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CHANUKAH Chanukah also spelled Hanukkah and known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the re-dedication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah (Hebrew: חֲנֻכָּה, usually spelled חנוכה pronounced [χanuˈka] in Modern Hebrew, also romanized as Chanukah or Chanuka), is observed for eight nights and days. According to the Hebrew calendar, it starts on the 25th day of Kislev, which may occur from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. #Chanukah Did you know these facts? Hanukkah is less...

A suspect accused of six murders across Texas during a day-long shooting spree was previously charged with assaulting a family member and bailed out by a non-profit progressive group, according to local reports. Shane James, 34, is accused of killing six people and injuring others in Bexar County and Austin. James, who served as a U.S. Army Infantry officer from February 2013 to August 2015, is charged with several counts of capital murder. In January 2022, James was charged with aggravated assault against his mother, father and sister, Fox San Antonio reported. Bail records said James was bonded out by...

Massie says: - AIPAC spent $100k on advertising in his district on Fox News and local conservative talk radio in the last few weeks. - They're actively trying to recruit a primary challenger despite the fact that he tends to win his primaries and election easily. - They're using church pastors to lobby him or something. - Support for Israel is not a top 5 issue or motivating factor among the voters in his district. - He thinks they wont beat him and they're wasting money.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1 The latest name they are calling patriots is Christian Nationalists which the National Socialist Party claims is the new term for Nazis. These are the new term for Domestic Terrorists which gives the Alphabet Agencies the right to spy and jail in the name of national security. These radical Christian Nationalist are being vilified the same way they have dehumanized the Tea Party, the Deplorables, and of course MAGA supporters. You are not an American if...

Let us remember the 2,403 Americans were killed in the surprise attack by the Japanese fleet on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. Navy: 2,008 souls lost Army: 254 souls lost Marine Corps: 73 souls lost Civilians: 68 souls lost. U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club Tribute to Pearl Harbor: Eternal Father, Strong to Save: The Navy Hymn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KCiMdR1ox0 U.S. Military Academy Glee Club: Mansions of the Lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jccNoxn1HoU

The release of more video and cell phone tapes from January 6 by new House Speaker Mike Johnson shows further evidence of a setup by the Feds that their so-called insurrection was staged. All sides will acknowledge the fact that then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to have extra security on January 6. However, there is a bigger question that no one, Left, Right or Center, seems to be asking: Why? Why wouldn’t Pelosi want to be sure that “Democracy was secure” so that Vice President Mike Pence could certify the Electoral College vote? Making sure that the Capitol was safe and...

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that if former President Donald Trump wins the election in 2024, “our democracy, our flag, our Constitution, the future of our children” is at stake.Anchor Lawrence O’Donnell said, “What are the stakes for the world when they hear Donald Trump say he would be a dictator on day one, if he is elected president again, and what do dictators like Vladimir Putin hear in that statement?”

The decision could give the president another tool to use in his effort to lower drug prices. The Biden administration has determined that it has the authority to seize the patents of certain high-priced medicines, a move that could open the door to a more aggressive federal campaign to slash drug prices. The determination, which was described by three people familiar with the matter, represents the culmination of a nearly nine-month review of the government’s so-called march-in rights. Progressives have long insisted that those rights empower the administration to break the patents of pricey drugs that were developed with public...

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Oleg Popov and Ilya Kyva, declared traitors, were both found dead Wednesday A pro-Kremlin politician branded a war criminal by Ukraine has been killed in a car bombing in occupied Luhansk, the second killing of its kind this week. Footage showed 'Deputy of the People's Council of the Luhansk People's Republic' Oleg Popov's burning car after an explosion near the city stadium. It was first reported Popov had been injured in an attack in Luhansk on Wednesday. But the Investigative Committee of Russia later confirmed Popov's death had been caused by a device exploded in his car. 'As a result...

