Iran using children to carry out terror attacks on Jews in Europe

European officials are raising alarms about Iran's Islamic regime allegedly employing children to execute attacks on Israeli targets within Europe.

[H/T Daily Wire]  

Bloomberg News has documented multiple instances where Iran purportedly recruits minors for these terror activities:

"A 15-year-old boy gets into a taxi outside Stockholm hiding a loaded gun and asks to be taken to the Israeli embassy. A 13-year-old in Gothenburg is caught firing shots at Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems. At the same facility, a 16-year-old helps to plant home-made explosives outside the main entrance. … In Brussels in May, the security services found children as young as 14 orchestrating an attack on the Israeli embassy."

Iran uses these young proxies to maintain a level of plausible deniability in these operations. The report notes that Nordic countries are particularly at risk because “they have traditionally been open societies with minimal policing and high trust.”

A key reason for targeting children is the relatively lenient criminal consequences they face. In Sweden and Norway, "they can’t even be prosecuted if they are under 15 years old," according to the report.

The payment varies, with Iranian-backed agents offering up to "$1,500 for a murder or a couple hundred dollars for a 'petrol bomb attack,'" the report detailed.

Moreover, there are instances where these young individuals are unaware of their role in international espionage or terrorism. "There are cases where the proxies aren’t aware or don’t realize that they are acting on behalf of a foreign power," the Swedish Security Service stated earlier this year.

This alert comes at a time when Europe has been on high alert for the past 14 months, following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, which led to an uptick in Islamic extremist activities. Many of these groups are reacting strongly to Israel's military response to the attack, where Hamas was responsible for the deaths of over 1,200 individuals.

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Oh those Violent Vehicles [VVs] that crash into Christian Christmas shoppers: this time 5 killed, 200 hurt: media leaves important information out

As we know by now, a vehicle going at high speed plowed into a crowd of Christmas shoppers in Magdeburg, Germany, killing 5 and injuring around 200 at last count. An arrest has been made but the media did not focus on the perpetrator, they focused on the event and the casualties. 

The driver, Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, is a 50-year-old Saudi Arabia national who has lived in Germany since 2006. The horrific attack was at a Christmas market in Magdeburg about 100 miles from Berlin.

Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister referred to the incident as “A terrible event, especially now in the days before Christmas.” 

Yes, it is a terrible event, but it's also a regular Islamist attack in spite of the intentional neglect by the media of that tidbit.

There appear to be signs that this might be the first of multiple attacks, according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said reports “suggest something terrible is to come.”

So why would there be multiple attacks? Copycat killers? Cars that do evil things?

Considering what we know, the Associated Press posted this on X:

A car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in Germany https://t.co/IepW8HsBZg— The Associated Press (@AP) December 20, 2024

 And then there's this:

Oh those evil SUVs and cars and trucks. Why do they go after Christians and Jews?

This is a miscarriage of journalism. Here's what the AP wrote:

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — Germans on Saturday mourned the victims of an apparent attack in which authorities say a doctor drove into a busy outdoor Christmas market, killing five people, injuring 200 others and shaking the public’s sense of security at what would otherwise be a time of joy.

The alleged attack Friday evening in Magdeburg, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, killed a 9-year-old and four adults and injured 41 people badly enough that authorities warned the death toll could rise.

Magdeburg marked the tragedy Saturday with the tolling church bells at 7:04 p.m., the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people.

But the good news is that people are waking up and are learning more about Islam, especially when it comes to jihad.

The Muslim who committed this atrocity was wanted in Saudi Arabia for criminal activity but Germany reefused to extradite him. Don't believe that he was anything but a jihadi.

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Democrat who worked for voting rights allegedly registered dead people to vote

A woman who was employed by a Pennsylvania voting rights group, modeled after Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams' New Georgia Project, has been accused of attempting to register dead individuals to vote in the 2024 presidential election.

Jennifer Hill, 38, worked as a canvasser for the New Pennsylvania Project and tried to register 310 people to vote from April 2024 to September 2024. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer stated that 181 of these registrations were successful, according to NBC Philadelphia. Among those she tried to register were her deceased father and another person who had passed away in her home.

         🚨PA, Delaware County Election Fraud🚨

Women and man accused of fraudulently submitting false voter registrations of 4 people to vote in 2024 presidential election.

Jennifer Hill, a Collingdale resident is charged with four felony charges of forgery, was a paid canvasser for… pic.twitter.com/8SSsVuoZ3q

— Andrea Shaffer, Employment/Labor Law (@Andreafreedom76)

“She knows that because she was the person who called the police to come when he died in her house,” Stollsteimer said. “She did register a fraudulent person and my understanding is this is sort of a gap in the system where by putting in no date of birth and no social security number, it goes through and became a verified voter registration. She did not take any further step. That fictitious person did not vote in the 2024 election. But that shows you how we still have gaps in our system that we need to have the legislature address.”

“We don’t know from the other 129 that were non-verifiable, how many of those were made up names,” Stollsteimer added.

Kadida Kenner, the CEO of the New Pennsylvania Project, commented on the situation, stating that Jennifer Hill had been employed by her organization. She responded to the allegations with the following statement: "Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Department of State informed the New PA Project Education Fund (NPPEF) about potential issues regarding attempted voter registration by one of our former canvassers working in Delaware County. Immediately upon being notified of the potential issues, we suspended the staff member pending investigation. An internal investigation was launched, and the organization paused our voter registration programs in several regions pending the outcome of our investigation."

"New Pennsylvania Project is kicking into high gear working to get voter momentum going into the fall elections. It's modeled after one created in Georgia by Stacey Abrams," WHYY reported in 2022. "We have a primary purpose of voter registration and we center communities of color, we center the youth, and we center immigrant communities in our work," Kenner stated.

"To see a black woman potentially at the top of the ticket on a November ballot just blows my mind," Kenner said last July. "I just know that this is an opportunity for us to protect our rights with an opportunity for a woman who looks like me at the top of the ticket. I know this is an opportunity this nation needs. We talk about (how) we want to heal this nation. I think this is part of that healing process, to have a black woman potentially be President of the United States."

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US kills ISIS honcho Abu Yusif in Syria

Sura 5:33 of the Quran, found in the chapter Al-Ma'idah:

"Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment."

Abu Yusif, an ISIS leader was blown to smithereens in a pinpoint strike in Syria by US Central Command forces, CENTCOM announced Friday afternoon. Another unnamed ISIS scumbag was also eliminated in the strike.

Forces conducted a precision airstrike targeting ISIS leader Abu Yusif aka Mahmud in the Dayr az Zawr Province, Syria resulting in two ISIS operatives killed, including Abu… pic.twitter.com/g3nO68Ye1T— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) December 20, 2024

The strike happened in an area that was previously controlled by the Assad regime with Russia's help, as CENTCOM reported.

