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WORDS HAVE MEANING. I SUBMIT LEFTY DEMOCRATS HAVE PERFECTED THE MIS-USE OF: EQUITY, INTIMIDATION, POLITICAL WEAPONIZATION, NAME ASSASSINATION, LYING, MANIPULATION, DISCORD AND MUCH MORE
REPUBLICANS HAD NO PLAN AND BY THE TIME DEMOCRATS RAISED AND EMPLOYED TONS OF MONEY PRE-ELECTION AND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF MAIL-IN BALLOTING, BECAUSE OF COVID FRIGHTENING, THE SO CALLED RED TIDE WAS MUTED AND ELECTION RESULTS WERE NARROWED. (THINK FETTERMAN.)
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER RADICAL, DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN ATTACKING AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS AND WEAPONIZING POLITICS FOR DECADES. THESE - A to Z.- EFFORTS EXTEND FROM EDUCATION THROUGH UNDERGIRDNG OUR FAITH IN THE VOTING PROCESS.
THE LATTER WAS ACCELERATED BY COVID WHICH ALLOWED LEFTIES TO SPREAD FEAR AND INSTITUTE BALLOTING THROUGH HARVESTING MAIL-IN VOTES WHICH INCREASES THE PROSPECTS OF FRAUD OR, AT LEAST, THE BELIEF IN VOTING RESULTS
HE GREEN REVOLUTION BURDENS AMERICA BY INCREASING OUR COST OF PRODUCTION WHILE CHINA DISREGARDS THE DICTATES AND COST BURDENS OF those AGREEMENTS.
FROM A MILITARY PERSPECTIVE, XI INTENDS FOR CHINA TO DOMINATE THE WORLD BOTH COMMERCIALLY AND MILITARILY.
Furthermore, CHINA and domestic radicals have MANIPULATED BIDEN TO EMBRACE THE SOCIALIZTION OF OUR MILTARY BECAUSE OF HIS EMPHASIS ON COLOR, ETHNICITY AND SEX CREATING LOW MORALE, TENSION AND THEREFORE, LOWER EFFECTIVENESS. RECRUITING RESULTS TESTIFYTO THIS. CHINA HAS ALSO OUTSTRIPPED US IN EQUIPMENT NUMBERS AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THEFT. RECENT WAR GAMES RESULT IN AMERICA LOSING CONSISTENTLY.
ON THE DOMESTIC FRONT, BIDEN AND RADICAL DEMOCRATS LIED ABOUT ABORTION AND WERE ABLY ASSISTED IN THE FALSE MESSAGING BY THEIR BIASED FRIENDS IN THE MASS MEDIA.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS, CONSTITUTIONALLY SPEAKING, NO LONGER ENGAGED IN ABORTION. IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN. STATES NOW DETERMINE ABORTION RULES/LAWS BUT BIDEN WAS ABLE TO CONVINCE THE UNWASHED OTHERWISE.
BIDEN'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL TO EXCUSE EDUCATION DEBT WAS A PLOY TO GARNER YOUTH VOTES AND NOTHING MORE THAN THAT AND it PROVED EFFECTIVE.
MEANWHILE, REPUBLICANS IGNORED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BIDEN'S LIES AND GUILE, HAD NO RESPONSE AND LOST MANY VOTERS BY ATTACKING DEMOCRATS ON INFLATION, PRICE OF GASOLINE (KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES.) without explaining what they would do.
MITCH MC CONNELL' WITHHELD FUNDS FROM CANDIDATES HE DID NOT FAVOR AND DEMOCRATS WERE ABLE TO DEMONIZE TRUMP. ALSO, TRUMP'S CANDIDATES WERE PLEDGED HIS SUPPORT ONLY IF THEIR FOCUS WAS THEFT OF HIS FAILED RE-ELECTION.
DE SANTIS AND RUBIO RAN FOCUSED CAMPAIGNS BASED ON APPEALING MESSAGES AS, KIM STRASSEL POINTS OUT, IN A RECENT WSJ POTOMAC Op Ed., IN ESSENCE, THEY WERE ABLE TO TURN THE STATE OF FLORIDA CONVINCINGLY RED.
MEANWHILE, TRUMP INTENDS, APPARENTLY, TO ANNOUNCE HE IS RUNNING IN 2024 THUS, RAISING THE POSSIBILITY OF CREATING A REPLAY OF WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED IN GEORGIA IN 2022.
APPARENTLY REPUBLICANS WILL NOT CONTROL THE SENATE AND IF THE DEMOCRATS HAVE 51 SENATORS THAT WILL EFFECTIVELY GUT THEIR NUMBERS IN SENATE COMMTTEES. AND DIMINISH THEIR ABILITY TO CONDUCT EFFECTIVE INVESTIGATIONS.
