China cracks heads and this is what we have to respond.

Winning the Cultural War by Charlton Heston - Feb 16, 1999 - YouTube

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Hope you had a great thanksgiving. Mine turned into sort of a bummer at end. Had recurring Bronchial episode which put me in the hospital where I am now. They reconfirmed what I already knew should be home late today.

Because of understaffing coinciding with holiday did not get released when I could have and finally got home Tuesday. Feeling much better because can breathe.

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Lot happening and will comments and then post Op Ed's and articles

Trump dinner sunk his ship not because he is antisemitic just incapable of being objective about someone who says nice things about him. Praise trumps common sense He is insensitive and just dumb.

You don’t have to care about Jews but you should not hate them. Why? Hate consumes you. Jews are supposedly God’s people and America’s decline, in my view, is because America has ended it’s relationship with God.

Should You Care about Israel? | PragerU

That might seem strange coming from someone who admits to being agnostic. However, I have always believed in a higher being or entity, call it nature, that mankind must look up to or it would be a self-centered, dull and dangerous world, as it has come to be.

America has bought the radical’s view and seems willing to embrace socialism. Every institution is under attack, we have lowered our standards and are paying dearly.

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1)Trump's former ambassador to Israel chides him for hosting anti-Semites: 'You are better than this'

Trump has said that he had been blindsided by one of the visitors.

……."To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than this," tweeted David Friedman on Friday. Friedman served as Trump's U.S. ambassador to Israel from 2017-2021. "Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable."

"I condemned Barak [sic] Obama associating with Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright," Friedman added. "This is no different. Antisemites deserve no quarter among American leaders, right or left." CONTINUE

2) THE DANGERS OF DINING WITH ANTI-SEMITES

By Jay Nordlinger

Last week, Donald Trump hosted the rapper Kanye West—who recently made headlines with a series of anti-Semitic outbursts—for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home. Also present was Nick Fuentes, a far-right provocateur, anti-Semite, and Holocaust denier. The former president has since sought to distance himself from Fuentes, and claims he was not aware beforehand that West planned to bring him as a guest. Jay Nordlinger comments on the incident:

When an ex-president sups with anti-Semites, and notorious ones, does it aid the normalization of anti-Semitism? I think it does. What presidents do matters, and what ex-presidents do matters. They are leaders. They are in the public eye. They set tones, for better or worse.

Following the dinner, Trump got a lot of criticism, true. But I caution: there is always a lot of criticism en route to normalization.

Earlier this year, two congressmen spoke at Fuentes’s America First Political Action Conference: Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, and Paul Gosar, of Arizona. Both are Republicans. Greene, I wrote, “was the star speaker.” And “the number-two star, probably, was” the organizer himself: Fuentes.

It is possible to make too much of anti-Semitism (and too much of racism and other evil things). It is possible to make too little of it. You don’t need to be looking for anti-Semites under every bed. Then again, many are jumping up and down on the bed. If I had to err, I would err on the side of making too much of anti-Semitism. An excess of vigilance is not a bad thing. The record of anti-Semitism is catastrophic.

3) Now It's Undeniable, Even for the GOP: Trump Is Legitimizing Antisemitism

The depressing truth is that any efforts within the GOP to hold Trump accountable for meeting antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes will lead to a backlash against American Jews, and Jewish Republicans in particular.

By Jonathan S. Tobin

When former President Donald Trump loses David Friedman, you know he’s in trouble. The former Trump lawyer who served as U.S. ambassador to Israel from 2017 to 2021, has been a faithful supporter of the former president and one of his most articulate advocates in the Jewish and pro-Israel community.

But not even Friedman could ignore, let alone excuse Trump’s decision to have a public dinner meeting with an open antisemite like rap star/fashion mogul Kanye West as well as Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

Trump’s critics probably think Friedman’s gentle slap — “To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than this,” doesn’t go nearly far enough. They’re right about that and not just because the odds that a man who doesn’t believe in apologizing for anything will heed Friedman’s advice and “throw those bums out, disavow them and relegate them to the dustbin of history where they belong,” are slim.

The problem is that what is likely to follow this incident is something that is, in any other context, familiar to anyone who has followed Trump’s career. It’s not just that Trump did something worthy of criticism, it’s that the efforts to hold him accountable for it will likely generate the kind of backlash from the not inconsiderable portion of the Republican Party that still regards him as their leader will inevitably be directed toward minimizing or even defending the loathsome West and the even more appalling Fuentes.

That’s because although the Jewish left has always considered Trump an antisemite, this incident gives them the kind of ammunition that his Jewish fans can’t dismiss.

For seven years, liberal Democrats have been calling former Trump an antisemite or accusing him of enabling or encouraging antisemitism. Almost all of these accusations were largely partisan hyperbole. Though most Jews still believe he endorsed or excused the neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, that wasn’t true. The notion that his rhetorical excesses had provided the impetus for unleashing the demons of hatred in America seemed a forced and unpersuasive attempt to connect dots that had little to do with each other to any but those who already despised Trump.

The charges of antisemitism always rang false to Republicans. Trump’s historic support for Israel and personal ties to the Jewish community seemed an irrefutable argument debunking these claims.

