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A multi-point plan released by President Donald Trump for peace in the Middle East, specifically between Israel and the Hamas terrorists who launched a war against the Middle East democracy on Oct. 7, 2023, has taken effect, with a ceasefire on Friday, Israeli troops being pulled back and a countdown on for the release of the hostages still held by the terrorists.
Trump had announced that Israel and Hamas both "signed off" on the plan, meaning "ALL of the Hostages will be released soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line."
He called it a "GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding Nations, and the United States."
A report at CBS said the Israeli military confirmed the ceasefire had started, and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed Israeli troops were leaving parts of Gaza.
Hostages are expected to be returned to Israel by mid-day on Monday.
Also pending is the release by Israel of dozens of Palestinians who had been jailed for a variety of reasons.
Trump is expected to visit the Middle East on Monday.
"The Israel Police is completing preparations for the visit of the President of the United States, Mr. Donald Trump, to Israel, this coming Monday," explained David Filo, head of the police operations division.
The Israeli Ministry of Justice has identified about 250 prisoners who are Palestinian and are to be released under the terms of the Trump plan.
The report added that, "The Rafah crossing from southern Gaza into Egypt will reopen on Tuesday in coordination with European Union authorities and the White House."
There also were reports Gazans had started returning to northern parts of the enclave adjacent to Israel even as Israeli troops were withdrawing.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday, according to the report, that Israel is "tightening the noose around Hamas from all sides," and vowed that Gaza would be demilitarized following the Israeli government's approval of a peace plan to end the war.
The plan has the IDF redeploying within 24 hours of approval of the agreement, which will be accomplished over the weekend.
Within 72 hours after the IDF completes redeployment to the agreed-upon borders, all hostages, living and dead, will be released and returned to Israel, reports confirmed.
Hamas is, under the plan, losing a great deal of its control and power that it has exercised over Gaza for years now, and Trump wasn't even ready to assure that there will be a "Palestinian state," saying, "we're going to see how it all goes."
"And there's a point at which we may do something that would be a little bit different and may be very positive for everybody," Trump said.
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A major sticking point in reopening the government is the extension of expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. Without these subsidies, insurance premiums will double for those receiving them.
Because of this, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is breaking ranks with the Republican Party.
It should be obvious that government benefits, once granted, are virtually impossible to take away, and a subsidy "cliff" will be politically disastrous. The subsidies were necessary to mask the fact that affordable options were being taken away, and extremely expensive coverage mandates were being imposed. The cliff was needed to mask the long-term cost of the bill.
So, what can be done now? One suggestion is a conditional extension of the subsidies combined with measures to reduce costs, based on an understanding of why costs are outrageous. The graph below shows the enormous increase in administrators, and the legislation associated with it.
Graph courtesy of AuthenticMedicine.com
All that administration is supposed to decrease "unnecessary" care. It is time to ask how many tests could be bought for the price of the staff used to deny them. For the price of a $1 million administrator, 2,000 CT scans at $500 (possible in independent facilities) could be obtained, or 82 spine surgeries (lumbar laminectomies at $12,230 at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma.
We don't know how much time is wasted by physicians and nurses in documentation that serves no purpose except to justify billing – but it may eat up half their time.
Republicans reneged on their promises to repeal the ACA. So, how about promising that "if you like your ACA plan you can keep your ACA plan," but the following changes will be made to allow affordable alternatives to arise:
Additional information:
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons reform proposals
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In what is being described as a "bizarre scene," a former Democrat congresswoman now running for California governor had a meltdown during a TV interview, apparently upset that she was being asked questions by a news reporter.
Katie Porter was being interviewed by Julie Watts of CBS affiliate KOVR-TV in Sacramento when she objected to follow-up questions, stressing she did not wish to have an "unhappy experience with you and I don't want this on camera."
"I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna call it, thank you," Porter told Wells, indicating she was done with the interview.
"You're not going to do the interview with us?" an incredulous Watts asked.
"Nope, not like this I'm not. Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask," Porter responded.
"Every other candidate has answered our follow-ups," the investigative reporter noted.
"I don't care," Porter replied.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reposted the video, saying: "Crazy lady freaks out when journalists asks her actual 'questions.'"
Republican congressional candidate Ken Calvert said: "Her tirade is a window into the mentality of radical CA Democrat politicians. They can't stand those who disagree with them."
