Daily News Roundup
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Donald Trump current frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary: “The fight between Israel and Hamas is between civilization and savagery, between good and evil. There is no comparison between a group that worships death and a group that cherishes life. Every single life lost in this conflict is on the shoulders of Hamas, Hamas alone.”
Dr. Naomi Wolf Substack: Language is changing in America; indeed, probably throughout the West. And the changes are not good. The changes I see being introduced into English speech in America, are designed to kill off the practices and assumptions of individual freedom and responsive representation that have also been embedded for generations in us as a people.
Don Surber Substack: Just as white smoke rising from the Vatican signals the election of a new pope, so the rise of anti-Semitism signals the beginning of a world war. Obama has his vengeance. He also has his three mansions (soon to be four with completion of an 8,900-square foot compound in Oahu). Surely, he will not feel the effects of the hell he is unleashing. At least, not in this life.
Tracy Beanz & Michelle Edwards contributors to The Highwire: Dr. Wahome Ngare, chairman of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, shared with The Defender that Maisha Namba will operate as a vaccination tracking program. No shock there since Gates has supported biometric digital ID initiatives for years. Similar to Ngare, privacy attorney Greg Glaser is concerned about the intentional path being laid to reach the endgame, which he remarked is transhumanism. Glaser noted to The Defender that “controlling people means controlling ID,” adding: “Biometric ID is to future dystopian society as batteries are to your TV’s remote control. Without the batteries, the remote control does nothing. Without biometric ID, dystopian technology fails: social credit scores, central bank digital currencies [CBDCs], smart devices in the Internet of Things.
David Bell contributor to Brownstone Institute: We already knew that. Public health, like plumbing or selling cars, is a way by which ordinary people make money. Therefore we need ordinary restraints and rules to make sure they do not abuse others for self-enrichment. The current mess is also society’s fault. Because these institutions deal in health, we pretended they were more caring, more ethical, and more able to self-regulate. The WHO’s version of self-regulation over the past 20 years has been to cast aside longstanding norms regarding conflict of interest and cozy up with Pharma and high net worth individuals in Davos. We should have expected this and prevented it.
Brad Slager contributor to TownHall.com: This new “un-woke” approach has brought success. Netflix recently posted quarterly reports that were glowing, with a better-than-expected rise in subscriptions, and the stock soared with double-digit increases on Wall Street. This is in defiance of the other streaming services bleeding out on a regular basis. Disney+ has been losing subscribers for consecutive quarters as the streaming service continues to be a massive financial drain. Others such as Comscast’s Peacock continues to lose billions, and Paramount+ is also facing big loses as it attempts to gain traction.
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Laco: Republicans unveil ANOTHER ‘personal check’ from James and Sara Biden to Joe Biden – this time for $40,000 – they say is part of an ‘extortion scheme’ with the Chinese
- Chairman James Comer says the check labeled ‘loan repayment’ is actually ‘laundered money’ that can be traced back to the Chinese
- A money trail beginning in July 2017 snaked from Chinese oil giant CEFC – one of Hunter Biden’s joint ventures – into Joe’s account
- Last month, Republicans revealed a separate $200,000 personal check from James Biden to Joe Biden
GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET/ONE WORLD ORDER) & TRANS HUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED
(Excellent read) Wolf: Neo-Marxism and the End of Language
Language is changing in America; indeed, probably throughout the West. And the changes are not good. The changes I see being introduced into English speech in America, are designed to kill off the practices and assumptions of individual freedom and responsive representation that have also been embedded for generations in us as a people. The language and language practice changes that have arisen in the past few years tend to “deconstruct” (a favorite word of the globalist elite) the core concepts upon which the West has been built for four millennia. They also tend to subvert the norms of representational government that America has practiced since its founding. The new phrasings, cliches and speech patterns replace those foundational Western concepts with Marxist/feudalist and oligarchical concepts. […] Rather, the same monsters who have taken the rest of human civilization into their grip for the last two years, to establish their neo-Marxist/feudalist globalist oligarchy, are deliberately driving artificial changes in language and language practices. […] Why does this matter more than slightly? Changes in language are far from trivial. Linguists have pointed out, as I explore in my new book Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age, that language constructs reality. People can only conceive, understand, communicate about and act upon what they can name. […] So those who wish to destroy America in other, material ways, such as by poisoning our pharmaceutical supply, as we discussed in Facing the Beast, or by buying up our farmland, are not wasting their time in their efforts also to subvert our language. Here are some examples.
Bell: How Did the Corruption of Public Health Happen?
