Sunday, June 30, 2024

Newslinks: June 30, 2024

The President is clearly not capable of exercising his Constitutional powers and authority... Image

There It Is: Biden Family Now 'Expected To Discuss Future Of Campaign' After Disaster Dementia Debate   "The decision-makers are two people — it’s the president and his wife," said one of the sources familiar with the discussions, adding "Anyone who doesn’t understand how deeply personal and familial this decision will be isn’t knowledgeable about the situation."
    According to another person 'familiar with his mood,' Biden is "humiliated, devoid of confidence and painfully aware that the physical images of him at the debate — eyes staring into the distance, mouth agape — will live beyond his presidency, along with a performance that at times was meandering, incoherent and difficult to hear."
     "It's a mess," the person said.

Top aides shielded Biden from staff, but couldn't hide the debate  Biden's behavior stunned many in the White House in part because Biden's closest aides — often led by Jill Biden's top aide, Anthony Bernal, and deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini — took steps early in his term to essentially rope off the president.

After Biden’s disastrous debate, The New York Times is calling for him to be booted from the Dumb and Dumber ticket.  White House staffers are so traumatized that they refuse to show up for work.  Globalist allies are urging the U.S. Deep State to do something…anything!…to preserve their incipient new world order.  These are acts of desperation from a shadow government that knows it has been wholly exposed.

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History will likely frame the early twenty-first century as a hinge moment. After the Holocaust, overt anti-Semitism was stigmatized by democratic societies worldwide. Jews were optimistic that this represented a permanent, positive change. However, October 7 and its aftermath have proven otherwise. For global Jewry, this means confronting ugly truths, like the durability of Jew-hatred. But reality is quickly shifting around our non-Jewish neighbors, too.
   While France has already seen anti-Semitic murders this century, the oldest hatred is intensifying elsewhere. Segments of the Anglosphere—led primarily by leftists and Islamists—are working to expel Jews from polite society. Vandalism, harassment, discrimination, assaults, and attacks targeting Jews and Jewish institutions have surged, transcending national borders.

Jewish students sue UCLA, claim school allowed anti-Israel protesters to block them from campus   “In the wake of these horrifying events, UCLA should have taken steps to ensure that its Jewish students were safe and protected from harassment and undeterred in obtaining full access to campus facilities,” the lawsuit asserts. “Instead, UCLA officials routinely turned their backs on Jewish students, aiding and abetting a culture that has allowed calls for the annihilation of the Jewish people, Nazi symbolism, and religious slurs to go unchecked.”
   “With the knowledge and acquiescence of UCLA officials, the activists enforced what was effectively a ‘Jew Exclusion Zone,’ segregating Jewish students and preventing them from accessing the heart of campus, including classroom buildings and the main undergraduate library,” the suit states. Image

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More than 400,000 Catholics left Church in Germany in 2023   ...The Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) — a federation of 20 Lutheran, Reformed, and United regional churches-announced in May that it lost 380,000 members in 2023. 

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Planned Parenthood staffers laugh on 911 call for woman bleeding after abortion   Planned Parenthood workers in Virginia can be heard laughing in the background of a 911 call for a client with a perforated uterus, and one staffer asked for the ambulance not to use its sirens. Image

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Saturday, June 29, 2024

By Faith....

 
 "By Faith" 
 Praise and Harmony Singers

By faith we see the hand of God
In the light of creation's grand design
In the lives of those who prove His faithfulness
Who walk by faith and not by sight

By faith our fathers roamed the earth
With the power of His promise in their hearts
Of a holy city built by God's own hand
A place where peace and justice reign

We will stand as children of the promise
We will fix our eyes on Him our soul's reward
'Til the race is finished and the work is done
We'll walk by faith and not by sight

By faith the prophets saw a day
When the longed-for Messiah would appear
With the pow'r to break the chains of sin and death
And rise triumphant from the grave

By faith the church was called to go
In the pow'r of the Spirit to the lost
To deliver captives and to preach good news
In every corner of the earth

We will stand as children of the promise
We will fix our eyes on Him our soul's reward
'Til the race is finished and the work is done
We'll walk by faith and not by sight

