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The great earthquake of the Ezekiel 38 war has NOT begun. But we are in the midst of a major foreshock. In the last few hours, Hamas fired thousands of missiles from Gaza into Israel. They targeted Israeli civilians. Hamas soldiers broke through checkpoints and bulldozed parts of the border fence. Their army attacked Israeli neighborhoods in border towns, randomly killing and randomly taking hostages. But this did not originate with Hamas. A peace agreement with Saudi Arabia seemed close just a few days ago. But the Saudis cannot make peace with Israel now because they cannot seem to be...

With terrorists’ bodies still lying in the grass, international press witnesses firsthand the shocking aftermath of Hamas’s slaughter of Israeli civilians AFP) The IDF took dozens of foreign journalists on Tuesday to see for themselves the death and destruction wrought by Hamas terrorists this week. With explosions and artillery fire in the background, the crews, wearing helmets and flak jackets, picked through the destroyed Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where the bodies of Palestinian terrorists still lay outside of fire-scarred homes. The journalists were protected by at least a company of IDF soldiers, clad in full combat gear as they continued...

IDF Major General Itai Veruv described the scene in Kfar Aza as 'a massacre' By Lawrence Richard Fox News Published October 10, 2023 11:46am EDT Israel’s military has discovered unspeakable horrors in an Israeli community that was attacked by Hamas on Saturday, including dozens of dead babies, some with of their heads chopped off, Israeli media reported. According to local Israeli outlet i24News, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers moved into Kfar Aza, one of the communities Hamas terrorists invaded early Saturday morning, and discovered about 40 dead babies, some decapitated — highlighting the brutality of the invading forces. IDF were...

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said he was “disgusted” by the House GOP infighting amid the removal of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his spot that was fueled by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). Hogan said at an event at Bloomberg’s office in Washington, D.C. that his focus is on getting the Republican Party “back on track,” pointing to the House voting to oust McCarthy from the top position last week. He said that he was “disgusted” by the House’s actions, adding that Gaetz was “a cancer on the party and on the Congress. “It’s a train wreck. I...

Canadian police have launched a probe into a series of posters that were put up advertising 'whites only moms and tots' sessions for parents who want to 'escape forced diversity and join other proud parents of European children.' The adverts popped up on the streets of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, last week. They were taken down, and the city's mayor Brad West slammed the 'vile garbage.' According to locals, the posters were seen in Coquitlam Centre shopping mall, local coffee shops, and at bus stops nearby. Some had been partially ripped down. The poster, which caused outrage online, read: 'Are...

Former Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan said he hasn't ruled out running for president in 2024, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Hogan told Bloomberg that most Americans want an alternative to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the current Republican front-runner. "However I can serve, I'm still trying to figure that out, but I'm not walking away," Hogan said at Bloomberg's office in Washington, D.C. "I don't want to run a race and nibble around the edges. If I thought there was a path to success to win the race, then I just said I wouldn't shut the door to...

The Associated Press is suddenly very concerned about vote fraud via ballot stuffing in drop boxes. Allegations of drop box vote fraud is not coming from the "usual suspects" -- what they would describe as "right-wing conspiracy theorists" -- but rather from two Democrat candidates running for mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut.You can read the AP concern in the headline of their Saturday article by Christina A. Cassidy and Susan Haigh, "Drop boxes have become key to election conspiracy theories. Two Democrats just fueled those claims."

Joe Biden is the Buzz Lightyear of the economy … and not in a good way. Under Biden and the Congressional spending sprees, the US debt is going to infinity … and beyond! Twenty days. That’s how long it took the Biden administration to add another half-trillion dollars to the national debt. Bidenomics certainly requires a lot of borrowing and spending. On September 15, the debt quietly blew passed $33 trillion. On October 5, it pushed above $33.5 trillion. Don’t forget about the $194+ TRILLION in unfunded liabilities that politicians promised the non 1%. By the way, it only took...

President Biden finally addressing the Palestinian Hamas pogrom in Israel where Americans are being killed, raped, and taken hostage since last Saturday.