International public health is a mess. Once seen generally as a public good, the focus of the World Health Organization (WHO) now more closely resembles a scheme for extracting private profit from the public purse. Wealthy corporations drive a ‘public-private partnership’ agenda, the foundations of the rich determine global priorities, and a propagandized public are ever more removed from decision-making regarding their own well-being. […] The WHO was designed in 1946 to help coordinate international public health. It was to be called upon by countries when needed. The WHO’s remit was primarily to address high burden diseases that cause avoidable sickness and death where countries lacked the resources or technical expertise needed. Although non-communicable diseases such as diabetes or obesity – or cancers and degenerative diseases such as dementia – kill most frequently, the WHO sensibly prioritized the unavoidable results of poverty or geography, predominantly infectious diseases, strike younger and so that shorten life far more. […] The current mess is also society’s fault. Because these institutions deal in health, we pretended they were more caring, more ethical, and more able to self-regulate. The WHO’s version of self-regulation over the past 20 years has been to cast aside longstanding norms regarding conflict of interest and cozy up with Pharma and high net worth individuals in Davos. We should have expected this and prevented it. […] The Covid-19 response of the international health industry, led by the WHO, impoverished the public and degraded health. The current rush to transfer greater powers to the WHO should therefore not be confused with public health. Publicly funding the further erosion of freedom and basic human rights would be self-harm, while funding access to basic healthcare is a global good. The public, and politicians who claim to represent them, should be clear on the difference.
Read more: https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-the-corruption-of-public-health-happen/
BIDEN’S MANDATED mRNA COVID “VACCINATIONS”
Kirsch: We have been vindicated. The COVID vaccine killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and now we can prove it to anyone who will listen
Thank you to the 547 readers who filled out my survey. The results prove they lied to us about the COVID vaccine. It is a disaster. We now have an objective way to prove they lied to us. […] We have won. The finger pointing will now begin. Everyone is going to blame this on the other guy and not accept any responsibility. The CDC will blame the FDA. The FDA will blame the drug companies. The drug companies will blame the people running the trials. The doctors will blame the CDC. Congress will blame the CDC. The White House will blame the FDA and former President Trump. And Trump will blame everyone who worked for him. I now have a fully objective method that proves that the COVID vaccines killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans who trusted the healthcare authorities and mainstream media and took the shot. The method can be used by any health authority, anywhere in the world, to prove, without any doubt, that the COVID vaccines are killing people in massive numbers. The attempts to gaslight, censor, and defame me are over. The main results
- You were over 15% more likely to die if you got the COVID vaccine from all-cause mortality
- You were 12X more likely to have a turbo cancer vs. the unvaccinated
- Overall odds were 2.2 higher that you won’t die normally. In other words, “died suddenly” is absolutely real.
- COVID vaccines have killed 3.5X more people than COVID virus and 70X in lost person-years which is devastating.
Read more: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/we-have-won-the-covid-vaccine-killed?
The Highwire: WHAT’S CAUSING AUSTRALIA’S 17-18% RISE IN CARDIAC DEATHS?
Like China, Australia had a “Zero COVID” policy and imposed some of the world’s most draconian measures to protect the nation. Yet, Australia is now experiencing a historic surge in cardiac deaths. An accurate understanding of the cause of this crisis is key to its resolution. Yet, two radically different explanations lead to very different proposals for how to resolve this growing tragedy. It’s important to get this explanation right because the fate of Australia – and much of the world – hangs in the balance. Australian Doctors’ Explanations and Recommendations A report from the Daily Mail published in January of this year shows that Australian doctors blame the following two factors for the sudden rise in cardiac deaths: . . . […] Ed Dowd: Top Data Analyst Implicates COVID Shots However, former Blackrock Portfolio Manager Ed Dowd is not buying Australia’s explanation for the surge of cardiac deaths in 2022. He provides a radically different explanation, pointing to the mRNA COVID shots as the most likely explanation. His recommendation – like that of a growing contingent of doctors worldwide – is to stop the COVID-19 shots immediately.
Read more: https://thehighwire.com/news/whats-causing-australias-17-18-rise-in-cardiac-deaths/
Unruh: Huge chunk of COVID-vax victims hit with ‘tremors, insomnia, muscle spasms’
A new study confirms that almost one in three COVID-19 shot victims were hit, after taking the jab, with “tremors, insomnia, muscle spasms,” and more, revealing the shots’ huge toll in neurological complications. […] It suggested that one hypothesis was that the shots, which technically were DNA treatments and not vaccines at all, could make “the selective immune-mediated destruction of orexin-producing neurons, which is T-cell-mediated neuronal damage, thus triggering narcolepsy.” The study “urgently” suggested “future investigations.”
