Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Lies pretending to be history.
I just was alerted to watch a video by someone called Professor Stein, in which they list 20 different “Terrorist Groups.”
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But not all the 20 were Terrorist Groups, and not all the stories attached to the listing are factual.
Three Jewish organizations are listed.
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But the difference between the three Jewish organizations and the others is that the Jewish groups never targeted innocent civilians, while all the others specifically targeted civilians.
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It appears that the only reason the Jewish groups were included in the list is because they are Jewish, and someone wants to smear them because they are Jewish.
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For example, the JDL, the Jewish Defense League, founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane, is in the list. An organization that was strictly defensive, strictly designed to protect Jewish neighborhoods and institutions, is equated with the KKK, Hamas, the PLO, and Boko Haram—
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all of which attack, murder, kidnap, and burn innocent civilians. I challenge this Professor Stein to show me why the JDL is on his list and to show me he is not just some antisemitic hack."
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "It has been brought to my attention that there is a correlation between the speed of the internet service and the ability of a country to deal with and take advantage of technological innovation in an entire population.
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Israel has a transmission rate (medium download speed) of 64 megabits per second.
But, around israel we have the UAE with an average rate of 652 megabits per second (the highest in the world), China with 160, USA with 170.
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Therefore, it is possible that the state of israel will do something smart if you consider doing something about it."
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China is really the ‘We Copy Nation’ (but not all copies are done so well).
A lot of China scholars have said that Chinese culture tends not to be creative, not innovative, but still imitative and adaptive.
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As it is a culture with a tradition of ‘the nail that sticks up, gets hammered down’. ‘木秀於林,風必摧之’
But China has also grown an economy fast, having a habit of appearing to develop technological expertise by a combination of stealing proprietary information...
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(patents, etc) and by developing a culture of ‘reverse engineering’.
But ‘reverse engineering’, while the result often appears to be the same as the original, and though they do know how to enhance the result by improving on the innovation or making it look better,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "A New York State of Mind — and American Politics
If you take a close look at the differences between the Democratic Party backers and the Republican Party backers, what you see clearly is a split in policy preferences....
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that can be seen as the difference between New York (or the largest American cities & their lifestyle & views) versus the rest of the USA. This difference also illustrates the split on issues between Europeans & Americans, the former being closer to the New York State of Mind.
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You see, New York City and other large developed urban areas have certain things in common: apartment living that limits personal autonomy and makes someone’s interactions with neighbors and rules more important;
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Two days ago, Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "In a debate in the last 24 hours about how to establish an October 7 Commission that the people will trust, one person implied to me that those that built Israel, meaning the old secular-socialist elite,
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had a right to be trusted to do the job.
I disagree.
I wrote the following some time ago. Please read so you can answer the foolishness of such elitist claims.
We built this country?
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Having read an article by one Israeli politician who I shall not name, I felt impelled to write - to tell the truth in response to the half-truths and cliches of the writer.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Explaining Trump’s 'Board of Peace' with Addendum
I have been seeing far too many misinterpretations and too many accusations resulting from those misinterpretations of the Trump Board of Peace.
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However, it has now been expanded into a new concept, so this is an explanation.
1. The Board of Peace idea started with Gaza as a way of getting international support for ending Hamas and rebuilding the mess that Gaza has become, and
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as a plan to create a framework for negotiating peace worldwide.
2. Members have been by invitation. Members will have seats for three years (renewable), with members contributing $1 billion not having their terms expire.
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