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No matter how many times this video is shown, there are still people who believe Israel delayed its release because it was staging the whole thing … it's just IDF propaganda. The Israeli Embassy screened for journalists the 45-minute compilation of video taken from social media of the slaughter of more than a thousand Israelis on October 7. Israeli actress Gal Gadot tried to arrange a screening at a Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles, but of course, Hamas sympathizers tried to disrupt the screening. The video was even screened for members of the House of Representatives: The screening just wrapped...

In this episode of MWI’s Urban Warfare Project Podcast, John Spencer is joined again by Michael Kofman, director of the Russia Studies Program at CNA. He researches Russia and the former Soviet Union, specializing in Russian armed forces, military thought, capabilities, and strategy. He also recently returned from Bakhmut, Ukraine—the scene of intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces over the past several months. In the conversation, he describes that trip and what he learned there. He also analyzes the situation from the perspective of both sides in the battle, including their approaches and motivations, as well as the battle’s...

Russia's war against Ukraine should "culminate" by the summer of 2023 Retired Major John Spencer told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Georgian service that he doesn't share the opinion that the war will last for years, due to Ukraine's strength on the battlefield and support from Western allies. Russian President Vladimir Putin's initial strategy of overtaking Kyiv in April was a failure, Spencer said, followed by another unsuccessful attempt to alienate Ukrainian allies. Russia's continued attacks on critical Ukrainian infrastructure to literally "freeze" Ukraine and its people are "futile," he said. "I think it's clear that Putin is not going to...

Ukrainian police posted on Facebook that they had conducted a “clearing op” in Bucha the day before videos emerged showing dead bodies scattered around the settlement, as the war of words over the alleged “war crime” continues. NATO powers and pro-Ukraine commentators have seized upon the alleged atrocity in a bid to escalate the war, with MSNBC hosts and guests even asserting that it justifies directly attacking Russia and putting American boots on the ground in Ukraine. MSNBC host Ali Velshi demanded “direct military involvement,” something that would almost inevitably kick off World War III, in response to the alleged...

N.Y. Senator Responds Jokingly To Report GOP Foe Called Her Ugly (CBS/AP) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wasn't fazed by a report that her Republican challenger John Spencer said she was ugly in her youth and must have had "millions of dollars" of plastic surgery. "My high school picture was cute," Clinton joked with reporters during a campaign stop Monday, the same day Spencer's alleged comments were reported in the New York Daily News. Spencer, in an interview with The Associated Press, denied making the comments to a reporter-columnist during a flight Friday from New York City to Rochester for the...

NY1 To Carry First Debate In Senate Race, Dominic Carter To Moderate October 18, 2006 NY1 News will carry the first debate in the U.S. Senate race between Hillary Clinton and John Spencer on Friday, October 20, at 7:00 p.m. The hour-long debate, which will take place at the Strong Auditorium at the University of Rochester, will be carried simultaneously on NY1 Noticias with Spanish interpretation, as well as on Time Warner Cable news channels in Albany, Syracuse and Rochester. The debate, which will be in front of a live audience, can be heard on National Public Radio affiliates throughout...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Raising images of war and stressing his experience as a Vietnam veteran, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Republican challenger says in a new fundraising letter that her "ruthless campaign to seize power is a serious threat to a secure future for America." The letter from former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer asks contributors to return the enclosed "National Security Dispatch" to "Lt. John Spencer (USA-Vietnam)" because "no battle is more important to America's future than stopping Hillary Clinton." The letter drew a sharp rebuke Wednesday from Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson, who said that "in Mr. Spencer's bizarro world, declaring...

Correction Appended The former Yonkers mayor, John Spencer, defeated Kathleen Troia McFarland last night in a fiercely contested Republican primary for United States Senate, setting the stage for an uphill struggle against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. As widely expected, Mrs. Clinton soundly defeated her Democratic opponent, Jonathan Tasini, based on unofficial returns. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Spencer had 60.2 percent of the vote, to Ms. McFarland’s 39.8 percent. The Republican race, which devolved into personal attacks involving marital infidelity, out-of-wedlock children, mental stability and personal revelations about past parental abuse, inspired little turnout. Last night, during his...

I hope conservatives will show up at the polls this Tuesday, and vote for conservatives! A much smaller percentage vote in the primaries, as compared to the general election, so your primary vote is quite powerful. John Spencer is the conservative candidate in the U.S. Senate race, against Senator Hillary Clinton, and is runing against Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, a RINO. John Spencer has been endorsed by the NYS Conservative Party, as well as the Republican Party. Please do your research on the various candidates applicable to you and vote.