Martha MacCallum of Fox News told anchor Bill Hemmer on Wednesday: "I just love when she goes, 'Not if you have seven follow-ups. Six is my limit.' This is not going to serve her well."
And Hemmer quipped: "I think they were just sitting too close to each other."
John Ziegler, host of "The Death of Journalism" podcast, also reacted to the meltdown, saying: "When Katie Porter is our next governor here in CA, it will make us long for the days of the evil Gavin Newsom. She's a lot like him, only dumber.
"How are Democrats not enraged that she overtly states here that she plans to make sure she runs in the general against a Republican?!"
Kristinn Taylor at the Gateway Pundit opined: "It was a bizarre scene, like in a movie where the nurse is trying to calm the agitated mental patient in the psych ward before she picks up a tray and bashes her in the head."
In 2023, the New York Post reported on other alleged behavior by Porter, as her ex-husband in a 2013 divorce filing accused her of pouring scalding hot mashed potatoes on his head during a dispute:
The former husband of Rep. Katie Porter said the California Democrat frequently abused him verbally and threw "toys, books and other objects" at him during their marriage – even pouring scalding-hot mashed potatoes on his head during a fight, according to divorce records.
Matthew Hoffman, who filed for divorce from Porter in 2013, said in a request for a restraining order dated April 30 of that year that he was "routinely" called a "f***ing idiot" and "f***ing incompetent" by his rage-prone spouse, who also shattered a glass coffee pot on their kitchen counter in March 2012 when she felt their house wasn't clean enough.
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A new study from South Korea has documented how COVID shots and their boosters, mandated by corporations, military commanders, federal officials and more during the pandemic created by the China virus, push up the risk of cancers.
A report at Childrens Health Defense cites the study by South Koreans published in Biomarker Research, a Springer Nature journal.
The study included more than eight million people and found COVID-19 shots and boosters "are associated with a higher risk of breast, colorectal, gastric, lung, prostate and thyroid cancer, across all vaccine types and age groups."
"Mainstream medical commentators" claimed the findings are "flawed."
But others found value in the results.
"In plain terms: both major COVID-19 vaccine platforms appear to be carcinogenic," epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher wrote in a post on Substack.
Those would be mRNA and non-mRNA.
Dr. Angus Dalgleish, a medical oncologist, told The Defender the study builds on other recent findings but 'is the first to show that cDNA [non-mRNA] and mRNA vaccines are associated with cancer risk, suggesting that the spike protein is directly carcinogenic,'" the report said.
The report noted, "The researchers said the 'shared structures' contained within the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 vaccines, including the spike protein, might mean that the COVID-19 shots are associated with cancer risks."
The data comes from some 8.4 million people in South Korea's National Health Insurance Service database. And researchers tracked patients for a year, after dividing them in vaccination status groups, and found the overall cancer risk among those given shots was 27% higher.
For breast cancer, the risk was 20% higher, 28% higher for colorrectal cancer, 34% higher for gastric cancer, 53% higher for lung cancer and 69% higher for prostate cancer.
The report said, "COVID-19 mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna showed a 20% higher overall risk of cancer and were most closely linked to a higher risk of breast, colorectal, lung and thyroid cancers. Non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, known as cDNA vaccines and which include the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) shots, were associated with a 47% higher overall risk of cancer. They were specifically linked to an increased risk of colorectal, gastric, lung, prostate and thyroid cancers."
Hulscher confirmed, "The elevated cancer risks were not confined to one vaccine platform. Each vaccine type was associated with a measurable increase in overall cancer — and each had specific cancer sites driving the signal. In other words, no vaccine technology was free of cancer risk in this dataset."
Hulscher wrote: "Both the overall and site-specific results show a consistent pattern — every demographic group experienced elevated cancer risks, though the type and absolute burden varied. Women and the elderly were hit hardest, but no population segment was spared."
Critics charged the study failed to account for family histories of cancer, and screening histories.
But Children's Health Defense research scientist Karl Jablonowski explained, "The criticism levied against the study is of healthy user bias. The idea that people more likely to engage in one medical intervention (vaccination) are also more likely to engage in another (cancer screening) … is a valid concern for a vaxed-unvaxed study such as this one, as those seeking a vaccine will have drastically different healthcare-seeking behavior than those not seeking a vaccine.
