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Russia's nuclear triad: Overview and capabilities

Pravda.ru / Russia - ven, 11/04/2025 - 18:46
Russia possesses a powerful nuclear triad, which includes land-based, sea-based, and air-based nuclear forces. This triad ensures the ability to launch a retaliatory strike even after a massive enemy attack, thanks to its strategic dispersion across silos, mobile launchers, and submarines. What Is Nuclear Weaponry? Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction that harness the energy of nuclear reactions — either fission (like uranium or plutonium) or fusion (as in hydrogen bombs). Their destructive power is immense; a single warhead can level an entire city. Main Types of Russian Nuclear Weapons 1. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)

KatPol Kávéház CXXII. - Fasiszta lázálom

KatPol Blog - mer, 09/04/2025 - 07:18

A nyugati/nyugatos politikai közbeszédben olyan nekibuzdulással felemlegetett téma, mint az árnyékban bujkáló és alattomosan (fel)támadó fasizmus, nincs még egy. Ha ezt a jelenséget mi is ugyanúgy hajlandóak vagyunk belelátni bárkibe és bármibe, ahogy a veszélyeire figyelmeztetők általában teszik, akkor elmondhatjuk, hogy kulturális értelemben is számtalan esetben és formában bemutatott témáról van szó.

Ami azonban a szigorúan politológiai értelemben vett, (reálisan) létező olasz fasizmust, még korlátozottabb értelemben annak felemelkedését és hatalomra kerülését illeti, az azt feldolgozó történelmi filmet vagy sorozatot a magunk részéről igazság szerint nem tudunk megnevezni, legalábbis annak szülőhazáján kívül biztosan nem.

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Catégories: Afrique, Biztonságpolitika

Cubage Militaire : Guide Complet pour Calculer Votre Volume de Déménagement

Aumilitaire.com - ven, 28/03/2025 - 22:13
Lors d’un déménagement militaire, la connaissance précise du cubage auquel vous avez droit est indispensable pour éviter les surprises et les frais supplémentaires. Ce guide détaillé vous explique tout ce que vous devez savoir sur le cubage militaire, étape par étape, afin d’organiser efficacement votre déménagement PFMD militaire (plateforme multi déménageur) en toute sérénité. Simulateur […]
Catégories: Défense, European Union

Putin boards Arkhangelsk nuclear submarine to make warnings to the West

Pravda.ru / Russia - ven, 28/03/2025 - 18:02
Vladimir Putin, aboard the Arkhangelsk nuclear-powered submarine, made several warnings to those who sought to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. Putin Confident in the Defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces During his visit to the Murmansk region, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine that its military formations would be destroyed. "I recently said that we will squeeze them out, but now there is reason to believe that we will finish them off," Putin stated, emphasizing that the Russian Armed Forces are "gradually, persistently, and confidently advancing toward achieving all the goals declared at the start of the special military operation."

Russia increases gold reserves amid external pressure

Pravda.ru / Russia - jeu, 27/03/2025 - 16:30
In recent years, Russia has been under significant external pressure, facing economic sanctions and a large-scale information campaign aimed at discrediting the country. Strategic Shift Toward Gold In response to these challenges, the Russian government has made a strategic decision to rely on gold as a key instrument to protect the economy. According to the latest data from the Central Bank of Russia, the value of the country’s gold reserves increased by 5.3% in February, reaching $217.4 billion.

KatPol Kávéház CXXI. - A mérsékelt fanatikus

KatPol Blog - jeu, 27/03/2025 - 06:57

Ha találomra megkérdeznénk embereket az utcán a leghíresebb terroristákról, aligha akadna a felsoroltak között orosz nemzetiségű személy. Pedig az 20. század fordulóján Oroszországban a cári kormányzatnak igen meggyűlt a baja a terrorizmussal, aminek állami vezetők (köztük miniszterelnökök és cárok) is áldozatául estek. Ennek emlékezete Oroszországon kívül már nemigen van, de orosz közegben továbbra is ismert ez az időszak. Az egyik terroristával foglalkozunk a KatPol Kávéház 121. adásában, akinek életét a Fakó lovon ülő halál c. orosz film is feldolgozza.

