UPDATED: Lest we forget...

That was 25 years ago. Today there are Islamists -- followers of the Religion of Peace💣-- in positions of influence and power across the entire United States of America. 

Some are mayors of big cities (see photo below). Some are Congresspersons. Five Muslims served in hte 119th Congress, all in the House of Representatives, and all Democrats. Notable among them are such patriotic Americans as "Squad" members Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

There are currently no Muslim state governors. However, Ghazala Hashmi serves as the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, making her the first Muslima ever to be elected to statewide office. At present there are no Muslim US senators, but Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Michigan. If he wins, he will become the first Muslim senator in American history.

We are now just seven (count `em, 7) weeks away from the mid-term elections at which American voters -- hey! I'm talkin' to you! -- will have the opportunity to decide if they want more... or fewer... followers of the Prophet to guide the destinies of the nation. The franchise is there for you. Use it! And choose wisely!

Further reading (added 13/9/26): "Mamdani Lays Wreath At Tomb Of The Unknown Hijacker", from the Babylon Bee, of course!

VIDEO: Matt Walsh exposes media lies about NYC terror attack

First, let me apologize for not  posting "'Allahu akbar!' at Gracie Mansion" on Sunday. TBH, when I first saw the story on BBC, it didn't seem like a big deal. Just a couple of Pennsylvania teenagers playing around with homemade bombs and claiming to be jihadis -- servants of the Prophet!

Here's the BBC summary, ICYMI. Two men have been charged with terror offences after police said they attempted to bomb a protest outside the New York City mayor's home in an attack allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group. 

The suspects, 18-year-old Emir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi, allegedly told police that they aimed for the Saturday attack to be "even larger" than the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that left three dead. New York police say the pair attempted to detonate two explosives outside Gracie Mansion, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani lives. 

Authorities found a third bomb in their car. The incident happened during an anti-Islam protest. None of the explosives went off as intended. So... no biggie. Nobody hurt. Just a couple of Muslim kids from Pennsylvania horsing around. As you can see, they're now in the custody of law enforcement. Kid Balat is on the left, Kid Bayumi the right. 

No reason for alarm, eh, let alone Islamophobia. But...my Spidey senses got aroused when I saw how hard the lickspittle media -- notably the New York Times and CNN -- were trying to conceal information about the suspects' backgrounds and motivation. Here's the NYT's sanitized version of the story:

"Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs."

Enough to gag a maggot, isn't it? They don't say that Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, are legally adults. NYC police described the items they hurled not as "homemade bombs" but as "IEDs". These they tossed into a crowd of innocent people peacefully protesting against the Islamization of New York City. 

Also omitted from the Times' version were reports that Mr Balat yelled "Allahu akbar!" during the incident. Nor did they write that during a brief appearance before reporters, he flashed the single-finger gesture associated with ISIS. Even Islamist-Communist New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has grudgingly admitted the two men are charged with a "heinous act of terrorism and proclaiming their allegiance to ISIS."

Bad as the Times report was, American right-wing political commentator and podcast host Matt Walsh says CBS was worse and CNN worse still. Here's what he has to say about the mainstream media's deliberate obfuscation and egregious mendacity.

And here's the straight dope, as published belatedly by CBS News under the subhead "Investigators looking into suspects' background"

"Investigators are looking into the overseas travel for Balat and Kayumi. Balat left the U.S. for several months and traveled to Istanbul from May 6 to Aug. 26, 2025. He most recently traveled back to the US from Turkey in January of this year. Meanwhile, Kayumi traveled to Istanbul for several weeks in July and August 2024 and to Saudi Arabia in late March of that year. 

"Federal investigators have also been interviewing family members of Balat and Kayumi as part of their investigation, as well as looking at their online communications. Balat's parents were born in Turkey and were naturalized as US citizens in 2017. Balat is a US citizen and has been living with his family in a large two-story home in Pennsylvania. 

"A woman at the residence confirmed to CBS Philadelphia that Balat lived at the house. Kayumi's parents are originally from Afghanistan. They became naturalized US citizens in 2004 and 2009. It is unclear if Kayumi was living with them at the time of the incident Saturday."

If you're searching for the truth about the threat of Islamic terrorism -- coming soon to a locale not far enough from your home! -- don't listen to CNN, the NYT, Wapo, NPR and the other lickspittle media. Listen to Matt Walsh and the other commentators we feature here on WWW! We're pullin' for ya!

Mamdani takes off the mask

Scraped from "Election Fallout", by Gary Bauer, Patriot Post, 7/11/25. Key takeaway: "Wherever the Left has control, they force on us bizarre, radical policies that hurt your children and grandchildren."

Drink up!

Further to "Walt's pithy comment on yesterday's elections", posted this morning... another look at the NYC election result...

Drink up, stupid New Yorkers!

And in other news... blue states voted blue. Quelle surprise. Tomorrow we'll have something completely different.

Walt's pithy comment on yesterday's elections

To borrow a phrase from Pulp Fiction, before the Dimocrats start sucking each other's dicks (or whatever their wimmin have down there), they should take into account the following:

The polls in the Rotten Apple had the "Democratic Socialist" (as in "People's Democratic Socialist Republic") so far ahead that any other result was beyond wishful thinking. As Walt predicted yesterday, real estate agents in Westchester, New Rochelle, and western CT are starting minor conflagrations in their shirt cuffs, rubbing their hands together in glee at the anticipated influx of Jewish buyers.

