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Years ago, we spoke of Ecuador and having some of the wonderful "ceviche" they prepare in Guayaquil. It was a quiet and beautiful country that rarely made the front pages. Today, Ecuador suffers the narco violence and social upheaval that its neighbors face. You may remember that a presidential candidate was killed weeks ago. On Sunday, a little ray of hope came from Ecuador. They had elections and a good guy won. This is the story: Businessman Daniel Noboa, 35, will become the youngest president in Ecuador's history, after winning Sunday's run-off. With more than 97% of votes counted, Mr...

Khan to plebs – I’ve taken your horrible cheap cars off the roads, now I’m coming after your nasty, smelly, unhealthy food. By 2030 you will be on Second World War calorie rations with plenty of vegetables, and little or no meat. That’s because I have signed London up to implementing the Planetary Health Diet with just 2,500 individual calories per day. Now you know I love statistics – did I tell you that my globalist friends inform me that banning your burgers and meat pies will help save 11 million lives each year? The Planetary Health Diet (PHD) is...

House Republicans have scheduled a vote for the next Speaker of the House for today at noon. After ousting Kevin McCarthy two weeks ago—the first Speaker to be subject to a motion to vacate since 1910, and the only one to be successfully removed ever—it seemed for a time that no Republican could possibly assemble the necessary 217 votes. But that appears to be changing. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the third potential Speaker this session, only received 124 votes in the first round of voting last week, and 155 on a second vote seeking member support on the House floor....

Is Hezbollah waiting to strike until forces are in a Gaza quagmire? It seemed crystal clear on Thursday: the IDF counter-invasion of Gaza would start either Friday or Saturday. The IDF had given certain deadlines for Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza, with the deadlines expiring by midday Friday. The drum beat toward an invasion had started as early as Sunday-Monday and was only getting louder, with the air force having already paved the way with several days of withering bombing. Yet, now we have arrived at late Monday, and if anything, the signs (which could also be psychological warfare) are...

He did it. Jeff Landry overcame the odds and won Saturday’s Gubernatorial primary election outright with roughly 52% of the vote.Local and national media outlets were downright shocked by this outcome, and Landry’s detractors are in full coping mode. In fact, a professor in LSU’s Journalism school resigned due to Landry’s election victory this weekend. Good riddance. If you thought that Landry’s haters were seething when he got elected this weekend, then just wait until he gets into office. Louisiana Conservatives should enjoy watching the high levels of bellyaching from the likes of journalists, college professors, and community organizers. But...

Pfizer has slashed its sales estimates for COVID antiviral Paxlovid by $7 billion and its COVID vaccine Comirnaty by $2 billion. It adds up to a 13% decline in projected revenue for the company in 2023. As the coronavirus outbreak has shifted to the endemic phase, drugmakers have warned of a drop in demand for COVID-19 products, with the impact coming into focus during the fall vaccination season. Pfizer has stepped up to the plate with an update, and its effects are staggering as the company has slashed its 2023 revenue projection by $9 billion. Pfizer now expects sales to...

Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel has exposed the limits of space-based surveillance, putting into question the adequacy of existing heavenly watch intelligence-gathering technologies and spotlighting the need for a more integrated approach that better synergizes artificial intelligence (AI) with human guidance and insight. Defense One reported that the recent Hamas assault on Israel has highlighted the need for persistent coverage from orbit, as space-based sensors are not a “cure-all” for US intelligence needs. The report says that while the US Pentagon via the Space Development Agency has commenced building a network of military satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) known...

It took Iran-appeaser (and embarrassingly undeserving Nobel Peace Prize awardee) Barack Obama three days to condemn Hamas’s butchering of Israeli women and children. Pompous student groups at elite universities across the U.S. continue to ignore the barbarity of Islamic supremacists and instead blame Jews for their own murders. John Kirby, a former rear admiral in the Navy and a longtime national security spokesman for both Obama and Biden, assessed the carnage in the Middle East and concluded that “climate change” remains humanity’s most dire threat. A former American president is not capable of moral leadership. Students at some of the...

Sensing that GOP U.S. Rep. Scott Perry could be vulnerable in next year’s election, a group called Republicans Against Perry is launching an opposition movement for the 2024 10th Congressional District race. “He is a square peg that doesn’t fit in the round hole of that district, and I think this is the year coming up when that gets proven,” said Craig Snyder, a longtime Republican operative from Pennsylvania who will lead the anti-Perry group after successfully guiding Republicans For Shapiro last year. Snyder, a former chief of staff to the late moderate Republican U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, told PennLive...