Trump’s devoted followers as well as the tens of millions of others who voted for him in 2016 and 2020 never follow the cues provided by mainstream media critics to treat him as a pariah. That’s because they have always been and remain delighted by his ability to outrage what they not unreasonably consider a biased, hypocritical media and Washington establishment that can’t be trusted.

Indeed, many in the GOP think these efforts, including the recent decision by Attorney General Merrick Garland to name a special prosecutor to investigate charges against Trump, is a Democratic effort to ensure that he is renominated for president by the Republicans in 2024.

Trump just declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president only a week before his dinner with West and Fuentes. And he had been devoting no small amount of effort to shoring up Jewish support as part of his efforts.

While some interpret Trump’s continued grumbling about most Jews refusing to support him as antisemitic, his Jewish supporters think he’s merely stating the obvious and that efforts to twist it into a charge of dual loyalty are disingenuous.

Earlier in the month, he attended the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner in New York City. The appearance, ostensibly to pick up an award for his pro-Israel record, was an attempted reminder to Jewish Republicans that he is still the boss of the GOP.

That’s necessary because many Republicans are tired of his ego-driven focus on his allegations about the 2020 election being stolen from him as well as disillusioned by the performance of some of his personal picks in the 2022 midterms. They are looking elsewhere for a candidate in 2024, with the most likely focus of their affections being Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis’s stock is rising after a landslide re-election win and years of being the right’s leading culture war champion. The governor, who engendered a bitter controversy involving the refusal of New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to allow the conservative Tikvah Foundation to host him at a conference, also has a record of pro-Israel advocacy that dates back to his time in Congress.

Trump was once a supporter of DeSantis but, characteristically, now childishly insults him because he perceives him as a rival. But unlike his jibes at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his “Desanctimonious” nickname isn’t doing his target any harm.

The former president’s concern about shoring up Jewish support was also signaled by a last-minute decision to Zoom in for a virtual speech at the annual Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas last week where DeSantis and other potential GOP 2024 contenders were available for in-person appearances.

But the most troubling aspect of his meeting with West and Fuentes is not the discomfort it caused Jewish conservatives.

The real problem is that Trump’s meeting with West and Fuentes undermines the determined efforts of Republicans to keep open antisemites out of conservative forums. Or rather it also gives a boost to the efforts of some on the right — notably Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson — to mainstream such figures.

West’s recent controversy was engendered, in part, by Carlson’s decision to give him two hours of prime time on one of the most widely watched shows on cable to air his views. Carlson disingenuously characterized West, who pleases some on the right with his pro-life views on abortion as well as criticisms of President Joe Biden, as not mentally unstable even though he’s admitted to being diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. But in order to do that, he had to edit out a large number of statements that were hostile to Jews.

West then doubled down on those comments in tweets threatening Jews and what Jewish conservative pundit Ben Shapiro denounced as “Der Sturmer-type antisemitism." That prompted a massive backlash from West's business contacts that some have denounced as a product of cancel culture rather than an understandable desire to avoid being associated with his comments about Jews controlling Hollywood and plotting against him.

But even Shapiro was put in a difficult position because Candace Owens, one of the popular figures on his Daily Wire website, was using it to defend West rather than denounce it as one more example of the ability of the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan to promote Jew hatred among Black Americans.

Perhaps Trump, who is known to listen to and trust Carlson, is taking his advice on Kanye West. But if the goal of the meeting was to make West seem more palatable, it was undermined by the fact that he is now associated with Fuentes, a YouTube personality who is a Hitler-admiring Holocaust-denier, misogynist and homophobe.

In 2019, the Young America Foundation, a campus group founded by conservative icon William F. Buckley cut ties with pundit Michelle Malkin for her willingness to defend Fuentes and his so-called groypers, who have attacked mainstream conservatives for their condemnations of the group’s antisemitism and racism.

But Trump, who continued to retweet Malkin after her ostracism from the conservative mainstream, reportedly enjoyed Fuentes’ fawning on him, has not only given the hatemonger priceless publicity.

The mere fact that Trump is being condemned for the meeting means some on the right will, reflexively, downplay the incident or treat Fuentes, as well as West, as someone whose views deserve to be heard rather than shunned. And Trump, who has always believed that he was better off never apologizing for anything since he will be condemned anyway, will never do as Friedman bids and admit that he was wrong to meet with them.

The conflict over this incident won’t die, because there is the potential for it to become part of the narrative about the 2024 GOP race as Republicans begin to accelerate their drift away from him.

Trump’s core supporters will resent the way Jewish conservatives will use it to justify supporting DeSantis or anyone else. Given that Trump is unlikely to accept defeat in the primaries, and could sabotage anyone who does beat him, by either an independent candidacy or simply advising his supporters to stay home in November, this Mar-al-Lago dinner could wind up being part of a narrative in which his acolytes will claim Jews are not merely insufficiently grateful for Trump’s record on Israel, but actively seeking to undermine their hero.