“As stated before, the United States — working with allies and partners in the region — will not allow ISIS to take advantage of the current situation in Syria and reconstitute," said CENTCOM commander Michael Erik Kurilla.

"ISIS has the intent to break out of detention the over 8,000 ISIS operatives currently being held in facilities in Syria," he said. "We will aggressively target these leaders and operatives, including those trying to conduct operations external to Syria."

The announcement of Yusif's sudden demise follows closely on the heels of the U.S. eliminating 12 other ISIS terrorists in Syria through precision strikes. According to CENTCOM, these operations aim to "disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS, preventing the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek opportunities to reconstitute in central Syria."

This news comes in the wake of significant political upheaval in Syria; earlier in December, former President Bashar al-Assad was ousted by Syrian rebel forces, ending his 24-year tenure as president.

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Weekend at Bernie's President gone from spending bill negotiations and the Dems don't care

Fun Fact: The nation's debt at last count is $36,167,604,149,955.61. If one were to count that high, saying each number one second apart without stopping, it would take about 1,146,079 YEARS! No joke. I'm serious, as Joe Biden would mumble.

And now as our nearly useless government is in the throes of yet another possible shutdown over negotiations with a spending bill, the Democrats are just fine with the absence of the so called President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden from the wheeling and dealings, according to a new report.

"Biden has remained conspicuously absent outside a brief statement issued by his press secretary — and for now, Democrats said there was little clamor for him to return," Politico reported Thursday, just a day after Elon Musk and President-elect  Trump scuttled the first bipartisan spending bill.

Despite the race to avert a government shutdown, as we see every Christmas season it seems, "no one seemed to be looking to Biden for answers — and the lame-duck president gave no indication he had any desire to provide them," the article read.

Well of course. Everyone knows and has known for several years, that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia. It took a debate with Trump to finally take it to a point where it could no longer be covered up by the Democratic Party and the media. 

In fact, the only people surprised by Biden's cognitive decline were the people on The View and their audience. The Dems along with Kamala Harris, knew Joe was like a head of broccoli but covered up for him and refused to use the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.

"I haven’t gotten any message from President Biden, or heard of anything that he’s saying," California Democratic Rep. Mark Takano told Politico, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wouldn't say he's been in touch with Biden, only that he's been in "close contact with the administration."

As Politico put it, "Democrats appeared largely fine with Biden taking a back seat," which is what he's done this past year and prior.

And by the way, where is Kamala? Isn't she supposed to be the Vice President?

C'mon man.

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Report: Netanyahu will not attend 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation amid ICC arrest fears

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is no fool. He reportedly will not attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in Poland because he would rather not get arrested due to an obviously anti-Semitic International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant. The event, scheduled for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2025, will see the presence of many world leaders, including Britain's King Charles.

Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Władysław Bartoszewski, another tiresome Jew hater, emphasized Poland's commitment to respecting the ICC’s decisions, even though there are myriad reasons not to respect them. The warrants also include Israeli former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes related to Israel's fighting back after the October 7, 2023 massacre carried out by Hamas and Palestinians along with other Islamist jihad groups. 

The Hamas attack targeted civilians including men, women, children and even babies. Over 1,200 were killed and around 250 Israelis were taken hostage, many of whom had been killed in captivity.

The Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported that Israeli authorities did not even request Netanyahu's attendance, anticipating Poland's anti-Zionist stance on the ICC's bull-crap warrant.

Instead of Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar is expected to represent Israel at the ceremony. There's also mention that President Isaac Herzog does not plan to attend. This situation highlights the diplomatic tensions and international scrutiny over Israel's actions in Gaza.

These details are based on recent reports from multiple sources, including the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita and statements from Polish officials.

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Mangione to waive extradition--may return to NYC today

Pretty boy alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione (he/him/zrg) is expected to waive extradition and could be returned to New York as soon as today, Thursday, according to his attorney.

Mangione will waive extradition at a hearing in Pennsylvania on Thursday morning as his mentally ill fans wave at him just to catch a fleeting glance.

Once extradition paperwork is completed, the NYPD would be allowed to transport Mangione from Pennsylvania to New York City where he will be on trail for the cowardly murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan.

Shoots Thompson in the leg and back

Mangione, 26, a Maryland native, who allegedly shot Thompson, the husband and father of two, in the leg and in the back after he fell, has been indicted on first and second degree murder the Manhattan District Attorney announced on Tuesday.

Mangione has been indicted on murder counts, including two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree; four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree; one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and one count of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, as per prosecutors. 

Brian Thompson

Mangione comes from a wealthy family and has hired Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, for his New York City case, Patch previously reported. 

There does not appear to be a relationship between Mangione and UnitedHealthcare, so he doesn't seem to have a personal "beef" with the company. 

"This type of premeditated, targeted gun violence cannot and will not be tolerated, and my office has been working day in and day out to bring the defendant to justice” Trump-hunting District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. I want to extend my heartfelt prayers to Mr. Thompson’s loved ones as they continue to grieve."

Apparently, Bragg's heart goes out to the Thompson family and maybe even the Mangione family.

Mangione also faces five charges in Pennsylvania as if the New York crimes weren't enough.

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AOC, the woman all men want to date, fails in top spot on House Oversight Committee

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Comatose (D-NY), the woman that men all want to date, was trying to become the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. However. it's believed that Rep. Nancy "Dancing Dentures" Pelosi (D-CA) was secretly working against her. 

This isn't the first time the former House Speaker has tried to manage members of the so called Squad. No matter what happened, Pelosi can now breathe easier, once her hip replacement recovery is complete—Rep. Comatose won't be leading this committee. She was defeated by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) according to Axios:

"House Democrats' Steering and Policy Committee voted to recommend Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, several sources familiar with the vote told Axios."

This comes as a huge blow to AOC in her hopes and dreams of being able to wear her eyeglasses and cosplay an intelligent woman heading a high-profile panel. But as fate would have it, an old white man got the job and all AOC got was the chance to make another TikTok video of her dancing in the kitchen making a paella. 

It's atypical for the caucus to go against the committee's recommendation, which is usually in line with the Democratic leadership, but it has been done before. So if somehow AOC is able to pull off a win, it's going to be arrrrrrrriba in da Bronx. 

What we believe is that Connolly defeated the Latinx Latina 34 to 27 on Monday, according to multiple lawmakers present.

Ms. Comatose said after the vote that she would keep fighting for the position when it goes to a vote by the whole caucus. Even if she loses, which seems to be what will happen, she will, in the spirit of Kamala Harris after her blowout defeat, continue to fight once they both can decide who and how.

Rumors have it that AOC is backing off going on TikTok and other social media platforms and plans to visit the parking lot by the border where she can sense the grief and misery of those who will not be crossing the border into Texas come January 20.

