🚨 BREAKING 🚨
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) December 8, 2020
The state of Texas has sued Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania & Wisconsin over election irregularities!
This means Texas will have original jurisdiction to go directly to the Supreme Court‼️
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Turns out my neighbor up the road never heard about the Hunter/Joe Biden scandal that weeks ago was all the rage on the New York Post, and later Fox News.
That’s the one where Hunter allegedly served as bagman for himself and his dad off money scooped up from China, Ukraine and Russia.
“How come you didn’t know?” I asked this neighbor.
“Never heard of it,” he said proudly. “I don’t read the Post. I only read the Times, and I never watch Fox News.”
If he knew the story, would he still have voted for Biden?
“It would have been something to consider.”
Yes, it would…and I read somewhere that more than 60 percent who voted never heard of it, either.
Nor were they aware of the anti-Israel characters Biden is filling his cabinet…from a pool of Democrats now famous for their tolerance of anti-Semites.
Israel is properly bracing for a Biden administration as if a tsunami is looming.
Nor were voters hip to the fact that it was Nancy Pelosi who refused to sign on for a stimulus bill for millions of impoverished Americans…because it might help Donald Trump.
Makes you wonder what else they don’t know when all they read is The New York Times, all they watch is CNN, and all they believe is Big Media…CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR.
Together those broadsheet and broadcast titans are determined to keep most of America dancing in the dark. This is after Big Media descends its Iron Curtain.
At what point do people get corrupted? I ask as someone who used to be proud of his role in journalism. I know the business…read this…and can’t remember it ever being this shoddy.
Suppressing the news…burying the story…welcome to the New Journalism…as we see CNN chief Jeff Zucker instruct his staff to ignore the Hunter/Joe scandal…nor to “humanize” Trump.
Same goes at The New York Times under Dean Baquet. Same all over.
They do it with no regret, no shame. The news is theirs to fiddle. The bosses? They actually tell their staffers to deceive and to lie. The staffers? They are just “following orders” – and where have we heard that before?
The trick is to dish Americans with spoonsfuls of one-sided information, in order to keep us illiterate, or barefoot and pregnant, as they would say in the hills of Kentucky. Then, speaking of the Bible Belt, there must be some broken-hearted reporters remorseful enough to fess up for the sins of dirty reportage.
In their hearts they know they are wrong.
I’ve written a hundred columns on this, on media mendacity, even poured it all into this book, mainly on media bias against Israel, but election finagling is yet another plunge.
The other day, I made the mistake of tuning into ABC-TV. The reporter said, “President Trump continues his made-up stories about election fraud.”
Reporters now have license to interpret straight news. ..while disputing everything the President says.
Fact-checking was never done on the spot. Only after all the facts were in.
So next question…does anybody know that for the first time in ages it is relatively calm in the Middle East as to Israel and its neighbors, and that domestically, we are energy independent?
Trouble is, those were largely Trump (and Netanyahu) successes and therefore made no sound. The media would rather cover-up than cover a rightful story.
So no wonder nobody knows nothin’.
How do they sleep at night, these people who hide the news, or give the news so crooked aforethought? Do they go home at night and say to themselves, “Job well done?”
Or do they have a conscience that awakens them at night with nightmares over “What have I done? What am I doing?”
Besides Bari Weiss, who left the NY Times in disgust, and a few others, who else comes to decry the cynical rot decaying today’s newsrooms?
Check out Sodom to find out what happens when even 10 righteous persons can’t be found.
New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.
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An Israeli flag and a banner praising the Jewish state’s intelligence agency were spotted above a busy street in Tehran on Monday.
Video footage and photographs of the flag and banner started circulating on social media, following reports that unknown individuals had hung the flag and banner across a bridge over a boulevard in Tehran’s Pars neighborhood.
The Israeli flag is a banned symbol in the Islamic republic, which has waged a war-by-proxy with Israel for decades.
