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Security and Strategic Affairs Analyst Faiz Al-Asmar claimed that the delay in Iran’s attack has caused it to lose the element of surprise, strengthening Israel, during an interview with the Saudi Al-Hadath channel. He said, "In terms of the situation on the ground, it can be said that Iran and Hezbollah's delay in responding to the deaths of Ismail Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr have so far allowed Israel and the US to strengthen their position on the ground and use all means available. There is currently a warship that has recently arrived in the area. All of this has given...

You could honestly say Harris hates Israel...Last I've heard she's had some spokesweasel making excuses, but nothing from her. Which is telling.

Are the devices in your home trying to influence the election? Like many Americans, I own an Echo Show, the Amazon Alexa device with a screen. For the most part, it’s a billboard mounted in your home full of product placement and personalized ads. But it also has a ton of useful features: live view for security cameras, Spotify access, announcement mode, video calls, shopping lists, and over 100,000 “skills” — the Alexa word for apps. My family uses it mostly for timers, reminders, and lists, but the touch screen also allows for a steady flow of recipes and, until...

A 6-year-old Michigan boy died after being stapled to a wall and shot with a BB gun — part of “horrific” abuse by his mother and her boyfriend often in front of their other kids, according to authorities. Mom Elaina Rose Jennings, 25, and her boyfriend Daniel John Giacchina, 32, were charged with murder after little Giovanny “Chulo” Jennings was found unconscious with injuries all over his body on July 30, WDIV reported. Investigators soon learned that Giovanny was confined to a pen and left to sleep on a wooden slat in his mom’s bedroom in their mobile home in...

Massive increases in coral across the Australian Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have been reported for 2023-24 making it the third record year in a row of heavy growth. Across almost all parts of the 1,500 mile long reef, from the warmer northern waters to the cooler conditions in the south, coral is now at its highest level since detailed observations began. The inconvenient news has been ignored in mainstream media which, curiously, have focused on a non-story in Nature that claimed “climate change” poses an “existential threat” to the GBR. “The science tells us that the GBR is in danger...

We can safely declare, without exaggeration or hyperbole, that Britain is now a totalitarian state. The ruling machine may not yet have the absolute control that Stalin did, but it's not for lack of trying. The British government's hysterical Chicken Little response to online support for this past week's rioting is proof enough for anyone paying attention that it attaches no value whatsoever to Western principles like freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. Here's a video of an elderly man being arrested in his home for "improper use" of social media for "some comments that [he] made" on his...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is visiting Russia, state news agency TASS reported. Abbas arrived in Russia on Monday to discuss the Gaza war with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Palestinian envoy said. -snip- The Kremlin has repeatedly criticized Israel's response to the October 7 attacks and called for restraint.

Since The Wall Street Journal first reported that Alex Soros had taken over his father’s political operation on June 11, 2023, he has pumped tens of millions of dollars into an array of efforts to sway the 2024 election, financial disclosures show. Democracy PAC, the primary conduit through which the Soros family shuffles its wealth into electoral politics, spent roughly $40 million after the WSJ reported that George Soros had passed the reins on to his son, campaign finance records show. The PAC’s spending under Alex Soros signals somewhat of a departure from how his father operated it, with less...

The chairman of the powerful House Administration Committee says his investigation into one of the Democrats' most successful political action committees has pivoted to whether foreigners may be laundering money into the 2024 election. Rep. Bryan Steil, W-Wis., said his committee has identified individuals who claim they did not make the donations attributed to them in Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports filed by ActBlue. His committee, which oversees election integrity issues, has “activated a full investigation.” “My concern is that individuals are outside the jurisdiction in the United States who may be engaged in this,” Steil told the "Just the...

I would like to start the week off by clarifying that I have yet to be swept up in Kamalamania. It's really something watching the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media hype up Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in an effort to make them seem fun and normal. When they came out of the gate with the "America's Dad" crap after Walz was announced as the running mate, I knew that I was going to have to work on drinking in moderation or straight-up abstinence if my liver was going to make it to November. OK, Labor...

