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Jim Jordan voted out of race for House Speaker on secret ballot

Henry Hodge
Daily Caller
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 02:06 UTC
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© Win McNamee/Getty ImagesHouse Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan was voted out of the race for speaker of the House on Friday after failing to receive the necessary votes on three separate ballots.

Jordan lost in a secret ballot vote 86-112. GOP House members will now go home for the weekend. Any new speaker candidates have until 12 p.m. ET to declare on Sunday. There will then be a candidate forum on Monday.

Jordan failed to receive enough votes Friday morning on the House floor. After the third round of votes, Jordan was shy of the necessary 214 to win the speakership. The final quorum call put the House attendance at 427, meaning 214 remains the majority threshold unless members voted "present" during the roll call vote for speaker.

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New York Times loses verification on X after complaints from Elon Musk

Jenny Goldsberry
Washington Examiner
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:48 UTC
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© Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg/Business Insider/KJNElon Musk • The New York Times
The New York Times is no longer a verified account on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

X owner Elon Musk has long been critical of the outlet, while also engaging with a parody account on the platform of almost the same name, handle, and profile picture. Some hours after X users took notice that the New York Times was missing its original golden check mark allotted to media accounts, a new, blue check mark appeared on the account, a sign that the outlet paid for verification status to distinguish itself.
"The 'New York' Times is a declining, once-powerful, but fundamentally doomed to be regional & increasingly archaic legacy publication," Musk wrote in August. In previous posts, Musk would claim that the outlet "lost the plot long ago" and its readership "is tiny compared to this platform." In Musk's opinion as of July, the "parody of NYT & actual NYT are indistinguishable!"
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Both Hamas and Israel could have reasons to hide the truth about the Al-Ahli hospital blast

Scott Ritter
RT
Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:54 UTC
damage al ahli hospital bombing
Aftermath of the Al Ahli Hospital bombing. The damage is consistent with an air-burst type munition
A former UN weapons expert attempts to use evidence to dispel the fog of war and provide insight into the deadly attack

The fog of war is an ever-present reality, defined by factual uncertainty brought on by the imperfect recollections of people subjected to stresses that are unthinkable in everyday life.

It is not uncommon for opposing parties to a conflict to put forward competing narratives about a given event, with each side believing itself to be accurate, yet their respective facts and the conclusions derived therefrom failing to align. However, sometimes one or both parties have something that they want hidden, an uncomfortable reality that should, from their perspective, never see the light of day. In that case, the fog of war becomes a deliberate smokescreen designed to mislead and misdirect an audience so that the truth is never found out. If only one party is participating in such a deception, the fact will generally find a way to reveal itself. But if both parties are engaged in deliberate obfuscation, it becomes virtually impossible to find the truth.

There has been a significant amount of finger-pointing about an incident at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on the night of October 17, 2023. There is no disputing the fact that just before 7pm on October 17, a rocket of undetermined origin struck the parking lot of the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza. The exact number of casualties has yet to be determined. Still, most sources agree that several hundred Palestinians who had been forced from their homes by Israeli bombs and sought shelter on the hospital grounds were killed, with hundreds more injured.
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Trans, non-binary teachers busted in Tennessee prostitution sting

Jarryd Jaeger
The Post Millennial
Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:47 UTC
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© The Post Millennial22-year-old Ezra Fry and 25-year-old David Acevedo
They claimed that they "have to do [prostitution] or they will starve."

Two Tennessee substitute elementary school teachers have been busted for moonlighting as prostitutes following an undercover operation undertaken by law enforcement.

Both 22-year-old Ezra Fry and 25-year-old David Acevedo, worked in the Hamilton County School District, which includes Chattanooga, as well as areas to the east and north.

According to ABC9, Fry and Acevedo were caught in late August when Chattanooga Police Narcotics and Vice detectives posed as potential customers. The pair were contacted by an officer via an "illicit prostitution website" and organized a session.

