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A few main principles of Hamas' ideology, as articulated in its Charter and in statements by its leaders and spokespersons, are the following:
--The conflict with Israel is a religious war between the Muslims and Jews that will continue until the End of Days.
--Jihad and martyrdom are the only way to liberate Palestine "from the river to the sea"
--All of Palestine, "from the Jordan river in the east to the Mediterranean in the west" is waqf land (i.e. a religious endowment sacred to Allah), so the religion forbids relinquishing even an inch of it. Peace negotiations and normalization with Israel are forbidden and anyone who engages in them is a traitor against Allah and His Prophet and is destined for Hell.
--Israel has no right to exist, and jihad against it must continue until it is eliminated and all of Palestine is liberated
--No Israelis are civilians. All Jews in Palestine, including children, are combatants and may be killed by every means: stabbed, beheaded or bombed, including in suicide operations.
--Tahdia (a temporary lull in fighting) with Israel is possible as a tactic, but the overall strategy is ongoing jihad
--Martyrdom is a supreme value and part of jihad. Martyrdom-seekers (i.e., suicide attackers) "love death as much as the enemy loves life" and are rewarded in Paradise.
--Antisemitism: Jihad is against the Jews, who are destined for annihilation.
--The Jews are "the descendants of apes and pigs"; they are subhuman or "microbes."
https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-charter-%E2%80%93-ideology-behind-massacre
Attention antifa and transtifa and insurrectionists who hate ICE:
Nearly every state has specific statutes that criminalize willfully interrupting or disturbing a religious assembly or worship service. These laws protect the right of people to gather and practice their religion without intentional interference.
Let the Minneapolis arrests begin.
As revealed in a 1955 research and development program memo from the CIA’s Technical Services Staff/Chemical Division, the MK Ultra objectives went far beyond interrogation tools. They envisioned a arsenal of covert chemicals designed to manipulate behavior on a massive scale, administered without detection to render people compliant, confused, or crippled.
Here’s the smoking gun: the memo’s explicit list of desired substances and methods, quoted verbatim from the declassified records:
Substances which will promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be discredited in public.
Substances which increase the efficiency of mentation and perception.
Materials which will prevent or counteract the intoxicating effect of alcohol.
Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol.
Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way so that they may be used for malingering, etc.
Materials which will render the ...
Janet Yellen shocked the banking world when she said that America's “needed belt tightening is significant—larger than in most programs supported by the International Monetary Fund."
Yes, even larger than the bankrupt nations now beholden to the IMF, which demands a kind of austerity Americans might not survive. Examples:
By 2010, Greek debt had spiraled to 130% of GDP and climbing. No one was willing to lend them money anymore... forcing the IMF to swoop in with a "rescue" package that came with brutal strings attached.
Pensions were slashed by 40%. Public sector wages were frozen, then cut. Over 150,000 government workers were laid off. State assets—airports, ports, utilities—were sold off at fire-sale prices to foreign investors.
Greece's economy contracted by 25%. Youth unemployment hit 60%. An entire generation was hollowed out.
Argentina has been through the IMF wringer multiple times; in fact in in 2018, Argentina received the largest bailout in IMF history: $57 billion....
