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Norman Rogers contributor to American Thinker: A popular saying is that those that don’t believe in God will believe in anything. Global warming provides an excellent reason for making an effort to believe in God, or at least in Judeo-Christian ideology that is the basis of our civilization. Global warming religion originates in well-financed scientific organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The scientific basis of the catastrophe theory is junk science made to seem authoritative by dressing it up with lengthy reports based on dubious computer models.

Robert Spencer contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Would You Like A Lime With That?), informing us that Jesus was from a family of “Jewish Palestinians.” It simply won’t do, you see, for leftists to acknowledge Jesus as what he really was, a Jew, for if they did, their sharply rising antisemitism would render him useless as a stick with which to beat Christians and patriots. If Jew-haters say Jesus was a Jew, they can hardly turn around and try to invoke his moral authority to justify their perspectives and proclivities. And so Jesus must become a Palestinian, one of the left’s favorite victim classes, and one leftists have loved with a special ardor ever since the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023.

J.B. Shurk contributor to American Thinker: For too long, those who “run” America have had two things in common: (1) a hatred for individual freedoms, and (2) an even deeper hatred for the one country on the planet explicitly founded on their protection. As a national security surveillance State superseded the U.S. Constitution, leftists have controlled academia, journalism, the legal system, and entertainment. They have shoved anyone with a working brain out the door while assuring themselves that they deserve their privileged social positions and unearned accolades. They tell themselves that they are smart and enlightened, but anybody capable of self-examination knows this not to be true. Leftists are not happy people. They have not figured out any special meaning to life because, to them, life is meaningless. In other words, for too many years, a collection of the most depressed, least curious, morally relativistic, and intellectually homogenous people on the planet have been given pampered positions in exchange for acting as nihilistic and narcotic-dependent sea vessel captains willing to steer America into an iceberg of decline and failure.

Joe Allen Singularity Weekly: You don’t have to be paranoid to know people will lie to get what they want. And you don’t have to be snide to know most people will believe what they want to believe. These are old problems. In Genesis, we read that creation was immediately followed by a lie of cosmic proportions: “Eat the fruit and you will be as gods.” Today, the same promise is held out with an Apple logo and a digital avatar.

Paul Krause I contributor to The Federalist: The latest edition of The Politics of Prudence is a worthwhile read, especially for a conservative movement adrift in the age of “democratism.” Kirk reminds readers who have not yet been indoctrinated into that ideology that democracy can be tyrannical too. There is nothing intrinsically noble about democracy — what makes a democracy noble is the virtuous citizens in a democracy.

Alan Joseph Bauer contributor to Frontpage Magazine: *Palestinians gang-raped and murdered numerous Israeli women, including young mothers; the IDF has not been accused of raping anyone in Gaza. *Palestinians beheaded soldiers and babies; the IDF has only stripped down captives to make sure that they do not have bombs strapped on them. Then the terrorists are taken to jail where they get three square meals and interrogation. *Palestinians murdered entire families, children in front of their parents, parents in front of their children; the IDF has never targeted civilians and the thousands of civilians killed are human shields employed by Hamas. The IDF does not target civilians, period.

BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP & HIS FORMER TRUMP EMPLOYEES, SUPPORTERS & WH STAFF

Turley: It’s not just Trump: Democrats are moving to bar Republicans from ballots nationwide

As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Rep. Scott Perry. It’s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to bar opponents as “insurrectionists” for questioning the election of President Biden. But what’s chilling is how many support such efforts, […] Democrats and pundits have claimed civil libertarians and journalists who have testified against the government’s growing censorship efforts are enablers of insurrectionists and even “Putin lovers.” These Democratic members and activists vividly demonstrated this unfounded theory’s dangerous implications.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/01/03/opinion/its-not-just-trump-democrats-are-moving-to-bar-republicans-from-ballots-nationwide/

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET/NEW WORLD ORDER) & TRANS HUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Scates: The Globalist ‘Final Solution’

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks. —C.S. Lewis […] As horrific as the Nazis were, today there is another group who seek a “final solution” even more terrifying: they want to eliminate over 7 billion people from the face of the Earth.  In a 2017 interview, Dennis Meadows, co-author of the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth, said the Earth’s population needs to be “brought back down to one billion.”  The current global population is over 8 billion.  Their idea isn’t new; it reaches back over 200 years, to Thomas Malthus’s 1798 “Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society.”  Malthus concluded that un-managed population growth would inevitably lead to a catastrophic societal collapse and advocated for limiting reproduction of “undesirables.” […] Other elites share the Club of Rome’s goals, and many of them trace back to David Rockefeller, head of Chase Manhattan Bank, who was a longtime advocate of global government.  He funded the Club of Rome and was mentor to Canadian Maurice Strong, who ran the U.N.’s Environment Program for over thirty years.  It was through Strong — a Club of Rome member and board member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) — that Rockefeller influenced the U.N., and also Klaus Schwab, head of the WEF.  Longtime Rockefeller friend Henry Kissinger was Schwab’s tutor at the Harvard International Business Seminar for two years, and Schwab credits both Strong and Kissinger as mentors.

Read more at American Thinker.

Allen: 2024: A New Year of Deepfakes and Old-School Phonies

Our grip on reality has always been fragile. Perhaps the first lie ever grunted by a caveman was: “Don’t worry, baby! Of course I’ll be back.” Maybe he left a crude picture of himself scratched on her cavern wall, or scribbled an unflattering cartoon of his mangy rival. Now in the 21st century, we have the deepfake—a virtual replica of a person’s visage and voice. Artificial intelligence systems have gotten so good at mimicry, we’re on the cusp of having widespread cheap decoys that are indistinguishable from the real thing. A deepfake can be made to say or do anything: Political gaffes. Racist rants. Genocidal threats. Sexual assault. Nasty insults to good friends.

Read more: https://joebot.substack.com/p/2024-a-new-year-of-deepfakes-and

The REAL way to steal an election: TOM LEONARD reveals how terrifyingly powerful AI will soon be able to sway voters by exploiting their most private thoughts and fears… as if 2024 wasn’t already chaotic enough!

