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Israel has served notice that it will seek to kill Hamas operatives not only in the Gaza Strip but also beyond the borders of Israel and the West Bank, the latest threat of a coming wider regional conflict. The official comment specified Qatar and Turkey as countries that host Hamas officials. The warning, delivered by an Israeli military spokesman, suggests that should Israel achieve its goal of wiping out Hamas rule and military resources from Gaza it will also pursue its enemies abroad. “The directive is definitely to kill or capture all the leaders of Hamas. Those who planned, facilitated...

The far-left and the far-right have been on the rise in Europe since the Great Recession of 2008. Much has been blamed for this. Growth has been sluggish in the EU since the crisis. Globalisation and free trade have made life less secure for both the working and middle classes.

... There were many predictions back in the 1970s that demography and entitlements would be a lethal combination financially, culturally and politically. People made these observations before their countries’ fertility plunged and before some cities declared “sanctuary cities” status, guaranteeing lodging, health and education to anyone who arrived there. Those pessimists had not given up on the American ideal of the “melting pot.” Their analyses were based on the view that when certain policies impact a large number of people quickly, creating customs and sustaining traditions incompatible with what made the US click, and more broadly incompatible with Western principles...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 12Peter’s Miraculous Escape From Prison 12 It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. 3 When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. 4 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for...

The government of Brazil is threatening to cut welfare payments if parents refuse to give their children the dangerous and ineffective COVID-19 injections once a year. The government-owned news agency Agência Brasil reported that the COVID injections will be added to the National Immunization Program (PNI), making the shots mandatory for children aged six months to five years, starting in 2024, even though numerous studies have shown that COVID poses virtually no risk to children. COVID jabs are linked to various serious and life-threatening side effects that have resulted in the deaths of children and young people around the world.Data...

The Uniparty fears what happens once liberty catches fire in the hearts of men. SNIP Of all the reasons that Marxist globalists despise and fear America, it is our country’s historic foundation in personal liberty that tops the list. After all, what is liberty’s natural foe, if not the State? For government to champion personal liberty, it must submit to the public’s will and shackle its own powers. For government to applaud individual freedom, it must acknowledge that the State’s authority is freedom’s antipode. For this very reason, government agents use their resources to redefine freedom into something that only...

Much has been made of an 1824 University of Virginia ban on the keeping of weapons on campus by students. The resolution was passed on October 4, 1824, about five months before classes were started at the University. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, both former presidents and elder statesmen, were members of the board and attended when the resolutions were passed. Both were to die on July 4th, 1826, one year and nine months later.The portions of the resolutions concerning weapons are contained in this excerpt, with the weapons passages in bold:No Student shall admit any disturbing noises in his...

Advocating for dystopian environmental policies they have no intention of following is something Harry and Charles have in common.. Climate doomsdayers Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took a 40-minute private jet ride to a Katy Perry concert this past weekend. The Sun revealed Tuesday that the Sussexes flew in a Texan oil heir’s private plane along with actress Cameron Diaz and her husband Benji Madden, as well as actress Zoe Saldana. Ironically, for years, the pampered prince has been preaching about society reaching “net zero” goals, warning of the supposed impending end to life on earth and fretting that “the...

A major gas and oil processing station in the Fuman oilfield, located in the Tarim Basin, was put into operation on Sunday evening, according to the Tarim oilfield branch of PetroChina, China's leading oil and gas producer. The Fuman oilfield, China's largest ultra-deep oilfield, boasts more than 1 billion tons of oil and gas resources, which are mainly detected underground at 7,500 meters to 10,000 meters deep, the company said. According to the company, the Fuman oilfield is expected to produce 5 million tons of oil and gas equivalent annually by 2025. Construction of the station in the Fuman oilfield...

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Barack’s wife has decided to make herself an authority on white flight. The problem is that she’s utterly misinformed about it. SNIP Of Michelle’s many hypocrisies — Gilbert documents them all — none struck me as viscerally as her self-appointed role as the Torquemada of so-called “white flight.” In her 2018 bestseller, Becoming, and on the arena tour that followed, Michelle laid out her version of “white flight.” Although largely progressive boilerplate, Michelle added her own angry edge. At a 2019 Obama Foundation Summit, Michelle was at her finger-wagging best. “As families like ours, upstanding families like ours, who were...