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Woah Nelly! FBI to investigate Liz Cheney

The House Oversight Subcommittee, led by Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), has issued a 127-page Interim Report that outlines various questionable activities connected to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and the investigation that followed by the Democratic Select Committee, which was supposedly set up to uncover the truth about the events of that day but turned out to be a witch hunt.

Of special note are the report's findings regarding the actions of former Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-WY). She was a member of the Committee and allegedly leveraged her role to criticize President-elect Donald Trump. According to the report, she exerted excessive control over the Committee's activities to focus on the president-elect, pushing the idea that he was responsible for inciting the violence on January 6, which was proved to be a lie as anyone who listened to what Trump said that day to his followers knows.

The report wraps up by suggesting that the FBI should investigate Cheney's conduct, which men of good faith all feel she should go to federal prison for a long time.

The Oversight Subcommittee points to Cheney's public comments as proof that her primary concern during her time on the Select Committee was Trump, rather than addressing the broader security lapses that took place on January 6.

"Representative Cheney mentions President Trump eighteen separate times in her four-page Forward to the Select Committee’s Final Report—including her statements that 'no man' who behaved as President Trump 'can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again,'" the report pointed out.

The authors noted that Cheney didn't "mention any of the tangible failures of that day" and "spoke of law enforcement only twice, and never mentioned the National Guard or the multi-agency intelligence failures."

One staff member told investigators that when the J6 Committee "became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged."

"Representative Cheney’s influence on the Select Committee’s work and the conclusions it drew cannot be overstated. Before the Select Committee published its final report, fifteen current and former staffers approached the Washington Post to express deep frustration with Representative Cheney’s heavy-handed oversight of the Select Committee’s work. The article states that 'committee staff members were floored' when told that the final report 'would focus almost entirely on Trump.'"

The Subcommittee also addressed Cheney’s supposed attempt to influence former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the Select Committee. The report claims that Cheney "communicated directly with Cassidy Hutchinson without her attorney’s knowledge, despite Cheney knowing it was unethical."

The report notes that Hutchinson acknowledged receiving "contact information for multiple attorneys at various firms" from the former lawmaker.

"It is unusual—and potentially unethical—for a Member of Congress conducting an investigation to contact a witness if the Member knows that the individual is represented by legal counsel. Representative Cheney is an attorney, and an attorney who circumvents an individual’s legal representation would violate well-established attorney ethics standards."

The Subcommittee also found evidence of frequent communications between Hutchinson and Cheney without her lawyer’s knowledge. It alleged that Cheney helped Hutchinson find new legal representation and compromised her testimony. However, the former lawmaker, in her book, made it appear as if she "passively waited for Hutchinson to fire her attorney and find new counsel on her own," according to the report.

Cheney allegedly played an instrumental role in shaping Hutchinson’s testimony. "Her first two interviews, though consistent with one another, were significantly different than the narrative she told in her four subsequent interviews and live testimony," the report stated, also stating that the former lawmaker’s "decision to rush Hutchinson’s testimony caused 'unforced errors' and did not afford staff the 'opportunity to thoroughly vet the line of questioning.'"

"Hutchinson testified to a series of specific, outrageous claims about President Trump on January 6, 2021. Nearly all her allegations involve incidents to which she was not an eyewitness, and the parties she credited for relaying those alleged events to her categorically denied her claims."

In one instance, Hutchinson made the outlandish claim that Trump had tried to lunge past Secret Service agents and grab the steering wheel as he was being transported from the Capitol building in a limousine.

The Oversight subcommittee suggested that "numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney". It recommended that "these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation" because the former lawmaker "tampered with at least one witness."

The report argues that the FBI should investigate Cheney for violating laws against "procuring another person to commit perjury."

Of course, it is doubtful that Cheney will face any kind of accountability for her alleged actions. But the report clearly demonstrates what many already knew: Cheney saw the Select Committee as an opportunity to boost her popularity by positioning herself as the ultimate anti-Trump figure.

Cheney made the mistake of basing her entire political platform on going after the president-elect, an issue that contributed to her ignominious defeat in the 2022 midterm primaries.

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WV Dems are really pissed at Biden's pardon choices: 'what we would expect from Trump'

Look, a dead bird

West Virginia Democrats blasted so called President Biden's clemency recipient choices and said they would expect President-elect Trump to do such actions, because everything evil in the world is due to Orange Man Bad. 

WV Democrats tend to forget that Trump already was president and didn't do the evil thing they now accuse him of planning to do, but at least they are beginning to see that the Vegetable in Chief has made a very poor move which should hurt his Party in the future.

In a statement released late on Monday, local party leaders said they praised Biden for guiding the U.S. "through significant economic challenges" but criticized the commutations given to people convicted of public corruption. Interestingly enough, the criticism is correct about the commutations, but to say that Biden led the nation "through significant economic challenges" is only partly correct. Yes, he was the leader during economic challenges, but only made the economy worse.

Inflation rates spiked to a 40-year high which significantly increased the cost of living for the average American. Consumer sentiment has been negative or at best, skeptical due to ongoing high costs for essentials such as food and fuel. And the national debt has been blown out of the water, which could create long-term economic risks and higher borrowing costs along with fiscal instability.

Meanwhile, the WV Democrats had more to say. 

"Public corruption is a betrayal of trust. When officials abuse the power of their office for personal gain, they not only harm the communities they are supposed to serve, but they also erode faith in our government institutions," wrote Chairman Mike Pushkin, a state lawmaker from Kanawha County.

"Even more troubling, these kinds of pardons are exactly what we would expect from President-elect Donald Trump, not President Biden," he couldn't stop himself from adding so as to avoid stink-eye from his peers.

Pushkin and other Democrats were especially upset about the barely sentient POTUS's decision to pardon Michael Conahan, the disgraced Pennsylvania judge at the center of the "kids-for-cash" scandal. He was found guilty of taking bribes to send young kids to for-profit prisons.

Delegate Hollis Lewis, (D-Charleston) also had a problem with Biden's choice to grant clemency to Conahan, according to Fox News Digital.

"The one that got me upset was the judge who was involved in the cash-for-kids case," he said.

"Any time that you have individuals who prey on our most vulnerable population, which are children and the elderly, that's very problematic."

Lewis pointed out that presidents from both parties have occasionally made questionable decisions on clemency, noting that a pardon can be a useful tool if used correctly.

"I don't think anybody needs to walk around with a scarlet letter of a felony for the whole lot, depending on the particular crime that they committed; if that pardon is going to allow them to move on with their lives," he said.

"But specifically when it's crimes involving the elderly… and children or crimes with patterns of violence where the evidence is clear and there's no reasonable doubt, then maybe we ought to think twice before we exonerate those individuals."

