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As I look at all the whining among the Palestinians and those who apparently wish they were Palestinian, I am reminded of a somewhat parallel incident in Islamic history. In 1492, after a brief siege, the last Islamic ruler in Spain, along with his extended family, was forced into exile in North Africa. (Perhaps the left will be demanding the reparation of Granada next? But I digress.) As his ship pulled away, Abu abd-Allah Mohammed XII began to weep. His mother, Aixa, who was standing next to him, glared at him disdainfully and said, "Why do you cry like a woman for a land you could not defend as a man!"
I am fairly confident Axia would not have found particularly manly the actions of the terrorists who butchered, raped, and kidnaped young people enjoying a music festival on October 7th 2023. The abject failure of that strategy speaks to the historical inability or unwillingness of the Palestinians (whomever they may be - and a different subject for discussion) to exercise control over what they now claim as Palestine.
I dug up a paper I had to present and defend at Georgetown back in the eighties for a bit of relevant timeline.
During the ancient period (3000BC), the first masters of the region were the Canaanites and then the Egyptians following their conquest of much of the Levant. The collapse of Egyptian control in the iron age led to the Kingdom of the Israelites. Over the next thousand years, what would become modern Israel was then controlled sequentially by Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians. In 330 BC, the last of those hegemons were swept away by Alexander the Great and the establishment of Hellenistic rule under the Seleucid and Ptolemaic dynasties. The Maccabean Revolt led to the establishment of an independent Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom in Judea around 167 BCE. Next Rome established political control in 63BC and took military control in 132AD. Judea remained under Roman and then Eastern Empire (Byzantine) control until 7th century.
From the 7th to the 11th centuries the coastal region of the Levant was held by a series of Islamic Caliphates including the Rashidun (Arabian Peninsula), Abbasid (Baghdad), Umayyad (Damascus), and Fatimid (Egypt). None were "Palestinian."
Next was Crusader control and the establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099. The kingdom lasted almost a century until the Ayyubids (Egypt again) under Salahuddin (a Kurd) retook Jerusalem in 1187. The Mameluke Sultanate (Egypt) inherited control and maintained it through the 16th century when It was conquered by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
Following WWI and the defeat of the Ottomans who were allied with Germany, the area of historic Judea or Palestine became the British Mandate which they would hold until 1948.
One glaring fact that emerges from the historical record is that the area now known by some as Palestine was never Palestinian.
The Jews created a homeland among the refuse of fallen and retreating empires. Moreover, they have demonstrated the courage to defend what they created with their sacrifice and blood. I believe Axia would have approved.
I am fairly confident Axia would not have found particularly manly the actions of the terrorists who butchered, raped, and kidnaped young people enjoying a music festival on October 7th 2023. The abject failure of that strategy speaks to the historical inability or unwillingness of the Palestinians (whomever they may be - and a different subject for discussion) to exercise control over what they now claim as Palestine.
I dug up a paper I had to present and defend at Georgetown back in the eighties for a bit of relevant timeline.
During the ancient period (3000BC), the first masters of the region were the Canaanites and then the Egyptians following their conquest of much of the Levant. The collapse of Egyptian control in the iron age led to the Kingdom of the Israelites. Over the next thousand years, what would become modern Israel was then controlled sequentially by Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians. In 330 BC, the last of those hegemons were swept away by Alexander the Great and the establishment of Hellenistic rule under the Seleucid and Ptolemaic dynasties. The Maccabean Revolt led to the establishment of an independent Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom in Judea around 167 BCE. Next Rome established political control in 63BC and took military control in 132AD. Judea remained under Roman and then Eastern Empire (Byzantine) control until 7th century.
From the 7th to the 11th centuries the coastal region of the Levant was held by a series of Islamic Caliphates including the Rashidun (Arabian Peninsula), Abbasid (Baghdad), Umayyad (Damascus), and Fatimid (Egypt). None were "Palestinian."
Next was Crusader control and the establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099. The kingdom lasted almost a century until the Ayyubids (Egypt again) under Salahuddin (a Kurd) retook Jerusalem in 1187. The Mameluke Sultanate (Egypt) inherited control and maintained it through the 16th century when It was conquered by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
Following WWI and the defeat of the Ottomans who were allied with Germany, the area of historic Judea or Palestine became the British Mandate which they would hold until 1948.
