The U.S. labor market remained strong in 2019, as the unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, the lowest rate since 1969. Both the employment–population ratio and the civilian labor force participation rate increased over the year. Levels of long-term joblessness and involuntary part-time employment continued to trend down.
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The economic and employment numbers for May reflected an economy that has not been this robust since 1969. Most notably the unemployment rate for black Americans hit a record low in U.S. history.
Even more notable is the fact that the gap between black and white workers in American arrowed to a historic 2.4 percent according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
Not surprisingly Democrats and most in the mainstream media were silent on the matter or responded with a resounding, “Yes, but.” The standbys of the civil rights movement, like Jesse Jackson, were quick to shift credit to Obama and his strategies and continue on with their usual narrative of Trump is a racist while ignoring that those numbers represent an improvement in the lives of real people.
Less than a month ago, BET founder Robert L. Johnson bucked that trend and told CNBC viewers that black Americans should find encouragement that “something is going right” under Trump. Before these latest numbers came out he said:
“You have to take encouragement from what’s happening in the labor force and the job market. When you look at African American unemployment, in over 50 years since the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been keeping the numbers, you’ve never had two things: African American unemployment this low and the spread between unemployment among whites and African Americans narrowing.”
Unlike Nancy Pelosi and her ilk, Johnson, a Democrat, and supporter of Hillary Clinton is willing to give credit where credit is due.
“Why shouldn’t we, as Black voters, reject the notion that we are locked into one party which undoubtedly limits and dilutes our voting power? We should, instead, use the power of our vote to support and elect whichever party that best serves our interests,” says Robert L. Johnson.
Presidents do not make an economy great but they certainly set the tone for the direction it takes and will continue to take. Johnson sees what unbiased observers do: the renewed health of our economy is thanks in large part to President Trump’s regulation cutting and tax policies that have stressed productivity and sustained growth as opposed to burdensome tax hikes and government regulation.
Historically, black unemployment has been a consistent 66 percentage points higher than white unemployment since the government began recording the data in 1972 and the disparity has never before fallen below 3 points.
The African American unemployment rate fell to 6.8%, the lowest rate since such record began to be kept in 1992. Even the Washington Post offered the headline, “Trump’s first-year jobs numbers were very, very good.”
To say anything less is to ignore hard facts. Black unemployment fell dramatically to 5.9percent setting a record the month before at 6.6 percent. And those numbers reflect across all demographics. White unemployment fell from 3.6 to 3.5 percent. Hispanic unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.9 percent after setting a record low of 4.8 percent in April. Overall, unemployment has not been this low since 2000.
Teenage unemployment dropped roughly 25 percent in the past year and black teenagers gained even more ground. Unemployment among women fell to its lowest point since 1953.
Some naysayers argue that the jobs gained are not good jobs. This is another myth being spread by the Left and the dishonest media. Among non-managers, hourly wages climbed by nearly 3 percent, especially for non-managers. As one economist told The Wall Street Journal, “It’s pretty hard to argue that the labor market is anything but right in the sweet spot.”
Perhaps what should be more of note to black leaders is that the gap between black and white unemployment is the smallest it has ever been, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Economist Evan Cunningham believes this trend of the gap narrowing between black and white workers looks to continue for a while.
During a telephone interview with Fox and Friends, President Trump spoke of his latest black supporter, Kanye West. He said, “Kanye looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country.” That’s hard to argue with.
Anyone who stays abreast of the news knows that the economy is hostage to unexpected events like a hurricane or rumors of war. But for now. The employment rate was 20 percent better than economists expected and no one benefited more than those in the black community.
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In 2019, the poverty rate for the United States was 10.5%, the lowest since estimates were first released for 1959.
Poverty rates declined between 2018 and 2019 for all major race and Hispanic origin groups.
Two of these groups, Blacks and Hispanics, reached historic lows in their poverty rates in 2019. The poverty rate for Blacks was 18.8%; for Hispanics, it was 15.7%.
The historically low poverty rates for Blacks and Hispanics in 2019 reflect gains for race and Hispanic origin groups that have traditionally been disadvantaged compared to other groups over time.
These estimates, released today, are from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).
Changes in surveys over time can make historical comparisons difficult. Using a methodology proposed last year, we can adjust the historical series to account for statistically significant impacts of recent CPS ASEC survey redesigns.
The figure below charts historical poverty rates for each of the major race and Hispanic origin groups and Hispanics in the CPS ASEC.
Adjustments are made for Asians, Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites because the recent survey changes resulted in statistically significant changes in poverty rates. Poverty rates for Hispanics are not adjusted because the survey changes did not result in statistically different poverty rates.
The figure below shows that over time, non-Hispanics Whites have consistently been under-represented among the population in poverty, while Blacks and Hispanics have consistently been over-represented. Asians have been under-represented in poverty for the last 20 years.
The adjustment for survey changes is not made here for simplicity.
The figure shows that there has been a gradual decrease in the degree of over-representation of Blacks and Hispanics in poverty.
After the Great Recession ended in June 2009, the degree of overrepresentation stayed level for Blacks, while the ratio moved closer to one for Hispanics, continuing a trend which started in the mid-1990s.
One potential reason for the recent trend is that since 2008, median household income for Blacks has grown at a slower rate than median household income for Hispanics.
The figure below tracks median household income using 2019 dollars from 2008, the last full year of the most recent recession, until 2019.
Like Figure 1, the series below implements adjustments to the estimates for groups whose median household incomes were statistically changed by the survey improvements.
In 2019, median household income for Black households was $45,438 compared to $56,113 for Hispanic households, $76,057 for non-Hispanic White households, and $98,174 for Asian households.
Since 2008, median household income increased 14.1% for Black households, compared to 24.3% for Hispanic households, 11.1% for non-Hispanic White households, and 25.7% for Asian households.
For more information on year-to-year poverty changes and household income, see Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019.
BY SEC. WILBUR ROSS AND HENRY CHILDS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 03/05/19 11:00 AM ET
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
When President Nixon signed the executive order creating MBDA, the nation’s minority population was less than 40 million. Nixon recognized that, although minority-owned businesses then were only 4 percent of America’s businesses, empowering the entrepreneurial spirit of minority men and women was vital for the future of the American economy.
The minority population has more than tripled to 129 million, or 39 percent of the total United States population. Minorities own an estimated 29 percent of classifiable businesses, which are growing at twice the rate of non-minority businesses. They employ more than 6.3 million Americans and generate over $1 trillion in revenue.
We know that minority-owned businesses are an indispensable part of our nation’s economy, and we continue to affirm the vision of growth and prosperity that was set forth 50 years ago:
By encouraging minority-owned businesses to thrive and expand, we are strengthening our communities, our families and our spirit of innovation.
How do we continue to empower individuals, ensure small businesses are hiring and expanding and push medium-sized businesses to hit the million-dollar mark in revenue? How do we ensure the United States remains at the forefront of innovation and technology?
It starts with removing economic barriers, encouraging public- and private-sector collaboration and providing businesses with access to resources and capital.
The Trump administration has led the way in leveling the playing field for American businesses in international trade, and minority-owned businesses are uniquely positioned to expand their business operations through exports.
According to the Census Bureau, minority-owned firms are twice as likely to export; six times more likely to conduct business in a language other than English; and three times more likely to generate 100 percent of their revenues from exports compared to non-minority-owned firms.
New data from Census analyzed by The Business Journals shows that the number of Hispanic-, African-American- and Asian-owned businesses have increased significantly in the last decade, with Hispanic-owned businesses achieving the highest amount of growth at 46 percent.
To build on this success, in the last two fiscal years, MBDA helped facilitate almost $12 billion in contracts and financing to minority enterprises, helping create or retain over 35,000 jobs. In 2018, we awarded grants in high-impact areas where minorities need assistance the most — education, access to capital and technology.
Our initiatives include Global Minority Women’s Economic Empowerment, the Entrepreneurship Education Program for the Formerly Incarcerated and Technology Transfer and Commercialization, to name a few.
Morgan Stanley estimates the $400 billion commercial space sector will hit $1.1 trillion by 2040. We hope to hit this milestone even sooner by encouraging minority businesses to capitalize on this future forward industry.
Recently, MBDA awarded a grant to the United States Space Foundation to educate and inspire minority firms and to help facilitate partnerships in the field of space commercialization.
President Trump is unleashing America’s economic prowess. For the first time in more than a decade, GDP growth has reached 3 percent, and the United States unemployment rate has dropped to 4 percent.
