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A new diatribe from a Saudi journalist has excoriated the leaders of Hamas for living in luxury while sending their people to die.
The blast from journalist Musa'ad Al-Thobaiti explains that's what Islamic leaders appeared to be fond of doing.
It's a report from the Middle East Media Research Institute that explained the writings are from Al-Thobaiti in the Saudi daily Okaz.
The punishing article was headlined, "They Hide in Their Tunnels and Sell Out Their People For a Paltry Price."
The author "condemned the fighters of the Hamas military wing, who hide in tunnels in Gaza, as well as Hamas' leaders abroad, who stay in luxury hotels, saying that they all forsake their people instead of fighting Israel."
He pointed out that they "resemble numerous other leaders of terrorist organizations, such as al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden and the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, who hid in tunnels or in fortified houses with the members of their family while leaving their supporters alone in the fray."
He charged that "the Islamic nation" is being "deceived by 'a gang of cowards and traders in blood' who sell their people illusions and bring them nothing but death and destruction."
Al-Thobaiti wrote, "Before America's invasion of Afghanistan, [the late al-Qaida founder Osama] bin Laden, fearing for his life, used to hide in the caves of Tora Bora. He chose fortified caves for himself, his children, and his wives, and for the elite [of his organization], so they could save their lives while leaving his followers [to face] the American missiles. After [the Americans] invaded [Afghanistan], he arranged a fortified house for himself in Pakistan…, and sufficed with prompting and goading the simple folk to wage terror, while he himself lived peacefully with his four wives, one of which was a minor he had brought to pleasure him while he oversaw [the terror activity] from his Pakistan home."
He documented similar behavior by the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, al-Baghdadi, and Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah.
"Hamas leaders, along with their children, live in luxury in five-star hotels [in Qatar], and have immeasurable wealth, and at the same time give high-flown speeches about resistance. As for [Hamas] fighters, after bringing death and destruction upon the Gazans, they hid themselves in tunnels and left the Gazans to face their fate [alone], exposed to the cruelest Israeli weapons and to a merciless army," he complained.
"Sadly, these are the people whom the [Islamic] nation praises. A group of cowards and traders in blood, who are the root of the disaster in this region. A genuine, brave, and devoted commander stands with his followers and leads them. These guys are interested [only] in the vanities of this world," he warned.
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Huge numbers of Americans, as reflected by polling, are dissatisfied with America under Joe Biden's thumb.
Could be because of his pro-transgender and pro-abortion demands, maybe that 9.1% inflation of a year ago, or his insistence that people buy expensive and often hard-to-use electric vehicles.
Sometimes it's just hard for voters to pin down why they're now giving Joe Biden the lowest approval rating for a president in … a long time.
So President Donald Trump, now leading the race to return to the White House in 2024, has listed the problems that he sees voters facing.
And problems he intends to address from the Oval Office.
A report at RSBNetwork cited Trump's list, including his plans to rebuild the "greatest economy in the history of the world so that young people can thrive and prosper."
Then there's his intention to end "Joe Biden's inflation nightmare."
And focus on energy independence, a goal handed away by Biden's multiple attacks on his own nation's energy industry.
And reducing government spending, which under Biden has seen hundreds of billions of dollars spent on so-called "climate change" ideologies.
Then there's the plan to lower interest rates – mortgages now are running about 7% – so young people can afford a home, and restore authority and respect for the law.
Another goal is to end the wave of "radical Marxist" prosecutors who often let criminals go free to repeat their violence, and secure the southern border.
Fighting the "scourge" of drug addiction and preventing schools from "pushing far-left content" round out the list.
The report noted under Biden, "Prices are higher than ever, crime has risen exponentially, and the country is perched on the edge of World War III."
So Trump offered his insights into the problems today's youth are facing.
"He cited a new poll from NBC News, pointing out his four-point lead against Biden among voters ages 18 to 34, reflecting his gains with young Americans nationwide. In September, an impressive poll from The Washington Post/ABC found that Trump was leading over Biden by a whopping 20 points among voters under 35, for example," the report said.
After all, during his first administration, he noted, mortgage rates were 2.65%, inflation almost not there, and gas of $1.87 per gallon.
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A leading Democrat, the new mayor of Chicago, is claiming that Republicans in America still refuse "to accept the results of the Civil War."
It is Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson who recently unleashed a rant about "right-wing extremists."