The banner read “Thank You, Mossad”, apparently a reference to the recent killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Fakhrizadeh’s killing has been widely attributed to Israel’s Mossad, though Israel has not formally acknowledged any role in the assassination.
Iranian leaders eulogized Fakhrizadeh as a martyr, and gave the slain nuclear scientist military honors during his funeral.
Monday’s apparent act of defiance against the Iranian government is not the first time the Israeli flag become the center of public expressions of dissent.
In January, Iranian protesters demonstrating against their country’s government were seen avoiding giant Israeli and American flags on the ground during their demonstration, so as to not trample them.
Video from student protests in Tehran shows thousands of demonstrators carefully walking around the two giant flags, which had been put on the ground to encourage passersby to trample them in a sign of contempt.
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The New York Times is greeting the holiday of Chanukah with an article by a woman explaining why she won’t transmit to her children her family’s tradition of celebrating the holiday.
“Saying Goodbye to Hannukah” is the headline over the Times article, which is subheadlined “I lit the menorah as a child, but my kids are growing up in a different type of household.”
The author, Sarah Prager, explains that she celebrated Chanukah as a child because her father was Jewish. “Each of those eight nights we’d recite the Hebrew prayer about God while lighting the menorah. We memorized the syllables and repeated them, but they had no meaning to us and my parents didn’t expect, or want, us to believe what we were reciting.”
The Times article goes on “I married a woman who was raised Catholic but who, like my parents, had left her family religion as an adult. She and I are part of America’s ever-growing ‘nones’ with no religious affiliation at all. Before we had kids, we imagined we’d choose a religion to raise them in, maybe Unitarian Universalism or even Reform Judaism. But when our first child was born four years ago, we realized that going to any house of worship and following a religion just for our children to feel a connection to something wouldn’t be authentic. We couldn’t teach them to believe in anything we didn’t believe in ourselves.”
Though she claims she is “none,” her family actually slides into the Christian dominant culture: “our two daughters will celebrate Christmas and Easter because that’s what my extended family still celebrates.”
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What the heck?
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 7, 2020
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What's really crazy is that he's not buying the gift anyway.......
A mall Santa Claus left one little boy in tears after the child asked him for a Nerf gun for Christmas.
In the clip posted Monday on Twitter, little boy held a face mask and socially distanced from Santa as he got up the nerve to ask for the classic toy.
In response, the guy dressed up as Kris Kringle told the boy, “nope, no guns.”
The boy’s mom appeared to think Santa might have not heard him correctly, so she repeated,”a Nerf Gun.”
The guy dressed up in a red suit replied once more, “Nope, not even a Nerf gun. Nope. If your dad wants to get it for you that’s fine, but I can’t bring it to you. What else would you like?”
Clearly upset by the mall Santa Claus‘ response, the little guy, holding his face mask in his hand, didn’t respond when he was asked if he wanted Legos, cars, trucks or some other toy and just started to cry.
It got so bad that the mom stepped in and said “it’s okay” and reached down to hug the little guy who was sobbing uncontrolably.
The only response Santa had was, “awww, don’t cry. It’s okay.”
The mom finally told the little boy not to worry and that his dad would still get it for him.
The Harlem Irving Plaza (HIP) in Norridge, Illinois, has since issued an apology to the little boy and his family in a message posted on its Facebook, stating that “HIP and [its] third-party Santa company are distraught and deeply apologetic about the unfortunate incident which occurred at Santa set on December 6, as both parties strive for families and their children to have a happy holiday experience.”
“Santa is heartbroken and crushed that he has made this child so sad and upset, and turned in his resignation,” the statement added. “The Santa company will continue to remind all Santa’s how important it is to not impose personal opinions during visits with the children.”
The statement went on to explain that, “HIP immediately contacted the family and worked with” its “Santa company in hopes of rectifying the situation.”
A visit from the “real” Santa then took place at the little boy’s home where the jolly old elf presented him with a fancy nerf gun.
