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Another letter has magically appeared, signed by 100 former intelligence and national security officials, warning about Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination: Nearly 100 former national security officials 'alarmed' at prospect of Gabbard leading intel communityNearly 100 former national security officials signed a letter criticizing President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and called for closed-door Senate hearings to review any government information about her. In the letter obtained by NBC News, the officials urged the Senate to ‘carefully evaluate’ whether Gabbard is ‘equipped’ for the position, which requires Senate confirmation. ‘Several of Ms. Gabbard’s...

https://www.youtube.com/live/gCNeDWCI0vo?si=gLT2hCLgYcNEzjVT Live 24/7 English version of Al Jazeera covering the exact same play by play as Amir Tsarfati.

An anti-Israel student club at Columbia University freely distributed a new hateful newspaper on campus Friday — peddling antagonistic rhetoric calling Jews “colonists” and “subjugators.” While the Ivy League institution denounced the publication, the hate-fueled group Students for Justice in Palestine openly handed out its inaugural edition of “The Columbia Intifada.” The group printed 1,000 copies of the rag, which contains about a half-dozen articles with titles including “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood,” “The Myth of the Two-State Solution” and a handy “Guide to Wheatpasting” — a method of vandalizing public surfaces with propaganda fliers or other messaging. Allowing such...

"Stare into the sun and begin to glimpse the size of what you're up against." — Mike Benz. The Hunter Biden super-sized blanket pardon went over so well around the country that “Joe Biden” — or the shadowy league of not-quite-geniuses who run the twilight White House operation — floated the idea of issuing preemptive pardons for a few of the most spectacularly dishonest characters in US political life: Dr. Fauci, Senator-elect Adam Schiff, and Liz Cheney. Does “JB” plan on legally adopting them so he can claim he was moved to act out of a father’s love? Like every...

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a high-profile case brought by the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT). The decision mandates the FDA to release the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) file for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine no later than June 30, 2025.

It was a dramatic day in New York City on Friday as the jury in the Daniel Penny case came back deadlocked multiple times. While that would normally lead to a mistrial and Penny going free, the judge in the case decided to set what appears to be a new precedent, and it's rightfully leading to outrage. As RedState reported, at the prosecution's request, count one (second-degree manslaughter) was dismissed, with the judge ordering the jury to be sent back to deliberate on count two (negligent homicide). ... Yes, that is a judge saying he will "take a chance" with...

Donald Trump’s victory was in part a decisive repudiation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the odious, unconstitutional, racist, and sexist grift concocted by the extreme Left as a radicalized form of affirmative action. DEI is based on Critical Race Theory (CRT), the doctrine that all whites are bigots. It has been fused into the firmament of academia, government, and business by the far Left, those beholden to it (particularly Joe Biden), and those fearful of it (including corporate boards and CEOs). DEI and CRT have destroyed the careers of straight white men and Asians, humiliated blacks and other minorities...

An investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents identified a migrant smuggling ring being operated by three U.S. Army Soldiers based at Fort Cavazos near Killeen, Texas.

The Democratic Party is the party of hate. They look at middle- and working-class Americans and see “garbage” and “deplorables,” words that President Biden and Madame Hilary used. On November 4, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough trashed Trump voters, asking, “Who are these people...who raised them?” Mr. Scarborough, let me tell you who raised me. My parents came to this country in 1948. They were Polish Jews who survived Hitler’s Holocaust. They did not know each other when they arrived in the United States. When my father was fourteen, he was imprisoned in a Nazi slave labor camp for the sole...

Amid FBI and state investigations into reports about several mysterious nighttime drone flights across central and northern New Jersey, sightings are now being reported in South Jersey. Evesham police said Thursday night that they were "aware of the recent surge in drone activity" in the skies above the Burlington County township. ---SNIP--- On Thursday, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy posted on social media he had met with Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, members of the federal Department of Homeland Security, state police and members of the Garden State's congressional delegation "discuss reported drone activity over parts of North and Central New Jersey."

“Taking the form of a bond-servant” (Philippians 2:7). Christ submitted Himself to the Father’s will. When Christ emptied Himself, He not only gave up His privileges but also became a servant. First, He was a servant by nature. Paul used the Greek word morphe (“form”) again to indicate that Christ’s servanthood was not merely external but His essence. It was not like a cloak that could be put on and taken off. Christ was truly a servant. The only other New Testament use of morphe is in Mark 16:12. There Jesus appears in a resurrection morphe—a form fully expressing the...