THIS IS WHY GOV. KEMP MUST EXTEND SOME CAPITAL ON HERSCHEL WALKER'S CAMPAIGN AND GO OUT AN BEAT THE DRUMS FOR HIM AGAINST SENATOR WARNOCK. WARNOCK HAS RUN AN UGLY CAMPAIGN ATTACKING HERSCHEL'S LESS THAN AUSPICIOUS PAST BUT YOU WOULD THINK A MINISTER IGNORING REDEMPTION WOULD BE CHASTISED AND INEFFECTIVE. APPARENTLY NOT SO BECAUSE TRUMP IS SEEN AS AN ALBATROSS.
SPEAKING OF INVESTIGATIONS, I ARGUE THE PUBLIC IS FAR MORE INTERESTED IN RESULTS THAT RESOLVE OUR MANY SERIOUS PROBLEMS THAN EXPOSING POLITICAL SKULLDUGGERY WHICH IS ALSO ESSENTIAL.
AS LONG AS THOSE WHO HATE AMERICA, "THE 24/7 DERS," AS I CALL THEM, ARE ABLE TO CONTROL THE MESSAGING AND REPUBLICANS CANNOT GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER AMERICA'S PROSPECTS REMAIN BLEAK IN MY OPINION. POLITICAL DISCORD WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE TAIL THAT WAGS OUR REPUBLIC.
THE MASS MEDIA CONTINUES TO BE A SIGNIFICANT SOURCE OF DIS-INFORMATION AND IT'S CONTINUED BIASED AND DISTORTED REPORTING GIVES A MAJOR ADVANTAGE TO DEMOCRATS. THEY SEEK TO TURN EVERYTHING INTO A WEDGE ISSUE IN ORDER TO KEEP AMERICANS DIVIDED AND AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS.
ONE CANNOT DISMISS THE CALIBER OF REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES, PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO UNSEAT AN OPPOSITION SEAT HOLDER WHO HAS MANY INHERENT OFFICE ADVANTAGES. BIDEN WAS ALSO EFFECTIVE AT DEMONIZING REPUBLICANS AND LYING ABOUT THEM WANTING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY KNOWING THIS WOULD SCARE VOTERS. HE ALSO WARNED REPUBLICANS WOULD CONTINUE TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY.
I HAVE YET TO DISCUSS THE ECONOMIC POSITION in which WE FIND OURSELVES . THE FEDERAL DEFICIT IS AWESOME AND LIMITS OUR FLEXIBILITY AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR. INFLATION AND THE RISE IN INTEREST RATES REMAINS A KNIFE AT THE THROAT OF GDP. WHEN DID GOVERNMENT EVER CREATE ANYTHING BETTER THAN THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND AT A COST WITHIN FORECAST?
FINALLY, THIS COMING WEEK A WEAK, CORRUPT, COMPROMISED, IMBECILE OF A PRESIDENT MEETS XI AND I FEAR IT PRESENTS AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR CHINA TO CLEAN OUR CLOCK
.I HAVE MORE THOUGHTS AND CONCERNS BUT THE ABOVE ARE THE MAJOR ONES.
AND ANOTHER VIEW:
Why Independent Voters Broke for Democrats in the Midterms
GOP candidates closely aligned with Trump turned off some centrists and in-play Republicans
By Aaron Zitner
“Not allowing the election to be settled, it’s very divisive,” Ms. Ghelfi, a semiretired attorney from Paradise Valley, said of the 2020 race. “I think the election spoke for itself.” She said she voted for Republicans down-ballot who weren’t as vocal about election fraud or as closely tied to Mr. Trump, yet couldn’t support Arizona’s four major Republican candidates because they echoed Mr. Trump’s false claims.
Republicans succeeded in one of their top goals this year: They brought more of their party’s voters to the polls than did Democrats. But in the course of energizing their core voters, Republicans in many states lost voters in the political center—both independents and many Republicans who are uneasy with elements of the party’s focus under Mr. Trump.
Control of the House and Senate, which had seemed poised to land with the Republican Party, is coming down to a handful of races that so far are too close to call, though the GOP remains on track to winning a narrow majority in the House. Republicans have won nearly 5.5 million more votes in House races than have Democrats, a tally by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report finds, as many voters were motivated by anxiety over high inflation and a low opinion of President Biden’s response.
At the same time, Republican analysts said their unexpectedly weak showing in the election indicated that they had failed to press hard enough on those issues. In Michigan, the Republican Party’s state committee said a failure to talk to voters in the political center was a central reason that Tudor Dixon, the party’s Trump-endorsed nominee for governor, was crushed in a 10 percentage point defeat by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
“Tudor’s efforts focused largely on Republican red-meat issues, in hopes of inspiring a 2020-like showing at the polls,” a memo from the GOP committee said. “There were more ads on transgender sports than inflation, gas prices and bread-and-butter issues that could have swayed independent voters.”
More than 30% of the midterm voter pool, by one measure, were independent voters, or people who don’t affiliate with either political party. David Winston, a Republican pollster who consults with the party’s House and Senate leadership, said polling showed that they were unhappy with the country’s direction and assigned blame for high inflation to President Biden.
