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Noam party chairman MK Avi Maoz resigned Monday from his position as deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Office in protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to implement parts of the coalition agreements. Maoz wrote to Netanyahu in his resignation letter: "With G-d's help, as a partner in the coalition, I will continue to support all the moves we agreed on together, including the all-important legislation to restore the balance between the legislative and judicial branches and more." "Throughout the generations, the people of Israel knew how to protect what is dearest to them," he wrote. "With the establishment...

A California-based law firm has accused Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Runbeck Election Services, and a slew of other election officials, mayors, judges, city councilman, and county supervisors in the state of receiving bribes from the Sinaloa cartel. During a Thursday hearing before the Senate Elections and Municipal Oversight & Elections Joint Committee, the principal investigator for Harris/Thaler Law Corporation, Jacqueline Breger, presented their shocking findings, detailing how a money-laundering investigation in the midwest revealed alleged corruption in Arizona.

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Corpus Christi Army Depot, TexasCorpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) for rotary wing aircraft. It has been a tenant of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi since 1961.The CCAD mission is to ensure aviation readiness for all service and international sales programs. Corpus Christi Army Depot is the industry leader in repairing and overhauling helicopters, engines, and components in Army Aviation. As the largest rotary wing repair facility on the globe, the depot excels by delivering the highest quality product....

Elon Musk has regained his spot as the world's richest man, unseating LVMH's Bernard Arnault who briefly assumed the position this year after Tesla's stock had taken a beating along with Musk's net worth.Bezos, Gates, and Buffett aren't even close...Thanks to a 5.5% surge in TSLA stock today, 51-year-old Musk's net worth jumped to $187.1billion......while 75-year-old Arnault has seen his net worth drift slightly lower in the last week or so (after LVMH's strong gains early on), back to only $185.3...Tesla has recovered to a $650bn market cap (up $315 billion in market cap year-to-date)...Tesla’s gains this year (+92% YTD)...

City officials auctioned off nearly $225 million worth of surplus COVID-19 medical equipment and safety gear for just $500,000 — or a paltry 0.2 cents on the dollar, according to a stunning report Tuesday.De Blasio’s administration also overpaid for items that included 50,000 face shields at $6.70 each, compared to an average price at the start of the pandemic of $3.67, The City said, citing information from city Comptroller Brad Lander. They’re now part of a massive lot of 701,000 face shields that were reportedly put up for auction last week with an opening bid of just $1,000, or 0.14...

As Twitchy reported earlier, Chaya Raichik, the woman behind Libs of TikTok, has published a children's book. The book tells children not to keep secrets from their parents and warns them to be wary of adults who would ask them to keep secrets from their parents. A lot of lefties have a problem with this lesson. Ph.D. candidate and eagle-eyed super-sleuth caught Raichik in a really embarrassing slip-up, though. Her illustrator slipped a trans character into her book! Far-right terrorist grifter @ChayaRaichik10 released a children's book to encourage anti-queer violence. In a hilarious twist of irony, the illustrator made the...

My wife works at the Minnesota state legislature, and the other day she was describing the scene as the Minnesota State Senate passed a bill that would grant illegal immigrants the right to get driver’s licenses.The concept itself has pros and cons–mainly having to do with ensuring that illegal immigrants be forced to carry insurance if and when they are on the road. I dislike the idea itself but understand how others might make a policy argument for it.What I cannot understand is the fact that illegal immigrants have been testifying before our legislature, threatening to vote legislators out of...

In January San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC) released it’s plan for making things right. The big headline to come out of the plan was a reparations payment of $5 million to each black San Franciscan.AARAC calls for one-time, lump-sum reparations payments of $5 million to each eligible recipient. The amount could cover the “the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy,” the draft states.To qualify for the payments, residents must be 18 at the time the committee’s proposal is...

With so many things going to pieces all around the world these days, it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Particularly when so much of the global news media’s attention is riveted on the war in Ukraine, other things can slip through the cracks. For example, were you aware that the government of South Africa has basically collapsed? And it happened fairly quickly. Take a look at this lengthy Twitter thread from someone who actually lives there. The government and the police have almost disappeared, the energy grid has imploded, half of the people in the country...

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Monday on “Deadline” that the Republican Party now embraces the “value of lying” because they embraced “big fat liar” former President Donald Trump. Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “I think Claire, you and I are relics from an era when you could disagree about stuff, lots of stuff, big stuff, but you, by and large, shared facts. I think what the Dominion lawsuit lays bare, what the Congressman’s describing about Kevin McCarthy being beheld into the lowest element of his caucus. The people who went on TV and bragged about breaking him to give him the...

