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Please be ready for stupid events on Oct 13. Be armed, be prepared.

The NYPD is going on heightened alert following a message from a Hamas leader calling for a day of “rage” to be directed against Zionists and America. The NYPD is expecting protests in the city on Friday, but says it has detected no credible threats of violence thus far. Police forces across the country are going on heightened alert after a Hamas leader called for a “day of rage” directed against Israel and America on Oct. 13. There are no specific threats in the city, but the NYPD ordered all active duty members to report in uniform on Friday. Several...

A letter signed by Harvard student groups that blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks has drawn significant backlash from figures like billionaire investor Bill Ackman and Senator Ted Cruz. Now, one professor says a recent graduate is being targeted despite — according to the person — not having any involvement with the letter. On Wednesday, Jason Furman, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, shared a screenshot on X of an email from a person who says they graduated from Harvard in 2021. The post on X — the platform formerly known as Twitter — has since been seen more...

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says it was a "grave mistake" for Germany to allow so many migrants in, warning that it creates a "pressure group" in a country — just as Germany has seen pro-Hamas celebrations in the streets. "It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that," the 100-year-old former U.S. diplomat said in an interview with Germany’s Welt TV. He was responding to a question about scenes in Germany where Arab protesters in Berlin...

[Catholic Caucus] ANALYSIS OF THE ANSWERS GIVEN TO THE 5 DUBIA AS ORIGINALLY FORMULATEDThe five Cardinals of the 5 Dubia presented to the Pope on July 10, 2023 did not publish the Pope’s responses on July 11, because these were not precise responses and did not resolve the doubts. Now, since the Holy See has published them, it seems appropriate to me that we respond to those answers, so that the faithful understand why the five of us did not find them adequate as answers. Given the time pressure, I did not consult the other four Cardinals and therefore I...

Overall, the population in this region resides in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking, though resistant structures exist. The predominant vulnerable building types are adobe block and unreinforced brick with mud and timber post construction. Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides that might have contributed to losses. The quake followed extremely damaging twin M6.3 earthquakes on October 7 in which more than 2 400 people lost their lives and more than 2 000 were injured. Some districts adjoining areas that had been completely flattened by earlier quakes had suffered huge losses, Herat’s governor’s...

"I took the walkie-talkie and I said this line again and again: 'No-one will enter Nir Am, no-one will enter Nir Am.'" Adam is 46, ex-special-forces, so we can't show his face or use his full name. His head is shaved, a boxer, not the biggest man but you wouldn't mess with him. It's clear he can handle himself. He was joined by other men from the kibbutz, he says. "Civilians who don't know how to fight but have got a lot of heart. Two or three with special forces experience but the others… just regular men, they work in...

Owen Shroyer hosts The Alex Jones Show to break down how George Soros backed Hamas.

BREAKING: Republican Steve Scalise has ended his bid to become House speaker after failing to secure the votes to win the gavel

As Israelis grieve the death of more than 1,200 of our fellow citizens, and the wounding of 3,000 more, our country is beginning to shift from defense to offense. Already, the Israeli Air Force is bombing hundreds of terror targets in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, the IDF has called up more than 300,000 reservists to serve on the ground. These soldiers are currently preparing, training, equipping and deploying to invade the Gaza Strip and destroy Hamas once and for all. Yet even as Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his military planners organize such an invasion, they...

Israeli Health Minister Moshe Arbel has instructed all public hospitals to stop treating Hamas terrorists, he announced in a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening. “Since the beginning of the fighting, the issue of treating the damned and despicable Hamas terrorists within the public hospitals has piled up a tremendous difficulty on the health system,” wrote the health minister. “In these difficult times, the health system should focus fully on the treatment of the victims of the criminal massacre, IDF soldiers and readiness for the next [attack],” Arbel explained. “The task of securing and treating the...