Read more: https://www.wnd.com/2023/10/huge-chunk-covid-vax-victims-hit-tremors-insomnia-muscle-spasms/
TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE DOOM MYTH: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE POWER & CONTROL
May: Australia Warns Ferries about EVs
Australia’s Maritime Safety Authority has issued a domestic commercial vessel safety alert on the risks of ferrying battery powered cars (EVs), download it here. Each ferry operator must conduct a risk assessment for their vessel to ensure that they are capable of dealing with potential EV fires. They list the risks of carrying EVs as follows:
High voltage shocks
Direct jet flames
Fires develop in intensity quickly and rapidly reach their maximum intensity (typically within 2-3 minutes)
Toxic gases
Gas explosion (if the released gas accumulates for a while before being ignited)
Long lasting re-ignition risk (can ignite or re-ignite weeks, or maybe months after the provoking incident)
Once established fires are difficult to stop/extinguish
Thermal runaway
Read more: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/29/australia-warns-ferries-about-evs/
THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES & THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS
Wong: Exclusive — ‘We Caught Them Red-Handed’: DOJ Spied on GOP Staffers Probing the Origins of the Russia Collusion Hoax
The Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained private communications and other personal records of multiple Republican House and Senate staffers who were investigating the department’s role in the origins of the Russia collusion hoax, according to former senior Trump administration official Kash Patel.
A recently-revealed subpoena shows that the DOJ sought the records for not only Patel when he was an investigator for then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), but also those of Jason Foster, who was at the time chief investigative counsel to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (I-IA) and was also looking into the DOJ’s role in the hoax.
Jeff Clark: The Administrative State’s Been Dragging Down The American Nation Since The New Deal
How important is it that we take on the administrative state?
Watch the 5:04 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v3t2001-jeff-clark-the-administrative-states-been-dragging-down-the-american-nation.html
J6 TRIAL UPDATE
Julie Kelly Threadreader
This is why you should pray every day SCOTUS overturns DOJ’s use of 1512(c)(2) against 300+ J6ers including Trump. Obama appointee Chris Cooper–who married a top aide to Eric Holder, wedding presided over by Merrick Garland–dismisses defense attorney who cited numerous examples of disruptive even violent protests in Congress to show selective prosecution on obstruction count. I watched him in action a few weeks ago. He is as arrogant and entitled as you’d expect reading this order. Claimed 60 lawsuits determined no election fraud. He also has claimed 4 police officers died on January 6.
Read more: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1719469972395536583.html
CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY
Killough: China’s low standards, tariffs, forced labor threaten US food security, agribusiness experts say
American grocery shelves are rapidly filling up with cheap canned food imported from China, displacing American producers’ goods and raising concerns about food safety and food security, U.S. trade associations and experts are saying. According to the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), a trade association supporting manufacturers of cans for both food and non-food items and their suppliers, American producers are at a disadvantage because they have to pay U.S. steel tariffs, which do not extend to finished Chinese-produced canned foods. In addition to the savings on tariffs enjoyed by Chinese companies, American companies are also held to higher standards of quality and labor regulations – and thus more costly compliance – than those of the Chinese. “That’s created an inequality, allowing for a cheaper, potentially lower-quality produce from another country that doesn’t have the same FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] standards that the American industry has to follow,” said Sherrie Rosenblatt, vice president of marketing and communications for CMI, told Just The News. […] Budway said that American consumers should be concerned with what China would do with an advantage over the American food supply, should Chinese businesses displace a large portion of American agriculture and food manufacturing.
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY
Alexader: Biden thinks Netanyahu is FINISHED – and will be replaced as Israeli PM in months after first phase of war with Hamas is over
Biden has told Netanyahu he needs to think about the lessons he would pass on to his successors, Politico reported. One current U.S. official told the site that the shocking intelligence failures that allowed Hamas to attack, and the unrest in some quarters at the massive loss of life in Gaza, left Netanyahu severely weakened. The official said some believed Netanyahu could be out of office within several months, once the initial Gaza response is over.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12700671/joe-biden-benjamin-netanyahu-forced-office.html
Gould, Ward, & Toosi: U.S. discussing peacekeeping force for Gaza after Hamas falls, senators say
Talks are underway to establish a multinational force in Gaza after Israel uproots Hamas, two senators confirmed Wednesday, the clearest sign yet that the U.S. and its partners are seriously weighing deploying foreign troops to the enclave. Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told POLITICO that there’s early, closed-door diplomacy over establishing a peacekeeping force in Gaza, though it was not likely to include American troops. […] . . . NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson denied that “sending U.S. troops” to be part of the coalition was under discussion.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/01/us-senators-gaza-peacekeeping-force-hamas-00124741
Wauck: Doug Macgregor Speaking Truth To Power
A remarkable interview by Glenn Diesen, with Doug Macgregor. It’s always remarkable when a person in Macgregor’s position speaks the truth. Here are transcript highlights. They’re a bit rough. I’ve done the punctuation, but not caps: Diesen frames the basic question: has Israel and the United States overplayed their hand or have they walked into something they can’t control? what do you see the strategy being—and the risks, of course? Macgregor: whenever a nation state involves itself in conflict they need to immediately shed the illusion of control. it’s very difficult to to foresee all circumstances and that’s why even the best strategist recognizes that goals and objectives have to adapt and change. I think the problem we have right now with both the government in Israel and the government in United States is there really is no strategy per se. the Israelis are reacting to the events of 7 October …
Read more at Meaning In History.