Anyone who doubts the potential for such a troubling outcome — in which Jews will be blamed for a Republican civil war — needs to consider the way that Carlson, who has a history of hostility to Israel and its supporters, as well as Candace Owens, has already worked overtime to mainstream West. There’s also the fact that one of Trump’s most prominent and most extreme supporters, Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.), was blasted for speaking at a white nationalist conference organized by Fuentes.

The result will be a Republican Party that, while largely composed of lockstep supporters of Israel and evangelical philosemites, could be split over a refusal to call out antisemites. The only people to gain from such a situation are precisely the sort of haters like West and Fuentes who, instead of being driven back to the political swamps on the far right, will be allowed to thrive and creep closer to the mainstream.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate and a columnist for Newsweek and The Federalist. Twitter: @jonathans_tobin.

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Biden even wants to enrich a thug by allowing him to drill.

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1)Biden’s Dirty Oil Deal With Venezuela

By Mary Anastasia O’Grady

The U.S. government thinks you’re a fool, dear reader. And not only because it waited until Americans were en route to grandma’s house for Thanksgiving to let news slip of a deal to increase heavy-crude output from joint ventures controlled by a dictatorship allied with Iran. Or that it expects you to believe that Venezuela is considering a return to free elections in exchange.

Presumably you also haven’t noticed Team Biden’s effort to impede the development of huge reserves of light sweet crude from Guyana, a U.S. ally.

Washington policy makers occasionally make miscalculations that help American enemies, undermine development in a poor country, or harm U.S. economic interests. But to nail the trifecta requires a special blend of ideological blindness and incompetence that is mercifully rare. Still, as the administration’s treatment of Guyana demonstrates, it does happen.

In a region that has been trending anti-American in recent years, Guyana, with a population of less than 800,000, has been an uncommon ally. Nestled on the southeast border of Venezuela and north of Brazil, the small English-speaking nation has obvious strategic value to the U.S.

Since 2015, when Exxon Mobil made its first oil discovery in offshore waters, a series of further finds has brought Guyana’s estimated reserves above 11 billion oil-equivalent barrels. On a per capita basis only Kuwait has more oil.

The story gets even better because the crude under Guyanese waters has low sulfur content, the opposite of the tar that comes out of Venezuela. It would be hard to dream up a more exciting narrative for a country mired in poverty.

In a November working paper for the International Monetary Fund, economist Rina Bhattacharya noted that the petroleum discoveries offer the “promise to transform Guyana’s agricultural and mining economy into an oil powerhouse, while hopefully helping to diversify the non-oil economy.” There is “a momentous opportunity to boost inclusive growth and diversify the economy providing resources to address human development needs and infrastructure gaps.” But there are also significant “challenges.”

The most obvious problem facing a poor country that suddenly enjoys a gusher of dollars is the absence of the rule of law. Frail institutions tend to fuel financial recklessness and corruption.

Guyana needs all the U.S. help it can get if it hopes to harness its newfound wealth constructively and avoid turning into another banana republic with oil. But thanks to Mr. Biden’s climate religiosity, it looks as though the Guyanese will have to rely on China.

Consider a project to upgrade the Guyanese infrastructure necessary to export the oil safely. Guyana Shore Base Inc., a private company based in Georgetown, asked IDB Invest (the private-sector financing arm of the Inter-American Development Bank) for help. IDB Invest described the company as serving the needs of transshippers for “supplies, materials, and equipment” and providing “various support personnel and services, including waste management, warehousing, fuel bunkering, pipe storage, water treatment and potable water storage, among other services,” to Exxon in Guyana.

IDB Invest proposed debt financing for the project of $70 million to refinance bridge loans, expand port facilities and a logistics support area, and construct a new heavy-cargo off-loading project and a waste-management facility. The company also planned to use the financing to “install rooftop solar photovoltaic capacity to meet [its] energy needs.” The IDB Invest loan would have anchored the project, which required $130 million in total financing.

It looked like a 21st-century fairy tale: wealth creation, low-impact energy production, environmentally careful investors and solar development all in a democracy aligned with the U.S. In a March interview with Guyana’s Stabroek News, then-IDB President Mauricio Claver-Carone spoke about the auspicious outlook: IDB oversight and transparency was poised to assist in producing real benefits for the nation rather than what has occurred under “Middle Eastern and African models that have actually seen development stalled with the new resources and democracy trampled.”

The U.S. vetoed the loan. Its reasoning was based on August 2021 Treasury “guidance on fossil fuel energy at the multilateral development banks,” which says that the U.S. will “promote ending international financing of carbon-intensive fossil fuel-based energy.” After two years of working with the IDB to ensure proper due diligence, the company had to go back to the drawing board.

Meantime China, with no such restrictions, is aggressively signing contracts to build infrastructure in Guyana and getting in on the oil boom. And the U.S. is turning to renowned polluter Venezuela to boost crude supplies. What could possibly go wrong?

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Not sure we can recover.

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Xi and Ayatollah’s are in deep trouble. Perhaps a gift from God but we may not have the good sense to take advantage, or critical leadership. Very opportunistic signal from God but no one left to listen. At least Israel has the potential for great leadership as Bibi is positioning to become the next PM. Urge you read his masterful autobiography - "My Story."

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1) Iran’s people are tearing down the country’s theocratic veils.

