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Hi DBT2:

A few years ago I met a gentleman who is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), an area I have the least amount of experience in investigating or analyzing (that and distasteful sexual offenses). Anyways we were discussing previous cases and I realized that his Arabic and Hebrew were both perfect. I finally got him round to confess that he is of mixed descent like Nora Bussigny, although not nearly as pretty as she. The poor guy was uncomfortable discussing the horrible situation in Israel.

Anyways, regarding the Nora Bussigny expose, the loathsome ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu did a masterful job with his reprisal pogrom (AKA the Nakba) against the Palestinians in Gaza and his allowing Settlers to steal land in the West Bank, that he globally collectivized antisemites, anti-Zionists, and anti-Israelis, as we see in France.

The "Crime Minister" put a target on the back of innocent Jews worldwide, whether they are Ashkenazi (like himself) or Sephardic (like the gentleman I referred to above), Haredim or Secular, Labor or Likud, 'Buddhist' or atheist.

Note that there is no antisemitism or Islamophobia within the Israeli Communist Party (the "Makis") because their common cause is standing up to oppression and the oligarchs. These poor devils might be irrationally hated by these French antisemites/anti-Zionists simply because many of them are Jewish (albeit atheist).

France has a history of exploiting Muslim (and Asian countries like Vietnam), but now has a fairly substantial minority of Arab-descent people in the country. In Paris you could see black and Arab-looking police officers and soldiers on patrol with their white colleagues. These people are loyal to the French state but sympathize with the victims of white colonialism, i.e. the Palestinians.

One feels for Nora Bussigny and history holds a lesson for her. Centuries ago, the Irishmen who owned land and worked with the English were never comfortable anywhere. In Ireland they were viewed as "English" and when they visited London they were viewed as "Irish." Oscar Wilde may have felt similar pangs as an Anglo-Irishman, but we can't be sure.

Ali Khamenei says thousands killed in Iran protests, some in inhuman, savage manner'
Supreme leader blames US for death toll and calls Donald Trump a criminal for support of demonstrations
www.theguardian.com

The Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has acknowledged for the first time that thousands of people were killed during the protests that rocked Iran over the last two weeks.

In a speech on Thursday, Khamenei said that thousands of people had been killed, "some in an inhuman, savage manner", and blamed the US for the death toll. The supreme leader railed against the US president, Donald Trump, whom he called a "criminal" for his support of demonstrations, and called for strict punishment of protesters.

Khamenei said: "By God's grace, the Iranian nation must break the back of the seditionists just as it broke the back of the sedition."

Iranian authorities also released a compilation of footage on Saturday that purported to show armed individuals carrying guns and knives alongside regular protesters " evidence, they said, of foreign saboteurs.

Another senior Iranian cleric demanded the execution of protesters, demanding that "armed hypocrites should be put to death".


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#71 New York Penal Law 175.10 is made-up?

Sorry, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut.

The law isn't subject to your whimsical fantasies.

#76 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-10 06:46 PM

Then ...
The law isn't subject to your whimsical fantasies.
#76 | Posted by A_Friend

Increasing it to a felony is Federal jurisdiction.

#79 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-10 06:49 PM

Then...
#79 That is, of course, a lie.

#83 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-10 06:51 PM

Then ...
#79

New York Penal Law 175.10 defines Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, a Class E Felony, which occurs when someone commits the misdemeanor of falsifying business records (NYPL 175.05) with an additional intent to defraud, which includes intending to commit another crime or to aid/conceal another crime's commission, escalating the charge from a misdemeanor to a felony, as seen in cases involving financial fraud or covering up underlying illegal acts.

Gosh, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut, I don't see anywhere in there about the Federal government.

Care to point it out, liar?

#87 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-10 07:00 PM

No answer (so far).

As expected from a coward.

snip ...

Any of these would hit the US economy like a freight train.

The immediate effect would be a violent repricing of US risk. The Fed isn't buying bonds anymore, might even be selling them. The market depends on private buyers willing to step in. If Europe flips from buyer to seller, the imbalance turns catastrophic.

A coordinated shock, with confidence collapsing, could spike the 10-year Treasury by 150 to 250 basis points in weeks. The term premium, what investors demand to hold long-term risk, would explode.

Housing would freeze instantly. Mortgage rates price off the 10-year Treasury. If that jumps to 6.5% or 7%, mortgages blow past 10%. At 10%, housing affordability dies. Transactions stop. Construction financing evaporates.

Home values fall, wiping out middle-class wealth and killing consumer confidence.

Banks face a mark-to-market nightmare. They hold trillions in Treasuries. When yields rise, bond values fall. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 2023 from unrealized losses on its bond book. A 200-basis point spike would create trillions in paper losses across the banking system.

Even banks that survive would hoard capital and stop lending. Small and regional banks, the ones without massive hedging operations, would be staring down insolvency.

The federal government, the world's biggest debtor, would see debt service costs explode. Interest payments already rival defense spending. A permanent rate shock pushes that past $1.5 trillion annually. To cover it, the government either cuts spending or prints money, creating an inflation spiral.

Of course, this is what Major DEI Boazo wants.

And what she claims is what the American people voted for.

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