The single word that describes America: shishiminagushaminuhscusemeighwasinthehimalayaswithxijingping pic.twitter.com/2tCriBbPdo
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) April 8, 2022
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Biden Describes the USA in One Single Word "shishiminagushaminuhscusemeighwasinthehimalayaswithxijingping"
1932 film of Pesach Preparations on the Lower East Side
Pesach preparations on the Lower East Side, 1932. pic.twitter.com/NubtLBcsCU
— Hungry Chipmunk (@hungrychipmunk) April 7, 2022
US in major doo-do ..Listen to this college student
I asked liberal college students in D.C. for their thoughts on the rise in gas prices.@OANN’s ‘Weekly Briefing’ with @ChanelRion
— Justine Brooke Murray (@Justine_Brooke) April 7, 2022
Clipped by @SimonM_1776 pic.twitter.com/PajhZLYScG
Friday, April 8, 2022
MK threatens Bennett: Accept these 3 demands or government falls
MK Nir Orbach of the Yamina party has threatened to follow the example of Idit Silman and leave the government if three demands are not met.
“Unfortunately, I won’t be able to support harming the Jewish character of the State of Israel and the Jewish people,” Silman, the former coalition whip and Yamina MK, said when she caught Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — and the country — by surprise in her unexpected announcement.
The move critically wounded the shaky coalition, which had only 61 MKs in the 120-seat Knesset and is now tied with the opposition. If just one MK follows suit, the government will fall.
On Thursday, Orbach issued his ultimatum, demanding the government backtrack on its plan to cancel daycare subsidies for yeshiva students; the convening of the planning commission to approve building plans for 4,000 new homes in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria; and connecting Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria to Israel’s electricity grid.
“Without a solution to these issues, I will not be able to remain in the coalition,” Orbach said in a statement.
During a faction meeting held Wednesday, he attacked Bennett for using the phrase “West Bank” last week when referring to the region of Judea and Samaria in conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Although Silman didn’t bring up that point when she defected, many in the right-wing camp, including in Bennett’s right-wing party, were furious, with some expressing hope that the government would fall.
“Such an expression is another deterioration of the government’s values,” said Yigal Dilmoni, director-general of the Yesha Council, an umbrella organization for councils and organizations from Judea and Samaria — which Bennett once headed.
“It is added to the freeze of construction [in Judea and Samaria] and the turning of its back on the Israeli communities. Such a government must go home,” Dilmoni demanded.
CNN's Brian Stelter gets destroyed by a College Freshman
HOLY SHLIT Brian Stelter just got destroyed by a college freshman
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 7, 2022
Dunk after dunk after dunk pic.twitter.com/L0BAaCmoXn
CNN Calls Judge Jackson a "Woman" but she has no idea what that is
Is CNN a biologist? pic.twitter.com/ztjTejurMM
— Election Wizard 🇺🇸 (@ElectionWiz) April 7, 2022
Daniel Dresdner from Monsey Faces 55 Counts of Sexual abuse
Spring Valley Therapist Daniel Dresdner who is currently being sued by two former clients for allegedly sexually abusing them during sessions is now facing 55 counts of sexual abuse in the third degree. Pic from Haverstraw Town Court this morning at his hearing. Next at 5/5 9 AM. pic.twitter.com/Clo6qmR0Fb
— ZA'AKAH - Crying Out for the Silenced (@ZAAKAHNY) April 7, 2022
Thousands of Arabs join march of support to home of Tel Aviv terrorist
פיגוע הירי בתל אביב | קריאות שמחה סביב ביתו של המחבל במחנה הפליטים ג'נין@nurityohanan pic.twitter.com/YmnA5tno2R
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) April 8, 2022
When the name of the terrorist responsible for the deadly Tel Aviv shooting attack became known, along with the location of his residence, public address systems were heard calling out, "Allahu akhbar," playing "nationalist" songs, and announcing support for the terrorist and the "heroic action" which he carried out in "Tel Al-Rabia," the Arab name for Tel Aviv, the Jewish city founded in 1909 on bare stretches of sand dunes near Jaffa.
Terrorist Ra'ad Hazam was eliminated in Jaffa early Friday morning. According to security sources, he did not belong to any terror group.
The announcements on the mosques' public address system were called in the name of the nationalist and Islamic forces, among them the Fatah movement, to which Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas belongs; and the Islamic Jihad and Hamas terror groups.
On one Telegram channel affiliated with Arab terror organizations, terrorist Ra'ad Hazam was called, "the lion of the [Al-Quds] troops," and his name was included in a list of 31 terrorists from the Jenin area "who defended Falastin in the past two years." Also included in the list is Bnei Brak terrorist Dia Hamarsha.
Thousands came from Jenin and the surrounding villages, marching towards the home of the terrorist's family in order to express support.
