And the Emmy for Best Acting as a Sitting Governor goes to …
Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who’s been blamed for letting the deadly coronavirus run rampant in New York’s nursing homes — is set to receive an International Emmy award for his daily TV briefings about the disease.
But it won’t be for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Real-Life Drama.
Instead, Cuomo will be recognized for his “effective use of television during the pandemic,” the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Friday.
“The Governor’s 111 daily briefings worked so well because he effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure,” said Bruce Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy.
Rudy Giuliani, Attorney to President Trump and Jenna Ellis, Senior Legal Adviser to the Trump 2020 campaign published a response to the ruling which turned down President Donald Trump campaign’s request for an injunction against the certification of election results in Pennsylvania.
The team said that the decision turns out to help them in their strategy to get expeditiously to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Although we fully disagree with this opinion", they wrote, "we’re thankful to the Obama-appointed judge for making this anticipated decision quickly, rather than simply trying to run out the clock".
"We will be seeking an expedited appeal to the Third Circuit", Giuliani and Ellis added, "There is so much evidence that in Pennsylvania, Democrats eliminated our opportunity to present 50 witnesses and other evidence that election officials blatantly ignored Pennsylvania’s law denying independent review. This resulted in 682,777 ballots being cast illegally, wittingly or unwittingly. This is just an extension of the Big Tech, Big Media, Corrupt Democrat censorship of damning facts the American public needs to know".
"We are disappointed we did not at least get the opportunity to present our evidence at a hearing", the team concluded, "Unfortunately the censorship continues. We hope that the Third Circuit will be as gracious as Judge Brann in deciding our appeal one way or the other as expeditiously as possible. This is another case that appears to be moving quickly to the United States Supreme Court.”
Israel will pay significantly more that the US and the EU for the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, Channel 13 News reported Sunday morning.
According to the report, Israel will pay $56 for each two-dose vaccine, while the US and the EU will pay only $39 per vaccine.
Pfizer has also not specified a schedule to deliver the vaccines to Israel.
Israel negotiated a deal to receive vaccines for four million citizens from Pfizer after the company announced last week that its vaccine showed a 95% success rate in clinical trials.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has stated that Israel will begin receiving coronavirus vaccines in January 2021. Israel also has deals with Moderna and AstraZeneca to receive coronavirus vaccines.
As we await the results of court challenges to a presidential election that has been stolen in whole or in part, we were witness on Tuesday, November 19, 2020, to a remarkable revelation about the four years of the first Trump presidential term.
The election that ended on November 3 is over. The Democrats’ dead voters have returned to their gravesites. Even Democrats acknowledge that the time now is passed for them to continue mailing in more unsolicited ballots without postmarks, to be shielded from viewing by Republican poll watchers. Thus, there no longer is any cynical point or reason for a politician to pursue actions aimed at winning votes; the voting is over.
Through four years of unremitting, unending defamation, the Left mainstream media, the Democrats, and the rest of their enforcers perpetrated the lie that President Donald Trump is a bigot, a hater, a racist, a xenophobe, a misogynist, a homophobe, and an anti-Semite.
For me, a Jew who lives his Judaism straightforwardly and without apologies — and who despises the phoniness of a JINO Schumer or Schiff or Communist Sanders — I always have seen the “Trump is an Anti-Semite” lie as the Rosetta Stone to all the other anti-Trump lies.
Before Trump even got elected, the Media-Democrat-Left Alliance busily propagated the horrible lie that Trump hates Jews. CNN put on the air a Nobody — an absolutely non-entity whose claim to fame is that he was a homosexual leftist activist in New Jersey — and this character presented as a “Jewish leader” qualified to brand Trump an anti-Semite. Kayleigh McEnany then was a CNN contributor who sat on the panel with Erin Burnett, alongside this phony, and really lacked the inside information to realize that she was debating a Nobody as to whether Trump hates Jews.
Attorneys for Jonathan Pollard said on Friday that the US Parole Commission has issued a certificate terminating parole and the restrictions that were imposed on him.