Minority unemployment rates have hit an all-time low, wages are rising, and American families are seeing the direct results of deregulation and economic reform.
As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Opportunity Zones provide a tax incentive to invest in areas where the unemployment rate is about 1.6 points higher than average. Approximately 56 percent of Opportunity Zone residents are minorities.
Leveraging Opportunity Zone financing is a unique chance for minority businesses and communities to advance through new private-sector capital.
The Trump administration has created an economic climate that allows all Americans to prosper. A prime example is DAP Construction, a female-led, minority-owned firm that won the Minority Enterprise Development Week Construction Firm of the Year Award last fall.
With the help of MBDA, what started off as a residential property service company in 2009 doubled its revenue from $1.5 million in 2015 to $3.5 million in 2017.
For 50 years, MBDA has been at the forefront of promoting businesses like DAP Construction, in turn helping keep our Nation’s job creators economically competitive. More recently, this administration has proven that when we put American businesses first, all Americans flourish.
That work will never cease, and we look forward to the greatness minority businesses will achieve in the years to come.
Wilbur Ross is the secretary of Commerce and Henry Childs is the national director of the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). MBDA is a part of the Department of Commerce and is the only federal agency solely dedicated to the growth and global competitiveness of United States minority-owned businesses.
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BY MOHIT OBEROI, CFA
DEC. 8 2020, UPDATED 9:51 A.M. ET
U.S. President Donald Trump has on multiple occasions pointed to how U.S. stock markets have delivered strong returns under his presidency. U.S. stock markets indeed swelled to record highs in his presidency despite the COVID-19 pandemic. What was the Dow Jones when Trump took office and how have his economic policies impacted U.S. stock markets?
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Mr. President, I do want to drill down on something you both brought up. The vice president brought up your tariffs you responded and let's drill down on this because your plan is what she calls is a essentially a national sales tax. Your proposal calls for tariffs as you pointed out here, on foreign imports across the board. You recently said that you might double your plan, imposing tariffs up to 20% on good coming into this country. As you know many economists say that with tariffs at that level costs are then passed onto the consumer. Vice President Harris has argued it'll mean higher prices on gas, food, clothing medication arguing it costs the typical family nearly four thousand dollars a year. Do you believe Americans can afford higher prices because of tariffs.
Wow! Does the media think the American people are stupid? Or are you stupid? Isn’t that the whole idea? Making American produce more attractive to the American dollar? Why give foreign imports our money, when we should be helping American Companies.
The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone
Vulnerable
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s dominance poses risks to the global economy, amid geopolitical tensions and a major chip shortage.
Apple chips are being made by TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company). Apple is owned by Bill Gates, American Business magnate, software developer, and investor. Apple Inc. may be owned by Bill Gates, but like most US corporations are run by a Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors are highly influenced by the investors. Over tax and over regulate the corporations to the point that the value of the share’s falls, the investors threaten to sell their shares, of which could cause the corporation to go bankrupt.
So, what happens? The corporation pack up their jobs, and taxes they pay, and go to other countries that wants them like TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), and countries that has workers that will work for lower pay and little if any benefits!!!!
American corporations hire Americans, another tax base, it’s called income taxes
Working Americans are not dependent on Unemployment or public assistance. Made in America means we are independent and don’t have to rely on imports. We import most of our medicine from China! They could at anytime shut off that medicine. Maybe that’s why the Demonrats kiss Chinese a$$.
If the American government is not careful and the American people allow it, we could end up like Venezuela where it cost a wheelbarrow full of money to buy bread. Oil export earnings had enabled the government headed by Hugo Chavez from 1999 to 2013 to pay for social programs intended to combat poverty and inequality. From subsidies for those on low incomes to health services, the government’s spending obligations were high.
Then when President Trump made America energy independent the global price of oil dropped. Foreign demand for the bolívar to buy Venezuelan oil crashed. As the currency’s value fell, the cost of imported goods rose. The Venezuelan economy went into crisis.
Look at what’s occurring in America today, we are no longer energy independent, we import more than we export.
The only conclusion I can come too, is that the Democrats want America to fail!
By DOUG PALMER and FINBARR BERMINGHAM | SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
12/20/2019 05:02 AM EST
Last year, the U.S. imported $115 billion of finished pharmaceutical products, with just $1.5 billion coming from China.
Shouldn’t we manufacture these drugs in the Good ole USA? Providing jobs for Americans?
One of the biggest national security threats in the U.S.-China trade war could be to the everyday medicines taken by millions of Americans.
The U.S. relies on imported medicines from China in a big way. Antibiotics, over-the-counter pain meds and the stuff that stops itching and swelling — a lot of it is imported from China.
“Medicines can be used as a weapon of war against the United States,” Rosemary Gibson, a senior adviser on health care issues at the bioethics-focused Hastings Center and co-author of “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” told lawmakers last month. “Supplies can be withheld. Medicines can be made with lethal contaminants or sold without any real medicine in them, rendering them ineffective.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris accused former President Donald Trump of having “sold us out” to the Chinese government with policies that “ended up selling American chips to China,” during Tuesday night’s debate.
VERDICT: FALSE. The Trump administration blocked the takeover of an American semiconductor maker by a Chinese investor, restricted exports to China’s top chipmaker, and largely limited sales to China and even to third countries who do business with Chinese companies considered a national security threat, such as the telecommunications company Huawei. The administration of President Joe Biden, under which Harris serves, reportedly started greenlighting third party suppliers to sell chips to Huawei in 2021.
Can we trust a PROVEN LIAR!!??
During the first presidential election debate between Trump and Harris, the vice president responded to a question regarding Biden’s decision to keep some Trump-era tariffs on China by attacking Trump more generally on his China policy.
“He invited trade wars — you want to talk about his deal with China?” Harris said. “What he ended up doing is, under Donald Trump’s presidency, he ended up selling American chips to China to help them improve and modernize their military — basically sold us out when a policy about China should be in making sure the United States of America wins the competition for the 21st century.”
Harris defined that win as “focusing on relationships with our allies” as well as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, among other issues.
Trump replied by stating that, thanks to left-wing policies, “they [China] bought their chips from Taiwan — we hardly make chips anymore because of philosophies like they have and policies like they have,” and continuing to affirm that Harris “has no policy” personally.
The Trump administration, facing significant criticism from both the left and the libertarian right, imposed prominent limits on trade with China, particularly in the realm of chipmaking and semiconductors. In 2017, the Trump administration prevented Chinese investors from buying an American semiconductor company, Lattice Semiconductor.
“As China moves to build and design chips, Chinese investors has acquired overseas chip makers and teamed up with Western technology giants. The deal for Lattice Semiconductor played to those ambitions,” the New York Times reported at the time.
In 2020, towards the end of Trump’s term, his administration blocked American companies from several major exports to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China’s top chipmaker. Sales to SMIC, the Department of Commerce asserted, “may pose an unacceptable risk of diversion to a military end use in the People’s Republic of China” — making the limitations a policy specifically preventing the “selling out” of American technology to China, as Harris accused during the debate.
The policies to limit Chinese access to American technology were not without political cost to the Trump administration. As Chad Bown, writing for the Peterson Institute for International Economics, explained in a column critical of Trump in 2020, the president began cracking down on sales of semiconductors and other critical chip technology at a time of “robust export sales despite the pandemic and anti-China rhetoric of a US election campaign” — effectively in response to the perceived national security threat.
“The Trump administration is remaking the US export control regime in a way that could lead to sharp cuts in foreign sales of both of these American industries. Elements of the new regime may be well-motivated, seeking to mitigate legitimate national security risks,” the think tank opined. “Other links to national security are, at best, more tenuous and will certainly come at considerable economic cost to American companies.”
Bown expressed particular concern with the fact that Trump’s administration did not stop at limiting direct sale sales to China:
The administration’s newest restrictions do more than shut off technology exports to China. The policy limits some American sales to third countries, even when they are US military allies. American semiconductor toolmakers cannot sell their equipment to major semiconductor manufacturers in South Korea or Taiwan, for example, if companies there want to use American tools to make anything to sell to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company targeted by the administration as a national security threat.
The Biden administration began turning the tide of these policies in 2021. In August of that year, Reuters reported — citing “people familiar with the process” — that Biden “has granted licenses authorizing suppliers to sell chips to Huawei for such vehicle components as video screens and sensors.”
