I No longer Know What and Who To Believe; Too Much News Overload.

Can We Let The Voters Decide—Not The FBI, CIA, DOJ, Lawyers, Prosecutors, And  Judges?

by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican primary, the Democratic Party  concluded that the people could not be counted on to do the “right thing” of electing the Democratic  candidate in waiting Hillary Clinton. ++++ Bibi still, but barely, in the driver's seat. https://www.jns.org/poll-suggests-likud-led-coalition-still-atop-knesset/? _sc=NTAyMDI0NiMzMjE3Mg%3D%3D&utm_ campaign=Evening+Syndicate+Thursday+7182024&utm_mediu +++

IDF initial inquiry: Tel Aviv UAV was not intercepted due to human errorThe IDF says the UAV explosion that left one dead was 'a bad incident that should not have occurred.'The IDF stated on Friday that the UAV that exploded in Tel Aviv early in the morning killing one, was not intercepted due to human error.An initial IDF inquiry found that the Air Force identified the UAV but decided not to intercept it since it was not classified as hostile. The IDF explained that due to human error, no siren was sounded and the target was not intercepted, and added that this was a "bad incident."The IDF stated that "this is a bad incident that should not have occurred and the Air Force takes full responsibility as the protector of the country's skies."The Houthis' armed wing released a statement celebrating the attack: "Triumphing for the oppression of the Palestinian people and their mujahideen, and in retaliation to the Zionist enemy’s massacres against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip," the group stated.According to them, the attack was carried out with a new drone called "Yafa" (Jaffa), "which is capable of bypassing the enemy's interception systems and is undetectable by radars. The operation has achieved its goals successfully."The statement further noted that "The Yemeni Armed Forces (Houthis) declare the occupied Jaffa region an unsafe area and will be a primary target within the range of our weapons. and will focus on targeting the Zionist enemy’s internal front and reaching the depths.In the strike a man in his 50s was killed and ten others were injured. The UAV exploded not far from the US Embassy Tel Aviv branch office.https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-launches-dozens-of-rockets-at-north-drone-from-lebanon-interceptedHezbollah launches dozens of rockets at north; drone from Lebanon interceptedLebanese terror group says barrages are response to recent IDF strikes, without mentioning killing of senior Radwan commander on ThursdayBy Emanuel FabianMen check a vehicle destroyed in an Israeli airstrike near Lebanon's southern village of Jmaijmeh, on July 19, 2024. The military said the strike targeted a senior commander in Hezbollah's elite Radwan force and other operatives. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)Hezbollah launched some 65 rockets from Lebanon at northern Israel on Friday, according to the military, after a senior commander in the Lebanese terror group’s elite Radwan force was killed in an Israeli strike the night before.A Hezbollah statement claiming responsibility for the rocket fire said the barrages were a response to recent IDF strikes in southern Lebanon, without specifically mentioning Thursday’s airstrike on Ali Jaafar Maatouk and other operatives.According to the Israel Defense Forces, several of the rockets were shot down by the Iron Dome air defense system, while others impacted open areas.No injuries were caused and troops shelled the launch sites with artillery, the IDF said.Later, a rocket launcher used in one of the barrages against the community of Abirim was targeted in a drone strike, alongside a building used by the terror group, in southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab, the military said.Meanwhile, the IDF said fighter jets struck Hezbollah weapons depots in Blida, Tayr Harfa and Houla. Another Hezbollah site was also struck in Houla, the IDF added.Some 65 rockets were launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon at northern Israel today, the IDF says.Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a series of barrages, in what it says was a response to recent IDF strikes in southern Lebanon.According to the IDF, several rockets were shot… pic.twitter.com/0fNyXcDQ1B— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) July 19, 2024In the morning, the military said a suspected drone that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon was shot down by air defenses. Sirens had sounded in the Galilee over fears of falling shrapnel. There were no injuries.The drone attack from Lebanon came hours after a drone launched overnight by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck Tel Aviv, killing an Israeli and wounding several others.The Houthis, along with other Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Syria, have claimed to have launched dozens of drones and cruise missiles at Israel during the ongoing war in Gaza sparked by Hamas’s devastating October 7 terror onslaught, while Lebanon’s Hezbollah has attacked communities and IDF positions in northern Israel on a near-daily basis.So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 12 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.Hezbollah has named 370 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 67 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report. And:
++++https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393282 One dead, 10 injured in UAV explosion in Tel Aviv | Houthis claim responsibility Loud explosion heard at the cornerhttps://rairfoundation.com/sharia-michigan-islamic-supremacists-seize-control-streets-dearborn/+++Revealing:This is really revealing re: the person who was installed as the V-President of these UNITED STATES.Major General Higginbotham On Kamala Harris' Background.Major General Higginbotham U.S. Marines (Ret)The History of Kamala HarrisFor your knowledge and interest about Biden’s VP. Here is a timely editorial that exposes the hidden background of Kamala Harris from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives The editorial begins:Kamala Harris' father was an avowed Marxist professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Both of Harris' parents were active in the Berkeley based AfroAmerican Association; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of the Afro-American Association.The group's leader, Donald Warden (aka Khalid al-Mansour),mentored two young Afro-American Association members, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale; they created the Maoist inspired Black Panther Party which gained strong support from Communist China; the Black Panther Party served as the model for creation of the Black Lives Matter Marxistorganization Khalid al-Mansour subsequently went on to arrange financing and facilitated for Barack Hussein Obama to be accepted as a student to matriculate at Harvard Law School.
Following her graduation from college, Harris returned to California and subsequently became the mistress of the 60-year-old married Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown, Jr. Brown's political campaigns were supported and funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, the owner of The Sun Reporter and several other pro-Communist newspapers.Brown was elected as Mayor of San Francisco, and strongly endorsed Harris' Marxist political philosophy; he guided Harris'  political rise in California politics, leading to her election as California's Attorney General. Willie Brown, Jr. is a well-known long-time Communist sympathizer. Willie Brown, Jr. was initially elected to public office with substantial help of the Communist Party USA. 