“So, the door was open for Republicans to have a good interaction,” Mr. Winston said. “If everyone was focused on turnout of their base, they missed almost a third of the electorate—and basically the third of the electorate that’s in play.”
Mike Cernovich, a conservative blogger and supporter of Mr. Trump, said in an online analysis of the election outcome, “I would say the single biggest issue was, if your focus in 2022 was the 2020 election, then you were going to have a bad night with independents.”
Nationally, Republican candidates this year had the advantage of a favorable voter mix. Some 49% of midterm voters were Republicans, and 43% were Democrats, a 6-point GOP advantage, AP VoteCast, a large survey of the midterm electorate, found.
The GOP edge was similar or larger in states with competitive Senate races: 5 points in Pennsylvania, 8 points in Georgia and 11 points in Arizona. Despite those advantages, Republicans lost the Senate races in Pennsylvania and Arizona and will compete again in Georgia, where the race goes to a runoff next month
Undercutting the GOP advantage was that independents favored Democrats by 4 points nationally, the survey found, and by a far more substantial 18 points in Pennsylvania, 28 points in Georgia and more than 30 points in Arizona.
Polling shows that independent voters have little enthusiasm for either party. Both parties were viewed favorably by less than 30% of independents and unfavorably by 50% or more, the AP VoteCast survey found.
“It’s picking the lesser of two evils sometimes,” said Micki LePla, 65, a retired respiratory therapist near Port Huron, Mich., who backed Ms. Whitmer for governor.
“I voted for her because I just didn’t want Tudor Dixon to be the governor,” she said. She opposed Ms. Dixon, she said, “because of her viewpoint on abortion, and also she’s a Trump supporter and an election denier. She’s a ‘no’ on so many levels.” Ms. Dixon opposed abortion even in cases of rape and incest.
For many voters, support for legalized abortion changed the election from a referendum on Democratic control of Washington into more of a choice between the two parties.
James VanSteel, 29, an independent voter and transportation planner in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale, said he would have considered a Republican candidate for governor in the mold of Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah. He doesn’t agree with Mr. Romney’s restrictive view of abortion rights, but he sees the senator as a moderating force in government and open to working with both parties. In Michigan, however, the primary season only drew more ideologically driven Republicans, he said, eventually yielding Ms. Dixon as the nominee.
How People Voted
Results of survey of about 115,000 registered voters
Ms. Dixon’s position on abortion was a nonstarter with him. “If they had talked about some kind of middle ground for regulation but keeping abortion legal in our state, I might have considered her more openly. But that was a very hard line she took,” he said.
Jennifer Borzone, 52, a stay-at-home mother in Phoenix, said she voted for Mr. Trump in 2016 and couldn’t remember whom she voted for in 2020. She said she supported Democrats for every office this year because of their support of access to abortion.
“I don’t think the government should tell women what to do with their body,” she said, adding that her votes were solely decided on that issue.
Where Republicans won in high-profile races, they were sometimes helped by a favorable voter mix in the electorate. In North Carolina, Republicans outnumbered Democrats by 7 percentage points in the midterm voter pool, and the victorious GOP Rep. Ted Budd limited his loss among independents to 9 points, a narrower deficit than for many other GOP Senate candidates.
Arizona Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters, who supported false claims of 2020 election fraud, lost independents by more than 30 points.Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters
The election results revive a debate that runs through many election campaigns about whether to drive turnout among a party’s core supporters, which often means promoting the most ideologically sharp policy ideas, or whether the better course is to try to persuade voters in the political center.
“Motivating the base makes sense, but you have to make sure your party doesn’t nominate people who are so flawed that your base can’t accept them,” said Fred Yang, a Democratic pollster.
He said that was the case in places such as Arizona and accounts for why GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters, who aligned himself with Mr. Trump’s false claims of election fraud and said he would support national abortion restrictions, not only lost independent voters by more than 30 points but also forfeited 14% of Republicans to his rival, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, who won. By contrast, only 2% of Democrats backed Mr. Masters, AP VoteCast found.
There was no fraud in the 2020 election widespread enough to change the result, federal officials have said, and dozens of lawsuits filed by Mr. Trump’s supporters challenging the results failed.
In Pennsylvania, some Republicans worried that their nominee for governor, state Sen. Doug Mastriano, would alienate centrist and independent voters with his no-exceptions position on abortion and his role as a leading promoter of Mr. Trump’s unfounded election-conspiracy claims. They feared that Mr. Mastriano, who lost his election by 14 percentage points, would also push those voters away from backing the party’s Senate candidate, Mehmet Oz.
Mr. Oz lost independent voters by 19 points. Some 8% of Republicans backed his victorious opponent, John Fetterman, more than the share of Democrats who supported his campaign.
“Goodness gracious, that’s a state they should have won,” said Mr. Yang, referring to the greater number of Republicans than Democrats who voted.
Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor who recently entered politics, was defeated in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race.Photo: Rachel Wisniewski for The Wall Street Journal
Independent voters have been an essential ingredient in both parties’ successful campaigns to win control of the House. Republicans carried independents by 14 points in 1994 and by 19 points in 2010, when they claimed the speaker’s gavel, Mr. Winston said. Democrats won independents by 18 points in 2006 and 12 points in 2018, years when they reclaimed control of the House.
The AP VoteCast poll, which surveyed more than 94,000 midterm voters, was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and Fox News.
Write to Aaron Zitner at aaron.zitner@wsj.com and Eliza Collins at eliza.collins+1@wsj.com.
AND:
How the Red Wave fizzled
This means the same inflation, the same fuel and food prices, climate hysteria, crisis at the border. The migrants will keep coming.
BY Jack Engelhard
There’s blame all over.
Turns out that abortion was a bigger deal than we thought. Bad luck for Republicans when the Supreme Court abolished Roe v Wade. Big mistake.
Not the act, but the timing, June, just as the midterms were gearing up, only to give Democrats a hot potato, like Jan 6, to run on.
A few weeks later came an act of stupidity. As the conversation was quieting down, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced legislation for a national 15-week abortion ban.
The bill went nowhere in the Senate, but fellow GOP senators wished he’d shut up.
Some, or many, wish Trump would do the same.
Over at the New York Post, columnist John Podhoretz blames Donald Trump…says he’s a “vote repellant.” That’s why Republicans under-performed in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Ditto, The Wall Street Journal, which says, “Trump is the Republican Party’s biggest loser.”
Maybe so, but it’s the media that from day one never let-up their withering campaign against him.
So that finally, through repeated slurs and nitpicking, he became box-office poison…to a segment that bought and voted the slanders the Networks were selling.
It’s the media, stupid.
Meantime, Joe Biden can’t get the smirk off his face.
The all-teeth gloating is a pathetic sight, and now, seemingly victorious, he’s preparing to make no changes.
Therefore, Americans are to expect the same of everything.
This means the same inflation, the same fuel and food prices, the same climate hysteria, and the same crisis at the border. The migrants will keep coming.
He thinks he won.
No, he didn’t.
I agree with Robert Spencer that the blue votes were the result of a generation that came of age, 18 to 35, after being trained for adulthood from Leftist indoctrination camps…the universities. These are the thumb-sucking Pajama Boys and Girls who needed Safe Spaces, and counseling, if someone with a different opinion entered the room
If a pro-Israel or pro-USA speaker showed up in town, or at the dorm, they’d run for their pacifiers and hide under their beds. Later, they’d riot.
The Palestinian Arabs are their favorite people. They know nothing, zero, about Israel. But are always ready to expound.
As adolescents, and throughout the school system, they learned to jeer at Hatikvah, and to turn their backs, or take a knee, at the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
Today they vote. Yesterday they were groomed, processed, manufactured, indoctrinated, and packaged to serve as machines for the Party.
Fetterman lived with his parents until he was 49 years old. That’s why they voted him into the Senate…a fellow Pajama Boy.
In New York they voted for Hochul to remain governor because her opponent Zeldin favored law and order.
Pajama Boys favor the criminals, and BLM, and the anti-white racism of Critical Race Theory. They defund police, deface statues, and can’t figure out what a woman is.
A woman is a woman and a man is a man is a concept too deep for them.
They graduated with degrees in gender studies and Black History, which teaches that genders come like Heinz, in 57 Varieties, and that all white people were slave owners.
As these people get older, do they get wiser?
If not, Republicans have no chance far into the future.
New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.
He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal,” the authoritative newsroom epic, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” followed by his coming-of-age classics, “The Girls of Cincinnati,” and, the Holocaust-to-Montreal memoir, “Escape from Mount Moriah.” For that and his 1960s epic “The Days of the Bitter End,” contemporaries have hailed him “The last Hemingway, a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Email Jack here.
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MORE CORRUPTION AND VOTING IRREGULARITIES? PLUS, THE NEW GAME IN TOWN. BALLOTS VERSUS VOTES.
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BREAKING: Elections Clerk Says Uncounted Maricopa County Ballots From “Slot 3” Mixed In The SAME BAG As ALREADY COUNTED Ballots (VIDEO)
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Big Picture, 2022 Midterm Elections Highlight the Distinct Difference Between Ballots and Votes
As the political discussion centers on the 2022 wins and losses from the midterm election, one thing that stands out in similarity to the 2020 general election is the difference between ballots and votes. It appears in some states this is the ‘new normal.’
Where votes were the focus, the Biden administration suffered losses. Where ballots were the focus, the Biden administration won.
Perhaps the two states most reflective of ‘ballots’ being more important than ‘votes’ are Michigan and Pennsylvania. Despite negative polling and public opinion toward two specific candidates in those states, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman achieved victories.
Whitmer and Fetterman were not campaigning for votes, that is old school. Instead, the machinery behind both candidates focused on the modern path. The Democrat machines in both states focused on ballot collection and ignored the irrelevant votes as cast.