More recently, in April, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo asking for clarification after Huawei announced the debut of a computer model using technology made by the American company Intel, implying that the Biden administration greenlit the sale of Intel technology to a company widely considered a global security threat.
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I want to turn to the issue of abortion. President Trump, you've often touted that you were able to kill Roe v. Wade. Last year, you said that you were proud to be the most pro-life president in American history. Then last month you said that your administration would be great for women and their reproductive rights. In your home state of Florida, you surprised many with regard to your six-week abortion ban because you initially had said that it was too short and you said, "I'm going to be voting that we need more than six weeks." But then the very next day, you reversed course and said you would vote to support the six-week ban. Vice President Harris says that women shouldn't trust you on the issue of abortion because you've changed your position so many times. Therefore, why should they trust you?
Appears that in this day and age of Wokeness, many Americans feel that convenience overrides morality! To hell with the baby you carry, and lets move on with it!
Look at how this world is today, mass shootings in our schools, unheard of when I went to school! Why today? Faith in freedom, liberty, fairness, ethics, morality, and their political systems, fell to rock bottom as the nation watched their country stolen right under their noses.
People will deny it, but what’s different is the decline of decency in this so-called modern PC society! Exposing our children to perversion such as drag queens in our schools! Little boys are now little girls, little girls are now little boys, and due to warped PC, many don't know what gender they are. Parents no longer interact with their children; give them a cell phone and they'll be quite all day. No more playing outside, no more dodgeball, a poor little kid might get hurt.
Yeshayahu - Isaiah - Chapter 5
20 Woe to those who say of the evil that it is good and of the good that it is evil; who present darkness as light and light as darkness, who present bitter as sweet and sweet as bitter.
The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) obtained documents showing the alleged transaction between the abortion organization and the university after filing a public records request.
CMP Founder and President David Daleiden told CatholicVote: “These documents show that the whole time Planned Parenthood swore to Congress and the public they did not sell body parts, they were lying about active contracts like this one to sell aborted fetuses for massive financial value in violation of federal law.”
Daleiden explained in a video the significance of what the newly obtained documents revealed.
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“These facts clearly demonstrate Planned Parenthood sells baby parts in violation of federal law and for potentially far more money than we ever discussed before,” the pro-life activist said.
The primary document revealed is a “biological material transfer agreement” (MTA) entered into on May 1, 2009 between Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties (PPSD) and UCSD. The document identifies the “material” in question as “fetal and placental tissue, which are proprietary materials of PPSD.”
The contract, which was updated in 2014 to reflect PPSD’s name change to Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, adds that, “[i]n reliance upon and in consideration of the following undertakings, and for other good and valuable consideration,” the parties agree:
PPSD shall retain all right, title and interest in and to the Material, including but not limited to all right, title and interest in patents and patent applications and other intellectual property rights relating to the Material …
CMP points to additional updated references to the MTA:
UCSD emails from 2017 reference the MTA contract while updating an additional contract for clinical personnel, and in emails from late 2020, UCSD seeks to be “especially careful” about “any rights” providers of fetal tissue “retain” in the material.
CMP released a series of undercover videos in 2015 exposing alleged harvesting and sales of fetal body parts by Planned Parenthood and its allies in the abortion industry. CMP now notes “[t]he incriminating terms of this relationship are spelled out in … the contract, made for ‘valuable consideration.’”
“The transfer of any aborted human fetal tissue for ‘valuable consideration’ is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2),” the pro-life organization observes.
In the video, Daleiden also points out such a “transfer” for “valuable consideration” is “something Planned Parenthood has strenuously denied doing for the past eight years and continues to deny even today.”
“UC San Diego has registered numerous patents that were developed using aborted fetal body parts from Planned Parenthood,” he continues. “Some of the professors listed on the patents harvested hundreds of brains, eyes, hearts, and livers from late-term healthy babies aborted at Planned Parenthood in southern California.”
“This contract shows that, fundamental to the relationship, Planned Parenthood sees itself as entitled to substantial property, valuable consideration, and other benefits from the University of California as a result of its supply of aborted babies,” Daleiden explains.
In December, CMP also obtained confirmation of a federal law enforcement investigation by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) into the fetal tissue bank at the University of Pittsburgh – which is supplied by Planned Parenthood abortion doctors and funded by the National Institutes for Health.
“The coverup of incriminating evidence like these documents goes to the highest levels with Kamala Harris in the White House,” Daleiden explained to CatholicVote:
At the very minimum, the federal OIG investigation of fetal trafficking at the University of Pittsburgh must be expanded to include Planned Parenthood’s activities in San Diego and anywhere else this $1.8 billion abortion business supplies aborted fetuses for taxpayer-funded experiments.
In his official statement for CMP’s press release, Daleiden said “[t]he highest levels of Planned Parenthood leadership must answer under oath for what we now know is the organization’s participation in government-sponsored trafficking of late-term aborted babies.”
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Are the Demon-Rats trying to reduce the population of the earth so as to save the earth for the poor little bunnies?
Abortion, late term abortion, and now Infanticide? The issue of infanticide rocketed to the top of headlines. Virginia’s Gov. Ralph Northam (D) propelled the debate when he voiced shocking support for what some have called “after-birth abortion” by publicly stating that disabled babies could be denied proper medical treatment after they’re born. That prompted US Senate Republicans to try and pass a law saying babies should be given medical treatment if they’re alive and have made it outside the womb after surviving an abortion. Democrats blocked the move.
Update to Infanticide 25 May 2022
AB 2223 is a pro-abortion California bill that contains language that would restrict the investigation and reporting of certain kinds of infant deaths, and could effectively legalize infanticide.
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It doesn’t end there; guess what, now it’s the elderly. Can you imagine starving a person to death? Oregon Senate passed Senate Bill 494. Touted as a “simple update” to Oregon’s current advance directive, this bill is designed to allow for the starving and dehydrating to death of patients with dementia or mental illness.
Senator Betsy Johnson was the only Democrat to vote ‘no’ and Senator Jeff Kruse was the only Republican to vote ‘yes.’
Senate Bill 494 is little more than the state colluding with the healthcare industry to save money on the backs of mentally ill and dementia patients. This bill would remove current safeguards in Oregon’s advance directive statute that protect conscious patients’ access to ordinary food and water when they no longer have the ability to make decisions about their own care.
What will be next? Death camps like what the NAZIs set up during World War II disguised as FEMA Camps?
Death camps are to slow for the Demon-Rats, so they went into partnership with their buddies the communist Chinese and developed the China virus.
Will it be like the movie Logan’s Run? A utopia run by a computer that takes care of all aspects of life, including reproduction. (The Democratic party) The citizens live a hedonistic life but, to prevent overpopulation, everyone must undergo the rite of “Carrousel” when they reach the age of 30. There, they are killed under the guise of being “renewed.” To track this, each person is implanted at birth with a “life-clock” crystal (Sound familiar?) in the palm of the hand that changes color as they get older and begins blinking as they approach their “Last Day.”
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The population depicted in this movie is so indoctrinated and brainwashed from childhood, they willingly submit to the will of the computer that runs this futuristic society. A computer system like they NOW have in communist China called, believe it or not SKYNET!
(SkyNet focused on installing cameras connected to facial recognition algorithms.
“Chinese state-run media has claimed Skynet can scan the entire Chinese population in one second with 99.8 percent accuracy, yet such claims ignore glaring technical limitations,” Peterson wrote).
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Are we seeing this in the USA? Is CRT (Critical race theory) the beginning of this indoctrination within our schools?
Can we trust the Government to make critical life changing decisions for the people of the world? Seems that most everything the Democratic party does is a big failure!
LINSEY DAVIS:
There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born. Madam vice president, I want to get your response to President Trump.
Julias;
President Trump NEVER SAID THAT THERE WAS!!!!
Again here are the facts!!!
Update to Infanticide 25 May 2022
AB 2223 is a pro-abortion California bill that contains language that would restrict the investigation and reporting of certain kinds of infant deaths, and could effectively legalize infanticide.
SMH
DAVID MUIR:
We're going to turn now to immigration and border security. We know it's an issue that's important to Republicans, Democrats, voters across the board in this country. Vice President Harris, you were tasked by President Biden with getting to the root causes of migration from Central America. We know that illegal border crossings reached a record high in the Biden administration. This past June, President Biden imposed tough new asylum restrictions. We know the numbers since then have dropped significantly. But my question to you tonight is why did the administration wait until six months before the election to act and would you have done anything differently from President Biden on this?