Today, Willie Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party's best friends in the San Francisco Bay Area.While serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris mentored a young San Francisco Radical Maoist activist, Lateefah Simon, who was a member of the STORM Revolutionary Movement; Simon currently chairs the Bay AreaRapid Transit (BART) Board. Simon has always been close  friends with the founder of Black Lives Matter Marxist Domestic Terrorists, Alicia Garza, as well as STORM member and avowed Communist, Van Jones. 

Harris has been openly and aggressively supporting Black Lives Matter Marxists; Kamala Harris is still closely associated with Maoist Lateefah Simon and Marxist Alicia Garza. Kamala Harris's sister Maya Harris was a student activist at Stanford University. She was a closely associated with Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a long-time affiliate with the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a pro-Chinese Communist group.Phillips came out of the Left, and in college he studied Marx, Mao, and Lenin, and maintained close associations with fellowCommunists. Phillips married into the multi billion dollar Sandler family of the Golden West Savings and Loan fortune. He funded many leftist political campaigns, and the voter registration drives in the Southern and South Western states in order to help his friend, Barack Hussein Obama,defeat Hillary Clinton. 

Phillips has been a major financial sponsor for Kamala Harris's political campaigns for various California elective offices.Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff works for the law firm DLA Piper, which "boasts nearly 30 years of experience in Communist China with over 140 lawyers dedicated to its 'Communist China investment Services' branch. He was just appointed to Professor at Yale to school future lawyers in the fine points of Communism. 
When she was elected to the US Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a Pro-Communist Senate.Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was active withthe New York-based Haiti Support Network. The organization worked closely with the pro-Communist China/Communist North Korea Workers World Party and supported Jean- Bertrand Aristide, the far-left Communist former president of and the radical Lavalas movement.Fortunately for Harris, but potentially disastrous for the Republic, elected office holders are not subject to the security clearance process. If the FBI did a Background Investigation on Kamala Harris, she never would have passed, because of  her 40-year close ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists,and Communist China. Harris would never have been approved for acceptance to any of the 5 Military Service Academies, been appointed to a U.S. Government Sub- Cabinet position, or would have been approved to fill a sensitive position for a high security defense contractor. Yet, since Joe Biden was elected, Harris could be a heartbeat away from being President.The U.S. constitutional Republic is being threatened by the People's Republic of Communist China (PPC) externally, and by their very active espionage operations within the United States. The People's Republic of Communist China (PPC), with 1.4 billion people, is governed by the 90 million member Chinese Communist Party (CCP), that has been working with Russia to destroy the U.S. Constitutional Republic for over 70 years.If the American voters read the background information (in Trevor Loudon's article) on Kamala Harris, they would never support her election as Vice President of the United States. Joe Biden is suffering from the early onset of dementia and will continue to decline in cerebral awareness; he will never be able to fill out a four-year term of office. Since Biden was elected, the Socialists, Marxists, and Communist who control Kamala Harris, are planning to enact provisions of the 25th Amendment, in order to remove Joe Biden from office, so Harris can become the first Communist President of the United States.