On social media, they wrote, "Allah's victory is achieved through blood," and "The Al-Aqsa troops promised a response to the crime of murdering its sons in Jenin - and the troops did not neglect their duty."
The terrorist's father came out to the masses who had arrived outside the family's Jenin home and said, "Victory will come soon. In the coming days you will see the change. You will be free and independent. God, free Al-Aqsa mosque from the hands of the occupation."
‘Dirty Dozen’ warning: Fruits and veggies rank on danger list
This could make people berry afraid.
Every year the Environmental Working Group re-releases an updated Dirty Dozen list, which ranks the 12 fruits and vegetables that contribute most to the levels of pesticides in your body.
And for the second consecutive year, juicy strawberries have topped the list.
The EWG produces their annual Dirty Dozen — all well as the Clean 15 — to “educate the public about fruits and vegetables with the highest and lowest pesticide residues so consumers can make the best decisions for their families,” they write.
While chemical pest killers are used widely throughout conventional farming, many researchers fear that potentially hazardous compounds are being synthesized and implemented without sufficient evidence to guarantee safety.
Pretty much any unpeeled fruit or vegetable carries the risk of pesticide exposure as its skin gets regularly doused with chemicals.
The EWG found that 90% of samples taken from most fruits on the list tested positive for at least two kinds of pesticides.
“A single sample of kale, collard and mustard greens had up to 21 different pesticides,” EWG also said. “On average, spinach samples had 1.8 times as much pesticide residue by weight as any other crop tested.”
The ‘Dirty Dozen’ 2022 list
Migrants released at border get free phones
The White House didn’t deny Wednesday that US border officials are giving cellphones to some suspected illegal immigrants — arguing it could make them easier to track after they are released into the US even though they can be easily ditched, unlike ankle monitors.
“We need to take steps to ensure that we know where individuals are and we can track and we can check in with them,” press secretary Jen Psaki said with a straight face at her daily briefing.
It’s unclear how many phones are being distributed or what models are included. Government-subsidized cellphones can become a touchy political issue — such as in 2012 when a viral video depicted a low-income woman boasting of the free “Obamaphone” she received.
Psaki claimed that the phones are a monitoring tool and are not intended as a perk for those suspected of illegally entering the country.
“The alternatives to detention programs… has three unique forms of technology to monitor participants enrolled in the program,” Psaki said. “Telephonic, which is one of them, uses a participant’s voice to create a biometric voice print during the enrollment process. And when the participant has a check-in call, their voice is compared to the voice print.
“SmartLink, which is another option, enables participant monitoring via smartphone or tablet using facial-matching technology to establish identity. And Global Positioning System monitoring is of a participant’s location and movement history, using satellite technology through an ankle bracelet.”
Psaki concluded, “This is all part of our effort, as individuals come into the United States and individuals who are entering who will proceed to immigration proceedings, to monitor and track where they are.”
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Your Taxes at Work: PENTAGON researched the best way to contact aliens and communicate with a possible 4,590 extraterrestrial civilizations
The report, commissioned by the US government, states its goal is to "ascertain whether alien civilisations exist in the universe, how far from us they exist and possibly how much more advanced than us they may be".
It adds: "As of 2009, the only physical tools we know that could help us get in with with aliens are the electromagnetic waves an alien civilisation could emit and we could detect."
However current technologies mean the government cannot search for aliens "beyond a few hundred light years away".
Whistleblower who handed Hunter’s abandoned laptop to congressmen reveals he has 450 gigabytes of DELETED material including 80,000 images and videos – and has fled to Switzerland fearing retaliation from White House
The source who distributed Hunter Biden‘s laptop to congressmen and media has fled the US to Switzerland, saying he fears retaliation from the Biden administration.
Jack Maxey gave DailyMail.com a copy of the hard drive from Hunter’s abandoned laptop in the spring of 2021.
He also gave copies and material from it to the Washington Post, New York Times, and Senator Chuck Grassley in his role as ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee – but he claims they all sat on it for months.
For the past two weeks, Maxey has been in hiding in Zurich, working with IT experts to dig out more data from the ‘laptop from hell’.
Maxey, a former co-host of ex-Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon’s podcast the War Room, claims he and his colleagues have found ‘450 gigabytes of deleted material’ including 80,000 images and videos and more than 120,000 archived emails.
He said he intends to post them all online in a searchable database in the coming weeks.
Mocked as ‘Rubble’ by Biden, Russia’s Ruble Comes Roaring Back
International sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s regime sank it to a record low of 121.5 rubles per dollar, triggering memories of the battering it took during the 1998 Russian financial crisis.
Things looked dire enough that U.S. President Joe Biden said the ruble had been reduced to “rubble.”
Now, though, it sure hasn’t. The ruble has surged all the way back to where it was before Putin invaded Ukraine, closing at 79.7 in Moscow on Wednesday.