By faith this mountain shall be moved
And the power of the gospel shall prevail
For we know in Christ all things are possible
For all who call upon His name

We will stand as children of the promise
We will fix our eyes on Him our soul's reward
'Til the race is finished and the work is done
We'll walk by faith and not by sight

Oh, we will stand as children of the promise
We will fix our eyes on Him our soul's reward
'Til the race is finished and the work is done
We'll walk by faith and not by sight
We'll walk by faith and not by sight

Songwriters: Keith Getty / Stuart Townend / Kristyn Getty

Newslinks: June 29, 2024

   Only this quake lasted just 16 seconds.
   That’s how long it took Joe Biden to show horrified Americans, and the watching world, he is no longer fit to serve as president of the United States.

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What the evening exposed was not Biden’s infirmity, though it did that too, but the years-long effort on the part of various White House communications aides, Democratic lawmakers, and mainstream media organs to gaslight the American public. It is they who were left exposed last night, and the panic that has fallen over the Washington establishment is over their own public humiliation.

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Major rural retailer Tractor Supply ditches LGBT, DEI, 'climate change' activism after backlash  In what has been described as an “extraordinary about-face,” massive rural supply merchant Tractor Supply Co announced that it has dropped its support of extreme left-wing causes, including its LGBTQ, “climate change,” and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. 
  The move by the company with more than 2,200 outlets and 50,000 employees across the country comes following a backlash from its mostly conservative heartland customers. Image

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Massachusetts Court Gives Haitian Illegal Alien Accused of Child Rape $500 Bond   To make matters worse, the Massachusetts sanctuary law keeps Alvarez safe from ICE. The court ignored the agency’s request to detain him.
    If Alvarez posts the bond and gets a GPS monitor, the state and local officials cannot give ICE any information due to those sanctuary laws.

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Friday, June 28, 2024

Newslinks: June 28, 2024

 
Supreme Court issues major ruling on Jan. 6

BREAKING: SCOTUS Hands Down Huge Decision Affecting J6 Defendants The decision is a huge win for some 300 January 6 defendants who had their lives upended by a partisan, corrupt, and overreaching Biden Justice Department who have treated these people like an unholy mix of the Rosenbergs, Aldrich Ames, and Robert Hanssen.

SCOTUS Deals Massive Blow to Administrative State, Overrules Deference Doctrine Courts no longer owe deference to an administrative agency’s interpretation of its ambiguous statutory mandate.

SCOTUS: Anti-Camping Ordinances Applied to Homeless Are Constitutional    The Court rejected the argument that preventing homeless camping amounted to ‘cruel and unusual punishment.’

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Rachel Holt - I Was Gonna Be

New pro-life song from aborted baby's perspective skyrockets on iTunes country charts 'I Was Gonna Be,' which recounts the short life of an unborn baby who was killed by abortion, shot up to number 5 on the iTunes country chart this past weekend.

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Biden Just Put On The Most Disastrous Debate Performance In Presidential History  Sure, it might sound like hyperbole, but I can’t think of a more devastating presidential debate performance than the one Joe Biden had in his first meeting with Donald Trump. Indeed, even with abnormally low expectations, Biden tripped over them as if they were sandbags. After watching post-debate reaction, it’s safe to say no modern presidential debate has ever rattled a political party quite like this one.

Biden's Cognitive Decline Is A National Security Threat – Invoke The 25th Amendment NOW  Can you imagine an emergency situation where immediate military decisions that only a president can make need to be made in seconds or minutes, and the military having to go to diminished Joe for a decision?

The Nation Finally Got To See The Real Biden...The One The Press Has Been Hiding All These Years   From the moment President Joe Biden sclerotically took the CNN debate stage Thursday night one knew it was not going to be a good evening for him.
    Understatement is the word best used to describe that first sentence.

What The Hell Happened...You can't debate if you can't think. Biden can talk, but he can't think  You can’t debate if you can’t think. The inability to make sense in real time is at least partly in Biden’s case a form of mental disability. Biden can memorize speeches, but he can’t discuss an issue in a coherent fashion.
Biden can talk, but he can’t think. Which means he also can’t run the country.



