Catching up on podcasts

John Bachelor's podcasts have a lot of stuff this week.

The surging trend to anti semitism against Jews and Israel is a big problem: I mean, when a CNN commentator just comes out and says Israel needs to be eliminated, what should one think. (full transcript here). At least he was fired from CNN, but his college will not fire him for his "opinion": Apparently wishing the genocide of Israelis is not as bad as saying men and women are different.

discussion of the trend here:


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related story: Iran is sending it's war proxies into the Golan Heights.

Why is this important? Because you can shell Galilee from there. But of course, basic military concepts are unknown to the snowflake MSM.

There used to be UN Peacekeepers to keep the place safe, but they were attacked awhile back by Syrian "rebels": Some of the peacekeepers meekly surrendered their guns and were "captured", but the Filipino peacekeepers refused to surrender their weapons and eventually made it to Israel.

hmm... what is Tagalog for "Molon labe"?

Iran is facing riots (rarely covered by the US MSM) and financial collapse (link2) after cheating on Obama's peace agreement to lift sanctions, so Trumpieboy put them back: A lot of Europeans want to trade with Iran and dislike this, partly because money but also because of a growing anti Israeli sentiment among their elite and the left there. And of course, China and Russia will ignore the sanctions out of spite and geopolitics, and China and India need their oil, so at least they have an economic reason to do so.

my take? No one cries when the Turks kill thousands of Kurds, or the Russians kill thousands in Chechnya, both of which are areas who are also prevented from their own independent nations, but Israel? lots of propaganda against them.

well, here is the podcasts on that subject.

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sort of related: Ottoman History Podcast discusses the use of marijuana and hashish in the late Ottoman Empire.

and ProfessorBob has a series of podcasts on tulipmania, including Tulips in the Ottoman Empire and Tulips in the Battle of Kosovo.

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