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Catégories: Afrique, Biztonságpolitika

Sugar king, dollar billionaire Vadim Moshkovich arrested in Moscow

Pravda.ru / Russia - mer, 26/03/2025 - 18:09
Russian authorities have detained Vadim Moshkovich, the founder of the Rusagro holding company, former senator from the Belgorod region, and dollar billionaire. Moshkovich had attempted to distance himself from Russian President Vladimir Putin following the start of the special military operation in Ukraine and the personal sanctions imposed against him. Suspected of Large-Scale Fraud and Asset Seizure According to preliminary reports, Moshkovich is suspected of large-scale fraud and seizing the assets of another major holding company. A criminal case has reportedly already been opened. Investigative actions are being carried out against Moshkovich as part of a case under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). His legal status in the case has not yet been disclosed.

Témoignages PFMD de militaires sur leur expérience avec la plateforme

Aumilitaire.com - mar, 25/03/2025 - 14:27
Qu’est-ce que la Plateforme Multi-Déménageurs (PFMD) ? La Plateforme Multi-Déménageurs (PFMD), mise en place par le Ministère des Armées, vise à faciliter et optimiser les déménagements militaires lors des mutations professionnelles. En centralisant les démarches administratives et en offrant un choix varié de prestataires agréés, la PFMD simplifie considérablement le processus logistique et administratif des […]
Catégories: Défense, European Union

Voici pourquoi vous ne devriez pas utiliser l’IA pour créer un profil sur un site de rencontre

Aumilitaire.com - mar, 25/03/2025 - 13:31
De la programmation à la retouche photo, l’intelligence artificielle est entrée de plain-pied dans tous les domaines de la vie et est devenue banale pour beaucoup. Elle n’a pas laissé les sites de rencontres en ligne indifférents. Alors que certains ont encore peur de la communication virtuelle, Chat GPT mène en toute confiance un dialogue […]
Catégories: Défense, European Union

Comparaison entre la procédure classique et la PFMD pour les déménagements militaires

Aumilitaire.com - mar, 25/03/2025 - 13:08
​Le déménagement est une réalité fréquente pour les militaires, qu’il s’agisse d’une mutation nationale ou internationale. Deux principales procédures s’offrent aux personnels des armées pour organiser leur changement de résidence : la procédure classique de déménagement militaire et la Plateforme Multi-Déménageurs (PFMD). Chacune présente des spécificités, des avantages et des inconvénients. La procédure classique de […]
Catégories: Défense, European Union

KatPol Kávéház CXX. - A sereg mindenkié

KatPol Blog - mer, 19/03/2025 - 07:31

A NER bizonyos kurzusfilmjeit, mint a podcastunk profiljába illeszthető kortárs termékeket, már górcső alá vettük – ezeket az adásokat linkeltük a poszt végén -, de hasonló sorozatokkal még egyáltalán nem foglalkoztunk, úgy általában a magyar TV-sorozatok közül is csak eggyel, de az sem kifejezetten jelenkori alkotás. A TV2 tavaly megjelent S.E.R.E.G. c. minisorozatát már csak ezért sem hagyhatjuk említés nélkül, és természetesen azért sem, mert a magyar állam bármelyik fegyveres ereje számára aktuális imázsfilm vagy -sorozat emberemlékezet óta biztosan nem készült.

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Catégories: Afrique, Biztonságpolitika

Putin: Return of foreign companies to Russian market must be absolutely transparent

Pravda.ru / Russia - mar, 18/03/2025 - 16:58
Vladimir Putin instructed the government to develop a procedure for coordinating the return of foreign companies that previously left Russia. He emphasized that the process should be as transparent as possible, ensuring that domestic producers retain certain advantages. Speaking at the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Putin noted that some companies sold their businesses at a discount, but when returning to Russia, they should not be allowed to buy them back at the same low price. "This should not happen, and it cannot happen," the president said.

