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Since Hamas's savage attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the Israeli Defense Forces have been operating in Gaza to eliminate Hamas's military and governance capabilities and to attempt to free the Israeli hostages.During this operation, a wealth of new intelligence has been gathered on Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organizations.Israeli forces have retrieved millions of documents of captured enemy material. This new intelligence exposed two related issues: First, the involvement of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) employees in the Oct. 7 massacre. Second, the deep and systemic infiltration by terror organizations, particularly Hamas, into the...

It’s a bad day for free speech. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government may continue to pressure Big Tech companies to censor speech it disapproves of, and dissenting Justice Samuel Alito tore the outrageous decision apart. The Court ruled 6-3 — with Justice Amy Coney Barrett authoring the Opinion — that the complainants lacked standing to file an “injunction against any defendant” because they failed to demonstrate “particularized” harm. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined in the majority’s ridiculous position. The Court’s explicit gaslighting as to the Big Tech companies’ independent reasons for censoring...

Dr. Andrew Paquette, who serves as research director of the all-volunteer citizens’ group New York Citizens Audit (NYCA), has proven that New York state’s voter registration roll now contains an algorithm designed to facilitate election fraud.One must understand how voter registration data works to appreciate just how serious this is. All registration data is predicated on algorithms, which are basically equations added into the registration in chronological sequence to transform a voter identification number (“Voter ID No.”) into a code. In an honest system, the voter who registers first gets Voter ID No. 1, the second voter to register gets...

We are past the crisis point for Jews in New York City. On Mayor Eric Adam's watch, Jews are unsafe. If Mayor Adams doesn’t very quickly take action, there’ll be dead Jews in the streets of New York. When that inevitable murder and increased violence come, Mayor Adams will give an empathic statement on how unacceptable Anti-Semitism is. He’ll even speak on hostages or some other issue on which he has no authority. What he hasn’t done however is act to protect Jews. Mr. Mayor, the Jews no longer trust you. We have had enough. The Jews of New York...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the House Judiciary Committee plans to file a lawsuit to force Attorney General Merrick Garland to turn over audio recordings of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. The suit would be the latest effort to secure the tapes after the Justice Department informed Congress it would not be bringing criminal charges against Garland despite a House vote to hold him in contempt.

Justice Samuel Alito excoriated the Supreme Court majority for “shirk[ing]” its duty to restrain the government’s coercive censorship efforts in “one of the most important free speech cases” to reach the high court in years. The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided 6-3 with the Biden administration in Murthy v. Missouri, finding that two states and five individual plaintiffs lacked standing to seek an injunction against the government’s wide-ranging efforts to suppress speech online. The case concerned the federal government requesting social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter remove certain content related to COVID-19 and other hot-button issues; many of...

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The anti-Israel protester who demanded that “Zionists” on a packed Big Apple subway car raise their hands turned himself in Wednesday following a manhunt. Anas Saleh turned himself in early Wednesday after cops released a wanted poster with his face splashed across it in the wake of the hate-filled subway saga at Manhattan’s Union Square station. He was charged with coercion, according to sources.

More voters in six key swing states say they trust former President Donald Trump to do a better job than President Joe Biden handling threats to democracy in the U.S., according to a poll by The Washington Post. The Post's survey, conducted with the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, involved voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — all states Biden narrowly won in the 2020 election. Among the voters who participated in the survey, 64% were labeled "deciders" by the Post because they are sporadic or uncommitted voters who likely will play...

SCOTUS Green-Lights Feds’ Big Tech Censorship Scheme Ahead Of 2024 Election‘We therefore reverse the judgment of the Fifth Circuit and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.’The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s injunction prohibiting the federal government from colluding with Big Tech companies to censor posts it doesn’t like, effectively green-lighting the Biden administration’s ability to carry out such operations during the 2024 election. “To establish standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a Government defendant and redressable by the...