They are the ones, he charged, that are responsible for the huge problems facing the Democrat-run city.
And specifically, "It's the same Republican right-wing extremism that stormed the Capitol, it's the same right-wing extremism that refuses to accept the results of the Civil War. It's raggedy. It's disrespectful. It's mean-spirited," he charged.
Actually, History.com reports the GOP was founded in 1854 as a coalition opposing the extension of slavery into Western territories, and it fought to protect the rights of African Americans after the 1861-1864 war when Democrats were continuing their battles to keep blacks as second-class residents, much less citizens, by means including the founding of the KKK.
Chicago, in fact, faces a loss of commerce because of its leftist ideologies, installed over decades of Democrat leaders. Its problem with violence is as bad as any city in the country.
The New York Post commented, 'If you can’t stand the heat … complain about it. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson whined Tuesday about 'right-wing extremism' and blamed his predecessor, Lori Lightfoot, for the many troubles afflicting the Windy City."
The report said he insists he "inherited" the city's ongoing migrant crisis and accused conservatives of just about everything.
"It is abysmal and it’s an affront for everything that is good about this country, for the extremism in this country to use people as political tools to settle political scores for something that happened 400 years ago,” Johnson said during a riff on public safety. "They’re still mad that a black man is free in this country."
"Everyone knows that the right-wing extremism in this country has targeted Democratically ran (sic) cities, and quite frankly, they have been quite intentional about going after Democratically ran (sic) cities that are led by people of color."
On social media, the mayor was corrected: "The left always blames others for the problems they create. Instead of taking responsibility for the failed liberal policies, Johnson claimed Chicago was 'targeted' by Republicans.
The Post reported, according to Chicago police, crime complaints in the city are up 19%, motor vehicle theft up 47%, robbery up 25%.
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A new report describes how a transgender influencer has "discovered" the Quran and ended up going all gushy and enthusiastic about it.
Even though strict Islamists have been known to follow the Quran by throwing LGBT community members from high buildings, to die.
It was PJMedia that pointed out, "Apparently the trans-TikToker A trans-depicted… is not privy to the propaganda videos produced by ISIS – which, honestly, to its credit, does live in the highest accordance with the actual teachings of Islam, regardless of what one thinks of the morality; at least its adherents are honest in their barbarism – in which they toss homosexuals from rooftops to throngs of onlookers."
That execution was in Mosul, Iraq, and ISIS "released pictures of the man's dead body and the crowds watching."
The TikToker claims "Allah is beyond gender," the report said.
"It says that it started following 'somebody on social media that teaches the Quran,' so you can be sure it’s getting totally raw, unfiltered truth about Islam and no propaganda whatsoever," the report explained.
"Per Social Justice™ dogma, the ultimate Axis of Evil is whiteness, heterosexuality, Christianity, and maleness. Any identity that is not these things, therefore, is on the positive side of the moral binary, as it were," the report continued.
The report's author said, "I have lived in Saudi Arabia, where you are forbidden from literally playing guitar on the street or having a drink after work. (One of my coworkers was reportedly deported for brewing prison hooch in his apartment bathroom.) The idea of Islam being compatible with gender-queerness is laughable."
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A longtime replacement window and door retailer in the Chicago area is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for the federal bureaucracy's claim that it violated rules regarding companies that remodel homes.
The rule concerns notification to homeowners of the possible problems with lead-based paint in pre-1978 housing.
But Ro Cher Enterprises, which runs Door & Window Superstore, is involved only in the retail sales of replacement windows and doors, not remodeling, according to a lawsuit filed against the EPA.
"If the EPA wants to impose exorbitant penalties for violations of federal law, it should have to make its case to a real court with a real judge, a jury, and due process protections for individuals and businesses," said Oliver Dunford, a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation.
The organization is working on behalf of the family business, founded by Roger and Cheryl Janakus, who have sold doors and windows for decades.
There are two issues, the first that the EPA has misunderstood the Ro Cher business.
It exclusively sells doors and windows. It does not do renovations, but the EPA accused the company anyway of violating the Toxic Substances Control Act that involves notices to homeowners about the potential for lead-based paint.
TSCA does impose certain requirements on companies that renovate older (pre-1978) housing to protect against exposure to lead paint. Renovation companies must have an EPA certificate and they must provide EPA lead-hazard pamphlets to homeowners of older houses. The EPA claims Ro Cher violated these TSCA provisions.
