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The Israeli military said its aircraft attacked Hamas armed compounds in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to 20 fires sparked by incendiary balloons launched earlier in the day from the territory into southern Israel. At least one explosive balloon was reported over southern Israel, with residents reporting that they saw and heard the balloon explode in the air, according to Israeli media. The escalation came after an Israeli nationalist march, as part of “Jerusalem Day” in East Jerusalem that angered Palestinians. #صور مواجهات بين شبان وقوات الاحتلال على السياج الفاصل شرق رفح جنوب قطاع غزة، بالتزامن مع “مسيرة...

A team of armed carjackers in Houston allegedly targeted the wrong person and one ended up getting shot in the neck after a shoutout with the intended victim.The Harris County Sheriff's Office said that they believe the same armed carjackers had previously shot a victim in another incident earlier Tuesday. That victim, who is in his 50s, said he was approached at a 7-Eleven gas station by two or three males attempting to take his truck. When he fought back, they shot him in the abdomen. Police responded to another shooting scene only 30 minutes later and about five miles...

Israel’s newly sworn-in prime minister Naftali Bennett gave his opening address in the Knesset on Sunday to a plenum of hecklers from the opposition interrupting his speech every step of the way. Israel’s 36th government passed a vote of confidence at a special Knesset session with Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett sworn in as Israel’s 13th prime minister. Although he accused Israel’s leadership under Netanyahu of being a failure, the overall theme of his speech was a call for unity. To emphasize his point, Bennett invoked the destruction of both the first and second Temples saying: “there have been times...

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - JUST two weeks into the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season and already three disturbances are being monitored in various sections of the Western Hemisphere. The first one is expected to fully develop off the coast of the United States and Canada in the coming days. According to the National Hurricane Center, satellite and surface observations indicated that a well-defined low pressure system, located about 90 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, is acquiring more tropical characteristics. Meteorologists said that environmental conditions appear conducive for further development, and that a tropical depression or tropical storm is likely...

Shelby Houlihan, the middle-distance runner who currently holds two U.S. records, says she's been banned from the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone. Houlihan says she's clean and is blaming the test result on a pork burrito she got from a food truck. Anti-doping officials don't agree with the runner. They've handed Houlihan a four-year ban, just before U.S. Olympic trials for the track and field team will begin in Eugene, Ore., this weekend. "I feel completely devastated, lost, broken, angry, confused and betrayed by the very sport that I've loved and poured myself into just to...

When business owner Bobby Read approached the Brooksville City Council about purchasing a municipal building at the base of the small Florida city's water tower, he didn't expect the water tower to come with it. Read discovered the mistake after the property had been sold to him for $55,000. The certified personal trainer intended to turn the building, which various city departments used for storage, into a personal training studio named Downtown Athletics. But when he went to the county property appraiser's office to get an address for his new business, the county told him he'd received much more than...

by Samantha FosterMinutes ago, Project Veritas released interviews and secret audio and videos made by Fox 26 Houston reporter Ivory Hecker, documenting what she calls "corruption" and "censorship" by her management and executives at Fox Corp.Previously 24News reported how Hecker's stunning announcement of this fact live on-air...for which she was suspended today by her boss -- the same boss who -- among others -- is exposed in her released videos.Now, Tuesday night, Project Veritas has released recordings of Fox News Corp supervisor telling Hecker to “cease and desist” posting on Hydroxychloroquine, the life saving drug touted by President Trump, Ivermectin,...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge in Louisiana, who ordered that plans be resumed for lease sales that were delayed for the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

How many minutes are there in a kilometer? 87 Who was the first person to land on the sun? Lance Armstrong What country is Venice, Italy located in? Paris What is the smallest country in the world? Paris etc.