2) Regime Change in Iran Is a Distinct Possibility

https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/11/27/regime-change-in-iran-is-a-distinct-possibility/

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Republicans ran a stupid campaign against Biden. 3/4 already think he is a Duffus. GOP needed to offer solutions but remained tone deaf.

I recently had a dream about our declining military capability and came up with these thoughts:

Re-establish government military high schools as feeders to our various academies and control the curriculum. I went to Georgia Military Academy in Atlanta for prep school, got a solid education and learned discipline which has stood me well all my life.

On weekends, for those who want to become part of the intelligence agencies offer specialized education devoted to intelligence. A healthy load but those who take it on should make excellent candidates, get a free education and be focused. Again control what they study. Eliminate woke ad CRT garbage.

1)Why sic the FBI on the IDF?

The shut-and-open case of Shireen Abu Akleh

By Clifford D. May

Covering armed conflicts is a risky business. Shireen Abu Akleh, a reporter for al-Jazeera, must have known that.

A Jerusalem-born, naturalized U.S. citizen, Ms. Abu Akleh went to the West Bank town of Jenin on May 11 to cover a clash between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and members of a Palestinian terrorist cell responsible for more than a dozen recent assassinations of Israeli civilians in Israeli cities.

A bullet struck and killed her. She was the 13th al-Jazeera journalist killed in a conflict zone somewhere around the world since the news-and-propaganda outlet, owned by the state of Qatar, was founded in 1996.

PA spokesmen immediately charged that Ms. Abu Akleh had been murdered by an Israeli soldier and refused to cooperate with the IDF’s investigation.

On May 19, 57 Democratic House members called on the FBI and State Department to “launch an investigation into Ms. Abu Akleh’s death.”

On June 23, two dozen Democratic Senators, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, called on President Biden to “ensure the direct involvement of the United States in the investigation.”

What did these letters say about Israelis being attacked from the West Bank, about their right to defend themselves, and about the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority to deal with terrorists in the territories it governs? Not a word.

In July, the U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC) – a highly respected three-star general – concluded that “gunfire from IDF positions was likely responsible for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.”

The State Department added that there was “no reason to believe that this was intentional but rather the result of tragic circumstances during an IDF-led military operation against factions of Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.

Nevertheless, the IDF continued to investigate and, in September, acknowledged “a high possibility that Ms. Abu Akleh was accidentally hit by IDF gunfire aimed at suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen.”

So, case closed, right? Apparently not. The U.S. Justice Department recently informed the Israeli Justice Ministry that the FBI has opened another investigation.

Last week, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid responded. “The IDF thoroughly investigates any irregular event and is committed to the values and laws of democracy,” he said. “Our soldiers will not be investigated by the FBI or by any other foreign country or entity, however friendly it may be. We will not abandon our soldiers to foreign investigations.”

The U.S. follows the same policy based on the principle that the legitimacy of the justice systems of free and democratic nations deserve respect. Americans – and only Americans – investigate and discipline American service members. This policy has been put into practice on numerous occasions.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 13 reporters killed by the American military in Iraq. One example: In 2003, Tareq Ayyoub, a Jordanian working for al Jazeera, was killed when an American missile struck the station’s Baghdad bureau. U.S. Central Command said that American forces were responding to enemy fire and that Mr. Ayyoub was caught in the crossfire. Al-Jazeera denied that any fire came from its building.

More recently, the U.S. has declined to cooperate with investigations by the International Criminal Court involving American troops and CIA officers accused of war crimes in Afghanistan. Neither the U.S. nor Israel recognizes the authority of the ICC.

So, why go after Israel? According to Axios, both the White House and the State Department have told the Israeli government that “they were not behind the FBI decision.”

Who was? Sen. Van Hollen has been adamant that the U.S. must distrust Israel. “There are a number of us that are not going to allow this to be swept under the rug,” he said at an August Senate sub-panel hearing that was intended to focus on China.

In September, he called on the U.S. to determine whether the IDF had “committed a gross violation of human rights” and should be denied further American military assistance as punishment.

Mr. Van Hollen even disputed the IDF’s claim – and the conclusion of the American three-star general – that Israeli soldiers were “returning fire” from militants, insisting that there is no evidence of “such firing at the time.” Perhaps he thinks Ms. Abu Akleh was in Jenin to cover peace talks?

He also might consider the root cause of this tragedy. Last week, two people were killed in Poland by what was likely a surface-to-air missile misfired by Ukrainians attempting to defend themselves from Russian missiles. Rep. Adam Smith, Democratic Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, observed that blame for the tragedy should fall on Russia for “invading and attacking Ukraine.”

As noted above, terrorists from the West Bank – members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other groups funded and directed by the Islamic Republic of Iran – have for months been infiltrating into Israel and murdering Israelis.

Why is Sen. Van Hollen giving them a pass? Could it be related to the fact that Israel is the world’s only Jewish-majority state? Does he believe that some lives matter less than others?

Final question: Did no one from the FBI or the Justice Department think to have a discussion with the White House or State Department before proceeding with a probe sure to damage America’s relations with its closest Middle Eastern ally?