Fry and Acevedo told the undercover officer that they would charge $150, and explained in detail everything they were, and weren't, willing to do for that price.
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Iraqi resistance launches drone strikes against US base


Press TV
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:07 UTC
Al-Harir Airbase Iraq
FILE: Al-Harir Airbase that houses the American troops in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
Iraqi resistance forces have reportedly waged a drone strike against an airbase housing the American troops in the Kurdistan region in the north of the Arab country.

The attack took place against the al-Harir Airbase in the Shaqlawa District of the Kurdistan region, using two unmanned aerial vehicles, Lebanon's al-Mayadeen news network reported on Friday.

Sources belonging to Iraq's resistance outfits said the attack had targeted the outpost earlier in the day, wounding a number of American forces.

Comment: The failed US proxy war in Ukraine, alongside the unstoppable rise of the multipolar world, has exposed just how fragile and impotent the American-Western hegemon is, and, in turn, we're seeing those peoples and nations who were subjugated by them, taking advantage of the opportunity to fight back:

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Ukrainian men paying hefty bribes to evade military service, ex-border guard reveals


Sputnik
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:00 UTC
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© Sputnik / Viktor Tolochko Sputnik InternationalBelarusian paratroopers making up units of the special operations forces stand guard at a road checkpoint near the border with Ukraine
A former Ukrainian border guard who worked for the Russian special services, Ruslan Syrovoy, told Sputnik that services to help men of military age leave the country are in high demand in Ukraine, with prices ranging from $5,000 to $10,000. Interestingly, the most expensive service is obtaining "official" permission to leave the country.

Ruslan Syrovoy, a former head of the cybersecurity department of the Mukachevo border guard unit of the State Border Service of Ukraine, who was involved in data collection for Russian intelligence services, shared with Sputnik that he left Ukraine via Hungary. He reached the border on foot, obtained a 30-day visa from the Hungarian police, traveled to Budapest, and then flew to Moscow.

"Men between the ages of 18 and 60 are severely restricted in terms of mass mobilization throughout the country. I will take the Zakarpatye region, where I personally witnessed all of this, where I personally stood at the border checkpoints with representatives of the conscription offices. They were using various means to lure people and take them to their stations," Syrovoy said.

Comment: Footage of Ukrainian men being dragged off the streets and from their homes, to be shipped off to the meat grinder, have been prolific on social media for at least a year now. More recently, with estimates of up to 400,000 troops dead (that's not counting those wounded and injured), the Kiev junta has become ever more desperate for bodies and has had to rely on its allies, like Poland, to snatch those who managed to escape and have them deported back.

Whilst it's likely that a great many more whistleblowers will emerge in the coming weeks and months and the truly dire state Ukraine will be revealed in greater detail, the most sinister scandals have already been revealed, such as how Ukraine has become one of the world's most prolific countries for organ trafficking, surrogacy, and paedophile networks, in addition to being an official epicentre bioweapons research, with some of the country's most vulnerable citizens being used as guinea pigs:


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US budget deficit swells by 23% to $1.7 trillion in 2023 as revenue falls 9%

Robert Schroeder
Market Watch
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:07 UTC
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© Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesThe federal budget deficit in 2023 was 23% higher than in the previous year, the Treasury Department, led by Secretary Janet Yellen, has reported.
The numbers: The federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2023 was $1.7 trillion, up $320 billion, or 23%, from a year ago, as the government's revenues and spending both fell. The fiscal year ended on Sept. 30.

Key details: Revenues fell 9%, or $457 billion, in 2023, the Treasury Department reported, while government outlays or spending dropped a more modest 2%, or $137 billion.

The Treasury said the sharp decrease in revenue was due to lower individual-income tax receipts as capital-gains realizations fell, and to rising interest rates that cut the amount of money the Federal Reserve deposited at the Treasury.