Kamala's border!
Authorities have warned that Tren de Aragua, a gang of illegal immigrants from Venezuela, has reportedly taken control of parts of Aurora, Colorado.
On Wednesday, Raws Alerts shared a video of the gang allegedly taking control of an apartment complex in Aurora, which is a suburb of Denver. Raws Alerts tweeted, “An armed gang of illegal immigrants from Venezuela has reportedly taken full control of an apartment complex and parts of the town of Aurora.”
In an interview with Fox News, Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky described the situation in the Denver suburb, saying, “”Residents tell me they feel like they are living in a third world country at this point.”
According to Jurinsky, Tren de Aragua is taking over the city by going “block by block” and “apartment complex by apartment complex.” She added, “I have heard too many stories from too many property owners, business owners, and residents, to think that this is anything other than a complete gang takeover in parts of our city.”
Jurinsky told Fox News that she believes the gang is also involved in sex trafficking in the city, while a city resident told the outlet that the gang uses Aurora’s apartment complexes for drug dealing.
“This is organized. They patrol the property with guns visibly, like they’re not trying to hide them,” the anonymous resident said. “There’s no repercussion. These are ghosts.”
In response to the reports of Aurora being taken over by the illegal immigrant gang from Venezuela, the Aurora Police Department released a statement on X, formerly Twitter, explaining that the department was “aware that components of TdA are operating in Aurora,” but that “reports of TdA influence in Aurora are isolated.”
The police department also noted that the city had created a special task force that is working with local, state, and federal partners to “specifically address concerns about Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and other criminal activity affecting migrant communities.”
According to The New York Post, Tren de Aragua is a prison gang based in Venezuela that has been sending gang members across the southern border between the United States and Mexico for years and recruiting members from migrant communities in the U.S., especially in Denver, New York, and Chicago.
Denver 7 reported that the Denver Police Department has confirmed members of the Tren de Aragua gang “are tied to crimes in the area.” However, the department told Denver 7 that it was “not aware of any apartment buildings being ‘taken over’ by this gang in Denver.”
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Due to the Biden-Harris administration allowing millions of illegal migrants into our country, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua is now taking over suburbs of Denver, CO. "Parts of the city are absolutely under this gang control. The local media is downplaying this. I believe politics is being played with people's lives. ... Nothing is being done to help the American citizens that are being trapped under this gang's control."- Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky said. Remember this when you cast your vote in November because if you think this gang will stay only in sanctuary cities and won’t come to your neighborhood, you are gravely mistaken.
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#BREAKING: An armed gang of illegal immigrants from Venezuela has reportedly taken full control of an apartment complex and parts of the town of Aurora #Aurora | #Colorado New footage by @vicentearenastv reveals an armed gang at a complex in Aurora, Colorado. Aurora officials have been investigating the Tren de Aragua gang, a Venezuelan group involved in human smuggling, violence, money laundering, and drug trafficking across the U.S., including at the Nome Street apartment complex in Aurora. While local reports claim the complex is shutting down due to ‘code violations,’ many believe this is just a cover for a larger issue. ‘We’re not buying it. We believe there are code violations, but this all started with a gang takeover,’ said Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky. Crime at the complex has surged, with incidents spiraling out of control. A huge pile of trash has accumulated at the apartment complex, which was also the scene of a violent shooting over the weekend. Residents report that a large number of migrants moved in 6 or 7 months ago, and management has since refused to improve living conditions.
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by Nolan Rappaport, opinion contributor - 04/20/23 11:00 AM ET
FILE – Venezuelan migrants walk across the Rio Bravo towards the United States border to surrender to the border patrol, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Oct. 13, 2022. A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The Biden administration has overwhelmed our asylum system by releasing more than a million illegal border crossers into the country to apply for asylum. As of the end of January 2023, the immigration court had a backlog of 2,097,244 cases, and a major increase in illegal crossings is expected in May when the Title 42 order is terminated.
This isn’t just a problem for our asylum system: It also presents national security issues.
For instance, the Border Patrol is apprehending more illegal crossers who are on the terrorist watchlist, which has information about people suspected of being involved in terrorism or related activities.
INA section 212(a)(3) makes a migrant inadmissible if there is a reasonable ground to believe that he or she has engaged in — or is likely to engage in — terrorist activity. This may not apply to every migrant found to be on the watchlist.
Alex Nowrasteh, a CATO Institute policy scholar, thinks that politicians are inflating the risk that terrorists will enter the U.S. by making an illegal entry across the Southwest border. He claims that zero people have been killed or injured in the U.S. by terrorists who crossed the Southwest border illegally.
Sept. 11, 2001, proved that foreign terrorists can be very resourceful, and there has been a substantial increase in attempts to cross the Southwest border illegally by migrants the government suspects of being involved in terrorism or related activities.
The Border Patrol apprehended 11 illegal border crossers who were on the watchlist during the four years of the previous administration. That number rose to 15 in fiscal 2021, which was the first fiscal year of the current administration. It reached 98 in 2022, and it has reached 80 already in the first months of fiscal 2023.
Before Sept. 11, the intelligence community was very focused on foreign threats, not on domestic threats. Moreover, there were several different terrorism watchlists, which made it difficult to share information. The Terrorist Screening Center has consolidated watchlist data into a single federal terrorism watchlist.
The DHS Inspector General (IG) did an audit on the Border Patrol to determine the extent to which it screens illegal crossers to prevent criminals, drug traffickers, and individuals on the terrorist watchlist from entering the United States.
On Sept. 19, 2022, the IG issued a report in which he observes that Border Patrol agents collect biographic and biometric information, such as photos and fingerprints, and then upload the info to the e3 Portal, which compares the uploaded information with the data in Federal law enforcement databanks to determine, among other things, whether the migrant in question is on the terrorist watchlist.
The IG’s audit was based on a statistical sample of records for 384 illegal crossers that agents had apprehended between April 2021 and September 2021. However, the sample was actually smaller than 384 migrants because 112 of them were younger than 14 and record checks are not required for migrants who are that young.
The IG found that agents did conduct the required record checks on the migrants in the sample and verified that the databanks did not reveal derogatory information on migrants in the sample who were released.
The IG also found, however, that the agents didn’t always document the screening procedures they performed, and they expedited record processing to move migrants out of processing centers that were exceeding capacity limits. For instance, Border Patrol headquarters directed agents to reduce processing times by not assigning A-numbers to all of the migrants when these were near capacity.
The agents are supposed assign an A-number to each migrant during processing. The A-number is used by immigration and law enforcement officials to track and locate a migrant’s A-File for a complete history of immigration encounters. The Border Patrol did not issue A-numbers to 107 of the 384 migrants in the sample.
What else will they have to skip when Title 42 is terminated and there is a major surge in illegal crossings?
DHS is preparing for multiple possibilities, including projections of between 9,000 to 14,000 migrants a day, more than double the current number of illegal crossings, which could overwhelm already strained resources.
The IG also found that the Border Patrol did not have a formal policy on how to expedite processing when the processing centers got too crowded. They need such a policy to facilitate proper documentation of screening procedures and adequate tracking of the migrants who are released into the United States.
According to border security expert, Todd Bensman, the crucial question is, ‘How many migrants on the watchlist got through to the interior of the United States among the gotaways?’ Gotaways are illegal crossers who were detected but not apprehended. The Border Patrol has confirmed that 1.2 million illegal migrants “got away” from authorities while crossing the border under current administration.
And no one knows how many migrants have succeeded in making an illegal crossing without being detected.
Is another Sept. 11 more likely if migrants the government suspects of being involved in terrorism or related activities continue to cross the border among large numbers of illegal crossers who claim to be asylum seekers?
I think it is.
As Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) said recently at a congressional hearing, “You don’t need that many terrorists to enter the country to cause spectacular harm.”
The Sept. 11 attack only took 19 terrorists, and it killed 2,977 people. This is more than the 2,400 people who were killed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, which led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to ask Congress to declare war on Japan.
Nolan Rappaport was detailed to the House Judiciary Committee as an Executive Branch Immigration Law Expert for three years. He subsequently served as an immigration counsel for the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims for four years. Prior to working on the Judiciary Committee, he wrote decisions for the Board of Immigration Appeals for 20 years.
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I just want to clarify here, you bring up Springfield, Ohio. And ABC News did reach out to the city manager there. He told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community --
Not only dogs and cats, but also ducks and geese
A new report claims that Haitian immigrants are eating residents’ pets and wildlife in Springfield, Ohio, leading residents to warn each other to protect their pets.