Since Biden was elected, because Biden would not be up to it, Kamala Harris would lead the effort to appoint very dangerous anti-American Leftist, Communist, Socialists, and Marxists to fill highly sensitive positions in the Washington Deep State Bureaucracy. She would fill all appointive positions in the US  Intelligence Agencies, in the Department of Homeland Security, in the Department of Defense, in The Justice Department, the Department of State, the FBI, the CIA, most cabinet positions, the National Security Council, and in the White House Staff.

American voters must alert their fellow Americans that Kamala Harris is a very serious National Security threat to the very survival of the US Constitutional Republic; she has been a fellow traveler of Marxists, Communists, Maoists, Socialists, Progressives, and Chinese Communists for over 35 years. 

President Trump had much more background information on Kamala Harris than we presented here, and he was correct, when he accused Kamala Harris of being a Communist subverter.

Geoffrey B. Higginbotham Major General, USMC (Retired)+++Biden Gives Iran Another Sanctions BreakThe U.S. failure to pressure the Ayatollah makes a larger war more likely.The Editorial BoardWe reported on the $10 billion in Iraqi energy payments when President Biden unfroze them for Iran’s use in July 2023, and again when he extended the sanctions waiver this past November and March. As usual, the Administration misleads that Iran can use the money only on “humanitarian” goods—as if billions here don’t free up billions elsewhere for the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism.What does this appeasement get the U.S.? Biden officials once whispered they were purchasing a pause in Iran’s nuclear activity. We got the opposite. Iran increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and stiff-armed inspectors. On Wednesday Axios reported that the Biden Administration sent a letter “expressing serious concerns” that Iran is beginning work on weaponization, as Mark Dubowitz warned on these pages in April.That’s the Biden team’s idea of getting tough: Send a strongly worded letter but don’t cut off the billions of dollars.Another hope was that the money would buy regional calm. We got the opposite. Hamas—funded, armed, trained and ordered around by Iran—started a war by murdering 1,200 Israelis, including dozens of Americans. It still holds five Americans hostage. Iran’s other proxies attacked U.S. forces. On April 13 Iran shot some 120 ballistic missiles at Israel. Mr. Biden told Israel not to respond.Hezbollah’s nonstop fire on Israel now risks a larger war. Iran needs to feel pressure to pull back its proxy, but why worry when Mr. Biden keeps the good times rolling in Tehran and scolds Israel?The latest Israeli to be sanctioned by the U.S. is Elor Azaria, a former soldier who in 2016 shot and killed a terrorist who had already been neutralized after stabbing another soldier. Mr. Azaria was tried and convicted in Israel and served his time. That was six years ago. The U.S. now revives the affair for a visa ban on Mr. Azaria and his family.The move was strongly criticized in Israel, including by opposition leader Benny Gantz. Why is Mr. Biden building a sanctions regime against Israelis, as if they aren’t citizens of an ally and a democracy whose sovereignty and justice system demand respect?Mr. Biden’s Middle East policy seems paralyzed, though the Oct. 7 massacre and its aftermath have changed everything. Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, wrote a magazine article that went to print shortly before Oct. 7. “The region is quieter than it has been for decades,” he wrote. On Iran, he boasted, “We have enhanced deterrence, combined with diplomacy, to discourage further aggression.Instead we got Iran-backed war and assaults on U.S. forces and commercial shipping. What will it take for Mr. Biden and his advisers to recognize their failure and change course?++++California’s New Law Lets Schools Keep Secrets from ParentsGavin Newsom signs a bill that keeps parents in the dark if their kids change gender identity at school.By ABIGAIL SHRIERGavin Newsom signs a bill that keeps parents in the dark if their kids change gender identity at school, writes Abigail Shrier for The Free Press.Child predators follow a common playbook: target the victim, gain their trust, fill a need, and, crucially, isolate the child from her parents. For several years, this has also been standard California state protocol with regard to schoolchildren questioning their gender identities. On Monday, this scheme became law.The “SAFETY Act,” AB 1955, signed by California Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, legally forbids schools from adopting any policy that would force them to disclose “any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil’s consent.” Schools may not, as a matter of policy, inform parents of a child’s new gender identity unless the child volunteers her approval. The law