KatPol Kávéház CXIX. - A szent tengerész pasa

KatPol Blog - mer, 19/02/2025 - 13:25

Puskin egy helyen szerénytelenül a "jekatyerinai sasok dicsőséges seregeként" aposztrofálta azokat a tehetséges állami tisztviselőket és katonai parancsnokokat, akiket a "Nagy" jelzővel illetett híres cárnő szintúgy tehetséges (vagy egyszerűen csak szerencsés) kézzel választott ki magas pozícióikba, ezzel (is) megalapozva az orosz biodalomépítés egyik legjelentősebb korszakát. Közülük Fjodor Usakov tengernagyot a krónikások inkább mellőzték a többiekhez képest, elvégre "csak" kisnemes volt egy alapvetően ugye szárazföldi hatalom szolgálatában, egy épphogy csak létrehozott és mellékes orosz flottánál, olyan háborúkban, melyek nem kifejezetten a tengereken dőltek el. De ilyen körülmények is kétséget kizáróan bizonyította zsenialitását a tengeri hadviselés terén.

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Russia's pipeline natural gas exports to grow to 240 billion cubic meters per year

Pravda.ru / Russia - ven, 14/02/2025 - 15:04
Russia's pipeline natural gas exports could see a significant increase, reaching approximately 240 billion cubic meters per year. This means that supply volumes could not only double compared to current levels but also surpass the highest figures recorded in previous years. These conclusions stem from a statement by Pavel Zavalny, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy. Speaking at the XXII International Forum Gas Russia 2025, Zavalny noted that such export growth would be possible if the current level of demand for Russian gas on international markets is maintained.

KatPol Kávéház CXVIII. - A közjó alkotói

KatPol Blog - mer, 12/02/2025 - 05:45

Legutóbbi adásunkban az amerikai polgárháborús tematikájú westernfilm alműfaját tárgyaltuk ki, amely elég nyilvánvalóan mutatja meg azt, hogy a közönség kíváncsiságát egyaránt csigázzák fel az egzotikus tájak, gyéren lakott hatalmas térségek és a tovaszállt korok, amikor még fiatal volt a nemzet és könnyebben akadtak lelkesítő nagy közös célok. A múlt szelektív megszépítése, romantizálása persze minden társadalomban jelen van, és bizony furcsa lenne, ha ez pont a filmművészetben nem érvényesülne. Diktatúrákban ez bizonyára fokozottan érvényes, pláne ha egyenesen a rendszer születésének és megszilárdulásának „hőskora” kerül vászonra.

A Szovjetunió esetében ehhez hozzávehetjük, hogy a konszolidáció és viszonylagos enyhülés periódusában felértékelődött a könnyed tömegszórakoztatás, és korlátozottan persze, de azért új lehetőségek nyíltak a nyugati kulturális trendek követésére, összhangban a közönség erre vonatkozó jelentős igényeivel. Így futhatott fel – bár kultúrtörténeti léptékben azért nem olyan hosszú időre - a műfaj, amit a Vasfüggöny túloldalán Eastern/Ostern névvel illettek, azaz vadregényes távoli vidékeken játszódó és az amerikai westernek főbb mintáit átvevő szocialista kalandfilm.   

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KatPol Kávéház CXVII. - Vadnyugati viszonyok

KatPol Blog - jeu, 30/01/2025 - 09:05

A Vadnyugat névvel fémjelzett időszak alatt leginkább az 1849-es kaliforniai aranyláz és a 20. század közötti időszakot szokták érteni. Ekkor az Egyesült Államok telepesei meghódították a gyéren lakott belső részeit a kontinensnek, míg végül a modernizáció véget vetett ennek a pionír hőskorszaknak. A KatPol Kávéház 117. adását két ilyen tematikájú filmnek szenteltük: az 1959-es Lovaskatonák-nak és az 1969-es A legyőzhetetlen-nek.

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The Media's Post-Gaza-War Propaganda Campaign Against Israel Is Already Under Way

Daled Amos - jeu, 30/01/2025 - 03:53

The cease-fire is holding, Israeli hostages are being exchanged for Palestinian terrorists, and the stage is being set for further Israeli compromises.

What could go wrong?

