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IDF soldiers fired on Hezbollah terrorists who attempted to breach Israel's north from Lebanon near Metula, Israeli media reported. The terrorists approached the northern border on motorcycles, reports said.

An ex-Amish TikToker revealed that the national smartphone emergency alert got his friends from the religious community in trouble for having phones. Every US smartphone, television and radio received an alert on Wednesday at 2:18pm ET as part of a nationwide test for an emergency alert system. Unfortunately for three members of the Amish community, the alert also involved a powerful alarm sound that outed them for having modern devices - which go against their beliefs. Amish beliefs and traditions condemn modern technology and encourage plain clothing. The community is known for not using any modern devices, dressing in old-fashioned...

An Israeli child has died three years after appearing with his father, who is a pediatrician, in a government film informing children that they have no choice about whether to take the COVID vaccine when it becomes available. Yonatan Erlichman was five years old at the time of the video, which was produced by Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, a regional government body. It aired as an episode in the government-run program, “Shushki in the Land of Binyamin,” "to entertain and educate” children. Shushki is a friendly puppet “child” who asks questions to prompt actual people to respond with “educational answers.”...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:35 — 31.3MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Android | RSS | MoreDr. Ryan Cole stands out as a prominent figure within the national and international community of pathologists who sound the alarm on the adverse effects of Covid shots. In his once-thriving laboratory, Cole was observing severe damage done to the human body exposed to toxic spike protein from the injections, which he dared to publicize. Cole has also been prescribing “unapproved” early treatments for Covid, such as ivermectin, with wonderful results. Such substantiated deviations from the official Covid dogma made him...

Synodal silence: Pope says church must pause, ‘fast’ from public words“The church is taking a break,” Pope Francis said.“It is a break for the whole church, as we engage in listening,” he told members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops — and journalists.Addressing the opening working session of the assembly, the pope may have exaggerated a bit, yet for participants his words certainly rang true. For the duration of the assembly Oct. 4-29 all the heads of Vatican dicasteries and hundreds of cardinals, archbishops, bishops, religious superiors, professors, students and parents were scheduled to be away from their...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Eleganti: There Are Reasonable Doubts About FrancisFrancis' responses to the five dubia does not stand up to Christ's demand that a yes is a yes and a no is a no, writes Bishop Marian Eleganti OSB, 68, a former Auxiliary of Chur, Switzerland, in a October 4 statement.There are irrefutable truths that are not culturally or historically conditioned, as modernism still believed ("the end of truth”), he wrote. Eleganti's examples could serve as answers to the cardinals' dubia:• God created man as male and female.• Homosexuality, transvestitism, surrogacy, heterogamy, artificial procreation and child trafficking in the case...

Iran supports groups such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) for both geostrategic and ideological reasons. Geo-strategically, Tehran aids, arms and funds the two groups to expand its regional influence. Ideologically, Iran views Israel as a usurper of Muslim lands and a threat to Islam. Tehran also views Israel as an extension of the United States. The Islamic Republic calls the United States the “Great Satan” and Israel the “Little Satan.” “We regard Palestine as an organ of our body, and the support of the Palestinian nation is pride for the Iranian people,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in 2000....

Bidenomics is an economy eater! But at least we know that the southern border is not on Biden’s mind or lips. But as Ronald Reagan once asked “Are you better off now than 4 years ago?” The answer? Most Americans are far worse off due to inflation and the surge in “Would you like fries with your burger?” jobs. And mortgage rates are up 171%. After last month’s (September) stunning payrolls report, when in our post-mortem we revealed not only a year full of monthly downward data revisions, but also collapse in tull-time jobs and surge in part-time jobs, as...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is calling for the Biden Administration to be held accountable for the “appeasement” of the military group behind the attacks on Israel. “The Biden Administration must be held accountable for its appeasement of these Hamas terrorists, including handing over billions of dollars to them and their Iranian backers,” Mr. Scalise said. “I stand with Israel in the face of this brutal terrorist assault by Iran-backed Hamas,” Mr. Hern wrote on X. “This is another reminder why we should NOT be providing ransom payments to Iran which will be used to kill Israeli civilians. How much...

