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On Tuesday, Khaled Mashal, the former leader and founding member of Hamas, called for a global Muslim uprising in support of Palestine on Friday. Mashal emphasized the need for Muslims to sacrifice and carry Jihad, including the willingness to offer their blood and souls to advance the Palestinian cause. Now Israelis in Samaria in the West Bank are reporting armored vehicles approaching the border from Jordan. Confirmed reports of Jordanian armored personnel carriers approaching Israel’s border pic.twitter.com/uXCPAAYESt — Yudi Sherman (@ShermanShock) October 11, 2023 There are also reports busloads of women and children evacuating Samaria. New Deals Now Live At...

The morning after the discovery of the enormous horrors revealed yesterday (Tuesday) in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where Hamas terrorists massacred an unimaginable number of residents, many of the world's newspapers do not remain indifferent. Many leading media outlets in the US, the UK and more cover the atrocities extensively, and are amazed at the extent of the cruelty and violence demonstrated by the terrorists. NYT - Brutality of Hamas' attacks in Israel becomes apparent WP - Inside an Israeli Tmtown destroyed by Hamas Daily Telegraph - Hamas massacress babies and children Metro - '40 Babies Murdered by Hamas'. Kfar Aza...

'Our resistance fighters': College group praises Palestinian 'martyrs' for killing Israelis WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly everyone at a pro-Palestinian vigil supporting Hamas' surprise attack that killed hundreds of Israeli civilians hid their faces with masks Tuesday night and refused to reveal their names. "We are here today to honor our martyrs and to honor the struggle for liberation that they made the ultimate sacrifice for," a vigil organizer told the crowd of students. "Our resistance fighters are defying Zionist intelligence as we speak, exposing the cracks and its ironclad foundation and dispelling the illusion of its invincibility." About 50 people...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced the recent outbreak of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, asserting that the failure of the US policy in the Middle East, which neglected Palestine's legitimate need for an Independent State, is to be blamed for the latest attack on the West Asian nation. -snip- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged a swift ceasefire in a conversation with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to visit Israel in a show of solidarity with the country amid the fighting in Gaza, two Ukrainian and Israeli officials told Axios. Why it matters: A visit by Zelensky would boost international support for Israel's counteroffensive against Hamas in Gaza. Behind the scenes: Zelensky's office sent an official request to the Israeli Prime Minister's office asking to coordinate a visit, the Ukrainian and Israeli officials said.

It’s like clockwork: first comes a brisk fall breeze, then comes the public health push to get a flu shot. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s messaging this year might look a little different from previous vaccination seasons. The agency has launched a messaging campaign dubbed “Wild to Mild” that uses adorable critters to illustrate how a vaccine can tame a bout with the flu by reducing its strength from that of an elephant or a lion to that of a mouse or a kitten.The framing might come as a surprise to those used to a blunter...

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday that providing support to Ukraine and Israel are "absolute top priorities" for the United States and she expects bipartisan support despite political upheaval in Congress. The ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week by Republican hardliners has raised concerns about a prolonged paralysis in Congress. Military and economic support for Ukraine "along with resources for Israel are our absolute top priorities for the Biden administration," Yellen said. "We've made that completely clear to Congress, and we believe there is substantial bipartisan support," she said at a press conference on the sidelines of...

Iran and Saudi Arabia have said that the Israeli regime's crimes and the United States' green light for the atrocities stand to invite "destructive insecurity" for the occupying regime and its supporters. The remarks were made on Wednesday in the first phone call to take place between President Ebrahim Raeisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Mohammed Jamshidi, the Iranian chief executive's deputy chief of staff for political affairs, wrote on a message on X, formerly known as Twitter. "In the first phone call between Ayatollah Raisi & HRH Mohammed bin Salman, the 2 agreed on the need to...

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips has scored a victory of sorts in his ongoing lawsuit for refusing to bake a gender transition cake, with the Colorado Supreme Court agreeing to hear his appeal.Baker Jack Phillips decorates a cake in his Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., on Sep. 21, 2017. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Last week, in a win for Mr. Phillips' years-long legal fight, the Colorado Supreme Court finally agreed to hear his case after a lower court held that Colorado authorities can force the baker to put messages on cakes that violate his personal beliefs, according to a case announcements posting.Mr. Phillips,...

What do you want to be when you grow up?This supposedly innocent question has been lobbed at children and teenagers for decades, although the answers might differ now due to the rise of social media and the possibility of achieving worldwide fame not being confined to appearing on the big screen or arena stages anymore.As Statista's Florian Zandt reports, according to a 2021 survey by YouGov weighted by age and gender, teenage boys and girls in the United States share some similarities when it comes to their dream job - even though the top spots couldn't be further away from...