One of the Jews who is likely packing his bags is Robert Tucker, NYC's Fire Department Commissioner, who, according to the New York Post, handed in his letter of resignation hours after Comrade Mamdani's election.

I checked the map and see that New Jersey and Virginia are both still located on the Eastern Seaboard, a region so blue that Republican candidates rarely stand more than a Chinaman's chance. [That's an old British trope -- nothing racist about it. Ed.] 

Northern Virginia is inhabited almost exclusively by Washington DC snivel servants who are smart enoujgh (just barely) to not vote for a candidate who promises to reduce government bloat by firing their sorry asses. "You're fired!" are fightin' words there. And southern Virginia is still southern. Did anybody really think "those people" were going to vote for a black woman who tried to play the race card and the anti-woke card at the same time?  

And then there's California, whose people... the ones who haven't fled to Colorado or Idaho... seem to have some sort of collective death wish. Nuff said.

Further reading: 

"Mamdani Win Will Ravage Entire State", by Betsy McCaughey, Patriot Post, 5/11/25.

"The lying, cop-hating, race-baiting, socialist Zohran Mamdani era is here", by (((David Kaufman))), National Post (Canada), 5/11/25. (You may hit a paywall.) Subhead: "Democratic socialism sounds like a good thing but it is not. At least it won’t be in the capital of capitalism."

The difference between socialism and capitalism

I wonder if the voters of New York City are clear on this...

MUSIC VIDEO: Theme for post-Mamdani New York City

Walt is grateful to live 1000s of miles from "Hymietown", as black statesman Jesse Jackson (D) famously called the Big Apple in 1984. He was using the slur "Hymie" to refer to people of the Jewish faith.

For whom will Jews, who traditionally support the Democratic Party, all its works and all its minions, vote today, as New Yorkers go to the polls to pick their new mayor. [How many times do I have to warn you about run-on sentences? Ed.]  

Now that Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim Communist, has captured the Dimocrats, there's a three-cornered fight between him; Andrew Cuomo, erstwhile Dumbocrat now forced to run as an independent; and Curtis Sliwa, holding aloft the Rino banner.

Yesterday, President Trump held his nose and endorsed Mr Cuomo.* It won't make any difference. Opinion polls show Comrade Mamdani holding a clear lead over Mr Cuomo, with Mr Sliwa bringing up the rear.

When the crescent moon of Islam rises about 5 minutes after the polls close, and Mr Mamdani is declared Caliph of New York City (Walt's lifetime pct .987), the old "New York, New York" theme will be replaced by this more appropriate tune.

* President Trump in an interview with the BBC that he would be reluctant to send federal funding to his hometown of New York if radical leftist Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor today. "It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a Communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there."

Panic in Gotham as socialist Muslim wins Dem primary for Mayor

Cazart! The BSDs of Wall Street and the denizens of Crown Heights, Borough Park and Williamsburg are in full panic mode -- "Can you get me on a flight to Miami Beach, today?!" -- after Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani's shock victory over the former governor Andrew Cuomo to become the presumptive Dimocratic nominee for mayor of the Wormy Apple.

Mr Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, and a devout follower of the Prophet, ran on a platform that has terrified some in the business and certain religious communities. Their idea of an acceptable leftist candidate was someone like (((Bernie Sanders))). But this? Oy, oy, oy!

Mr Mamdani wants to raise corporate taxes to 11.5% and add a 2% income tax on New Yorkers making more than $1 million. He has said he would make the city more affordable by freezing rents on rent-stabilized apartments, investing $70 billion in publicly subsidized housing for the flotsam and jetsam who wind up in the "sanctuary city", providing free bus service and opening government-operated grocery stores -- the kind they used to have in the Soviet Union where you had to bribe someone to get a six-month old turnip.

Wall Street quickly started to worry.Some financial executives spoke of backing Mayor Eric Adams, clearly the lesser of the two weevils. Corporate leaders held a flurry of private phone calls to plot how to fight back against Mr Mamdani's primary victory and discussed backing an outside group with the goal of raising around $20 million to oppose him. Dan Loeb, chief executive of hedge fund Third Point, and a major Cuomo backer, wrote on X, "It’s officially hot commie summer."

Yeah. And if Mr Mamdani wins the mayoralty, what happens next? The real insane voters of New York may think that he, being an oppressed person like them -- all Muslims are oppressed, you know -- will bring them equity, justice and freedom in a socialist workers' paradise. LMAO. 

Those who can read would do well to check out "All socialism involves slavery" (WWW 14/6/25), in which we posted a quote from Left Luggage, by C. Northcote Parkinson, author of the eponymous Law, on the motivation and actions of today's leftists. 

They came to realize...that the lower classes cannot be resued from the slum unless they will do as they are told. This, they came to see, is a basic principle of existence. 

You cannot help an old woman to cross a busy street unless she will accept your guidance. The very act of going to the rescue makes you superior to the person rescued. And just as folk in danger must obey the orders of the lifeboatman or fireman, the victims of the industrial slum must follow the social reformer's advice. 