In their statement, the West Virginia Democratic Party (WVDP) also attacked Biden for pardoning Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, who was convicted for embezzling $54 million, which was the largest municipal fraud case in the U.S.

They also brought up the case of Jimmy Dimora, a former Cleveland county commissioner caught in a pay-to-play scheme.

West Virginia has been in the spotlight before during times when presidents grant pardons, like when former President Bill Clinton pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich, a decision that was heavily criticized.

Rich was accused of tax evasion and dodging sanctions against Iran and apartheid South Africa.

However, Rich also owned part of an aluminum plant on the Ohio River accused of illegally locking out 1,500 workers and hiring replacements during labor disputes.

Members of the West Virginia union were said to have protested in front of Rich's office in Switzerland.

Clinton's pardons of Rich and his business partner Pincus Green led to a federal investigation, initially handled by New York prosecutor Mary Jo White.

After White's term ended in 2002, she was succeeded by a young prosecutor whose name would come up again in another Clinton scandal years later: James Comey.

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Candace Owens Named Anti-Semite of the Year

Jew hater and podcaster Candace Owens has been named this year’s Anti-Semite of the Year 2024 by StopAntisemitism, a watchdog group monitoring anti-Jewish bigotry. This came after Owens, a former Daily Wire employee, pushed anti-Semitic blood libels and a host of conspiracy theories aimed at Jews.

 beating out pro-Hamas climate activist Greta Thunberg.

On Sunday, StopAntisemitism disclosed that Candace Owens, aged 35, had garnered over 30,000 votes in their annual Antisemite of the Year poll, surpassing climate activist Greta Thunberg.

“Owens edged out Hamas apologist Greta Thunberg and terror-supporting Twitch streamer Hasan Piker for the title, inheriting the dishonor from 2022 winner, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib,” StopAntisemitism stated.

“Once celebrated for her unapologetic takes that catapulted her into the conservative spotlight, Owens was given platforms by prominent Jewish conservatives like Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro. But after Hamas’s October 7th massacre, she revealed her shocking antisemitism, leading to her departure from Shapiro’s Daily Wire and condemnation from PragerU.

“Owens’ remarks were so vile that even evangelical and conservative groups denounced her, including her father-in-law, Sir Michael Farmer. In addition, She’s been banned from countries like New Zealand and Australia, blaming the fallout on a ‘Zionist media empire.'”

“From defending Hitler’s actions in Germany and mocking Jewish fears over Kanye West’s antisemitic tweets to claiming Israel forces Muslims into segregated quarters and insinuating Hollywood is run by ‘sinister Jewish gangs’, Owens has been rightfully crowned 2024’s Antisemite of the Year.”

Owens responded to the announcement through a series of tweets, where she compared StopAntisemitism to the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Obviously I will prepare an acceptance speech for my show tomorrow. So many people to thank,” she wrote.

“The ratio under this post is incredible lol. Zionists are completely out of touch. Reminiscent of BLM in 2020 running around calling everything and everyone racist. From excruciatingly annoying, to mildly entertaining to utterly obsolete. We are all fatigued with ‘antisemitism’.”

Previously a key figure at The Daily Wire, Owens left the platform in March after making controversial statements about Israel, Jews, and co-founder Ben Shapiro.

Along with promoting narratives of a nefarious “Zionist empire” controlling global events and alleging Jewish control over Hollywood sex rings, Owens has questioned the historical accuracy of the Holocaust and seemed to defend Adolf Hitler.

“We have been indoctrinated, and we actually know nothing about the person other than the fact that we must fear him,” Owens stated in July.

During the same podcast, she cast doubt on the Holocaust, referring to it as “an ethnic cleansing [that] almost took place,” while also accusing the Allied powers of ethnically cleansing Germans in Eastern Europe.

The Allied powers, she claimed, “ethnically cleansed 12 million Germans… in the exact same [concentration] camps that we then transferred the Germans into so that we could mass kill them.”

Owens also rejected the well-documented medical experiments conducted by SS officer Josef Mengele, describing them as “bizarre propaganda.”

“The idea that they just cut a human up and then sewed them back together. Why would you do that? Even if you’re the most evil person in the world, that’s a tremendous waste of time and supplies,” she remarked.

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Biden's clemency for convicted fraudsters pissing people off: "Slap in the face"

Alleged President Joe Biden made history last week by being the first president to give clemency to over 1,500 prisoners who he never met nor knew anything about their crimes. But at least he was the first, while Kamala never made it to first elected vice president or president.

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However, the move was met with fierce backlash from critics pointing out various names on the clemency list included individuals who cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars through their fraudulent actions.

Among those included in what the Biden White House has described as the largest single-day act of clemency by a U.S. president were Rita Crundwell and Paul M. Daugerdas. Crundwell, once the comptroller in Dixon, Illinois, was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for embezzling almost $54 million from the town, which is famous for being the childhood home of Ronald Reagan.

Also on the list was Paul M. Daugerdas, a former New York law partner, who got a 15-year sentence for his part in a massive tax fraud scheme that prosecutors called one of the biggest criminal tax fraud cases in U.S. history. Another individual, Toyosi Alatishe, was convicted for abusing his role as a caretaker for patients with severe mental and physical disabilities by fraudulently using their personal information to file tax returns.

Reacting to the clemency granted to Crundwell, Republican Illinois state Senator Andrew Chesney labeled the decision "nothing short of a slap in the face to the people of Dixon."

"Her crimes did not only affect the taxpayers of Dixon, but they also had a rippling effect across the region and state, as communities became subject to stricter, more tedious regulations," Chesney said in a statement after Crundwell’s sentence was commuted. "First, it was the pardoning of his son, and now Biden is apparently extending clemency to anyone with political connections, including corrupt government employees. It's sickening."

Illinois Republican Rep. Darin LaHood supported Chesney's comments, calling the commutation a "slap in the face" to those affected by Crundwell's crimes, adding that "while many families in Dixon were living paycheck to paycheck, [Crundwell] took advantage of their trust in government and used her access to live an unearned life of luxury."

In addition to those who defrauded public funds, many of Biden's commutations went to white-collar criminals accused of scamming their clients out of millions. One notable case was that of Michael Conahan, a former judge who handed out severe punishments to young people in return for $2.8 million in bribes in the infamous "kids for cash" scandal.

"I want to see [Conahan's] name removed because that's just… another slap in the face, another injustice, on top of all of the grief that everybody in this community has already endured," said Sandy Fonzo, whose son Edward took his own life after spending eight months in juvenile detention for underage drinking.

The administration explained that these sentence commutations were for inmates who were under home confinement during the COVID-19 crisis and had "successfully reintegrated into their families and communities." The criteria included ensuring the primary or previous offense was not violent, a sex crime, or related to terrorism; confirming a low risk of re-offending; and checking that the individual was not involved in violent or gang activities while in prison. All these individuals were on good behavior, and the decisions were not made on a case-by-case basis.