"[However,] this is not just a vaxed-unvaxed study — it also differentiates the vaccines. Healthy user bias is not a point of argument for why one vaccine (cDNA) shows a strong cancer risk above another (mRNA). Further, the study doesn't say vaccines cause cancer, but are associated with them."
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It now has been confirmed that the extent and depth of the weaponization of the federal government under Joe Biden included onetime Special Counsel Jack Smith monitoring the communications of, and spying on, Republican senators.
A document, reviewed by Fox News Digital, revealed that Smith and his FBI activists working to undermine, even prosecute and jail, President Donald Trump "were allegedly tracking" telephone activity of GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
Dan Bongino, the deputy FBI director, brief multiple senators, including Graham, Hawley, Johnson, Blackburn and more, Monday.
The document is titled "CAST Assistance" and is dated Sept. 27, 2023, in reference to the FBI's cellular analysis survey team.
One of Smith's lawfare cases against Trump involved Democrat claims that the January 6, 2021, protest turned riot in Washington actually was an insurrection, an deliberate attempt to overthrow to U.S. government.
In reality it was a protest that got out of hand, possible aggravated by instigators embedded in the crowd.
This case collapsed despite Smith's efforts to make public all of the detrimental allegations he could claim against Trump.
Fox reported, "The document states the names of the lawmakers and that an FBI special agent on Smith's team 'conducted preliminary toll analysis' on the toll records associated with the lawmakers. An FBI official told Fox News Digital that Smith and his team tracking the senators were able to see which phone numbers they called, the location the phone call originated and the location where it was received."
Smith issued subpoenas to major telephone providers to collect the information.
Smith was appointed special counsel to conduct the Democrats' lawfare agenda against Trump.
"It is a disgrace that I have to stand on Capitol Hill and reveal this — that the FBI was once weaponized to track the private communications of U.S. lawmakers for political purposes," Bongino said. "That era is over."
FBI officials confirmed the records were uncovered because of oversight request by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
FBI Director Kash Patel said, "Under our watch, the FBI will never again be turned against the American people."
The report pointed out that the lawfare case assembled by Smith collapsed, but not before costing American taxpayers more than $50 million.
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A terrorist rammed a vehicle into people at a synagogue in the United Kingdom, jumped out and started stabbing people, and shortly later was shot and killed by police.
The suspect in the attack outside the Manchester Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, not yet identified, reportedly was wearing a suspected suicide belt.
Police there said the attack on Yom Kippur, a holy day in the Jewish calendar, left multiple victims hospitalized in serious condition.
Some agencies were reporting at least two victims had died.
The suspect was confirmed dead, a process that was delayed by "suspicious items on his person," which gave the appearance of a bomb belt.
Rabbi Daniel Walker had barricaded worshippers inside the building after the suspect crashed into the gate and began stabbing "anyone and everyone," described the Daily Mail.
"One witness described him moving from victim to victim in a 'robotic' manner 'like he had a job to do' – targeting 'anyone' wearing a kippah," the report said.
Video shared on social media appeared to show armed police officers pointing guns at a man on the ground as one screamed to onlookers: "Everybody else, get back. If you're not involved, move back, get away… he has a bomb, go away."
Some online videos showed the suspect starting to get up, but falling back after another shot. And they showed a victim on the street in a poll of blood.
Police sources told the Mail it was "too early" to determine the attacker's motivation.
Police stated that they were "called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public and one man had been stabbed."
Police explained a man "believed to be the offender," was shot.
The attack was just the latest a long list of attacks of houses of worship around the world in recent months. In America, multiple Christian facilities have been targeted by violent extremists.
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Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., holds the nickname "Fang Fang" for his relationship with a woman who allegedly was a Chinese "honey pot" spy.
When his relationship with a foreign government activist came to light, the House Ethics Committee investigated. But it "closed" its review, promising to protect him from "action."
Now he has given an interview in which he is threatening private American citizens if they supported President Donald Trump in a way that he dislikes.
His comments prompted the Gateway Pundit to post a "Fascism Alert" warning about him.
In an interview, Swalwell said his party will be the majority in Congress after the next election, a prediction that is not at all supported by all analysts of the coming election.
"We are making it clear we are going into the majority a year from now. We have every intention to do that," he said.
