The only news on everywhere in Denmark yesterday was the televised announcement from Margrethe II that she intends to leave her throne after 52 years. I like the Danish Queen. I’ve seen her a couple of times when she visited the Royal Opera House. She seems to share my taste for Wagner.
Sunday, 14 January 2024, will be her last day as monarch.
Hamza Howidy has written an article for Newsweek that everyone should read. Hamas is the enemy of Gaza, too.
I know it’s too late. Shabbat is already here. 👍 Yay!
Haven’t written anything in days. Feel empty—on screen and in life.
It’s Friday night. Time to bring out the candles.
Today, in a few hours, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark will be king. People are gathering at the castle to celebrate this truly historic event. I’m stuck at the office, but follow the spectacle on news television.
“A prominent liberal priest faces expulsion from the Russian Orthodox church for refusing to read out a prayer asking God to guide Russia to victory over Ukraine,” the Guardian reports.
The Jerusalem Post writes about a female couple in Australia who decided to break an agreement with a sperm donor because he’s Jewish. Please, don’t the me that “anti-Zionism” isn’t anti-Semitism.
It’s one thing that Hamas terrorists deny the Holocaust. After all, Palestinian Arabs sided with Hitler in the Second World War. But this action by Al-Jazeera is so sick. I find no words.
The ink was barely dry on Russia’s decision to outlaw the gay-rights movement when masked police raided a bar in central Moscow, the Guardian reports. Not really surprising, but the irony is that Putin markets his assault on Ukraine as a war on Nazism, when, in fact, his politics is the most Nazi-like.
Finally some good news in this age of darkness.
In a new study, published by PNAS, a team of researchers present mathematical models alongside existing population records to calculate an average drop in family size of 35% by 2095.
I don’t think it’s a bad thing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, running for a new six-year term in an election that his opponents say is a parody of democracy, now says that American elections have been rigged by postal voting.
Well, I guess Putin thinks a corrupt dictator smells out a rigged election better than most.
“Nikko D'Ambrosio, 32, claims these women have harmed his reputation by posting negative comments about him on a private Facebook group where women talk abut their bad dates,” the Mirror reports.
The terrorists have built tunnels far longer than past estimate. Now we know why Palestinians suffer despite billions of dollars and euros in assistance from Europe and America. Our money builds tunnels under Gaza to accommodate the rockets Hamas fire against civilians in Israel.
The disgusting call for wiping out Israel and killing 7,000,000 Jews has now been heard at a rally in Haifa.
Here’s the list from Hollywood Reporter. My guess is that Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon will be the big winners.
It’s not the first time, and won’t be the last. People on the left has a list of issues to feel strongly about, without knowing much—if anything—about them. It’s all image. From the Times of Israel:
Israel actress, model and director Noa Tishby, who is also a staunch advocate for Israel and previously served as a volunteer antisemitism envoy, aired footage from an anti-Israel protest at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday where she interviews protesters who appear to be clueless about the war against terror group Hamas.
Tishby goes around asking protesters at the event in Park City, Utah questions such as which river the infamous “river to the sea” chant calling for the destruction of Israel at such protests is referring to.
“For the river to the sea, Palestinians need to be free from the occupation,” one protester tells Tishby. “What river?” she asks. “I forgot the river’s name but the sea is the Red Sea,” says the protester.
That same protester says he thinks “Israel should be dissolved.”
In all the madness, this new poll from Harvard shares some bright light.
It’s Friday night. Shabbat is upon us.