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While Israelis held by Hamas are subjected to the cruelest forms of torture. Saeb Erekat spent his life denouncing Israel and Israelis. But when he came down with Covid-19, he insisted on being treated at the Hadassah Hospital, where he received – as he knew he would – a standard of care unobtainable in Palestinian hospitals. He is one of many Palestinians who have counted on Israeli medical care. A report on this phenomenon is HERE. The coronavirus-related death of senior Palestinian figure Saeb Erekat in Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital has rekindled a debate in Israeli society about medicine and morality,...

Fakhrizadeh had planned the nuclear “Final Solution” to the Jewish State. Once again the European Union (EU) has shown its hypocrisy by lamenting the assassination of Iran’s nuclear project chief, Moshen Fakhrizadeh. Peter Stano, the spokesperson for Josep Borrell, the EU foreign affairs chief, tweeted that: “The killing of Moshen Fakhrizadeh and others is a criminal act and runs counter to the principle of respect for human rights that the EU stands for.” He was echoing former CIA Director John Brennan, an Obama appointee, who tweeted that, “this was a criminal act and highly reckless. It risks lethal retaliation and...

A deficiency in vitamin D on the mother’s side could explain why autism spectrum disorder is three times more common in boys, say Queensland Brain Institute researchers. In their latest study, Professor Darryl Eyles and Dr. Asad Ali found vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy caused an increase in testosterone in the developing brain of male rats. Increase in testosterone in the brain “The biological cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is unknown but we have shown that one of the many risk factors—low vitamin D in mothers—causes an increase in testosterone in the brain of the male fetuses, as well...

Meet Joe Biden’s choice to lead the White House Domestic Policy Council. On December 11, Joe Biden named Susan Rice to lead his White House Domestic Policy Council. Rice’s consistent track record of dishonesty, prevarication, and poor judgment stretches back decades. By the time she graduated from Stanford University with a degree in history in 1986, Rice was already a committed leftist with a heart and mind full of racial grievance. That year, she wrote an 86-page book titled A History Deferred, which claimed that because most U.S. students were “taught American history, literature, art, drama, and music largely from...

Now that the EC has voted, what happens if Biden or both Biden and Harris die before Pence meets with Congress to count the votes? Wouldn't the all the votes for Biden be invalid, and the election would go to the House of Rep., and the candidates limited to the top 3 voted candidates from the general election? Am I wrong about this?

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!.... Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It...

Ann Reinking, a dancer, actor and Tony Award-winning choreographer who performed on Broadway for nearly three decades, where she was also known for her long association with Bob Fosse and his work, died on Saturday. She was 71. Ms. Reinking died in her sleep in a hotel room in the Seattle area, where she was visiting her older brother, said Dahrla King, her sister-in-law. The cause was not yet known, she said.

Artist's impression of the HD 106906 system. (ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser) =================================================================== Most of the over 4,300 confirmed exoplanets discovered to date share something in common - a relatively close orbit to their host star. Now, astronomers have found something extraordinary - a giant exoplanet on a bizarre, 15,000-year orbit around a binary star. It's the first time scientists have been able to characterise such a huge orbit. The exoplanet is called HD 106906 b, clocking in at 11 times the mass of Jupiter. It orbits a pair of hot, main-sequence yellow-white stars called HD 106906; these stars are just 15...

President Donald Trump is tweeting that Attorney General Bill Barr will be leaving his job just before Christmas. He will be succeeded on an interim basis by deputy Jeff Rosen.In a Monday tweet, Trump, who is continuing to shuffle his staff even as a new administration is set to take office next month, had this to say: "just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays...

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. (Judges 16:30) While I pray that the contested electors approach and all court challenges work in our favor, here's a suggested backup 'deadman switch' suggestion. 1. Pardon Snowden. 2. Pardon Assange. 3. Pardon the major Trump players for crimes the left is intent on creating should they regain office...