His mouth agape with fear and fury, Donald Trump is surrounded and arrested in the street by New York police officers and dragged, kicking and screaming, off to jail. Explosions rock Taiwan as the Chinese invade, financial markets go into freefall and illegal immigrants surge over the US border, plunging the world into crisis – all of it the terrible consequences of Joe Biden winning a second term. And let’s not forget Hillary Clinton, shockingly confiding: ‘You know, people might be surprised to hear me saying this, but I actually like Ron DeSantis a lot […] I’d say he’s just the kind of guy this country needs, and I really mean that.’ All these photos or videos, which are easily found on the internet if you haven’t encountered them already, are deeply realistic but also deeply fake. They are, say digital experts, just a taste of the malign and potentially devastating influence that Artificial Intelligence will have on the next US presidential election.

Even Sam Altman, perhaps the leading prophet of the AI revolution, has spoken out about the menace that the stunningly powerful technology and its products – whether in the form of deepfake videos, ‘rumor bombs’ or general disinformation carpet-bombed across social media – poses to the democratic process.

Speaking this month after being named Time magazine’s CEO of the year, Altman, the founder of Open AI, warned that – despite all the technology’s huge potential benefits – one of its major ‘downsides’ is its ‘persuasive’ power and ‘ability to affect elections next year’. […] Tech companies have released their products — such as Open AI’s Chat GPT and image creation software DALL-E — free on to the web so anyone can use them and there are virtually no laws to stand in their way.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12894401/artifical-intelligence-election-2024-sam-altman-tom-leonard.html

(H/T CFP) DNYUZ: Apple Explores A.I. Deals With News Publishers

Apple has opened negotiations in recent weeks with major news and publishing organizations, seeking permission to use their material in the company’s development of generative artificial intelligence systems, according to four people familiar with the discussions. The technology giant has floated multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to license the archives of news articles, said the people with knowledge of talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations. The news organizations contacted by Apple include Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue and The New Yorker; NBC News; and IAC, which owns People, The Daily Beast and Better Homes and Gardens. The negotiations mark one of the earliest examples of how Apple is trying to catch up to rivals in the race to develop generative A.I., which allows computers to create images and chat like a human. The technology, which artificial intelligence experts refer to as neural networks, is built by using troves of photos or digital text to recognize patterns. By analyzing thousands of cat photos, for instance, a computer can learn to recognize a cat.

Read more: https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdnyuz.com%2F2023%2F12%2F22%2Fapple-explores-a-i-deals-with-news-publishers%2F

(H/T CFP) Channel 1 post on X: See the highest quality AI footage in the world. – Our generated anchors deliver stories that are informative, heartfelt and entertaining. Watch the showcase episode of our upcoming news network now.

Watch the 22 minute report: https://twitter.com/channel1_ai/status/1734591810033373231

TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE DOOM MYTH: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE  POWER & CONTROL

Spence: Narrative Buster: Real Climate Scientists Say We Should Embrace HIGHER CO2 Levels

The Earth has entered “uncharted territory” and life is “under siege.” The public has failed to heed this message and now “time is up,” warns a recent report from Oxford Academics’ BioScience. The authors of the report say the catalyst behind the dire warnings is escalating concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2).

To salvage what remains, the authors say a much faster phase-out of oil, coal, and other fossil fuels is necessary. Failure could cause water and food shortages, plus extreme heat, for a third to half of the world’s population. […] According to Patrick Moore, chairman and chief scientist of Ecosense Environmental and co-founder of Greenpeace, the climate change messaging isn’t based in fact. “The whole thing is a total scam,” said Mr. Moore. “There is actually no scientific evidence that CO2 is responsible for climate change over the eons.” Mr. Moore said that over the past few decades, the climate message has continually changed; first, it was global cooling, then global warming, then climate change, and now it’s disastrous weather.

Read more: https://thelibertydaily.com/narrative-buster-real-climate-scientists-say-we-should/

JANUARY 6 SELECT COMMITTEE

War Room: ‘Destruction of Evidence’: Julie Kelly Exposes How Democrats Are Hiding January 6 Records

At least 800 filmed witness depositions have disappeared.

Watch the 2:41 minute interview clip: https://rumble.com/v44pkv3-destruction-of-evidence-julie-kelly-exposes-how-democrats-are-hiding-januar.html

War Room: Julie Kelly Explains How Jan 6 Proves Democrats Were Planning Lawfare Attacks On Trump

Watch the 17:44 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v44ptsc-julie-kelly-explains-how-jan-6-proves-democrats-were-planning-lawfare-attac.html

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES & THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

(Cyber 9/11 event? Martial Law?) Durden: “Something Big” Looms For America In 2024

I’m already liking 2024. Consequence is itching to return to the American scene. Somewhere around 2016, cause and effect got a divorce. After that, things just happened or unhappened with no further orders of effect, like some brute existence without purpose, meaning, or even awareness, except for the feeling of the lash on your back. After a long journey through a dark place, treading ever-deeper into the unknown, knowing you are in the presence of demons from one footstep to the next, worrying incessantly that God has abandoned you. . . the alarm bell is ringing, the light is shining through, your eyes roll up like window-shades, and it’s time to get your mind right! Yes, even nations have bad dreams. Welcome to the Great Clarification. We are waking to the stupefying criminality of public life, to the immersive obvious bullshit of people in charge who don’t deserve your respect or compliance. […] Whitney Webb on Why Intel Agencies Are Running ‘Election Simulations’ “They basically conducted these simulations of what types of hacks and events could trigger the cancellation of a U.S. Presidential Election…It’s very likely there’s going to be some sort of cyber 9/11.

Read more/Watch the 4:11 minute interview: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/something-big-looms-america-2024

Revolver.news: Chilling: CBS reporter Catherine Herridge predicts a high-impact “Black Swan Event” in 2024…

Many Americans sense something brewing as we approach another national election. Remember the last time we had one? A so-called deadly “pandemic” emerged just in time to take out President Trump’s booming economy. It caused widespread chaos and led to a flood of sketchy mail-in ballots, which, ironically, seemed to favor the left. Now, with Trump back on the ballot, we’re bracing for the possibility of another significant event that will rock the world. CBS reporter Catherine Herridge has the same feeling and shared a chilling and foreboding prediction of a “Black Swan” event in 2024. Wondering what that means? It’s a national security event of immense impact that’s totally unpredictable. Catherine isn’t the only one talking about a looming “national security” event.