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA
Surber: World War Obama
His envy of Donald Trump has unleashed hell on Earth. The New York Times reported on May 20, 2017, “Saudis Welcome Trump’s Rebuff of Obama’s Mideast Views.” The story began, “With trumpets blaring, cannons booming and fighter jets streaking overhead trailed by red, white and blue contrails, President Trump arrived in the scorching heat of the Arabian desert on Saturday hoping to realign the politics and diplomacy of the Middle East by forcefully reasserting American support for Sunni Muslim countries and Israel against Iran’s Shiite-led government. “The start of Mr. Trump’s first trip abroad since becoming president — coming amid the scandals and chaos engulfing his administration — was intended to be a blunt rejection of President Barack Obama’s vision for the region. Mr. Obama sought a reconciliation with Iran and negotiated a deal intended to keep Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.” Imagine that you are Barack Hussein Obama reading this in one of your mansions (well, the one in Chicago barely qualifies at only 6,500 square feet) and you read this. Trump — the man you mocked for 6 years — is undoing all your efforts to give Iran nukes and destabilize the Middle East. The Saudis fell over themselves to praise him. […] President Trump would go on to get five Muslim countries to recognize Israel’s right to exist — bringing the total to 7 Muslim nations in 75 years. This really infuriated Obama, long an anti-Semite who attended Columbia (“Jewish Columbia students slam university’s ‘inaction’ against antisemitism: ‘I don’t feel safe’”) and Harvard (“Harvard lionized professor after finding he discriminated against Jewish students”). […] And Obama got his vengeance on Trump and the world, didn’t he? The Deep State Democrat was able to use biomedical warfare from Red China and stuffing the ballot box with mailed-in votes to install Banana Republic Biden as president. Obama quickly undid everything Trump accomplished.
Read more: https://donsurber.substack.com/p/world-war-obama
The Foreign Desk: America’s Jew Hatred Problem
Josh Hammer, Newsweek senior editor-at-large, host of “The Josh Hammer Show,” syndicated columnist, research fellow at Edmund Burke Foundation joins The Foreign Desk with Lisa Daftari to discuss America’s Jew Hatred Problem.
Watch the 29:22 minute interview: https://foreigndesknews.com/podcast/americas-jew-hatred-problem/
Kruta: Kamala Harris Announces ‘National Strategy To Combat Islamophobia’ In The Wake Of Anti-Semitic Threats
Vice President Kamala Harris went public on Wednesday with the Biden administration’s newest project — a National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia — in the wake of increasing and escalating anti-semitic threats and attacks in the United States and worldwide. “Taking on hate is a national priority. Today, @POTUS and I are announcing the country’s first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia. This action is the latest step forward in our work to combat a surge of hate in America,” Harris shared in a post on X, along with a brief video. […] “There’s been an outbreak of antisemitism like we haven’t seen since before WWII, so here comes Kamala Harris to the rescue,” Frank Fleming added. “In the aftermath of the mass murder of Jews by genocidal maniacs, and college campuses revealed to be full of antisemites loudly marching and terrorizing Jews, Democrats have found the real problem: Too many people not liking Islam,” another posted.
Read more/ Watch the 3:41 minute Harris announcement: https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-announces-national-strategy-to-combat-islamophobia-in-the-wake-of-anti-semitic-threats
Toronto Sun: FULL COMMENT PODCAST: Ben Shapiro on why every Jew he knows is getting a gun
Host Brian Lilley is joined this week by American podcaster, journalist and author Ben Shapiro to discuss the antisemitic pro-Hamas marches in Canada and the U.S. after the terrorist attacks in Israel — and the sense of danger that has American Jews buying guns in case they need to defend their families. How did our society become so degraded? Shapiro tells Brian it’s because we’ve permitted hate to fester in certain communities while surrendering our western values — falling for the sadistic “decolonization” ideology that dehumanizes the people it targets. And, Shapiro says, Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau are already weakening in confronting it.