Typical of the media agenda leading up to the cease-fire is the sloppy media narrative as per The Washington Post:

The conflict started when Hamas-led fighters attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking more than 250 others hostage. The Israeli military responded with a brutal campaign that destroyed much of Gaza and killed at least 47,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children....in which:
  • Hamas terrorists are described as "Hamas-led fighters
  • The massacre is described merely as an attack, with no modifier
  • While the Israeli retaliation is described with an added adjective as a brutal campaign
  • At least 47,000 were killed -- despite analyses that dispute that number
  • The Gaza Health Ministry is quoted, without mentioning it is controlled by Hamas
  • The claim that the majority of those dead are "women and children" without mentioning contrary views
  • No mention of what age range defines "children"
  • No mention of the Hamas rockets landing in Gaza or how many Gazans killed by those rockets

Now, the media is framing the appropriate cease-fire narrative for their audiences. All this time, the media has carefully eschewed labeling Hamas as terrorists. This is hardly the time to describe the agreement as swapping of hostages for terrorists. Instead, we have descriptions along the lines of The New York Times:

Mere "prisoners"?

In the second paragraph, they clarify:

In the West Bank city of Ramallah, crowds of Palestinians held aloft the returning prisoners, many of whom had been jailed for deadly militant attacks against Israelis

Give The New York Times credit for at least admitting that the attacks were deadly. But many of them were guilty of "deadly attacks"?

Honest Reporting points out that actually the vast majority of the first batch of "prisoners" -- 83% -- were guilty of violent and deadly offenses.

f But the New York Times "admission" of deadly attacks does not stop them from gushing:


"One of the largest prisoner exchanges" -- a prime example of New York Times evenhandedness, equating hostages with terrorists, "some" of whom are serving life sentences, without any specifics as to why.

Speaking about that exchange, it is noteworthy that Hamas violated the agreement during the second exchange. As The Washington Post noted:Israel said Saturday that Hamas had violated the deal, which required it to release all living civilian women first. Israel had expected that Arbel Yehud, a 29-year-old civilian who was abducted with her boyfriend from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, would be among those in the Saturday release. [the article is reposted on msn.com]JNS therefore duly noted that Israel took measures to ensure that Hamas would follow through by releasing Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud as agreed:

But CNN's sloppily constructed headline could not be bothered with the facts:

The headline paints Israel in the worst possible light. It is not until the eighth paragraph that CNN deigns to inform us:Israel has been pushing for the release of Arbel Yehud, 29, who was kidnapped from her home in kibbutz Nir Oz. Israel says she is a civilian and should have been released Saturday.Not only does CNN bury this important detail, but they also make it seem that Israel is inconveniencing the hapless Hamas terrorist leaders by "pushing" for the release.

In case you are wondering just how many cease-fire violations is Hamas guilty of violating...

According to Haaretz, Hamas is guilty of 3 violations:The first, current phase of the deal was intended to be the simplest of the deal's proposed three phases. Both Hamas and Israel are thought to be committed to the so-called humanitarian part of the phase, but obstacles thrown up by both sides have threatened to stop the deal before it even began.

Hamas failed to submit to Israel the names of the hostages to be released in time, didn't release the civilian hostage Arbel Yehoud as promised and delayed issuing the list specifying which of the hostages designated for release are still alive. Israel, for its part, delayed allowing displaced residents of northern Gaza to return to their homes in response.The 3 Hamas violations are:
  • Failing to submit to Israel the names of the hostages to be released in time
  • Not releasing the civilian hostage Arbel Yehoud as promised
  • Delaying issuing the list specifying which of the hostages designated for release are still alive

But wait! Israel also placed an obstacle preventing the smooth proceeding of the cease-fire. According to Haaretz, Israel put an obstacle in the way of the cease-fire by insisting on the release of a kidnapped hostage as per the agreement.

In their haste to be "fair" and find something to pin on Israel, Haaretz claims that "obstacles thrown up by both sides have threatened to stop the deal before it even began," But the one "obstacle" by Israel clearly happened after the cease-fire began.

Now the campaign to erase Hamas responsibility for the war begins, as CNN tells us that this is not Hamas's war at all:

After 16 months of war, we were inundated by the media agenda to reframe the Hamas massacre itself and the war that Israel had to wage to protect itself.
Now, we should prepare for the media's coverup of the cease-fire as well.