Photojournalists covering Oct. 7 attacks raise ‘ethical questions,’ watchdog says HonestReporting: “When international news agencies decide to pay for material that has been captured under such problematic circumstances, their standards may be questioned, and their audience deserves to know about it.” David Swindle (November 8, 2023 / JNS) The placement of freelance photographers, who captured some of the attacks perpetrated by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on Oct. 7 for AP and Reuters, raises questions about how much and when they knew about the attacks in which more than 1,400 people were killed, according to a new analysis from HonestReporting....

U.S. News & World Report released its 2024 “Best Colleges” ranking in September. Marketed as a guide for students in their college-selection process, the list is, in reality, a reputational ranking that rewards rich and selective institutions while saying little about the educational product they offer. As such, not much has changed in this year’s rankings. The new list looks more like the shuffling of a feudal hierarchy than an actual competition between organizations working to be the best. Because of the cost and time commitments involved in getting a degree from a higher-ed institution, the decision to attend college...

At last nights RNC debates...this was almost as much fun to watch as when the audience spontaneously broke out in a Trump chant.

Steven Zeng at Deutsche Bank notes the stunning (but hardly surprising) reality that Treasury borrowing is "now on par with levels during the 2020-2021 pandemic". "Both weaker fiscal positions and Fed QT are contributing factors. With a growing view that the Fed may lengthen (https://t.me/marketfeed/427665) the duration of QT, and annual deficits projected at around $1.7-$1.8 trillion (https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/221/TreasuryPresentationToTBACQ42023.pdf) over the next few years, these issues are unlikely to go away soon." "At the same time, a widening mismatch between supply and demand for USTs could exacerbate the issue through increased debt interest expenses." This will continue as the Treasury repays...

Victims of VITT - a new condition identified by specialists - question the Government's monitoring of the vaccine's rollout and its efficacyThe Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been branded “defective” in a multi-million pound landmark legal action that will suggest claims over its efficacy were “vastly overstated”. The pharmaceutical giant is being sued in the High Court in a test case by Jamie Scott, a father-of-two who suffered a significant permanent brain injury that has left him unable to work as a result of a blood clot after receiving the jab in April 2021. A second claim is being brought by...

The IDF reportedly discovered "means of warfare unknown to the security system," including new rockets found by IDF engineering forces in Gaza laboratories... It was also revealed that during a recent raid on a Hamas training post, tunnels were reportedly discovered beneath the post. After exposing them, soldiers destroyed the shafts—which they believe had housed countless Hamas militants who prepared for extended stays underground based on extra water and oxygen supplies found there. They tend to stay underground because they lack the means to fight in surface combat... On Wednesday, the Channel TV news network in Israel reported that the...

Watch DeSantis trying to walk in his heels 👠 https://t.co/513Nsp9mEI— Shane Nicholson (@ofvoid) November 9, 2023The candidates chat during a commercial break at the third Republican presidential debate. https://t.co/pAYR1Yalon pic.twitter.com/pGR3OxAZpT— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 9, 2023

REPORT: Activists are upset at YouTuber Mr. Beast for building 100 wells across Africa that provided clean drinking water to its citizens Although the wells provide clean water to half a million Africans, activists are upset with Mr. Beast because they're annoyed a white male was the one who solved the problem. "I’ve been doing this for 15 years, but we’ve been struggling to continue the work because funding, awareness, and advocacy all take work," said founder of FACE Africa Saran Kaba Jones. "Overnight, this person comes along, who happens to be a white male figure with a huge platform,...

John Gizzi of Newsmax, the best conservative political reporter in the United States today, has rendered the verdict – Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin is finished as a presidential candidate. The problem isn’t the Republican National Committee chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel. It is Youngkin’s brand of conservatism. And that sends a message to Republicans around the nation. So-called “compromise” on the hot button issues will not win elections.Virginia’s elections were such a defeat for Youngkin that a Democratic Party porn star, whose “sex work” had been featured on-line, almost won her race. She lost by less than 1000 votes to a...