What’s become clear is that despite an incredibly wide-ranging package of sanctions on the Russian government and its oligarchs, and an exodus of foreign businesses, the actions are largely toothless if foreigners keep guzzling Russian oil and natural gas — supporting the ruble by stocking Putin’s coffers.
READ: Japan Won’t Ban Russian Coal Imports, Mainichi Says
Even as Russia remains mostly cut off otherwise from the global economy, Bloomberg Economics expects the country will earn nearly $321 billion from energy exports this year, up more than a third from 2021.
Charedie Hypocrits 'Willing to forgive Liberman to form a government'
MK Aryeh Deri, who chairs the Sephardic-haredi Shas party, has said that he is willing to compromise in order to form a government and avoid new elections.
Previously, Deri said about Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) that, "There is no forgiveness...not in this world, and not in the next world."
In an interview with Israel Hayom, Deri said, "Even if Evet Liberman wants to come back - we will tell him, 'Certainly, come.' If he wants to join the coalition and be part of us together, that is possible. I am willing to forgive - anything in order to form a normal government."
Avigdor Liberman was born Evet Liberman. He changed his name to the Hebrew Avigdor after immigrating to Israel in 1978. In recent years, politicians angry with Liberman have begun referring to him as Evet.
Regarding coalition chair MK Idit Silman's (Yamina) decision to bolt the coalition, Deri said, "I was not surprised by Silman's resignation from the government. For a few days already we had been in contact, I was skeptical. In the middle of the night they told me that it's final. I hope that she is not the last. Very soon we will hear about another one or two who will do the same thing. I won't name names. We are in the middle of an ongoing event, and I hope that it will end well."
Regarding the price paid to Silman, Deri said, "Any price that needs to be paid to bring down this evil government is worth paying."
He added, "We are talking about one of the MKs that we have been communicating with, who did not want to receive a place in the Likud because he does not get along with them. I offered him a place in Shas."
"Silman took a brave step. I had harsh criticism of her but she took a brave step. Our sister, blessed is she who comes home. She has a respectable place in our coalition. And those who will yet come also have a place. We will all compromise, we will all give in a bit on positions in the government."
"From today, it is a new day. Silman is not the last. As of this moment, with the situation 60-60, the government can no longer function, period. There is a good chance of increasing the 60 and then we need to see if we are going to new elections or creating another, alternative government.
"We have a majority with [Justice Minister] Gideon Sa'ar (New Hope) and Yamina. If they come home and tell us, 'We made a mistake. We had revenge, we were annoyed, but we are coming home,' believe me, we will not remind them for a minute afterwards that they did something not okay. I will make sure of that. We will accept them with complete love."
Turning to those MKs, Deri said, "Come back to us, let's form a government. You'll receive senior positions."
"Will it erase everything for them? I am erasing everything. I'll make sure that they receive the best honors possible. [MK Benjamin] Netanyahu (Likud) will also receive them with love."
The full interview will be published in Israel Hayom on Friday
Knesset Minister Resigned from Coalition Over Debate about Chametz
The political upheaval in Israel this week revolved around a debate over chametz on Pesach. On a broader level, the Minister who resigned from PM Bennett’s coalition was protesting the leftist takeover of the government, which is spreading secularism and crushing traditional Jewish values.
Right-wing Minister Idit Silman resigned from the coalition and joined Likud, based on her belief that a “national, Jewish and Zionist government” should be in charge.
This defection comes after she criticized leftist health minister Nitzan Horowitz, for lifting a ban on chametz in hospitals during Pesach (apparently in accordance with a supreme court ruling.)
At a Knessest meeting, Ms. Silman expressed her anger saying: “People in the Holocaust fasted on Passover so as not to eat chametz, and a minister in the State of Israel within a coalition like ours, unfortunately, intends to introduce chametz. The people of Israel have certain values that entire generations have died over, and we in the current government will not be part of their overthrow and we must respect the public.”
Yearly Debate
It is an annual tradition in Israel, leading up to Pesach, to argue over the ban on bringing chametz, into public places. Even non-Charedi right-wingers believe that chametz should be banned to maintain the Jewish character.
For years, some hospitals have prohibited chametz, with bags checked by guards when people enter. Army bases have imposed similar rules.
However in 2020, the High Court issued an extreme ruling, saying that hospital guards cannot search the belongings of visitors, prevent them from bringing in food that isn’t kosher for Pesach, or discuss the matter in any way.
Charedi Knesset members staunchly opposed that decision, and the Rabbanut said the ruling may lead to frum Jews avoiding hospitals on Pesach and endanger their health.
While the chametz debate is ongoing, the broader issue at stake is whether to allow the secularists to erase the observance of traditional Jewish values, or impose rules that encourage people to respect the religion, since after all, Israel is a Jewish country, and Judaism is, first and foremost, a religion.
Amazingly, this hot-button issue may bring down the current government.
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