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Baharav-Miara castigated in raucous hours-long- debate as ministers allege soft approach to anti-overhaul demo; AG: I hope gov't isn't seeking to overrule police, set arrest quotas A succession of ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline government castigated Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara during a raucous, hours long cabinet meeting on Sunday, in which she was repeatedly attacked over authorities' handling of lawbreaking during demonstrations against the government. Several calls were made for her dismissal. Netanyahu started off what became an angry and tempestuous debate by telling Baharav-Miara that "selective enforcement is a fatal wound to democracy" and his ministers soon...

Germany is set to insist on delaying Ukraine’s accession to Nato over fears the move could take the alliance to war with Russia.An alliance source said Berlin would use the annual Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania this week to urge others to focus on security assurances, rather than membership proposals, to help Ukraine defend itself in the absence of accession.“Berlin is stand-offish at the prospect of offering immediate membership,” the source told The Telegraph. “It wants a process and time to develop guarantees to essentially block membership.”“Berlin doesn’t want to see Vladimir Putin potentially test Article 5.”Under Nato’s alliance’s Article...

Eighty-five years after Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Munich's main synagogue, construction workers have found rubble from the building in a nearby river.They uncovered columns from the synagogue and a stone tablet showing some of the Ten Commandments.The Jewish community and local figures are delighted with the discovery...There had been no sign of the building since it was torn down in June 1938, after Hitler demanded its removal as an "eyesore". Five months later, Jews, synagogues and Jewish-run businesses were attacked across Nazi Germany in the deadly November pogrom widely known as Kristallnacht...The stone tablet originally came from above...

Nine people were injured when a gunman opened fire on a group of people in Cleveland, Ohio, around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning. ABC News reported a group of people was standing outside in Cleveland’s Warehouse District when began shooting at them. The suspect fled the scene after firing the shots and there were no fatalities. NBC News noted the shooting suspect is still on the loose

Up close and live evidence of the sniffing creep Joe Biden - telling her "don't tell mommy".

Another creepy video of Joe Biden has the internet buzzing, this time of the 80-year-old whispering to a young child before appearing to audibly sniff her. The video shows Biden was mingling with a woman holding her child, unaware he was being recorded during the exchange by a friend. “Lemme whisper you a secret,” Biden says before his face disappears off camera to lean closer to the child followed by three loud “sniffs.”

Sometimes, certain things can become very annoying. And here is one, that likely only male members of FR might think of and surely (or at least very, VERY hopefully!) only our guys have experienced: Sweatpants / running pants / jogging pants can be handy and quite comfy, sweatpants in cool weather especially so. BUT, the darn things almost never have some sort of fly, as in a zippered or buttoned or "snapped" (securely!) fly. This can be a bit of a, well, "pain", or at least an inconvenience, especially if the waist is a bit tight, and, well, I won't...

ANZ and NAB have announced they were no longer permitting cash withdrawals over the counter at some of their outlets as more banking is done online than with cash. The move comes after Queensland woman Taryn Comptyn was unable to withdraw cash from her local bank branch and ended up closing her account in a now-viral TikTok clip. 'They really did emphasise the need to call ahead if you're going to take out significant amounts of money,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'If you're taking out amounts that are over $10,000, it's worth calling ahead to make sure that they...

The evidence is overwhelming: they're not born with it. Not the L, the G, the B, or the T...or any of the rest. The current travesty of giving estrogen to boys and testosterone to girls and of cutting off their genitalia has its roots in a lie that was promoted by the homosexual community. It is the identity lie. It is the lie that people are born gay, that they have no choice, and that they are not responsible for their behavior. This lie is told by the media. It is told in our schools. It is everywhere. Robin Goodspeed...

9 July 202314th Sunday in Ordinary TimeThe reliquary of the Martyrs of Gorkum at the Franciscan church of St Nicholas in Brussels.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingZechariah 9:9-10 ©See now, your king comes humbly to youThe Lord says this:Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion!Shout with gladness, daughter of Jerusalem!See now, your king comes to you;he is victorious, he is triumphant,humble and riding on a donkey,on a colt, the foal of a donkey.He will banish chariots from Ephraimand horses from Jerusalem;the bow of war will be banished.He will proclaim peace for the nations.His empire shall stretch from sea...