Read more: https://revolver.news/2023/12/chilling-cbs-reporter-catherine-herridge-predicts-high-impact-black-swan-event-in-2024/

Bishop: The Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting rule and the surveillance state

The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act created the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting rule to ostensibly target money laundering. Beginning January 1, 2024, the Act mandates U.S. companies, regardless of size, to register their beneficial and controlling owners with the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). FinCEN claims the corporate ownership database will be used exclusively to identify anonymous shell companies involved in money laundering and terrorist activities. Once again, like the Patriot Act, it grants surveillance powers violating the Constitution. There is no provision for judicial oversight to protect individual rights as if that ever mattered. […] BIO is a dragnet using suspicionless searches and compelled disclosures to look for potential financial crimes, which violates privacy. State entity formations don’t require disclosure of beneficial ownership, which provides privacy and prevents intrusion from the Federal government. Privacy is one of the most significant benefits of incorporation in Delaware. BOI is an unconstitutional usurping of a state’s power to charter and regulate an entity. The release of personal data to various federal agencies without the consent of the reporting company is an unreasonable search and seizure violation of the Fourth Amendment. Compelling reporting is also self-incrimination and a violation of the Fifth Amendment, and an invasion of the right to privacy violates the Ninth Amendment. Further, BOI violates the First Amendment’s right to free speech and private association. BOI is unconstitutional.

Read more at American Thinker.

Emmons: Biden’s DOJ drops charges of political campaign violations against disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried

Bankman-Fried donated $5.2 million to President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been prosecuted for fraud by the federal government, but the charged he faced for political campaign finance violations have been dropped by federal prosecutors.

Read more: https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-doj-drops-charges-of-political-campaign-violations-against-disgraced-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried

PHYSICIANS FIRST DO NO HARM

War Room: Dr. Joseph Ladapo: I Am Calling For A Halt To The Use Of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

Watch the 14:36 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v44yso0-dr.-joseph-ladapo-i-am-calling-for-a-halt-to-the-use-of-mrna-covid-19-vacci.html

A Midwestern Doctor: The Deadly Rise of Scientism

One of the greatest challenges each society faces is deciding what constitutes “truth.” Whoever holds that power wields enormous influence and steers the direction of the society for better or for worse. For centuries, “truth” was delegated to the ruling institutions of the time, and hence truth was simply the narrative which conformed to their interests. Then, during the enlightenment period a new idea emerged—that truth could be determined empirically through experimentation and data. This in turn gave birth to the scientific revolution, and while not perfect (as vested interests would still try to make their “narrative” be truth irrespective of what the scientific data showed), scientific inquiry began shaping the direction of Western Culture, and in a rocky fashion gradually moved society forward, giving us many of the benefits we take for granted today.

Read more/Watch the 5:15 minute video “Brave Doctors Were Warning US Decades Ago”  https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-deadly-rise-of-scientism

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES

King: Trump to hold Fox News town hall opposite CNN Iowa debate

Former President Donald Trump will hold an Iowa town hall with Fox News Channel next week, directly opposite CNN’s debate featuring 2024 rivals Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, FNC announced Tuesday. Trump, 77, is confirmed to miss the fifth debate of the Republican primary calendar Jan. 10 in favor of the one-hour Des Moines event moderated by Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier and “The Story” host Martha MacCallum. The Trump town hall will begin at 9 p.m. ET, the same time as the CNN debate at nearby Drake University. Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations and onetime governor of South Carolina, and DeSantis, the governor of Florida, will be the only two participants in the CNN debate . . .

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/01/02/news/trump-to-hold-fox-news-town-hall-opposite-cnn-iowa-debate/

Binder: Nikki Haley Was Sued for Backing Obama’s Refugee Resettlement to U.S.

As governor of South Carolina, Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley was sued by a resident of the state for backing former President Obama’s refugee resettlement program. Over the years, Haley has held differing opinions regarding the federal government’s refugee resettlement program, whereby thousands are resettled across the United States every year — many arriving from some of the most dangerous regions in the world. For example, three days after the November 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris, France, — when seven Islamic terrorists killed 130 people, including one terrorist who reportedly posed as a Syrian refugee to get into the country — Haley was one of only nine Republican governors who continued supporting then-President Obama’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees across the U.S.

Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/03/nikki-haley-was-sued-for-backing-obamas-refugee-resettlement-to-u-s/

Vivek Ramaswamy X post: After Steve King announced he was endorsing me, predictably a lame reporter from @WaPo tried to get me to play the game of “denouncing white supremacy,” while she refused to actually define “white supremacy” which in recent years encompasses concepts like “punctuality” & “the written word.” I refused to play along with her game.

Watch the 3:20 minute takedown on X/Twitter.

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Kessler: China Unveils Bid To Deepen Economic Ties With Blue Cities

China is seeking to bolster economic connections between the southern Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area and the San Francisco and New York City bay areas, according to the South China Morning Post. Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), announced the effort during an interview published Tuesday with CCP-backed digital outlet The Paper, according to the SCMP. The effort expands on broader CPAFFC intentions to boost friendly overseas exchanges, with Yang also expressing hope for cooperation between the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the Mississippi River Basin.

Read more: https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/02/china-bid-economic-ties-blue-cities/

Nazar: Biden Gov’t Softened Vetting Process for Chinese Illegal Immigrants, According to Email

On Tuesday, an internal United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) email obtained by The Daily Caller revealed that the Biden administration simplified the vetting process for Chinese illegal immigrants. The April 2023 email sent by a CBP supervisor to a “master list” of 500 Border Patrol agents calls on officials to decrease the number of interview questions for Chinese migrants arrested after illegally crossing into the country from 40 to five. The new directive came as agents were overwhelmed with record numbers of illegal crossings following the 2020 election.[…] “This policy change has accelerated the time it takes to process Chinese illegal immigrants — this does not make America safer,” Carrell told the DCNF. “The final result is that dangerous Chinese illegal immigrants will still be released into the US.”