One glaring fact that emerges from the historical record is that the area now known by some as Palestine was never Palestinian.
The Jews created a homeland among the refuse of fallen and retreating empires. Moreover, they have demonstrated the courage to defend what they created with their sacrifice and blood. I believe Axia would have approved.
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I would say history is set in stone by the writer, for instance I was taught in grade school that Columbus discovered America, are you kidding me, 3 or 4 alternatives are AZTECS or any number of eastern tribes, or vikings . even the Mormon religion came up with American Indians are the so called lost tribes of Isreal, of course D N A disproves this empirically. the LOVELOCK cave in Nevada has artifacts dating to 2500b.c.. BY the way it is a good rabbit hole to GIANTS!
1 so I think there is enough probable if not definitive evidence to support Giants existence. starting with the bible which is a virtual historic guide. II Samuel 21, vs 15 through 22.
2 all Indians of north America have Giants historical stories
3 If you believe in dinosaurs why not GIANT humans, both would have existed from a period of time on the earth when oxygen was highly concentrated in earths atmosphere, in a deep breath you would receive 5 to 10 times the amount of oxygen. more oxygen ,more growth. supposably this has been verified by examinations of amber encapsulated insects from that time. do your own research.
4 as far as biblical references , archeological evidences are overwhelming from digs verifying old testament cities ,kings, writings of Egypt ,Mesopotamia ,Assyrian ,Isreal ,Rome ,ect. buy yourself an E S V archeological bible and learn. Of course if you must thrust your hand into the wound in his side to believe, no amount of arch. evidence will change your mind about the truth of this historical book.
5 where does an extremely tall person become a Giant MY friend whom I believe said the skeleton he found in a dry lake bed was 9 + ft. This guy is 80 yrs old and still cowboying and has for 50+ yrs. no reason I doubt his word. and thanks for the opportunity to debate something besides politics.
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Mozambique Unrest Flares as $25B LNG Work Set to Resume
Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
URL: https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/m...ork_set_to_resume-29-oct-2025-182195-article/
An Islamist insurgency that froze TotalEnergies SE’s $24.5-billion gas project in Mozambique four years ago is intensifying, just as the French oil major prepares to restart development.
Militants affiliated with Islamic State have in recent months carried out raids across the northeastern Cabo Delgado province that hosts the Total project and another led by Exxon Mobil Corp. The number of attacks against civilians in the region has almost doubled in 2025 to the highest in years, according to the United Nations.
TotalEnergies’ announcement last weekend that it’s restarting the project — seen as pivotal to transforming one of the world’s poorest nations — lifted Mozambique’s eurobonds 2.9% on Monday. At the same time, there are growing fears among local communities that the security situation near the project site at Afungi is deteriorating — with more than 90,000 people fleeing attacks since the last week of September.
“Right now, people are living in fear,” Andrew Bogrand, a senior policy adviser at Oxfam America, said after a visit to the region that included a resettlement village adjacent to the project. “Folks in Quitunda, police officers, contractors — they don’t see how this project can work if people are concerned about security.”
The militants have in recent weeks made incursions into both Palma — neighboring the LNG site — and nearby Mocimboa da Praia, where they filmed themselves preaching in a local mosque. That was symbolic: The port town is where the extremist insurgency began in 2017 as a ragtag army of local youth in one of the poorest parts of Mozambique. They later occupied the town for about a year.
Total has estimated charges of $4.5 billion during the halt to construction, adding to the original $20 billion project cost — revisions that require government approval before work resumes. The company paid $3.9 billion for its 26.5% stake in the project and with partners has already invested more into building the plant that will add to global supply just as a wave of new production hits later this decade.
The resources promise lucrative returns, and the group has already flagged plans to double export capacity with a second phase.
The planned restart comes four years after the company and its partners declared force majeure — a contractual freeze caused by circumstances beyond its control — after a major attack on Palma.
Foreign Troops
That raid, in which more than 800 people died, marked a turning point in the conflict that began in 2017. Mozambique enlisted the help of troops from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community — an economic bloc — to beat back the insurgents.