Watch the 34:08 minute interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4MLQbUYf0U
Ozimek: Republicans Raise Terror Alarm After Illegal Immigrants Caught With Explosive Devices
Republican senators have sounded the alarm on the Biden administration’s border policies after Border Patrol agents caught illegal border crossers who were carrying explosive devices that Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said were “tailor-made for terrorism.” Mr. Barrasso, who is the Senate Republican Conference Chairman, made the startling revelation at a press conference on Oct. 31, alongside Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), following their recent visit to the U.S.–Mexico border. […] Several days ago, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents seized illegal immigrants carrying with them improvised explosive devices that Mr. Barrasso said were the “size of cannonballs” and were “tailor-made for terrorism.” […] “We’re opening ourselves up for a terrorist attack.”
War Room: Todd Bensman: Biden Administration Blocking FOIA Requests To Hide Border Crisis
Todd Bensman senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies joins Steve Bannon’s WarRoom to discuss how migrants who are unable to enter the United States using CBP One are entering by whatever means necessary because they know they will eventually be released by authorities or will be successful as “got aways.” Bensman gives an update on the latest barriers the Biden administration has put up to hide immigration data some of which the Center for Immigration Studies has been able to obtain through FOIA requests. New data revealed that recently 270 people that entered the United States were part of terror watchlists. Information on where they came from or what terror groups they are linked to is still being covered up.
Watch the 10:19 minute interview: https://warroom.org/todd-bensman-biden-administration-blocking-foia-requests-to-hide-border-crisis/
Schlichter: America’s Shame
A pack of braying savages-sycophants cornered some Jewish students in New York City inside a school library not long ago. The solution to this was obvious –turn the cops on them – with sticks or worse – to disperse them, then expel the little degenerates. But what the powers that be went with was something wholly different. They helpfully suggested that the Jewish students hide in an attic. In America. In our biggest city. Hide in an attic, Jews. The solution to a bunch of vicious cheerleaders for people who put babies in ovens was not to utterly crush them and make them pay. No, the bright idea was that the Jews go hide in an attic. “Anne Frank 2: The EnBidening.” I guess Never Again has become Oh Well, Okay. What a disgrace. What an abomination. But this is America under our garbage ruling class today.
Read more: https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/11/01/americas-shame-n2630567
Ingraham Angle: Ned Ryun: Democrats deeply concerned they will lose the Arab vote
American Majority CEO and founder Ned Ryun weighs in on some Democratic Party members’ anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
Watch the 7:55 minute interview: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340328573112
Poleo: Migrant caravan headed north swells by a THOUSAND people in 24 hours to 7,000 people as Chinese influencers are showing migrants how to cross US southern border
Organizer Irineo Mujica said on Tuesday the caravan had swelled since Monday by about 1,000 to more than 7,000 people, although a spokesperson for the Chiapas government said state authorities still estimated its size at around 3,500 participants. It comes as the US is seeing a big increase in arriving using a relatively new and perilous route through Panama’s Darién Gap jungle, thanks in part to social media posts and videos providing step-by-step guidance. Chinese people were the fourth-highest nationality, after Venezuelans, Ecuadorians and Haitians, crossing the Darién Gap during the first nine months of this year, according to Panamanian immigration authorities. Chinese migrants using this route fly to Ecuador and then make their way north to the U.S.-Mexico border. The monthly number of Chinese migrants crossing the Darién has been rising gradually, from 913 in January to 2,588 in September. At the U.S.-Mexico border, the Border Patrol made 22,187 arrests of Chinese people for crossing the border illegally from Mexico from January through September, nearly 13 times the same period in 2022.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12697997/Migrant-caravan-mexico-border-chinese.html
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES
Spencer: Trump: ‘The Fight Between Israel and Hamas is Between Civilization and Savagery’
Many people are seeing the war between Israel and Hamas as an apocalyptic showdown between good and evil, and there is good reason to see it that way. And as has so often been the case, Donald Trump enunciated what many others were thinking but didn’t dare to say. Trump said Saturday: “The fight between Israel and Hamas is between civilization and savagery, between good and evil. There is no comparison between a group that worships death and a group that cherishes life. Every single life lost in this conflict is on the shoulders of Hamas, Hamas alone.”