Read more: https://foreigndesknews.com/top-story/biden-govt-softened-vetting-process-for-chinese-illegal-immigrants-according-to-email/

Griffith: How China is using AI to hunt American SPIES: Beijing’s shadowy Ministry of State Security deploys powerful software to create instant dossiers on US visitors to weed out enemy agents in ‘new Cold War’ with the CIA

The Ministry of State Security (MSS) was once overshadowed by Chinese military intelligence units, but has grown in reputation and prowess to become the country’s top spy agency. Powerful and well-funded, the MSS combines the CIA’s mission of foreign surveillance with the FBI‘s mandate of domestic counterintelligence, all in one overtly political agency explicitly devoted to protecting China’s Communist Party. The MSS is now using AI and facial recognition to track foreign diplomats, military officers and intelligence operatives in Beijing’s embassy district, according to a New York Times report on Wednesday citing US officials and a person with knowledge of the matter.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12905585/China-MSS-CIA-spy-intelligence-AI.html

Fanell & Thayer: The PRC’s Aggression Is Happening Now Against the Philippines

A warning from the 20th century is that dictatorships tend to use aggression not first against great powers but against smaller states. Hitler pressured Austria and seized the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia before seizing the rest of the Czech Republic, turning Slovakia into a protectorate, and seizing Memel (Klaipeda) from Lithuania. After checking Japan in 1938 and 1939 in the Far East, Stalin aggressed against Poland with his ally Nazi Germany before turning to invade Finland, the Baltic states, and the Romanian territory of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Mao invaded Tibet as he was preparing to intervene in the Korean War. That important lesson permits us to see the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) aggression against the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally, in an alarming light. The PRC has adopted a sustained coercive campaign against the Philippines to seize its sovereign territory. The world is witnessing this aggression today in the South China Sea. Over the past three decades, the PRC has used brute force to assert their “territorial” claim over the South China Sea, a sea area 30% larger than the Mediterranean Sea, where some $5 trillion worth of goods transit each year.

Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/01/the-prcs-aggression-is-happening-now-against-the-philippines/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

Spencer: Biden Panders to His Far-Left Base, Hangs Up On Netanyahu

The Daily Caller reported Saturday that the addled and aging corruptocrat “reportedly hung up on Prime Minister Netanyahu after a heated phone call about the Palestinian tax revenue dispute.” News of this latest embarrassment comes from “two U.S. and Israeli officials and a source with knowledge of the issue.” No one seems to be saying that Old Joe, in the fog of his galloping dementia, mistook Netanyahu for an annoyingly persistent telemarketer, so apparently the hang-up was entirely intentional. The dispute revolves around the fact that “amid the Israel-Hamas war, the Israeli government has refused to release some tax revenues it collects for the Palestinian Authority that it says would go to the terrorist group Hamas.” It’s understandable that such hesitation would anger Old Joe. After all, the Biden regime has never hesitated to shovel money to the Palestinians, without any regard for the possibility that it could end up in the hands of Hamas.

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-panders-to-his-far-left-base-hangs-up-on-netanyahu/

Greenfield: Biden Has Already Allowed the Houthis to Win

Playing defense against Islamic terrorists doesn’t work. The terrorists, at least initially, don’t need to win, they just need to take your society hostage and force you to constantly be on the defensive. Parts of your economy get shut down and you’re always on alert. The Houthi Jihadists in Yemen, backed by Iran, have taken a crucial waterway hostage. Biden responded by playing defense, responding to Houthi attacks on shipping but without making a concerted effort to take out the terrorist infrastructure. And so here we are. […]  Read between the lines here. US Naval personnel were only allowed to fire on the Houthis when fired on.

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-has-already-allowed-the-houthis-to-win/

Post Editorial Board: Iran and its pawns are escalating across the Mideast to push Biden into full retreat

For all President Biden’s desperate desire to avoid “escalation” in the Middle East, US forces on Sunday sank three Houthi boats trying to hijack a freighter in the Red Sea, killing multiple terrorists — or pirates, if you prefer. And the Houthis’ sponsor, Iran, pointedly sent a warship into the sea on Monday while a top Iranian security official, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, met Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam, praising the terror group’s “brave actions” against “Zionist aggression.”

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/01/01/opinion/iran-and-its-pawns-are-escalating-across-the-mideast-to-push-biden-into-full-retreat/

Rubin: Is It Time to Sink the Iranian Navy?

On Dec. 23, 2023, the Pentagon reported Iran had directly targeted international shipping. “The motor vessel CHEM PLUTO, a Liberia-flagged, Japanese-owned, and Netherlands-operated chemical tanker was struck at approximately 10 a.m. local time today… by a one-way attack drone fired from Iran,” a spokesman said. While the Lebanese Hezbollah , the Yemen-based Houthis , and Gaza-based Hamas have previously targeted shipping with drones and missiles, the Iranian leadership traditionally denies responsibility. Tehran’s proxy warfare constitutes a core component of its strategy of plausible deniability.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have long viewed the Iranian navy, alongside the IRGC’s external operation Qods Force, as twin pillars of Iran’s force projection, especially after the 2007 decision by then-IRGC chief Mohammad Ali Jafari to redirect the broader IRGC toward internal repression.

Read more: https://www.meforum.org/65401/is-it-time-to-sink-the-iranian-navy

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Varney: Why Isn’t Vaxx Tyrant Joe Biden Worried About Polio, Leprosy, And Measles Seeping Through The Border?

Successful public health campaigns and medical advances have enabled the United States to conquer a range of disfiguring and damaging diseases. Polio, which paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, was wiped out by widespread vaccinations. In 1999 the nation’s last hospital for lepers closed its doors in Louisiana. A global campaign eradicated smallpox, while lethal tuberculosis, the “consumption” that stalked characters in decades of literature, seemed beaten by antibiotics. Measles outbreaks still occur from time to time, but they are small, local, and easily contained. Recently, however, some of these forgotten but still formidable infectious diseases have begun to reappear in the U.S. For two years running, polio has been detected in some New York water samples, and this fall, leprosy reemerged in Florida, where cases of malaria have also been recorded. […] “The recent polio and leprosy cases are almost certainly imports to the U.S.,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and scientist at Stanford University, one of the most outspoken critics of official Covid-19 narratives in the last pandemic that later proved flawed. And the Biden administration, an aggressive promoter of often mandatory vaccination last time, now is offering little public comment on the connection between disease and the porous borders with which its immigration policy has become widely identified. Neither the Centers for Disease Control nor the Department of Homeland Security would discuss the issue with RealClearInvestigations.

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/03/why-isnt-vaxx-tyrant-joe-biden-worried-about-the-polio-leprosy-and-measles-apparently-seeping-through-the-border/

Read about Leprosy: https://www.britannica.com/science/leprosy

Read about Polio: https://www.britannica.com/science/polio

Read about Measles: https://www.britannica.com/science/measles

(State by state breakdown) KanekoaTheGreat on Threadreader: JUST IN – President Trump Releases Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election in the Swing States. […] Since, investigations across the country have uncovered an avalanche of irregularities, unlawful activity, manipulation of election records, destruction of evidence, and fraud. The findings, which are outcome determinative, are detailed in the summaries of the Swing States. Georgia . . .Wisconsin . . .Pennsylvania. . . .Arizona . . . Michigan. . .

