With Canada under Carney’s rule, wargaming with a hypothetical US invasion scenario- other than the perpetual 19th-century concern of a US invasion of British colonial Canada- there was Defence Scheme No. 1 created on April 12, 1921, for an invasion of the US. The plan was created by Canadian Director…
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History, Conflict, Terrorism, Political Talk and Anecdotes
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Hassan al-Banna, the Early Muslim Brotherhood, the Hess Brothers, the Nazis in Egypt, and a Swastika Pin
A swastika pin found in Khan el-Khalili, Cairo, sparks interest and inadvertently reveals that the Muslim Brotherhood’s structural foundation is likely thanks to Nazis in Egypt, including the brother of Hitler’s number two man. Within the history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s early days, beginning in 1928 in Egypt, and its…
Middle East History
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The Realities and Timeline of Gaza and the West Bank History Few Seem To Realize Or Ignore; Wacky Qaddafi Knew
I remember sometime ago having a back-and-forth, relatively tame argument with a Spanish pro-Palestine activist on LinkedIn, and during our very public discussion, where it became glaringly clear that she knew nothing about the history of the Middle East, the history of Israel (ancient Israel to its modern reestablishment) and…
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This is pure evil, a product of communist doctrine, fanaticism and Stalinism, the Katyn Massacre
đźź During WWII, Chief Executioner of the NKVD Vasily Blokhin is estimated to have personally shot and murdered over 7,000 Poles during the Katyn Massacre; this “remains the deadliest record by a single individual in history.” He had an ambitious goal of 300 executions per night, each victim shot at the…
History
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Are We in Stage 6 or 7 of ‘The Eight Stages of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations’?
SEE: ‘The Eight Stages of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations‘: https://blog.adw.org/2016/10/eight-stages-rise-fall-civilizations/ There’s an expression I use loosely, sometimes sarcastically, other times to make a point, related to what is happening in the West in general: “The last days of Rome.” Mind you, Rome, the empire (and as a civilization)…