The least-worse – and perhaps most likely – end to this episode: The FBI takes one more look at the evidence, finds nothing new or surprising, and then quietly closes the case, confirming the conclusions of the USSC and the IDF.

Some of us, however, will continue to wonder: Why were Sen. Van Hollen and his colleagues so determined to sic the FBI on the IDF?

Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times.

Rid the current intelligence agencies of lousy, corrupt, lying leadership.

2) FBI Paid Millions For Human Intel

(Presidentialwire.com)- According to a 2021 study by Open the Books, the federal government recently paid informants more than $548 million. That’s over a half billion in tax money!

Additionally, the FBI gave $42 million a year to its “confidential human sources.”

We are familiar with a few of the more well-known FBI agents.

Crack cocaine user Stephan Halper received over $1.05 million in payment to spy on Trump associates and assist in fabricating the Trump-Russia conspiracy.

Out of 15, at least 12 informants were used by the FBI to plan, organize, finance, and carry out the Whitmer kidnapping hoax.

One FBI agent took her job so seriously that she had an affair with her mark.

That’s going above and beyond one’s “job.”

A few informants amassed million-dollar fortunes, with some Amtrak and “parcel” delivery employees earning up to, or perhaps more than, $1 million.

Many informants were given authorization by their FBI handlers to commit “crimes.” In four years, 22,800 crimes were authorized (2011-2014).

The DEA paid at least $237 million (FY2011-2015), the FBI around $294 million (FY2012-2018), and the ATF roughly $17.2 million (FY2012-2015) in total to informants.

Our OpenTheBooks.com auditors gathered this data by looking through government reports. Although some data is older than a few years, it appears to be the most recent information accessible.

Between fiscal years 2012 and 2018, the FBI invested an average of $42 million annually in confidential human sources. Twenty percent of its ties with intelligence came from “long-term” informants (source: DOJ IG 2019 report).

Even worse, the informants frequently commit crimes.

According to a 2015 report by the General Accountability Office, federal informants frequently commit crimes and often do so with the approval of their official handlers (GAO).

According to the GAO, “Since 1980, the Guidelines have authorized agencies to authorize informants to engage in acts that would otherwise be illegal under federal, state, or local law if someone without such authorization engaged in these same activities. For instance, under the right conditions, a law enforcement organization might permit an informant to buy illegal substances from a person who is the subject of a drug trafficking investigation. This type of behavior is known as “otherwise illegal activity.”

That’s a nice-sounding euphemism that describes a not-so-nice practice.

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America is in serious economic plight because of too much debt. Democrats believe spending is the solution to everything. Keynes is their God.

Congress , like various states, needs to pass pay as you go legislation. Both parties are guilty and need to be held accountable and forced to mend their spendthrift ways.

Bibi was the Finance Minister under PM Sharon. He believed strong economy allowed for strong military and latter is key to world respect. Biden and Blinken are getting ready to kiss the Saudi’s behind and elevate political/diplomatic status to Palestinians. How dumb and destructive can they be?

Israel continues to be the West's football. Biden seeks oil because of radical energy policies so he wants to undo The Abraham Accords, elevate Palestinians to appease Saudis who need to be seen paying homage to Palestinians who are led by a terrorist leader who cannot disavow their pledge to wipe out Israel and each day supports killing Israelis as Palestinians are now doing.

Palestinians have learned terror pays because Western leaders treat Israel as a pin cushion. When offered opportunity to live peacefully they reject any offer and raise their demands. Palestinians would rather suffer and kill than live their lives sans hatred.

They have brought hatred to our college and university campuses.

There is no moral authority dictating foreign policy. FDR failed the Jews and he went to his grave with their blood on his hands. Being Jewish, you are welcome to accuse me of bias. History is on my side.

How 21st century Jews can still adore FDR and even "the common man," whom he ignored and yet, they still love him, is beyond me.

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1)A people cannot be called 'settlers' in their own ancestral homeland - INN

2)https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2022/11/28/the-palestinians-had-a-great-thanksgiving-israel-not-so-much/

The Palestinians had a great Thanksgiving, Israel not so much

3) Since when did the Palestinians become entitled to a state?

By Ted Belman

In 2011, Newt Gingrich said “The Palestinians are an invented people.” He was right. So why are they entitled to a state?

In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization was formed to liberate Palestine through armed struggle. But it took years for the notion of a Palestinian people to crystalize. In 1967, they were not recognized as such, nor were they considered a party to the conflict. Security Council Resolution 242 passed after the ’67 war, made no mention of them.

How the Media Covered the Attacks

Reuters claimed that the terror attacks were somehow linked to “unauthorized Jewish worshippers at the Al Aqsa mosque complex.” Notably, the outlet’s take on events echoed Hamas’ statement, which blamed Israeli “crimes and aggression against our people and the Al Aqsa Mosque.”

Two terror attacks in Jerusalem this morning and @Reuters believes it is linked to "unauthorized Jewish worshippers at the Al Aqsa mosque complex." https://t.co/MEUvAMfdeB
Seriously? pic.twitter.com/IK8j8aL65T
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 23, 2022

(UPDATE: Reuter has responded to our tweet by removing the offending paragraph.)