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So DIN, what do you say now? Don't you say the same thing? Aren't you on the same page?
Well.... yes and no...
I believe in the premise that Jews are "in galus" even in the USA..
But I also believe that the Rebbe is being disingenuous ...
When he says that "“Jews are drawn to US politics and have greatly breached the line between Yisrael and the nations," he really doesn't believe that at all, since Satmar is heavily invested in politics both in local elections and national elections...and in fact they vote in block votes in all elections...
So what happened? The rebbe and his cronies bet on the wrong horse, they were all in for Trump and now he is running scared that Biden will take the $$$$$$$ away from his moisdois haTorah! ......
Every year thousands of Satmar chassidim celebrate chaf aleph Kislev, the day the Vayoel Moshe, was saved from the Nazis, by a Zionist. This year, the event was held on a smaller scale due to the pandemic.
During the event, the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, R' Zalman Leib, criticized the heavy involvement of Chareidi Jews in the recent U.S. elections. “Jews are drawn to US politics and have greatly breached the line between Yisrael and the nations. We need to understand that we’re in galus. We live here but we’re not Americans.”
“Rabbeinu [the Ba’al Vayoel Moshe] also used to say this. There was a Jew named R’ Dovid Eichler who once came for the Yamim Hanoraim from Yerushalayim and he told the Rebbe that he also came to collect money in America. On Parshas Vayishlach, R’ Dovid attended a Tish and the rebbe asked him “what are you doing here?”, to which he said “I came to America”. ‘It’s not America here. We have to remember: ‘Ki Ger Hayiti B’Eretz Nochriya.'” [I was a stranger in a foreign land].
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Dearest Readers,
You have been with me – us, Chochmat Nashim (the organization I co-founded to push back extremism) – as we followed, documented, and lamented the phenomenon of erasing women.
Together, we have been shocked by the myriad examples and creative ways women and girls have been erased and replaced, objectified with images of flowers, dolls, chairs, little boys.
Every time we thought we had seen the worst possible erasure, even more egregious examples came along.
We asked over and again, what we could do to end the erasure of women because the simple truth is that when women are not seen, their voices are not heard and their needs are not met.
Erasing women harms us…
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A 14-year-old Chareidie boy, Daniel Madmon, fell from a height in the city of Beit Shemesh and was fatally injured. His death was determined at the hospital.
MDA paramedics were called to the scene, and provided the boy with medical treatment and evacuated him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
"Intensive resuscitation efforts were also continued by the trauma unit staff but they were forced to determine his death. We share the family's grief," the hospital said.
Beit Shemesh Municipality Spokesman Roy Lachmanovich said "the incident is under police investigation and investigation by the Municipality. The Municipality has implemented a comprehensive emergency procedure and the Department of Welfare and Psychological Services accompanies the family."
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In the coming years, Israelis will be able to commute into Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from settlements deep inside the West Bank via highways, tunnels and overpasses that cut a wide berth around Palestinian towns.
Rights groups say the new roads will set the stage for explosive settlement growth, even if the incoming U.S. administration somehow convinces Israel to curb housing construction. The costly infrastructure projects signal that Israel intends to keep large swaths of the occupied territory in any peace deal and would make it even harder to establish a viable Palestinian state.
“This is not another hundred housing units there or here,” said Yehuda Shaul, an Israeli activist who has spent months researching and mapping out the new projects. “This is de facto annexation on steroids.”
Construction already is underway on a huge tunnel that Shaul says will one day allow settlers from Maale Adumim, a sprawling settlement east of Jerusalem, to drive into the city and onward to Tel Aviv without passing through a military checkpoint or even hitting a traffic light.
South of Jerusalem, work is underway to expand the main highway leading to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc and settlements farther south, with tunnels and overpasses designed to bypass Palestinian villages and refugee camps.
Palestinians will be allowed to drive on many of the new roads, but the infrastructure will be of limited use to them because they need permits to enter Israel or annexed east Jerusalem.