also prohibits schools from punishing any school employee found to have “supported a pupil” hurtling down a path toward risky and irreversible hormones and surgeries.The law effectively shuts down the local parents’ rights movement in California by eliminating its most important tool: the ability to organize at the community level to stop schools from deceiving them. No longer can families hope to convince their school boards to require schools to notify parents that their daughter, Sophie, has been going by “Sebastian” in class; that her teacher, school counselor, and principal have all been celebrating Sebastian’s transgender identity; that they’ve been letting her use the boys’ bathroom and reifying the sense that she is “really a boy.” It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the law supports the priming of minor children for a secret life with a new gender identity. This includes having school-aged children participate in sexualized discussions and make identity declarations with school faculty, which are often actively hidden from the child’s parents. Elon Musk called the law “the final straw” for families and announced his intention to move both SpaceX and X, two of California’s most prominent tech companies, out of the state as a result. “The goal [of] this diabolical law,” he tweeted, “is to break the parent-child relationship and put the state in charge of your children.”While researching my book, Irreversible Damage, and in the four years since its publication, I have talked to hundreds of parents whose daughters suddenly identified as transgender. Many of their daughters were encouraged in this revelation by school counselors and teachers in school districts across America. One parent told me a California school counselor had given her son the address of an LGBTQ youth shelter and suggested he emancipate himself from parents who were loving but skeptical of his sudden transgender identity. Another recent California law, AB 665, would have made reclaiming that young man from the youth center all but impossible because he was over the age of twelve.In California, instruction in sexual orientation and gender identity has been mandatory for all public school students K–12 since the passage of the Healthy Youth Act in 2016. Because such instruction typically occurs within the required “anti-bullying curriculum” rather than the sex education curriculum, parents cannot elect that their children opt out of what is, in practice, a full-bore indoctrination into gender ideology. When a child then predictably decides in class that she too may be nonbinary or transgender, this revelation will often trigger schools’ gender support plan, effectively a school-wide conspiracy to promote the child’s new name and gender identity without tipping off Mom and Dad. Official documents and emails and report cards are sent to parents to preserve the child’s birth name and pronouns, concealing the social transition from parents. I have talked to parents who discovered their middle-school daughters had spent the better part of an entire academic year known to the entire school as “Spencer” or “Ethan.” One of these girls had even roomed with the boys on an overnight school trip.I have investigated many cases in which social transitions were concealed from families. In no case did the girl flourish with this new identity. Maintaining a new, secret identity more often became a weight and burden to the girls. Inexplicably to the parents, their daughters became morose, dropped activities they once loved, wore baggier clothing, and begged to cut their hair shorter. The parents became desperate and unsure of what to do. The hidden transition resulted in children’s alienation from loving parents trying to protect them. But in the years since I first reported on this practice, political opposition has grown. Parents whose daughters were socially transitioned behind their backs have filed lawsuits against the school districts in California and Florida and Michigan. California public school teachers have sued school districts to block policies that could result in their firing if they inform parents that their children’s names and identities have been changed behind their backs. And a recent statewide initiative in California to require parental notification before a school changes a child’s gender identity as well as ban puberty blockers and gender surgeries for minors garnered over 400,000 signatures, falling just short of making it onto the ballot. The SAFETY Act would significantly stymie, if not eliminate, this local pushback to the increasingly unpopular practice of schools playing adoptive parents with other people’s children. (Although already, the Chino Valley Unified School District has filed suit against Newsom over this act.) The plain text of the California law claims that it merely prevents schools from adopting policies that “forcibly out” trans kids—as if confused fifth-grade girls are in the same position as closeted gay