Read more: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1742670648433090764.html

War Room: Frank Gaffney: Biden Regime Is Guilty Of Treason, Trying To Strip America Of Its Sovereignty

Watch the 5:29 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v44wt02-frank-gaffney-biden-regime-is-guilty-of-treason-trying-to-strip-america-of-.html

War Room: Rep. Matt Rosendale: “We are willing to say, shut the government down until the border is secured”

Watch the 4:53 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v44yxno-rep.-matt-rosendale-we-are-willing-to-say-shut-the-government-down-until-th.html

Hubbard: Al-Qaeda threatens NYC energy, transportation with suicide bombers, relaunches English magazine

The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that it is monitoring the potential threat posed by the al-Qaeda affiliate, according to NewsNation. Al-Malahem Media, Al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula’s media arm, published the video late last month. It opens with a picture of Al-Qaeda’s logo and the translated Quran verse: “And fight in the way of Allah, you are not held responsible except for yourself … and inspire the believers.” The video features a video of the American flag followed by Israeli flags being burned as a voice says, “Our enemy is one and that is why we strive jihad against this enemy.”

Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/security/al-qaeda-threatens-nyc-energy-transportation-suicide-bombers-relaunches-english

O’keefe Media Group: EXPOSED: “I’LL PAY YOU GUYS!” Secretive Phoenix Migrant Facility worker tries to bribe journalist

SECRET MIGRANT CENTER EXPOSED PART 1: “I’LL PAY YOU GUYS.” Phoenix Migrant ‘Refugee’ Facility worker caught on tape trying to bribe journalist. Video shows facility run by International Rescue Committee thousands of migrant “refugees” every hour on the hour to Phoenix Sky Harbor airport. Migrants tell us they crossed border illegally, as IRC given $415 million from Feds to give the pretense of Refugee status and fly them on flights out of Terminal 3 and 4 Tomas Robles, an IRC staffer, called us “domestic terrorists” and reported us to the police for asking questions. Sources and insiders gave us the information that brought us what you see in this video. If you work for the airlines, the bus companies, the government, NGOs, or if you have confidential info that can shed light on what’s really going on, contact us at tips.okeefemediagroup.com and on Signal at 914-315-9415.

Watch the 12:54 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTq5VV573gs

RawsAlert posted on X: Currently, hundreds of Pro-Palestine protesters and other activists are occupying and have shut down the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California. These protesters have disrupted the Assembly session on opening day, demanding a permanent ceasefire and an end to all U.S. military aid to Israel. Law enforcement is present on the scene, working to maintain order between the protesters and Capitol authorities.

Watch the 56 second video: https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1742675515071173031

Jacobson: Blockade of World Trade Center By Anti-Israel Activists An Attempted Intimidation of U.S.

Their goal is not to convince people, it’s to send a message of intimidation, that they will disregard even our most sensitive of norms because they hate our society as much if not more than they hate Israel.

Read more/Watch video clips: https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/blockade-of-world-trade-center-by-anti-israel-activists-an-attempted-intimidation-of-u-s/

BOOK REVIEW: THE RADICAL MIND: THE DESTRUCTIVE PLANS OF THE WOKE LEFT BY DAVID HOROWITZ

Tapson: Horowitz Dissects the Radical Mind

“Progressivism is ultimately a criminal mentality,” David Horowitz states bluntly in his latest work, The Radical Mind: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left from Humanix Books. “The belief that the world is marching towards justice, and that to be a progressive means one is on ‘the right side of history,’ is a delusion that will justify any and every atrocity, and already has.” It is this sort of direct, gloves-off assault on the Left that has always characterized Horowitz’s vast body of conservative writing, to which he has passionately devoted the last nearly four decades. There is no conservative writer better than David Horowitz at explicating and exposing the radical Left’s power-hungry agenda and mindset, because as a former child of hardcore Communist parents, as a former far-Left activist engaged in revolution alongside the likes of the Black Panthers, and as a former radical intellectual well-versed in Progressive (i.e., Communist) theory, he knows the Left better than they know themselves. As he puts it himself in his new book, “Having been born into this political left and then rejected it, I am familiar with its seductive public message, and its sinister concealed intentions.”

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/horowitz-dissects-the-radical-mind/

DEMOCRAT MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ANTI POLICE ANTI VICTIM PRO CRIMINAL

Williams: Las Vegas judge is attacked by freshly-convicted criminal who jumped over her bench to rain punches on her after she sentenced him to jail

Judge Mary Kay Holthus from the Clark County District Court was mid-sentencing when convicted criminal Deobra Delone Redden launched at her on Wednesday morning. Video footage shows the wild moment Redden leaped out from where he was standing and hopped into the judge’s bench to tackle her.

As he throws himself at the shocked judge, Redden is heard saying ‘nah f*** that b*tch.’ […] Redden has a criminal history involving charges in both Nevada and Texas.

Read more/Watch the 1:42 minute video: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12924343/las-Vegas-judge-attacked-courtroom-Mary-Kay-holthus.html

Mann: Shocking moment mob of 100 looters reverses Kia through doors of mom-and-pop bakery in Compton, then steals food and $20,000 in takings after illegal street takeover

  • A mob of young men and women ransacked a neighborhood bakery on Tuesday, stealing $20,000 and causing massive destruction
  • Residents say that illegal street takeovers, of the sort that preceded the robbery, have become common in the area

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12924203/Compton-criminals-street-takeover-bakery-California.html

Hammer: Nearly HALF of Wisconsin police force resigns in one day after village board tried to ELIMINATE the entire department before ‘devastated’ chief died by suicide

Five members of a Wisconsin police force resigned on the same day – an exodus that represents nearly half of the department. The Village of Big Bend announced the resignations this past week, after officers told brass they were fed-up with a ‘toxic’ work environment created by the village board.

Read more/Watch the 1:11 minute video: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12923081/half-wisconsin-police-force-big-bend-resigns-chief-suicide.html

WAR IN ISRAEL

(Lesson for Americans: never surrender your right to keep & bear arms) Kuepper: Israeli news anchor carries a gun while live on air in the studio in latest sign of how civilians still do not feel safe since Hamas attack

Lital Shemesh, a presenter for right-wing Israeli broadcaster Channel 14, was pictured on Tuesday sitting behind her anchor desk with a gun tucked into the waistband of her trousers. Shemesh’s gun is right next to her microphone receivers while she is sitting on the edge of her presenter chair.