That they are incapable of saving themselves is the most obvious result of their ill-treatment. Kindly but firmly they must be shows the way to escape. A better environment can be theirs but only if they will obey orders. It is this kindly coercion that has come to be known as Socialism. [My emphasis. Walt]

Shortly after that post appeared, Agent 3 was on the horn to tell us that socialism also involves poverty. As surely as day follows night (he said), the socialists achieve "equity" not by raising the standard of living of the masses, but by reducing everyone to the same level of bare subsistence. Like this.

Walt has dear friends, refugees from Cuba, who remember how the Marxist Castros plunged their country into dire poverty. The voters of New York City, many of whom are Americans [geddit? Ed.] and therefore ignorant of the realities of places like Cuba and Venezuela, must think that Islamic socialism would somehow be better than the Latin American variety. If so, they are wrong.

VIDEO: Trump's "Nazi-style" rally at MSG - What really happened

For two days before the event, the Cackler and Tampon Tim (her comedy relief) and their lickspittle media tried to smear last night's Trump Rally at Magason Square Garden as an attempt to recreate the infamous German-American Bund rall of February 1939.

During the rally, the Democratic National Committee projected their latest Big Lie -- "Trump praised Hitler" -- on the side of the building. This lie was started by General (Retd) Johm Kelly, who was President Trump's chief-of-staff until he got fired. Mr Kelly told the Atlantic (of course) that Mr Trump had admirable things to say about the German dictator. Mr Trump says he never said any such thing, and campaign aides have denied Kelly's accounts.

These repeated attempts to demonize President Trump as a "Nazi" and a "fascist" show the depths of desperation to which the Dimocrats have sunk. As for the 1939 rally (which even I am not old enough to remember), yes, it was in Madison Square Garden, and yes, it drew an overflow crowd. All similarities end there. Here, courtesy of The Telegraph, are the highlights from the MAGA-event.

 

Said Donald Trump Jr, "The fact that we can pack Madison Square Garden in the heart of New York City shows me that the spirit of the American people is there." 

To call the rally a success would be a major understatement. Walt cannot predict that President Trump will win New York City, let alone the state, but the event shows that New Yorkers, famous for their predilection to back front-runners, know which way the wind is blowing.

Judge Judy blames liberal prosecutors for skyrocketing crime rate

The following is an edited version of an article published by the (UK) Daily Mail. 

In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Judge Judy (Sheindlin) blamed liberal district attorneys for leaving America's cities "ruined", and said they would be better employed "filling ice-cream cones."

The veteran reality TV star, known for making rough the path of the wicked, said the country is in worse shape than it was when her popular programme started 30 years ago because "a small group of people who have very loud voices created a scenario where bad people got rewarded."

And she lashed out at a culture that increasingly excuses people's behaviour on the basis of their background. "I know how we got here," she said. "When society started to make excuses for bad behaviour, and react to criminality based upon the excuses, it fell apart."

Judge Judy spoke out after Multnomah County (OR) DA Mike Schmidt became the latest liberal prosecutor elected in the wake of the Black Lives Matter scam to lose his bid for re-election. "When you have district attorneys who are charged, whose job it is to do justice, but to keep the community safe, when you have elected district attorneys who don't know what their job is, they should go find another job," said the judge. "'Fill ice cream cones someplace, but don't ruin cities."

She added, "And what's happened around New York City, Portland, San Francisco, you had district attorneys who didn't know what their job was. And the cities are ruined, people are leaving."

So far this year, robberies are up 5.2% in the Big Apple, while recorded hate crimes have jumped 11% per cent. In Portland, larceny offenses jumped to more than 26,000 in the year to April, while arrests for prostitution more than doubled amid an ongoing drugs and homelessness crisis. 

Meanwhile, in the District of Columia, homicides jumped by 35% while robberies were up 67%. In San Francisco, DA Chesa Boudin lost his job in a 2022 recall election after securing just three -- count `em, 3 -- drug convictions the previous year.

Judge Sheindlin lashed out at the state of New York's 2019 decision to raise the minimum age at which a suspect can be tried as an adult to 18, branding it "ridiculous... If you have family, if you have a mother who's 65 years old who's walking to the grocery store and some crazy for no reason hits her over the head with a steel pipe and kills her, and they're 17, that person should never be allowed to walk the street again, because society can't take a chance.

"If I wouldn't take a chance on him living next to me why would I take a chance on him living next to you? You're just as dead as somebody 18 kills you, or 17. And if you're 17 years old and kill somebody, you don't belong with kids who are 12, in a juvenile facility. But a very small group of people pushed through in New York State, for instance, raising the level of criminal responsibility."

The explanations for why a person becomes a criminal should never be confused with excuses, she said. "You know there is always a reason for criminal behaviour. 

"Didn't have a good upbringing, didn't have two parents in the house, didn't have one parent in the house, there's always a reason. You're mentally ill. That's a reason. You took drugs, that's a reason. You took alcohol, your brain is fried, whatever it is. There is never an excuse for bad behaviour."

Judge Judy also reflected on how the situation has deteriorated since she began her TV career. "Here we are, 30 years later, and are we in a worse shape as a country, as a world, than we were in 1993? You bet your bottom we are. I think we better get smarter before we get lost," she added. "Permanently lost."

Fight against "racial injustice" continues in NYC

America cannot achieve “restoration” unless the nation acknowledges “racial injustice” and a “betrayal” of black Americans, said billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey in the most recent episode of her eponymous Apple TV series, The Oprah Winfrey Conversation, Breitbart reports. 