The Nassau County Legislature passed a bill that prevents transgender women from competing in women’s sports on Long Island.At a meeting on Monday, June 24, lawmakers voted 12-6 to pass the law. Originally introduced by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s office, the bill would require sports teams to designate whether they are a female, male, or co-ed team and is aimed to prevent “biological males” from competing on women’s teams. It echoes an executive order Blakeman originally introduced in February 2022, which tried to prevent transgender women from participating in women’s sports at all county-run facilities. The executive order mirrored...

Climate change alarmists are reacting to recent warm weather, pointing to global warming as the monster belching summer heat. “Summer is quickly becoming the season of grim extremes,” writes Evan Bush for NBC News, citing “record heat” across the Northeast, “flooding” in the Midwest, and a “tropical storm” in Texas. While hesitant to attribute any particular weather-related incident to global warming, the article goes on to contend that the “specter of climate change lurks behind many of the recent events.”

Japan has become another piece of fodder for the West’s culture wars. After a recent visit with his family, talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel praised the country for its clean toilets and lack of litter, only to be lambasted by right-wing pundits such as Ben Shapiro, who accused the comedian of having leftist beliefs that are completely at odds with what makes Japanese society so safe and orderly. Namely, Shapiro argued, Japan is a closed-off nation, unpersuaded by arguments to allow mass migration, and its homogeneity and “unique culture,” along with a strict legal system, help…Japan has become another piece of...

The left-wing Labour Party will reportedly establish a new bureaucracy to push forward the ‘net zero’ green agenda if it wins the July 4th general election. In the mad dash towards eliminating carbon emissions in Britain, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer’s transition team, headed by former top bureaucrat and Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray will look to establish an “Office of Net Zero”, Sky News reports.

Last week, President Vladimir Putin made an official state visit to the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) – North Korea, his first for almost a quarter of a century. As part of that visit Putin and Kim Jong Un signed a so-called defense pact in the North Korean capital on June 19. The military treaty states: “In the event that any one of the two sides is put in a state of war by an armed invasion from an individual state or several states, the other side shall provide military and other assistance with all means in its possession...

The 2024 election is Donald Trump's to lose. Right now, he is running even with Joe Biden in all the national polls. He's running ahead in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada; he's running even in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; he's closing within striking distance in Minnesota and New Hampshire. The map has radically expanded for him. Meanwhile, Biden's approval ratings are stagnant: he's stuck at below 40%. Americans' view of the economy remains dim, as does their view of Biden's foreign policy. What's more, Americans' perceptions of the two candidates are unlikely to change dramatically before the election. Biden has been...

The nation lacks the processes and systems to conduct a military draft in response to a near-peer conflict, according to a new report by a think tank based in Washington, D.C. The United States ended conscription in 1973, relying since on the all-volunteer force. But all U.S. males ages 18 to 25 are still required to register with the Selective Service System in case a draft is ever needed again. "To be clear, this report is not advocating for implementation of a draft," states the Center for a New American Security report, which was released June 18. "Rather, it is...

It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil and gas. Earth has already warmed by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and the planet is poised to race past the hoped-for limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. But fewer people know that burning fossil fuels doesn’t just cause global warming — it also causes global cooling. It is one of the great ironies of climate change that air pollution, which has killed tens of millions, has also curbed some of the worst effects...

Some of the 51 intelligence officials who signed on to a letter in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign that the New York Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" were on the CIA's payroll as contractors and had special access to CIA facilities. The disclosure means those signatories were likely earning taxpayer dollars from their work with the intelligence community headed by President Donald Trump while simultaneously working with Joe Biden's presidential campaign to influence the outcome of the 2020 election. The House Judiciary Committee, its Select Subcommittee...

June 25, 2024 – Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada Today, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, issued the following statement urging Canadians to leave Lebanon while they can: “The safety and security of Canadians at home and abroad is Canada’s top priority.” “The security situation in Lebanon is becoming increasingly volatile and unpredictable due to sustained and escalating violence between Hezbollah and Israel and could deteriorate further without warning. “My message to Canadians has been clear since the beginning of the crisis in the Middle East: it is not the time to travel to Lebanon. And for...