For comparison, between 2017 and 2021, former President Trump issued only 143 pardons and 93 commutations, which was just 2% of the clemency requests his administration received, according to Justice Department data.

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Bibi Netanyahu says IDF will occupy buffer zone in Syria for the foreseeable future

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israeli forces will remain in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, and specifically on the summit of Mount Hermon, “until another arrangement is found that will ensure Israel’s security.”

Netanyahu made the comments from the mountain's summit — the highest peak in the area — which is inside Syria, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border with the Israel-held Golan Heights.

This was apparently the first time a sitting Israeli leader had set foot this far into Syria. Netanyahu said, "I had been on the summit of Mount Hermon 53 years ago as a soldier, but the summit's importance to Israel's security has only increased given recent events."

Israel seized a swath of southern Syria along the border with the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in the days after Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted by rebels.

Israel's capture of the buffer zone, a roughly 400-square-kilometer (155-square-mile) demilitarized area in Syrian territory, has sparked criticism, with some people accusing Israel of breaking the 1974 ceasefire agreement and maybe taking advantage of the chaos in Syria after Assad's removal to expand territory.

Netanyahu traveled to the buffer zone with Defense Minister Israel Katz, who said he had instructed the Israeli military to quickly establish a presence with fortifications, expecting a possibly long-term stay in the area.

"The summit of the Hermon is the eyes of the state of Israel to identify our enemies who are nearby and far away," Katz said.

An Israeli military official, speaking anonymously as per military protocol, confirmed there are no plans to move out the Syrians living in villages within the buffer zone.

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. following the 1973 Mideast war, with around 1,100 U.N. troops patrolling the area since.

A U.N. spokesman remarked on Tuesday that the advance of Israeli troops, no matter the duration, violates the 1974 agreement that established the buffer zone.

"That agreement needs to be respected, and occupation is occupation, whether it lasts a week, a month or a year, it remains occupation," said spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

There was no immediate response from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that overthrew Assad, or from Arab countries.

Israel still holds the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed — a move not recognized by most countries. Mount Hermon's peak is shared among the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Lebanon, and Syria. Only the United States recognizes Israel's control over the Golan Heights.

With Assad gone, more than 30 bodies of Syrians who disappeared during his rule were discovered in a mass grave on Monday in Izraa, north of Daraa. Forensic teams and rebels worked together to find these remains, with families watching, hoping to find their missing loved ones.

"But we didn't find anyone and it broke our hearts. They were burned alive here after being doused in fuel," said Mohammad Ghazaleh, who was at the site.

Some of the bodies indicated they were shot or burned, according to Moussa Al-Zouebi, head of Izraa's health directorate.

Syria's new government has set up a hotline for families to report missing people or secret detention sites.

In Damascus, Qatar reopened its embassy on Tuesday, after nearly 13 years of severed ties with Assad's government, stating its "categorical rejection of the regime's repressive policies against the Syrian people."

Most embassies in Syria closed after the civil war started in 2011. The French Embassy in Damascus raised its flag on Tuesday as a "symbolic gesture" to support the Syrian people during the transition, with no confirmed date for full reopening due to ongoing assessments of the situation. 

The Turkish Embassy in Damascus has also recently reopened.

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Democrat Rep. says Hispanic Trump voters have "slave mentality"

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) doesn't seem to like white men and she especially doesn't like Hispanic voters who voted for president-elect Donald Trump.

Crockett accused Hispanic voters of having a "slave mentality" who supported Donald Trump's presidency. In other words, she is upset with those who refused to stay on the Democrat plantation and go along with the program.

"That's my basic summary of what goes on in the Latino community," Crockett told Vanity Fair on Friday. "I haven't seen this in the Asian community. I haven't seen it in the African community. I haven't seen it in the Caribbean community. I've only seen it with Hispanics. When they think of 'illegals,' they think of, you know, maybe people that came out of the cartels and that kind of, like, the criminal-type book or whatever. It's insane."

"It almost reminds me of what people would talk about when they would talk about kind of like 'slave mentality' and the hate that some slaves would have for themselves," she continued. "It's almost like a slave mentality that they have. It is wild to me when I hear how anti-immigrant they are as immigrants, many of them. I'm talking about people that literally just got here and can barely vote that are having this kind of attitude."

Crockett added that despite Black voters still largely voting in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris during the election, there was some "flaking" by Black men that she attributed to misogyny.

"I will tell you that Black people historically have been fiercely loyal. That’s why you still see the [turnout] numbers that you see coming out for Black folks, even though there was a bit of flaking. And that bit of flaking came from Black men, which I’m going to chalk up to misogyny," Crockett said, referring to how many Black folks stayed on the Democrat plantation and didn't make any political waves.

She also criticized White women, saying they "retreated" and didn't support Harris just as they didn't support Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.

"I said, I don’t trust White women. I said, I’m just telling you, and I think you need to have conversations with your sisters, because they are the group that failed Hillary Clinton. I mean, when you go back and look at the numbers, White women were the ones that failed her. And so in my mind, if they failed Hillary, I don’t know that I can believe that they won’t fail Kamala," Crockett said.

She admitted that some men she spoke to felt "like the Democratic Party was emasculating them," but insisted that Harris was a "perfect candidate" who "ran a flawless campaign."

Instead, Crockett claimed the Democratic Party's problem was a lack of clear messaging and setting an "impossible standard" for themselves.

"Why are y’all tearing President Biden down? Like, do you guys realize that [Republicans are] standing with their man? And y’all were like, 'get rid of Biden because he had a bad debate.' Well, when Trump had a bad debate, they never acknowledged it. He just said, I’m not doing it no more, because I ain’t getting my a-- kicked again. I mean, there is something to be said for just requiring this level of perfection out of non-perfect people, and I think Democrats really need to take a good look at themselves on that issue," Crockett said.

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IDF destroys shaft where terrorists embedded themselves in Jabalaya

The Israel Defense Forces destroyed an underground shaft where a group of terrorists were embedded. The shaft was located in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Tuesday. 

[H/T Jerusalem Post]

On Tuesday, the IDF confirmed that in October, Staff-Sergeant-Major (res.) Ori Moshe Borenstein, Major (res.) Netanel Hershkovitz, and Staff-Sergeant-Major (res.) Tzvi Matityahu Marantz were killed during an incident while they were engaged in operations in the same area.

And now with president-elect Trump getting ready to take the reins on January 20, the terrorists may just be terrified enough to surrender.

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IDF eliminates dozens of terrorists by killing them in Gaza

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) neutralized, eliminated, killed, dozens of Hamassholes while arresting a bunch of others during a counter-terrorism sweep in the Beit Hanun area of northeastern Gaza, the IDF reported on Wednesday.

