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JERUSALEM – Unconfirmed reports surfaced Thursday about a daring raid carried out by Israeli special forces in Syria in the same Masyaf area that IAF fighter jets struck overnight Sunday, with the aerial bombardment allegedly acting as cover for the main operation.
The strikes, which targeted what was euphemistically referred to as a "scientific research center," was in fact an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) weapons development site, long associated with the manufacture of chemical weapons and precision missiles by the Syrian regime and Iranian forces. Some fourteen people were killed in the attack and nearly four dozen wounded according to local Syrian media.
However, Thursday's report, which emanates from a Greek political analyst specializing in the Middle East, Eva J. Koulouriotis, suggests a far more expansive operation than initially realized.
Citing an unnamed security source, Koulouriotis reported the mission was an IDF operation against an IRGC facility for the development of ballistic missiles and drones, and which also provides logistical support to Hezbollah.
Under the cover of darkness and with the air-to-surface missiles blasting the area around the facility to prevent Assad regime soldiers access, opposition Syria TV network claimed Israeli military helicopters did not land on enemy soil, rather hovering above it to allow special forces troops to rappel down to the ground. Combat helicopters and drones were also in close attendance to the military choppers.
Koulouriotis reported the whole operation lasted approximately an hour, during which time Israel's forces kinetically engaged the enemy in which a number of Syrian troops were killed, and two to four Iranians were captured. Israel's Channel 12 also reported a Russian communications center was among the sites targeted as part of the operation, according to the Times of Israel.
After successfully breaching the building's security, Israeli troops removed equipment and documents. They also mined the facility from the inside, largely destroying it, and were then able to evacuate under air cover.
The Alma Research and Education Center – an Israel-based organization with the mission of making in-depth geopolitical knowledge about the Middle East accessible to English speakers has a lengthy report about the Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), or in its French name: the Centre D'Etudes et de Recherches Scientifiques (CERS) on its website.
The CERS employs some 20,000 people at various sites across Syria; and the majority of the center's personnel are Syrian nationals. While some research is grounded in civilian use, much of what goes on there is set aside for military purposes, including "the development and production of modern conventional weapons based on Iranian technology on Syrian soil."
Iran's elite Qods force – whose one-time leader Qassem Soleimani was eliminated in a President Trump-ordered strike in January 2020 – as well as Hezbollah's elite Unit 9000, are in charge of security – showing how much has been invested in the Iran-Hezbollah-Syria axis.
Critically, the center is also home to chemical weapon research. Israel's attack on the facility was likely borne out of a very real fear the seemingly inexorable march to a regional conflict – starting with Hezbollah – might involve the use of chemical weapons.
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Megyn Kelly is a veteran of moderating presidential debates, so she knows a little bit about the ordeal.
And what she saw from ABC's David Muir and Linsey Davis Tuesday night triggered a commentary that scorched the leftist network.
Disgusted and angry, is how she described her reaction, especially because Muir and Davis did "exactly" what their bosses wanted, their boss being ABC news head Dana Walden, a "close personal friend" of Harris who introduced her to her now-husband.
"It was three against one on that debate stage," Kelly charged, not concealing her anger.
"It's very easy to look like you know what you're doing when both moderators are entirely on your side."
She said it was a GOP mistake to trust ABC.
"Those two moderators tried to sink Donald Trump," she said, citing their one-sided "fact-checking" where they repeatedly criticized Trump's comments while letting Harris say anything without opposition.
"I'm ashamed of those moderators at ABC News," she charged.
It continued, "Kelly is spot on. The 'moderators' participated in a level of lying that has hitherto never been seen during a presidential debate. They 'fact checked' Trump on a dozen points while willfully ignoring blatant lies told by Harris. Kelly's shame for Muir and Davis should be shared by any American who values the truth."
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JERUSALEM – A top U.S. official warned Monday that a full-blown war between Israel and Iran's Shia Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, would have devastating implications for the region, possibly leading to tens of thousands of deaths on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border.
Speaking at the Middle East America Dialogue (MEAD) summit in Washington, D.C., the official said there could be "catastrophic and unforeseen consequences," while also highlighting the likely end of the war via a diplomatic solution, which on balance would not look significantly different from the current situation.
While cautioning against all-out war, the official – who thought it could be staved off – freely admitted the current situation in northern Israel was intolerable, with Hezbollah maintaining its constant rate of fire of several – and in some cases tens of missiles and drones – per day being fired over the border.