But Ro Cher is not in the renovation business. Rather, Ro Cher sells doors and windows and helps its customers find renovation experts. And these renovation experts do not work for Ro Cher. Nonetheless, the EPA seeks to hold Ro Cher liable.
The EPA demands a $375,000 fine.
The second issue is that the EPA brought the case, then assigned it to one of its own employees to "decide."
That means the case was "overseen not by a federal judge but by an employee of the EPA itself. The prosecutor and judge work for the agency, which prevents Ro Cher from getting a fair hearing," the legal team explained.
The lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Illinois is to obtain a fair adjudication.
The filing charges, "Neither the individual presiding over the action (purportedly an administrative law judge (ALJ)) nor members of the EPA's Administrative Appeals Board, which reviews initial ALJ decisions, were properly appointed to office. They therefore lack the authority to carry out the functions of those offices, and their actions are void."
The EPA's "in-house" prosecutions and convictions violate "Article III because EPA's claims against Ro Cher must be adjudicated in an Article III court in front of an independent, life-tenured judge."
The EPA's scheme violates the Fifth Amendment and the Seventh Amendment, the case charges. The EPA also is violating the Eighth Amendment, it says.
The complaint explains that the company "did not perform or direct renovations or installations" at any time.
The EPA claims the company's "subcontractors" performed the work, but the complaint explains those contractors never were "subcontractors."
The complaint charges that the government "may not deprive any person of private rights except through common-law procedures—most fundamentally, through an Article III court.'
The EPA essentially was acting as "prosecutor, judge, jury, and appellate court," it charges.
The case seeks an order voiding the EPA's demands.
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The son of a founder of the Hamas terror organization, which dispatched soldiers to butcher some 1,400 Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, says the "savages" in that organization must be defeated in Gaza, or "all of us will be next."
See the video, posted online by CBN:
Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef.
He defected from the terror group in the late 1990s and secretly worked with Israel's security services to expose and prevent several Hamas terror attacks.
Later, he embraced Christianity and now has blistered the United Nations, in his half-hour presentation, for failing to condemn the terrorism inflicted on Israel.
He explained Hamas' "worst crime" is the "religious, ideological indoctrination" it inflicts on children, because it has one intention, the annihilation of the state of Israel.
"This is Hamas' primary goal," he said. "I speak as a first-hand witness on Hamas on their intentions."
"Don't be mistaken. Hamas is committing a crime against this generation and the next generation to come," he said.
He described the torture he endured as a child under the control of Hamas, how he was whipped with an electrical cord.
"This is how they wanted me to become a violate savage like them," he said.
He explained he doesn't understand how such hate and violence is "not obvious to everybody."
"The danger is if Israel fails in their war in Gaza, which is a brutal war … it will inspire … savages [who will] blackmail superpowers and bring democracies to their knees."
"If Israel fails in Gaza, all of will be next."
Social media commenters were stunned: "I don't easily cry but this giant man touched my heard in a way I can't describe," said one. "My respect for him is indescribable."
Another: "There is nothing more powerful than a person of truth who speaks the truth. And let's not kid ourselves; we all know the truth when we hear it."
The video, posted less a day earlier, already had accumulated closing in on 1.8 million views, and nearly 19,000 comments.
Another said, "Most powerful speech of the year. Possibly in the last decade."
Social media commenters were stunned: "I don't easily cry but this giant man touched my heard in a way I can't describe," said one. "My respect for him is indescribable."
Another: "There is nothing more powerful than a person of truth who speaks the truth. And let's not kid ourselves; we all know the truth when we hear it."
The video, posted less a day earlier, already had accumulated closing in on 1.8 million views, and nearly 19,000 comments.
Another said, "Most powerful speech of the year. Possibly in the last decade."
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Joe Biden is running for re-election to the White House on his Bidenomics.
That's what he calls his economic policies. His critics prefer to call it Bidenflation.
The actual numbers behind that agenda shows they are anything but positive for Americans.
In fact, rent has exploded by more than 20% under Biden's practices, monthly mortgage payments are up by a shopping $696, and food and other basics are up by equal percentages.
In short, it's costing American families thousands of dollars a year more, just to keep the same food on the table, drive the same type of car, and live in the same type of home as when Biden was elected.
"I wouldn't count on prices broadly declining," explained Moody's chief economist, Mark Zandi, in a report in the New York Post.