Her most recent social media post showed her practising her shooting skills on a gun range as she called for people ‘get your guns out’. […] This comes as fears of another Hamas offensive have been rising after the terror group killed 1,140 people, most of them civilians, during their October 7 attack, according to a tally based on official Israeli figures. Last month, a young couple was pictured heading out on the streets in Israel – with an assault rifle slung over the shoulder. The pair were seen walking hand-in-hand through Jerusalem on December 4 amid heightened tensions in the city.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12925479/Israeli-news-anchor-gun-live-studio-hamas-attack-fear.html

Nordlinger: Notes on Israel’s Crisis

Hamas is endlessly evil. The terror group released a propaganda video that said: “To the families of the captives, your suffering has not yet begun” Look: Hamas must die. Decent people can’t coexist with them. (Of course, this is true of all terror movements, and many dictatorships.)

Read more/Watch two short videos: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/notes-on-israels-crisis/

Schneider: Expert: Hezbollah has built a vast tunnel network far more sophisticated than Hamas’s

The Lebanon tunnel project was begun and developed long before the one in Gaza. Existing intelligence indicates a vast tunnel network in southern Lebanon, deep and multi-pronged. At the Alma Research and Education Center, which focuses on the security challenges on Israel’s northern border, researchers have spent many years investigating Lebanon’s underworld. Tal Beeri, the director of Alma’s Research Department, who served for decades in IDF intelligence units, has exposed that subterranean network in material based on considerable open-source intelligence. Several years ago, Beeri managed to track down on the internet a “map of polygons,” covering what he called the “Land of the Tunnels” in southern Lebanon. “The map is marked, by an unknown party, with polygons (circles) indicating 36 geographic regions, towns and villages,” he wrote in 2021 paper.

Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/expert-hezbollah-has-built-a-vast-tunnel-network-far-more-sophisticated-than-hamass/

Times of Israel: In harrowing detail, NYT reports on weaponization of rape, sexual violence on Oct. 7

The New York Times said it identified at least seven locations across southern Israel where women and girls were apparently sexually abused or mutilated. Those the paper interviewed described finding the bodies of more than 30 women in and around the Supernova rave site and in two nearby kibbutzim in a similar state as Abdush’s — “legs spread, clothes torn off, signs of abuse in their genital areas.” Photographs viewed by The Times included ones of a woman in a besieged kibbutz who was found with dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin. Footage viewed by the newspaper showed two dead Israeli soldiers at an overrun military base apparently shot directly in their vaginas. […] Yinon Rivlin, a member of the rave’s production team who lost two brothers in the attack but managed to survive after hiding, told The New York Times that after he emerged from his hiding place, he made his way along Route 232 — where Abdush was found — and came upon the body of a young woman lying on her stomach, unclothed from the waist down, legs spread, and who appeared to have been sliced open in her vaginal area, “as if someone tore her apart.”

Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-harrowing-detail-nyt-shows-weaponization-of-rape-sexual-violence-during-oct-7/

Frontpage Magazine: Video: The Palestinian Death Cult

In this new episode of The Daily Objective show, Director of the Ayn Rand Centre (UK), Razi Ginzberg, joins James Valiant to discuss the broad influence of Islamic theology and culture on Hamas’ terror against Israel.

Watch the 22:29 minute interview: https://www.frontpagemag.com/video-the-palestinian-death-cult/

Vespa: So, That’s Why Israel Is Pulling Back in Gaza

Is Israel making the right move? Their forces have been hell on wheels against Hamas’ forces—they can’t stop the IDF. They’ve split the Gaza Strip in two, slowly degrading the terror groups’ imprint in the region. Hamas is going to be eradicated from the face of the Earth. It’s not a question of if but when at this point. Israeli troops have begun flooding the terror tunnels; they’re knocking off Hamas’ top leadership throughout the region. Whether they be in Gaza City or Beirut, Israel will kill these people after they launched a genocidal terror attack on October 7. Throw an anvil when your opponent is drowning, not a life vest. Instead, Israel is withdrawing some 7,000 troops. The reasons aren’t unordinary since wars are expensive. The mass deployment has been a strain on the Israeli economy, but the underlying concern is that the Biden administration has pushed for a reduced footprint in Gaza.

Read more: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/01/03/israel-is-withdrawing-troops-from-gaza-n2633093

OTHER NEWS, OPINION, COMMENTARY

(A win for election integrity) Showalter: Score one for TrueTheVote over Soros, Elias, Abrams and the Democrat vote machine

TrueTheVote, the voter integrity group with an office in Georgia has won a major court victory in its bid to clean up Georgia’s voter rolls. According to the New York Times: A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that a conservative group’s efforts to challenge the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of voters in the Senate runoff elections in Georgia in early 2021 did not violate the Voting Rights Act under a clause outlawing voter suppression. In a 145-page opinion, the judge, Steve C. Jones of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, wrote

Read more at American Thinker.

Fleetwood: This Arizona City Just Appointed A Democrat Ballot Harvester As Its Vice Mayor

A Democrat official who previously pleaded guilty to illegal ballot harvesting was appointed as vice mayor of San Luis, Arizona, last month. During its Dec. 13 meeting, the locality’s city council voted in a 4-3 decision to appoint Gloria Torres as vice mayor, a motion recommended by outgoing Vice Mayor Luis E. Cabrera. While the city council’s press release noted Torres’ history of serving as a councilwoman since 2000, it neglected to mention her role in an illegal ballot harvesting scheme during Arizona’s 2020 primary elections.

Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/03/this-arizona-city-just-appointed-a-democrat-ballot-harvester-as-its-vice-mayor/

Land:  Migrants use fake passports to pose as minors when crossing US border, officials warn

Border authorities in Arizona are seeing an uptick of migrants from the West African country of Guinea toting fake passports claiming that they are minors. The new arrivals are altering their ages in order to pretend they are unaccompanied minors for a better chance at getting into the US, Fox News Digital said, citing an internal memo from the U.S Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector Intelligence Unit.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/01/01/news/migrants-use-fake-passports-to-pose-as-minors-when-crossing-us-border/

McCaughey; Free Health Insurance For Migrants Is Lunacy

The U.S. needs a strategy to limit the burden on Americans and protect our quality of life. Instead, the Democratic Party merely virtue signals, saying, “Welcome, take whatever we have.”  As of Jan. 1, California is offering Medi-Cal to approximately 760,000 undocumented migrants of all ages. California’s health care system is already strained, with long emergency room wait times and a dire nurse shortage. A shortage of beds and mental health facilities prevents municipalities from moving the thousands of drug-addicted homeless people off the streets and into treatment. The state faces a staggering $68 billion deficit.