"We cannot return to the status quo of Oct. 6," he said. "A ceasefire with Lebanon alone is not enough, because Hezbollah will return to the border."
"There is an idea of 'Let's go to war and then we will destroy all the missiles Hezbollah has and everything will be fine.' It's not that simple. There is no magic solution. The other side cannot be annihilated. At the end of the war, Israel may pay a heavy price and not achieve its goals," the official was quoted by Israeli journalist Barak Ravid as saying.
He added there would be a need for security arrangements at the border itself, as well as additional components to ensure enforcement and implementation, although nothing like U.N. Resolution 1701, adopted at the conclusion of the Second Lebanon War in 2006, which is supposed to rely on blue helmet peacekeepers preventing Hezbollah from moving south of the Litani River.
It is a mission in which the U.N. has singularly failed, although the official said both Israel and Hezbollah were in contravention of the resolution. It was unclear from the reporting who exactly would be providing enforcement and implementation to keep the two sides apart.
The MEAD summit also hosted significant diplomatic and military figures, such as former U.S. Ambassadors to Israel Thomas Nides and David Friedman, who recently published his most recent book, "One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."
On Sunday, Israel's former Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who until June was also a member of the war cabinet, advanced his contention about the country's need to shift its focus away from Gaza and onto the northern arena. He admitted a sense of urgency, arguing "we are late on this," adding that the lack of a hostage deal with Hamas might make the outbreak of a war with Hezbollah imminent.
The timing of the U.S. official's warning is both interesting and instructive in that it seems to not really offer a solution to the problem, while also attempting to box Israel into a corner. Nothing of what was said was new or original, Israeli leaders, lawmakers, and commentators – as well as the regular person on the street – is acutely aware of what an all-out war with Hezbollah might look like. That intimate knowledge is one of the reasons Israel did not attack Lebanon on Oct. 8 rather than Hamasistan in Gaza.
Israelis of all political stripes are well aware the nexus of the so-called Israel-Palestine conflict has morphed into the opening skirmishes of an Israel-Iran war, and its leaders must grapple with that reality, as well as the serious and sobering prospect of having a much more distant U.S. administration – especially if Vice President Kamala Harris is victorious in November's presidential election.
The on-stage interview was also held in the shadow of one of Israel's most significant attacks on Syria in years. Indeed, a Ynet opinion piece argued the strikes should be viewed as being in tandem with preparations for a major campaign in Lebanon. Israel's massive aerial bombardment of the "Center for Scientific Research," more commonly assumed to be a main source of Syria's high-tech weapons industry, was thought to be an opening salvo to deny the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from too readily being able to supply Hezbollah and other Syrian-based proxies with precision-guided missiles with which to attack Israel.
Biden's appeasement plan
Amos Hochstein, Biden's special presidential coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security – more regularly known in the guise of a Middle East envoy – recently proposed a land-swap deal between Israel and Lebanon. Considering the amount of counter evidence – which includes that emanating from Israeli leaders – about the success of land for peace deals, it's a wonder anyone would have the gall to even suggest this. Hochstein, it should be remembered, was also the official who pressured then-Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid to turn over recently-discovered gas fields to Hezbollah in 2022. These suggestions are merely appeasement by another name.
At the same conference, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued a second Trump term would have prevented Hamas and Iran from feeling emboldened to attack Israel. He added a Trump win in November would likely prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
"We had a model that worked," Pompeo, who has been rumored to be under consideration for a senior administration role should Trump win in November, said at the inaugural MEAD Summit in Washington, D.C., according to Jewish Insider.
"The Iranians would no more have done what they continue to do today, to hold American hostages and kill Americans in Gaza. They would no more have supported the nonsense of these knucklehead terrorists called Hamas. When we were united with Israel and had great partners throughout the entire Gulf region, they took us seriously, and so there's no reason to expect they wouldn't do so again."
Meanwhile, Hezbollah itself has not taken a break from sending ordnance into Israel – bringing its tally of rockets, missiles and drones fired since Oct. 8 to some 8,500, including 200 in the past week. On Monday, a suicide drone struck an apartment block in Nahariya, Israel's most northerly city on its Mediterranean coast, and one which almost abuts the Lebanese border. There were no casualties, but the impact caused significant cosmetic damage.