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Troops from the IDF's Givati Brigade, in coordination with the Israeli Air Force and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), raided a location in Beit Hanun based on intelligence that terrorists were assembling there.

Additionally, a combat team from the IDF's Kfir Brigade was actively engaged in operations in Beit Lahiya, eliminating terrorists both through aerial and ground assaults, and destroying their weapons caches, according to the IDF.

On Saturday evening, the IDF conducted a precision airstrike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, targeting and eliminating Imad Jaro, a member of Hamas’s "military" wing.

"Imad Jaro operated from a Hamas compound in the Gaza humanitarian zone, where he planned and executed attacks against Israeli troops and the State of Israel," the IDF stated. Jaro was also deeply involved in Hamas's political and governmental activities in Deir al-Balah, serving as mayor and leading the Government Emergency Committee in central Gaza, maintaining regular contact with Al-Qassam Brigades, the "military" wing of Hamas.

The IDF highlighted that they took steps to minimize civilian casualties before the strike, accusing Hamas of "continuing to abuse civilian and humanitarian infrastructure for its terrorist activities, in violation of international law."

Overnight on Friday, the Israeli Air Force targeted Hamas operatives who were about to launch attacks against IDF troops in Gaza and against Israeli soil. These terrorists were located within a command-and-control center that was formerly the Yaffa (Jaffa) school in Gaza City.

Meanwhile, Hamas's military operations included firing rockets near civilian and humanitarian facilities; one rocket was launched from central Gaza on Saturday evening, landing in an open area and setting off sirens in nearby Israeli communities without causing injuries. Another incident on Friday evening saw rockets fired from just 50 meters away from an international aid warehouse.

In retaliation, the IAF targeted several weapons storage sites and terrorists operating near the rocket launch locations that night.

The IDF, in collaboration with the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), reaffirmed their commitment to "continue to act in accordance with international law to enable and facilitate the transfer of humanitarian aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip."

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Tim Walz is an out of touch joke

"I give you the lovely and talented Kamala Hahaharris"

Tim Walz, in spite of his decisive vice presidential loss along with Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, retains his governorship of Minnesota. 

Walz and his cringeworthy body gestures has again shown us why he is out of touch with normal people as he attempted to virtue signal with his financial situation.  He described himself as the "poorest" vice presidential candidate in history, as if that is necessarily a virtue. But the truth about his income and lifestyle tell us a different story and show us how it's a far cry from what the average person experiences.

Part of the reason for his self-characterization and the reality, is not merely due to his being tone-deaf, but also due to his being a charlatan and not a very bright one at that. His attempt to relate to the entire public is an insult, bragging about what he called a "real flex," the Minnesota moron painted himself to be a guy who struggles with bills and financial responsibilities, just like everyman.

"I thought it was a real flex when the Wall Street Journal pointed out that I might have been the least wealthy person to ever run for vice president," he said during a recent interview. "And I thought that would be something. People say, 'Well, this guy knows where we're coming from. He's had to pay his bills. He had to do and still does.''

The vice presidential not-elect continued, "We've got to figure it out. And I feel like one of my roles is, going forward here, is figuring out a way to make the case to the public, the American public, is that the Democratic Party really is focused on the things they care about."

"Yippie doodle!"

Like chopping off body parts of confused children, keeping our borders open for our brothers and sisters of Tren de Aragua, and human traffickers, and freeing unvetted criminals, carte blanche. 

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), utilizing their 2023 tax returns, [Tim and Gwen "Crazy Eyes" Walz] had a total income of about $299,000, with $135,000 of that coming from pensions or annuities.

Yes, but eggs cost $7.00 a dozen.

But, the WSJ also recently reported that Walz withdrew $135,000 from his retirement savings to pay for his daughter Hope’s college education—something only available to the father-of-two through his accumulated pensions from the National Guard, Congress, and teaching. The publication reported that those pensions could add up to an additional $800,000 to the couple's net worth, which was originally appraised as between $112,000 and $330,000 in 2019.

Forbes actually estimates Walz’s net worth at just over $1 million as of 2024--not an incredible fortune, but enough to put him well above the average American consumer as the average American's household income is around $63,800 and as low as $50,000 in some states.

So while Walz rakes in about five times the average American household, he wants us to feel sympathy for him because he makes less than "Wall Street Genius" Nancy Pelosi and her ilk. He sees his so called financial struggle as something to brag about but doesn't even have the brains to look around and see what real Americans are dealing with in the Biden debacle of an economy.

Walz’s attempt to gain sympathy for his "struggles" is pathetic and an anemic ploy to distract from his incompetence.

The Democrats see themselves as the party of average Americans and while they attempt to show us how relatable they are to the average Joe, they only prove how alien they are to human beings.

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Gaza death toll is inflated anti-Israel propaganda: "Questionable counting"

The oxymoronically named Ministry of Health (MoH) is controlled by Hamas and established by them in 2007 once the terrorist organization took total control of the Gaza Strip. This came after myriad violent clashes with the Fatah faction of the Palestinian Authority (PA), and since then, Hamas has remained in power, supported by most so called Palestinians, and is the government of Gaza as is the MoH.

Knowing this, it's obvious that a conflict exists between the terrorist group and the MoH, so to believe the latter's claims, you'd have to be an idiot or an anti-Semite, but I repeat myself.

So a rigorous study published Saturday regarding Hamas authorities' death statistics in Gaza has found that the numbers were hugely inflated and methodologically flawed. The motive of Hamas is clear: they are using the MoH for propaganda to vilify Israel and make themselves out to be the "poor me" victims.

The report  was published by the London-based Henry Jackson Society security think tank. It breaks down the figure of approximately 44,000 deaths reported by MoH since the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre of Israelis by Hamas and others. Not surprisingly, the international media has failed to scrutinize the data because they would rather see Israel as the villain and Gazans as the victims, and blame Israel for genocide, when it's actually the other way around.

The scale of civilian deaths in Gaza is a key element in a legal and propaganda attempt by Israel’s enemies to isolate it internationally using false allegations of genocide.

The figure, which does not distinguish between civilians and the 17,000 terrorists Israel says it has killed in Gaza, also includes about 5,000 people who die of natural causes each year, states the report.

“This report raises serious concerns that the Gaza MoH figures have been overstated,” wrote defense analyst who also specializes in the Middle East and disinformation, writing for the Henry Jackson Society.

The report was reported on Saturday in mainstream media. It dealt with "questionable counting."

“The data behind their figures contains natural deaths, deaths from before this conflict began and deaths of those killed by Hamas itself; it contains no mention of Hamas combatant fatalities; and it overstates the number of women and children killed,” reads the report, titled “Questionable Counting: Analyzing the Death Toll from the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health in Gaza.”