Since the advent of ballot centric focus through mail-in and collection drop-off processes, votes have become increasingly less valuable amid the organizers who wish to control election outcomes. As a direct and specific result, ballot collection has become the key to Democrat party success.
The effort to attain votes for candidates is less important than the strategy of collecting ballots.
It should be emphasized; these are two distinctly different election systems.
The system of ballot distribution and collection is far more susceptible to control than the traditional system of votes cast at precincts.
A vote cannot be cast by a person who is no longer alive, or no longer lives in the area. However, a ballot can be sent, completed and returned regardless of the status of the initially attributed and/or registered individual.
While ballots and votes originate in two totally different processes, the end result of both “ballots” and “votes,” weighing on the presented election outcome, is identical.
While initially the ballot form of election control was tested in Deep Blue states, through the process of mail-in returns under the guise and justification of “expanding democracy,” a useful tool for those who are vested in the distinction, I think we are now starting to see what happens on a national level when the process is expanded.
The controversial 2020 election showed the result of making ‘ballots’ the strategy for electoral success. Under the justification of COVID-19 mitigation, mail-in ballots took center stage. Ballot harvesting by Democrat operations was one term for the outcome.
Democrat party officials and political activist groups knew how to exploit the opportunities within the new system of ballot distribution and collection, and when you combine that with a massive legal pressure campaign to accept any and all forms of ballots, well, you can see how they are dependent.
Now that ballot collection has been shown to be a much more effective way to maintain political power, Democrats in a general sense are less focused on winning votes and more focused on gathering ballots.
When ‘ballot organization’ becomes more important than ‘vote winning,’ you modify your electoral campaign approaches accordingly. It might sound simplistic, but inside the distinct difference between ballots and votes you will find why refusing debates is a successful strategy.
If you are trying to win votes you could never fathom campaign success by refusing to debate an opponent. However, if your focus is centered around ballot collection, the debate is essentially irrelevant.
It’s time for voters to start seeing the difference between elections decided by ballots and elections decided by votes. Perhaps the 2022 midterm election will awaken people to the two completely different electioneering systems.
You can vote at any scale you want. However, when ballots are more important than votes – the election will always favor the former.
Michigan and Pennsylvania voters are likely very unhappy today, while Michigan and Pennsylvania ballot providers are smiling.
If Democrats had to win individual ‘votes’ to gain election success, they would be at a disadvantage. As long as Democrats only need to gather ‘ballots’, they have a path to winning elections. The processes of electioneering are all modified accordingly.
Campaigning, advertising, promoting, debating, hand-shaking, crowd attendance and venues for rallies, along with physically meeting people and convincing them of your worth, are only important if you are trying to win votes. Fortunately for Democrats, modern electioneering via ballot collection does not require these arcane efforts. So, in the larger picture of what you now see in elections, Democrats have stopped wasting time doing them.
Republicans are running around trying to convince people and win votes. Meanwhile, who needs voters? Democrats have skipped all of that old fashioned stuff and modified all of their electioneering systems to quietly and efficiently collect ballots. Yesterday you saw the outcome.
Haven’t you noticed?
It really is that simple.
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What Happened? A Lot.
Here is what happened outlined in several different stories I’ve reported in the past few days;
1.) Unpacking Pennsylvania’s first statewide Blue Wave in 14years: https://www.
2.) Hooked on a feeling: How John Fetterman won Pennsylvania: https://www.
3.) Democrats have mastered mail balloting. Republicans will pay if they fail to step up: https://www.
4.) “It is hard to quit Trump — I voted for him twice enthusiastically.” But “at this juncture, I think we have to move forward to a new generation of leaders.” https://nypost.com/
5.) The most important person in Democrats’ midterm success wasn’t on the ballot: https://www.post-
This week's positive Israel news includes using solar energy to produce hydrogen from water, generate water out of the atmosphere, power buildings using solar paint, and create zero-emissions Israeli factories. Israelis are designing solar power plants on the Moon, installing solar panels in farms, and creating solar water heaters that operate in cold climates.
Israelis are using the sun's rays to grow micro-algae, create natural sugar substitutes, and boost crop yields. They even allow impoverished Lebanese farmers to harvest Israeli olives.
To maintain clear skies, Israeli technology reduces the fuel used by ships, creates "green" ink for printed circuits, cuts methane emissions from cattle, grows coral reefs, and converts CO2 into minerals for the glass industry. It is therefore not surprising that the improved environment has attracted more rare, endangered species to the Israeli coast.
Please recommend www.verygoodnewsisrael.
In the 13th Nov 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
- Israeli nitric oxide device helps hospitalized Covid-19 patients recover.
- Israeli surgeons repaired the heart of a Syrian baby flown in from Cyprus.
- Huge number of Israeli climate-tech and food-tech innovations.
- Record number of tourists return to Israel.
- Israeli technology powers UK retail giant’s autonomous stores.