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The fight is in court now, over whether a Virginia county will be allowed to charge a Christian ministry property taxes on its building while exempting other organizations that own buildings, and represent other religious, from those costs.
It is the chief of the Rutherford Institute, John W. Whitehead, who explained, "The First Amendment not only affirms the right to religious freedom for people of all faiths, but it also requires that the government treat all faiths equally and not favor or disfavor one over the other."
He continued, "This is the slippery slope that affects us all, whether you're talking about religious freedom, free speech, or privacy: if the government is allowed to deny freedom to one segment of the citizenry, it will eventually extend that tyranny to all citizens."
The fight is over a decision in Blacksburg, Virginia, where officials decided to refuse the Bradley Study Center, a nonprofit Christian Scholars Network site that ministers to Virginia Tech community members with worship services, prayer meetings and Bible Studies, a tax exempt status.
The Rutherford Institute said it has "challenged a local government's refusal to recognize CSN as a religious association that uses its property exclusively for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, which would thereby qualify CSN for a property tax exemption under the Virginia Constitution and state laws."
The lawsuit in Montgomery County Circuit Court is against the county and the town of Blacksburg after the board and the commissioner of the revenue refused the allow an exemption, "even though the county provides a property tax exemption to a similar organization for college students of another religion."
The legal team reported, "At trial, Institute attorneys argued that the government is failing to comply with the will of the people as set forth in the Virginia Constitution and laws, and that the government's narrow interpretation of certain statutory terms violates church autonomy and favors more formal religious practices and hierarchical denominations in violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause."
The report said CSN is a "nonprofit ministry which has been exempt from federal income tax by the IRS under section 501(c)(3). In 2019, CSN purchased real estate near the Virginia Tech campus and opened the Bradley Study Center to cultivate a thoughtful exploration of the Christian faith and how one's faith connects to their studies, work, and life."
Contrary to the judgment of local officials, witnesses at a trial described the benefits the center profits to the community.
A court ruling on the dispute is expected in months.
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A state judge in South Dakota has scheduled a trial for later this month on charges that abortion industry promoters cheated to get the signatures they used to put a pro-abortion scheme on this November's ballot in the state.
Promoters of the lucrative abortion industry had hoped that Minnehaha County District Judge John Pekas would dismiss the complaint brought by Life Defense Fund, a prolife group that includes Dell Rapids Republican Rep. Jon Hansen.
The lawsuit accuses abortion activists of violating multiple state laws in their methods of assembling signatures for the ballot initiative.
Pekas had tossed the lawsuit months ago, but it was reinstated by the state Supreme Court which noted there was no record developed at any point, so the lower court's decision could not stand.
A report in the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader explained because of the short time before the election, and the fact that either side could go to the state Supreme Court again, the issue will be on the November ballot, but it's uncertain now whether any of those votes will be counted.
Abortion promoters had argued that there should be no arguments over their alleged misbehavior because it was too close, and discussing those issues would be "election interference."
Life Defense Fund said the abortion initiative supporters now will have to turn over all documents related to their petition circulation efforts of the abortion-up-to-birth constitutional ballot measure.
The court also pointed out it has the authority to determine whether the abortion promoters' repeated violations of petition law can disqualify them from circulation efforts in the future.
Sara Frankenstein, lawyer for Life Defense, said, "We are grateful to the court for its decision today as we move toward trial. We are anxious to finally receive the discovery in this case. LDF has disclosed its trial exhibits and witnesses and yet we have received no discovery from D4H."
The seven-day trial now is to begin Sept. 23.
It was Rapid City lawyer James Leach, arguing against any review of his clients' possible illegal activities, who said a trial amounts to election interference.
He claimed a review could damage voter confidence when citizens already believe the system is corrupt. He claimed courts "should not contribute to that perception" by allowing the ordinary course of the legal process to take place.
Life Defense Fund, in fact, cited multiple disputes over ballot questions that have not been decided until the last minute before an election, or even after.
Frankenstein noted that in South Dakota, its state Supreme Court ruled in 2021, after the 2020 election, that a marijuana-promoting measure was invalid, even though residents already had cast their votes, because it ran counter to a requirement limiting such plans to a single issue.
She explained that Dakotans for Health simply were trying to run out the clock and obtain their goal.
She noted courts have a responsibility to step in when laws are violated to get an amendment on the ballot.
Pekas pointed out that the state Supreme Court had returned the case to him with instructions to create a record, following his earlier dismissal which did not even consider the merits.