“Springfield Ohio residents are warning their pets and wildlife like ducks and geese are being eaten by Haitians,” The Calvin Coolidge Project wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “One neighbor said she saw her cat being carved up by the Haitians. Another neighbor said a police officer told her this is happening to dogs, ducks and geese.”
The Calvin Coolidge Project shared a picture of a Haitian immigrant carrying a goose as he walks down the street alongside a screenshot of a recent warning by a Springfield, Ohio, resident.
“Warning to all about our beloved pets & those around us!! My neighbor informed me that her daughters friend had lost her cat,” the warning stated. “She checked pages, kennels, asked around, etc. One day she came home from work, as soon as she stepped out of her car, looked towards a neighbors house, where Haitians live, & saw her cat banging from a branch, like you’d do a deer for butchering, & they were carving it up to eat.”
The resident claimed that the Haitian immigrants were allegedly doing the same thing to pet dogs. Additionally, the resident said local police and rangers had warned that the Haitian immigrants were butchering and eating ducks and geese from a local park. “Please keep a close eye on these animals,” the resident warned community members.
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Sharing the same warning on social media, End Wokeness tweeted, “Springfield is a small town in Ohio. 4 years ago, they had 60k residents. Under Harris and Biden, 20,000 Haitian immigrants were shipped to the town. Now ducks and pets are disappearing.”
A video shared by media personality Benny Johnson appears to show law enforcement officials confronting a Haitian woman after she allegedly killed a resident’s cat and started to eat it.
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The Daily Mail reported that Springfield’s population declined from 80,000 in 1960 to 60,000 by 2014 due to the departure of car factories and other companies. However, the town was able to attract new industries and create roughly 8,000 new jobs by 2020.
According to The Daily Mail, the need for more workers eventually attracted a significant population of Haitian immigrants who legally entered the United States.
Your News reported that over 20,000 Haitian immigrants have relocated to Springfield since 2020, significantly increasing the town’s population and leading to tension in the community, especially given the recent reports of Haitian immigrants killing and eating residents’ pets and local wildlife.
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President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country, but Vice President the...
In his State of the Union address this month, President Joe Biden boasted that the nation reported a historically low murder rate in 2023 and violent crime had plummeted to one of the lowest levels in 50 years.
For some Americans, however, the perception of crime is clashing with the statistics.
"I don't believe it, plain and simple. I don't believe it because we're experiencing different results," Auriol Sonia Morris -- a South Carolina education, finance and legal consultant who describes herself as a Black conservative Republican and a supporter of former President Donald Trump -- told ABC News.
As with Auriol Sonia Morris, upon doing research I was shocked, how could it be that violent crime has went down?!
"I don't believe the statistics," said Auriol Sonia Morris, a Trump supporter.
March 22, 2024, 10:41 AM
Morris, a former Democrat who voted for Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential election, said she has not noticed a significant decline in crime in her state.
According to a Forbes magazine study released this month on the most dangerous states in America, South Carolina ranks eighth with a crime rate of 4.91 violent crimes per every 1,000 residents. Still, an annual report published in November by the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division found overall violent crime dropped 2.6% from 2021 to 2022, including a 12% decrease in homicides.
"You can always find a statistic for your side. But the average person knows that that is not the case. It's almost like you're lulling the people into a false sense of security when the experience is far different," said Morris, adding that she was compelled to run for Congress as a conservative Republican in 2022 by issues underlying crime in her 6th Congressional district, citing high poverty, a poor education system and lack of employment opportunities.
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As of 23 July the US surpasses 400 mass shootings so far in 2023: National gun violence website
At least 81 people have been killed in 65 mass shootings in July alone.
And yet from 1966 to 2020; The United States had 402 Mass Shootings, 402 mass shootings in 54 years, and now over 400 since the first of the year.
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By contrast, the USA recorded just 35 mass shooting events during the four years that Donald J. Trump was President, an annual average of just 8.75 mass shooting events per year during the Trump administration. At the current rate of events since Joe Biden took office, the USA could see as many as 540 mass shooting events in 2021 alone. That’s a 6100% increase in mass shootings under Joe Biden, so far.
Already, Joe Biden had won the distinguished title of THE MASS SHOOTING PRESIDENT, with the most mass shootings in just a three month period, the highest anywhere in the world and throughout world history.
What is it about the Biden pseudo-administration that has touched off this mass shooting phenomenon across America, besides the fact that all democrats have made every Americans feel angry and totally demoralized for years?
What is it about the Biden pseudo-administration that has touched off this mass shooting phenomenon across America, besides the fact that all democrats have made every American feel angry and totally demoralized for years?
The median age of mass shooters in the United States is 32.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, who—along with co-author William Tate—had introduced CRT to the field of education in 1995, described it in 2015 as an "interdisciplinary approach that seeks to understand and combat race inequity in society."
And woke came on the same in 2010. So what does all this have to do with the rise of Mass Shootings?
Crime reporting these days seems more focused on the behavior of the police than on the behavior of criminals. Police shootings of black men are rare, for example, but they get far more media coverage than when black civilians shoot one another, which is much more common.
The alarming fact is that recent presidential administrations have faced an increasing number of mass shootings.
Look at how this world is today, mass shootings in our schools, unheard of when I went to school! Why today? Taking guns won’t solve the problem; Criminals can get them from the Cartels of which the Demoncrats let in from the Southern Border.
The focus of democratic socialists is not on stopping crime, it is on stopping any form of viable law enforcement, as they also work to release more and more dangerous felons from prison. And let us not overlook the mass invasion of illegal aliens on our southern border.
People will deny it, but what’s different is the decline of decency in this so-called modern woke society! Exposing our children to perversion such as drag queens in our schools! Little boys are now little girls, little girls are now little boys, and due to warped woke, many don't know what gender they are. Parents no longer interact with their children; give them an iPhone and they will be quite all day. No more playing outside, no more dodgeball, a poor little kid might get hurt.
When I went to school, I lived in the country and I grew up with guns. Almost every pickup truck in the school parking lot had a gun rack with guns in the back window of the truck, a lot of the kids hunted for their diner on their way home from school.
For G-d's sake we didn't shoot each other with a real gun, they were all toys. We played cowboy and Indians, no one wanted to be an Indian, but we didn't kill any of them. We use to play Army, cops, and robbers, no one wanted to be the bad guy. But we never shot anyone with a real gun, they were all toys. Today we don’t even want kids to play with toy guns! But yet, with woke came mass shootings!
We are now living in a VERY sick Society where it is Okay to put Drag Queens in our schools that teaches our children that there are more than two genders, and put on perverted sexual performances in front of our children.
Society has changed! We have a permissive society where anything goes! And now we are seeing the results of this liberal permissive woke society! Mass shooting that is bred in a liberal permissive woke society and we now have a mental illness that is killing us!
20 Woe to those who say of the evil that it is good and of the good that it is evil; who present darkness as light and light as darkness, who present bitter as sweet and sweet as bitter.
Well, I think this is so rich. Coming from someone who has been prosecuted for national security crimes, economic crimes, election interference, has been found liable for sexual assault and his next big court appearance is in November at his own criminal sentencing.
Classified Biden docs found in his Delaware garage next to Corvette
Trump stored classified documents in a bathroom and shower.
Out of 126 rooms they would store the documents in a bathroom and shower? Really?
I can see an office space, and business center.
But the ballroom that often-held events? Out of 126 rooms? Get real!
This whole thing smells of a setup, where as a school child could do better!
Looks as the FBI staged this whole thing for a photo op to frame Donald Trump. After all they had 9 hours to do it!
The indictment said more than 150 events were held at the club during that time. And no one saw the document? Really?
Aronberg said it's hard to believe there would have been boxes full of classified documents left in the ballroom during events, where people would have access to them—after all, they're an eyesore.
Scott represents nonprofits across Palm Beach County for marketing and public relations, and said he has been to hundreds of fundraisers at the Club. Scott said he also has a hard time believing documents would be left in the ballroom, and said he highly doubts anyone would have been able to access any of the other rooms that contained documents.
"You could almost compare this to the White House. The White House has tours you can go on, and there are areas that are accessible to the public and there are many areas that are off limits," said Scott, "and at Mar-a-Lago, those areas are buttoned down pretty well."
election interference?