Make no mistake, there is nothing "joyful" about the weird campaign that the Democrats, the MSM, the Deep State, and the transnational elites are running against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. Sure, they are making a movie that sure looks like it's joyful and confident, but for months the Establishment has been panicked and that panic hasn't receded. It's not that they are doomed--quite the opposite, these evil people have a reasonable chance of victory. It's that the stakes have never been so high for them. In their eyes, it is for all the marbles, and we should see the...

Aug 9 (Reuters) - Cisco (CSCO.O), opens new tab will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus to higher-growth areas, including cybersecurity and AI, people familiar with the matter said. The number of people affected could be similar to or slightly higher than the 4,000 employees Cisco laid off in February, and will likely be announced as early as Wednesday with the company's fourth-quarter results, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly. Reuters exclusively reported the job cut that San Jose, California-based Cisco announced...

the vaccine produces fatigue, as does the virus. Sometimes long fatigue.".. What does the COVID vaccine do to those in the military? According to a former Navy SEAL training commander, it can literally cause seamen to drop out of training due to fatigue... Capt. Brad Geary talked about the damage Joe Biden’s military vaccine mandate wrought upon the Armed Forces, including a lack of readiness for those who have to do significant physical exertion... February 2022, a Navy SEAL trainee under Geary’s command, Kyle Mullen, died during the notorious “hell week” — another name for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL, or BUD/S,...

Well, this is indeed a shocker: Google admitted this past week that they were indeed censoring searches on GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and the assassination attempt against him. But it was just an outdated algorithm, honest!In the latest improbable claim of semi-innocence in the field of election manipulation by a big tech corporation, counsel for Google parent company Alphabet told the House Judiciary Committee that its autocomplete algorithm wouldn’t allow people to search for results about the Trump assassination attempt at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13 due to a prohibition against searches for political violence-related topics, National...

A security guard disarmed a knifeman after an 11-year-old girl and a 34-year-old woman were stabbed in London's Leicester Square. Abdullah, 29, said he "heard a scream", then "jumped on" the man who was attacking the child before holding him down and taking the knife off him. "I just saw a kid getting stabbed and I just tried to save her. It's my duty to just save them," he said. Abdullah said he and his colleagues gave first aid to the child before police arrived. The victims were treated at the scene before being taken to a hospital's major trauma...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course" before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy. When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection intended to end the pregnancy. But it was too late. The fertilized egg growing on Thurman’s fallopian tube would rupture it, destroying part of her reproductive system. That’s according to a complaint Thurman...

When Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, my heart burst with pride for my home state. As a daughter of Minnesota, it has been thrilling to watch how quickly the country has gone wild for Walz. Of all the refreshing qualities he brings to the ticket, making kindness cool again may be what this country needs most right now. Walz’s leadership success is a clear rebuke of the harshness towards the vulnerable that has, disturbingly, become normalized. Walz’s record from a lifetime in public service shows that respecting and uplifting those around us creates opportunities...

Hyped-up Arizona Cardinals fans are liable to sugar-rush the field after downing this sweet stadium snack. The Cardinals unveiled a bizarre new culinary concoction to be offered at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, for the 2024 season: a cotton candy burrito. Cardinals senior vice president for media relations Mark Dalton shared a photo and video of the latest stadium food offering on X, formerly Twitter, showing a sign for the burrito that describes it as “ice cream and candy wrapped in cotton candy.” "Cotton Candy Burritos" among the 50+ new food offerings for @AZCardinals games this season at State...

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- 9:30 P.M. To Maj.-Gen. Dix, New York: No further intelligence has been received from Mobile, except from deserters, who report the capture of the city, but nothing official. Gen. SHERMAN reports all well, and that he is knocking Atlanta with four and a half inch shells. No movement has been made by our forces in front of Petersburgh. Gen. SHERIDAN has not been heard from to-day. EDWIN M. STANTON. Secretary of War. WASHINGTON, Thursday, Aug. 11 -- 10 P.M. To Maj.-Gen. Dix, New-York: A dispatch from Gen. GRANT, just received, reports the casualties by...