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An Oketz dog caused an uproar after it was filmed attacking a Gaza resident in her home in Jabaliya. Israel was attacked in the Arab world and the video of the attack sparked a wave of hatred towards Israel, but it turns out that this is a dog that was kidnapped by Hamas. Hamas kidnapped the dog with all its equipment on it, boobytrapping it with explosives to injure the IDF forces. While the dog was held by Hamas, he was recorded attacking a Gazan woman. The report was published on the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel, which is affiliated with Hamas....

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the City Council respects activists who are Second Amendment supporters. The admission came when City alder Bob Bauman attempted to ban guns near the scheduled Republican National Convention, in violation of state law and the United States and State of Wisconsin constitutions.From wisn.com:Bauman introduced an amendment Friday encouraging the city’s public safety committee to bypass state law and ban guns within the soft perimeter anyway. “We may be sued. I’m not afraid of being sued,” Bauman told his colleagues. Bauman knows his proposal is against the law.From wtmj.com:Milwaukee City Attorney Evan Goyke told WTMJ it would be...

une 25, 2024 (CAIRO) – Egypt is hosting at least 672,000 registered refugees and asylum-seekers from 62 countries, with Sudanese forming the largest group. This is more than double the number from a year ago with major conflicts across its borders. according to figures from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Most of the refuges live in urban areas of the capital, Cairo and the North Coast. The UN agency said more than 617,000 people forced to flee Sudan have approached its office in Egypt since April 2023 as it scales up delivery of cash assistance and registration to address...

Models are all over this like white on rice. Currently in the mid-Atlantic. Conditions are very favorable for development from now to the end of the model's runs. Some are already forecasting a Cat 1 in the Caribbean. Steering into the Gulf of Mexico very likely with additional strengthening. Keep your eyes on this one peeps. Stay tuned for updates. We may have a 2005-like hurricane season. Meanwhile in the tropics... Very unusual tropical wave to move across the Main Development Region (MDR) potentially unscathed and potentially becoming an issue for the Windward Islands on Monday. Now invest #95L( lower...

How Israelis are preparing A war with Hezbollah now looms, but perhaps, since both sides know that they will suffer terrible damage, it will continue to be avoided. Hezbollah has 130,000 rockets and missiles, some of which, through sheer numbers, managed to avoid interception by Israel’s three-layered anti-missile defense, consisting of Arrow-2 and Arrow-3, David’s Sling, and Iron Dome. Even now, the IDF must be calculating how many, in that vast array of rockets and missiles, can be destroyed on the ground, before they are launched, by Israeli airstrikes and missiles. And the IDF has to estimate, too, how many...

Father God, you are holy. You alone are worthy of ALL praise. We thank you for sending Jesus to pay the price for our sins (when we accept you). Lord, nothing is impossible for you. We ask that your presence be at and moving at the debate tonight. May your spirit be sensed by all. I ask that you cast out all demonic influence in and around the debate tonight. Shield Pres. Trump from any attacks. Please help him to lean on you tonight, Give him a clear mind, wisdom, knowledge, discernment and your peace that is beyond all understanding....

The Supreme Court on Thursday officially affirmed a lower court injunction that allows abortions in medical emergencies to continue in Idaho, one day after inadvertently posting the opinion briefly before scrubbing it. Technically the case will go back to a lower court for further evaluation, but the decision by the high court ensures that Idaho doctors can continue to perform emergency abortions for the time being. The move drew criticism from both ends of the ideological spectrum on the Supreme Court, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Samuel Alito wanting the high court to make a decision based on the...

No facts can be allowed to disturb the blood libels against Israel. It’s now quite clear that there are simply no facts at all — none — that will alter the fixed narrative of lies, distortions and blood libels with which the liberal internationalist order is demonising and delegitimising Israel.The claim that Israel is starving the civilians of Gaza and causing an imminent famine has been pumped out incessantly since soon after the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war.In February, the United Nations said that more than a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million people were “estimated to be facing catastrophic levels...

At any moment you can be accused of blasphemy based on mere rumor - and beaten to death by a mob. Dennis Albert, a Pakistani Christian, has been charged with “blasphemy” because he happened to step on a few pages lying on the ground that turned out to have come from a Qur’an. His attorney, Asad Jamal, has defended others who were similarly accused. More on this can be found here: “Christian in Pakistan Jailed for Stepping on Papers in Street,” Morning Star News, June 18, 2024:Jamal co-authored a fact-finding mission report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)...