A such, Pollard “is free to travel anywhere, including Israel, for temporary or permanent residence, as he wishes,” said attorneys Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman.
Pollard expressed “appreciation and gratitude” to Israel’s Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer, for his help in bringing about the end to his parole.
When Pollard was released from prison in 2015 after serving 30 years of his life sentence for transmitting classified information to Israel, his parole commission imposed strict parole guidelines for a period of five years.
As part of those restrictions, Pollard was not allowed to leave his home between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., was monitored by a GPS device and was not permitted to leave the US. Friday marked the end of that five-year period.
It has been speculated that Pollard will move to Israel once the restrictions are lifted, though Rabbi Pesach Lerner, who has been Pollard's rabbi for the past 25 years, said on Friday that no one really knows what will happen to Pollard in the future.
"He wants to come to Israel, but his wife is currently undergoing chemotherapy so even if he were permitted, he wouldn't be able to leave right away. It's going to take time," Rabbi Lerner told Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) in an interview.
Warning: Though this is fascinating ... they do talk about "Yoshkeh" for a couple of minutes ....so if you somehow can ignore it .. you will really enjoy this tour ..
French President Emmanuel Macron has issued an ultimatum to French Muslim leaders, as part of his bid to clamp down on radical Islam following a string of terrorist attacks.
On Wednesday, Macron issued a “charter of republican values”, giving the French Council of the Muslim Faith 15 days to sign on to the document.
The charter establishes a national council of imams, which would be empowered to accredit religious Muslim leaders, or, conversely to strip leaders of accreditation.
In addition, the charter defines Islam in France as a religion and not a political movement, and bars “foreign interference” in Muslim groups.
Macron has promoted French secularism, following a string of terrorist attacks by Islamists in France, including the beheading of a teacher over cartoons of Muhammad shown to a class last month.
In addition to the charter on Islam, Macron proposed a number of policy changes Wednesday aimed at curbing religious radicalization.
Among the new steps are tightened restrictions on home-schooling and stricter enforcement of anti-truancy regulations. Under the plan, children would be given a unique identification number to help schools ensure their attendance, with parents being subject to up to six months in jail for their children’s truancy.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to an Israeli winery in Samaria Thursday was a “historical” movement for Israel, one of the winery’s owners said, hailing US recognition of Israeli businesses in Judea and Samaria.
Jana Falic, a businesswoman and philanthropist who is co-owner of the Psagot Winery north of Jerusalem, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the implications of Pompeo’s visit Thursday and the decision by the US to recognize products made in Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria as being “Made in Israel”.
“This is a historical day. We are very, very happy, because we had Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, wonderful people, friendly to Israel. They understand the historical value of Judea and Samaria.”
“For 2,000 years we were expatriates, and finally we’re in our country.”
“Today, they said that everything that is produced in Judea and Samaria is considered made in Israel. For us, that is very important because we always felt that we were legal, but it is very important for the US to accept this. It doesn’t matter what Europe says; the truth is, Europe was very bad to us.”
“Israel considers the US our friend, and we thank our friend.”
After networks projected that Joe Biden would win the presidential election, he pledged to the American public: “I promise you this:
I will be a president for all Americans—whether you voted for me or not.” Biden made the same promise as his central election campaign theme; he reiterated this promise in town halls, debates and social media. Keeping this promise will be essential for America’s well-being.
In order to fulfill his sacred pledge to the country, Biden must appoint administration officials who are amenable to all Americans. Personnel is policy. It was thus deeply concerning to read reports that George Soros-supporting, radical, cancel-culture promoter Karine Jean-Pierre has emerged as the leading contender to serve as Biden’s press secretary. Appointing former Soros’s MoveOn.org spokesperson Jean-Pierre would violate Biden’s repeated key promise to the American people.
When Biden appointed her to serve as chief of staff for California Sen. Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential campaign in August, ZOA described how she advances the “dangerous, Orwellian ‘cancel destruction culture’ ” that falsely condemns and seeks to ostracize pro-Israel groups, even left-leaning ones, as “Islamophobic,” “against human rights” and unfit to meet with.
