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Support for Israel among young US Evangelical Christians drops sharply

Jacob Magid
The Times of Israel
Tue, 25 May 2021 02:59 UTC

Since 2018, backing for Israel dropped from 75% to 33%; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump.

A new survey points to a growing divide in the US between young evangelical Christians and their elders, particularly in their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, indicating Israel could see a significant drop in support in coming years.

While the religious group has long been a bulwark of support for Israel in the US, the Barna Group-administered poll commissioned by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke indicates a sharp drop in support for the Jewish state and raises concerns that Israel could lose a key ally going forward, its authors told The Times of Israel on Monday. The poll was commissioned as part of their research for an upcoming book on the issue.

In a poll of over 700 evangelical Christians between the ages of 18 and 29 that was conducted between March and April, respondents were asked where they place their support in the "Israeli-Palestinian dispute." Just 33.6 percent said with Israel, 24.3% said with the Palestinians and 42.2 percent said with neither side.

This marked a significant shift from 2018, when 69% young evangelicals — responding to another survey conducted by UNCP professors, Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin — said they side with Israel, 5.6% said they sided with the Palestinians and 25.7% said they didn't take either side.

New Hampshire auditors find reason for discrepancy in votes: Scan only counted 28 percent of test ballots for GOP candidates

Brent Hamachek
Human Events.
Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00 UTC

In the latest audit update, auditors in charge of examining votes in Windham, New Hampshire may have discovered why initial results showed a discrepancy in the vote count for a democratic candidate.

As reported by Human Events News in February, the Windham Board of Selectmen unanimously requested an investigation into what exactly happened on November 3, as did several of the republicans and democrats involved in the races.

There was an official vote recount held that, while not changing the declared winners (all republicans), did find the four republican candidates had votes materially undercounted by just over six-percent. This appears to be the largest recount-to-actual difference in the history of New Hampshire elections.

While republicans did win all four seats on November 3, a democrat candidate - Kristi St. Lauren - requested a recount, which was granted because she lost by 24 votes. However, during the recount, it was revealed that she didn't lose by 24. Rather, the GOP candidates had actually received 300 additional votes, while St. Laurent lost 99, the Epoch Times reports. Auditors involved in the process said they may have discovered why there was a discrepancy in the initial results and the recount tally.

Tigers kill two zookeepers in separate China attacks - a third killed in India

James Griffiths
CNN
Wed, 26 May 2021 19:07 UTC

Two zookeepers have been killed by tigers this week at separate zoos in China, according to state media.

In the first incident Sunday, a 55-year-old keeper surnamed Yang was mauled to death by a tiger as he cleaned its cage at a zoo in eastern Anhui province, state media reported.

Yang had been a tiger handler at the Zhanggongshan Zoo in Bengbu for nearly two decades, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported.

On Tuesday, police shot two tigers dead after they mauled a zookeeper during feeding time and escaped their enclosure at a park in central Henan province. The keeper, surnamed Jia, was hospitalized and later died of his injuries.

Comment: Details of the attack in India on May 18:

Tiger Mauls Zoo keeper To Death In Itanagar Zoo

Palash Karmakar, a zoo keeper has been attacked and killed by a Royal Bengal tigress in Itanagar Zoo on Tuesday afternoon. Poulash Karmakar is a native of Dhekiajuli in Assam's Lakhimpur district.

35-year old Palash on Tuesday when entered Tiger's enclosure for cleaning , Tigeress attacked him, a report said. Palash had gone inside to clean the water body.

The name of the tigress that mauled Karmakar is Chippi and she is about 8 years old.

Preliminary investigation indicated that the door of the Royal Bengal tiger's cage was not closed after feeding allowing it to come out and pounce upon the 35-year-old Karmakar, killing him instantly.

A case of unnatural death has been registered at Itanagar police station.

These big cats have also been busy in the wild of late, see: 3 women killed by tigers in one day in Maharashtra, India

Portland police declare riot, make multiple arrests on anniversary of George Floyd death

MyNorthwest.com
Wed, 26 May 2021 18:19 UTC

Portland riot on George Floyd anniversary

Two crowds gathered in Portland to mark the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd — one peacefully singing and chanting and carrying signs, while the other gathered downtown, prepared for conflict, police said Wednesday. Five people were ultimately arrested after the downtown crowd lit fires, broke windows and threw objects at officers.

The downtown crowd included people wearing helmets and carrying gas masks, backpacks and tote bags. Some pushed a dumpster against the Multnomah County Justice Center and lit it on fire, while many others held umbrellas up to obscure their actions, and people chanted to burn the building down, the police statement said.

Comment: Other cities "commemorated" Floyd's death in a similar manner

Tennessee bans teaching critical race theory in schools

mynorthwest.com
Wed, 26 May 2021 18:32 UTC

Tennessee is the latest state to ban teachers from teaching certain concepts of race and racism in public schools, where teachers risk losing valuable state funding if they violate the new measure.

Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed a measure into law Monday after it attracted some of the most impassioned debates inside the GOP-controlled General Assembly this year. He signaled his support after it cleared the Legislature, arguing that students should learn "the exceptionalism of our nation," not things that "inherently divide" people.

"We need to make sure that our kids recognize that this country is moving toward a more perfect union, that we should teach the exceptionalism of our nation and how people can live together and work together to make a greater nation, and to not teach things that inherently divide or pit either Americans against Americans or people groups against people groups," Lee told reporters at the time.

