Wednesday, October 23, 2024

News and Views: October 23, 2024

Senior Pentagon Official Leaks Israeli Strike Plans to Iran—Previously Outed as Iranian Spy but Never Fired  House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed on Sunday that the U.S. government is investigating a classified leak involving the Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) plan to strike Iran, with suspicion now falling on a senior Pentagon official. Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian-American scholar and senior advisor at the Pentagon, has been identified as the prime suspect. This comes amid broader concerns about the Biden administration’s handling of sensitive information, particularly with figures like Robert Malley, who has been criticized for his connections to Iran.
   Tabatabai’s alleged role has raised alarms, particularly given her past involvement with U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations under the Biden administration. Sources from Sky News Arabia and various U.S. outlets suggest that the investigation has intensified, with accusations swirling that Tabatabai may have leaked IDF plans to Tehran...

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   In an explosive leak with ramifications for the upcoming U.S. presidential election, internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate—whose founder is British political operative Morgan McSweeney, now advising the Kamala Harris campaign—show the group plans in writing to “kill Musk’s Twitter” while strengthening ties with the Biden/Harris administration and Democrats like Senator Amy Klobuchar, who has introduced multiple bills to regulate online “misinformation.”

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The 'Jesus Is Lord' Rally Moment Isn't Going Away for Kamala Harris  "Interestingly enough, we have somebody that's running for president, who recent said in a crowd when somebody said, 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' that 'you're in the wrong crowd,'" Carson reminded, as he invited the crowd to "think about that." He then quoted Matthew 12:34 and pointed out that "Harris didn't have time to think about what she was going to say, she just said what's in her heart."

   A post on the far-left website appeared in a subreddit called ‘WitchesVsPatriarchy’ and features one of the witches bemoaning the fact that their spells aren’t working on the Donald.
   “Some other witches have mentioned that doing spells directly against Trump are not as effective as we might hope as he seems to have some kind of protection around him,” laments the witch.

The mysterious and incurable Trump Derangement Syndrome  Where is all this going? I shudder to think. Suffice it to say that hating Trump, along with the almost pathological reactions to his very existence, reveal much about the sorry state of contemporary America and the moral disfigurement of its managerial and cultural elites.

Life will never be the same for Donald J. Trump.  Nowhere was this more evident than the Al Smith Dinner in New York this past Thursday.
   At first glance, Trump’s delivery seemed a bit lackadaisical compared with the passionate loquaciousness we’re used to hearing at his rallies.  Perhaps some thought he was tired, but it’s more likely he was tired of playing the game.

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Elite universities have been hit especially hard, with Jewish students choosing to avoid institutions like Columbia over its perceived antisemitism and donors fleeing from universities like Harvard over its seemingly weak commitment to protecting Jewish students.
    Universities have also become increasingly comprised of mainly left-leaning faculty that outwardly express hatred towards conservatives. One University of Kansas professor was recently under fire for stating anyone who would not vote for a female president should be lined up and shot.

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Migrants Massing in Southern Mexico Looking to Come to U.S. Before Trump is Elected   About 2,000 migrants in Southern Mexico stepped off on their long journey to the United States on Sunday with many thousands more soon to join them.



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Univ. of Michigan Spent $250 Million on DEI: 'It’s like giving a bunch of 6-year-olds Tasers'  Michigan’s own data suggests that in striving to become more diverse and equitable, the school has also become less inclusive: In a survey released in late 2022, students and faculty members reported a less positive campus climate than at the program’s start and less of a sense of belonging. Students were less likely to interact with people of a different race or religion or with different politics — the exact kind of engagement D.E.I. programs, in theory, are meant to foster. Image

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If green energy were an unalloyed advancement and a can’t-miss investment, then it wouldn’t need the hundreds of billions in taxpayers’ dollars that have been poured into it. Governments wouldn’t have to set deadlines for transitioning to zero-emission power grids and all-electric vehicle fleets if the evidence of the goodness of renewables were undeniable. There’d be no reason for “government dictates and the confiscation and redistribution of people’s money.”
   Renewable energy isn’t so much green as it is red, the color flown by communist governments and violent leftist movements since the late 19th century.

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Whether it’s Google or Facebook or Instagram, the initial premise of expanding easy access to information and apprising us of stories we might have otherwise missed has been largely destroyed. Google and Meta show us what they want us to see, not what we signed up to see, and it’s starting to turn people off. Maybe that’s a good thing, because most people need to spend more time in the real world.


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