WND previously reported on documentation of problems in the ballot issue dispute.
The state fight in South Dakota is just one of many across the nation, after the UI.S. Supreme Court overturned the fatally flawed Roe v. Wade ruling, which created a "right" to abortion, in 1973.
The change didn't ban abortion, but it did turn over regulation of the lucrative industry to states, creating what is now the battleground as abortion business operators seek to assure their financial future.
Among the states, about half have now imposed major roadblocks to the commercial-level killing of the unborn, including some that have outright bans; but about half have not.
The fight in South Dakota will be seen as a precedent for more attacks on other pro-life standards around the nation.
"A Kamala (Harris) presidency means more health risks to women and more babies aborted," Caroline Woods, a spokeswoman for the Life Defense Fund, which is fighting to protect the lives of the unborn, told WND.
"When undercover videos showed Planned Parenthood executives cavalierly talking about selling baby parts in California, then-Attorney General Kamala Harris viciously went after those who exposed Planned Parenthood's illegal actions. She will act no different as president, and she has made it her goal to legalize abortions across the nation."
In fact, there have been accusations that Harris schemed to send state agents to undercover reporter David Daleiden's home, to confiscate his videos and equipment, as he was releasing a series of reports on those agendas among abortionists to sell unborn baby body parts for higher and higher amounts.
One abortionist explained the need for that: "I want a Lamborghini."
Woods' organization sued the "Dakotans for Health" which is pushing for the plan that would unleash literally unrestricted abortions by eliminating more than 100 requirements the state already has. The fight also is significant because if pro-abortions radicals can succeed in South Dakota, in the heart of America and with food production, tourism and finance as major industries – nothing like Hollywood or New York – they would feel confident of taking their campaign anywhere.
"A vote for Amendment G is a vote for the Kamala Harris' radical agenda for America. In South Dakota, we reject her extreme abortion plans that endangers women and children," Woods said.
She warned, "South Dakota can be an example to the rest of the nation by once again showing that we are pro-woman and pro-children. Amendment G is the most radical abortion measure we've seen in our country, and we will fight to make sure children aren't aborted up to birth and women are protected from unsafe, unclean medical practices."
"We want South Dakota to blaze a path for a pro-life victory and show the rest of the nation how we can beat the abortion lobby."
She said the court case revolves around allegations of unethical, even illegal, behavior by the petition collectors.
"They say 'Let the people vote,' but what they're really saying is, 'Let us cheat.' In the same way Olympic teams are banned from performing if they cheat, this abortion amendment should be disqualified from appearing on the ballot since Dakotans for Health broke South Dakota election law, cheated, and lied directly to South Dakotans to advance their radical agenda."
Reports confirm there are allegations petition circulators left petition sheets unattended, a violation. They misled signers, a violation. The tried to bait-and-switch voters, a violation.
They apparently included nonresidents, a violation.
The pro-abortion faction went to federal court, trying to get the state case killed, and the judge has refused.
Woods described the proposal as "one of the most extreme abortion laws in the nation."
It would "legalize painful, late-term abortion, all the way to the point of birth." And it would kill a multitude of existing state abortion policies that have been created over time on a bipartisan basis.
For example, a provision for parents to know when a minor daughter is being pressured into abortion would be killed.
Killed would be protections for a mother from being forced to have an abortion against her will.
Killed would be conscience protections so that doctors and nurses cannot be forced to participate in performing abortions against their will.
Killed would even be basic health and safety requirements for abortionists to follow, including requirements that abortions be done by a physician and an inspected and clean facility.
Among the allegations the abortion industry promoters are facing:
Bait and switch. A couple told pro-lifers during a Farmers Market in 2023, where abortion promoters were gathering signatures, they were telling people the petitions were regarding a tax proposal.
The couple, not named, said the signature collector even checked, when they asked for the tax petition, and said, "This is the one you want," handing them the abortion plan.
Also, abortion promoters were collecting signatures but failing to provide a required statement from the attorney general.
There also were incorrect claims that the new petition supported exactly the same thing that Roe did back in 1973. The promoter explains, "This is exactly what the Supreme Court did in '73. In the first three months, it's a woman's choice. Then there are stipulations and exceptions. … They say it's up to nine months and that's not true…"
Here is Tiffany Campbell, a petition coordinator, explaining just how extreme is the amendment.