DOGE Advisor Ron Paul has announced that one of his recommendations will be to totally ELIMINATE foreign aid. "It’s taking money from the poor and middle class in the US and giving it to the rich in poor countries - with a cut to the facilitators in between!" It's about time we defunded the dictators all around the world. The billions we send overseas are responsible for the corrupt people remaining in office for so long. Nothing our foreign policy establishment has done since World War II has benefitted us or the world at-large in any way.

The people we’ve entrusted to protect our children have once again placed them in harm's way. Washington was arrested on Tuesday and is now being charged with kidnapping a minor, abusing his authority to contact a minor for sex, four counts of child pornography, and three counts of statutory sexual seduction by a person over the age of 21, according to court documents reported by KLAS-TV. Aside from being the head football coach at Valley High School, Washington was also a campus security monitor. He admitted to law enforcement that he had a sexual relationship with the student when she...

Military leaders are rattled by a list of “woke” senior officers that a conservative group urged Pete Hegseth to dismiss for promoting diversity in the ranks if he is confirmed to lead the Pentagon. The list compiled by the American Accountability Foundation includes 20 general officers or senior admirals and a disproportionate number of female officers. It has had a chilling effect on the Pentagon’s often frank discussions as leaders try to figure out how to address the potential firings and diversity issues under President-elect Donald Trump. Those on the list in many cases seem to be targeted for public...

A 20-year-old woman who says she was forced her into a sex change at age 12 has taken action against a controversial transgender youth doctor. Clementine Breen filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Los Angeles-based doctor Johanna Olsen-Kennedy on Thursday, claiming she was rushed into irreversible treatment to become male beginning at age 12, which may have left her infertile. The contentious lawsuit also alleges Olsen-Kennedy - the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles - administered Breen's care without performing psychological testing or monitoring her mental health and the side...

This week, President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter "for any and all crimes he may have committed, including those not yet detected, between January 1 of 2014 and December 1 of 2024. None of these crimes were committed out of malice. As the son of a vice-president and president Hunter was under a lot of pressure to produce income to support the Biden family. He turned to drugs and prostitution to try to relieve his stress. He painted for relaxation only to discover that others would pay high sums for his work. He evaded taxes to increase the net...

Another teen murder suspect has landed himself in adult jail for an alleged assault while in juvenile detention. Jacob Lovato is accused of biting and punching corrections officers inside the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center and throwing a chair at them. The alleged fight happened after he turned 18 years old, leading him to be charged as an adult and transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center. Lovato’s brush with the juvenile justice system started in Feb. 2023 when he was charged with battery on a peace officer and illegally possessing a handgun. He was granted supervised release from the YSC....

Chuck Norris said his mother, Wilma Norris Knight, has died at age 103. In a Facebook post on Friday, Norris announced his mom’s death, describing her as “a woman of unwavering faith, a beacon of light in our lives, and her love reflected God’s grace.” She died Wednesday. SNIP “From my earliest memories, she taught me the importance of kindness and compassion. I am so thankful for the countless lessons she shared, the prayers she lifted for us, and the way she embodied the love of Christ every day,” Norris wrote. “We love you, Mom. Until we meet again.”

Well-coiffed woman in pearls sits, happy and in control, (not sick and elderly, confined to a hospital bed under psychological pressure to sign), gazing wistfully from her writing desk ready to sign her "living will" (authorization to Dr.s to euthanize her). Her desk fades into a happy, soft image of a man--presumably her son--explaining to a boy--her "grandson"--"Grandma loved us so much that she wanted to have something to leave us, and she didn’t want to burden us by trying to cling to life after she had lived her time."

The Guardian reports that a section of wall stretching for nearly one-half mile was found in the Bay of Mecklenburg, off the coast of Germany, during a survey conducted with a multibeam sonar system. Inspection of the wall revealed that it was made up of about 300 boulders connected with some 1,400 smaller stones. The structure is thought to have been constructed more than 10,000 years ago, near a lake or marsh. Jacob Geersen of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde suggests that the wall may have been part of a driving lane used by hunters in pursuit...