Catégories: Afrique, Middle East

Interview With George Gilder, Author Of The New Edition Of The Israel Test

Daled Amos - mer, 29/01/2025 - 18:07

George Gilder is an American author and economist. His book, The Israel Test, was published in 2009. A new version of the book came out last year.

George Gilder (YouTube screencap)


What is so important about your book, The Israel Test, that it merits a new third edition?

The issues of The Israel Test are imperative for everyone to understand—a relaunch of the message of the essential book of my lifetime. I've been writing for nearly 70 years, and of all my books, I like The Israel Test best. It's the most personal of my books and the most fervent. It may be the most important. I write about entrepreneurship, I write about technology, I write about creativity as the paramount force in human life. It is all epitomized in the fabulous feats of Israel as the Startup Nation and now possibly the leader of the Free World.

I think Israel is transforming the world as we speak.


Briefly, what is the Israel Test?

The test is how people respond to those who excel in creativity, intellect, accomplishment, and wealth. Do you admire them and try to learn from them or do you envy them, resent them, and try to tear them down? This is the central test of the world economy and human life. When we resent those who excel us and attempt to suppress them, we doom our Human Experiment. To the extent that we admire them and emulate them, there are no limits to our achievements on this planet.

For whatever reason, most of the great breakthroughs of the century have come from Jews, and Israel now epitomizes this genius of the Jews. So when we attack Israel, we're really attacking the very source of human creativity and accomplishment in the world. That is the Israel Test.

U.S. corporations have some 70% of the global market cap and all the world's equity markets. When you examine the companies that account for this global leadership in the United States, they all have crucial, laboratories inventions, factories, research, and operations in Israel. People talk about Israel being dependent on the United States. But the U.S. is more dependent on Israel today than Israel is on the U.S. The United States is in a maelstrom at the moment, and Israel is really the inspirational leader of the world economy.


What are the biggest misconceptions about Israel's economy and the Israeli society that you debunk in your book?

First of all, the whole idea that Israel somehow is occupying something is just misconceived.

One of the reasons for the second edition of the book is that once, after I addressed a synagogue in Far Rockaway in New York, fifteen years ago, someone came up to me and gave me a beaten-up, frayed copy of a book by Walter Lowdermilk. That book is the basis for a couple of new chapters in the recent editions of The Israel Test.

Walter Lowdermilk was a Christian in the United States in the Agriculture Department under FDR. A heat wave had led to a terrible drought in the U.S. causing a crisis for US agriculture and for the West. Lowdermilk traveled around the world, in search of agricultural methods to meet this crisis. He ended up in then-Palestine and discovered amazing agricultural feats. This is back in 1938, before the establishment of the state of Israel. He found that the Jews had performed an agricultural miracle unparalleled anywhere else in the world.

Lowdermilk found that they had solved the water problem and made the desert bloom. In time, this led to desalination plants, drip irrigation, microirrigation, and the planting of a million trees. There is now an Israeli university with a Lowdermilk building because he became a hero and is recognized for his important contributions.

He reported that when the Jews moved to Palestine in the 19th century, there were only 200,000 to 300,000 Arabs in this wasteland that was really a desert. Their average lifespan was around 30 years old. When the Jews came and made the desert bloom, the Arabs crowded into Palestine to take advantage of these breakthroughs the Jews achieved. Jewish migration made a population of Palestinians possible. Without the Jewish immigration, there could not have been a sustained population because of the lack of water. Lowdermilk's book documents detailed observations and testimony about how the Jews transformed the desert and made Israel ultimately into the world's most Innovative agricultural country.

But Israel made a big mistake. They adopted socialism. By 1985, Israel was about over, approaching 1000% inflation with the economy on the verge of collapse. The Histadrut domination of banking had resulted in the bankruptcy of banks and the fall of the shekel. That was when the new government under Netanyahu led the transformation of Israel into a capitalist leader.

The real Israel Test came when Israel demonstrated that freedom, capitalism, and creativity enable human life and accomplishment. That vindication of capitalism, pioneered by Netanyahu, changed the Israel Test from a test of recognizing their agricultural changes to recognizing their technological changes. Israel was a key source of the success of Intel Corporation, the leading American semiconductor company. Nvidia achieved great success by buying an Israeli company called Melanox, making Nvidia one of the world's most valuable companies by enabling their Artificial Intelligence breakthroughs.