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sexual assault
Bill Clinton used cigar to pleasure Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. I made a lot of money selling soggy cigars!
The DemonRats are scared to death of Donald Trump
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
She went out -- she went out in Minnesota and wanted to let criminals that killed people, that burned down Minneapolis, she went out and raised money to get them out of jail.
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Dallas man charges George Floyd protesters with machete (not sword) is beaten near death trying to protect his business from being looted and burned. Demon-Rats from hell call it summer of love! I don't need that kind of love!
They are the terrorist warriors of the Demonrat Army!
DAVID MUIR:
Linsey, thank you. We have an election in just 56 days. I want to talk about the peaceful transfer of power, which of course we all know was a cornerstone of our democracy and the role of a president in a moment of crisis. Mr. President, on January 6th you told your supporters to march to the Capitol. You said you would be right there with them. The country and the world saw what played out at the Capitol that day.
LIARS! Here is the truth!
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FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
But when are those, David, when are those people going to be prosecuted? When are the people that burned down Minneapolis going to be prosecuted or in Seattle? They went into Seattle, they took over a big percentage of the city of Seattle. When are those people going to be prosecuted?
It would have never happened if Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Washington did their jobs. I wasn't responsible for security. Nancy Pelosi was responsible. She didn't do her job.
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For me it was easy, I was not going to vote for someone that had no integrity!
Here are some examples of that!
President Biden committed to being a champion for LGBTQ+ people every day in the White House.
Then in a video 2006, Biden said
“We already have a law, the Defense of Marriage Act,” Biden said. “We’ve all voted — not, where I’ve voted, and others have said, look, marriage is between a man and a woman and states must respect that. Nobody’s violated that law, there’s been no challenge to that law. Why do we need a constitutional amendment? Marriage is between a man and a woman.”
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In 1995 Biden tried 4 times to end Medicare and Social Security:
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Joe Biden has repeatedly bragged about writing the Patriot Act, a piece of legislation that is widely considered the most significant infringement of the constitutional rights of American citizens in history.
The act has been criticized for its erosion of civil liberties, its expansion of warrantless wiretapping, and its unconstitutional weaponization of the surveillance capabilities of the US government against its own citizens.
Did you know that Joe Biden bragged about writing the Patriot Act?
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Does Joe Biden have anything to hide?
Ukrainian prosecutor Kostiantyn H. Kulyk compiled a seven-page dossier in English that accused the son of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. of corruption.
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In a new development, an unclassified whistleblower disclosure received by the United States Congress has revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation possesses a record allegedly linking former Vice President Joe Biden to a criminal bribery scheme with a foreign national.
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Turning now to the Israel-Hamas war and the hostages who are still being held, Americans among them. Vice President Harris, in December you said, "Israel has a right to defend itself" but you added, "It matters how." Saying international humanitarian law must be respected, Israel must do more to protect innocent civilians.
Israel must do more to protect innocent civilians.
The IDF does everything possible to limit civilian casualties in Gaza, and Hamas exploits these efforts.
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The Israel Air Force has dropped leaflets over Gaza that warn civilians to avoid being present in the vicinity of Hamas operatives. These leaflets urge civilians to move away from Hamas targets, making clear Israel’s intention to minimize civilian casualties. Since the operation began, Hamas has repeatedly instructed Palestinians to ignore these warnings.
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Roof knocking (Hebrew: הקש בגג)[1] or "knock on the roof" is a term used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to describe its practice of dropping non-explosive or low-yield devices on the roofs of targeted buildings as a prior warning of imminent bombing attacks to give the inhabitants time to flee the attack.
Israel's "roof-knocking" tactic is probably the most terrifying heads-up you'll ever get, a preliminary explosion to tell a building's occupants the real rocket is just a minute behind.
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Watch IDF roof knocking in action used to clear out a building before a tactical strike on Hamas' internal security forces in northern Gaza.
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At LINSEY DAVIS:
No Army, I repeat No Army has EVER announced to the population in a hostile territory when and where they are going to attack! To do so would be to give your enemy time to prepare, such as moving their troops out of the target area and maybe even lay a trap! Wow, I'm amazed at the LACK OF COMMON SENSE I'M SEEING HERE!!!
But yet the IDF does announce to the population their intent to attack. Why? The IDF is the most moral Army in the world!!
Israel Has Created a New Standard for Urban Warfare. Why Will No One Admit It? | Opinion
Published Mar 25, 2024 at 4:49 PM EDT
Updated Mar 26, 2024 at 9:39 AM EDT
The Israel Defense Forces conducted an operation at al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip to root out Hamas terrorists recently, once again taking unique precautions as it entered the facility to protect the innocent; Israeli media reported that doctors accompanied the forces to help Palestinian patients if needed. They were also reported to be carrying food, water and medical supplies for the civilians inside.
None of this meant anything to Israel's critics, of course, who immediately pounced. The critics, as usual, didn't call out Hamas for using protected facilities like hospitals for its military activity. Nor did they mention the efforts of the IDF to minimize civilian casualties.
In their criticism, Israel's opponents are erasing a remarkable, historic new standard Israel has set. In my long career studying and advising on urban warfare for the U.S. military, I've never known an army to take such measures to attend to the enemy's civilian population, especially while simultaneously combating the enemy in the very same buildings. In fact, by my analysis, Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history—above and beyond what international law requires and more than the U.S. did in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The international community, and increasingly the United States, barely acknowledges these measures while repeatedly excoriating the IDF for not doing enough to protect civilians—even as it confronts a ruthless terror organization holding its citizens hostage. Instead, the U.S. and its allies should be studying how they can apply the IDF's tactics for protecting civilians, despite the fact that these militaries would almost certainly be extremely reluctant to employ these techniques because of how it would disadvantage them in any fight with an urban terrorist army like Hamas.
The predominant Western theory of executing wars, called maneuver warfare, seeks to shatter an enemy morally and physically with surprising, overwhelming force and speed, striking at the political and military centers of gravity so that the enemy is destroyed or surrenders quickly. This was the case in the invasions of Panama in 1989, Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003 and the failed illegal attempt by Russia to take Ukraine in 2022. In all these cases, no warning or time was given to evacuate cities.
In many ways, Israel has had to abandon this established playbook in order to prevent civilian harm. The IDF has telegraphed almost every move ahead of time so civilians can relocate, nearly always ceding the element of surprise. This has allowed Hamas to reposition its senior leaders (and the Israel hostages) as needed through the dense urban terrain of Gaza and the miles of underground tunnels it's built.
Hamas fighters, who unlike the IDF don't wear uniforms, have also taken the opportunity to blend into civilian populations as they evacuate. The net effect is that Hamas succeeds in its strategy of creating Palestinian suffering and images of destruction to build international pressure on Israel to stop its operations, therefore ensuring Hamas' survival.
Israel gave warning, in some cases for weeks, for civilians to evacuate the major urban areas of northern Gaza before it launched its ground campaign in the fall. The IDF reported dropping over 7 million flyers, but it also deployed technologies never used anywhere in the world, as I witness firsthand on a recent trip to Gaza and southern Israel.
Israel has made over 70,000 direct phones calls, sent over 13 million text messages and left over 15 million pre-recorded voicemails to notify civilians that they should leave combat areas, where they should go, and what route they should take. They deployed drones with speakers and dropped giant speakers by parachute that began broadcasting for civilians to leave combat areas once they hit the ground. They announced and conducted daily pauses of all operations to allow any civilians left in combat areas to evacuate.
These measures were effective. Israel was able to evacuate upwards of 85 percent of the urban areas in northern Gaza before the heaviest fighting began. This is actually consistent with my research on urban warfare history that shows that no matter the effort, about 10 percent of populations stay.
As the war raged on, Israel began giving out its military maps to civilians so they could conduct localized evacuations. This, too, has never been done in war. During my recent visit to Khan Yunis, Gaza, and the IDF civilian harm mitigation unit in southern Israel, I observed as the army began using these maps to communicate each day where the IDF would be operating so civilians in other areas would stay out of harm's way.
I saw that the IDF even tracked the population in real time down to a few-block radius using drone and satellite imagery and cell phone presence and building damage assessments to avoid hitting civilians. The New York Times reported in January that the daily civilian death toll had more than halved in the previous month and was down almost two-thirds from its peak.