The episode featured Winfrey’s interview Bryan Stevenson, a graduate of Harvard Law School and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization with a focus on “racial justice.” Stevenson repeatedly described America as a nation plagued by an “ideology of white supremacy.”

That's from an article which appeared in the Deplorable Tribune* in September of 2020. The good folk at Blazing Cat Fur republished it just today, perhaps because Sarcasticat thought it juxtaposed nicely with a piece which quotes New York City's Democratic Mayor Eric Adams as calling for a “national response” to rising violence, following yesterday's fusillade which wounded over a dozen people who dared to ride the city's subway.

I had already composed a comment on the "incident", which I'd headed "'Allahu Akbar!' in the Big Apple". Ed. advised me to hold everything on the off chance that the perp might not be an Islamic terrorist. Ed. was right! [Ahem! Ed.]

Nor was the gunman (and would-be suicide bomber) a deranged postal service employee or an "incel" bent on exterminating the Karens women who are responsible for the mess that is today's Paranoid States of America. [Bill Burr said that once. You can look it up. Ed.]

No siree. The NYPD located the rented ban used by the attacker to get to the scene of the crime. [You mean he didn't take the subway? Ed.] The rental papers have led them to issue an APB for one Frank R. James, aged 62, who has addresses in Wisconsin and Philthydelphia. As a public service, and for no other reason, we publish theses photos of Mr James.

The New York Times ("All the news that fits the narrative") reports that Mr James "appears to have posted dozens of videos on social media in recent years — lengthy rants in which he expressed a range of harshly bigoted views and, more recently, criticized the policies of New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams."

The Times, always in the forefront of the struggle for racial justice and equality, points out that Mr James was not named as a suspect, only a "person of interest" -- someone the police believe may have information related to a crime. 

Likewise, the Times doesn't give details of Mr James' "harshly bigoted views". Nothing about "Justice for George Floyd" or "Kill Whitey!", then? Too bad that if Mr James is apprehended and charged, he won't be able to appear before Judge KBJ, who is no longer in the bidness of slapping the wrists of Offender of Colour, to make up for centuries of "racial injustice".

Let us not forget the other seasonal celebration

"Good morning everyone and welcome to everyone’s favorite holiday – Festivus!" 

said U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)” yesterday, referring to the holiday made famous by a 1997 episode of Seinfeld, in which the senator is seen in the role of George Costanza's father Frank.

[Ummm, are you sure? Ed.]

The principal event of Festivus is the Airing of the Grievances. "I've got a lot of problems with you people!", the Senator tweeted, "and by 'you people' I mostly mean the petty tyrants who run your local, state and federal government. 2021 was a banner year for being a pretty tyrant, with them all literally tripping overe each other for the dumbest Covid lockdown or mandate idea."

Senator Paul's Festivus Report -- click here to read the whole thing -- details  egregious, wasteful government spending over the last year. His fecal roster for 2021 includes money spent on "a study of pigeons gambling on slot machines, giving kids junk food, and telling citizens of Vietnam not to burn their trash." Here are some examples, with references to the department or agency of the Brandon government responsible in brackets.

Foreign countries use our aircraft for free for 4 years (DOD) $773,000,000

Purchase of bought Afghanistan airplanes that were later thrown away (DOD) $549,000,000

Funding Green Energy programs in Africa (State) $179,000,000 

Fattening eels for human consumption (FDA) $337,500 

Covid relief grant for Democrat-run New York City to display art projects across the city, $25,000,000 Constructing border walls in the Middle East and North Africa (DOD) $250,000,000 

Free trips for Korean kids to visit D.C. (USAID) $150,000 

Grinding up ferrets to develop Covid and flu vaccines, $4,500,000 [Seriously? I thought it came from aborted babies. Ed]

Tax Credit incentivizing California residents to uninstall fireplaces, $2,100,000

Teaching French people about US culture [??? Ed.] (State) $200,000 

Developing a film about dinosaurs to inspire middle schoolers (NSF) $2,500,000

Pigeons playing slot machines (NIH) $465,339 

Telling people to not burn their trash (USAID) $11,300,000 

Funding Green Energy programs in Africa (State) $179,000,000 

Planting trees in Democrat-run New York City, $400,000,000

Fattening eels for human consumption (FDA) $337,500 [What's wrong with that? They're pretty good. Ed.]

And last but not least... in fact the most...

Social Security overpayments to beneficiaries in fiscal year 2019 (SSA) $4,200,000,000. Four. Billion. Two hundred. Million.

Walt sez: This makes me so mad I'd write a letter to my congersman, if I thought USPS would deliver it anytime soon... and if my congersman could only read.

Port Authority terminal bomber inspired by ISIS - "Allahu akbar!"

While I was writing the ppst about President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel -- scroll down -- Ed. has been following the breaking news of the bombing near the Port Authority terminal in New York City. We hope Fox News won't mind our reposting, almost verbatim, their latest report. (Hey! We're building up your readership here!)

Fox News says that a Bangladeshi national living in Brooklyn prematurely detonated his "low tech device" in an "attempted terrorist attack" inside New York City's Port Authority bus terminal Monday morning -- a blast that rocked the city during rush hour, causing chaos and halting several subway lines.