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Report Says Pentagon-Funded Hunt For ‘White Supremacists’ In U.S. Military Led Nowhere  A new report said Pentagon programs to sniff out “white supremacists” in the U.S. military came up empty-handed and were even counterproductive to military readiness and morale...
...The report also details how military personnel were encouraged to turn each other in if it was believed the DEI protocol was violated.

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Another 80 Pro-Palestinian Protesters Have the Chargers Against Them Dropped What's happening? The reason prosecutors are dropping the charges is that radical law firms would have represented the protesters, which would have made prosecuting the offenders a nightmare. They could have tied up the courts for weeks, even months, until the DA would have dropped the charges out of exasperation.    Lawfare by any other name. Image

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Texas Judge Lina Hidalgo Politicizes Murder Of 12-Year-Old, Demands Others Don’t Politicize It   A reporter at the press conference quickly called her out: “With all due respect, judge, you said [the] issue shouldn’t be politicized. But by pointing the finger at former President Trump and Republicans in Congress, aren’t you politicizing it?”

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Offshore wind works more frequently than does onshore wind. Still, global statistics point to it providing just 42 percent of its plated capacity. And, for the avoidance of doubt, that is an average. Sometimes it is close to zero. The sailing ships of old knew something about being becalmed, which climate cultists would do well to study. Bowen, interviewed outside the steel works at Port Kembla, particularly talked up the power that wind would supply to make steel. Intermittent power. Exactly what a steelworks needs. Image

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

Now therefore, O kings, be wise...

Why do the nations rage
    and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
    against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
    and cast away their cords from us.”

4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
    the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
    and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6 “As for me, I have set my King
    on Zion, my holy hill.”

7 I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
    today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
    and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
    and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”

10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
    be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,
    and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son,
    lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
    for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
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Newslinks: June 27, 2024

Federal Guide On ‘Inclusive Language’ Tells Bureaucrats To Ditch Gendered Terms Like ‘Son,’ ‘Daughter’   24-page internal document calls to replace terms like 'cockpit' with 'flight deck,' use 'they/them' as default pronouns to not assume gender...

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In Latest Blow to Military Effectiveness, U.S. Navy Will No Longer Require Sailors to Pass Physical Fitness Tests   Sailors who fail two consecutive fitness assessments will no longer automatically have their Navy careers brought to an end, according to a new service policy unveiled this week.
   Under the old system, sailors who failed one physical fitness assessment, or PFA, lost their ability to be promoted until they were able to pass another test, but their careers would largely proceed onward. However, failing another consecutive PFA would end a career by taking away the ability to be promoted or to reenlist.

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A Film About the 21 Christian Martyrs Slaughtered by ISIS Faces Challenges   Of particular interest is the mysterious and touching story of the only non-Coptic martyr, a black man from Ghana. Very little is known about him — he may even have originally been Muslim — but the information Zaki gathered suggests that while he was imprisoned alongside them, he was so inspired by the Copts’ defiance that he ended up converting and casting his lot in with theirs. That’s why the lead executioner chose the Ghanan to be his personal victim.

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Donald Trump said that American journalists are partisan hacks and that we need to stand up to them. He was right. The same is true of journalists in the West generally. Tucker Carlson confronted one of those ideologically programmed partisan hacks in Australia and absolutely refused to let her get away with her dishonesty and smears.

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Conquered From Within: The Unstoppable Islamization of the West The West is on the brink of conquest. The relentless march of Islamization across our countries is unstoppable.
   Forget the sheer numbers of Jihadis that have already infiltrated our nations and are reproducing at rates we are not matching…
   Forget that every level of our government is penetrated…
Non-Muslims are fractured, while jihadis stand shoulder to shoulder, united and determined.

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‘Gut Punch’: Free Speech Lovers Lament SCOTUS Ruling Finally, The Federalist CEO Sean Davis called the ruling “an abomination that ignores both the facts and the law” and added, “I never thought I would see the Supreme Court rubber stamp the most egregious and illegal censorship campaign in American history, but here we are. What a joke.” It’s certainly a joke on the American people, but hardly a funny one.