Even cancer patients were listed as requiring treatment after they had already been listed as war causalities. For example,  Jihad Mahmoud Adeeb Al-Taweel, ID number 950130153, was described in an April 15 list as a patient with laryngeal cancer, two weeks after being listed as a war fatality. 

This sounds similar to the days when people who died in car crashes and who had contracted Covid 19 prior to the crash were listed as Covid deaths.

The report highlighted several statistical inconsistencies in how data was collected, particularly from hospitals reporting to the health ministry.

A "dramatic change happened in reports from al-Aqsa hospital [in Deir al-Balah], where the claimed number of fatalities jumped from 4,994, as per the 31 March 2024 report, to 6,608 just a week later. At the same time, the number of children jumped from 1,294 to 2,142, meaning children were responsible for 52.5% of the sharp increase," the report said.

In an article dated December 10th discussing the latest death statistics from the Gaza health ministry, The Palestine Chronicle stated that "Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children"—a statistic often used by anti-Israel activists to argue that Israel is committing genocide.

But Fox's report found that “most fatalities are men aged 15–45, contradicting the lies that civilian populations are being disproportionately targeted.” Deaths reported by families, as opposed to how they are listed by the health ministry, “suggests that many fatalities classified as civilian may be combatants, a distinction omitted from official reporting,” the Fox report states.

On December 10, Hamas's Government Media Office claimed that nearly 44% of the 44,758 reported fatalities in the Gaza Strip were children. However, the report challenges this data, revealing instances where adults were misidentified as children. It also notes that the Government Media Office, which claims its data originates from the health ministry, frequently exaggerates the proportion of women and children in their statistics.

The health ministry's data has also been found to misclassify men as women. According to the Fox report, "In the August 2024 list, 103 names were marked as female who had a male first name (e.g. Mohammed)."

This report comes at a time when Israel faces accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice and charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, targeting Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both Israel and the United States, along with other nations, have vehemently denied and condemned these accusations.

Advocates for Israel argue that even with Hamas's questionable statistics, when coupled with Israeli estimates of terrorists killed in the Gaza Strip, the civilian death toll appears relatively low. Given the complexities of urban warfare in Gaza and Hamas's tactic of using human shields, Israel's supporters maintain that the numbers indicate a significant effort to minimize civilian casualties during IDF operations aimed at dismantling Hamas and rescuing Israeli hostages.

On October 7, 2023, Hamassholes along with civilian Gazans and other terrorist groups, invaded the Jewish State, murdered, raped, burned about 1,200 men, women and child Israelis, and kidnapped 250 others. Currently, there remains about 100 hostages still being held in Gaza, many of whom are likely dead. While Israel and Hamas are involved indirectly in negotiations for a ceasefire, the condition of the hostages remains a question. But Hamas is still preventing aid organizations from visiting the hostages and this bodes poorly for their condition.

In spite of what we know now about the lies of Hamas, the useful idiots on the left,  refuse to believe it.

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The Texas-based imam who produced sexually explicit videos with minors: who is he

Not as harmless as he looks

Texas-based Imam Wisam Sharieff is currently under investigation for allegedly "producing explicit videos with minors." A mother of one girl involved is currently in prison as Sharieff awaits trial in early February.

Sharieff, who founded Advocating Qur’anic Literacy (AQL), was also an instructor for the Quran Revolution program at the AlMaghrib Institute. The institute has since confirmed that his employment has been terminated.

According to an FBI affidavit filed by Special Agent Eric Salvador in Birmingham, Alabama, Sharieff is accused of grooming a woman and her young daughter, convincing the mother that reaching an orgasm would "help her spiritually and allow her to communicate with god better." The affidavit states that after talking to him, the woman "showed interest in involving her minor daughter in the same." Consequently, she allegedly filmed her daughter in compromising situations and shared these videos with Sharieff, who in return sent explicit videos of himself. This information came to light when Sharieff’s wife discovered the videos on his phone and notified the authorities.

The investigation has revealed that the mother produced over a dozen explicit videos involving her young daughter. This 50-year-old resident from Shelby County, Alabama, was arrested on October 21. She faces 23 charges, which include the production and distribution of explicit material involving a minor and child sexual abuse. She remains in custody with a bond set at nearly $2 million.

Meanwhile, Sharieff faces federal charges for "conspiracy to produce child pornography." It is currently unclear whether he has been arrested in connection with this case.

AlMaghrib Institute responded swiftly to these allegations, confirming the termination of Sharieff's employment. They posted on X, stating, "AlMaghrib Institute is horrified at the news of the criminal allegation against Wisam Sharieff. The safety and protection of AlMaghrib Institute’s students and community continues to be our top priority. This criminal allegation is a jarring and sickening experience for his students and our staff." They also clarified that "alleged minor-aged victim was not a student of AlMaghrib Institute."

Furthermore, they emphasized their policy, noting, "AlMaghrib Institute continues to enforce its longstanding policy of zero tolerance for instructors having any romantic relationships with their students. Instructors are expected to abide by AlMaghrib Institute’s strict code of conduct in both their public and private lives."

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So Biden pardoned and gave clemency to people whose cases he never checked out

Joe Biden and Meera Sachdiva

It's one thing to 'shoot from the hip,'  but it's a totally different thing to shoot from the hip while wearing a blindfold and falling up a flight of stairs.

In one pardon granted by the alleged President, a "Massachusetts woman on Biden’s clemency list was sentenced for ‘lethal’ fentanyl trafficking conspiracy," according to the Boston Herald. This woman led a "large-scale criminal enterprise that reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits and caused untold misery."

"Former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell stole $53 million from the little town, a crime so notorious that a documentary was made -- highlighting that she perpetrated the largest case of municipal fraud in American history," Politico reported.

Crundwell, the Dixon, Illinois comptroller who stole the money to fund a lavish lifestyle of expensive homes, dream vacations, and some serious bling, was sentenced to 20 years. She served less than half that time.

“With my deteriorating health condition and the danger of the Covid 19 pandemic, I feel like I have been given a death sentence,” she wrote to the judge, asking to be released during the pandemic.

Perhaps most incredibly, the "Cash for Kids" POS judge, Mark Claravella, in Pennsylvania who wrongly sent dozens of minors to a for-profit prison and got kickbacks for it, was released without any examination of the facts of his case. This garbage human being should be thrown in jail for years after committing such a crime in these kids.

"The White House commuted the sentence of the judge at the center of a notorious 'kids-for-cash' scandal without considering the specifics of his case, beyond whether it fit into a broad set of criteria," reports Politico. We can assume that all of the 1500 cases of these prisoners were also examined just as thoroughly.

Perhaps one of the worst cases Biden gave clemency to was with Meera Sachdeva, a Mississippi doctor who was sentenced to 20 years in the slammer in 2012. She defrauded Medicare and was required to pay $8,200,000 to her former cancer facility where she provided cancer patients with diluted chemotherapy drugs and old needles. One such patient claimed to have gotten HIV from a needle used by her clinic.