While regional states earlier this year estimated as few as 300 rebel fighters remain, Maputo-based independent analyst Johann Smith said there might be many times more that number. Smaller-scale raids have accelerated in recent weeks, including in towns that the LNG project has relied on for logistics. Still, there haven’t been major attacks since May 2024, when the group temporarily overran the town of Macomia.
The government has played down the threat. The militants don’t occupy any towns, and are “moving frantically throughout the province,” Defense Minister Cristóvão Chume said on state television last week.
TotalEnergies didn’t respond to an emailed request for comment.
Most attacks are unsophisticated, and driven by necessity and opportunism, according to Tristan Gueret, an analyst for Control Risks.
“Security measures around the Afungi LNG park mean militants are unlikely to be able to pose a major or sustained threat to business operations there,” he said. “In any case, the targeting of LNG operations does not appear to be a strategic priority for the group.”
Total has faced repeated false starts at the project. By the time of the 2021 attack, the facility was about one-third complete. Total Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanné has faced questions on virtually every earnings call about the project during the force majeure.
In the first year of the shutdown, he emphasized the need for a peaceful environment. “We will not build a plant in the country where we would be surrounded by soldiers,” he said on a call in February 2022.
The following year, a targeted restart didn’t materialize. Indonesia’s national oil company canceled a deal to buy LNG from the project. Total turned to renewing financing pledges, including a $4.7 billion loan from the US Export-Import Bank.
A new 2024 restart target came and went, until momentum picked up this year. Mozambican President Daniel Chapo said Cabo Delgado province that hosts the project would never be “heaven,” but was sufficiently stable.
In August, Mozambique signed a formal deal with Rwanda for thousands of troops to remain in the province through at least 2029.
Total has added fencing and control towers to the site, creating a fortified environment. The environment excludes locals, according to Oxfam’s Bogrand, who described the area as “a bunker.” Perceptions about discrepancies between security for the project and how communities are protected may aid insurgent recruitment efforts, he said.
It also raises political and social risks for Chapo’s government, said Gustavo Plácido, an analyst at Horizon Engage in Lisbon.
“A popular perception of authorities safeguarding the interests of projects to the detriment of the bulk of the province will be a major challenge for Chapo,” he said.
Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
URL: https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/m...ork_set_to_resume-29-oct-2025-182195-article/
An Islamist insurgency that froze TotalEnergies SE’s $24.5-billion gas project in Mozambique four years ago is intensifying, just as the French oil major prepares to restart development.
Militants affiliated with Islamic State have in recent months carried out raids across the northeastern Cabo Delgado province that hosts the Total project and another led by Exxon Mobil Corp. The number of attacks against civilians in the region has almost doubled in 2025 to the highest in years, according to the United Nations.
TotalEnergies’ announcement last weekend that it’s restarting the project — seen as pivotal to transforming one of the world’s poorest nations — lifted Mozambique’s eurobonds 2.9% on Monday. At the same time, there are growing fears among local communities that the security situation near the project site at Afungi is deteriorating — with more than 90,000 people fleeing attacks since the last week of September.
“Right now, people are living in fear,” Andrew Bogrand, a senior policy adviser at Oxfam America, said after a visit to the region that included a resettlement village adjacent to the project. “Folks in Quitunda, police officers, contractors — they don’t see how this project can work if people are concerned about security.”
The militants have in recent weeks made incursions into both Palma — neighboring the LNG site — and nearby Mocimboa da Praia, where they filmed themselves preaching in a local mosque. That was symbolic: The port town is where the extremist insurgency began in 2017 as a ragtag army of local youth in one of the poorest parts of Mozambique. They later occupied the town for about a year.
Total has estimated charges of $4.5 billion during the halt to construction, adding to the original $20 billion project cost — revisions that require government approval before work resumes. The company paid $3.9 billion for its 26.5% stake in the project and with partners has already invested more into building the plant that will add to global supply just as a wave of new production hits later this decade.
The resources promise lucrative returns, and the group has already flagged plans to double export capacity with a second phase.
The planned restart comes four years after the company and its partners declared force majeure — a contractual freeze caused by circumstances beyond its control — after a major attack on Palma.
