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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Saturday that it had killed two senior Hamas terrorists operating in Lebanon, including one who had been based in the northern Lebanon city of Tripoli, on the Mediterranean coast. In a joint statement, the IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet, or Shabak) said: Earlier today (Saturday), in a joint IDF and ISA operation, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist Muhammad Hussein Ali al-Mahmoud, who served as Hamas’ executive authority in Lebanon and directed terrorist activities in Judea and Samaria. In recent years, Muhammad advanced terrorist activities against Israelis both inside...

Explanation: While hunting for comets in the skies above 18th century France, astronomer Charles Messier diligently kept a list of the things encountered during his telescopic expeditions that were definitely not comets. This is number 27 on his now famous not-a-comet list. In fact, 21st century astronomers would identify it as a planetary nebula, but it's not a planet either, even though it may appear round and planet-like in a small telescope. Messier 27 (M27) is an excellent example of a gaseous emission nebula created as a sun-like star runs out of nuclear fuel in its core. The nebula forms...

President Biden warned that the money for a disaster aid loan program used by survivors of Hurricane Helene and other calamities will soon dry up without intervention from Congress. In a letter to the four congressional leaders on Friday, Mr. Biden said the Small Business Administration’s program is on the verge of going broke before Congress is slated to return after the Nov. 5 election. The loans are a “critical lifeline” that act as the “largest source of Federal disaster recovery funds,” he said, adding that $1.2 billion is needed to refill the program’s coffers. Lawmakers are out of town...

Bill Stebbins@Bill_StebbinsJRA comrade in arms of mine and fellow OIF vet in the path of destruction in NC finally came up on the net thanks to STARLINK and @elonmusk he and his family are ALIVE but things are deteriorating fast. He’s a fellow multiple tour Iraq vet and is not prone to exaggeration. You wanna know what’s REALLY going down—at least one person’s perspective in their area?His first update:"This entire area is a war zone, even if not directly “destroyed” by flood waters. There are men, women and children starving, without water and sanitation. No fuel. People can’t get to...

Former President Donald Trump is expected to hit the campaign trail “almost every single day” in the month before Nov. 5 — doing rallies, small speaking engagements, interviews and retail stops, a person familiar with his schedule told The Post. “We’re going to be on the road almost every single day between now and Nov. 5,” the Trump campaign rep said. Trump, 78, will put particular emphasis on the seven critical swing states of Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina. He is also expected to appear in events in Florida, New York and New Jersey — where...

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Twenty-four years after Abed al-Aziz Salha waved his bloody hands triumphantly following a brutal lynch on two IDF soldiers, the IDF has evened the score against him. In October 2000, Salha lynched Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, two reservists traveling in Ramallah. Salha was later arrested, but he was freed as part of the 2011 "Shalit deal," along with 1,027 other convicted terrorists, among them Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. This week, 24 years after the bloody murder, Salha was eliminated during an IDF operation in Gaza. According to a joint IDF and ISA statement, Salha was eliminated in an air...

“I listened to Biden yesterday … they asked him, what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran and he goes ‘as long as they don’t hit the nuclear stuff.’” Trump said on Friday, according to the New York Post. “That’s the thing you want to hit, right?” “I think he’s got that one wrong,” Trump continued. “Isn’t that the one you’re supposed to hit? It’s the biggest risk we have, nuclear weapons.”

[H/T Oratam]Video Notes: A trucker, who drives a "fifty-three foot step deck", demonstrates with screen captures of his cell phone that the phone app he normally uses to find loads to hall doesn't show the numerous requests for loads expected for disaster areas. Normally there's a boom of substantial hauls of large equipment (bulldozers, excavators, cranes, generators, pumps, tree trimming equipment etc.) from numerous locations including military bases. This time, there are no such loads within the expected 125 mile radius of Asheville, North Carolina. His broker called and reported that he can't find any of the expected loads going...

Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a finding that researchers hope could be a promising answer to combat one of Earth’s major pollution problems. In a study published Thursday in Environmental Science and Technology, scientists laid out their examination of Comamonas testosteroni, a bacteria that grows on polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, a plastic commonly found in single-use food packaging and water bottles. PET makes up about 12 percent of global solid waste and 90 million tons of the plastic produced each year. “The machinery in environmental microbes...