In a hastily called news conference, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo said that Akayed Ullah, 27, set off the "effectively low tech device" in a subway passageway just before 0730 EST. Mr Ullah suffered burns and wounds to his body and appeared to be the only person seriously injured in the pipe bomb explosion, authorities said. At least three other people suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Said the Gov, "This is New York, the reality is that we are a target by many who would like to make a statement against democracy, against freedom." New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio concurred, saying, "This was attempted terrorist attack." Neither Mr Cuomo nor Mr De Blasio mentioned the words "Islamist", "Muslim" or "ISIS".

However, law enforcement sources told the New York Post that Mr Ullah's attack was inspired by ISIS. The suspect allegedly packed the 5-inch metal pipe bomb and battery pack into the right side of his jacket, but the device exploded earlier than intended. The suspect told police he made the bomb at the electrical company where he works.

This is breaking news. We'll have more later, although to be honest, the only thing I'm waiting for is a statement from the perp that he did it to protest POTUS' recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Stay tuned.

NYC bomb related to POTUS' recognizing Jerusalem as Israel capital?

Fox News reports that several people were injured and one person was in custody after an explosion near New York City's Port Authority bus terminal during this morning's rush hour, prompting mass chaos and halting multiple subway lines, according to a report citing law enforcement sources.

NYPD and the FDNY confirmed to Fox News they are investigating reports of an explosion "of an unknown origin" near 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. Police tweeted A, C, E subways lines are being evacuated. NYC Office of Emergency Management also tweeted there was "police activity" near West 42nd Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues and advised commuters to expect delays.

I'm listening to the rangdeedio right now, hoping to learn more. Another source says the explosion was caused by a pipe bomb in a walkway or tunnel under the bus terminal. No word yet on the citizenship, ethnicity or religion of the person taken into custody. Of course that person may or not be the bomber, and may or may not be named "Mohammed" something or other.

Regardless of whether or not the perp is an Islamic extremist, I predict the bombing (if that's what it was) will be blamed by the lamestream media, Democrats and other anti-Trumpers on POTUS' statement last week that the US of A officially recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel. (Lifetime pct .986.) A lot of people -- Western politicians as well as bitter Palestinians and fanatical Muslims -- seem to be pretty worked up about this, so let's examine it.

Regular readers should know that I hold no brief for Israel or the Jews. Any reasonably astute observer of the politics and economics of America and the rest of the West should know, too, that the things that really matter -- banks and the monetary system, the lamestream media, even the entertainment industry -- are controlled by international Jewry. One of the most powerful political groups in the USA, and Washington in particular, is the Jewish lobby. Both openly and secretly, Jews provide major funding to both the Democrats and Republicans. No matter who's in power, you will never never find the nominal rulers of America challenging or even criticizing Israel.

Israel is, when you think about it, the creation of Adolf Hitler. Lots of Jews -- maybe not 6 million, but lots -- died or were displaced in World War II, and the victorious Allies, suffering badly from Christian guilt, decided that something must be done for those who survived. Like giving them their Promised Land. Not a chunk of Europe, of course, but some other land, inhabited (if at all) by less deserving people. And so, out of a barren territory called Palestine, the United Nations carved the "Zionist entity" known as Israel.

Speaking yesterday at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, (((Benjamin Netanyahu))), the President of Israel, said that Jerusalem has for 1000s of years been "the capital of the Jewish state." You could look it up, he said. "It's in the Bible." That is true if one speaks of the homeland of the Jews in the religious sense, but only partially true if one looks at world politics and international law.

A century ago, as World War I drew to a close, the territory in question was part of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish-ruled "sick man of Europe". When the sick man lay dying, the Great Powers -- Britain and France, in this case -- carved up the Middle East between them. You can find a reference to the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in the movie Lawrence of Arabia. Britain's share included the land of Palestine, which had been a southern part of Syria. (The French got the northern part of Syria -- lucky them.) The British mandatory territory of Palestine was established by the League of Nations, and existed from 1920 until 1948, with its capital at Jerusalem.

Under the 1947 UN Partition Plan to divide Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, Jerusalem was meant to be placed under international sovereignty and control. It was granted special status based on its importance to the three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam. As so often happens in that awful part of the world, war broke out following the UN's recommendation, and in 1948 Zionist forces took control of the western half of Jerusalem and declared the territory part of its state.

Not quite two decades later there was another war between the Arabs and Israelis, worse for the Arabs than the first. During the Six-Day War, Israel captured the eastern half of Jerusalem, which was under Jordanian control at the time, and effectively annexed it by extending Israeli law, bringing it directly under Israeli jurisdiction. This is what lawyers call de facto jurisdiction, meaning an administration or government that holds power as a matter of fact, not necessarily as a matter of law.

Having thus had de facto control of all of Jerusalem since 1967, the Israeli government, in 1980, Israel passed the "Jerusalem Law", stating that "Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel", thereby formalising its annexation of East Jerusalem. And that's how the situation stands today, as far as the state of Israel is concerned. Until President Trump's announcement, no other country -- well, none that counts -- acknowledged... or denied... the validity of the Jerusalem Law. Most countries -- the ones that count -- maintain their embassies and other missions in Tel Aviv, the capital ordered by the UN Partition Plan, which still remains Israel's commercial capital.