Comment: With numbers like that, is it any wonder that the US is inciting wars in Ukraine, Israel, the Middle East, and Asia? For America's pathocrats conflict covers so many bases: it boosts defense industry profits, at a time when of economic, and it also provides an excuse for these issues; it's a distraction from the societal problems at home, whilst also promoting and aggravating division; it has the potential to disrupt its competitors (such as China's Belt & Road Initiative); it furthers the myth that America's enemy is 'out there', rather than in and working behind the scenes in government:

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Molotov cocktails thrown at Berlin synagogue


RT
Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:48 UTC
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© Markus Schreiber/APPeople enter the building of the Kahal Adass Jisroel community, which houses a synagogue
Berlin, Germany • October 18, 2023
Germany has seen an upswing in anti-Semitic attacks since the start of the Hamas-Israel war...

Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue in Berlin on Wednesday, police said, as the country experiences a surge in anti-Semitic incidents in connection with the Hamas-Israel war.

According to police, at around 3:45am local time, two masked assailants threw bottles with flammable liquid at the building in the German capital's Mitte neighborhood, starting a fire and fleeing the scene. The fire was quickly put out by security personnel.

The building, which belongs to the Kahal Adass Jisroel Jewish community, also houses a daycare center and a yeshiva school, the Central Council of Jews in Germany said. Police said that several hours after the attack, a person drove up to the synagogue on a scooter and was briefly detained for shouting anti-Israel slogans.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the attack:
"It outrages me personally what some of them are shouting and doing, and I am convinced that Germany's citizens are of the same opinion as me. We stand united for the protection of Jews."
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The great lockdown scandal has only just begun

Madeline Grant
The Telegraph
Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:51 UTC
Neil O'Brien MP pro lockdown smear campaign covid
© Jamie LorrimanReinforcing orthodoxy: Neil O'Brien MP co-founded a site to discredit scientists and journalists challenging the consensus
Nobody bothered to model the harms it caused, and almost nobody has shown humility about the mistakes

I'm often amazed by our collective amnesia over lockdown, given the amount of time we spend discussing problems that are manifestly caused, or exacerbated, by it. Inflation, waiting lists, a crippling mental health crisis, persistently-high school absences, a growing academic attainment gap; these are just a few examples.

Is there an element of guilt involved? So many added their voices to the feverish calls for ever more stringent measures. So many delighted in dobbing in their neighbours when they snuck out for a sneaky second walk, or a kindly but illicit visit to an elderly neighbour. Yes, it was a miserable time for most of us, but that doesn't fully explain the resounding silence.

Professor Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M-O), was a rare voice of reason throughout the hysteria. It was he who rubbished the notion that elimination was ever possible, and the SNP's Anglophobic claim that Covid was "reseeded" into Scotland from the Typhoid Marys of England when the first lockdown ended. He repeatedly warned that using worst-case predictions (those "graphs of doom") to shock people into compliance could trigger a general loss of scientific credibility. All this proved prescient.
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IEA: World's electric grids incapable of supporting renewable energy goals

Naveen Athrappully
The Epoch Times
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:16 UTC
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© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesFILE: Electricity pylons stand in a row leading to the Unterweser nuclear power plant on March 21, 2011 near Stadland, Germany.

Comment: Ya think?


While investments in renewable energy have doubled since 2010, power grid funding has remained 'static.'

Electricity grid capacity available in the world isn't keeping pace with the rapid growth of "clean energy" technologies, possibly putting governments' climate goals at risk, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

In order to achieve climate goals set by global governments, more than 80 million kilometers (49.7 million miles) of electric grids have to be added or refurbished by 2040, which is the "equivalent of the entire existing global grid," according to the Oct. 17 IEA report. Even though "electrification and renewables deployment are both picking up pace," there is a risk of the clean energy transition stalling due to a lack of "adequate grids to connect the new electricity supply with the demand."

"At least 3,000 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power projects, of which 1,500 GW are in advanced stages, are waiting in grid connection queues — equivalent to five times the amount of solar PV and wind capacity added in 2022," the report noted.

"This shows grids are becoming a bottleneck for transitions to net zero emissions."
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