"And so we will bring oversight accountability. We will subpoena the Department of Justice, but also private actors who have done these drug deals with the administration."
Wagging his finger at Americans, he continued, "College campuses, entertainment companies, and so accountability is coming and so, One, It's all coming out, Two. I hope that deters people from doing more of these deals, these one-offs with the president."
Actually, evidence released by the Trump administration has confirmed that it was Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and other Democrats who actually weaponized the federal government against Trump, launching an FBI probe based on lies, and much more.
The accountability for that scheming has just started to develop, with last week's indictment of ex-FBI chief James Comey on lying and obstruction charges.
The Gateway Pundit's comments included, "The Democrats will be targeting ordinary Americans to retaliate against the Trump administration for holding disgraced former FBI Director James Comey accountable along with people who have worked with President Trump to clean up corruption and go after bad actors."
The report described how Swalwell "vowed revenge" on Trump and his supporters.
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A man has been charged with a felony under a federal law that makes it illegal to point a laser at an aircraft.
The reasoning isn't complicated. Lasers, even those hand-held pointer units, can blind a pilot, even injure his eyes, and when the pilot is in control of a jet the consequences can be dire.
In this case, it was President Donald Trump's helicopter that allegedly was the target.
So Jacob Winkler was charged.
But now a magistrate judge, Zia Faruqui, has decided that Winkler doesn't need to be kept in custody.
Investigative reporter Julie Kelly confirmed, "He [Faruqui] just denied Trump DOJ's request to detain Jacob Winkler.
Police reports confirmed, "The red laser beam hit Officer Santiago's eyes and briefly disoriented him. At this time, Marine One flew at a relatively low height and directly above Officer Santiago and [Winkler's] location. Marine One was close enough that the rotor noise was loud, and the aircraft appeared large overhead. Officer Santiago approached [Winkler] after being flashed in the face with the red laser. Upon approach, [Winkler] looked up, oriented the same red laser pointer at the direction of Marine One and activated the red laser beam."
A report at the Gateway Pundit explained the situation.
"Radical magistrate judge denied the Justice Department's request to detain a man who tried to take down Marine One with a red laser pointer."
The federal complaint said Winkler immediately was handcuffed, but it also noted the danger of "risk of flash blindness and pilot disorientation," especially in a presidential helicopter flying at low altitudes.
Winkler was charged with 18 U.S. Code § 39A, a law that prohibits aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.
The penalties under the law could be up to five years in prison.
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Since Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated earlier this month, his organization, seeking free speech, civilized dialogue and even spiritual revival on America's campuses, has been bombarded with thousands of requests for launching additional chapters.
Make that tens of thousands.
But now both local police and the state attorney general have begun investigating a situation in Harris County, Texas, where Stratford High students were working to begin a group, and local parents opposed to the concepts espoused by TPUSA allegedly doxed those students, releasing their private information, which in Texas is a violation of the law.
Attorney General Ken Paxton, notified of the situation, said, "These are sick individuals. My office will review these messages for any violations of the law. The radical leftist culture of suppression must be totally defeated. We are not backing down, and we will not be silenced."
The Harris County part of the nationwide organization called Moms for Liberty had caught wind of the secret agenda against TPUSA and wrote online: "Stratford HS TEENS forming a TPUSA Club America were DOXXED by ADULTS sharing students' internal GroupMe content in a 'BE THE CHANGE' private FB group, urging 730 members, operating in secrecy, to also intimidate teacher sponsors. REPREHENSIBLE. These are KIDS!"
Local police also said they were investigating.
A report at Lifezette explained, "One post, circulated on social media, urged Stratford parents to contact teachers rumored to be sponsoring the club."
That message said, "Stratford Parents – I have an urgent request! Please please please send emails to two teachers who are rumored to have agreed to sponsoring a club that will sow division and hate among our students. … This is dangerous territory, and it would help if those teachers knew that their consideration was not appreciated by the remainder of the student body."
The report said then the messaging publicly cited individuals allegedly linked to the effort, "including Denise Bell, who was described as 'pushing for Stratford students to start a Turning Point USA club at the school.' It also cited Gulf Coast Representative Javon Evans of 'Club America,' the TPUSA-affiliated student organization."