She boasts, "The legislature can't mess with it." And "It's gonna wipe off 113 abortion regulations that we have now."
Cited are the 24-hour waiting period, parental notification, 22-week ban … "Everything goes away."
Signing the petitions twice? No problem, the extra signature is just "crossed off."
And leaving petitions unattended:
Giving incorrect information, where a signature collector accuses someone of lying if they say abortions would be allowed through nine months, which they would be.
Other videos suggest verbal abuse by petition collectors and worse.
Woods already has written in National Review that abortion activists are "doing anything they can to get their way, including deceiving voters."
She continued, "Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many conservative states like my home state of South Dakota activated trigger laws on abortion. These laws were passed while Roe was still operative and were designed to be implemented the moment Roe v. Wade was overturned. They typically outlawed abortion unless the doctor believed it was needed to save the life of the mother. Since then, the abortion lobby has aggressively centered its efforts around gathering petition signatures and putting abortion measures on the ballot in states like South Dakota, among many others."
She noted polling reveals three-quarters of Americans support abortion bans after 15 weeks.
And she said Amendment G allows non-doctors to do abortions, too.
Woods explained her organization has "over 100 hours of video capturing pro-choice petition circulators, much of which showed them breaking South Dakota law."
Such evidence already has prompted the state's attorney general to reprimand the abortion promoters.
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The federal government is proposing to "help" parents battle a new problem that it created for them, and the chief of the Family Research Council is saying, "Thank you, no."
It is FRC President Tony Perkins who has written at the Washington Stand about a plan from Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, who has complained that "Parents and caregivers today face tremendous pressures from familiar stressors, such as worrying about their kids health and safety and financial concerns, to new challenges like navigating technology and social media."
His "advisory" also insists he wants a "fundamental shift" in the way the mental health and well-being of parents is valued and prioritized.
And he's suggesting ways to "support parents and caregivers."
"The government, through its policies, plays a significant role in the current stress levels parents face. Now they propose more government to solve the problems they've created. It's time for a collective response: No, thank you," Perkins explained.
In fact, the Biden-Harris administration has had, essentially, two major points to attack families, transgenderism and abortion, during its years in office so far. That ideology has gone so far as to have court-approved plans to counsel children into a transgender ideology and then conceal those maneuvers from parents.
Perkins explained, "It's essential to scrutinize what this administration means by these changes. Over the last few years, we've seen radical ideologies — particularly regarding gender identity — infiltrating classrooms and creating divisions between parents and their children. Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the policies promoted by this administration keep parents in the dark about what happens at school — which, by the way, only adds to the stress that Dr. Murthy talks about.
"One of the recommendations in this advisory is to increase government access to children at even a younger age, through early childhood education and daycare. While this may be well-intended (or at least sound well-intended), the idea will only fuel a parent's stress in the teenage years. Why? Because a child's worldview is largely formed between the age of 15 months and 13 years. Under this construct, the government is going to shape the minds of your children in those early years. And nothing causes more stress for a parent than seeing their child reject the values they have prayerfully tried to instill in them."
Perkins is not without expertise, either.
"As a father of five, with our youngest now 16, I can attest to the challenges of raising children. But make no mistake — raising children is a labor of love, and nothing is more rewarding than knowing that you are shaping the future with every step you take. Dr. Murthy addresses the many stressors of parenting, both old and new. They include financial concerns, economic instability, time demands, and worries about children's health and safety. Additionally, he mentions modern challenges like parental isolation, managing technology and social media, and cultural pressures. The advisory suggests a shift in culture, policies, and programs to ensure parents and caregivers can thrive."
He explained the solution isn't complicated, and doesn't involve handing more control over children to government bureaucrats.
"The Bible offers sound advice for parents. Proverbs 22:6 says, 'Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.' The bottom line is, we should never outsource the upbringing of our children."
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Answering ordinary questions such as "Who are you" or "What's your name" may seem trivial and mundane, but millions of people have little or no idea they're actually voicing the divine name of God when they utter the answers.
The fascinating subject was probed recently on the popular Bible TV show "Shabbat Night Live," as host Scott Laird interviewed Joe Kovacs, author of the new bestseller, "Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secret Broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything." (See video of the show below.)
The pair investigated people's ultimate identity, and how every human being has a divine proclamation.
"Who are you? We all want to know who we are, our identity," explained Kovacs.