It begins with half the Nobel prizes and the serious Sciences and it goes on to the richest people in the world, to the most pioneering country in the world. And it's all ultimately a recognition of the incredible genius of the Jews.

The Israel Test is about how Israel's genius enriches the world.


Is the Israel Test of the Arabs different? Aside from the psychological and emotional elements of envy and hatred of the Jews, the Arab world also has a cultural aspect that you mention in your book: shame and honor. Going a step further, are those Arabs living in Israel under Jewish rule for the first time in Arab history being tested and challenged differently than any other people?

Israel is a democratic government that grants Israeli Arabs more rights than any other place in the world, except maybe the United States. Arabs do better in Israel than they do anywhere else. The million Arabs in Israel comprise 16% of all the engineers. The Arabs do well in Israel and do not support Hamas or Hezbollah activities. There are, of course, disgruntled Arabs. But I think that the Arab integration with Israeli Society and Israeli industry has been a lesson for the world and the Israel Test.

I've spent a lot of time in Israel, talking to Arab engineers. They are making crucial contributions. The ones who learn from the Jews rather than resent the Jews do brilliantly in Israel.


You write that capitalism is one of the best remedies for antisemitism. How does that work?

Capitalism is based on giving. A fundamental principle of capitalism is its dependence on the moral fabric that the Jewish and Christian traditions enabled. capitalism is the secret behind the emergence of Israel as the world's leading creative force and its world leadership. Israel did not become the Startup Nation until it adopted capitalism and they didn't employ all these Arabs either until it adopted capitalism.

Probably seven out of the ten richest people in the world are Jews. All their wealth is invested in projects and companies that employ millions of people around the world. This makes the continued triumph over human exigency possible. It explains why the genius of the Jews converges with the capitalist insights to make Israel's emergence as the leader of the West possible. Israel's amazing achievement is that this tiny country has accomplished so much, yet has only existed for 75 years. And it could only have happened with capitalism.

The American economist and political commentator Thomas Sowell makes an important observation. He studied minorities all around the globe. He acknowledges the incredible achievements of the Jews and of Israel as the spearhead. However, he also shows that a similar phenomenon exists in Asia with the overseas Chinese. There are some 40 million overseas Chinese, more overseas Chinese than there are Jews. It's not exactly comparable, but the overseas Chinese dominate the economies of Asia in the same way that Jews dominate the Middle Eastern economy--and the American economy for that matter. Millions of overseas Chinese have been killed in pogroms in Indonesia, for example. This ended up depleting the Indonesian economy for decades They imagined that the overseas Chinese were somehow stealing wealth instead of creating wealth. Wealth is created; it is not stolen.


You write that anti-Semitism withers in wealthy capitalist countries. But is that really true today?

We are slipping back into Socialism. The West is no longer so wealthy and our wealth does not distribute itself as thoroughly as in a free economy. We are socializing our economy in the name of climate change and other delusions that are inducing us to abandon capitalism. When we abandoned capitalism, people began to look for victims. They consider themselves victims and resent the wealthy. They start failing their Israel Test.


So it's not just because we're living post-October 7th?

That's right. Marxism is based on resentment of wealth. If you start resenting and tearing down wealth, you end up failing your Israel Test and bring about catastrophe. And that's our history.

One of the stories I like to tell is about World War II. It was won because the U.S. admitted Jews to lead the Manhattan Project and create the nuclear weapons that made the triumphs of the Western order possible. After the Second World War, democracy and capitalism were the fruit of the Manhattan Project, and the Manhattan Project was accomplished almost entirely by the Jewish scientists fleeing Europe.

John von Neumann is a great hero of the Israel Test. He was a pivotal figure both in the Manhattan Project and in the creation of the computer industry. He won his debate with Albert, Einstein and persuaded Israel to create a supercomputer and acquire nuclear power. Israel could not have survived without von Neumann's contributions. A Jew who fled Europe for the United States ultimately saved both Israel and The United States.


You mention the United States. Generally, antisemitism doesn't seem to be as large a problem here as it is in Europe. Why is that?

