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A police officer shown throwing a bucket during a crackdown on an illegal outdoor worship service. More later on Israel's coronavirus crackdown. New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio wants to shut down nine neighborhoods in the city starting Wednesday..... "Your own kid's high school football game...we just stood for the national anthem and then we violated every liberty and freedom that we have" "I have a right not to wear a mask" We now have video of what happened from Ammon Bundy's perspective as he took a stand against a mask-muzzle order at a high school football game..... The coronavirus freedom...

The coronavirus story continues the Dictatorship of COVID-19 worldwide the Faucian version of how humanity is supposed to live with the backdrop of President Trump's diagnosis and treatment now underway. "If we had an honest media" starts this Twitter post..... We'll move forward and consider those from the world of music who have moved on this week. He was one of my friend's favorite singers back in the 1970's and songs like this remind me why my friend loved the music of Mac Davis who passed away this week at the age of 78..... Before we remember the music of...

More than 26-hundred fines handed out over a 24 hour period by Israeli police for violations of the country's coronavirus lockdown orders including 629 to people who did not mask-muzzle themselves..... Israel's coronavirus cabinet meeting Monday morning with voting on plans to strictly limit any business activity and issuance of work permits in the country.... Fines of up to $12,498.50 could be imposed on people who refuse an order to self-isolate in the UK because of the coronavirus.... There's concern in the UK that Prime Minister Boris Johnson may impose a nationwide lockdown..... Thousands of protesters in opposition to coronavirus...

A strict three week national coronavirus lockdown for Israel will begin Friday afternoon. "Closure was planned in advance out of lack of appreciation for Jewish holidays" Israel's Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman resigning today over the coronavirus lockdown in Israel.... Thousands gathered in Montreal to protest restictions in Canada's province of Quebec. The Saturday protest came on the first day that police in the province were given authority to fine people who are not wearing a mask.... Armed citizens in Corbett, a community near Portland, set up roadbocks Friday after a fire was intentionally set using fireworks. The armed citizens were...

"I suggest the public act in accordance with common sense and not in accordance with government guidelines" Those words coming from Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman of the Yisrael Beyteinu (Israel Our Home) Party...... "we have to start taking this very seriously again" Those words from a British health official today. The Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van Tam speaking.... A Saudi court overturning five death sentences in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi today and handing out sentences to eight unnamed individuals in the case.... Protests continued in Portland Sunday for the 102nd night in a row..... Portland Police have...

Folks, Secretary Mike Pompeo gave a talk in Israel alongside Prime Minister Netanyahu. The Fake News and Search Engines are doing everything in their power from having the public hear/see the wonderful praise Netanyahu gave the Trump Administration today. Netanyahu laid all the cards on the table. He crushed Obama's Iran policy and gave a stirring endorsement of President Trump. I could not find his speech on Youtube or any outlet, but here's the transcript of his remarks from the State Department directly.

It was the Number One song this day in 1968 "People Want To Be Free" and that notion seemed to be gaining steam in Czechoslovakia but the USSR sent the Red Army and forces from the other Communist East European countries some 500-thousand troops in..... Freedom of course remains for us to consider in 2020 and in Virginia the top health official preaching his "Soviet line" Newsdump Update: Dictatorship of COVID-19 Top Virginia Health Official Wants Mandatory Vaccination.... Newsdump Update: Jeffrey Epstein Case Federal Grand Jury Still Probing Epstein, Maxwell Activities.... Newsdump Update: Portland Protest At North Police Precinct Declared...

Israel's Abraham Accord agreement with the United Arab Emirates marks a substantial achievement for the mission of peace and stability in the Middle East. Although Israel had previously signed diplomatic agreements with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994, the agreement with the UAE marks a substantial achievement for the mission of peace and stability in the Middle East. The diplomatic agreement, called the Abraham Accord, means Israel and the UAE can exchange ambassadors and establish embassies in each other’s nations. Furthermore, the accord allows direct trans-national flights and opens new opportunities for bilateral cooperation, particularly in health care and...

"We're in a county that's not going to prosecute this criminal behavior" That's part of the statement from Oregon State Police spokesman Timothy Fox. Oregon State Police pulling out of the federal courthouse in Portland..... French President Emmanuel Macron ordering French naval forces to the eastern Mediterranean in response to growing tensions between Greece and Turkey with Turkey pressing its right to explore for oil and natural gas in disputed waters..... A relationship in the shadows brought out into the open today with Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreeing to establish full diplomatic relations..... "Our future is in Judea...

"I can't wear a mask and I'm tired of getting crap everywhere I go. Enough." People's Rights Washington activist Kelli Stewart confronting a "Mask Nazi" at a supermarket checkout in her state..... Mandates to wear masks-muzzles took effect in two more US states over the weekend, Wisconsin and Vermont. The owners of the Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey reopening their business Saturday after it was shut down by police last Monday..... The crackdown underway in Australia's second most populous city and second most populous state..... Police and sheriff's deputies, some of them militarized, swarming protesters in Rockford, Illinois Saturday.........