"And if somebody asks you, 'What's your name?' or 'Who are you?,' You would say 'I am Scott.' I would say, 'I am Joe.' It's a very simple thing, and everybody in the audience can insert their own name there. But the point is, that when you say your own identity, you are saying God's name first.
"Because you are saying, 'I am … whatever your name is.' You're saying God's name first because God has used that phrase, 'I AM' to identify Himself.
"'I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say … I AM has sent me to you. … This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation (Exodus 3:14-15 CSB).
Kovacs went on to explain that God's presence in people's identity goes far beyond the present time, but extends into everyone's future.
"Not only is it attached to God now," he said, "once we're resurrected from the dead and become members of God's family forever, we're going to have God's name on us forever. Jesus says that. 'I'm going to write on them the name of my God (Revelation 3:12) … and my 'Father's name,' (Revelation 14:1) because it's another way of saying that we're going to become on the divine level as children of God."
Laird agreed and then brought up the custom of women often changing their names at wedlock.
"And when we change our names for marriage purposes, there's something in there too, isn't there?" Laird asked.
"Absolutely," said Kovacs.
"Women change their name all the time when they get married and you might wonder how did this start. God started it because He is broadcasting the end from the beginning. I cannot overstate this Scripture enough. Isaiah 46:10, God says He's 'declaring the end from the beginning.' He's telling you the conclusion of the story right from the start. And the conclusion of our story, is that we, the bride of Christ if you want to think of it that way, the wife of God as Revelation calls us, we are going to be married to God.
"And so we are going to change our name from human beings here in the flesh, to the very family name of God. That's when the name change comes. That's why brides change their name to the family name of their husband. God is our husband. He says in the Old Testament, 'I am your husband,' "I am married unto you" (Jeremiah 3:14).
"All these phrases are in the Old Testament and again they're previewing the very famous marriage, the most important marriage because we are the spouse of God. So we get a name change from human beings to God beings. It says in the Old Testament, Psalm 82:6, 'I said, "You are gods,'" that phrase is in the Bible, you are Elohim. Because He's telling us the end right now."
Endorsed by Chuck Norris and other Christian champions, "Reaching God Speed" is nothing short of a breakthrough work, as it probes God's hidden messages embedded in popular movies, hit songs from (Adele and the Beatles to Frank Sinatra and Led Zeppelin), the stories we tell our children, everyday phrases we all say, historic news events, famous commercial campaigns, nature itself, and typical life activities such as such as inhaling every breath you take, sleeping, waking up and many more.
It features a myriad of stunning biblical revelations, as the book:
The book rocketed to the #1 position in several Amazon categories both before and since its official release.
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A watchdog is warning Americans that "Deep State CIA agency trolls" are snooping on them – for nothing more than sharing First Amendment-protected content.
That's the verdict from Judicial Watch chief Tom Fitton, whose organization reported getting five pages of documentation from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security.
And they reveal CISA is "trolling on social media and reporting on alleged 'domestic violent extremism.'"
He said, "These documents show how the Deep State CIA agency trolls social media to snoop on Americans. The woke protocol sweeping the federal bureaucracies allows CISA snoopers to target individuals who are supposedly sharing First Amendment-protected content."
The organization said it got documents as part of a Freedom of Information Act fight that revealed "heavily redacted records" confirming elected officials just before and after the 2020 election flagged online comments deemed "misinformation" and sent it to the Center for Internet Security, CISA, and more.
What was confirmed was a federal-state censorship coordination during the 2020 election.
Other documentation previously obtained by Judicial Watch showed a CISA partnership with the Election Integrity Partnership and others, as well as details of a "close collaboration between CISA and EIP for "real-time narrative tracking."
The details sought in the FOIA process included CISA communications regarding threats to the nation's electrical supplies.
CISA sent multiple emails on the subject.
The emerging documents show that a "threat" identified as "Sadako Poker" was identified as "an 'armchair revolutionary'" and "a scan of their Twitter page found the following two threads which contained threatening information. I was not able to determine Sadako Poker's exact philosophy or affiliation, they referenced arguing with racists, but also shared potentially racist memes."
Those discussions referenced comments that bringing down nine substations would cause society to collapse take down the power grid and blame Antifa.
A report on a second individual's comments also revealed, "Not sure exactly individuals' philosophical affiliation, perhaps acerbic skeptic, seems to dislike left and right. Seems to spend a fair amount of time on race."