Of course, the true number of Gaza civilian deaths is unknown. The current Hamas-supplied estimate of over 31,000 does not acknowledge a single combatant death (nor any deaths due to the misfiring of its own rockets or other friendly fire). The IDF estimates it has killed about 13,000 Hamas operatives, a number I believe credible partly because I believe the armed forces of a democratic American ally over a terrorist regime, but also because of the size of Hamas fighters assigned to areas that were cleared and having observed the weapons used, the state of Hamas' tunnels and other aspects of the combat.
That would mean some 18,000 civilians have died in Gaza, a ratio of roughly 1 combatant to 1.5 civilians. Given Hamas' likely inflation of the death count, the real figure could be closer to 1 to 1. Either way, the number would be historically low for modern urban warfare.
The UN, EU and other sources estimate that civilians usually account for 80 percent to 90 percent of casualties, or a 1:9 ratio, in modern war (though this does mix all types of wars). In the 2016-2017 Battle of Mosul, a battle supervised by the U.S. that used the world's most powerful airpower resources, some 10,000 civilians were killed compared to roughly 4,000 ISIS terrorists.
And yet, analysts who should know better are still engaging in condemnation of the IDF based on the level of destruction that's still occurred—destruction that is unavoidable against an enemy that embeds in a vast tunnel system under civilian sites in dense urban terrain. This effects-based condemnation or criticism is not how the laws of war work, or violations determined. These and other analysts say the destruction and civilian causalities must either stop or be avoided in an alternative form of warfare.
Ironically, the careful approach Israel has taken may have actually led to more destruction; since the IDF giving warnings and conducting evacuations help Hamas survive, it ultimately prolongs the war and, with it, its devastation.
Israel has not created a gold standard in civilian harm mitigation in war. That implies there is a standard in civilian casualties in war that is acceptable or not acceptable; that zero civilian deaths in war is remotely possible and should be the goal; that there is a set civilian-to-combatant ratio in war no matter the context or tactics of the enemy. But all available evidence shows that Israel has followed the laws of war, legal obligations, best practices in civilian harm mitigation and still found a way to reduce civilian casualties to historically low levels.
Those calling for Israel to find an alternative to inflicting civilian casualties to lower amounts (like zero) should be honest that this alternative would leave the Israeli hostages in captivity and allow Hamas to survive the war. The alternative to a nation's survival cannot be a path to extinction.
John Spencer is chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute (MWI) at West Point, codirector of MWI's Urban Warfare Project and host of the "Urban Warfare Project Podcast." He served for 25 years as an infantry soldier, which included two combat tours in Iraq. He is the author of the book "Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connection in Modern War" and co-author of "Understanding Urban Warfare."
The views expressed in this article are the writers' own. They are not necessarily the views of the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, Army University, or the U.S. Military Academy.
President Trump, how would you negotiate with Netanyahu and also Hamas in order to get the hostages out and prevent the killing of more innocent civilians in Gaza?
Julius:
On October 7, Hamas terrorists waged the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — slaughtering babies, raping women, burning whole families alive, and taking hundreds of innocent civilians hostage. Since October 7, more than 1,200 Israelis have been killed. Terrorists are still holding over 100 men, women, and children in captivity. Cannot negotiate with terrorist!
In an attempt to wipe out Hamas after the group killed at least 1,300 people in attacks on Oct. 7, Israeli airstrikes have forced thousands to flee south toward the Egyptian border—ostensibly for their own safety but in effect encouraging the displacement of half of the territory’s population.
Meanwhile, Egypt has deployed hundreds of security forces to the Rafah border crossing, according to Egyptian media, and is resisting pressure from Israel and the United States to let Palestinians flee, fearing an exodus of Gaza’s 2.3 million people into its Sinai Peninsula—where Egypt is already fighting insurgents. It fears assuming responsibility for a massive refugee population and the risks of fleeing militants using its territory to attack or plot against Israel, which could prompt Israel to target them on Egyptian soil.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II: Palestinian refugees entering Jordan or Egypt is ‘red line’
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17 October 2023, 12:28 pm
Jordanian King Abdullah II says that neither his country nor Egypt will accept Palestinian refugees, declaring it a “red line.”
At a press conference held after meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Abdullah says that “some of the usual suspects are trying to create facts on the ground,” according to Sky News Arabia.
“There will be no refugees in Jordan and no refugees in Egypt.”
Abdullah references Israeli calls for Gazans to evacuate toward the south of the Strip, near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, ahead of an expected IDF ground offensive in the north.
Khaled Mashaal, a prominent Hamas figure and the former political leader of the group, said in an interview yesterday that Gazans will not leave the Strip no matter what, and that their displacement would harm Egyptian national security and would pose a danger for Jordan, implying that a mass exodus of Palestinians to a neighboring country could set also a precedent for the West Bank.
Nevertheless, there have been reports that Egypt is making preparations to host a limited number of civilians fleeing the conflict in Gaza.
That's absolutely not true. I have my entire career and life supported Israel and the Israeli people. He knows that. He's trying to again divide and distract from the reality, which is it is very well known that Donald Trump is weak and wrong on national security and foreign policy.
Really?! Weak?
2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
The withdrawal was conditional on the Taliban upholding the terms of the agreement that included "not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in the areas they control". The US was to reduce its forces in Afghanistan by about 5,000 troops to 8,600 within 135 days.
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Part of the war on terror, the al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen, the Yemeni Civil War and the Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
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Part of the war on terror and the War in North-West Pakistan
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Part of the Somali Civil War, the Somali Civil War and the war on terror
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US military intervention in Niger
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Part of the war on terror, the Operation Juniper Shield and the Jihadist insurgency in Niger
Location: Niger
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Part of the Operation Inherent Resolve, the War in Iraq (2013–2017), the Spillover of the Syrian civil war, the war on terror and the International ISIS campaign
Location: Iraq
US intervention in the Syrian civil war
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Part of the Operation Inherent Resolve, the Syrian civil war, the war on terror and the International ISIS campaign
Location: Syria
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Part of the Operation Inherent Resolve, the war on terror, the Second Libyan Civil War, and the International ISIS Campaign
Location: Libya
Look at the dates! NO WARS STARTED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!
NO GIFTS IN THE WAY OF WEAPONS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS AND MILITARY EQUIPMENT LEFT BEHIND FOR POTENTIAL ENEMIES!
President Trump did not abandon civilians!
Kamala WHO IS WEAK?!
I fell to the floor laughing my ass off when I read that? Kamala can step into sh1t thinking it was good!
In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and began occupying more of the country, starting the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II. The war has resulted in a refugee crisis and tens of thousands of deaths.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a tentative peace plan. Then, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson happened. Boris Johnson landed in Ukraine unannounced, catching even the Ukrainian regime by surprise.
Startling details of the intent of Boris Johnson’s sudden visit to Ukraine are now beginning to come out. It turns out, the then British prime minister, at the behest of the ‘West’, scuttled any chances of Ukraine and Russia settling for peace.
He said no peace with the Criminal Putin! Criminal? Any more than the Nazis in Ukraine Azov Battalion
Sep 02, 2022
Boris Johnson "West isn’t ready for the war to end. " Why?
Why did Western leaders want to stop Kyiv from signing a seemingly good deal with Moscow? Do they consider the conflict a proxy war with Russia? And, most importantly, what would it take to get back to a deal?
Julias:
Could it be the Biden's business dealings in Ukraine could be exposed?
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Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who sits on the GOP-led House Oversight Committee and showed nude images of Hunter Biden during Wednesday's hearing, tweeted that the new information from the redacted FBI document sheds light on why the U.S. is heavily involved in the Russia-Ukraine war.
"Is this why Biden has America involved in the war in Ukraine???" Greene said. "Joe Biden is a criminal and is compromised! And he is leading us into WW3 because Zelenskyy has proof of more Biden crimes."
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Putin has a big ego!
5 And behold another second beast, resembling a bear, and it stood to one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth between its teeth, and so did they say to it, 'Get up, eat much meat.'
President Trump knew how to deal with Putin's ego. Many people thought that President Trump was playing into the hands of Putin, but in reality, Trump was stroking Putin’s ego to make him comfortable and feel he’s in control, while in reality Trump was using Putin’s ego against him.
President Trump wondered; would making Russia an enemy drive Putin into the Arms of the most Anti-American Block in history.
If Russia ever joined forces, and I say joined, because it’s happening now. Russia joining forces with China puts an end to America as a world power. The world will see the largest land mass and natural gas reserves aligned with the world’s largest economy.