Breaking News: President Trump commuting the sentence of Roger Stone...... How about "revenue raisers" or in plain language "higher taxes" to deal with tax revenue shortfalls and recovery from the coronavirus situation? Government officials across the country beginning to broach the subject. Among them New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy..... A Kentucky judge's order putting a cloud over Democrat Governor Andy Beshear's mask (muzzle) order..... "Over the past several week I have been asked repeatedly about what the Town of Eagar plans to do about Covid-19, masks, visitors, riots etc. It is somewhat alarming how many expect and almost invite a...

In this Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 file photo, released by Oman News Agency, Oman's Sultan Qaboos, left, receives Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Muscat, Oman. (Oman News Agency via AP, File) The “last decade,” notes James Sinkinson in a perceptive article, has seen a “sea change” in Israel’s ties with “key Arab states.” And that last decade is also the one in which Benjamin Netanyahu (again, after a stint in the 1990s) has been Israel’s prime minister — specifically since March 2009.True, conditions for enhanced Arab-Israeli ties have been propitious — particularly the behavior of regional bully Iran, a...

US President Donald Trump will make a big announcement on the Middle East based on current talks, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway told reporters on the White House lawn on Wednesday. Asked about the possibility of Israel extending its civil law to parts of the West Bank, Conway said: “We are having conversations, there are conversations being had. Obviously, the president will have an announcement. He's talked about this in the past, and I’ll leave it to him to give you a big announcement, and we’re very happy these talks continue.” Conway, who is not generally involved in foreign...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the story of a major drama that unfolded behind the scenes at the UN Security Council shortly before former US President Barack Obama left office. New details about some drama involving Israel, Russia, and the US that played out behind the scenes at the United Nations Security Council some four years ago are coming to light. more.... It appears that Russia demonstrated a rare willingness to use its UNSC veto on Israel's behalf to block a resolution led by then-US President Barack Obama, which would have compelled Israel to set up a Palestinian state based...

Germany under intense pressure to scuttle the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to bring natural gas from Russia underwater to Germany. That's the assessment of Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. The United States behind that pressure. On Friday a White House official told the media that nine thousand US troops were going to be withdrawn from Germany..... A Russian disc jockey arrested in Berlin at the request of the United States...... A Florida judge who has refused to release grand jury records related to the late Jeffrey Epstein has close ties to politicians involved in the investigation of Epstein 15...

Defense Minister Benny Gantz orders IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi to “step up preparations for the IDF,” his office says, ahead of the potential annexation of portions of the West Bank. “Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz instructed the chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, to step up preparations for the IDF ahead of diplomatic efforts on the agenda in the Palestinian arena,” the statement reads. Gantz says he also plans to appoint a point-person to coordinate between the different government bodies involved in the process. “In addition, a joint team will be formed that will...

In San Jose, California today Pastor Mike McClure of Calvary Chapel told worshipers at an outdoor service that the church will reopen for a regular indoor service next Sunday regardless of any local orders..... His comments came hours after a US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that upheld Governor Gavin Newsom's ban on indoor church services..... The Oregon Supreme Court telling a local judge to throw out his injunction against Governor Kate Brown's coronavirus emergency orders or explain why he shouldn't by 5 pm Tuesday...... North Dakota Republican Governor Doug Burgum getting emotional at his Friday media appearance over...

Developments unfolding today in the Justice Department probe of insider trading involving members of the US Senate. US Senator Kelly Loeffler, Republican from Georgia, has turned over documents.... Now under FBI investigation Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr is stepping down temporarily.... The FBI has also talked to Dianne Feinstein, Democrat from California, about her husband's stock sales in recent months..... A US warship transiting the Taiwan Strait Wednesday. The guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell making the journey through the waterway between Taiwan and China.... Annexation of Judea and Samaria, commonly called the "West Bank", was not the top issue...

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Jerome Powell says more stimulus spending is needed to prevent a slow and painful economic recovery...... In Washington state authorities are gearing up for testing, contact tracing and quarantine efforts that will include children's "camps" in the name of fighting Covid-19..... More clashes tonight in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem as Orthodox Jewish residents sought to meet publicly in spite of Israeli government restrictions.... "Gestapo" was the message shouted at police in Lakewood, New Jersey Monday..... Police in Ukraine asking for the addresses of all the Jews in one community.... The family...

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemns Orthodox Jewish bonfires that have drawn large crowds in Israel tonight..... The lines are being drawn here in Pennsylvania over a regulated re-opening of business in the state... Four south-central Pennsylvania counties with Republican majority commissioners (Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York) setting this Friday as the date for moving to a 'yellow' phase but Wolf warning of consequences including loss of state funding.... Interpol has issues a 'red notice' for the arrest of the wife of a US diplomat accused by British police in the killing of a motorcyclist in 2019..... An...