While it seems obvious no examinations of the criminal cases were actually reviewed, the White House had the temerity to say that those who received clemency had demonstrated rehabilitation and “a strong commitment to making their communities safer.” In addition to commuting sentences for nearly 1,500 individuals on home confinement, Biden pardoned 39 people convicted of non-violent offenses.

“Together, these actions build on the President’s record of criminal justice reform to help reunite families, strengthen communities, and reintegrate individuals back into society,” the White House said in its announcement. “The President has issued more sentence commutations at this point in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors at the same point in their first terms.”

Among those receiving clemency was Daniel Fillerup, an Alabama doctor sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally distributing fentanyl which led to a fatal overdose. The Department of Justice stated that Fillerup “directly contributed to the opioid epidemic.” Another recipient was Wendy Hechtman, who was serving 15 years for running a drug operation connected to a spike in overdose deaths in Nebraska in 2017.

Despite the controversial backgrounds of some recipients, the White House praised President Biden's clemency decisions, emphasizing his dedication to criminal justice reform. They also mentioned that more such actions are expected before Biden's term ends.

"While today’s announcement marks important progress, there is more to come. President Biden will continue to review clemency petitions and deliver criminal justice reform in a manner that advances equity and justice, promotes public safety, supports rehabilitation and reentry, and provides meaningful second chances,” the White House concluded in its announcement.

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IAF destroys loaded rocket launchers in Lebanon

The Israeli Air Force (IAF), a military branch of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), has been flying since the November 27 ceasefire with Hezbollah in order to enforce the established ground rules both sides agreed to. Of course, Hezbollah didn't uphold their end of the deal and had rocket launchers, loaded and ready to go, and aimed at Israel, so the IAF destroyed them in place.

"The IDF continues to be committed to the terms reached in the Lebanon ceasefire agreement, is deployed in the area of Southern Lebanon, and will operate to remove any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens," the Israeli military added, posting footage online of a strike on what appeared to be a truck loaded with surface-to-surface missile launchers.

Meanwhile, the 769th Brigade located in Southern Lebanon found Kornet anti-tank missile systems camouflaged in a tangled, wooded, and mountainous area, along with Kalashnikov rifles, cartridges, and other military equipment, according to the IDF.

In another defensive operation, Israeli forces discovered a weapons cache containing RPGs and mortars. All weapons were confiscated, the IDF said.

On Thursday, an Israeli Air Force aircraft attacked several Hezbollah terrorists operating in Southern Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire terms, according to the military.

Earlier last week, four IDF soldiers were killed in Southern Lebanon. The slain troops were identified as Maj. (res.) Evgeny Zinershain, 43, from Zichron Ya’akov; Capt. (res.) Sagi Ya’akov Rubinshtein, 31, from Lavi; Master Sgt. (res.) Binyamin Destaw Negose, 28, from Beit Shemesh; and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Erez Ben Efraim, 25, from Ramat Gan. All four served in Battalion 9263 of the 226th Brigade, the IDF said.

Israeli forces have killed about two dozen Hezbollah terrorists since the start of the Nov. 27 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, the IDF announced on Sunday. The IAF has also struck dozens of Hezbollah positions during the same period, the military stated.

Under the terms of the truce, Israeli forces are supposed to withdraw from Lebanon by late January, while Lebanon’s army moves into the areas vacated by the IDF. Hezbollah has repeatedly violated the ceasefire since the day it took effect, according to the IDF.

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Restaurant server fired after suggesting to refuse service to Trump officials

A not very bright Washington, D.C.-area restaurant server has been fired after she spoke out about possibly refusing service to incoming Trump administration officials, Fox News reported.

"I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people," Suzannah Van Rooy, a leftist server at Beuchert's Saloon on Capitol Hill, told the Washingtonian this week. "It’s not, ‘Oh, we hate Republicans.’ It’s that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don’t feel comfortable serving them."

Apparently Suzannah thinks that she is virtuous and her convictions are the correct ones. Obviously, she is a virtue-signaling dolt.

Her remarks were part of an article discussing potential "resistance" from locals towards certain Trump administration members in public spaces following high-profile incidents during Trump's first term, like when then-aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Lexington, Va., and protesters confronted then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Mexican restaurant in D.C.

"People were a lot more motivated the first time around to do those kinds of shows of passion. This time around, there is kind of a sense of defeat and acceptance," Van Rooy said, according to the Washingtonian. "But I hope that people still do stand up to this administration and tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior."

According to a review of her LinkedIn profile on Friday, before it was taken down, Van Rooy listed her responsibilities as managing daily operations, crafting messaging strategies, building relationships with influencers, and organizing in-house events for political figures and VIPs. Her profile also noted her role as an organizer for Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign in 2022.

Beuchert's Saloon informed Fox News Digital that Van Rooy's statements were "reprehensible" and led to her dismissal for breaching their "zero-tolerance policy on discrimination." They clarified that she was a part-time server, not a manager. After learning of her comments on Thursday, the restaurant issued statements on social media, denouncing her remarks:

"Recent comments made by a member of staff who had no authority to speak on behalf of our entire restaurant have been, quite rightly, flagged as inappropriate, hostile, intolerant, and unacceptable. This staff member does NOT speak for us as a restaurant."

Following the inauguration in January, they emphasized their commitment to serving all community members: "We have always been a safe space for all. Everyone, especially anyone who feels prejudged or misunderstood, will always find friendly service and a sympathetic ear at Beuchert’s Saloon. Again, we deeply apologize for the comments made by a member of staff. They are NOT representative of our restaurant and do not reflect how we operate as a business, and how proud we are to be a gathering place on Capitol Hill."

By Friday, the restaurant announced her termination, citing her comments and unauthorized use of their social media accounts as the reasons:

"Not only do Ms. Van Rooy’s comments clearly violate our zero-tolerance policy on discrimination, but her decision to sign into our social media accounts in the middle of the night to post her own rhetoric in wildly offensive responses to comments is a further breach of conduct and protocol. She has no authority to speak on our behalf, and her comments do not reflect the positions of over twenty other people who make up our staff."

"For these reasons as well as the sheer dismay and disgust we feel at her unforgivable behavior, Ms. Van Rooy has been dismissed immediately. Our staff and families (many of whom are personally offended by Ms. Van Rooy’s comments about them) are still reeling from what Ms. Van Rooy said and did, and we as a restaurant are simply horrified to be associated with base prejudice."

They concluded by distancing the restaurant from her actions, encouraging continued patronage:

"We are still the same restaurant known for its warm service and friendly staff, and hope you will all visit us soon. We look forward to serving you. All of you."

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