The US has passed the 32 trillion mark in national debt, and is going much, much higher. More like 32 tons on the back of taxpayers. When we add unfunded liabilities like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the tab soars to $224.5 TRILLION. New data show that a growing number of U.S. firms are collapsing under the weight of higher interest rates as corporate bankruptcies reached their highest first-half levels since 2010. In the first six months of 2023, there were 340 corporate bankruptcies, topping every other comparable span in 13 years, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. This is...

A TikTok boat jumping challenge that sees people jump from the rear of the vessels while moving at high speed has been blamed for four deaths in Alabama. The challenge, which has been popularized on TikTok, involves individuals engaging in dangerous water activities. Those participating in the challenge launch themselves from the rear of a boat and into the wake behind it, as the boat continues to move. Now, officials in Alabama have said the new fad has claimed the lives of four people, after they broke their necks instantly. Officials said in the last six months, they had to...

The Ron DeSantis campaign continues to collapse under the inertia of its central flaw, a terrible candidate.Hundreds-of-millions have been amassed to structure the pretending, create the brand image and present the narrative of something completely false.The central flaw was always, eventually, going to surface.Tens of millions have been spent on the launch and careful construct. However, when the core of the effort is built upon a false premise, there is nothing that can be done to change the outcome. Truth has a way of being self-evident; this represents the ultimate problem for the DeSantis team.Every single week since the launch...

Joe Biden, like Forrest Gump, is not a smart man. His latest Ron Burgundy moment comes as Exhibit 1,322b. READ MORE: Joe Biden, President Non Compos Mentis On Monday, he quoted a woman calling high-speed internet “the best thing that has happened to rural America since the Rural Electrification Act brought electricity to farms in the 30s and 40s.” When he finished reading that off a teleprompter, he read the words: “End of quote.” When you lead the No. 1 news team in San Diego, this sort of thing can lead to job loss, beard growth, alcoholism, depression, and drinking...

SPECIAL DISPATCHES FROM FREDERICK. FREDERICK, Md., Tuesday, July 7 -- 9 P.M. The latest intelligence from the front places LEE'S headquarters at Hagerstown to-day. The prospect of another conflict ere crossing the river is not promising. LEE secured the short line of retreat by seizing the Waynesboro Gap. The weather is very wet, and the roads heavy, yet the troops are doing well. The total number of prisoners captured, reported at the Provost-Marshal General's Office up to last night, including the wounded, is in the vicinity of eleven thousand. There is no truth in the stories of great amounts of...

@BorisJohnson Joe Biden has taken a difficult but brave decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine. He is right. These are terrible weapons. But they have been used by Putin for over a year in his programme of indiscriminate slaughter of an entirely innocent people. The faster we help the Ukrainians to win, the more lives we will save all round. And never forget - it is the Ukrainians who will use these weapons on their own soil, and to protect themselves.

The ‘Right’ to Rape and Enslave Non-Muslim Women 07/04/2023 by Raymond Ibrahim 6 Comments Enslaved Yazidi women “I will burn you all. I will cut your throats. I will rape you and your mother because I have the right to do so.” Such were the recent words of a Muslim man to a minor girl in France, who had been chatting with him on Facebook. After she refused him, he defaulted to irate terrorist threats, at one point also texting, “Soon we will cut your throats and play football with your heads.” The communication was accompanied by a video showing...

Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis said on Sunday he would appoint 21 new cardinals from across the world at the end of September as he seeks to leave his imprint on the papacy. "Their provenance expresses the universality of the Church that continues to proclaim God's merciful love to all people on earth," said the pope, following his weekly Sunday Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace on Saint Peter's Square. The consistory will be the ninth for the creation of cardinals under Pope Francis, 86, who became pope a decade ago and is seeking to put...

President Biden was spotted soaking up the sun Saturday during a beach outing that came after a tough four-day workweek. The commander-in-chief caught some rays at the beach near his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Biden, 80, sported blue swim trunks adorned with sea turtles and a white polo shirt as he sunk his toes in the sand alongside First Lady Jill Biden.

Saw an ad for an eco-friendly cleaning product on Fox News yesterday. I meant to check it out online, but got waylaid with other things. I cannot remember the name of the product. Does anyone know what it is? Also, is this product any good?