adults in decades past who risked arrest and firing for being outed. The law’s clever sponsors are typically quiet on the subject of “outing” to whom. The entire school already knows that Lily is now “Tyler.” Teachers will cheerfully share that information with each other, school mental health staff, administrators, and other students. The only ones who don’t get to know are the parents.A favorite talking point of activists on the left is that with regard to sexual orientation and gender identity, schools must keep secrets with young children to protect them from transphobic and homophobic parents. Even in the most progressive of states, the claim that parents who discover that their child is transgender might abuse or kick her out is used to justify a policy that would otherwise be difficult to understand and impossible to justify.Aurora Regino is a single mother in California who last year sued the Chico Unified School District for secretly pushing social transition on her then–11-year-old daughter. Regino told me that the “phobia” rationale seemed “ridiculous.” She added, “How is it not outing a kid if you’re telling an entire school that they’re a different sex? That’s outing right there. So everybody knows except the parents? That doesn’t really make any sense to me.”Erin Friday, a California attorney and author of bills in several states requiring parental notification for any change in a child’s gender identity at school, vented exasperation at the idea that California parents are so homophobic or transphobic they cannot be trusted. “This is California, for crying out loud.”Regino agreed. “Both my girls are very active. We do swimming, theater, soccer, softball. We are in connection with I don’t know how many families. And there’s not one family that I can think of that we are around that would kick out their kid because they thought that they were ‘nonbinary’ or trans or gay,” she said. “I mean, to me, that’s an extreme statement that these kids are going to get kicked out. Are we saying one in ten thousand? So we’re going to risk the rest of the children and separate them from their parents during the time that they need them the most?” Her now–13-year-old daughter no longer wants to be a boy.One might think Newsom would realize that a policy this unpopular for Democrats could easily become a political albatross in an election year. Perhaps realizing this, the governor—who is frequently mentioned as a possible 2024 presidential candidate if Biden drops out—when defending the bill resorts to dissembling. On Wednesday, the governor’s press office declared on X that the bill “protects the child-parent relationship by PREVENTING politicians & school staff from inappropriately intervening in family matters & attempting to control if, when & how families have deeply personal conversations.” The bill only “protects” the parent-child relationship if you assume that relationship depends on the parents’ being entirely ignorant of their child’s growing attachment to this new, secret identity.Governor Newsom also declared: “Under California law, minors CANNOT legally change their name or gender WITHOUT parental consent.” That’s placing a lot of weight on the word legally. The obscurantist governor is correct only in the most technical sense: yes, a child’s legal name can be changed only on official records with parental approval. But in the world of the SAFETY Act, the parents may be the only ones in a child’s life who use that name. In the past few years, moderates across the American political spectrum have awakened to the pernicious effects of gender ideology on children. England, Finland, Norway, and Sweden have, in recent years, warned the public of the risks of pediatric gender medicine, banned the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in children, or restricted their use to research settings. The Cass Review, published this year by one of England’s premier physicians, noted the serious risks and specious benefits of pediatric gender transition. My own investigation, published four years earlier, reached the same conclusions. The Cass Review also acknowledged that social transition is an active intervention that puts many children on an inexorable path to medical transition. Recent polling shows that voters across the political spectrum believe that schools should be required to inform parents if their children are using different gender pronouns at school than they are at home.But California Democrats appear ready to drag their party down with them. Parents’ best hope may be federal legislation mandating parental notification before a school can reassign a child’s name and gender. Candidates for president and vice president ought to be asked whether they would support such a bill.Until her daughter was socially transitioned behind her back, Regino had been a lifelong progressive Democrat. “Now, I’m a registered Republican,” she said.Abigail Shrier is the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. ++++