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A collection of photographs thought to be among the oldest ever taken of Rome have emerged for sale at auction for a jaw-dropping £120,000.
The group of 78 images date back to between 1840 and 1860 and were taken by some of the most pioneering photographers of the time.
They feature historic and ancient sites still instantly recognisable to tourists today, such as the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain.
The iconic locations have barely changed in the 180 years since they were taken, meaning the pictures look as though they could have been taken yesterday.
They have been amassed over a number of years by a European couple who collect antique photographs.
Now they are to go under the hammer with auctioneers Lempertz of Cologne in Germany.
Specialists there have given the set a combined estimate of around €130,000 (£118,000) and are expecting a huge level of interest.
Among the standout shots are several of the Colosseum taken from both inside and out.
The Roman Forum also features heavily as well as a number of churches, palaces and squares.
The pictures were taken by some of the earliest professional photographer, acting less than a decade after photography was invented.
They included Giacomo Caneva, Frédéric Flachéron, Eugène Constant, James Anderson and Robert Macpherson.
Many of them were already wealthy and visited Rome as part of their European grand tours.
They would have sold the prints of their photos to equally wealthy clients, ranging from travellers to art lovers.
Maren Klinge, a photography expert at the auction house, said: 'This collection is indeed something very special.
'The couple were very selective in their approach and only included material in their collection that met their high standards of quality.
'Because of the photographers represented in it and the different photographic techniques it offers a representative overview of the early period of Italian photography.
'The great rarity of the works should also be mentioned. The works date back to the early days of the medium, and most of the photographic production of these years has not been preserved.
'What also distinguishes this collection as a whole is the extraordinarily good condition of the prints.
'In general, prints from the early days of photography often show traces of usage or damages due to their age but in this respect the collection is truly remarkable.'
The sale takes place on December 7.
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Recently uncovered notes reveal that Isaac Newton attempted to uncover the secrets of the pyramids in Egypt while proving his theory of gravity.
The unpublished notes, thought to have been written in the 1680s and only discovered 200 years after Newton's death, are now being sold by Sotheby's and are expected to go for hundreds of thousands of pounds. Bidding closes on Tuesday.
Newton, who studied the pyramids in the late 17th century while at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, believed that finding out how the pyramids were made would unlock other secrets about the world.
He was desperately trying to work out the unit of measurement the ancient Egyptians used while making the pyramids.
Newton believed the Egyptians had been able to measure the Earth and believed that if he found how they had measured the pyramids, he would also be able to measure the world's circumference.
The notes appear burnt around the edges, which allegedly happened after his dog, Diamond, jumped on to a table and tipped over a candle.
Sotheby's manuscript specialist, Gabriel Heaton, told the Observer: 'These are really fascinating papers because you can see Newton trying to work out the secrets of the pyramids.
Newton also tried to uncover secrets in the Bible and hoped to be able to find the dimensions of the Temple of Solomon.
He was forced to keep his obsession with alchemy, turning and unorthodox religious beliefs a secret or he would risk losing his career.
And even though his respected reputation relied on his mathematical discoveries, Newton was more interested in alchemy and theology.
Manuscripts on these topics were found at Sotheby's in 1936 and some were bought by economist John Maynard Keynes, who described Newton as 'the last of the magicians'.
Mr Heaton added: 'The idea of science being an alternative to religion is a modern set of thoughts. Newton would not have believed that his scientific work could undermine religious belief.
'He was not trying to disprove Christianity - this is a man who spent a long time trying to establish the likely time period for the biblical apocalypse. That's why he was so interested in the pyramids.'
The papers are expected to go to a private collector but libraries may also place bids.
Mr Heaton added that scientific books and manuscripts have seen the biggest growth in sales.
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Teachers in San Diego are reportedly being required to attend a 'white privilege' training in which they are asked to commit to becoming 'anti racist' and acknowledge that they meet on stolen land taken from Indigenous peoples.