Yet the Left opts to spend money on migrants instead of on California’s own, showing utter disregard for the health care of local residents.

Read more: https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2024/01/03/free-health-insurance-for-migrants-is-lunacy-n2633097

Murray: Hundreds of California Pizza Hut locations announce ‘no more delivery’

Imagine if you will, a world in which businesses exist to make a profit, and free people consent to labor for these businesses in exchange for pay, and then a government comes in and legislates that these businesses pay their new employees a price they cannot (or do not want to) afford, so they eliminate the positions, fire the workers, and remove a service to paying customers they once provided—and certain people (read, average Democrat voters) still can’t figure out what factor in the equation caused the whole mess. See a new report below, published by CBS News yesterday: . . .

Read more at American Thinker.

PEACEFULLY & PATRIOTICALLY HAVE YOUR VOICES HEARD

War Room: Lieutenant Colonel Brad Miller Reveals He Was Relieved From Duty For Opposing Covid Vaccine

Lt. Col. Miller explains his role  in formulating and circulating the Declaration of Military Accountability letter.

Watch the 12 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v44pz2c-lieutenant-colonel-brad-miller-reveals-he-was-relieved-from-duty-for-opposi.html

Link to the letter: https://militaryaccountability.com/

If you are interested, sign the petition to support the effort of the signers of the letter: Click on the blue tab in the bottom right corner https://militaryaccountability.com/

Hubbard: Parallel economy fueled by conservatives gives consumers alternatives that support their values

While companies such as Bud Light and Target have drifted left, leading to boycotts and backlash, conservative entrepreneurs spent much of 2023 creating a parallel economy to give consumers more products that align with their values.  Conservative leaders described to Just the News how they got involved in businesses by creating multiple alternatives in banking, books, shopping, job boards and music. Last year, country music star John Rich announced the creation of a new bank for Americans who support freedom of speech and have concerns about their existing bankers punishing them – and their accounts – for publicly backing issues that their banks don’t support. The bank is called Old Glory Bank and it’s being led by Rich, conservative commentator Larry Elder and Dr. Ben Carson, a former cabinet secretary and 2016 presidential candidate. […] Public Square CEO Michael Seifert agreed with Rich’s point about building hills people can run to instead of just boycotting. Public Square describes itself as “America’s Marketplace.” The service, started two years ago in San Diego, promotes businesses that support conservative values and outlets such as Fox News and The Babylon Bee […] According to Seifert, the parallel economy is doing very well and represents over $7 trillion in GDP.

Old Glory Bank: https://oldglorybank.com/

Public Square Market Place: https://publicsq.com/

Brave Books: https://bravebooks.us/products/freedom-island-book-club?wickedsource=google&wcid=20439797472&wv=4&gad_source=1

Read more: https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/wkd-parallel-economy-fueled-conservatives-gives-consumers-alternatives-support-their

HARVARD IS SELF-DESTRUCTING

Durden: Harvard’s Gay Resigns Following New Allegations Of Plagiarism, Shortest Presidential Tenure In History

Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days into the presidency — comes amid growing allegations of plagiarism and lasting doubts over her ability to respond to antisemitism on campus after her disastrous congressional testimony Dec. 5. […] Christopher Rufo: This is Claudine Gay’s resignation letter. Rather than take responsibility for minimizing antisemitism, committing serial plagiarism, intimidating the free press, and damaging the institution, she calls her critics racist. This is the poison of DEI ideology. Glad she’s gone.

Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvards-gay-hit-new-plagiarism-allegations-widespread-double-standards-exposed-elite

Algar: Harvard’s Claudine Gay set to keep her nearly $900K annual salary despite resigning as university president

Prior to being named president just six months ago, Gay earned $879,079 as a faculty of arts and sciences dean in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020, according to records published by the university. Her new position was not specified Tuesday, but she is expected to receive a salary comparable to what she previously received — if not higher. It was also unclear how much of her presidential salary of roughly $1 million Gay would be entitled to after only serving in the post for six months. […] House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) — a Harvard graduate who emerged as Gay’s chief critic — ripped the decision to allow her to remain on the faculty. Stefanik argued that Gay’s plagiarism charges are an indelible stain that mars the school’s legitimacy. “She’s not fit to be a faculty member,” Stefanik told The Post.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/01/02/news/claudine-gay-set-to-keep-800k-salary-despite-resigning/

VDH: Harvard—Out the Frying Pan Into the Fire

Harvard may assume the forced resignation of its president, Claudine Gay, has finally ended its month-long scandal over her tenure. Gay stepped down, remember, amid serious allegations of serial plagiarism—without refuting the charges. She proved either unable or unwilling to discipline those on her campus who were defiantly anti-Semitic in speech and action. But Gay’s removal is not the end of Harvard’s dilemma. Rather, it is the beginning. In the respective press releases from both Gay and the Harvard Corporation, racial animus was cited as a reason for her removal. Gay did not even refer to her failure to stop anti-Semitism on her campus or her own record of blatant plagiarism. Yet playing the race card reflects poorly on both and for a variety of reasons.

Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/04/harvard-out-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire/

Daviscourt: Billionaire Harvard donor Bill Ackman demands Penny Pritzker, entire Harvard board resign after Claudine Gay’s ouster

“The Board Chair, Penny Pritzker, should resign along with the other members of the board who led the campaign to keep Claudine Gay, orchestrated the strategy to threaten the media, bypassed the process for evaluating plagiarism, and otherwise greatly contributed to the damage that has been done,” he wrote in a lengthy post on X. “Then new Corporation board members should be identified who bring true diversity,” he continued, “viewpoint and otherwise, to the board. The Board should not be principally comprised of individuals who share the same politics and views about DEI. The new board members should be chosen in a transparent process with the assistance of the 30-person Board of Overseers.”