Former US president Donald Trump weighs in on the ongoing Hamas attack on Israel, calling them a “disgrace” and asserting that Israel “has every right to defend itself with overwhelming force.” “Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration,” he says, ostensibly blaming US policy on Iran for today’s attacks. “We brought so much peace to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords, only to see Biden whittle it away at a far more rapid pace than anyone thought possible. Here we go again,” Trump says in a statement.

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then...

In this Australian romantic comedy, Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill) plays a man escapes his drab life and hometown in a deckchair powered by helium balloons. Mirando Otto (War of the Worlds) charms both him and the audience.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency released a brief review of this week’s nationwide emergency alert test. That hasn’t stopped conspiracy theories about the alerts from spreading online, however.Wednesday’s combined test from the FEMA and the Federal Communication Commission included the Wireless Emergency Alerts, or WEA, and the Emergency Alert System, or EAS. Messages were sent to cell phones, televisions and radios at about 2:20 p.m. ET (1:20 p.m. CT) to determine how effective the warning system was in distributing a message nationwide and the “operational readiness of the infrastructure for distribution of a national message to the public.”“All the cell...

The fervent push from Brussels to admit Ukraine into the European Union would see €186 billion transferred to Kyiv from other member states in addition to the billions poured into the country to subsidise the war effort against Russia. According to leaked internal assessments from the secretariat of the EU Council of the cost of admitting nine new countries into the bloc, many states that hitherto were net beneficiaries of wealth transfers would need to begin sending their limited resources abroad and wealthier economies such as France, Germany, and The Netherlands would need to significantly increase their foreign contributions

The Russian ambassador to Israel refused to label Hamas as a terrorist organization, calling on Israel to deal with the group to reach a political solution. While the United States has pressured some nations not to communicate with Hamas, some countries, including Russia, continue their communication channels with the movement to ensure their position in the region.

Hamas commander says attacks are in defense of Al-Aqsa, claims 5,000 missiles fired Muhammad Deif calls on Arabs in Israel and West Bank, as well as Iran-backed terror groups, to join Operation ‘Al-Aqsa Deluge’; ‘Today the people are regaining their revolution’ By GIANLUCA PACCHIANI Today, 11:22 am 1 Hamas fires a large number of rockets towards Israel in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 7, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90) Hamas fires a large number of rockets towards Israel in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 7, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90) The Hamas...

Russia expresses its most serious concern at the sharp aggravation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. "We call on the Palestinian and Israeli sides to implement an immediate ceasefire, renounce violence, exercise the necessary restraint and establish, with the assistance of the international community, a negotiation process aimed at establishing a comprehensive, lasting and long-awaited peace in the Middle East," she said in a statement.

After the latest round of Chinese attacks on America, Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Malta. The two men could not be more different. Wang Yi, one of the public faces of Chinese’s hyper-aggressive style of ‘wolf warrior diplomacy’, is a 69-year-old member of China’s Communist politburo while Sullivan was a Hillary Clinton hanger-on who got lucky enough to be advising Biden on foreign policy after Hillary left. While Wang Yi made his name by aggressively barraging enemy nations, Sullivan made his through appeasement most notably on Iran. After his shameful record...

The United States steam-transport Fulton, Capt. WOTTON, arrived yesterday from Port Royal, S.C., Oct. 3, and Charleston Bar 4:30 P.M. same day. She brings no news of importance. The U.S. steamer Cosmopolitan, Capt. CROCKER, from Morris Island and Beaufort, South Carolina, 60 hours, with 220 sick, and wounded soldiers to the Medical Director, also arrived yesterday. The yacht Tortugas, under the command of Capt. MCFARLAND, United States Engineer, had just arrived at Hilton Head from K[???]v West, Tortugas, St. Augustine and Fernandina, Fla. She reports that no yellow fever had made its appearance at either of those places. The steamer...

Bob Dylan - Neighborhood Bully https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ETdLfXI6r8