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Half of Biden voters say Israel committing genocide in Gaza: Poll

Nick Robertson
The Hill
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:50 UTC
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Half of voters for President Biden in 2020 believe the Israeli government is committing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, according to a YouGov/The Economist poll released Thursday.

The poll also found that 51 percent of Biden 2020 voters believe the Israeli government's ground invasion of Gaza is "too harsh," and 58 percent of the same group believe the conflict is "likely" to widen into a greater Middle East war.

The Israeli military has redoubled its efforts in recent weeks to eliminate Hamas in Gaza via a ground campaign and mass airstrikes. Critics claim the Israeli military's efforts are also aimed at driving the Palestinian population out of Gaza, citing reports of targeted attacks at universities, hospitals and cemeteries.

Comment: If half of the people who voted for you disagree with something you're doing, any sane person would at least reconsider his actions. It's almost as if the will of the voters doesn't actually count for anything. Strange.

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More control: Dutch govt intends to turn off devices in households soon

Amari Roos
Sott.net
Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:06 UTC
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On Monday January 22nd and Tuesday the 23rd, different parts of the Dutch city of Amsterdam experienced a power outage. On Monday, 68,000 electricity connections were affected and on Tuesday 57,000 connections were affected.

The first outage was reported to be caused by the power plant Centrale Hemweg failing, which is located in Amsterdam. The cause for the second outage was unknown until an investigation by the grid operator Liander concluded that both major power outages were caused by "recent major changes in weather conditions".

According to Liander, the heavy rainfall and high water levels caused moisture in the power plant causing damage to technical parts of the plant. They also added that the power plant's heating system didn't work properly preventing the humidity to clear up.

It may be true that these outages were caused by extreme weather conditions, given that 2023 was the wettest year since records began with record high water levels as a result. The event sparked worries amongst citizens as power outages could become the norm, not only due to extreme weather changes but also due to the electrical grid being unable to carry the load. As a result, more and more people are being manipulated into installing solar panels (according to a report in 2022, the Netherlands has the most solar panels per capita in Europe), replace their boiler with a heat pump, and drive electric cars.
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No diploma? No problem! Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals

Lolita C. Baldor
Breitbart
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:01 UTC
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The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn't graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.

The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test. Both are fairly rare steps that the other military services largely avoid or limit, even though they are all finding it increasingly difficult to attract the dwindling number of young people who can meet the military's physical, mental and moral standards.

Under the new plan, Navy recruits without an education credential will be able to join as long as they score 50 or above on the qualification test, which is out of 99. The last time the service took individuals without education credentials was in 2000.

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Biden's natural gas shutdown won't help the environment, but it will make you poor, cold, and miserable

Evita Duffy-Alfonso
The Federalist
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:01 UTC
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The leftist war on energy is all about control.

The Biden Administration announced Friday that it's putting a stop to the permitting process for several liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal projects in the name of climate change.

In a joint statement, "the White House and Department of Energy (DOE) said the pause would occur while federal officials conduct a rigorous environmental review assessing the projects' carbon emissions, which could take more than a year to complete," reported Fox News.

Comment: Any time the elites make a move whose justification lies in helping "the environment" in some way, you can be sure it's actually a push toward their "utopian" vision of global human suffering: population reduction, travel restrictions and food austerity while the elites continue to jet-set and eat steak. These people are evil incarnate.

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The Texas migrant drama is a distraction: US elites will keep the border wide open

Tony Cox
RT
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:54 UTC
National Guard soldiers
© BRANDON BELL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / GETTY IMAGES VIA AFPNational Guard soldiers stand guard on the banks of the Rio Grande river at Shelby Park on January 12, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott's feud with US President Joe Biden might entertain voters, but it won't stem the tide of illegal migrants.

Many of the beleaguered Americans who have watched their country be overrun for decades by never-ending streams of illegal aliens were cheered up by the latest salvo in Texas Governor Greg Abbott's border-security feud with US President Joe Biden.

It's easy to see why. Watching the Biden administration wave in record flows of lawless migrants - with total disregard for the harms caused to American citizens - is painful, so seeing Abbott defy the federal government is soothing. Two days after the US Supreme Court upheld the federal government's right to dismantle border barriers installed by Texas National Guard soldiers, the governor declared on Wednesday that the state's right to self-defense "supersedes" all federal laws, so he will continue fighting the "invasion."

The Republican governor insisted that because the Biden administration shirked its constitutional duty to defend US states against foreign invaders, Texas is filling the void to protect its own citizens. Therefore, the state troops will keep working to block the immigrant influx, regardless of what the Supreme Court says.

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Exclusive poll: Gen Z is less religious, less Republican than others

Russell Contreras
Axios
Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:01 UTC
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Generation Z adults are less likely than older generations to join an established religion, far more likely to identify as LGBTQ and generally are less likely to be Republican, a new survey shows.