What the anti-Trumpers aren't admitting is that the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is not an idea that sprang fully formed out of President Trump's mind. Egged on by the powerful Zionist lobby (see above), the 104th Congress passed, on 23 October 1995, the Jerusalem Embassy Act, signed into law by the unimpeachable President William Jefferson Clinton.

The purpose of the Jerusalem Embassy Act was to initiate and fund the relocation of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. That was to be done by 31 May 1999, at the latest. The Act also calls for Jerusalem to remain an undivided city and for it to be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel. You can look it up!

For reasons which we can only guess, Presidents Clinton, Bush II, and Obama, ignored the wishes of Congress and the law of the land, and refused to implement the Jerusalem Embassy Act. Their excuse was that the Act was a Congressional infringement on the executive branch's constitutional authority over foreign policy. All three of them consistently claimed the presidential waiver on national security interests.

President Trump signed the waiver in June 2017, but apparently changed his mind some time later and decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital -- which it is, as a matter of fact -- and begin the relocation of the US embassy, as required by American law. If any political scientist or constitutional scholar can advance a good argument for doing otherwise, I would like to hear it.

Footnote: Quod scripsi, scripsi. But I still like the illustration Ed. chose for this piece. My preference would be to see Jerusalem declared an international city, the capital of neither Israel nor the proposed separate Palestinian state. I fear that solution is too sensible, too peaceful to be accepted by the extremists, whether Zionist or Islamist. I expect the war of words... and worse... to continue.

"Investigators seek motive" for NYC truck attack

The "Authorities" are still being less than forthcoming with the American public in their statements concerning the identity of the man who drove a rented Home Depot truck down a sidewalk in New York City yesterday, killing 8 and wounding a dozen more.

They're being tight-lipped, they say, so as not to compromise the investigation into who he was and why he did it. Since the "analysts" and "experts" seem incapable of seeing a blackberry in a saucer of milk, Walt will help out with a summary of the facts, as divulged by other, non-official sources.

The short, slight, bearded attacker was Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old who got into the USA legally in 2010, through... wait for it... the Diversity Visa Lottery. President Trump, along with Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA), has been calling for an end to the programme since August. Under the RAISE Act, introduced in February and endorsed by Mr Trump in August, the Diversity Visa Lottery would be eliminated altogether. Here's what POTUS tweeted this morning.

Mr Saipov has a Florida driver's licence but, according to the Clinton News Network, may have been staying in New Jersey. Records show Saipov was a commercial truck driver who formed a pair of businesses in Ohio. He had also driven for Uber. [Quelle surprise! Ed.] An Ohio marriage licence shows that a truck driver with one of Saipov's addresses and his name, spelled slightly differently, married a fellow Uzbek [Uzbek fellow? Ed.] in 2013. He also seems to have been known to police in St. Charles County MO, where the mug shot above was taken after an arrest a year ago.

So that's who he was, except to say that most Uzbeks are Muslims. CNN hasn't said (if it knows) whether the marriage recorded in 2013 was a proper Islamic marriage or otherwise, but Walt thinks it's a safe bet that Mr Saipov is a follower of the Prophet. (Lifetime pct .992) Or should we say soldier of the Prophet, in order to discern the motive which seems to have eluded government "investigators".

What Walt predicted yesterday (see "NYC attack: 'A statement consistent with terrorism'" WWW 31/10/17) has been confirmed by a 12-year-old student who had just left a nearby school. "A person hopped out of the car with two guns and started yelling and screaming," said the lad. "They were yelling 'Allahu akbar."' (Lifetime pct .992.)

Yet "investigators" are still saying they're trying to figure out what motivated Mr Saipov to commit this dastardly act. It would be incorrect to say they have no clue, because a note was found in the truck, "handwritten in a foreign language", according to one of the two law enforcement officials who spoke about the document. Both said its contents were being investigated but "supported the belief the act was terrorism." Notice that they didn't say "Islamic terrorism", even though note says (Walt can reveal) that the perp did it "for ISIS".

Now that I've saved the NYPD, FBI and other government agencies thousands of dollars which might have been spent trying to figure all this out, I would appreciate receiving my reward, in small bills please, to the usual address. You're welcome.

NYC attack: "A statement consistent with terrorism"

For the last couple of hours I have been watching non-stop live coverage of the "terrorist attack" -- so called by Hizzoner the Mayor -- on New York City's West Side. My first question (to myself) was "What's wrong with this picture?" The answer [You admit you talk to yourself? Ed.] was "Nothing!"

I understood perfectly well what I was seeing. It was a remake, for American audiences, of the London Bridge massacre of last June. Van drives along sidewalk crowded with pedestrians, kills 8 (so far), injures 12 (so far). Driver jumps out brandishing what appear to be firearms, but which turn out to be a pellet gun and a paintball gun. Shots are heard, fired, as it turns out, by a heroic NYC cop who wounds, but does not kill the perp, who is now in custody, assisting police with their enquiries.

Yep, the picture is clear enough. What's wrong is the audio. In two hours of listening to assorted commentators, "analysts" and "experts", not to mention Mayor Bill De Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo [Thanks for not mentioning them. Ed.], I heard the words "terror", "terrorist" and "terrorism" countless times, but not once, not once did I hear the words "Islam", "Islamic" or "Muslim". The closest anyone came was one of the CBS "reporters" who said that, as he "exited the vehicle" (copspeak for "jumped outta the van"), the attacker "made a statement consistent with terrorism".