Comment: Previously:

Path to re-election: Majority of Syrians believe Assad is only leader able to confront the West

Elizabeth Blade
Sputnik
Wed, 26 May 2021 18:27 UTC

Although the Syrian Civil War has left nearly 400,000 people dead and millions more displaced, Bashar al-Assad is perceived as the person most fit to stand at the helm of the war-torn country. And a local expert says he is likely to win the presidential race on Wednesday.

In 2014, when Daesh* was at its peak in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad won the presidential race, getting some 90 percent of the vote. On Wednesday, when Syrians head back to polling stations, he is expected to claim victory once again.

In Assad We Trust

Taleb Ibrahim, a Damascus-based political analyst, says the outcome of the upcoming elections is rather predictable and this stems from the vast majority of the population being supportive of their president and them wanting him stay in power.

"He is seen as a leader who steered the country through this complicated war. He is also perceived as a person who can stand firm in the face of western agenda and he is the one who can help the Syrian people to regain stability and peace".

UK academic silenced by MSM reveals how Western news outlets 'amplify and rationalize state-sanctioned war and violence'

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Tue, 25 May 2021 18:15 UTC

RT speaks to propaganda scholar Matt Alford, who in April 2019 had a major study of how the mainstream media systematically distorts, misrepresents, and whitewashes Western foreign policy, canned just prior to publication.

As the article was literally about to go to press, the Conversation - which claims to offer "informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world" - put his groundbreaking work on hold, at the express request of the outlet's executive editor.

After some toing and froing, the Conversation finally backed out completely from publishing it at all, telling Matt to take it elsewhere. It was finally published by Grayzone in May.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mark Ruffalo and anyone else flinging around terms like 'holocaust' and 'genocide' are cheapening tragedy

Micah Curtis
RT
Wed, 26 May 2021 18:09 UTC

Genocides are memorable because they are, mercifully, aberrations in the modern world, yet comparisons to them in political discourse are becoming ever more common. People must stop cheapening tragedies for political gain.

Modern political discussion is turning inhumane for cheap political points. Nowadays, comparisons to past tragedies such as the Holocaust are becoming all too common thanks to the hyper-partisanship and catastrophizing of American politics.

Comment: Godwin's law is unfortunately still a recurring trope for the low-hanging fruit club of liberal activists. The creative brain power to think further beyond Holocaust comparisons just does not exist in them.

Partisanship rots the brain. Supporting a political tribe simply because you belong to it is stifling intelligence and empathy. More and more, we're seeing hyper-partisan individuals make ridiculous, overblown statements that they later have to retract or alter because their basic humanity and sense of perspective were completely lost. The constant wading in hyperbole is emblematic of the choice to put tribalism before free thought and losing a part of your soul in the process.

Worse than FOX?! Insiders livid as Cuomo family aren't required to follow CNN conduct rules

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 26 May 2021 17:27 UTC

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and his brother, New York Governor Andrew, have been scolded for using the network's resources to strategize about his sex harassment cases - but insiders fear they're stuck with the pair's odious antics.

The Cuomos apparently had the full run of CNN's remote capabilities, giving Andrew some extra legal strategy from his brother (who was a lawyer before joining CNN) and offering Chris access to the governor's top aides, according to several people familiar with the talks.

The conferences included not only both Cuomos, but Andrew's top aide and communications team, lawyers, and a bevy of outside advisers, according to people who came forward to the Washington Post to speak on their content. Chris' co-workers were apparently deeply upset in having their workplace coopted by a political figure - and one under investigation for sexual harassment, at that - and women's group UltraViolet ultimately came forward to denounce the incestuous situation.

Comment:

Dr Fauci's Pivot, part II: Lab-originated theory gains ground

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Tue, 25 May 2021 06:57 UTC

Clichés are boring. American political rhetoric is full of them. Sometimes it is really bad where we have three-word statements like "lock her up!" or "God hates fags!" or even slightly longer ones like "keep your laws off my body!" But sometimes things really do seem to become very simple, and such simplistic sayings gain a real place in the movement of the country's thought about issues.

Today's issue is COVID-19 of course, and of particular interest is the growing sense of certainty that SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera, an artificially-created virus that escaped from a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This is bringing up a few possible new short phrases designed to simplistically aggravate people.

Comment: There is a lot of convincing evidence that the virus is man-made and that it was probably created in one of the biggest virus research labs in the USA.

What will happen when the US citizens find out that their corrupt government was involved in this nefarious business?

They used US taxpayer money to create the virus and then they used the virus to proclaim a false pandemic as an excuse to strip the people from their basic rights and ruin the economy.

A genius plan by sick minds to impose totalitarian control over the whole population.

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Society's Child

Support for Israel among young US Evangelical Christians drops sharply

New Hampshire auditors find reason for discrepancy in votes: Scan only counted 28 percent of test ballots for GOP candidates

Tigers kill two zookeepers in separate China attacks - a third killed in India

Portland police declare riot, make multiple arrests on anniversary of George Floyd death

Tennessee bans teaching critical race theory in schools

Path to re-election: Majority of Syrians believe Assad is only leader able to confront the West

UK academic silenced by MSM reveals how Western news outlets 'amplify and rationalize state-sanctioned war and violence'

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mark Ruffalo and anyone else flinging around terms like 'holocaust' and 'genocide' are cheapening tragedy

Worse than FOX?! Insiders livid as Cuomo family aren't required to follow CNN conduct rules

Dr Fauci's Pivot, part II: Lab-originated theory gains ground

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