Gen Z — which includes those born between 1997 and 2012 — is the most racially and ethnically diverse generation in U.S. history, and an estimated 40.8 million Gen Zers will be eligible to vote in 2024.

The survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute confirms the left-leaning beliefs of Gen Z shown by other studies.

Comment: Gen Z actually seems to be the most resistant to being pinned down as any particular label. Previous polls have claimed Gen Z represented a turn towards conservatism to a greater extent then Millennials.

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Philadelphia City Council considers curfew on businesses in this open-air drug market

Megan Myers
Fox News
Sat, 27 Jan 2024 07:00 UTC
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© Fox News/Megan MyersTrash builds up along Kensington Avenue. Drug users are slumped over outside storefronts with needles in their hands.
WARNING: This story contains graphic images.

A new bill would impose curfews on some businesses in Kensington's open-air drug market as addiction and crime run rampant in the Philadelphia neighborhood.

City Councilmember Quetcy Lozada introduced a bill on Thursday requiring some commercial establishments and restaurants to close between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. if they are within a specific area of the Kensington neighborhood, including the infamous Kensington Avenue. The proposal is one of the latest to address issues in Kensington, an area that has become the epicenter of the city's drug crisis.

"In order to address the crisis in Kensington, we need a better understanding of who is there and what is happening," Lozada, whose district includes Kensington, said in a press release.

Kensington, known internationally for its excessive public drug use, is among the Philadelphia areas most impacted by overdose fatalities, according to city health department data. Over 1,400 people citywide died from drug overdoses in 2022, an 11% increase since the previous record-high the year prior.

On any given day, drug users can be seen scattered across the sidewalks, injecting themselves with needles as blood trickles down their arms. Others stumble across Kensington Avenue in a stupor or passed out on the pavement with fleas covering their gruesome, flesh-eating wounds from the addicting animal tranquilizer, xylazine.
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Putin reveals his ideal for Russian families


RT
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:11 UTC
Vladimir Putin
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/SPUTNIKRussian President Vladimir Putin meets with students at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said families need at least three children to improve the country's declining population. He addressed the question of the country's birthrate while speaking to university students in Kaliningrad Region on Thursday.

"If two people produce only one, then the population decreases. Even if there are two, it remains on the horizontal bar. And in order to ensure population growth, the minimum requirement is for a family to have three children."

Putin explained that a more educated society leads to a more difficult demographic situation, because people's priorities change. Women who want to get an education and start a career end up having their first baby over the age of 30.

"Of course, there's no strength and no time for a second one," the president lamented. The Russian leader noted that starting a family is a very difficult process, especially for a woman, who needs to study and keep her professional qualifications, as well as care for a child. "So that's why we are trying to help young families in the first place." He added that it is important to start a family "on time" and that there is "a pragmatic interest on the part of the state."
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Email reveals why CDC didn't issue alert on COVID vaccines and myocarditis

Zachary Stieber
The Epoch Times
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:47 UTC
COVID-19 vaccine
© Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty ImagesA health care worker fills a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in a file image.
The nation's top public health agency didn't send an alert about a connection between COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation because officials were concerned they would cause panic, according to an email obtained by The Epoch Times.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2021 drafted an alert about the risk of heart inflammation, or myocarditis, resulting from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Officials prepared to release it to the public, taking steps including having the agency's director review the language, internal documents show.

The alert would have been sent through the CDC's Health Alert Network (HAN), which goes to state and local officials, as well as doctors, across the country.

The alert was never sent.

In the May 25, 2021, email, exclusively obtained by The Epoch Times, a CDC official revealed why some officials were against sending the alert.

"The pros and cons of an official HAN are what the main discussion are right now," Dr. Sara Oliver, the official, wrote in the missive. "I think it's likely to be a HAN since that is CDC's primary method of communications to clinicians and public health departments, but people don't want to appear alarmist either."

Dr. Oliver was corresponding with an employee of either Pfizer or Moderna. The employee's name and email were redacted in the copy obtained by The Epoch Times.

Dr. Oliver didn't respond to a request for comment. Asked about the email, the CDC didn't address Dr. Oliver's statement.
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Best of the Web: Davos, trust, and the end of "comfortable wolves"

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'n Guns
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:59 UTC
wolf chain dog house
Last fall I poked the slumbering bear of the #ungovernble set by taking extreme umbrage with calling people "Sheeple." For the record I absolutely detest that word.

Instead I shot back with a very reflexive, "Bullshit!" There are very few things that trigger me more than consigning 90% of humanity to that of herbivores orders of magnitude more stupid than my goats.

In that frustration I coined the phrase, "comfortable wolves." Sometimes you just have what alcoholics call "a moment of clarity."

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