Under direct questioning, and given several opportunitites to do so, Republican candidate for NY Attorney General Jeanine Pirro refused to say that she would vote for Hillary's Republican Senate opponent. There will be a Republican primary on Sep. 12th between former State Department official KT McFarland and former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer. Pirro was a guest on Tucker Carlson's MSNBC show this afternoon. Pirro declined to answer Carlson's repeated questions as to whether she would vote for the Republican candidate for Senate, replying only that she was "focusing on her own race."

John Spencer was the clear winner at the debate, August 9, 2006, at Pace University, downtown Manhattan, hosted by NY1 between the two Republican candidates for New York State Senate. I arrived at the event with an open mind, even though I knew how much I favored John Spencer for Senator in this race. I was nonetheless disappointed by KT’s lack of substance, unflattering attack-mode and dizzy comments, and left feeling I had made the right decision in the first place. KT came out swinging with irrelevant personal attacks, including an assumption that John would be “court marshaled” (I’m still...

The two Republicans seeking to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton clashed ferociously last night in a debate that centered far more on questions of marital infidelity, nepotism and other personal attacks than on what either candidate would do if elected. Kathleen Troia McFarland, a former official in the Reagan-era Pentagon, repeatedly hammered John Spencer, a former mayor of Yonkers, for having an extramarital affair with a city employee while he was mayor, having relatives on the city payroll, and raising property taxes. Mr. Spencer fought back, accusing her of distorting his record with “lies and innuendos and half-truths” while ignoring...

NEW YORK - The two Republicans vying to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this fall tore into each other Wednesday in a debate dominated by angry accusations of personal and professional misconduct and abject dishonesty. From the early minutes of the hourlong forum sponsored by all news cable channel NY1, former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer found himself repeatedly on the defensive about his unconventional private life and its impact on his tenure as mayor from 1996 to 2004. While married to another woman, Spencer fathered two children with his then-chief of staff and substantially raised her salary. He eventually divorced...

Spencer said Clinton's presidential aspirations have distracted her from her duties in New York and sharply described her stances on many issues as "dead wrong."

The GOP candidate seeking to unseat Hillary Rodham Clinton outed her gay brother dying of AIDS to her family and blamed his sexual orientation on her father - before cutting off family ties, New York magazine reports. Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, 54 - who once briefly declared Clinton's helicopters were buzzing her beach house to take pictures - shot off long, angry letters to her parents shortly after she discovered her brother Michael Troia had AIDS, the magazine is reporting in its new issue. "Have you ever wondered why I have never had anything to do with Mike and have...

Advisers to Republican Senate hopeful Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland said Thursday they will launch a petition drive to place her name on an independent line on the November general election ballot _ a move that could keep her candidacy alive if she loses the Sept. 12 GOP primary. But an aide to McFarland's GOP primary rival, former Yonkers mayor John Spencer, dismissed the move as "desperate" and said it would only help Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton win re-election.

Media Matters apparently tried to cover their lie with a half-truth. http://mediamatters.org/items/200606150010 Media Matters attacked Dick Morris for saying that Democrats are supporting Left-Wing Rockefeller Republican Kathleen McFarland for the New York Republican Primary. They posted that the Democrats that supported Clinton only gave money to McFarland during her race for the House, and that Democrats are not supporting McFarland. They were partly correct. The citings that Dick Morris made were indeed false in that they did not support McFarland during her Senate Race, but in her house race. This is completely irrelavent to any conservative Republican; a Republican backed...

Longtime GOP political strategist Ed Rollins is denying that his client, New York Senate hopeful K.T. McFarland, is using Hillary Clinton's one-time private detective to dig up dirt on her Republican primary opponent. McFarland is facing former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer in the GOP primary in a race to see who will oppose Mrs. Clinton this fall. In an exclusive interview with NewsMax, Rollins acknowledged that McFarland hired the detective agency, Investigative Group International, but he insisted that it was to probe McFarland's own background. Rollins noted that Mr. McFarland and notorious IGI chief Terry Lenzner are "longtime friends." "Mr....

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., May 31 — Republicans set the stage Wednesday for what could be a bitter primary battle in the bid to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton for the United States Senate, with delegates at the state party's convention giving two candidates enough support to qualify them for the Sept. 12 primary ballot. John Spencer, the former mayor of Yonkers, who has trumpeted his conservative credentials, secured more than 63 percent of the votes from delegates, making him the official designee of the state party. But Kathleen Troia McFarland, a former Reagan aide who is viewed as more moderate, surprised many...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ Former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer's bid for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this year was endorsed Wednesday by state GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik. " I think he'll provide an excellent challenge to Hillary Clinton," Minarik told The Associated Press. While the endorsement had been expected, it still marked the biggest coup to date for the conservative former mayor. He earlier had picked up the support of the state Conservative Party's leadership and no Republican running statewide in New York has won without the two-party backing since 1974. Spencer is battling a newly...