Foreign Troops
That raid, in which more than 800 people died, marked a turning point in the conflict that began in 2017. Mozambique enlisted the help of troops from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community — an economic bloc — to beat back the insurgents.
While regional states earlier this year estimated as few as 300 rebel fighters remain, Maputo-based independent analyst Johann Smith said there might be many times more that number. Smaller-scale raids have accelerated in recent weeks, including in towns that the LNG project has relied on for logistics. Still, there haven’t been major attacks since May 2024, when the group temporarily overran the town of Macomia.
The government has played down the threat. The militants don’t occupy any towns, and are “moving frantically throughout the province,” Defense Minister Cristóvão Chume said on state television last week.
TotalEnergies didn’t respond to an emailed request for comment.
Most attacks are unsophisticated, and driven by necessity and opportunism, according to Tristan Gueret, an analyst for Control Risks.
“Security measures around the Afungi LNG park mean militants are unlikely to be able to pose a major or sustained threat to business operations there,” he said. “In any case, the targeting of LNG operations does not appear to be a strategic priority for the group.”
Total has faced repeated false starts at the project. By the time of the 2021 attack, the facility was about one-third complete. Total Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanné has faced questions on virtually every earnings call about the project during the force majeure.
In the first year of the shutdown, he emphasized the need for a peaceful environment. “We will not build a plant in the country where we would be surrounded by soldiers,” he said on a call in February 2022.
The following year, a targeted restart didn’t materialize. Indonesia’s national oil company canceled a deal to buy LNG from the project. Total turned to renewing financing pledges, including a $4.7 billion loan from the US Export-Import Bank.
A new 2024 restart target came and went, until momentum picked up this year. Mozambican President Daniel Chapo said Cabo Delgado province that hosts the project would never be “heaven,” but was sufficiently stable.
In August, Mozambique signed a formal deal with Rwanda for thousands of troops to remain in the province through at least 2029.
Total has added fencing and control towers to the site, creating a fortified environment. The environment excludes locals, according to Oxfam’s Bogrand, who described the area as “a bunker.” Perceptions about discrepancies between security for the project and how communities are protected may aid insurgent recruitment efforts, he said.
It also raises political and social risks for Chapo’s government, said Gustavo Plácido, an analyst at Horizon Engage in Lisbon.
“A popular perception of authorities safeguarding the interests of projects to the detriment of the bulk of the province will be a major challenge for Chapo,” he said.
Doesn't take much courage to defend stolen land by doing war crimes with superior weapons.
The Jews didn't "Create" anything except misery and horror for the Palestinians and an eternal Middle East war for the rest of the world to deal with--spawning terrorism and hateful unrest that continues to this day.
The Zionist militias, well trained and well equipped with weapons (up to and including fighter aircraft) from Czechoslovakia, blitzed into Palestine and forced almost a million Palestinians out of their homes, farms, orchards, towns and villages. They had to flee as refugees to surrounding countries with only what they could carry.
Many thousands of Palestinians were murdered in 30 documented massacres.
More than 500 towns and villages were completely destroyed--razed to rubble by artillery and fighter aircraft.
Why? So that the refugees would have no reason to try to return to their homes..........the Zionists were determined to "Transfer" (their word) all Palestinians OUT of Palestine and prevent them from ever coming back.
This "Transfer" was nothing but Ethnic Cleansing (a war crime) and the Zionist ban on allowing Palestinians to return was a blatant violation of the agreement that allowed a "State of Israel" to be approved in the first place.
There was no honor, courage or moral behavior in the theft of the land and possessions of the Palestinians.
It was and still is--simply an act of criminal theft and murder.
The Nakba explained in five maps and charts
The 1948 forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland has created the longest unresolved refugee crisis in modern history
www.middleeasteye.net
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mdwest
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thats a curious tweet... Im not sure the Koreans need our permission to build a nuke sub? its been a nuclear nation for several decades at this point and is actually one of the worlds most significant nuclear energy nations (26 substantially sized nuke power plants.. for a relatively small country in terms of land mass and population comparatively to nuke power generation..)..