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While still relatively rare, broken heart syndrome is real and on the rise; here are some tips on how to prevent it Negative emotions such as heartbreak, profound sadness and anger can lead to broken heart syndrome. The symptoms mimic a heart attack but without broken blood vessels.
    During broken heart syndrome, your heart muscles are stunned and weakened, leading to your heart taking the shape of a balloon.  The release of adrenaline during shocking and acutely stressful events, increasing blood pressure and pulse adds further strain to a weakened heart.

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What does that mean?  Well, we sure are getting a whole lot of alerts on the infectious disease du jour.  First it was COVID, then Monkeypox, then the Marburg virus.  Now it is Dengue Fever.  If this is anything like the last manufactured pandemic (that never materialized), where Americans have been conditioned to line up like sheep for an unnecessary, unproven, and experimental — and mandatory — Emergency Use Authorization mRNA vaccine, you can expect a lot of misinformation.

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

There is Hope..

 
 There is Hope 
CityAlight

There is hope in grace unceasing
You withhold Your wrath from me
Poured it out upon my Saviour
On the cross of Calvary

There is hope now for the hopeless
There is victory all can know
For the tomb lies bare and broken
And deaths pow’r is overthrown

CHORUS
Jesus Christ my hope forever
Hope unlike the world can bring
Your steadfast love beyond all measure
There is hope in Christ my king

There is hope for sons and daughters
Who have wandered on their own
Hear the songs of joy from heaven
As the lost are welcomed home

BRIDGE
Hallelujah, Hope of heaven
Precious treasure of my life
All my joy is in Your presence
I am Yours and You are mine

I will wait until I see Him
Though the twilight turns to night
For my hope is not defeated
It will greet His dawning light

Newslinks: June 26, 2024

The Day Democracy Died in California  These are just a few recent examples of the convoluted gyrations of a totally self-interested cabal that wields absolute power in California. Normal working families in California endure obscene levels of taxation, crippling over-regulation of everything, failing public services, crime and disorder, and a punitive cost of living. In return, they are obligated to support a government that operates according to a simple, diabolical formula: the worse things get for them, the better things get for us.


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Our Military Needs to Be Rebuilt From Scratch or America Is Finished Our military has become a joke because of wokeness. I wish I was exaggerating. It's bad enough to see woke DEI policies in corporate America, but it's devastating to see that this cancerous ideology is infecting our armed forces, especially during a time of international conflict.

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NYC’s East Village has gone back in time to the bad old days of ‘Rent’  And out-of-touch columnists at the New York Times — redundant, I know —  are worse, always chalking up our horrible, lived experiences to “perception.” Little more than a pesky PR problem. New York is supposed to be like this, their self-serving revisionist history goes. They love nothing more than to insist: It’s not as bad as it was in the 1970s.

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Researchers Get Paid to Look for White Supremacy in Milk Taxpayers will fund a new study to determine the connection between milk and colonialism for Oxford University. Milk might be racist and a white supremacist power grab, forcing people to drink it for centuries.
  This is the world of the clowns, but the clowns are serious.

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The $100 Million Effort to Impose Abortion Access Across America Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Reproductive Freedom for All are banding together to form Abortion Access Now — "a national, 10-year campaign that will both prepare policies for the next time Democrats control the House, Senate, and White House, and build support for those policies among lawmakers and the public," according to Politico.

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DNC Sent Millions To Law Firms Behind ‘Unprecedented Lawfare’ Campaign Against Trump “There is now clear and explosive evidence that the Biden DNC is paying Democrat law firms to engage in in this unprecedented lawfare and election interference against President Trump,”

Court Docs Show Pics From Mar-A-Lago Raid Were Part Of Media Stunt  In May, District Court Judge Aileen Cannon ordered an indefinite postponement of the criminal classified documents case against the former president to allow an independent review of the documents in the case tampered with by prosecutors. Prosecutors admitted to mishandling the evidence triggering the delay demanded by the judge which now threatens the possibility for Smith’s team to go to trial before the November election.