Associated Press consistently spoke of “suspected attacks by Palestinians” and referred to the “apparent attacks,” blatantly ignoring the fact that the Israeli Police had already confirmed, before the publication of the AP story, that both explosions were, in fact, set off by terrorists. In the same story, the AP falsely asserted that the northern Jerusalem community of Ramot is a “settlement.”

.@AP got it right the first time when it referred to Ramot as a "neighborhood" in Jerusalem's north. So why did it later change its copy to a "settlement" in the city? pic.twitter.com/JeqzApFRgy
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 23, 2022

The New York Times, for its part, told its readers that the bombings were “the first bomb attacks on Israeli civilians since 2016.” In a widely-shared tweet, HonestReporting reminded the “newspaper of record” that 17-year-old Rina Shnerb was murdered in a bomb attack near Dolev in 2019.

No @nytimes, this was not the first bomb attack on Israeli civilians since 2016. 17-year-old Rina Shnerb was murdered in a bomb attack near Dolev in 2019. https://t.co/bLFWO5Sw33
Or do you not count her as an Israeli civilian because the attack happened over the Green Line? pic.twitter.com/ktTYijIFNA
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 23, 2022

In an attempt to contextualize the murder of Aryeh Shechopek, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that “violence has flared this year, particularly in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli army has launched near-daily raids since a series of deadly attacks on Israeli targets earlier this year.” [Emphasis added.] Apparently, AFP regards the innocent civilians slaughtered in malls and bars as “targets.”

"Israeli targets."

This is how @AFP describes innocent civilians murdered and injured by Palestinian terrorists. https://t.co/p6g1eF1vRT pic.twitter.com/Q5D1npBpfn

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 23, 2022

As Palestinian terrorists continue to spread death and destruction in their quest to destroy the world’s only Jewish state and annihilate its 9.5 million citizens, it is imperative that journalists around the world accurately convey the facts on the ground.

HonestReporting has requested that Reuters, the AP, The New York Times, and AFP update their articles to reflect the truth. We also encourage our subscribers to monitor their local media for imbalanced reporting and notify us of anti-Israel bias. Together, we will make sure that media outlets are held to account.

Found this article informative? Follow the HonestReporting page on Facebook to read more articles debunking news bias and smears, as well as others explaining Israel’s history, politics, and international affairs. Click here to learn more!

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Speaking of terrorism, Biden finally is reacting to porous. borders so he is transferring Marshall’s and leaving airplanes vulnerable to potential attacks. I am witnessing the most incompetent administration in my lifetime exceeding Carter’s which was a disaster.

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The ball is in the GOP’s court and I have more confidence in those who will be engaged in investigating the radicals but I have little faith in the ability that process will overcome the inertia of contrived resistance. Witness Durham's results -nada.

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.1) Most voters approve of House GOP plans to investigate Hunter Biden: poll

By Victor Nava

A majority of likely voters agree with House Republicans launching investigations into first son Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings once the party takes control of the lower chamber of Congress in January, according to a poll released Monday.

The Rasmussen Reports survey found that 62% of likely voters approve of the GOP’s plans to scrutinize the 52-year-old Hunter’s foreign interests, with 42% saying they “strongly” approve of the move.

By contrast, just 34% of likely voters said they disapproved of the investigative plans, with 23% saying they “strongly” disagreed.

Two prominent incoming House committee chairmen have vowed to make investigations into the 80-year-old president’s son their first order of business in the new Congress.

Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the respective leaders-in-waiting of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees, said earlier this month that they would examine whether the commander-in-chief “is a security risk and whether he is compromised by foreign governments” as a result of Hunter’s alleged influence-peddling scheme.

Senator and Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden and brother Jim Biden choose their flavor at Ellen's Homemade Ice Cream in Charleston, WV on October 24, 2008.President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, may come under a probe.Christina Jamison/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

The poll also found that 61% of voters believe it’s likely that President Biden was consulted and perhaps profited from Hunter’s overseas deals. Only 34% don’t believe it is likely that Joe Biden was involved.

The Post broke the story about Hunter Biden’s suspicious business relationships with Ukrainian and Chinese entities back in October 2020.

Joe Biden has repeatedly denied ever speaking with his son about his foreign interests, but a trove of evidence from the first son’s abandoned laptop has cast doubt on that assertion.

The Post reported Hunter Biden introduced the President to an executive at a Ukrainian energy company

Over 70 percent of voters have followed news about Hunter, according to the poll.

Two ex-Hunter associates have claimed that an email found on the laptop that references a “big guy” taking a 10% cut of a deal with Chinese state-backed company CEFC Energy refers to the president.

And The Post has reported that Hunter introduced his father to an executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014, when he served on the board of the company.

A March Rasmussen poll found that 66% of Americans believe the revelations about the laptop were “important,” with 65% believing the president had knowledge of his son’s business deals and may have made money off them.

In July, the polling company found that 55% of voters were closely following reporting on the laptop saga while 69% rejected the president’s assertions that he doesn’t talk to his son about business.

Hunter Biden’s laptop includes suspicious information, including the President being referenced in emails with foreign companies.