Read more/Watch the 55 second Trump video: https://www.frontpagemag.com/trump-the-fight-between-israel-and-hamas-is-between-civilization-and-savagery/
REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY
Sundance: Senator JD Vance Vows to Block All DOJ Nominees While Biden Uses Weaponized Justice to Target Political Opposition
More of this is needed. Today, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin (D) and Ohio Senator JD Vance (R) confronted each other in the upper chamber over DOJ nominees that Senator Vance refuses to advance with unanimous consent. Durbin was furious at the blocks JD Vance was putting in front of the Joe Biden nominees for U.S. Attorney and criticized Vance for campaigning on “law and order” while blocking those DOJ nominees advanced by Durbin. In response, Senator Vance delivered remarks promising to block every DOJ nomination as long as Joe Biden continues weaponizing Main Justice and the USAO nominations to target his political opposition.
Read more/Watch the 7:24 minute hearing exchange: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/11/01/senator-jd-vance-vows-to-block-all-doj-nominees-while-biden-uses-weaponized-justice-to-target-political-opposition/
Simonson: House Republicans Subpoena Biden Administration For Afghan Refugee Records Amid Rising Terror Threats
The Biden administration has stonewalled congressional inquiries into security screenings of the almost 90,000 Afghan refugees who have entered the United States since 2021, Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee say in a Tuesday letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “In the wake of the Biden administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country has once again become a breeding ground for foreign terrorist organizations under Taliban rule,” Homeland Security Committee chairman Mark Green (R., Tenn.) said in a statement. “The Committee is still seeking answers on how the Biden administration vetted those entering the United States following the withdrawal.”
Whedon: Santos survives: House rejects resolution to expel embattled New York Republican
Two-hundred thirteen lawmakers opposed his ouster, while 179 voted in favor and 19 voted present, according to Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman. Two-thirds of the chamber would have needed to back his expulsion for it to pass. […] Santos celebrated reacted to the vote, saying “[tonight] was a victory for due process not me.”
REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATE MINORITY
Sundance: Senator Rand Paul Opening Statement During Senate Homeland Security Hearing
During yesterday’s Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took the opportunity to confront the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI with the recent history of their activity. As noted by Senator Paul, the past several years exhibits clear and irrefutable evidence of the DHS and FBI working collaboratively to conduct surveillance on American citizens, while simultaneously violating the first amendment by coordinating with big tech social media companies on censorship.
Read more/Watch the 5:12 minute opening statement: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/11/01/senator-rand-paul-opening-statement-during-senate-homeland-security-hearing/
THE WAR IN ISRAEL
(H/T KM) Miszial: ISRAEL’S STRATEGIC CHALLENGE
For nearly two decades, Israel has eschewed making strategic choices in dealing with the terrorist groups that surround it, relying instead on deterrence to minimize their threat while tolerating their presence. That approach failed on Oct. 7. Currently, Israel appears to be prioritizing the operational objective of clearing Hamas from Gaza. But it cannot afford to avoid grappling with the question of what that failure of deterrence means for its future security. The most pressing strategic question for Israel, however, is not the one that has seized the attention of Western capitals — who will govern Gaza after Hamas. Instead, determining how to reestablish deterrence against other Iranian-backed groups, principally Hizballah in the north, is the more urgent challenge. Delaying operations or pursuing more minimal goals in the south while tackling the northern threat, by preemption if necessary, could do more to restore Israeli security than a massive ground offensive against Hamas. It would also buy time to develop viable options for the future governance of Gaza […] Thus, the Israeli government had chosen, rather than a strategy for dealing with these persistent threats, an approach that sought merely to deter them for as long as possible.
Deterrence Lost Before the Oct. 7 attack, Israeli deterrence had been built on three legs. The first, and most obvious, was . . . […] The North Is Coming The death and destruction that Hamas dealt is nothing compared to the devastating potential of Hizballah’s 150,000+ rocket arsenal. Israel estimates that Hizballah could sustain a rate of fire of at least 6,000–8,000 rockets per day. That would significantly exceed the 3,000 rockets that Hamas was able to launch on Oct. 7 — already the single largest volume of incoming fire Israel has ever faced. And, after honing its combined-arms capabilities in Syria, Hizballah fighters could stage . . . […] U.S. Assistance Regardless of what strategy Israel pursues, its success in the southern and northern theaters is going to require U.S. military, political, and strategic assistance. Much of that has already been forthcoming. Biden has just asked Congress . . .