Some of the facts that Americans see in their monthly expenditures, even if Biden, living in the White House while maintaining a presidential residence in Wilmington, Delaware, and a nearby luxurious beach home, doesn't.
Rent.com is reporting that the media monthly asking rent last month was $2,011. Just three years earlier, before Biden, it was $1,667.
The American Community Survey reveals that the average monthly mortgage in 2020 was $1,621. Now it's $2,317, for a nearly $43% hike.
In 2020 a new car averaged $41,152, now it's $48,008.
Gasoline? Was $2.14 as Biden was preparing to move into the White House, now it's $3.35.
The Post reported, "President Joe Biden this week spun the latest inflation numbers as good news for Bidenomics — cheering that October’s Consumer Price Index climbed a slightly less-than-expected 3.2% from last year."
But the reality for consumers isn't the 3.2% rate announced in October, it's the "blistering" 18.2% hike since Biden took office.
The report noted eggs are up 47%, coffee up from $4.52 to $6.18, staples overall were up 33% with white bread up from 50 cents to $2, and increases of 22% for chuck, bacon, sirloin, and chicken.
The Post said, "Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has been pushing his Bidenomics agenda that has consistently claimed to 'reduce the [government’s] deficit' despite recently-released Treasury data showing the red ink has doubled over the past year, from about $1 trillion to $2 trillion (yes, with a 'T')."
The results are inevitable. CNBC reports as of October, 60% of adults said they are living "paycheck-to-paycheck."
"Overall, 4 in 10 consumers consider themselves worse off relative to 2022," the report said. "Even as credit card debt tops $1 trillion, almost all — or 96% — of shoppers said they expect to overspend this season, according to a separate TD Bank survey."
Three in four Americans say they are stressed about finances, and households have been tapping into their savings just to pay monthly bills.
"While consumers have found a way to manage through inflation, it’s concerning that many plans to tap into savings, and even exceed their budgets, to finance their holiday purchases, which may leave them vulnerable to an unexpected emergency,” said Alia Dudum, LendingClub’s money expert.
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The shooter who gunned down three children and three adults earlier this year at the Covenant School in Nashville said, in her manifesto, that she hated the victims' white skin, their light features, their "privilege," their "fancy schools," their "mop yellow hair" and the fact they were "cr*ckers."
But two key federal law enforcement agencies have refused to recognize the murders as a hate crime.
It's according to a report at the Federalist.
The publication reported it asked "the nation’s top federal law enforcement agencies, which had access to the notebook [shooter Audrey Haley's manifesto] ever since March 27, if either had plans to classify the shooting as an anti-white hate crime or political violence spurred on by the proliferation of left-wing racism in schools and government, the DOJ ignored the request and the FBI claimed it did not have a comment."
That, the report noted, "sharply contrasts how both department and agency have treated other race-based shootings."
For example, "When a gunman in Buffalo, New York, opened fire in a grocery store, killing 10 in 2022, the DOJ used the shooter’s racist social media posts as justification to deem the act a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism' worthy of several federal hate crime charges. The Justice Department extended the same treatment to Dylann Roof and the Texas mass shooter who killed 23 people at an El Paso Wal-Mart."
"Yet when it comes to investigating the Nashville shooting, which was rooted in the shooter’s disdain for people based on their skin color, as a hate crime against white Christians, the DOJ and FBI refuse," the report noted.
WND reported earlier when Hale's manifesto, which long had been concealed by authorities, was leaked.
It revealed that Hale, 28, the transgender woman who shot up a Christian school in Nashville, hoped for a high "death count."
Social-media personality Steven Crowder released pages of the document, and quoted her saying, "wanna kill all you little cr*ckers," "I hope I have a high death count" "and "I'm ready … I hope my victims aren't."
The fact that the document had not been available earlier was pointed out by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who said, "Every shooter’s manifesto should be public. There is no reason to hide this. Unless of course, our government wants to hide the fact that these shooters are on SSRIs and usually brainwashed by leftist propaganda."
Commentator Andy Ngo wrote on X, formerly Twitter, "BREAKING: I have reviewed the manifesto of the Nashville trans school shooter (scoop first obtained by @scrowder). Audrey 'Aiden' Hale expressed a violent hatred of those 'little crackers" [children] with "white privilege.'"