Women were barred from the United Kingdom Royal Navy’s submarine forces from 1901 until 2011, and the first females returned to active duty in 2014. While that was certainly a victory for them, the cohabitation of men and women in such confined spaces under the sea was not without problems. The results of an internal investigation were published, showing that women in the Royal Navy’s submarine forces have suffered multiple incidents of abuse and harassment by male submariners. The investigation also revealed that some of the abusers were senior officers, and the misconduct included ‘at least’ one report of rape....

Was Hurricane Helene’s path and behavior just an act of nature? What do you think? Are networks of ground based frequency transmitters being utilized to manipulate and steer hurricanes? This video footage provides visual evidence of the interaction between ground based frequency transmitter installations and the path of Hurricane Helene.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” acting Labor Secretary Julie Su responded to International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett’s threat to “cripple” the economy by stating that “anyone who’s been a part of these things knows that when negotiations are going on, they can get heated, people can say a bunch of things.” And “longshoremen play a very critical role in our economy, and this negotiation helped to highlight that.” Co-host Carl Quintanilla asked, “There was this video of Harold Daggett mentioning that he would — ‘I will cripple you‘ was the phrase he used trying to...

We went to Asheville, NC to Help, and its WORSE , much worseI just watched a 25 minute video (at 2x speed) about a group of men driving supplies to North Carolina hard hit areas.A group of men prayed and set off to deliver a trailer full of supplies. They showed the condition of the roads, and one problem they would summarize after the day's events, is that GPS is displaying the one good road available to them as blocked, and instead sent them to blocked roads which cost this crew of men hours. Because GPS is giving this...

Cardinal, exorcists have differing takes on ‘cleansing’ ritual performed on Mexican presidentA Mexican cardinal and three priests, two of them exorcists, have differing takes on the “cleansing” ritual that was performed during the inauguration of the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum.Sheinbaum, a candidate of the coalition Let’s Keep Making History — which consists of the political parties National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), Labor Party (PT), and Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) — was the winner of the June 2 presidential elections. She assumed office on Oct. 1.Sheinbaum succeeds President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, founder of MORENA who in December 2018...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre falsely claimed during a press briefing that Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds have not been used to house illegal aliens after administration officials said that the agency lacked adequate funds for the remainder of the hurricane season. When asked if FEMA funding is being used to house illegal immigrants, Jean-Pierre denied it, calling the claim “categorically false” and “a false statement.” But FEMA openly states that its funding has been used to house illegal immigrants who have entered the United States under the Biden-Harris administration. While FEMA has diverted funds to house illegal...

Kamala Harris doesn’t just want to build more factories in the US if elected president. She also wants to help secure steady supplies of materials to fuel them. A recent promise that embodies this approach is her proposed establishment of a "national reserve" of critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, and nickel — the crucial building blocks in everything from electric vehicle batteries to jet engines to medical devices.

Welcome to the PRAYER REQUESTS thread. This daily thread is a listing of prayer requests that have been posted by Freepers to the main forum who wish to have continued prayer. Hopefully this thread will remind us to continually pray for our fellow Freepers’ cares and needs. GOD hears and answers our prayers.

In the annals of American disasters—man-made ones like the bombing of the 1995 Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City or natural ones like Hurricane Katrina in 2005—there has never been a more mismanaged and bungled disaster response by our federal government than the current aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The monster storm plowed across Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, downing power lines, sweeping away bridges, devastating entire towns, and leaving over 200 dead and countless hundreds still missing as this is published. Into this hellscape of destroyed cities, overturned cars, and shattered lives have parachuted the Presidential “nominee”...

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that votes for an open primary ballot initiative will be tabulated, upholding the trial court ruling that even though almost 40,000 signatures were deemed invalid, any litigation was “moot” as the proposition had already been printed on the ballot. “We are disappointed in the ruling of the court on this matter,” said Scot Mussi, President of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club. “Our organization proved that the special interest groups attempting to hijack Arizona’s elections systems lacked the minimum number to qualify for the ballot to even be considered by voters in November.” The Supreme...