Read more: https://warontherocks.com/2023/10/israels-strategic-challenge/
Taer: Hamas Threatens to Conduct Attack on Civilians in Israel ‘Again and Again’
A Hamas official threatened that the terrorist organization would begin conducting more attacks similar to the Oct. 7 surprise massacre of civilians in Israel, according to a video posted by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Wednesday. Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad said the Oct. 7 attack was “justified” and that they will continue to conduct such massacres as many times as possible, according to the MEMRI translation. Hamas terrorists who breached Israel’s border with Gaza killed more than 1,400 individuals and took more than 200 civilians hostage, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Read more/Watch the 1;21 minute interview: https://foreigndesknews.com/middle-east/hamas-threatens-to-conduct-attack-on-civilians-in-israel-again-and-again/
Marks: Israeli forces ‘deep in the Strip, at the gates of Gaza City’
Brig. Gen. Itzik Cohen, the commander of the Israel Defense Forces’ 162nd Armored Division, aka “the Steel Formation,” told reporters on Wednesday, day 26 of Israel’s “Operation Swords of Iron” to destroy Hamas, that troops are “deep in the Gaza Strip, at the gates of Gaza City.”
Read more: https://www.jns.org/israeli-forces-deep-in-the-gaza-strip-at-the-gates-of-gaza-city/
Saavedra: CNN Airs Images Of Human Remains From Hamas’ Terrorist Attack On Israel
CNN’s Jake Tapper showed this week some of the human remains that were left behind after Hamas brutally murdered 1,400 Israelis last month. Tapper, who has been reporting live from Tel Aviv over the past few weeks, showed the images during Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Lead” after speaking with Dr. Chen Kugel, the director of Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine, about why it is so difficult for officials to identify some of the bodies. […] CNN: Disturbing content: “Two sets of rib cages, one smaller, with a wire, tied together.” The bodies of Israeli men, women, children and babies murdered by Hamas were so dismembered that forensic specialists are having trouble identifying them.
Read more/Watch the 3;55 minute video: https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-airs-images-of-human-remains-from-hamas-terrorist-attack-on-israel
Daily Wire News: IDF Releases Intercepted Phone Call Showing Hamas Pressuring Hospital To Give Its Fuel To The Terrorists
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declassified and released an intercepted phone call this week that showed Hamas pressuring a hospital to turn over its limited fuel supplies so that the terrorists could wage war against Israel. The phone call — intercepted by the Israeli Military Intelligence — was between a Gazan resident, the deputy commander of Hamas’s Western Jabaliya Battalion, and the manager of the Indonesian Hospital.
Read more/Listen to the 1;38 minute audio: https://www.dailywire.com/news/idf-releases-intercepted-phone-call-showing-hamas-pressuring-hospital-to-give-its-fuel-to-the-terrorists
THE FIGHT FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY
(H/T CFP) End Wokeness X post: Elon Musk explains how Soros hijacked our system without changing a single law:
Watch the 37 second video: https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1719445170221965355
Laura: In 2024, our election season will be invaded by a TikTok army
FOX News host Laura Ingraham warns of potential Chinese influence on the 2024 elections through the Chinese-owned TikTok.
Watch the 6: 26 minute video: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340324580112
Sundance: Connecticut Judge Throws Out Election Results and Orders New Primary After “Shocking” Evidence of Democrat Ballot Fraud
The Judge reviewed CCTV footage showing Wanda Geter-Pataky, vice chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee and operations specialist for the city, and Eneida Martinez, a former City Council member, working to support the party approved candidate. Both Ms Geter-Pataky and Ms Martinez participated in absentee ballot fraud, ballot harvesting and ballot stuffing at drop boxes. Both women invoked the Fifth Amendment when confronted as witnesses by the judge. […] You don’t need to guess the races of the participants. You know.
OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION
Liberatore; America’s new super-nuke explained: B61-13 is the first ‘gravity bomb’ to feature guided tail kit and will unleash blast radius the size of two Manhattans
The Pentagon announced this week that it is developing a new nuclear ‘gravity bomb’ that is 24 times more powerful than the nuke detonated in Hiroshima. As the name implies, the B61-13 is the 13th variant of the B61 family of ‘gravity bombs,’ which fall to their target rather than being guided.
The new bomb will have the same explosive yield as its predecessor, the Cold War-era B61-7, estimated to be 360,000 tons, giving off a blast radius of roughly 190,000 feet, the length of two Manhattans. The project will essentially see the same B61-7 warhead put into a new casing. Unlike the older model, the new bomb will feature modern safety and control features and an upgraded tail kit to help it fall straight and hit the target.