- Israeli runner is NYC Marathon runner-up.
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ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Nitric Oxide speeds recovery from Covid-19. The LungFit Nitric Oxide device from Israel’s Beyond Air (see here previously) speeds up the recovery of hospitalized COVID patients. Clinical (human) trials showed they needed less oxygen support and spent less time in the hospital than those who didn’t receive the treatment.
https://nocamels.com/2022/10/
Device avoids need for open-heart surgery. (TY UWI) Israel’s Cuspa Medical is testing the Cusper - a device that takes over the job of a damaged heart valve that can no longer open and close properly to control blood to the heart. The Cusper is inserted using a catheter in a minimally invasive procedure, avoiding major surgery.
https://nocamels.com/2022/11/
Preventing secondary cancer. It’s early days, but Tel Aviv University scientists have managed in lab tests to reduce the incidence of breast cancer relapse by 88%. They used two chemotherapies – doxorubicin and cisplatin together, which reduced the spread of cancer cells (metastasis) that occurred using just one therapy.
https://www.israel21c.org/
https://www.jns.org/israeli-
https://www.nature.com/
Preventing hair loss from chemo. Decursin is a substance that promotes hair growth, especially in chemotherapy patients. Decursin is normally extracted from a rare seasonal flower in an expensive process, but students at Israel’s Technion Institute have just won awards by synthesizing it using enzymes from bacteria.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Medical research to use real-world data. Israel’s Ministry of Health is partnering with Israel’s Lynx MD (see here previously) to make patient data from 49 Israeli medical centers available for research. Lynx MD’s medical intelligence platform anonymously secures the data before releasing it to researchers.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Medicine and Peace conference. (TY Hazel) The 3-day medical conference “Tomorrow’s Medicine as a Bridge for Peace” in Morocco brought together 60 cancer specialists from Morocco, Israel, and France. It was organized by Pax Medicalis, a France-based nonprofit known in English as the Peace Medical Association.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
On the spot. Israel is a small country, and paramedic training is a priority. A volunteer EMT from NGO United Hatzalah was walking on the same Netivot street as a man who had a heart attack. The EMT began CPR and was soon joined by another EMT with a defibrillator. Shortly afterwards, the man regained consciousness.
https://www.
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Six new foreign Ambassadors. Israeli President Isaac Herzog received the credentials of the new ambassadors of Moldova, Ghana, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Mongolia, and for the first time, Palau, in a series of official ceremonies at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. https://www.
IDF allows Lebanese to harvest Israeli olives. For over a decade, the IDF has coordinated with UNIFI to allow Lebanese farmers, from villages close to the Israeli border, to cross the blue line into Israel. They are then able to harvest olives from trees growing near Israel’s security fence. It provides vital income to those farmers.
https://www.
Sick Syrian baby flown from Cyprus. I seem to report these events almost every two years (see here previously). A baby from Syrian refugees living in Cyprus was flown to Israel for emergency heart surgery. One of premature triplets, the baby was treated at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva.
https://www.jns.org/premature-
Advising the UK ombudsman. Israel’s State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman recently visited England to carry out a complimentary inspection of one of Britain’s equivalent watchdog apparatuses. UK Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Rob Behrens sought his advice on how to initiate wide-ranging investigations.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-
https://m.knesset.gov.il/en/
Protecting the UAE. The United Arab Emirates has deployed Israeli air defenses south of Abu Dhabi to protect against (Iranian) missiles and drones. Satellite images show that two Israeli Barak 8 launchers and an Israeli Aerospace Industries Elta ELM 2084 radar system have been deployed at the Al Dhafra Air Base.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
https://worldisraelnews.com/
Jumping for joy. (TY Hazel) A delegation of Israeli paratroopers held a joint jump over Bahrain alongside soldiers from the Gulf nation, the UAE, and the United States, to mark two years since the signing of the Abraham Accords. See embedded video on full screen.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Israeli green hydrogen in Morocco. During the COP27 climate conference in Egypt, Israel’s H2Pro (see here previously) signed a strategic agreement with Moroccan renewable energy developer Gaia Energy. Its aim was to assess the feasibility of producing H2Pro’s E-TAC hydrogen electrolyzers in the North African country.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Healing migrating birds. (TY Hazel) Countless wounded birds of prey make their way each year to Israel during the fall migration, most of them shot on the Lebanese side of the border. This article focuses on a lesser spotted eagle suffering a gunshot wound, that was treated at Israel’s Hula Valley wildlife rehabilitation center.
https://www.ynetnews.com/
Israeli nurse helps victims of global disasters. (TY UWI) Odeda Benin-Goren is the only female Israeli member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination. The Israeli nurse has traveled the world for the past 30 years to help people in areas that are devastated by floods, earthquakes, fires and wars.
https://www.israel21c.org/the-
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Climate-tech prize winners. Here are two Israeli startups that won a share of Startup Nation’s $2 million Climate Solutions Prize fund to encourage innovation (see here previously). Marine Edge optimizes fuel consumption and carbon emissions for ships, and SolOr develops solar energy-absorbing paint.
https://nocamels.com/2022/10/
More climate-tech prize winners. Other Israeli Climate Solutions Prize fund winners include Copprint (copper inks for circuit boards), Styletech (see here previously), Smart Resilin (see here previously), Red Solar Flower (solar panels for agricultural areas), and Seevix Material Sciences (see here previously).