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Pope Francis pledges zero CO2 by 2050 at pro-abortion UN climate conferenceThe pope joined pro–population control world leaders including U.N. secretary general António Guterres and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in a video conference commemorating the Paris Climate Accord.VATICAN CITY, December 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — “The moment has come for a change of direction,” Pope Francis urged the world in a video to the U.N. virtual Climate Ambition summit on Saturday, before begging viewers not to “rob the new generations of their hope in a better future.” The summit, attended by numerous state leaders, was held to mark five years...

Unsurprising. Warnock is, despite all the attempts at putting lipstick on a pig, a bigot who follows an extremist theology. He was sent out there to defend Jeremiah Wright, a former black Muslim, turned black nationalist preacher, who is a big fan of Farrakhan. It should come as no surprise that Warnock is also a Nation of Islam fan. Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock referred to the Nation of Islam as an “important” voice for African Americans during a 2013 speech in which he was comparing the Black power religion's numbers to “mainline Protestantism.” “Its voice has...

An Arizona Senate chairman on Monday announced he will order through a subpoena in the state’s largest county to audit their voting machines and software.Maricopa County officials told legislators during a six-hour public hearing that they wanted to conduct an audit, but were advised they couldn’t by lawyers because of ongoing litigation.“We understand that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors feels constrained, based upon the recommendations by legal counsel, in their ability to perform a forensic audit of the voting equipment software during this ongoing litigation. We don’t know how long that’s going to happen,” state Sen. Eddie Farnsworth, a...

How the fourth estate has turned into Biden’s fiefdom. The New York Times editors reached a new low of hypocrisy with their December 11th editorial entitled “The Republicans Who Embraced Nihilism.” Failure to embrace Joe Biden as the legitimate president-elect is tantamount in their eyes to embracing a nihilist rejection of America’s democratic process itself. That’s not surprising given the editors’ hysterical warning before the election that Trump’s re-election campaign “poses the greatest threat to American democracy since the Second World War.” Forget about the real threats posed by nuclear-armed Communist nations and global Islamist terrorism. President Trump is the...

The CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, a voting machine and software company, will answer questions from legislators in Michigan on Tuesday. It will be the first time John Poulos has answered questions since the Nov. 3 election, which saw 28 states use Dominion products. Poulos could face questioning about an audit released Monday that concluded Dominion’s system “is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.” Data firm Allied Security Operations Group examined machines and software in Antrim County this month, saying Dominion products were to blame for the infamous vote flip that...

Dominion Voting Systems, in response to a report from a company that performed a forensic audit in Michigan’s Antrim County, refuted the findings that were released Monday.“There were no software ‘glitches’ that ‘switched’ votes in Antrim County or anywhere else,” the firm wrote. “The errors identified in Antrim County were isolated human errors not involving Dominion.”“Extremely thorough and rigorous audits are performed on all EAC certified tabulation systems by third-party test labs, chosen by the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission and accredited by a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology,” the company wrote in an email. “Their tests...

Apple disappointed Wall Street in October when it reported a 20% drop in YOY iPhone revenue during its Q4 (remember, Apple runs on its own quarterly timeline) earnings report, something management tried to dismiss as simply a lull before the 5G upgrade "supercycle" was unleashed by the iPhone 12 generation of phones.As Tim Cook has been saying for years now, Apple is no longer all about the iPhone. The company finding more and more ways to diversify away from its dependence on the iPhone, the most revolutionary consumer tech product of the 21st Century (so far, at least), including investing...

And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. TLuke 1:30-33 (King James Version) The Amistad machines is a potential game changer and requires the election to...

"Social justice consultants" and proponents of critical race theory, which teaches children to judge each other based on their skin color, just locked down a major contract in one of Virginia's largest school districts. "Loudoun County Public Schools has entered into a new agreement that pays more than $50,000 to a California business that trains staff members to address bias and oppression while fostering an atmosphere of social justice," West NOVA News reports. "The district has announced it is committed to eradicating what it describes as “systemic racism” and is investing time and money in combatting the problem despite mixed...