Kuntson: Federal jury verdict on broker fees rocks real estate industry
A federal jury in Kansas City on Tuesday found the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and some of the largest real estate brokers in the country guilty of colluding to inflate real estate commissions. Why it matters: The verdict is a major shake up to the U.S. real estate market and could change how Americans purchase homes, or specifically, how they pay for broker fees. The big picture: The jury, after around two weeks of testimony from the plaintiffs and defendants, ordered the NAR and real estate franchises HomeServices of America and Keller Williams to pay $1.78 billion in damages to the sellers of more than 260,000 homes in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois — the plaintiffs in the case.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/nar-lawsuit-brokers-fees-verdict-sitzer-burnett
LePore; Nancy Pelosi announces on House floor she was SERVED with subpoena , reportedly related to case in which her husband was assaulted by a hammer-wielding home invader
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was served with a subpoena which was announced live on the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday evening, believed to be related to the attack on her husband. Pelosi, 83, made the announcement that she must ‘produce documents in a criminal case in California‘ via the House Clerk, a standard procedure for members of Congress. Tylease Alli, the ‘reading clerk,’ keeps track of changes to legislation made on the floor and was appointed by the Democrats.
Pulver: Dozens of birds, including ones named after white supremacists, are being renamed
Dozens of bird species in the United States and Canada will get “imaginative” new names that reflect their traits and habitats rather than the names of people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. The society plans to remove all human names from the common names for birds within its jurisdiction, to create a more inclusive environment for people of diverse backgrounds interested in bird-watching and ornithology. The public process, yet to be fully defined, will include 70 to 80 birds in the U.S. and Canada, the society stated. Following years of controversy over bird names linked to people with racist and genocidal histories, the society’s decision thrills ornithologists and scientists who supported a campaign to name birds for themselves. “I’m really excited about this change,” said Corina Newsome, an ornithologist who was among a group of dozens of Black outdoor enthusiasts that launched the first Black Birders Week in May 2020. […] The committee also proposes to change names considered derogatory or culturally inappropriate for three other birds: the flesh-footed shearwater; Eskimo curlew, and Inca dove.
DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT
Mercola: The Disturbing Truth About Oral Contraceptives
The video above reviews the shady backstory of the birth control pill, the roots of which can be traced back to the eugenics and population control movements. As noted in this video, birth control pills do not “just prevent ovulation by mimicking hormones.” They do a whole lot more. They also destroy women’s health. […] During the post-World War II era, the U.S. experienced an unprecedented economic upswing that led to a surge in marriage and birth rates (the baby boom era) as well as industrial growth. Christian family values predominated and there were restrictions on both contraception and abortion.
At the same time, the feminist movement started emerging, with feminist activists encouraging women to enter the workforce rather than being “barefoot and pregnant.” This societal tidal change also aligned with the interests of big business, which saw an opportunity to expand their consumer base by encouraging women to earn their own money. As noted in the video: . . . ‘No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.’
The number of working mothers quadrupled between 1940 and 1960. While the motivations of big business benefiting from increased labor and consumption … may seem evident, there were other forces at play behind the scenes.” Population Control and Eugenics Two of those forces were the eugenics and population control movements. Thomas Malthus seeded the narrative about the need for population control, arguing that population growth must be curtailed so as not to surpass the available food supply, lest we all die from starvation and strife.
Read more/Watch the 1:19:35 video: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/10/joseph-mercola/the-disturbing-truth-about-oral-contraceptives/
Gress: Where Have All The Good Women Gone?
In her new book, The Toxic War on Masculinity, Nancy Pearcey explains that men intuitively understand the difference between a good man and a real man. Sociologist Michael Kimmel asked thousands of men two questions, starting with cadets at West Point. What is a good man, and what is a real man? The characteristics of the good man, the cadets reported, are: “Honor, duty, integrity, sacrifice, do the right thing, stand up for the little guy, be a provider, be a protector.” The real man’s characteristics, on the other hand, are “tough, strong, never show weakness, win at all costs, suck it up, play through pain, be competitive, get rich, get laid.” The good man puts others before himself while the real man puts himself first. Despite years of the culture trying to tear down masculinity, this timeless distinction between a good man and a real man remains. What happens when we apply the same questions to women: What is a good woman? What is a real woman? The answers are nowhere as easy and clear. The last 50 years have airbrushed any semblance of a good woman from the culture and replaced her with the working woman.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/09/where-have-all-the-good-women-gone/
Gress: 6 Ways To Detox From Marxist Feminism For A Happier Life
While men can still articulate a “good man” versus a “real man,” no categories remain for a “good woman” versus a “real woman.” Most of us operate unwittingly with the Marxist categories force-fed to us by feminism, particularly Betty Friedan’s propaganda about the toxicity of home and the freedom to be obtained through work. These little-scrutinized ideas about womanhood now provide the ideal for us today. Utility, productivity, power, and control have supplanted the virtues of what we used to equate with a good woman, such as kindness, compassion, and fidelity. How, then, do we detox from this cultural and anthropological poison?
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/18/6-ways-to-detox-from-marxist-feminism-for-a-happier-life/