According to documents shared by journalist Christopher F. Rufo, the training is mandatory for all teachers within the San Diego Unified School District.
As part of the training, the teachers are told to discuss how they would feel if they were told: 'You are racist.'
Teachers were also asked to discuss how they'd feel if they were told: 'You are upholding racist ideas, structures, and policies.'
The documents, which were leaked by Rufo, show the outline of the discussion and the talking points, including how teachers must become 'anti racist' activists'.
In order to do this, teachers have to 'confront and examine [their] white privilege,' acknowledge 'white fragility' and 'teach others to see their privilege'.
During the session, instructors inform teachers that they will experience 'guilt, anger, apathy [and] closed-mindedness' due to their 'white fragility'.
In addition to the aforementioned, the seminar also included a section on 'land acknowledgement'.
'We acknowledge that we meet on stolen land, taken from Indigenous peoples. I am speaking to you from Kumeyaay land. We must acknowledge the hidden history of violence against Indigenous peoples in an effort to move towards justice,' one slide reads.
The acknowledgement was referring to the Kumeyaay tribe of Indigenous peoples who were forced off their ancestral lands. They lived at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and the southern border of California in the US.
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In the 1980s, during a survey initiated by the Staff Office for Archaeology in Judea and Samaria, a graffito of a seven-branched menorah at the entrance to a tomb on the outskirts of the Arab village of Mukhmas was discovered. The finding was archived at the Staff Office Archaeology Unit and has been brought to light by Dr. Dvir Raviv, of Bar-Ilan University's Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, most recently in a paper published in the archaeology and history journal In the Highland's Depth.
The menorah engraving found in Mukhmas dates back to the period between the Hasmonean era and the Bar-Kokhba revolt, and is considered a rare and unique find, as decorative use of the Temple menorah was rare during this period.
The most prominent examples found to date include depictions of the menorah on coins of the Hasmonean ruler Mattathias Antigonus, on objects and remnants from Jerusalem, on a stone table in Magdala north of Tiberias, and on the Arch of Titus in Rome.
The use of a menorah to decorate the façades of Jewish tombs was quite common in ancient times, but this is only the second time that a menorah has been discovered on a Jewish tomb from the period preceding the Bar-Kokhba revolt. A long-known example is Jason's Tomb in Jerusalem, from the Hasmonean period, with small, schematic carvings on the walls of the entrance vestibule, unlike the large, decorated menorah discovered on the façade of the Mukhmas tomb.
The menorah engraving in the village of Mukhmas resembles paintings of two seven-branched menorot documented in the al-'Aliliyat caves, a group of caves nearby that served as a hiding place and refuge during the Second Temple period and the days of the Jewish revolts against Rome.
Due to the rare use of the menorah as an artistic decoration from the Second Temple period until the Bar-Kokhba revolt, and based on the contexts in which the menorot of this period were discovered, it has been suggested that the menorah may have been a motif related to the Temple and the priesthood that served in it during this time.
The depictions of menorot found on the outskirts of Mukhmas and the mention of Mikhmas (currently the village of Mukhmas) in the Mishnah as the place from which selected semolina wheat was brought to the Temple (Mishnah Menahot 8:1) may indicate that a priestly population lived there during the Second Temple period. Additionally, Mikhmas is mentioned as the dwelling place of Jonathan the Hasmonean, where he began to establish his status in Judea after the death of his brother Judah Maccabee (1 Maccabees 9:73).
"Jonathan's choice of the town as the base from which to consolidate his control of Judea may have been linked to the location of Mikhmas in a densely-populated area of Jews who supported the Hasmoneans during the years of the revolt," says Dr. Raviv. "Due to the difficulty in determining the exact date of the menorah’s graffito and the scarcity of explicit references to priests in Mikhmas during the Second Temple period, it is possible that a group reached the site only after the destruction of the Temple and lived there during the period between the revolts," he concluded.
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