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Jonathan Elkhoury- جوناثان الخوري @Jonathan_Elk: The idea that only white people are colonizers is crazy. Arabs are one of the biggest colonizers in the world. Arab against antisemitism ✡️ @arab_leb2 Arabs are not victims of colonialism; they are part of it and have played a great role in it. Jul 8, 2024

The Rudy Giuliani Show's coverage of the 2nd night of the GOP convention, with various guests, including Cenk Ugyur (yes, you read that correctly. The interview starts at 54:24 into the broadcast.

The Welsh Labour government is set to scrap its blanket 20mph speed limits just a year after they were introduced. Ken Skates, the Welsh transport minister, admitted 'errors have been made' with the scheme, which is set to be reverted in September this year with the introduction of new guidance across the country. This will allow local authorities to raise the speed limit to be back to 30mph on certain roads 'outside urban centres and rural residential roads with no nearby facilities'. They will also be increased on major routes, such as bus corridors, with minimal cyclist and pedestrian traffic...

Interviewing people on the street.

The first woman of Iranian descent to become a member of a Canadian provincial parliament wants Jews to know that they are not as isolated as they may think. “The Jewish community has more allies than they realize,” Goldie Ghamari, 39, who was born in Iran and has a Muslim family background, told JNS. “Iranians do not hate you. The Islamic regime does. We’re united. We’re allies. We’re on the same side.” Ghamari, who represents the riding of Carleton in Ontario delivered an emotional speech before the Ontario legislature in support of Israel on Oct. 17. “These terrorists shot dogs....

It emerged on Tuesday that the killer penetrated the security area of the rally a full three hours before carrying out his attack, after driving the 50 miles north from his home in Bethel Park on the southern outskirts of Pittsburgh. At 3pm he triggered a metal detector as he tried to gain access to the site, and was found to be carrying a rangefinder – a gun sight typically used by hunters and marksmen preparing to shoot at distance. But security officers allowed him in while keeping an eye on him until he left the secure area a short...

*May 2024: The palestinian woman "complains" to al Jazeera "All that is left fir them is is to erase us.." Then as Al Jazeera journalist starts to "report"... Her friend comes over and gives her thumbs up and she laughs out loud.Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad Mar 27, 2024: This is what Pallywood looks like - a Palestinian woman is interviewed on Al Jazeera, screaming and crying and immediately after the interview without knowing that she’s still being filmed, this is what happened... *May 17, 2024:A child is supposedly "crushed under a rubble." When all is filmed, he is being told to...

So I was thinking recently about how the man-made climate change promoters discuss the topic like a proven fact on the scientific level. I then remembered what the scientific method involves: 1. Ask a Question 2. Do Background Research 3. Construct a Hypothesis 4. Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment 5. Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion 6. Communicate Your Results Notice step 4: "Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment" Has this ever been done? Every time I see this topic pushed around as fact, I never ever hear about tests on any scale being done to...

COLUMBIA, Ky. (WBKO) - Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was watching Donald Trump’s speech at the Pennsylvania rally on television with his wife Saturday, when the shots were fired at the former president, shocking the nation. “As this unfolded, we were horrified by it. We still are,” Paul said. “Violence, of course, has no place in our in our country.” After addressing the crowd at an appearance in Columbia on Monday, Paul spoke with the media about the attempted assassination, echoing the comments of many government officials, urging political leaders to “calm down the rhetoric.” “I’m sure there’s rhetoric on the...

The Biden campaign might be the single greatest act of financial fraud in history. “Last month I co-hosted the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, for President Biden’s re-election,” former ER actor George Clooney revealed in a New York Times op-ed calling for him to drop out. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.” At the fundraiser, George...