X user DC_Draino said on the platform, "This is why the DOJ suppressed the Nashville Manifesto. It shows how Leftist ideology radicalized a Trans shooter to murder Christian children. This was political terrorism & the Biden regime tried to cover it up We will not be silent after these children were slaughtered."
The Federalist commented, referencing the law enforcement groups, "Their zeal for tracking down racists and targeting Americans based on fabricated white supremacy allegations stops, however, when it comes to classifying the type of anti-white crimes that occurred at Covenant school earlier this year."
The report pointed out the ambush already gave evidence of being a hate crime.
Hale wrote, "[G]oing to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles. F-ck you little sh-ts…. I wish to shoot you weak-ss d-cks with/ your mop yellow hair wanna kill all you little cr-ckers!!! Bunch of little f-gots w/ your white privileges."
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In an attack on the politicized agenda, a far-left agenda, that has been adopted by some publications in America, Islam expert Robert Spencer at JihadWatch is poking fun at Salon.
It's because the publication likened MAGA Republicans to Hamas.
"Yeah, you remember when MAGA terrorists paraglided into an innocent Democrat music festival and carried out a bloody orgy of murder and rape, don’t you? You remember when Republicans massacred whole families, including babies, of Democrats? You remember when Republicans screamed about how they were going to drive Democrats out of the land, from ocean to ocean, right?" he wrote.
He posted an image of a Salon page with the headline, "Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it’s just a matter of degree."
The writing was by Brian Karem.
And Karem wrote, "Unfortunately the world is run by older men who would not abandon their own peace, but are eager to urge younger men and women to do so. They are terrorists like the leaders of Hamas. They are despots like Vladimir Putin. They are men like Donald Trump, who has never gone without a meal or lacked the social lubricant of money his entire life, and yet has convinced millions he is the answer to all our problems."
He continued, "Trump and many other politicians in this country are not so different from the craziest leaders in many foreign nations. They preach division. They preach hate. They teach fear. Scalise and Scott are part of the GOP that ruthlessly and relentlessly demonizes political opponents — who are not supposed to be 'enemies' — no matter the cost. United We Stand? Not so much with those two and other leading Republicans, but facts matter little to them. Only power. "
Spencer quoted further, with Karem writing, "There is little difference between Scott, Scalise, and Hamas. Further, there is little or no difference between most of the GOP leadership, including Jim Jordan and Donald Trump, and the leaders of Hamas. Both groups will do anything they can to win. Both groups have engaged in atrocities. Both groups continue to lie. Both groups use human beings as hostages. Both groups are extremely dangerous. Both groups threaten the world’s internal and external peace."
"There are leftists who actually read Salon and believe this stuff. It’s beyond parody, and fiendishly evil propaganda," Spencer said.
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A new report in the Telegraph says Israel shot down a ballistic missile that was aimed at it, while the weapon was in space.
The report explains the Middle East democracy's famed Arrow missile defense system took out the rocket that had been fired by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are backed by Iran, "outside the earth's atmosphere."
The report said it was believed to be the first combat ever to take place in space, and it resulted in the takedown of the bomb launched from Yemen, some 1,000 miles away and heading for the Israeli port city of Eilat.
Few details were released about the intercept, but the Israel Defense Forces released a video, explaining a cruise missile "launched from the southeast toward Israeli airspace was successfully intercepted by F-35I fighter jets."
Then it added, "On the same day, the AIF's Arrow Aerial Defense System intercepted a surface-to-surface missile in the Red Sea area."
The defense system apparently uses hypersonic interceptors to take out incoming missiles in space.
The video of the space fight:
The report explained the IDF said the missile was tracked and exploded "at the most appropriate operational time and location."
The missile reportedly was a Qader unit, a version of the Iranian-designed Shahab 3. It's apparently was 50 feet long and carried an explosive warhead.
The defense plan came about after Iraqi Scud missiles struck Israeli territory in the first Gulf War.
The report said it's not the first time the system was successful, as in 2017 it killed a Syrian S-200 surface-to-air missile that was aimed at, but missed, an Israeli jet.
One official for the IDF said, in the report, "The successful interception is about much more than protecting the residents of Eilat and dealing a blow to the Houthis’ boastfulness. … It proves to Iran, which was behind the launch and supplied the missile, that Israel can act against its missile program, and this has much broader implications for the regional conflict"
According to Liberty Resolve, "It can be recalled that Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces and also the spokesperson for Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, announced that they have launched massive military strikes against Israeli targets in the 'occupied territories.'"