Monday’s poll now finds 71% of voters have closely followed news reports about Hunter Biden, while 63% said that the story was an important one, despite previous attempts by social media companies to suppress coverage of the story.

The poll of 1,000 likely voters was conducted on Nov. 22 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus three percentage points.

2)White House FINALLY Comments On Hunter's Laptop

After four long years of having to listen to the news reporters absolutely grill former President Donald Trump’s press secretaries...

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Stay well. I stayed in the Advent Altamonte Hospital in Winter Park. Entire staff and doctors American, Asian, African, European, very attentive, excellent care’

Random Op Ed's and Articles. Apologize for length. Much going on that needs exposure.

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George Soros DEFEATED - Sent Packing In Shame!

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For Those Who Don't Know Everything

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps, they don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age!

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo DaVinci invented scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite .

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only 6 inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes)

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are 2 words in the English language that have all 5 vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks; otherwise it would digest itself.

NOW YOU KNOW EVERYTHING !!!

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Posted before. Reagan was a clear eyed leader. As with all presidents had his faults but at least led us in the right direction, never wavered from his beliefs and stood tall:

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Finally reaching our health care. Got to believe the Chinese and others, who wish to destroy us, are behind these institutional attacks:

Report: 58 of the nation's top 100 medical schools force mandatory CRT-related programs

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ZOA Urges Biden Administration to Stop Rapprochement with Iran, Opposing Israel’s Elected Officials

In a clearly intended threat to Israel, regime-friendly Iranian media published a list of “sensitive” sites that could be targeted in a future war, including the Knesset, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Defense Ministry, Ben-Gurion International Airport, the Ramon airport near Eilat, and universities such as the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

While Biden's Iran envoy Robert Malley has said that negotiations on the so-called "Iran deal" are currently at an impasse, he has admitted the administration is "still trying" to re-enter the agreement that would endorse the Iranian nuclear program. Iran has been evading American sanctions and using its ill-gotten oil revenues to fund terror proxies such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis that target U.S. allies.

At the same time, as the incoming Israeli government takes shape, the Biden administration is meddling in internal Israeli affairs, trying to influence its formation by weighing in on which elected members of parliament should or should not be part of it, and which positions they may hold.

Zionist Organization of America National President Morton A. Klein remarked, "As the world's leading state sponsor of terror, the Iranian regime is a danger not just to the Middle East but around the globe. ZOA implores the Biden administration to treat Iran as the threat that it is, strictly enforce all U.S. and international sanctions, and pursue further sanctions and all other possible measures to curb malign regime conduct. At a time when the people of Iran are taking to the streets daily to demand their freedom in the face of a horrific and violent crackdown by the theocratic Iranian regime, the U.S. should stand with the protesters publicly, frequently, and vociferously. In hopes of reviving the ridiculous Iranian deal, the Biden administration has been woefully soft on the mullahs leading them to believe they can get away with their repression and increasing their terror funding around the world."

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A very cool video!!! John Kerry admits his goal!!!
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John Kerry Admits He Wants To Replace Capitalist System

(FiveNation.com)- During a COP27 panel discussion in Egypt on Tuesday, John Kerry stated that the World Economic Forum’s climate change agenda was “modeled” after the effort to distribute vaccines during the Covid pandemic.

So, we can all anticipate future high-pressure, coercive government techniques, not just from the government but also from business elites.

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said the private sector must work with governments to realize the goal of preventing the global temperature from rising and from saving lives in the allegedly looming global climate crisis. Kerry appeared alongside WEF President Børge Brende and various corporate executives.

Speaking in front of the panel, Kerry said they have a great job ahead of them to scale innovative technologies and to harness the deeply capable capacity of private sector entrepreneurs to bring them to the table because without that, no government has enough money. “We need everyone behind this,” said the Czar.

King Charles has also stated that to address climate change, countries must pool their funds and raise $1 trillion.

Kerry emphasized the WEF’s First Movers Coalition, which he said was “needed to create demand signals in the market where they didn’t exist, which takes boldness, it takes courage from these executives who have decided to be a part of this.”

Kerry also promoted the WEF’s First Movers Coalition.

Globalists want to eliminate market capitalism, which gave rise to a wealthy middle class and individual freedom. The middle class will continue to be independent and capable of critical thought. If you take away their riches, you also take away their independent thinking and self-determination.

John Kerry and Pope Francis want to replace capitalism with something that creates demand signals in the market where there isn’t any.

They want to create demand for things like solar and wind energy in place of dependable coal, oil, and lab-grown fake meat instead of animal protein.

This is part of a larger U.N. depopulation plan.

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Postcard From Appalachia’s Tuscany

By Salena Zito

MONONGAHELA, Pa. — As you climb out of the valley in this riverfront town, the railroad tracks and patchwork of industries become a distant memory as lush woodlands overtake the roadways. Suddenly they give way to a stone villa tucked into the hillside, surrounded by a clearing filled with acres and acres of grapevines. It looks like a postcard from Tuscany.

