This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com
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The victory lap over Gaza-Hamas was inspirational, however, there are difficult and dangerous days ahead before “true peace” will come to Gaza and releasing 2,000 hardcore Hamas prisoners isn’t helpful.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-prisoners-mideast-war-4ff433ea39a313c1937d1c0a577efaf4
Note: 2,000 is the size of an Infantry Division.
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-Thousands of refugees have streamed back into Gaza giving Hamas major cover in ongoing action to rout them out and disarm them:
Door to door searches and sweeps will be required to remove all Hamas fighters!
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Masked Hamas fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as the group fights with rival powers
Violent clashes have erupted between Hamas and rival groups in several areas across Gaza, including an incident that culminated in an apparent public execution,
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/middleeast/gaza-public-execution-gaza-city-hamas-intl
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“We have told them we want them to disarm, and they will disarm. And if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them, and it’ll happen quickly and perhaps violently, but they will disarm,” he (Trump) said.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-if-hamas-doesnt-uphold-vow-to-disarm-we-will-disarm-them-perhaps-violently/
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Netanyahu says Hamas must disarm or "all hell breaks loose"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/netanyahu-hamas-gaza-peace-deal/
"First, Hamas has to give up its arms," Netanyahu said in an exclusive interview in Tel Aviv with "CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil. "And second, you want to make sure that there are no weapons factories inside Gaza. There's no smuggling of weapons into Gaza. That's demilitarization."
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God Almighty Free At Last
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/10/god-almighty-free-at-last.html
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Roanoke Times, 10-12-25 Pg A15
GOP’s fake anger over texts, M. Williams Times Dispatch
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Half-page 5-columns of PravdaMedia heifer-dust explaining that the Democrat candidate for Virginia Attorney General was OK in declaring deadly violence against a Republican candidate for office and his children.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/10/pathetic-virginia-democrats.html
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It’s hard to comment on such a ludicrous diatribe or on the background or motivations of the author.
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It’s also difficult to rationalize why the Times Dispatch or the Roanoke Times would publish this political tripe.
-Clearly politics does result in strange bed-fellows!
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Roanoke Times, 10-12-25, Pg 1
Palestinians return to ruins
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-trump-ceasefire-884178522d04ecf96a951a89d1a90e53
“Gaza is completely destroyed. I have no idea where we should live or where to go,” said Mahmoud al-Shandoghli in Gaza City as bulldozers clawed through the wreckage of two years of war. A boy climbed debris to raise the Palestinian flag.
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The ProPalestenian media is now focusing on the plight and ravages of war brought upon the Palestinian people in the Gaza by Hamas’ attack upon Israel.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/10/hamas-israeli-war-ending.html
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Having been in the still-bombed-out Russian sector of Berlin in 1961, 16-years after WW2, I am sensitized to those images and reality.-
Gaza is still under control of Armed Hamas Terrorists and release of 2000 convicted Hamas terrorists for 20-Israeli hostages is anticipated.
The plight of the Palestinian’s brings reflections of images of 1945 in Europe and Japan.
The issue now is will Hamas surrender and disarm as did the Germans and Japs in 1945, or is this just a brief respite in an ongoing never ending slog?
History in this area is Not encouraging.
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Good News: The “Trump End The Hostilities Proposal” has been accepted by both Hamas and Israel!
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Not So Good News:
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Top Virginia Democrats stand-by and support their DA candidate, Jones, who by his own public pronouncements is disqualified to be Va’s top prosecutor!
The Dem’s have totally lost not only the ‘high ground’ but any ground at all and may justifiably lose other state-level positions as a result!
-Too bad all those 'early voters for Jones" can't take back their votes!
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Democrats stand by Virginia AG hopeful who fantasized about killing GOP lawmaker
Jones has apologized for the texts but is remaining in the race
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-stand-virginia-ag-hopeful-who-fantasized-about-killing-gop-lawmaker
(May have to copy-past address into browser – it’s an anti-Fox thing)
Days after a bombshell National Review report exposed text messages in which Jones fantasized about shooting a Republican colleague in the head and harm coming to his children in 2022, Fox News Digital reached out to top Democrats who endorsed Jones and inquired whether their endorsements stand.
Dem. Sen. Cory Booker, who endorsed Jones in June, has not rescinded his endorsement of Jones and his office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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WATCH: Kaine defends Jones amid AG candidate’s texts envisioning murder of GOP leader: ‘Still a supporter’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kaine-defends-jay-jones-amid-ag-candidates-texts-envisioning-murder-top-republican-still-supporter
(May have to copy-past address into browser – it’s an anti-Fox thing)
Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine defended his fellow Democrat, former Del. Jay Jones of Norfolk, as the attorney general nominee’s campaign unravels after texts surfaced depicting Jones envisioning the murder of a top state Republican.
Pressed ahead of a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday, Kaine said Jones’ comments were "indefensible" but that he is "still a supporter" of his candidacy against incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares.
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Virginia Democrat AG Candidate Jones SelfDisqualifies
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/10/virginia-democrat-ag-candidate-jones.html
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Every day we are flooded with “news” about AIs future massive impacts on our lives, society and finances. Everyone’s life and job will be significantly changed. Our personal judgements, opinions and work-product marginalized and rejected as trivia and ignored.
Some entities are presenting AI as the all-powerful Fortune Teller foretelling the future based on massive data of the past and present and cause/effect relationships far too complex for today’s analysis or our comprehension.
As we try to comprehend what AI will yield going forward, we might reflect on what AIs proclamations would have been “the day before” significant events occurred that profoundly changed history and fortunes.
If AI were Not able to predict those key events, how could society depend on AIs proclamations and projections to protect our lives and fortunes?
What would AIs proclamations have been “the day before” these events?