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Real-World Bombshell: Pfizer mRNA Vaccine Fades--No Protection Against Hospitalization Even Boosters Fall Short  Put another way, the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine durability continues to be a challenge, with waning effectiveness, necessitating the recommendation of an annual booster for any protection of hospitalization whatsoever. What is not contemplated are the potential long-term consequences of repeated mRNA boosters, year after year. This impact has not been studied.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Newslinks: June 25, 2024

Speaking at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said, "Better to let all the Trump tax cuts expire than be accomplices to another slash-and-burn tax bonanza for America’s billionaires." And while Democrats pretend to adhere to Presidentish Joe Biden's pledge not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 — a promise already broken —  Dems continue to float trial balloons about doing just that.

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A growing number of retired Americans are considering returning to work as they continue to battle chronic inflation, according to a new survey published by the Motley Fool.
   About 44% of respondents said they are thinking about looking for work because their Social Security benefits have not adequately kept pace with high inflation.

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Medicaid spending on migrants in Florida plummets after DeSantis crackdown on illegals: report  Florida’s Medicaid spending on migrants has nosedived by 54% so far this year after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ bid to push back against illegal immigration.

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Thirty minutes after Hamas supporters first set up their operation outside a Los Angeles synagogue, they maced their first Jew. And the Los Angeles police did nothing.
 Not until an hour into the terrorist rally outside a synagogue, did the LAPD finally step in, pushing back masked Jihad supporters in keffiyeh terror scarves from the entrance of Congregation Adas Torah (Congregation of the Bible) which they had occupied.

Jewish Family Viciously Beaten by Arab-Speaking Family in NYC; Police and DOE Downplay  The New York Police Department (NYPD) did not classify the assault as a hate crime, even though her family is well-known as Jewish at the school. While NYPD now says that its Hate Crime Task Force will investigate the case, no determination has been made.
    “The DOE (Department of Education) is trying to sweep it under the rug to avoid further scrutiny of this heinous anti-Semitic act,” Lana told The New York Post, which reports that DOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer tried to shift the blame to Lana and Johan.

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Reparations: Taking money from people who never owned slaves and giving it to people who never were slaves   The effort to justify the new fad of forcing all Americans today to pay blacks reparations for the evil of slavery that was eliminated a century and a half ago at the cost of more than 600K lives continues. A recent published study by two “Didn’t Earn It” (DEI) academic elites at the Harvard Kennedy School attempts to justify the distribution of reparations now by claiming that the U.S. has a long history of paying out money to harmed individuals. Image

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Biden Administration 'Loses' 85,000 Unaccompanied Minor Children Unaccompanied minor children who cross the border are at huge risk of being trafficked. Earlier in the Biden administration, the kids were often sold into slavery, with the U.S. government serving as a middleman

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By the end of Newsom’s first term as governor, the streets of several California cities, especially San Francisco, were full of mentally ill homeless people and heroin and fentanyl users. Thanks to the “shoplifting epidemic,” even cheap items in drug stores were – and still are – kept behind lock and key. If you steal under $950 worth of stuff from a single merchant, you won’t be prosecuted – a law that has resulted in the mass closing of stores as well as of a major San Francisco shopping mall. The state is plagued by high unemployment and high rents. Student performance declined drastically during Newsom’s governorship. As of early this year, California had a $73 billion deficit. Yet none of these problems were mentioned in Newsom’s second inaugural address, in which his focus was rather on hailing California as – thanks to him, naturally – a world leader in progressive policy...

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Army Admits Link Between COVID Vaccine and Soldier's Heart Condition Army Specialist Karoline Stancik suffered a heart attack right after she had the Moderna vaccine. She had pacemaker surgery earlier this month.
   Stancik has had to take 27 medications a day since the first heart attack.
   “I was left behind and trampled,” Stancik told Herridge.

Exclusive: Biden Admin ‘Ignored’ Vaccine Safety Protocols To Fast-Track Its Covid Shot Mandates   Subcommittee interviews with FDA officials responsible for vaccine approval reportedly unveiled that the agency “rushed the vaccine licensing and subsequent recommendations for vaccine boosters.” Massie and committee members discovered that federal bureaucrats “mishandled reports of vaccine injury, despite requirements to actively obtain, synthesize, and report feedback on the safety and efficacy of the EUA vaccine.”