"See something, say something." After the 9/11 disaster, that phrase served as a terse marching order for alert American citizens willing to help stop terror attacks on U.S. soil. "See something, say something" is superb national security advice. 9/11 demonstrated America is under attack. Every citizen can contribute to the defense effort. On Saturday, July 13, several alert citizens attending a presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, saw a young man lurking near a building adjacent to the fairground where presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump intended to deliver a speech. The young man was later seen on the...

“Democrats must recover quickly and say: Trump has been uniquely responsible for stoking the violence that apparently grazed his ear,” The Nation’s Joan Walsh wrote. Beyond the obvious ju-jitsu of a leftist blaming one of her targets for getting shot, there’s that ‘apparently’ in there. Walsh had also tweeted, “Has there been any kind of news conference by Trump’s doctors? I just find this weirder every moment.” “Is Trump’s bandage covering evidence that he wasn’t shot? Still waiting for confirmation from credible sources beyond Trump on his Truth Social that he was actually hit by a bullet rather than hit...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden spent more than a week in meetings and on phone calls addressing Democrats’ concerns about his candidacy with a positive, conciliatory message about his path forward. At times, he even sounded contrite about his uneven debate performance, which prompted calls for him to suspend his re-election campaign. He took blunt questions about his mental acuity in stride. He smiled through suggestions from allies that he take a cognitive test or consider allowing someone younger to take his place on the Democratic ticket. He agreed that his supporters have legitimate concerns and promised to show them...

Many prominent Court reform proposals from recent years fall into two main categories: those that would change the size of the Supreme Court (sometimes called “court packing”) and those that would impose term limits or age limits for Supreme Court Justices. Congress has broad authority to set or change the size of the Supreme Court through ordinary legislation, but implementation of term or age limits would likely require a constitutional amendment.

This piece was first published in 2019. My book Hillbilly Elegy is really an exploration of the American Dream as it was experienced by me and my family and the broader community in which I lived. It chronicled a real decline in the American Dream, not because people weren’t consuming as much as they have in the past – if you look at the trend lines, we’re certainly able to buy more stuff today than we ever have been able to. It’s a story about family decline, childhood trauma, opioid abuse, community decline, decline of the manufacturing sector, and all...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans fear their country is spiraling out of control following an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, with worries growing that the Nov. 5 election could spark more political violence, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday found. The two-day poll found Republican presidential candidate Trump opening a marginal lead among registered voters - 43% to 41% - over Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, an advantage that was within the poll's 3 percentage point margin of error, suggesting the attempt on Trump's life had not sparked a major shift in voter sentiment. But 80% of voters - including...

The stunning fall of the “woke” boss at CBS News last week was a “head on a stick moment” at the Tiffany Network — and was a case of a divisive executive who had long been viewed as untouchable. ... Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, a 30-year CBS News veteran who was its highest-ranking woman of color — and who abruptly stepped down as president last week after less than a year on the job. The Dominican-born executive — who for years had weathered CBS firestorms including the sexual misconduct scandals that toppled Charlie Rose and “60 Minutes” boss Jeff Fager in 2018...

Donald Trump will not seek to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell before the central banker’s term ends and would consider JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary if he won the Nov. 5 election, the former president told Bloomberg in an interview published on Tuesday. JPMorgan declined to comment on Trump’s remarks. Powell’s term as chairman runs through Januray 2026, and his position as a Fed governor continues until 2028. The interview was conducted in late June, according to Bloomberg. Trump said the Federal Reserve should abstain from cutting rates before the November elections in which the Republican presidential...

My latest (bonus) song - NSFW!!! Kinky Friedman RIP.

President Biden was raked over the coals by a group of center-left House Democrats on Saturday in what sources said was a "tense" – even "awful" – meeting aimed at stemming defections on Capitol Hill. Why it matters: Biden got particularly animated towards a question from Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) about slipping public confidence in his leadership as commander-in-chief, according to several members in the meeting. "That was a complete disaster. We saw the same Joe Biden from the debate," said one House Democrat on the call. "It was awful," said another lawmaker. A third told Axios: "Members were not...