New York City is looking to expand its effort to punish drivers by fining them up to $2,500 for having loud cars or excessive honking. The city has seven noise cameras, at the price tag of $35,000 each, and plans to install more by the end of the year — at least five per borough. The noise cameras are activated by a sound louder than 85 decibels, and ticket fines range between $800 and $2,500.

The Ivy league and their kindred so-called elite campuses may soon go the way of Disney and Bud Light. After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses. Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic. But immediately after October 7—and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces—the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more to 1930s Germany than contemporary America. Indeed, not a day goes by when a university professor or student group has not spouted anti-Semitic hatred. Often, they...

Wray opting for misdirection instead of transparency suggests he knows precisely what the FBI did in response to evidence implicating the Bidens in a bribery scandal: nothing.. FBI Director Christopher Wray alleged on Tuesday that he did not learn of the confidential human source’s (CHS) claim that the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma had bribed the Bidens until “much, much, much more recently than anything around 2020.” Wray’s testimony cannot be squared with earlier testimony from whistleblowers and the Pittsburgh U.S. attorney — unless those investigating Hunter Biden buried the CHS’s reporting. On Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, drilled the FBI...

Russia’s 2024 presidential election will take place on March 17 with Vladimir Putin widely expected to run and win another term in office. Although Putin, 71, hasn’t yet announced his intention to run again he is widely expected to do so in the coming days now that the date has been set. He will likely run as an independent. The former intelligence officer remains hugely popular in Russia. His support spiked with the onset of the war against Ukraine, and he currently has an approval rating of 82%, according to Statista, a global data platform. A failed rebellion last summer...

Biden is hoping for one more term as President. And declining oil prices might help him get re-elected. But we have a battle brewing! The United Nations and World Economic Forum (and their proxies John Kerry, Greta Thunberg and Green Joe Biden) against …. everyone else. Despite Biden’s lame attempts (through climate envoy John Kerry) at getting China to go to green energy and rid themselves of fossil fuels, China claims a new discovery of roughly 1.78 billion barrels of oil. Then we have oil production surging (think of WEF’s Klaus Schwab’s scowling face) and crude oil prices sinking to...

Every day, people across the world wake up to news about climate change affecting their lives. With the seeming randomness of a roulette wheel, the doomsday clique of the climate world daily selects a fresh topic to sow seeds of anxiety among the populace. Popular things easily recognized — even cherished — by people are continually identified as being at risk of being damaged or destroyed by climate change. Coffee, for example, is a commodity experiencing a surge in popularity, and there are no prizes for guessing what climate doomsayers are saying now. Yes, coffee is now said to be...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemActs 21Paul Arrested 27 When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, 28 shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” 29 (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.) 30 The whole...

"The rockets were launched near the tents of Gazan citizens who were evacuated to the south of the Gaza Strip for their protection." ([https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2023/12/GAu5UJcWcAAjn_G-e1701944064179-1320x880.jpeg] Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza's humanitarian zone near tents for displaced residents and a U.N. facility. Credit: IDF.Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza's humanitarian zone near tents for displaced residents and a U.N. facility. Credit: IDF). (December 7, 2023 / JNS) Hamas terrorists on Wednesday launched rockets at Israel from the humanitarian zone in southern Gaza near displaced civilians and a United Nations facility. The Israeli military on Thursday published visual evidence of the launch...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 6. Rumors from the front to-night are to the effect that LEE's whole army is on this side of the Rapidan. It is also believed that he has been reinforced by a portion of LONGSTREET's corps from East Tennessee. On yesterday evening two empty trains were dispatched to the front, for the purpose, it is supposed, of bringing back the surplus baggage of our army. The impression begins to prevail here, notwithstanding semi-official denials, that the Army of the Potomac will go into Winter quarters on the line of the Orange...

This surprise attack by some 350 Japanese planes in the wee hours of that fateful Sunday morning killed about 2,400 Americans. It was the worst attack on American soil by an enemy, until 9/11.