BATON ROUGE—The Louisiana Freedom Caucus (LAFC) is honored to announce that all of its Founding Members were successful in their re-elections to their House seats or in their run for the Senate in the primary elections held on October 14. We have also made substantial gains in elections for new members with several more in both the House and the Senate on great footing as we move into the runoff period. “Louisiana has the greatest people in the world. We have the most abundant natural resources, we have a culture that other states envy, but we have never had a...

Congress should remove federal funding from educational institutions that refuse to expel students or faculty that endorse Hamas By Ezequiel Doiny The Gateway Pundit reported: After Backlash Against 31 Student Groups Supporting Hamas Killers and Threats of Wall Street Boycott - Harvard University President Releases Statement Condemning Hamas | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/after-backlash-against-31-student-groups-supporting-hamas/ It is not enough for Harvard University President to Release a Statement Condemning Hamas, the students who endorsed Hamas must be expelled. The Congress should submit a law removing federal funding from educational institutions that refuse to expel students or faculty that endorse...

One by one, GOP lawmakers—colloquially known as “moderates” or “institutionalists” or “establishment Republicans”—have recanted the unequivocal opposition to Jordan they expressed just days ago and thrown their support behind him. The abrupt shift surprised Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA), who said on Monday afternoon that he believed “a bipartisan compromise speakership was inevitable just 24 hours ago.” “The responsible governing types in the Republican conference,” Huffman lamented, “just fold like a cheap suit every time.” Noting Jordan’s leading efforts to contest the outcome of the 2020 election based on bogus voter fraud claims, Huffman said the fact that Jordan “is going...

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For years, Haniyeh has been rebuked by many Palestinians for leading a comfortable life away from the hardships of Gaza in the oil-rich Gulf monarchy, which offers shelter to the terror group’s leaders and an internationally recognized platform to spread its propaganda through Al Jazeera. Senior Hamas figures, including Haniyeh, would levy a 20 percent tax on all of the trade passing through the tunnels, according to a 2014 report in Ynet, an Israeli news site. A senior PA official alleged that the tunnel-smuggling market had transformed 1,700 senior Hamas officials into millionaires, according to a report in Saudi weekly...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint Monday night (Oct. 16) in New Orleans, his spokesman said. “OPDA confirms that DA Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint as he was helping her into a car,” office spokesman Keith Lampkin said in response to questions from Fox 8. “DA Williams and his mother were unharmed and both thank the NOPD for their hard work tonight and every night responding to crime victims.” No other details of the crime were immediately available. The New Orleans Police Department did...

The UN Security Council on Monday rejected a Russian resolution calling for a ceasefire to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, with delegates refusing to back a motion that did not single out Hamas for its devastating shock onslaught in Israel that left at least 1,300 people dead. A second text proposed by Brazil with unequivocal language condemning Hamas appeared to have broader support, and was expected to come to a vote on Tuesday evening, diplomats said. “We cannot support a resolution which fails to condemn Hamas’ terror attacks,” Barbara Woodward told the council. (Brit ambassador to UN)

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Tech companies have recently cut 400K+ jobs.. https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1712574372798718387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1712557456055042082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/MacroEdgeRes/status/1712507815947022720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/dailyjobcuts/status/1712557491941478806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1709901273254797487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/jamesvgingerich/status/1711902935964164161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw US Tech Layoffs Soar 716% in 2023: Report The technology sector is leading the US job market in layoffs, but the cuts are slowing down, a new report shows. At a Glance US total job losses spiked in 2023, with the tech sector leading the cuts. Layoffs due to AI have not increased since first reported earlier this year. Pace of cuts is slowing down, but so is the pace of hiring. A report released Tuesday shows US technology layoffs reached 151,989 in 2023, a 716% increase...

"And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: "And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads." "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." --- Revelation 22 1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of...

Oct 7-11, 1938 : the Muslim Brotherhood organized the World Interparliamentary Conference for Arab and Muslim Countries in Cairo, "in defense of Palestine," where they distributed an Arabic translations of Mein Kampf and the forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion. {1} The event was the handiwork of Muhammad Ali 'Alluba,{2} former treasurer of the Jerusalem Muslim congress, who had participated in the Mufti - Haj Amin al-Husayni's unsuccessful 1933 fundraising tour through India. He created an entirely new forum, with an exclusively Muslim approach to the defense of Palestine. {3}. By the time, the Mufti with al-Banna succeeded in...