"A statement consistent with terrorism." What do you suppose he might have said? What would "a statement consistent with terrorism" sound like? Like, "ALLAHU AKBAR!!!", maybe? Lifetime pct .990.

Another thing I didn't hear was any reference to the race, ethnicity or religion of the assailant, even though he could be seen, albeit from a distance, on a video shot by a witness. In the video, from the way he ran, zigzagging through the traffic like a tight end, I'd guess he was a gentleman of the coloured persuasion, but I could be wrong. The only reason that I can think the police might have for not revealing his identity would be that naming him as yet another Muslim terrorist would trigger more Islamophobia, which we now know is not a real "thing". That's right. As the Mayor and the Governor told us, there is no need to be afraid of Islamic terrorism, even in "sanctuary cities" like, errr, New York.

The embarrassing avoidance by the Authorities of any mention of the nature of this dastardly attack -- other than calling it an act of (unspecified) terrorism -- reminds me of the response of the British police to the London Bridge attack. See "British cops refuse to name London Bridge jihadis", WWW 5/6/17. But the truth will out, and you can bet that when it does, the lamestream media will lay the blame at the feet of President Trump. Perhaps (they will say) he would have done well to issue an executive order banning Muslims from entering the USA. Or he might have thought about making a list of all the potential Islamic terrorists already in America. Or something. Whatever. Anyway, it's all his fault. That's what they'll say. Lifetime pct .990.

Somali-Canadian Muslim convicted of planning terror attack on NYC

Last month, the administration of President Donald Trump unveiled new travel restrictions on foreigners from a number of predominantly Muslim countries, including Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea (OK, they're not Muslims, just Commies), Venezuela (ditto), Syria, Yemen and Somalia. Quite right too, especially as regards Somalis. 1000s of Somali "refugees" have already invaded the USA and Canada, where they alternate between collecting welfare and planning or waging jihad against their hosts. (That, fellow citizens, means US.)

Just last week, in Edmonton AB, Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, a Muslim refugee from Somalia, deliberately drove a car into a cop directing traffic outside Confederation stadium. After failing to kill him with a car, the "ISIS soldier" attacked the cop with a knife before running away. Later he drove a rented van into some pedestrians on a downtown street, injuring a half dozen or so. He is now in custody facing charges of attempted murder, but, interestingly, not terrorism, because the Canuck "authorities" don't want to be accused of Islamophobia. M-103, you know. (OK, if you're not Canadian, you won't know. Google it.)

It was a pretty minor attack, as these things go, with no fatalities. At least one of Mr Sharif's countrymen and co-religionists was planning something bigger. A lot bigger! Yesterday the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York revealed the details of a plot by Islamic terrorist wannabes to commit mayhem and wreak havoc in New York City. Their plan included detonating bombs in Times Square and in the New York subway system, as well as shootings at various concert venues.

According to the information unsealed Friday, three people were involved in the nefarious scheme. Talha Haroon, a 19-year-old American citizen living in Pakistan, and Russell Salic, a 37-year-old Filipino, were arrested overseas. It is "hoped", the Attorney's Office says, that they will be extradited to the U.S. for prosecution. Both Mr Haroon and Mr Salic are followers of the Prophet.

So is Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a 19-year-old Somali who came to Canada as a "refugee" and was living the Mississauga ON ghetto. According to court records unsealed only yesterday, Mr El Bahnasawy purchased bomb-making materials and helped secure a cabin within driving distance of New York City for the purpose of building explosive devices. He has been in custody in the USA since his arrest by the FBI in May of 2016, and pleaded guilty on October 13th to seven charges, including:

• Conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
• Conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries.
• Conspiring to bomb a place of public use and public transport.
• Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
• Attempted provision and provision of material support and resources to terrorists.
• Conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, i.e. ISIS.
• Attempted provision and provision of material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, i.e. ISIS.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on 12 December 2017.

According to the court records, Messrs El Bahnasawy and Haroon plotted to carry out the attacks in support of ISIS during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. In preparing for the attacks, the two communicated electronically with an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS supporter. They allegedly declared their allegiance to ISIS and expressed their intent to carry out attacks resembling the recent Paris and Brussels attacks. "These Americans need an attack," El Bahnasawy allegedly stated to the officer, saying he aspired "to create the next 9/11."

Mr El Bahnasawy travelled to the New York City area on 21 May 2016, in preparation for staging and ultimately carrying out the attacks. American law enforcement monitored the trip in co-ordination with their Canadian counterparts, and arrested the would-be bomber that night in Cranford NJ.

Asked by CBC News to comment, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said, "Abdulrahman El-Bahnasawy is a Canadian citizen who was part of an international plot to commit terrorist attacks in the United States and the charges are a direct result of his involvement and role." They added that the safety or security of the (presumably Canadian) public was at no time at risk during the investigation. So that's all right then.

Innocent question: Why did the American authorities, who had arrested Mr El Bahnasawy in May of 2016, keep everything a deep, dark secret until this week? Nothing to do with the presidential election and President 0's insistence that there was nothing to fear from the terrorists he refused to name, I'm sure.

Madame Tussaud's employee arrested for having sex with statue of Obama

Two statue stories in one day should be some kind of a record. Scroll down to read the item about the "Naked Hillary" statue which appeared in New York. But New York has other statues -- oh my, yes! -- including a whole bunch of wax ones at the famous Madame Tussaud's Museum. (OK, it's a franchise operation. The original Madame Tussaud's is in London.)