Water cannon and tear gas were used to disperse a banned pro-Palestine rally in Paris tonight as French police moved to arrest its organisers. It followed the country's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin saying there was 'no place' for such protests against the Gaza War following Saturday's terrorist atrocities. Crowds built up around Republic square in the French capital on Thursday, chanting 'Free Palestine', 'End the Siege of Gaza', 'Israel murderer' and 'Macron accomplice' - in reference to the French President's backing of Israel. Hundreds gathered brandishing Palestinian flags, and other symbols showing their support for one side in the Arab-Israeli...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop: Synodality Francis Is "Intolerant Of Even Respectful Disagreement"Francis “over-reliance" on the [declining] Jesuits is "unhealthy”, writes former Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput on ThePublicDiscourse.com (October 9).He goes on to say that Francis is "intolerant of even respectful disagreement", that he can often seem "mean-spirited", that his complaints about the Church in the United States are "insulting and uninformed", that his [unambiguous] ambiguity on matters of doctrine is creating confusion and division in the Church "when we already have a surfeit of both."Chaput anticipates the ultramontanists' attack against him, "If saying these things is ‘disloyal,’ then so is the...

Shalom from a grieving Israel. I finally was able to make it home yesterday after days of trying to catch earlier flights. What I found here was a nation that is brokenhearted, yet full of resolve. We have put up with the terrorists surrounding us and picking off our people one-by-one. When we would respond, it would be with a method of retaliation commensurate to the murderous action taken against us. But then a terrorist army invaded from Gaza and horrifically slaughtered more than 1200 of our innocent babies, children, elderly, women, and men. They shot them, burned them, stabbed...

A California marketing firm linked to Bud Light’s disastrous tie-up with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has fired several top executives as part of a major restructuring, The Post has learned. San Mateo-based Captiv8 — which canned 13 staffers in July after top brass returned from a lavish junket to the French Riviera, as The Post reported — axed 30 employees, roughly 20% of its workforce, in the latest round of layoffs, multiple sources told The Post.

We are on the precipice of a major regional war in the Middle East, and the U.S. military is going to be involved. Of course if this war was just limited to a fight between Israel and Hamas, there would be no need for the U.S. military to intervene, because the IDF can handle Hamas quite easily. But Hezbollah is another matter entirely. Hezbollah possesses an extremely powerful military, and they have an arsenal of approximately 130,000 missiles ready to be fired at Israel. If Hezbollah enters the war and starts firing thousands upon thousands of missiles at Israel, the...

After reportedly seeing the mummies firsthand, Will Galison said he believes the corpses have a 1,000-year-old history and could be scarier than just aliens. The mummified specimens were retrieved from a mine in Cuzco, Peru. They have small bodies, three-fingered hands, and odd elongated skulls. Self-proclaimed UFO expert Jaime Maussan presented the "ancient ET bodies with non-human DNA" at a Congressional hearing in Mexico, claiming that the corpses "are not part of our terrestrial evolution." Galison, a friend of an archaeologist who analyzed the mummies, said that he doesn't believe they are aliens, DailyMail reported.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, said Thursday on News Radio 610’s “New Hampshire Today” that former President Donald Trump was wrong about Hezbollah being “smart.”Pence was responding to Trump’s comments during a speech in Florida on Wednesday, where he called Hezbollah “smart” and criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Pence said, “This is no time for the former president or any other American leader to be sending any message other than America stands with Israel.”He continued, “Hezbollah aren’t smart, they’re evil. The former president also said when Russia invaded Ukraine in a similar, unprovoked, unconscionable invasion...

The Moon has been a source of wonder, inspiration, comfort and light throughout humanity’s existence. Viewed as a goddess by some, a god by others, it is connected to wisdom and intuition by Pagans, to the divine feminine in spirituality. And astronomers want it gone. Not all astronomers, but some. Why? Because it’s too bright. While for many of us a full Moon is a striking addition to the night sky, for astronomers the bright light is a blinding one. ‘I hate the Moon,’ says Dr Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. ‘The Moon is evil,...

A Cheyenne couple says they spotted Bigfoot while on a train ride in Colorado over the weekend. The video, of course, has gone viral and the media has gone bonkers over it. A Cheyenne couple might be among those to finally answer the age-old question of whether Bigfoot exits. Shannon Parker told Cowboy State Daily that she, her husband and another passenger aboard a train they were riding in Colorado on Sunday saw what very well could have been a specimen of the legendary creature. “From our perspective, it seemed pretty legit,” she said of the apparently huge, bipedal creature...