A radical pro-Hamas group funded by leftist billionaire George Soros offered a statement of support for the abhorrent, genocidal terrorist attacks on Israel. Al-Shabaka, also known as the “Middle East Policy Network,” published a disgustingly brazen post on X (formerly Twitter) in support of Hamas the day after the terrorist group launched thousands of rockets on Israel and proceeded to rape women, murder civilians and kidnap children and the elderly. “We stand alongside those committed to this effort [of decolonization from Israel] and to the liberation of Palestinians worldwide,” Al-Shabaka spewed on X. “Al Shabaka rejects the Israeli regime’s colonial...

Former member of the Knesset Haim Yelin, who was evacuated from his home in Be'eri, was interviewed by Galatz, and told painfully: "This is the saddest day of my life, they massacred us in the settlement. We waited eight and a half hours until the first evacuation began - I call it the second Yom Kippur war, we were captured by Hamas. Individual citizens with weapons fought against hundreds of terrorists."

President Biden's decision to drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to its lowest level in decades is back in the spotlight amid the war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which has caused oil prices to surge. On Monday, the Brent crude index, the worldwide oil benchmark, and the U.S. WTI index both surged more than 4% and inched closer to $90 a barrel as a result of volatility created by the Middle East crisis. According to analysts, the conflict — triggered over the weekend after a series of unprovoked attacks by Palestinian militants on Israelis — may lead...

HAMAS terrorists massacred at least 40 babies and kids in a sickening rampage in one town - with some found beheaded, Israel claimed. Israeli soldiers discovered scenes of unimaginable horror in Kfar Aza - a village close to the Gaza border that was captured for two days by the Hamas militants. Entire families were gunned down by Hamas militants in Kfar Aza - a village close to the Gaza border

The Houston area pastor accused of raping and impregnating one of his underage family members is now in custody and appeared in court on Monday. KPRC 2 first reported about Robert L. Carter last week when an arrest warrant was issued for the 39-year-old. He has since been charged with sexual assault of a child between the ages of 14 and 17 and continuous sexual abuse of a child. According to the arrest warrant obtained by KPRC 2 reporter Deven Clarke, Carter started assaulting the child when she was 7 years old in 2008. Court documents showed the assault continued...

The bodies of around 1,500 Hamas fighters have been found inside Israeli territory since the fighting began on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said. In a briefing Tuesday morning, Richard Hecht, a spokesman for the IDF, said Israel had nearly finished evacuating all Israeli towns on the border with Gaza as the military makes preparations for a ground offensive in the Palestinian enclave ruled by Hamas. Hecht said there was no order for an invasion as yet, but that "we are building infrastructure for future operations."

An employee tragically lost his life while attempting to thwart a robbery at Big Bob's Liquors and Market, located at the corner of Sunset and Point Avenue in West Covina. The shooting occurred shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday during what authorities described as an altercation while the employee attempted to stop a theft. Police said that two males entered the store and stole merchandise. The victim confronted the men at which time the shooting occurred.

NATIONAL ANGEL FOOD CAKE DAY National Angel Food Cake Day on October 10th celebrates the delicious, light, and fluffy cake that many home cooks serve with fruit or glazes. #AngelFoodCakeDay Originating in the United States and first becoming popular in the late 19th century, angel food cake was so named because of its airy lightness. It was said to be the “food of the angels.” Making angel food cake requires whipping egg whites until they are stiff. Cream of tartar stabilizes the egg whites. Additional ingredients are then folded into the egg white mixture. When is National Cake Day? The...

HELSINKI (AP) — Damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity," Finnish officials said Tuesday, adding that authorities were investigating.

WASECA, Minn. — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization filed a lawsuit last week against the federal women’s prison in Waseca for violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) complaint against the prison requests declaratory and injunctive relief for an incarcerated Somali-American Muslim woman who was photographed after her hijab was removed, then forced to carry that photo on her ID card. “Mrs. (Muna) Jama was often threatened if she did not comply with orders to remove her hijab — including threats to cut off her communication with her children,” CAIR legal...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HfMvVpey18ArAnVHtp8UlqT_8V5zaR9sFE5ohC4Ls7U/previewJoint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence. Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to “open the gates of hell,” and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence. The...