Welcome to Ripepi Winery and Vineyard, a sprawling family operation that began as a way for Rich Ripepi to remain connected to the traditions of winemaking brought here from Italy by his grandfather. It has become an award-winning winery located right here in Appalachia.

“This all started because of Prohibition,” said Mr. Ripepi, pointing to the fields behind him. “When Prohibition came, the law came that you were allowed to make 200 gallons of wine per family; naturally, all the Italians said, ‘Well, we’re going to start making wine!’”

After Prohibition, he said, the family just continued making wine because it was cheaper than buying it.

Mr. Ripepi grew up in the nearby village of Gallatin, which has now all but disappeared. “My family lived on the third floor; my grandfather, grandmother, and Uncle Vince lived on the second floor; and we had the grocery store on the first floor,” he said of the old Green Front Market.

Mr. Ripepi is standing in the middle of the vineyards with his daughter, Janelle Ripepi-D’Eramo, who is using her marketing, social media and event planning skills to elevate her father’s labor of love in the Pennsylvania wine market.

Ms. Ripepi-D’Eramo said her great-grandfather would go down to Pittsburgh’s Strip District every year to pick up the grapes shipped in from California for the entire village of Gallatin: “Then every family made their own wine, but they also did it all together.”

Mr. Ripepi said he didn’t want to lose “that purpose, that sense of community, working together and being part of something bigger than self.” So as the elders passed, he was thrilled winemaking came to his home after he returned home from college and started his family.

“All the winemaking ended up at my house; my uncles, friends, everybody would come over. We probably made 10 barrels of wine, and everybody would take it to their house,” he said.

Mr. Ripepi double majored in chemistry and geology and began his career as a chemistry teacher, then went into the family surface coal mining business as a young father in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1987 he started planting grapes.

“We owned this 60 acres here,” he says, pointing to the woods surrounding the vineyard. “I told my wife one day it would be nice if we planted a couple of grapes so that we could pass the tradition on to the kids.”

His daughter laughs. “A couple of grapes . . . you never do a couple of anything,” she says, and receives a hug from her father, who acknowledges his entrepreneurial spirit doesn’t have a brake pedal.

His first challenge? Dirt.

Turns out Pennsylvania’s clay soil isn’t very hospitable to grapes, so Mr. Ripepi trekked up to Cornell University to discuss the issue with their team — specifically to the late Robert Pool, a renowned viticulturist whose research and teaching contributed to New York state’s wine and grape industries.

“He taught me there are 15,000 grapes in the world — 2,000 of which you can make wine out of. Italy itself makes grapes out of 400 or 500 different grapes. And the grapes you grow in Northern Italy, you don’t grow in Southern Italy. The grapes you grow in Germany, you don’t grow in Italy. And so, the idea is to try to find out what grapes to grow here,” Mr. Ripepi explained.

“Dr. Pool was my mentor, a very good man, and we hit it off immediately. He wasn’t familiar with Western Pennsylvania, but he recommended planting French hybrid vines that would have a chance at surviving cold winters — and to pick the part of the acreage with the southeastern sun exposure,” he said.

The other challenge is the persistent frosts in the spring.

Ms. Ripepi-D’Eramo says some of their earliest buds come in April: “We really have to watch for frost, or it can destroy a crop. This is a profession that requires a lot of work,” she says, laughing. “You definitely have to be hardy and willing to adjust to run a true winery that grows your own grapes.”

What the Ripepis are doing isn’t new: Pennsylvania has a history in winemaking that goes back to before statehood, when William Penn planted a vineyard on Lemon Hill in current-day Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. Three centuries later, the commonwealth is home to several hundred wineries, drawing from over 14,000 acres of vineyards across the state.

Ms. Ripepi-D’Eramo sais all wineries in Pennsylvania used to grow their own grapes, but that’s changed: “Now in Pennsylvania you can be a Pennsylvania winery and not grow any grapes; when my dad started planting grapes in 1987, you had to grow 100% for your winery, and the state has changed the law, so now people don’t expect there to be a vineyard because that’s not how the law is in Pennsylvania anymore.” Their business, however, is built on its Pennsylvania identity.

Owning a successful winery requires a lot of grit, a willingness to experiment with flavors and concepts (and to accept when one of those falls short), and an ability to adapt to the fickleness of the weather.

It is also requires an ability to think outside the box — but not necessarily outside of the original mission of community and tradition. Today there are weddings held on the terrace of the Ripepi villa overlooking the vineyards, as well as family reunions, bridal showers and a variety of other functions that bring people together — in the same way Antonio Ripepi brought the people together with his wine in the village of Gallatin so many years ago.

When you think of river towns like Monongahela or Donora or Monessen, you think about hard-working men who toiled in factories or coal mines to provide for their families, or the women who scrubbed down the walls and baseboards daily to keep their humble family homes clean from the dirty air.

The Ripepi family has been there, as grocers and as owners of a mining company — and now as owners of a winery perched above those Mon Valley cities that kept so many generations fed, clothed and moving up and out to test out the durability of the American dream.

The winery’s charming stone tasting room hosts happy hours the second Friday of every month, with live music, made to order pizzas and antipasto trays. They also have a calendar filled with seasonal events and a selection of holiday-themed wines.

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