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Prize-winning climate-tech researchers. In addition to startup winners of the Climate Solutions Prize, three Israeli scientists won awards. They were Technion’s Prof Avner Rothchild (green hydrogen), BGU’s Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi (reducing methane from animals), and Bar-Ilan’s Prof. Malachi Noked (sodium ion batteries).
https://climatesolutionsprize.
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/
Solar energy on the Moon. Prof Jeffrey Gordon of Israel’s Ben Gurion University presented to NASA scientists his solar power alternative to NASA’s plan to use nuclear energy on the Moon. His polar installation design overcomes the problem that any point on the Moon will be in darkness for two weeks every month.
https://nocamels.com/2022/10/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/
Solar water heater is upgraded. Millions of Israelis use 1950s tech rooftop solar devices for their hot water. Israel’s Tigi (see here previously) has developed cellulose triacetate insulation that can heat the water to 100 degrees Centigrade, even in freezing winter conditions. It has installed 40 international commercial systems.
https://nocamels.com/2022/11/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Walking on sunshine. (TY Hazel) Israeli sandal maker Shoresh is the first Israeli manufacturing company to go off grid and use only its own solar energy. It saves the company buying a million kwh of electricity, 8,000 gallons of gasoline a year, and cuts pollution. Shoresh employs 300 people at its Tirat Carmel factory.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Breakthrough in splitting water to produce hydrogen. (TY Ron) Scientists at Israel’s Ben Gurion University have made a breakthrough at the molecular level that could vastly reduce the energy required to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis. It has major potential ramifications for the fuel industry.
https://www.jpost.com/science/
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/
Environmentally friendly glass. Israel’s Airovation (see here previously) and Phoenicia, Israel’s sole glass manufacturer are to transform the country’s glass production process into a carbon-friendly operation. Airovation Technologies’ patented Superoxide Radical converts CO2 into minerals for the glass industry.
https://www.
https://www.airovation-tech.
Predicting weather disasters. Israel’s Emnotion analyzes tiny, highly localized variations in temperature, wind, humidity and more to forecast extreme weather events up to three months before they happen. Emnotion uses technology including Big Data analysis and machine learning to provide alerts to companies and the IDF.
https://nocamels.com/2022/10/
https://www.emnotion.com/
Food-tech demo day. Israeli startups Blue Tree, Bountica, Eggmented Reality, Pigmentum, ProFuse Technology, Sea2Cell, and others, starred in the recent Demo Day held by Israeli food-tech incubator Fresh Start. Alteco.ai (energy efficiency) and Sweet Balance (natural sugar substitute) are new to this newsletter.
https://israelactive.com/?s=
Blue-tech. Israeli organizations presenting at last month’s International Conference on Food from the Sea and the Desert in Eilat (see here previously) included Colors Farm (bio-friendly aquaponics); algaenite (nitrogen-fixing microalgae); Brevel (protein-rich microalgae); V-Corals (reefs) and Aquacultech (network).
https://www.agrisrael-sea-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://v-corals.com/
Growing tomatoes even in drought. Israel’s Grace Breeding can grow tomatoes even during a drought. Its Wide Defense System (WDS) formula boosts the growth of the tomato root system and improves nutrient absorption from the soil. Trials show that a once-a-season application increases yields by 17%.
https://nocamels.com/2022/10/
https://gracebreeding.com/
Water from the air for university students. (TY Hazel) Israel’s Watergen is to install its water-from-the-air generators at Israel’s Reichman University. All visitors, lecturers, and students will be able to drink the cleanest and healthiest water, eliminating high-carbon supply chains and plastic waste.
https://nocamels.com/2022/10/
Israel to pilot self-driving buses. Israel’s Innovation Authority has announced the launch of a NIS 61 million, two-year pilot program to study the viability of using autonomous public buses. In Stage 1, four groups of bus companies will test the technology before (in Stage 2) operating self-driving buses on public roads.
https://www.jns.org/israel-to-
A machine is only as good as its components. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s Cybord uses Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to check that components of an electronic device are genuine (i.e. not counterfeit) and 100% quality. Cybord has just partnered with Siemens Digital Industries, to expand Cybord’s reach across the industry.
https://www.prnewswire.com/
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
UK-Israel trade up by a third. Total trade in goods and services between the UK and Israel was £6.1 billion for the year to June 2022, an increase of 33.1% from the same period last year. Imports included £845 million of Israeli medicines and pharma products, to help counter the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/
Yet more gas discovered. (TY WIN & JNS) Just a month after its discovery of natural gas at its Hermes exploration well (see here previously), Energean plc has discovered some 13 billion cubic meters at its Zeus-1 well off Israel’s coast. Energean also confirmed the presence of an additional 3.75 bcm at its Athena site.