Legendary RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson and Epiphone present the new Alex Lifeson Epiphone Les Paul Standard Axcess electric guitar. Created by Lifeson and the luthiers at Epiphone in Nashville, Tennessee, the Alex Lifeson Epiphone Les Paul Standard Axcess is now available worldwide at Epiphone.com. Through an extensive collaboration between Alex and Gibson, Epiphone pushed the boundaries of the classic Les Paul to create the exclusive Alex Lifeson Les Paul Standard Axcess. The guitar includes a pair of powerful Epiphone pickups — the Pro Bucker 3 bridge pickup and the Ceramic Pro neck pickup. It also includes coil-splitting options via the...

There are various other views on the identity of Edom, which I think would be helpful to discuss.Edom is such an important entity in Prophecy , I think it is important to be clear on who Scripture is talking about. Orthodox Jews have long believed that Edom is Rome, and by extension, the West. For example of Talmudic teaching on the identity of Edom, here is an excerpt from the Midrash Tachuma: After Hadrian, king of Edom conquered the world, he returned to Rome and said to his officers: “I want you to make me a god, since I have...

A Virginia school district has gained national attention over its commencement speaker’s controversial speech telling graduates they were entering a world of “racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, [and] white supremacy.” Abrar Omeish, the sole Muslim member of the Fairfax County School Board in Virginia, delivered the commencement address at Justice High School in Falls Church, Va., last Monday.

Who are the bishops fighting for pro-abortion politicians? A closer lookHere’s a closer look at the key players working to protect abortion promoters from accountability.June 15, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. bishops will vote this week on whether to begin to formally address giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians and other pro-abortion Catholics in America — but not without pushback.The vote comes as prelates across the country raise renewed concerns about “Eucharistic coherence” following the inauguration of dissident President Joe Biden, the self-stylized “second Catholic president” of the United States. The long-overdue move to address the scandal of churchgoers who...

Better than 94.76% of the other new music out there. Charley Crockett - Lesson In Depression

Following the latest hot inflationary print, more investors are becoming skeptical of the Fed's view that inflationary pressures are "transitory". Yesterday, famed investor Paul Tudor Jones lamented the deluge of money pumped into the financial system by fiscal and monetary policymakers, and warned that markets might go "bat sh*t crazy" after Wednesday's FOMC press conference, which PTJ believes could be the most important meeting of Chair Jerome Powell's tenure, as the Fed sees its grip on a rapidly overheating economy start to slip. On Tuesday morning, billionaire hedge fund investor Kyle Bass warned during an appearance on CNBC that official...

Joe Biden needs a flash card to remind him that he thinks everything is Trump’s fault. How pathetic. https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1404833935570440197

A court livestream captured the moment when convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein learned that he will be extradited from a New York prison to Los Angeles to stand another trial on multiple sexual assault charges. The 69-year-old disgraced film mogul buried his head into his hands soon after an Erie County judge made the ruling Tuesday, as seen on a court livestream. Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year sentence at the upstate New York Wende Correctional Facility on convictions of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act.

17:26 video at link.

After Joe Biden's laughably pathetic G& performance has world leaders telling their staff Joementia is not long for the office of President. https://banned.video/watch?id=60c7d428b85f6f073f7ce5cf

ASSASSINS IN IRAQ KILL ARAB LEADER; Fakhri Bey Nashashibi, Foe of Terrorists in Palestine, Slain in Baghdad BACKED BRITISH IN WAR Victim Denounced Haj Amin el Husseini, Now in Berlin, After Flight From Country. The New York Times, November 10, 1941, p. 3. https://www.nytimes.com/1941/11/10/archives/assassins-in-iraq-kill-arab-leader-fakhri-bey-nashashibi-foe-of.html ___ Sachar, H. M. (1974). Europe Leaves the Middle East, 1936-1954. United Kingdom: Allen Lane. pp.91-92.https://books.google.com/books?id=rrBtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22efforts%22 henchman,+Aref+al-+Razzaq Thus, in August, 1936, Nasr al-Din Nasr, the mayor of Hebron, was shot dead outside his home. The mukhtar (village leader) of Caesaria met the same fate in February, 1937. In April of that year Ibrahim Yusuf, a member...