Not that anything in the tweet is bad per se.. Im all for agreements to buy US products (O&G), additional revenue coming into the US ($350B in exchange for lowering tariffs - it would appear the tariff strategy is working out overall despite all of the gloom and doom the left was screaming about 10 months ago).. and I think if anyone is going to have a nuke sub, South Korea is who I'd choose to have it.. theyve been staunch allies for a long time.. their military is top notch.. they train hard, work hard, are very educated, etc and are fully capable of not just operating, but maintaining a nuke safely.. certainly much more capable than many other nuclear nations.. and its guaranteed that sub will be swimming around in waters monitoring both N Korea and China naval assets..
Just thought it interesting that Korea needs our permission.. Its not like we (or anyone else in the western world) is going to sanction them or otherwise attack them in any way for building one.. its clearly to our advantage that they build a lot of them..
Does make the Tariff look like a bit of a shakedown drill.
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This is interesting.
Is Trump getting played........as usual?
Kimball said such submarines usually involved the use of highly-enriched uranium and would "require a very complex new regime of safeguards" by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has a key role in implementing the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). "It remains technically and militarily unnecessary for South Korea to acquire the technology to extract weapons-usable plutonium from spent fuel or to acquire uranium enrichment capabilities, which can also be used to produce nuclear weapons," he said. "If the United States seeks to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons worldwide, the Trump administration should resist such overtures from allies as strongly as it works to deny adversary access to these dual-use technologies."
FEATURE | South Korea gets Trump’s approval to develop nuclear-powered submarine
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he has given South Korea approval to build a nuclear-powered submarine, a dramatic move that would admit Seoul to a s
mdwest
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I think thats what they were likely intended to be all along..
Push Canada, Europe, Asia, etc.. into renegotiation of trade agreements, etc.. and level the playing field a bit..
He and Bessent and Lutnick, et al are doing what C-suiters do (rather than politicians)... Creating leverage.. and then using that leverage to their advantage for future negotiations..
Theyve certainly been a bit sloppy with it all.. but all in all it appears to be working so far..
Working for who?
However, analyses by both the Tax Foundation and the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) indicate that the tariffs under the Trump Administration are taking their toll on U.S. businesses and households.
Studies project that the imposed tariffs will reduce the U.S. growth rate by 0.23 percentage point in 2025 (0.62 percentage point in 2026), lead to an average tax increase per U.S. household of $1,300 in 2025 ($1,600 tax hike in 2026), and drive inflation roughly one percentage point higher. Although the rise in inflation may be temporary, PIIE suggests that U.S. price levels will remain elevated.
Impact of tariffs on tax and trade in 2025
How tariffs are impacting the economy, tax and trade-specific considerations for professionals, and how to build an integrated tariff response strategy.
tax.thomsonreuters.com
I absolutely get that. What I found amusing was the shakedown for an apparent 350 billion dollar cash settlement along with altered behavior. And let me guess, Frosty is using all caps and bold font to post AI derived talking points on Tariffs. I wonder if he is capable of participating in a logical discussion based upon his own experiences and education.
And we are part of the shakedown..........we get higher taxes........as it always goes with taxes.
And as it always goes with tariffs..........we get inflation, too.
Thanks, Trump.
However, analyses by both the Tax Foundation and the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) indicate that the tariffs under the Trump Administration are taking their toll on U.S. businesses and households.
Studies project that the imposed tariffs will reduce the U.S. growth rate by 0.23 percentage point in 2025 (0.62 percentage point in 2026), lead to an average tax increase per U.S. household of $1,300 in 2025 ($1,600 tax hike in 2026), and drive inflation roughly one percentage point higher. Although the rise in inflation may be temporary, PIIE suggests that U.S. price levels will remain elevated.
Impact of tariffs on tax and trade in 2025
How tariffs are impacting the economy, tax and trade-specific considerations for professionals, and how to build an integrated tariff response strategy.
tax.thomsonreuters.com
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I'd rather use and cite reliable current sources.
You using your experiences and education to create and post opinions have thus far just made you look ridiculous and out of touch.
PARA45
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And let's not forget how much the South Korean communities loves the US and our military. While in Kunsan AB, and traveling around the country, every S. Korean we met, were extremely happy for what we did for their country and shared with us their food and drinks. I had a great time there and didn't want to leave. LOL!!!
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