When it comes to “renewables” wreaking havoc on the environment, wind turbines have stiff competition. For example, over 500,000 square miles of biofuel plantations have already replaced farms and forests to replace a mere 4 percent of transportation fuel. To source raw materials to build “sustainable” batteries, mining operations are scaling up, with no end in sight, in nations with appalling labor conditions and nonexistent environmental regulations. But the worst offender is the wind industry.America’s wind power industry somehow manages to attract almost no negative coverage in the press, or litigation from environmentalists, despite causing some of the most obvious...

October 7, 2023 was the Saturday of a holiday weekend. Americans were celebrating the three-day weekend of Columbus Day; Jews worldwide were completing Sukkot, the Feast of Booths. Historians remembered the Battle of Lepanto and the Yom Kippur War, both of which happened to be very important defeats for the islamic world. And islamofascist terrorists, as we know, like to stage attacks on historic days. So it was that the largely self-governing portion of the Palestinian Authority known as the Gaza Strip chose that Saturday to launch an unexpected series of vicious coordinated attacks on its neighbor Israel, by any...

Four headlines struck me, over my morning coffee, this week. They are headlines that I think will change forever our understanding of energy sources. From Germany comes “Wide-Scale Bankruptcies in the EU’s Solar Sector Now Seem Likely” and “Germany to Fire up ‘Brown Coal’ Power Plants because of Fears of Energy Shortage.” From Sweden, “Sweden Embraces Nuclear Energy,” and from France, “Nuclear energy now non-negotiable.” All four headlines are courtesy of the E.U.’s disastrous missteps in solar — and successes in nuclear. The disasters are the result of what I call “the seven dirty secrets of solar.” Germany has led...

Google appears to have swiftly censored a list of students named as supporters of Hamas this week after the Palestinian terror group launched the deadliest attack on Jewish civilians since the Holocaust.Well, that didn't take long. After less than 12 hours, Google has taken down the site with public information about which student groups endorse Hamas terrorism. Only @X allows the truth!Users who try to access the “College Terror List” posted on a Google site are taken to a 404 error page less than 12 hours after the page was posted. Aaaand google censored it https://t.co/N9VT3JoW21— Max Meyer (@mualphaxi) October...

transcript at :23: Well, look, I think there's three issues that are obvious. Ukraine has lost. I hate to be this blunt because I'm going to get in trouble, but the offensive didn't work. It wasn't going to work because, and let me just point out this obvious fact: the same knuckleheads who messed up the Middle East, Jake Sullivan and company, were the ones running the war in Ukraine. So, the end results are kind of inevitable, if you ask me. But the offensive hasn't worked, it's not going to work. It's going to curtail within the next few...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Israel took some "genuinely Palestinian lands" mainly through the "use of military force." Speaking at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow, Putin said the Palestinian problem is "in the heart of everyone who professes Islam, and they perceive it all as a manifestation of injustice, elevated to an unthinkable degree." "The Palestinian issue is at the heart of every person in this region. Yes, I believe that in the heart of everyone who professes Islam... Everything that is happening – not only now, but for decades – is perceived as a...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Sparky On The Job! Sparky the Fire Dog, the mascot for National Fire Protection Association, greets visitors entering Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Oct. 5, 2023, to bring awareness to Fire Prevention Week. This year’s campaign, “Cooking safety starts with YOU. Pay attention to fire prevention,” works to educate everyone about simple but important actions they can take to keep themselves and those around them safe when cooking. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jennifer E. Douds) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and...

It all becomes even more egregious when inspected within the context of the Biden administration’s foreign and domestic policies. Many of the articles surrounding the atrocities of the Hamas attacks this past weekend have referenced the recent $6 billion “deal,” in which the U.S. gave this money to Iran in exchange for five Americans. It already seemed like the worst trade in history. But it’s more nefarious than simply unleashing $6 billion to Iran, a known terrorist state and the most existential threat to the free world. In reality, this one detail hyperlinked quickly in most articles is part of...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia Goes all in to Encircle Avdiivka. Ukraine crashed them | Israel vs Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ77yIXnuzc The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 11th October 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-595-summary/ [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Senator Mitt Romney and former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan are holding a two-day summit that began Tuesday. It is described as a “closed-door” summit in Park City, Utah. The Republican presidential ticket from 2012, who lost an election that should have been winnable, brought together four current presidential candidates. The four are Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Chris Christie, and Doug Burgum. This is an 11-year-old summit called the E2 Summit. It focuses on foreign policy, tech, and finance/business. Those attending the summit are “well-heeled, well-wired Republicans” who want to find an alternative to Trump and fund that candidate.The...