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Star of David

Ben Shapiro joins Trump on October 7 visit to world-famous rabbi's grave

Donald Trump, Ben Shapiro
© Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Ben Shapiro with the family of hostage Edan Alexander
Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro joined former President Donald Trump in New York Monday to mark the first anniversary of Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel with a trip to the tomb of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Chabad.

Trump and Shapiro visited the Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch in Queens, the final resting place of one of the most influential Jews of the 20th century. Schneerson, affectionately known as the "Rebbe," led the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which promotes Judaism around the world.

"October 7 was the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust," Shapiro said. "It was an honor to join President Trump in NY today to pay our respects and remember the lives lost in the horrific terrorist attack one year ago today."

"I had the additional honor of being accompanied by Yael, Adi, and Roy Alexander whose son and brother, Edan, an American citizen, is still held captive by Hamas," Shapiro added. "Today and every day we pray for the swift return of all the hostages and a victory over those who sponsored and perpetrated October 7."

Comment: Laying a prayer in a grave isn't going to do anything when the reason the hostages are hostages is standing all around him. Also:




Dollars

Feds say TD Bank was a safe haven for criminals — and will be fined $3 billion for it

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The 10th-largest bank in the U.S. agreed to pay $3 billion in fines for its anti-money laundering deficiencies

Toronto-Dominion Bank was hit with a total of $3.09 billion in fines from U.S. regulators and agreed to a limit on its growth after pleading guilty to failing to curb financial crimes in its systems.

Over the course of six years, Canada's second-largest bank failed to monitor $18.3 trillion in customer activity in the United States. In its plea agreement, TD Bank (TD) admitted that this allowed three money laundering networks to transfer over $670 million through the bank's accounts.

"By making its services convenient for criminals, it became one," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a press briefing. "Today, TD Bank became the largest bank in U.S. history to plead guilty to Bank Secrecy Act Program failures and the first bank in history to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering." The Wall Street Journal first reported the agreement on Wednesday.

Bullseye

Pennsylvania court rules in favor of parental right to opt out of gender-identity lessons

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© Ray Tan/via Getty ImagesThe Pennsylvania State Capitol Building, in downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania court has ruled in favor of parents who accused a Pennsylvania public school district of violating their civil rights by teaching first-grade children concepts such as gender dysphoria and gender transition.

Carmilla Tatel, Stacy Dunn, and Gretchen Melton are mothers of three first-grade students in Mt. Lebanon School District in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, who brought a case against the district, its school board, and one of its first-grade teachers, Megan Williams. The parents claimed that Williams, herself a mother of a transgender child, read aloud to six- and seven-year-old students books that discussed gender transitioning, played a video in class called Jacob's New Dress, and "explained to her students that sometimes 'parents are wrong' and parents and doctors 'make mistakes' when they bring a child home from the hospital."

The school district violated the parents' constitutional rights by refusing to give families the right to opt their children out of such lessons, Joy Flowers Conti, a senior district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled last week.

NPC

Professor suspended after calling for male Trump supporters to be "lined up and shot"

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A professor at the University of Kansas was suspended Wednesday after footage emerged of him telling a class that men who choose not to vote for Kamala Harris should be "lined up and shot."


Athletics lecturer Phillip Lowcock can be seen in the clip telling students: "(If you think) guys are smarter than girls, you've got some serious problems," adding "That's what frustrates me. There are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don't think females are smart enough to be president. We could line all those guys up and shoot them. They clearly don't understand the way the world works.

"Did I say that? Scratch that from the recording. I don't want the deans hearing that I said that," Lowcock continued.

Dollars

Corrupt Ukrainian official's son found lying in bed with huge sum of money, $6 million in total seized from medical fraud operation

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Corrupt officials in Ukraine are making huge profits off of their own people

A huge corruption case was uncovered in Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine, with authorities detaining the head of the Hmelnytskyi County Medical Center over allegations he accepted huge sums of money to offer medical exemptions to Ukrainian men to avoid being conscripted.

The official, Tetyana Krupá, was responsible for medical examinations in the area, according to Trancarpathian news outlet Kárpáti Igaz Szó, which produces news in the Hungarian language. The paper reveals that the suspect is also the Khmelnytskyi county representative of President Volodymyr Zelensky's party, the Servant of the People.

During a search of the official's home, the man was found with various currencies worth a total of $6 million, which is an extraordinary sum for Ukraine. Officers found $5.24 million, €300,000, and 5 million hryvnias, which is Ukraine's currency. In addition, jewelry and other valuables were seized.

Comment: One wonders just how much Zelensky has stashed away.


Briefcase

New evidence in Daniel Penny 'chokehold' death case: Support for young Marine veteran swells

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Daniel Penny subdued a violent subway passenger so that others could exit the train.
Police officers responding to the scene at a New York City subway station where a homeless man who'd been placed in a chokehold by a Marine veteran lay unconscious opted to administer Narcan first rather than CPR, a court heard Thursday.