The New York Madame Tussaud's has wax figures of numerous celebrities, including Ronald Reagan, M.K. Gandhi, Albert Einstein, King Kong and E.T. They also feature a lovely pairing of the chief apologists for Hellery Clinton, President 0 and his lovely wife. Here they are.

An employee of Tussaud's, 57-year-old Robert Murphy, has a strange... let's say unnatural attraction to the statues. He was arrested on Tuesday morning -- about the same time "Naked Hillary" appeared -- for having sex with 17 of them, including all those named above, with the exception of the First Lady.

The museum’s staff had noticed that many figures had been damaged over the last few months. After checking out the footage from the various security cameras, they saw some very disturbing scenes. "The man kept drilling holes in the various sculptures' abdomen before engaging in sexual intercourse with them," an NYPD spokesthingy told reporters. "This is certainly one of the strangest and most disturbing crimes I have ever seen!"

Mr Murphy now faces several charges of criminal mischief, criminal tampering and indecent exposure, punishable by a maximum of 54 years in prison. He has a history of mental health problems and has been committed on multiple occasions to psychiatric hospitals. His attorney claims Mr Murphy was suffering from a psychosis when he committed his various deeds, and had completely lost contact with reality. He would not say who his client was planning on voting for on November 8th.

VIDEO: "Naked Hillary" statue draws ire of New York wimmin

Two- and three-dimensional "art" depicting a naked Donald Trump has been appearing here and there for a couple of months now. In August, statues of a naked Donald, complete with oversized belly, appeared in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Cleveland. They were placed there by an anarchist collective called INDECLINE. Before that, a satirical painting portraying a naked Donald Trump became so popular on the Internet that its artist, Illma Gore, placed it on her website for free download.

This week it was Mrs Bill Clinton's turn. Early Tuesday morning, a caricature in the form of a statue of an almost naked Hillary appeared in New York City, just outside the Bowling Green subway station. The life-size representation showed La Clinton with breasts bare, with the head of a Wall Street banker resting his head on one. He had one arm wrapped around her Trump-sized belly, and his lips were puckered, as if preparing to suck from the Secretary's teat. Mrs Clinton’s face was twisted into a grotesque smile -- the one she uses during debates. In addition, the statue depicted her with the legs of a goat from the knee down, complete with cloven hoof. Haven't quite got the picture yet? Here 'tis.

[Sorry about the black bar, but we do have certain standards to uphold! Ed.]

The statue wasn't up for three hours before a furious bystander named Nancy (she refused to give her last name) knocked it to the ground and yelled, "This is obscene! To put something up like this in front of my workplace... I shouldn’t have to see this!" the woman continuously stomped on the statue and at one point sat on it, as its reported creator, 27-year-old Anthony Scioli, attempted to place it upright. New York's finest arrived some time later and forced Mr Scioli to remove the statue. No-one was arrested.

UPDATED: NJ/NYC bombings the work of... guess who? (No prizes.)

It didn't take long for the other shoe to drop. After the Chelsea bombing "incident", NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was an intentional act -- DUH! -- and Governor Andrew Cuomo said any bombing is an act of terrorism. Neither of them said what we were all thinking, that it must be the work of TEWCBN -- The Enemy Which Cannot Be Named -- or at least its Islamic extremist supporters. All they told us was that there was no "evidence of any international connection."

Then this morning, just past midnight EDT, a bomb squad robot detonated an IED which had been left in a backpack at the train station in Elizabeth NJ. FBI agents and police swooped on a nearby apartment where they found more IEDs and all the fixins. It didn't take them very long to come up with the name of a suspect. To no-one's surprise, he turns out to be one of the usual suspects -- 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami.

Mr Rahami is a naturalized citizen of the Paranoid States of America, but hails from... wait for it... Afghanistan. He is also a follower of the Prophet -- a Muslim -- and (according to Hizzoner Bill de Blasio) armed and dangerous. "We need to get this guy in right away," Mr de Blasio said on CNN. "My experience is once the FBI zeroes in on someone, they will get them."

It wasn't immediately clear if there was a connection between the suspect and the Chelsea bombing, or the pipe bomb explosion at Seaside Park NJ on Saturday. It's quite possible, of course, that the IEDs which exploded at Seaside Park and Chelsea were made and planted by a non-Muslim who had no political or religious motive whatever. Yeah. Right.

Hellery warns against jumping to conclusions, then does so
Speaking to reporters on her campaign plane Saturday night, Mrs Bill Clinton cautioned against "rushing to conclusions" about the attacks and criticized Donald Trump for calling the Chelsea explosion a bomb that served as a reminder for that the USA needs to "get very tough." On Sunday, however, Hellery issued a statement saying she strongly condemns what she characterized as "apparent terrorist attacks" in Minnesota, New Jersey and New York. That's a pretty quick turnaround, even for a Clinton.

Further reading: "The Response to This Weekend’s Terror Attacks Showed Willful Blindness in Real Time", by Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review. "The ideology behind the attacks in New York, New Jersey, and Minnesota must be confronted forthrightly. In the all too familiar pattern, things are going boom, Americans are under attack, and the American political class is already busy playing the 'See No Jihad' minuet."