece by @NickKristof is nothing but a modern-day blood libel and grotesque inversion of truth.

Built on unsubstantiated allegations from discredited activists and Hamas-linked front groups, it unconscionably turns the actual victims of Hamas’ Oct 7 rapes and sexual atrocities into the accused.

At a time when Jews are already facing an unprecedented wave of antisemitism and violence across America and worldwide, this reckless propaganda will only pour fuel on the fire.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The #1 factor that determines whether you succeed in life is you. It isn’t “the patriarchy.” It isn’t the Jews. It isn’t the Muslims. It isn’t the billionaires. It isn’t the foreigners. It isn’t white people. It isn’t black people. It's time for us to move on from victimhood culture in America.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

SPLC was one of the most powerful censorship forces in the country for decades. Lavishly supported by many big American companies for many years. This is astonishing, and deeply concerning.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

In the face of consistent attacks, past and present, our special ally and its people have shown true strength and resilience.

Israel: I’m proud to stand on the right side of history, and this voice and vote will never waver.

Happy Independence Day!

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

Let me be clear:

The UAE WILL NEVER allow
Iran Regime to control the Strait
of Hormuz, build ballistic missiles
or drones, or threaten the region’s
security.

This position is final & will not
change. If the Islamabad meeting
says otherwise it won’t succeed.

Simple as that..!

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Iran's internet shutdown has hit day 44. The longest nationwide blackout ever recorded. - NetBlocks

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

This is classic @TomFriedman: acknowledge evil, then pivot to worrying about Trump. Somehow the real threat isn’t the regime, it’s who gets the credit for stopping it.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Islamist Fulani militias have murdered 8 Nigerian Christians in the Mbwelle village in Plateau state

It brings up the total death toll of Fulani attacks on Christians in Plateau state this week to 23. The Fulani Islamists are waging a campaign to steal Christian lands

[Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @BrentHBaker]

Don’t want Iran to lose if it means Trump wins. @TomFriedman of @NYTimes really wants “to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region,” but on CNN’s @Smerconish he fretted “the problem is I really don’t want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are too awful human beings. They are both engaged in anti-democratic projects in their own countries. They’re both alleged crooks. They are terrible, terrible people doing terrible things to America’s standing in the world and Israel’s standing in the world.”

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

🚨PAY ATTENTION AMERICA - IS OUR GOVERNMENT TRACKING THIS THREAT??

From CONQUERING NY Times Square AGAIN... to Palestine - in just DAYS.

Jihadi WayOfLife just wrapped his massive Islamic takeover in Times Square (Feb 20): leading crowds in provocative public prayers, chanting "Allahu Akbar," while boldly declaring "We ARE a threat" & "We're taking over New York City!"

Now he's on a plane straight to Palestine: mocking the war ("there's a war!?! Israeli airspace closed... What am I gonna do!?"), flashing the ISIS-style one-finger salute, waving thick wads of cash in the airplane bathroom while boasting about zakat & money for Palestine.

From staging a show of force in America's most iconic square... to flexing supremacy en route to a conflict zone.

All in days.

Are you not seeing the Islamic operation taking place? Why are we allowing our enemies to run these ops right here in America?