Cautionary Tales Abound as Kansas Sues Pfizer Over COVID-19 VaccinePfizer ignored the harms its COVID-19 vaccine posed to pregnant women, lied about the safety and efficacy of its product, and colluded with Big Tech to censor its critics, according to a bombshell lawsuit filed this week by the attorney general of Kansas.“Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine was safe even though it knew its COVID-19 vaccine was connected to serious adverse events, including myocarditis and pericarditis, failed pregnancies, and deaths,” alleges the suit, filed last week by Kansas AG Kris Kobach. “Pfizer concealed this critical safety information from the public.”“Pfizer said...

According to The New York Post, “welfare offices and other agencies in 49 US states are providing voter registration forms to migrants without requiring proof of US citizenship.” But I thought our elections have never been fairer and more secure!The paper stated: “Every state but Arizona — which recently passed a law barring the practice on state but not federal forms — gives applicants for either welfare benefits, driver’s licenses, or in some cases, mail-in ballots voter registration forms without demanding proof of citizenship.”It added that “millions of migrants with humanitarian parole, refugee or asylum status are eligible for benefits...

An advertisement blaming recent high-profile murders of American women on President Biden’s border policies will be broadcast twice to swing-state viewers during CNN’s Thursday night debate, the year’s first, between the incumbent and former President Donald Trump. Building America’s Future, a conservative nonprofit, tweeted the one-minute ad Wednesday with the caption “Joe Biden’s open border — a nightmare for American women. #SayHerName.”

A coalition of female athletes held a rally in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to protest the Biden administration’s rewrite of Title IX rules that added protections based on gender ideology and sexual orientation.The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) held a rally in Washington, D.C., as a part of Our Bodies, Our Sports’ “Take Back Title IX Summer 2024 Bus Tour.” The rally was one stop on the group’s month-long tour across the nation aimed to raise awareness about the threat the administration’s new rules have on women’s sports, according to Our Bodies, Our Sports.Our Bodies, Our Sports also published a letter...

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ROME — Vatican representatives stoked fears of a climate emergency Thursday, insisting global warming is “bringing humanity to its knees.” In a Vatican press conference to present Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of Care for Creation, Father Alberto Ravagnani said that the climate crisis is a “dramatic provocation to our humanity” because when creation suffers, we all suffer. “The climate crisis is bringing the whole of humanity to its knees,” he declared. The environmental question “is particularly close to the hearts of today’s young people, because the current climate crisis looms over their future and that of their...

Tiang, an African antelope, migrate across the Badingilo & Boma National Parks in South Sudan. Image credit: ©Marcus Westberg Around 6 million antelope have been recorded on a trek across East Africa, marking the world’s largest land mammal migration ever recorded. The scale of the Great Nile Migration recently became apparent through an ongoing project between African Parks and the Government of South Sudan. Between April 28 and May 15, 2023, after the first rains of the season, planes were used to carry out an extensive aerial survey of the Boma Badingilo Jonglei Landscape in the east of South Sudan,...

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has funneled several million dollars to law firms at the center of the “lawfare” campaign against former President Donald Trump, the Daily Caller reported on Tuesday. The DNC paid roughly $2 million, earmarked as “legal services,” to Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, a law firm founded by Roberta A. Kaplan, the Caller reported, according to Federal Election Commission’s reports. Kaplan is the attorney who represented E. Jean Carroll in her harassment and defamation lawsuits against Trump. Notably, the DNC payments to Kaplan’s firm began just two years after Carroll launched her assault and defamation lawsuits...

Can Windows 11 Pro be used with 6th or 7th gen Intel processors without running into lack of support problems with Microsoft? I see MANY refurbs on eBay with such combinations, yet SFAIK Microsoft still says it does not support Intel processors that are not at least 8th generation.

Things aren’t going well at all for the global warming crusaders. Despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent on green energy over the past decade, the world and America used more fossil fuels than ever before in history last year. The electric vehicle movement is stalled out, solar and wind power are both still fringe forms of energy, and the green candidates got crushed in recent elections in Europe because voters are sick of the higher prices associated with green policies. So having struck out with consumers, businesses and at the ballot box, now the greens are moving on...

President Joe Biden got some bad news on the eve of the first presidential election: the government’s estimate of inflation in the first quarter of the year was revised higher. The Bureau of Economic Analysis said that the personal consumption expenditure price index rose at an annual pace of 3.4 percent in the first three months of the year, far faster than the 1.8 percent recorded at the end of last year and up from the 3.3 percent estimated in the prior report issued in May. The personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price index is used by the Fed as the...