One of the reasons is that Europe accepted massive Muslim immigrants without requiring them to adopt the principles of a free society, and without requiring them to abandon their antisemitism. Europe got occupied. It's a terrible problem and it's why Trump's insight about immigration is so critical. You accept immigrants who accept the constitutional principles of your society, the key moral underpinnings of civilized society. An obsession with exterminating Jews is utterly inconsistent with the principles of any kind of free, civilized society. Europe accepted too many jihadists and it's changing their culture.

Eastern Europe is now becoming more prosperous than Western Europe because of this. It is not trivial. Eastern Europe refused Islamic migration and has managed to continue its capitalist prosperity. Poland is now one of the world's most creative and productive countries.


You write that Judaism perhaps more than any other religion favors capitalist activity and provides a rigorous moral framework for it. How so?

Capitalism is based on escape from materialism. It is based on the belief that human beings are created in the image of their Creator. These Judaic insights and principles help explain why Jews lead the world economy.


Is capitalism the escape from materialism? Some say capitalism is dependent on materialism.

No, it absolutely isn't. Many models imagine the economy is dominated by land, energy, resources, rare metals, or whatever claims they make. Actually, ideas are all the world has. As Thomas Sowell puts it, the Neanderthal in his cave had all the material resources that we have today The difference between our age and the Stone Age is entirely the triumph of intellect and ideas and the transcendence over our material bondage and our material entrapment.


What are Israel's biggest challenges in maintaining its economic growth?

Israel led the world in new venture capital in 2024. It grew its venture capital by 38% over 2024 while the U.S. expanded its venture capital, because of the advance of artificial intelligence and the transformative impact of AI on various industries. But even during this horrific war, Israel has expanded its economic leadership. That is why I say they are the leader of the West. They have to maintain their openness, creativity, and inventiveness. They can't retreat to the materialist superstition that wealth comes from the land. Israel demonstrates that wealth doesn't come from the land--it comes from the mind.


What would you like your readers to take away from The Israel Test, especially the younger readers, who may not be familiar with Israel's story?

They should understand that this is a world of abundance. They should be careful not to accept the materialist superstition that ends up resenting wealth by imagining wealth is something material that was stolen from them. And that's the crucial recognition.

We always face the Israel Test. We all have the propensity to envy people who excel us. We all feel that temptation. We must shun the material superstition and embrace the infinite possibilities of the human mind and creativity.

This transcript has been edited for clarity and concision




Catégories: Afrique, Middle East

Russian Army to receive its first combat icebreaker in 2025

Pravda.ru / Russia - lun, 20/01/2025 - 14:53
The Russian Army will receive a number of new arms systems in 2025, including a nuclear submarine with ballistic missiles and new strategic bombers. According to Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, the ordnance delivery schedule for 2025 has been finalised. Tu-160 strategic bombers The Russian Aerospace Forces will receive four Tupolev Tu-160M ​​strategic bombers in 2025. The Tu-160M missile-carrying aircraft are part of the air component of Russia's nuclear triad. They are also capable of carrying missiles with non-nuclear warheads. During the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia used the Tu-160 to launch the Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles. The basic version of the Tu-160 with a variable-sweep wing has four NK-32 engines, which provide a maximum flight speed of up to 2,230 kilometers per hour. The Tu-160 can carry 45 tons of combat load. Internal compartments of the missile carrier can accommodate 12 Kh-101 missiles. The modernized version of the aircraft will be superior to its original version in all respects.

KatPol Kávéház CXVI. - Önkéntes lovasság

KatPol Blog - jeu, 02/01/2025 - 04:59

A belföldön legpozitívabb médiavisszhangot kapott, legnépszerűbb háború, melyben az Egyesült Államok valaha részt vett, kétségtelenül a Spanyolország elleni - pontosabban a még megmaradt spanyol gyarmatbirodalom felszámolásáért indított - volt 1898-ban. A gyors és látványos győzelem, a különböző egzotikus szigetek feletti fennhatóság ill. hegemónia megkaparintása messzemenő következményekkel járt az immár világhatalomként a történelem színpadára lépő nemzet jövőjére nézve.

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