Monday, June 24, 2024

Newslinks: June 24, 2024

Masked protesters wearing Middle Eastern garb surrounded the building and refused to allow Jews to either enter or leave. Other activists targeted pedestrians in the heavily-Orthodox community.
A number of Jews were chased and beaten in the streets. But others fought back.

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Dhimmitude in Germany, where rapists go free and their critics go to jail  In the Muslim world, a dhimmi is a non-Muslim resident in a Muslim state. Dhimmis are second-class citizens with severely limited rights. The raped girl and the outspoken woman are dhimmis. The raping Muslims are their overlords. The window to push back against the state of things is closing.
    Meanwhile, here in America, Biden wants to import Gaza residents. Think about those new residents, as well as the existing illegal aliens who are already raping and killing Americans. If you think it can’t happen here, think again...

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The new White House Associate Communications Director is an antisemitic sexual fetishist Yes, it’s all there: anti-police, pro-illegal immigration, pro-Russia Hoax, and pro “gender pronouns,” along with a fervent belief in systemic racism, Trump’s white supremacism, and the wonders of intersectionality, into which he folds a rant against racism, homophobia, police brutality, and, somehow, health care.
And then there’s Cherry’s hatred for Israel...

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The Biden administration's agendas may have fundamentally changed the country for decades, if not longer—and will require tough remedies that may be almost as unpopular as the wreckage they wrought... 
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Holding Beijing responsible for its role in the fentanyl crisis Nearly 14,000 Americans have died from fentanyl since the Select Committee published their report on the CCP’s culpability...

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Biden Admin Asked Amazon To Hide Vaccine-Critical Books During Pandemic  The Biden Administration pressured Amazon to hide books for sale on its platform that were critical of vaccines during the pandemic, it has been revealed. Image

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 Wendy's, Burger King, Starbucks, and Chipotle, have put up the cost of their offerings by up to 8 percent in the Golden State.

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Sunday, June 23, 2024

Newslinks: June 23, 2024

Priest, 6 cops killed in suspected terror attacks on Russian synagogues, church, police post A priest and six cops were killed and at least a dozen other people injured when gunmen opened fire at two synagogues, an Orthodox church and a police post Sunday in a suspected coordinated terror attack in Russia.
   The assaults against the church and one of the synagogues occurred in the coastal city of Derbent, with another synagogue and the police post hit in Makhachkala, the largest city in the same Dagestan region, according to Russian media outlets.
   Russia’s Interior Ministry said four gunmen had been killed in subsequent shootouts, with the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation confirming that a terrorism investigation has been opened over the attacks.

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China Buying Up Land Near US Military Bases, 19 Strategic Locations Potentially Compromised  Chinese land purchases near strategic military bases in the United States are causing even more concern about the amount of political and strategic power the country wields in America.
In recent years, entities out of the People’s Republic have purchased countless acres of U.S. farmland, some of it near military bases critical to America’s national security.

Retired major's chilling warning over China's chokehold on US military  Chinese manufacturers are deeply embedded in U.S. defense systems, providing critical technology and raw materials used in everything from air-to-air missiles to fighter jets.


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Polls: Confidence in colleges and universities continues plummet to ‘new lows’ What’s more, the drop in confidence from FIRE’s February to May polls shows the unrest and pro-Palestinian protests that have engulfed campuses in recent months has hurt higher education’s reputation further.
   Honeycutt told The College Fix recent headlines over academic dishonesty, such as the plagiarism accusations lodged at several top-level campus leaders over the last seven months, could also explain the decline.
   Other possible factors cited by FIRE include bias against center-right beliefs, rising tuition costs, and administrative bloat.
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Pakistan police hunting mob that lynched and burned tourist suspected of desecrating Koran   He said the suspect, identified as Mohammad Ismail, was a tourist from Pakistan's eastern Punjab province and was staying at a hotel in the town when a mob accused him of burning pages from the Koran, Islam's holy book.
   Mr Khan said Mr Ismail was being questioned by police when the mob attacked the police station and clashed with officers. The mob later snatched Mr Ismail, killing him and burning his body, he said.
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Many electric vehicle owners want to go back to normal cars, study finds  The administration is also spending billions of dollars to subsidize the production and purchase of EVs, but manufacturers are still losing considerable amounts of cash on their EV product lines. EVs remained below a 10% share of all auto sales in the U.S. in 2023, according to Cox Automotive