Read more: https://thepostmillennial.com/billionaire-harvard-donor-bill-ackman-demands-penny-pritzker-entire-harvard-board-resign-after-claudine-gays-ouster

Christianson: Obama secretly pushed Harvard to keep president Claudine Gay despite campus antisemitism, plagiarism controversies: report

Obama, 62, a 1991 graduate of Harvard’s law school, privately urged the university to let Gay remain in office after she testified Dec. 5 before the House Education and Workforce Committee that calls for the genocide of Jews may be permissible under the school’s code of conduct, depending on “context,” according to a report out Friday. “It sounded like people were being asked to close ranks to keep the broader administration stable — including its composition,” a source told Jewish Insider of the former president’s clandestine effort. […] A spokeswoman for Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Harvard declined to comment on the matter to Jewish Insider.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/news/obama-pushed-harvard-to-keep-embattled-claudine-gay-report/

MacDonald: Onward with Inclusiveness

In her parting shot at Harvard, newly resigned president Claudine Gay has provided a reminder of why she never should have been made president in the first place. Gay stepped down today following months of turmoil caused by her reaction to the Hamas October 7 terror attacks on Israel and by accusations of plagiarism. Gay got her job because of her race. No white professor, even a female one, would have been elevated to the premier college presidency in the United States on so meager a research record. It is fitting, then, that Gay plays the race card to the end. She lauds her abortive presidency as giving hope to those around the world who saw in it a “vision of Harvard that affirmed their sense of belonging.” In other words, without a black president, students “of color” would not be certain of belonging at Harvard. Never mind that for decades Harvard has so enthusiastically sought out black students that it admitted many of them with academic credentials that would have been all but disqualifying if presented by whites and Asians. Now, without a black president, that vision is apparently threatened, even as Gay concedes that Harvard’s “doors remain open.” Gay’s sense of self-worth is breathtaking.

Read more: https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-presses-on-with-inclusiveness

INTERNATIONAL

BAZAIL-EIMIL: The global elections Washington should be watching in 2024

2024 is set to put democracy through its most sweeping test yet. Dubbed the biggest election year in history, more than 60 countries representing half the world population — some 4 billion people — will hold regional, legislative and presidential elections that look set to shake up political institutions and ramp up geopolitical tensions. As the United States looks inward, bracing for a likely showdown between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, other countries are also preparing for possible incumbent oustings, raucous public protests and populist movements with the potential to destabilize larger regions. “We will know whether democracy lives or dies by the end of 2024,” said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, founder of the investigative news site Rappler in the Philippines and author of “How to Stand Up to a Dictator.” In Europe, establishment parties are bracing for a potential surge from the far right within the European Parliament, including Euroskeptic groups that aim to undermine the EU institutions meant to maintain peace across the continent’s 27-member bloc. […] In North America, the U.S. isn’t alone in facing a closely watched presidential race: […] U.S. headlines will be dominated by the domestic showdown. Here’s a look at other key elections to watch around the world.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/01/what-to-watch-global-elections-2024-00133027

Doornbos & Koenig:  At least 95 killed in Iran ‘terrorist attack’ at event honoring general taken out in US drone strike, Tehran and WH official says

Nearly 100 people were killed at an event honoring former Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Wednesday in what local authorities and a senior White House official are calling a “terrorist” attack. Thousands of Iranians had gathered at Soleimani’s gravesite in Kerman to mark the fourth anniversary of his death, carrying photos of the former head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, when authorities say two bombs went off.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2024/01/03/news/iran-says-at-least-73-people-killed-170-wounded-in-blasts-at-ceremony-honoring-slain-general/

Fitzgerald: Canada: New Arrivals From Gaza

The government of Justin Trudeau in Canada is preparing to welcome Palestinian immigrants from Gaza: “Amid record-high immigration and food bank usage, Canada announces plans to take in Gaza refugees,” by Thomas Brooke, Remix News, December 22, 2023: […] What kind of screening of these Gazans will be done? Will those applying for visas to be admitted to Canada be asked, for example, about their view of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7? Of course, they will claim to be just as horrified as anyone else. But we have the results of a Palestinian opinion poll conducted in December, in which 82% of Gazans expressed their support for the October 7 attacks (the percentage was even higher in the West Bank, where 85% of the Palestinians supported those attacks). Given that figure, does the government of Canada really want to admit into its midst people who overwhelmingly support the  Hamas atrocities: beheadings of babies and burning alive of children, the gang-rapes, tortures, and killing of young girls, the slicing off of the breasts of women, the gouging out of eyes, and cutting off of genitalia, of men, the murder of children in front of their parents, and of parents in front of their children? Doesn’t Ottawa realize what a danger it will be importing, with Canadian Jews the group most obviously threatened, but so, too, are Christians and Hindus? Doesn’t the government of Canada owe a duty to not unnecessarily endanger its own citizens? If it recognizes that duty, it should not go forward with admitting these Gazans.

Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/canada-new-arrivals-from-gaza/

EPSTEIN DOCUMENT RELEASE

Duell & Robinson: Who is named in the Jeffrey Epstein list and what do the documents say? Key questions as bombshell 1,000-page dossier names 170 A-list stars, politicians and leading figures

The identities of dozens of well-known figures linked  to Jeffrey Epstein have been revealed in court papers unsealed in the US overnight. The files are part of a defamation case brought against Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in jail for sex trafficking underage girls to him. She was sued by Virginia Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, who claims she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York three time in 2001 when she was 17 – claims the duke vehemently denies. […] Who is named in the Epstein list? And what do the court documents say about them?

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12925441/Jeffrey-epstein-list-names-michael-jackson-kevin-spacey-george-lucas.html

Feuerherd: Jeffrey Epstein Told Victim Bill ‘Clinton Likes Them Young,’ Deposition Alleges

Read more: https://themessenger.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-list-unsealed-lolita-express-document-dump

Safdar & Benoit: From A to Z: The Famous Names in Jeffrey Epstein’s Calendar

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-names-ec88e7a0?mod=djemalertNEWS

Rucker: Epstein Document Drop: Website Is Up and Revelations Are Dropping

Read more: https://thelibertydaily.com/epstein-documents-dropped-site-quickly-goes-down/

DISCOVER THE NETWORKS

Nikole Hannah-Jones

* Founder of The 1619 Project
* Views America as an irredeemably racist nation
* Has characterized white people as “savages” and “barbaric devils”
* Supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement
* Admirer of the late Fidel Castro and Communist Cuba
* Advocate of reparations for black Americans
* Multi-millionaire

Read more: https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/nikole-hannah-jones/

Maulana Karenga

* Marxist activist and black nationalist
* Founder of the militant Black Power organization United Slaves
* In 1971, he was arrested for assaulting and torturing two female members of his organization.
* Professor and chairman of the Department of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach
* Creator of the “African American” holiday, Kwanzaa

Read more: https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/maulana-karenga/

U.S. DEBT CLOCK

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