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Barakat: "I wish the day will come when sayyed [Nasrallah] allows me – not even asks me, he would not ask me… But I wish he will allow me to be one of the people who…"

Interviewer: "Okay, he would not ask you, but let's assume he does ask you…"

Barakat: "I am telling you that personally I wish that I will have the opportunity one day to become not just a martyr, but a martyrdom-seeker who blows himself up among the ranks of an enemy chosen by Nasrallah."

Interviewer: "How do you explain this?"

Barakat: "This is not just out of belief in sayyed [Nasrallah] but also out of belief in his Lord, his religion, and his Quran. I am not referring to him here as an individual."

Interviewer: "So today you are willing to sacrifice yourself for Hassan Nasrallah?"

Barakat: "Not for his sake, but for the sake of the line that he represents."

Interviewer: "What if Nabih Berri asked you to blow yourself up? Would you do it?"

….Long pause….

Barakat: "No."

Nabih Berri is head of the Amal Movement, a Lebanese Shia group which is allied with Hezbollah – but the man sadly doesn't have the same charisma as Nasrallah.

I don't see why he can't just go ahead and blow himself up if he's so keen, this Barakat. It would certainly make for a powerful finale to one of his concerts. Well, his last concert. Going out with a bang.

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Matt Black previously. And here.

Etta James on the 1966 WFAA Dallas TV show The !!!! Beat:

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I featured Etta a few years back with Something's Got a Hold On Me, from the same show.

Hell, here's the whole show, introduced by Bill "Hoss" Allen and featuring Joe Tex, Little Milton, Gatemouth Brown, not forgetting Frank Howard & The Commanders. Plus Etta, of course.

sed without comment until Yair Rosenberg pointed it out in Tablet – The New York Times Just Published an Unqualified Recommendation for an Insanely Anti-Semitic Book.

And now, as I noted before, we have the new ethnic studies program to be rolled out to high schools in California, which manages to erase Jews from the history of race relations in America….

a at England’s only NHS specialist clinic for children.

By the time the children had finished their stint on puberty blockers at the age of 16, researchers found “reduced growth” in height and bone strength.

“In both cases (height and bone strength) there was some growth but less than would be expected during those years without hormonal suppression,” according to the paper, which has been published nine years after the study began.

The authors said that more research was needed to determine whether the impairment was permanent.

Until recently puberty blockers were billed as a “fully reversible” treatment that paused the physical transformation of puberty, but the NHS has since updated its guidance to say the long-term impact on brains and bones is unknown….

A commonly stated reason for suppressing puberty is to give adolescents “thinking time”. However, in the paper, published in the journal Plos One, the researchers found that puberty blockers brought no improvement in psychological function, quality of life or gender dysphoria — a result they attribute to either the drugs bringing “no measurable benefit nor harm” or the drugs preventing patients from feeling worse.

All but one of the participants went on to the next, irreversible step towards transition, cross-sex hormones.

and that one conversation won’t do it,” Hogshead-Makar said.

But it's not at all complicated. That's the point. It's basic biology.

tion, he might have added that you must strangle language, education, culture and the ability to reproduce. For those, the CCP has built an ever more detailed system of surveillance and repression.

Under Article 2 of the UN Convention on genocide, killing members of a ‘national, ethnical, racial or religious group’ is only one of five reasons for actions to qualify as genocide. The other four are: causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a group’s destruction in whole or in part; preventing births; and forcibly transferring children to another group.

So at least four out of five - not sure about that last one, "forcibly transferring children to another group", but certainly the other four. No it's not the Holocaust, but yes, it is genocide.

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That report The Darkness Deepens can be found here.

r them during lunch and sometimes when I was in class."

Another teacher forced to work in the camps, Sayragul Sauytbay, told the BBC that "rape was common" and the guards "picked the girls and young women they wanted and took them away".

She described witnessing a harrowing public gang rape of a woman of just 20 or 21, who was brought before about 100 other detainees to make a forced confession.

"After that, in front of everyone, the police took turns to rape her," Sauytbay said.

"While carrying out this test, they watched people closely and picked out anyone who resisted, clenched their fists, closed their eyes, or looked away, and took them for punishment."

The young woman cried out for help, Sauytbay said.

"It was absolutely horrendous," she said. "I felt I had died. I was dead."

Desperately grim, but worth reading in full.

in-warned-americans-against-jews”>sets us straight:

Biden’s presidency won't change U.S. policies because of Jewish and Israeli influence over the United States and American political life, says Bouez. Ten members of President Joe Biden’s team are Jewish, which shows how much he's influenced by Israel. No one should be deluded that “we won anything” with the election of Biden, because it would not be so easy to remove the “iron fist” in which Israel holds the U.S. political life. The American "deep state" – money, universities, media – is under the complete control of Israel.

And out comes the hoary old Benjamin Franklin prophecy myth, but with an extra twist: Franklin had apparently warned in Congress that the Jews would "make our children starve – they will eat them". Not even the original inventor of the fantasy, William Dudley Pelley in his pro-Nazi weekly magazine Liberation in 1934, had suggested that Franklin talked of Jews eating American children. A leak from the classic blood libel, perhaps.

Oh well. It's only the, um, former Lebanese Foreign Minister.