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But is legal cannabis really such a no-brainer? A recent study found that marijuana use—whether through smoking, edibles, or vapes—is associated with a higher risk of heart attack and stroke. Other studies have consistently shown that so-called “high-potency cannabis” increases the risk of psychotic episodes in young users.

Pot use seems to contribute to more severe cases of COVID-19, study finds However, "some evidence has suggested that people who use cannabis are more likely to contract COVID-19 and less likely to survive the virus than nonusers," the study's authors wrote. This data conflicts with other evidence that "suggests a protective effect of cannabis use on COVID mortality."
   As a result, "further research may aid in guiding interventions, such as substance use prevention and treatment, that would benefit patient outcomes moving forward in the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated heath consequences it will have in our communities," the authors said.

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Friday, June 21, 2024

Newslinks: June 21, 2024

Tennessee governor signs bill calling for 30 days of prayer and fasting in July A letter signed by Tennessee state Senator Mark Pidy and Representative Monty Fritts accompanying the resolution invites “those who are physically able and spiritually inclined to do so to join in a 30-day season of prayer and intermittent fasting for the month of July as a means of humbling ourselves to receive God’s grace, mercy, and blessing in Tennessee and in our Nation.”

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Biden Border Invasion: Hordes of Military-Age Men March Like Soldiers Into California in Midnight Invasion (VIDEO) Hundreds of military-age illegal aliens marched like soldiers into California after midnight early Thursday morning.
    “During the overnight hours, we encountered another mass illegal crossing into Jacumba, CA, after midnight, made up of 150-200 adults and families from around the world,” Fox News reporter Bill Melugin said.

As we’ve noted here before, we do not oppose immigration. But, as with everything else, immigration is governed by laws, rules and principles. Unfortunately, when it comes to immigration, Biden simply ignores the law and instead uses presidential command in its place.
   The result: chaos on our border and, increasingly, on our streets as city after city suffers from rising illegal immigrant crime. And it’s going to get worse.

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“The anti-Semitic attack and the rape of a 12-year-old child in Hauts-de-Seine revolt us,” said populist leader Marine Le Pen, whose National Rally party won the European Parliament elections in France this month.“The explosion of anti-Semitic acts, up 300 percent compared to the first three months of 2023, must alert all French people: the stigmatization of Jews for months by the far left through the instrumentalization of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a real threat to civil peace,” she continued.

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Med school system displaces Americans in favor of foreigners, report finds Medical training and the healthcare system are heavily subsidized by taxpayers,” he told The Fix. “Those systems should not be creating opportunities for people overseas while driving out U.S. citizens.”
    His research found “about a third of foreign-trained ‘medical residents’ are U.S. citizens who had been turned away from domestic medical schools and have been forced to go overseas.”

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Three Columbia Deans Placed on Leave Pending Investigation...exchanging derisive and anti-Semitic text messages  "I was appalled, but sadly not surprised, to learn Columbia administrators exchanged disparaging text messages during a panel that discussed antisemitism at the University," committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx said.

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The intellectual dishonesty of Democrats proven once again   The Cleveland Plain Dealer was forced on June 18, 2024 to retract entirely a June 9th op-ed written by Democrat lawyer and political consultant Neil Baron when it was threatened with slander and libel lawsuits from three FBI whistleblowers because of the blatent false accusations Baron included in this op-ed.
   Baron’s op-ed, which can still read here, was mostly a partisan attack on Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and his effort to expose the FBI’s non-stop abuse of power. In doing so, however, Baron accused three FBI whistle-blowers of doing things they did not do.

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Sen. Kennedy Explains Why Men Shouldn’t Play Women’s Sports in a Way Even Dems Can Understand