The report explained, "The online campaign went further, circulating a series of claims about TPUSA and its founder. Among them were accusations that the organization runs a 'Professor Watchlist' to target teachers, that teachers sponsoring a TPUSA club would be making a political statement, and that TPUSA has framed minorities and immigrants as 'existential threats.'"
The online gossip also "suggested the assassination of Charlie Kirk was connected to 'far-right rivalry,' despite police statements identifying the suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, and his ideological motivations."
Even the suspect's family members have confirmed he was radicalized into leftist ideology recently, including the transgender agenda and more.
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A widely recognized and honored constitutional expert has delivered a "Bravo" to a judge who has ruled that a lawsuit by parents against a school where officials allegedly deceived them, withholding the truth about the school's gender ideology and officials' manipulation of a student, can go forward.
"There is a major ruling, Mead v. Rockford Public School Dist., a potentially precedent-setting case on parental rights in our public schools. Judge Paul Maloney (W.D. Mich.) ruled that Plaintiffs Dan and Jennifer Mead could move forward with their claims that the Rockford Public School district concealed changes to the gender identification of their biological daughter, identified as G.M. As I have previously written, parental rights are shaping up as a major battleground for the Supreme Court after years of decisions in the lower court undermining parental controls and disclosures," explained expert Jonathan Turley, who not only has testified before Congress as an expert on the Constitution but has represented members in court on constitutional issues.
He pointed out, "A century ago, the nation's highest court ruled in Pierce v. Society of Sisters that 'the child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.'"
Further, in 2000, he said, in its Troxel v. Granville decision, "the court recognized 'the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children.'"
He said, "There is no greater natural right than the right to control the upbringing of our children. This right was not granted to us by the grace of the state. It rests with us as human beings. It is part of a panoply of natural rights embraced by the framers − a commitment made nearly 250 years ago in our Declaration of Independence."
The Michigan court, under Judge Paul Maloney, now has recognized a "viable" claim by the parents.
"The court noted that the parents were alleging a key element in the case that the District intentionally deceived them and found that these "allegations show some amount of coercion or interference from the District, which implicates Plaintiffs' right to make fundamental decisions for [daughter] G.M,'" he said.
"Bravo, Judge Maloney."
At Reason, columnist Eugene Volokh said the district started treating the girl as a boy, with a name change and more, "but did not inform G.M.'s parents."
The court now has allowed the parent's 14th Amendment claim to go forward.
"The right of parents to direct their children's upbringing originated from three Supreme Court cases: Meyer v. Nebraska (1923), Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925), and Farrington v. Tokushige (1927)…. The Court affirmed the life of this right in Troxel v. Granville (2000). There, the Court held that 'the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children [] is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interest recognized by this Court,'" the column said.
In this case, the plaintiffs charge "the District intentionally deceived them. Plaintiffs claim that the District went beyond failing to notify them of their child's gender transition. According to the complaint, the District 'took affirmative steps to deceive the Meads.' Taking complaint in its entirety, Plaintiffs' allegations show some amount of coercion or interference from the District, which implicates Plaintiffs' right to make fundamental decisions for G.M…."
Further, Reason charged, "Plaintiffs also allege that the District's actions amount to medical health treatment. They plead that the District engaged G.M. in a 'psychosocial intervention for gender dysphoria.'"
And, "The District's policy and practice allowed school officials to deceive the child's parents, which undermined their ability to choose appropriate medical treatment for their child (a third-party therapist or psychologist). The District's policy and practice 'undermines a meaningful role for parents if the child decides his or her biological gender is not preferential,'" the column said.
A report from the ADF, which brought the case on behalf of the parents, explained the school even "had altered the girl's official records to remove references to the district's actions before sending the records home."
"The Meads only discovered the district's actions when an employee unintentionally failed to completely alter a report about their daughter before sharing it with them. By concealing this important information, the district violated the Meads' fundamental parental rights. The U.S. Constitution protects their right as parents to make decisions about the upbringing, education, and health care of their children," ADF reported.
"Parents, not the government, have the right to direct the upbringing, education, and health care of their children," said ADF lawyer Kate Anderson. "Schools should never deliberately hide vital information from parents, yet that's exactly what the Rockford Public School District did. District employees didn't even notify Dan and Jennifer—let alone seek their consent—before beginning to call their young daughter by a masculine name and male pronouns."