That individual commented on a fragile, aging infrastructure and damage to substations.
"These documents show how the Deep State CIA agency trolls social media to snoop on Americans," said Fitton. "The woke protocol sweeping the federal bureaucracies allows CISA snoopers to target individuals who are supposedly sharing First Amendment-protected content."
Judicial Watch has its own experience with government message controls.
"In May 2022, YouTube censored a Judicial Watch video about Biden's corruption and election integrity issues in the 2020 election. The video, titled 'Impeach? Biden Corruption Threatens National Security,' was falsely determined to be "election misinformation' and removed by YouTube, and Judicial Watch's YouTube account was suspended for a week. The video featured an interview of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton," the organization reported.
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A redacted portion of a federal report on the problems that developed when some protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, got violent, trespassing and vandalizing, reveals that then-Vice President Mike Pence's limo driver left the area and his security detail members weren't aware of where he'd gone.
A report from Just the News explains there were multiple incidents that gave the Secret Service "clear warning signs it was slipping on its zero-failure mission" long before its actions allowed a failed would-be assassin to take sniper shots at President Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally July 13.
The report cited as among the many failures the simplest of issues: failures in radio communications.
"Delays in radio communications were cited as a reason the Secret Service driver of Pence's vehicle left the Capitol for nearby loading docks without the detail guarding Pence immediately knowing the vehicle had departed or where he went, redacted portions of the reported stated," according to Just the News.
"Another passage revealed that the transportation agent moved the motorcade without explicit permission from the detail leader because of delays in communication and a rapidly developing situation in front of the Capitol. As the motorcade began relocating, protesters stormed through the plaza, breaching the barricades at 1:59 p.m. The transportation agent said some protesters moved toward the motorcade and attempted to block some of the vehicles, the unredacted report said."
There apparently had been no plans considered for any such development.
The details were in an "after-action report" regarding the Jan. 6 events, when protesters who had concerns about the legitimacy of the 2020 vote count protested the installation of Joe Biden as president. The facts, confirmed later, showed that there were at least two major vote-influence schemes in play during that vote: Mark Zuckerberg's handouts of $400 million plus to local election officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts, and the interference by the FBI which falsely claimed the Biden family scandals detailed in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop were Russian disinformation, when agents knew otherwise.
Just the News said it got a copy of a recently released Homeland Security inspector general report that detailed how Pence's escape vehicle left its post without permission and "left him stranded at an increasingly violent scene."
Also, it revealed Secret Service agents couldn't contact each other because radios and cell phones dropped signals.
It even documented how a "required explosives detection team wasn't deployed when Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris was mistakenly whisked past a live pipe bomb just before the Capitol riot started."
And it confirmed that even though the Secret Service had been warned of the possibility of "unrest," the agency didn't change its security plans, leaving a five-person detail inside the Capitol.
Just the News noted that the evidence shows, "Despite a full-scale two-year House Democrat probe into Jan. 6 many revelations about security and intelligence failures remain unresolved."
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The 20-year-old sniper who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last month, now dead at the hands of police, was using a multitude of overseas messaging apps – all encrypted, according to a new report.
The Daily Wire said it was Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., who is on a congressional committee investigating that planned violence, who reported the unusual aspect of the online life of Thomas Matthew Crooks.
"Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aide need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad, where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into? That's a question I've had since day one," he explained to reporters at the time.
The report noted the retired Green Beret then "ripped the FBI and Secret Service for not releasing more information from the investigations into the attempted assassination."
Crooks, from the roof of an unguarded building adjacent to Trump's rally, actually got off multiple shots at Trump, with one grazing his ear.
Trump was blanketed by the Secret Service but immediately got up, raising his fist in the air and shouting, "Fight, fight, fight," in what almost certainly will become one of the most recognized photographic images of the decade.
Waltz explained the investigators have not "learned that much" about Crooks' accounts, but he did reveal they were based in Belgium, Germany, and New Zealand.
The New York Post said the apps allow for text messages to travel through and be encrypted so that only can be read on a recipient's device.
"They need to be releasing information as they come across it because this wasn't an isolated incident," he said. "The threats are continually Iran's threats."
There have been confirmed reports that Iran was trying to orchestrate an attempt on Trump's life just at the Time Crooks' fired his shots.
The congressional committee has 13 members, including seven Republicans, and already has questioned leaders of the Secret Service and the FBI over the security failures that day.