A Russia China axis would have the scale to control the world’s economy, trade routes, and raw materials. Especially with this Green New Deal nonsense that put an end to America being energy independent! This axis between Russia and China could lead to military force that we would not have the power to stop!!!
The scary part of this is that it appears that the Biden Administration is headed towards a nuclear war with this new axis!
Secretary General Stoltenberg said Trump did the most amazing thing I've ever seen, he got these countries, the 28 countries at the time, to pay up. He said I've never seen -- he's the head of NATO. He said I've never seen -- for years we were paying almost all of NATO. We were being ripped off by European nations both on trade and on NATO. I got them to pay up by saying one of the statements you made before, if you don't pay we're not going to protect you.
Thank you. I want to turn to Afghanistan. We witnessed a poignant moment today on Capitol Hill honoring the soldiers who died in the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. I do want to ask the vice president, do you believe you bear any responsibility in the way that withdrawal played out?
Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan
One of the greatest foreign policy disasters the country has ever witnessed!
President Trump, thank you. I want to move on now to race and politics in this country. Mr. President, you recently said of Vice President Harris, "I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black." I want to ask a bigger-picture question here tonight. Why do you believe it's appropriate to weigh in on the racial identity of your opponent?
I don't. And I don't care. I don't care what she is. I don't care.
You make a big deal out of something.
Julias:
True, everybody wants to make a big deal about it! Why? Are they using race to divide us? Why cant we look at ourselves as American, regardless of race or skin color? After all we are all people, members of the human race.
I can see it in President Trump without him going around kissing a$$! He cares for ALL AMERICANS REGARDLESS OF RACE BY WHAT HE DID WHILE PRESIDENT OF THE USA!! OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE FOR YOURSELF!
Over the year, the employment–population ratio for women increased by 0.5 percentage point, to 55.6 percent, and the ratio for men increased by 0.4 percentage point, to 66.7 percent. Both measures have increased in recent years and are at their highest levels since 2008. The labor force participation rate for women rose by 0.4 percentage point, to 57.7 percent, following a similar increase in 2018. The labor force participation rate for men, at 69.2 percent, was little changed over the year and has shown little movement since the end of 2014.
In 2019, the employment–population ratios increased for Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians.5 The ratio for Hispanics increased by 0.9 percentage point, to 64.5 percent, and the ratio for Whites increased by 0.4 percentage point, to 61.2 percent. The employment–population ratio for Blacks increased by 0.8 percentage point, to 59.1 percent, the highest it has been since the third quarter of 2001. The ratio for Asians increased to 62.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019, a gain of 0.8 percentage point over the year.
The labor force participation rates increased over the year for Whites, by 0.3 percentage point, to 63.2 percent, and for Hispanics, by 0.8 percentage point, to 67.3 percent, but these rates were about unchanged for Asians (64.5 percent) and Blacks (62.6 percent).
The number of people unemployed was 5.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2019, down by 341,000 from a year earlier. The change in the number of unemployed people followed 2 years of larger declines. The national unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage point over the year, to 3.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019. Although the decrease in the number of unemployed people was relatively small by historical standards, the jobless rate fell to its lowest level since 1969, when it was 3.4 percent.
In 2019, the unemployment rates declined to 3.5 percent for both men and women. Among the major race and ethnicity groups, the unemployment rates for Blacks (5.6 percent) and Hispanics (4.1 percent) were at record lows in the fourth quarter of 2019. The rates for both groups had been at double-digit levels for several years following the 2007–09 recession. Over the year, the unemployment rate for Whites decreased by 0.2 percentage point, to 3.2 percent, and the jobless rate for Asians was little changed, at 2.7 percent. (See figure 3.)
The number of people experiencing long-term unemployment (those who had been looking for work for 27 weeks or longer) edged down by 91,000 in 2019. In the fourth quarter of 2019, 1.2 million people were long-term unemployed, representing 20.9 percent of the total unemployed. The proportion of long-term unemployed remained higher than it was before the 2007–09 recession (17.8 percent in the third quarter of 2007), but it was much lower in 2019 than it had been during the recession. This proportion peaked at 45.1 percent in the second quarter of 2010. The proportion of people unemployed for even longer periods (52 weeks or more) also remained higher than before the recession. In the fourth quarter of 2019, 12.8 percent of the unemployed had been looking for work for 52 weeks or longer, and 5.2 percent had searched for a job for 99 weeks or longer. Before the recession, the percentage of the unemployed who had been looking for work for 52 weeks or longer was 9.9 percent, and those who had been looking for 99 weeks or longer was 3.3 percent. These measures reached peaks of 31.9 percent and 15.1 percent, respectively, in 2011. (Data for those unemployed for 52 weeks or longer and 99 weeks or longer are not seasonally adjusted.) (See figure 6.)
President Trump, thank you. We have another issue that we'd like to get to that's important for a number of Americans, in particular younger voters, and that's climate change. President Trump, with regard to the environment, you say that we have to have clean air and clean water. Vice President Harris, you call climate change an existential threat. The question to you both tonight is what would you do to fight climate change? And Vice President Harris, we'll start with you. One minute for you each.
Man made climate change? The climate of the earth has been changing ever since the earth came into existence! Scientists have recorded five significant ice ages throughout the Earth's history: the Huronian (2.4-2.1 billion years ago), Cryogenian (850-635 million years ago), Andean-Saharan (460-430 mya), Karoo (360-260 mya) and Quaternary (2.6 mya-present)
Ther was even a little ice age!
Only 300 years ago, Europe came to the end of a 500 year cold snap so severe that thousands of peasants starved. The Little Ice Age changed the course of European history.
The Little Ice Age was a period of bitter winters and mild summers that affected Europe and North America between the 14th and 19th centuries. The cold weather is well documented in written records and supported by paleoclimatic records such as tree rings, glacial growth, and lake sediments. These paleoclimatic records serve as proxies that register past temperatures, confirming that it was colder than usual.
Thanks to paleoclimatic records, climate scientists have identified four cold and warm “climate epochs” during the past 2,000 years: the Roman Warm Period, which covered the first centuries of the Common Era; the Dark Ages Cold Period, from 400 to 800; the Medieval Warm Period between 800 and 1200; and, most recently, the Little Ice Age.
The temperature proxies that allowed scientists to define these epochs were mostly from the extratropical Northern Hemisphere, particularly Europe and North America.
The Democrats, or as I like to refer to them as Demonrats always talk about FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!!! But do they? Do they follow the science?
There is more to the science of climate change than man’s activity.
If man is to be blamed for Climate Change, Maybe we should blame the Caveman for Climate Change! One Million years ago man discovers how to make fire.
Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 1.7 to 2.0 million years ago (Mya).
Evidence for the “microscopic traces of wood ash” as controlled use of fire by Homo erectus, beginning roughly 1 million years ago, has wide scholarly support. Guess what he used to make fire? Herbivore Dung! Also called Biomass. Burning Dried dung, wood, and other organic matter.
(Dried animal dung in 3rd world countries, see below.) Burning biomass releases carbon emissions, around a quarter higher than burning coal, but has been classed as a “renewable” energy source in the EU and UN legal frameworks, because plants can be regrown.
It has become popular among coal power stations, which switch from coal to biomass to comply with the law. Biomass most often refers to plants or plant-based materials that are not used for food or feed, and are specifically called lignocellulosic biomass.
As an energy source, biomass can either be used directly via combustion to produce heat, or indirectly after converting it to various forms of biofuel. Conversion of biomass to biofuel can be achieved by different methods which are broadly classified into:
thermal, chemical, and biochemical methods. Dry animal dung fuel (or dry manure fuel) is animal feces that has been dried in order to be used as a fuel source. It is used as a fuel in many countries around the world. Using dry manure as a fuel source is an example of reuse of
excreta. A disadvantage of using this kind of fuel is increased air pollution. In Egypt dry animal dung (from cows & buffaloes) is mixed with straw or crop residues to make dry fuel called “Gella” or “Jilla” dung cakes in modern times and “”khoroshtof”” in medieval times.
Ancient Egyptians used the dry animal dung as a source of fuel. Dung cakes and building crop residues were the source of 76.4% of gross energy consumed in Egypt’s rural areas during the 1980s.
NASA Eyes Effects of a Giant ‘Brown Cloud’ Worldwide 12.15.04 NASA scientists recently announced that a giant, smoggy atmospheric “brown cloud” that forms over South Asia and Indian Ocean has intercontinental reach, and has effects around the world.
Asian brown cloud
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