https://www.jpost.com/
Most monthly tourists since start of pandemic. Some 333,500 tourists visited Israel in Oct 2022, the greatest number recorded since Feb 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic began, with its associated travel restrictions. In 2022, some 649,300 visitors arrived from the USA – the most popular origin.
https://www.algemeiner.com/
Direct flights to Dublin. Early 2023, El Al is to launch three nonstop flights a week between Tel Aviv and Dublin. They’ll connect Israel’s and Ireland’s high-tech sectors and encourage Christian pilgrimage to Israel. Many Israeli high-tech workers work at Dublin-based multinationals, serving Europe and the Middle East.
https://nocamels.com/2022/11/
Cleaning up in Manhattan. US real estate giant Durst has just invested in Israel’s Skyline Robotics (see here previously). We soon should see Skyline’s Ozmo robots cleaning the windows of the 104-story One World Trade Center - the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere - and other skyscrapers in New York City.
https://nocamels.com/2022/10/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Connections for Deutsche Telekom. Israel’s Teridion (see here previously) has been working with Deutsche Telekom since January, to help build a product that will connect DT’s customers via the cloud. DT has just invested $25 million in Teridion. https://www.calcalistech.com/
Tesco opens autonomous stores. UK retail giant Tesco has announced the opening of three autonomous stores based on the technology developed by Israeli computer vision startup Trigo (see here previously). The first, on Chiswell Street London, has just opened and will shortly be joined by others in Fulham and Birmingham.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://www.tescoplc.com/news/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
New factory for Better Juice. Israeli reduced sugar fruit juice startup Better Juice (see here previously) has launched its first full-capacity manufacturing plant in Israel. The Ness Ziona factory can produce 250 million liters of juice (with 80% less sugar) per year.
https://nocamels.com/2022/11/
Investment in Israeli startups to 13/11/22: Island.io raised another $60 million; AutoLeadStar raised $40 million; Teridion raised $25 million from Deutsche Telekom; Wib raised $16 million; Everybuddy Games raised $15 million; Veriti raised $12 million; Tagado raised $4 million; Apply Design raised $3.3 million;
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT`
Contemporary art met ancient stones. An exhibit merged art with archaeology, in a cistern 20 feet under Jerusalem’s Western Wall. “Arteology: The Power of the Ancients in Contemporary Form,” featured 27 ceramic pieces (vases, plates, disks, and seals) by Israeli Canadian artist Nicole Kornberg Jacobovici.
https://www.jns.org/
Israeli scouts entertainers return to USA. For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Tzofim Friendship Caravan, a song-and-dance performance program from Israel, is returning to the U.S. next summer as part of its 50th anniversary celebration. The Tzofim Scouts perform songs in Hebrew, English and Yiddish.
https://www.jns.org/israeli-
A diamond quality tour. You can now book a fascinating tour of the Israel Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan, the world’s leading center for buying, selling, cutting, and polishing large diamonds. Wine and lunch are included. https://www.israel21c.org/
https://www.israeltours4u.com/
More rare species visit Israel. (TY Nevet) Three pink whiprays over 100 cm long were sighted off the coast off Eilat. Whiprays are an endangered species of stingray. Earlier this year a rare guitarfish, an even more endangered species, was spotted off Eilat’s coast.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Israeli woman takes second place in NYC Marathon. Israeli Lonah Chemtai Salpeter has finished second place in Sunday’s New York City Marathon, seven seconds behind the Kenyan winner. It is the best final result for an Israeli man or woman in the history of the race, which is in its 51st year.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
Two World Cup swimming bronze medals. (TY Nevet) Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko won a second bronze medal in a row at the World Cup competition in Berlin, finishing third in the 50 meters breaststroke. The previous day she finished third in the 100 meters event.
https://newsrnd.com/sports/
Jews and Arabs can fly to the FIFA World Cup together. Charter flights will allow Israeli Jews and Arabs to fly direct from Tel Aviv to Doha Qatar for the duration of the FIFA World Cup beginning on 20 Nov. FIFA President Gianni Infantino said “Football has the power to bring people together…”
https://www.fifa.com/
THE JEWISH STATE
Jerusalem streets are more than elections. (TY Sharon) Israel’s capital in November may have dark nights but it was brightened up by the Zalman Shazar Prize for Jewish History, the preview of Israel’s presentation to COP27, publicity for the Einstein, Animation, and Piano festivals, and the honoring of Walter Bingham.
http://rjstreets.com/2022/11/
Christians, Muslims & Jews save each other’s lives. New United Hatzalah video emphasizing that the Israeli emergency NGO’s 6,200+ volunteer EMTs come from all Israel’s major religions. The video also highlights that they save the lives of Palestinian Authority residents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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