Daniel Penny, 25, will stand trial this month accused of manslaughter and negligent homicide after he placed Jordan Neely, a homeless Michael Jackson impersonator with mental health issues, in a six-minute, fatal chokehold in May 2023.

But the officers' decision to give Neely a dose of Narcan before performing CPR minutes later could be crucial for the defense as lawyers for Penny rally against the state's efforts to prevent them from calling witnesses to testify about Neely's history of drug abuse and mental illness.

Comment: 'Subway killer' Daniel Penny's actions expose a gap in US law enforcement


Stock Down

EU economy suffering from loss of Russian energy - Orban

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
© Getty Images / picture alliance / ContributorHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The bloc is losing its competitiveness due to soaring prices, according to the Hungarian PM.

The EU's refusal to buy Russian energy has been crippling the bloc's economic growth, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a plenary session of the European Parliament on Wednesday.

Orban, whose country currently holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency, was addressing the parliament in Strasbourg, France.
"EU productivity is growing at a slower pace than that of our competitors. Our share of world trade is declining," he said.
He added that EU businesses were facing electricity prices that are two to three times higher than in the US. And when it comes to natural gas, "prices are four to five times higher."

Comment: See also:


Gavel

Colorado Supreme Court tosses malicious lawfare suit against baker who refused cake for trans woman

Jack Phillips
© AP Photo/David ZalubowskiJack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop
Colorado's Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit Tuesday against a Christian baker who refused to make a pink-and-blue cake for a transgender woman who said she wanted it to celebrate her transition.

The Centennial State's high court rebuffed the suit on procedural grounds in a 6-3 opinion.

Masterpiece Cakeshop proprietor Jack Phillips had been sued by attorney Autumn Scardina, who is transgender, in 2017 as part of an antidiscrimination claim. Phillips is famous for declining to make a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2012, which turned into a national case that wound up before the US Supreme Court.

"Enough is enough. Jack has been dragged through courts for over a decade. It's time to leave him alone," his attorney, Alliance for Defending Freedom senior counsel Jake Warner, said in a statement.

"Because that cake admittedly expresses a message, and because Jack cannot express that message for anyone, the government cannot punish Jack for declining to express it."

Comment: Scadina has been warring against Phillips for twelve years. Phillips is not out of the woods either. The ruling was made on a technicality issue. Scardina will come up with something new, bet on it. That's called pathological persistence. They/them is not right in the head.


Airplane

Turkish Airlines flight makes emergency landing at JFK after pilot dies

Airbus A330 operated by Turkish Airlines
© Bruce Bennett/Getty Images / Getty ImagesAn Airbus A330 operated by Turkish Airlines takes off from JFK Airport on Aug. 24, 2019, in the Queens borough of New York City.
The pilot on Turkish Airlines flight 204 from Seattle to Istanbul collapsed mid-flight and died

A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing at JFK International Airport in New York after the pilot fainted mid-flight, the airline said Wednesday.

The plane had taken off from Seattle on Tuesday and was intended to land in Istanbul, according to Turkish Airlines spokesman Yahya Üstün. However, the pilot collapsed during the flight, and he died after attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.

"The pilot of our Airbus 350... flight TK204 from Seattle to Istanbul collapsed during the flight," Üstün wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Comment: Expect more events in the future. Notice the article makes no mention of the probable cause: the mass covid vaccinations forced on commercial pilots if they wanted to keep their jobs. The problem has been swept under the rug since 2022.








Bulb

Google backed Israel's military. Now its workers are in revolt

A demonstrator wears a Google-themed protest T-shirt
© ReutersA demonstrator wears a Google-themed protest T-shirt in Seattle in May 2024
Dozens of workers have been sacked by the tech giant for speaking up for Palestinians against Project Nimbus - but others say they won't be silenced

It's early morning, and Zelda Montes walks briskly through the crisp New York air as they head to Google's headquarters on Manhattan's 9th Avenue.

Montes, who self-identifies as they, fumbles with their ID card at the entrance, blending in with the steady stream of Googlers swiping through the security barriers as if it were just another day at the office.

Armed with an oversized tote bag, Montes pulls back their purple hair and heads to the 13th-floor canteen to order their usual: a dirty chai and an egg, avocado, and cheese sandwich with a bowl of raspberries. Their hands tremble slightly as they grip the coffee cup.

Locking eyes with two others, they get the signal that the coast is clear, head down to the entrance, and sit.

The three Googlers unfurl their banners and begin chanting to demand that Google do one thing: Drop Project Nimbus.

Comment: Don't the Googlers know that their employer was set up, in part, to do what they're currently doing by military and intelligence agencies?