We have another mini-freakout from a COVID test result. Yes, it’s from a medical professional still masking and getting endless doses of the coronavirus vaccine. Meet Dr. Deepti Gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist who is also an intersectional feminist. She got infected and decided to go on a lengthy thread about her journey. She does not know where she picked up the pathogen, but it’s irrelevant. It’s an airborne virus whose prevalence peaks around the same time as cold and flu season. It’s something to behold because most don’t care anymore. There’s a reason why nations like Japan downgraded COVID. It’s...

St. Louis, Mo., Feb 23, 2023 / 10:12 am (CNA). A group of religious leaders representing a significant portion of the world’s Anglicans voted this week to reject the leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby after the Church of England’s governing body in early February voted to bless same-sex couples. The Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA), composed of 14 of the 25 Anglican provinces in areas such as Africa and Oceania, issued a statement Feb. 20 accusing the Church of England, of which Welby is senior bishop, of breaking communion with the provinces who remain faithful to...

Ukraine has a mixed record on attracting foreign private investment. In 2021, it ranked as the second-lowest country in Europe on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, behind only Russia. Vavrishchuk said the country would need to enforce the rule of law, ensure transparency and fair competition. "Participation in the post-war reconstruction could be attractive for investors," he said. "But still we will have to address all those issues (transparency and corruption) that we have not had time to before the war began."

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday claimed American taxpayers have a “moral duty” to defend Ukraine’s eastern border from invasion by giving aid to the nation. In a New York Times op-ed published while the secretary visited the nation, Yellen said the American support “is motivated, first and foremost, by a moral duty to come to the aid of a people under attack.” American lawmakers have so far earmarked more than $110 billion of taxpayer funds to defend the border against a Russian invasion.

For months, political observers and strategists have been keeping their eyes and ears wide open, hoping to find out two big things about the 2024 Senate race in West Virginia.The first and biggest question they have: Will Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin run for reelection?The second most important question: Is Republican Gov. Jim Justice, a supposed political ally of Manchin’s, going to throw his hat into the ring in a potential challenge to Manchin should he go for another term?Both Manchin and Justice have been extremely cagey about the issue, with Justice recently indicating he’d have an answer to the question...

Woody Harrelson, who has a history of spreading COVID-19 conspiracy theories, has drawn criticism for appearing to denounce pandemic safety measures and vaccines during his "Saturday Night Live" monologue this weekend.

The news that the US Department of Energy gathered new intelligence showing COVID-19 likely originated in a Chinese virology lab was a major topic at Monday’s White House press conference.That probably explains the absence of Karine Jean-Pierre, who has shown no ability to handle tough questions from even normally friendly members of the press. Instead, John Kirby took the podium, and he didn’t do much better.In an incredibly bizarre exchange, Kirby endorsed gain-of-function research when asked whether the president believes the “reward outweighs the risk.”"Does the president believe that the reward outweighs the risk when it comes to gain-of-function research?"John...

Islamic religious leaders have backed an all-Muslim presidential ticket as a political "jihad" ahead of the Feb. 25 elections.Nigeria’s Christian leaders are calling for both full engagement in the country’s democratic process, and faith in the viability of the country’s future, ahead of elections scheduled for Feb. 25, after Islamic religious leaders have backed an all-Muslim presidential ticket on religious grounds. The country’s upcoming election took on religious significance after the governing All Progressive Congress party decided to field an all-Muslim ticket for president and vice president, in a departure from the country’s customary electoral practice, which sees parties pairing...

WASHINGTON — President Biden told a White House audience “I may be a white boy, but I’m not stupid” in a cringeworthy attempt at self-deprecating humor during an event celebrating Black History Month. The 80-year-old president made the bizarre remark moments after joking that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who is black, no longer talks to him. “I may be a white boy, but I’m not stupid. I know where the power is … you think I’m joking. I learned a long time ago about the Divine Nine,” Biden said, referring to a group of African-American sororities. Jeffries “is...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 17, 2023 / 12:50 pm A Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate committee shot down a House-passed bill that would have required doctors to render medical care to an infant who is born alive after an abortion attempt, which prevents the legislation from moving forward. The legislation, sponsored by Del. Nick Freitas, R-Culpeper, would have required any health care provider who performs or assists in an attempted abortion in which the infant is born alive to provide the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” to preserve the life that they would to any other child born at...