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“,,,three years in we have a chronically-ill society and it’s not the unvaccinated…”
https://youtu.be/5arKeyJx9J8?si=9v3syY8UzjYUcM91
Niall Ferguson. Are we the Soviets now?
https://youtu.be/YifbCUG3gvI?si=TBN4R9zyTbpiGTKq
Late Soviet and current USA: “Crisis in the morale”
“deaths of despair”
Yep.
Should’ve paid more attention to Bezmenov way back when…
Jury fines BlueCross for firing worker over COVID-19 vaccine mandate
by Dave Flessner – July 1, 2024
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/jul/01/jury-fines-bluecrosss-for-firing-worker-over/#/questions/
The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) confirmed to the independent organization U.N. Watch, the group confirmed on Tuesday, that it is taking “appropriate action” in response to allegations “Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” Francesca Albanese illicitly took money from pro-Hamas groups.
U.N. Watch filed a legal complaint in June against Albanese through the U.N. system presenting evidence that pro-Hamas groups may have paid Albanese to make appearances during a tour she took of Australia and New Zealand in the early months following Hamas’s siege of Israel on October 7. At least one such group, the the Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA), reportedly claimed to have “sponsored” Albanese’s visit to the country in December, according to U.N. Watch. Other organizations described Albanese as a “guest” of the group.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/07/03/u-n-confirms-probe-into-allegation-its-palestinian-special-rapporteur-took-money-from-pro-hamas-groups/
Jewish cemetery in Montreal desecrated with stone Nazi swastikas
Hampstead mayor Jeremy Levi condemned the Kehal Israel cemetery memorial park’s vandalism, in which the stones traditionally placed on graves out of respect and to mark a visit were misappropriated.
A Montreal Jewish cemetery was desecrated over the weekend when pebbles on gravestones were arranged in the shape of Nazi swastikas, Canadian politicians and Jewish groups said on Tuesday.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-808821
Jewish ‘privilege’ and ‘$$$’: Texts from Columbia University admins. leaked
The exchanges show the university officials downplaying students’ concerns about antisemitism and bashing the head of the school’s Hillel.
Columbia University administrators said Jewish students occupied a “place of privilege,” called a Hillel official a “problem” and wrote “Amazing what $$$$ can do,” during a panel on Jewish campus life in May, newly released text messages showed.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-808756
Harvard faces legal action: Shabbos Kestenbaum defends Jewish students – interview
Shabbos and his classmates are in a lawsuit with Harvard, fighting for Jewish students at the university.
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a graduate student at Harvard studying religion and public policy, has been on a long battle against the school and how they’ve handled, or as he argues, haven’t handled, antisemitism on campus.
“I did not expect to be put in this spotlight, but I felt like I didn’t have much of a choice. This lawsuit was a last resort,” Shabbos told The Jerusalem Post.
College campuses across the United States, including Harvard University and other Ivy League schools, have, especially since the start of the Israel-Hamas War, seen pervasive and systematic antisemitism.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-808774
Heritage Foundation Vows to Make ‘Extraordinarily Difficult’ to Replace Biden on the Ballot
The Heritage Foundation vowed Wednesday to make it “extraordinarily difficult” for Democrats to replace President Joe Biden on the ballot.
“If the Biden family decides that President Biden will not run for re-election, the mechanisms for replacing him on ballots vary by state. There is the potential for pre-election litigation in some states that would make the process difficult and perhaps unsuccessful,” Heritage Oversight Project stated in a memo that was compiled in April and released last week ahead of President Joe Biden’s “disastrous” debate performance.
Heritage Oversight Project Executive Director Mike Howell, who authored the memo, said that replacing Biden would be “extraordinarily difficult” and that they would ensure it would make it “extraordinarily difficult” to replace the 46th president on the 2024 ticket.
One in three Democrats believe Biden should exit the race, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-foundation-vows-to-make-extraordinarily-difficult-to-replace-biden-on-the-ballot/
BREAKING: Islamist ATTACK In Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-MYbYrOI54
Mahyar Tousi TV
Grocery costs are too high for families across the country.
We have a plan to tackle them.
https://x.com/POTUS/status/1808470746559123953
(Richard: His plan is to force the Grocery Stores to sell their product at a loss, he is well into LaLa Land and thinks he can force the stores to sell at a lose and still keep them open.
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Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
Trump lawyer Will Scharf makes an important point.
Trump is not a convicted felon until he’s sentenced by Judge Merchan.
And the sentencing has been delayed and possibly cancelled all together. Media outlets should be careful with their language.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1808606852713705869
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Been checking with sources who cover the Biden campaign. According to them, there was a distinct shift yesterday in the tone from morning to evening. The Biden camp started yesterday defiant that Joe Biden would not be dropping out. By evening, that had shifted. Kamala Harris is seriously being considered to have her “moment” at the top of the ticket. She’s also the only one who can keep the campaign’s money. A lot will hinge on this George Stephanopoulos interview on July 5. If Biden performs poorly, they don’t see how he survives. Nothing will happen either way until then.
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1808500687006793818
Palestinianism and the Red-Green Alliance Similarities in the Ideology and Practice of Marxists and Islamists
• Global left radicals (the “Reds”) and Islamists (the “Greens”) may hold vastly different beliefs, but they exhibit similarities in their respective all-encompassing ideologies and ways of political and militant action.
• Both feature uncompromising and enforced dogmas and both believe that their religious or political solutions will solve humanity’s historical ills.
• The Red-Green Alliance’s common enemy is the West: socialists believe the West is exploitative, oppressive, inequitable, and hegemonic. Islamists believe the West corrupts traditional morals, is overly focused on materialism, and wishes to dominate them.
• Aggressive practices of “revolution” and “resistance” are common to left radicals and Islamists.
• Both movements exploit the poor and marginalized of their societies to mobilize armed struggle.
• Though ideologically fierce and focused, the societies born of socialist thought and Islamism are severely flawed. Their ideologies ultimately appeal to naïve followers in the West – “useful idiots” – who serve the corrupt Red-Green Alliance’s metaobjective of world domination.
https://jcpa.org/article/palestinianism-and-the-red-green-alliance/
Visegrad24:
Mass-immigration and Woke culture: André Walker | The UK Election
Eleven Michigan Legislators Appeal Federal Lawsuit to the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
From Michigan Fair Elections
Lawmakers claim standing to sue state government for infringing on their constitutional rights when it used ballot initiatives to change election laws.
July 2, 2024. Yesterday eleven Michigan Legislators filed their principal brief in an appeal to the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, claiming their constitutional rights have been violated.
Under the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 4, (“Elections Clause”), state legislatures are given the constitutional power and authority to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections.
In 2018 and 2022 amendments to the Michigan Constitution altered election laws through a process that bypassed the state legislature, thereby encroaching on the individual legislators’ federally-protected and mandated constitutional authority.
In April 2024 the District Court dismissed the 11 legislators’ original lawsuit, not on the merits, but because the court held that the legislators did not have standing to bring the case. Standing is a term meaning, in essence, that these legislators were not the proper people to bring this case before a court.
The brief’s “Statement of Issue” reads as follows:
Whether state legislators have standing to sue state executive officials for enacting and continuing to permit and enforce Michigan citizen-initiated petition-and-ballot amendments to the state constitution regulating federal elections, without state legislative participation, in violation of the state legislators’ § 1983-enforceable individual rights or privileges under the Elections Clause.
Representative Steve Carra (R), leader of the House Freedom Caucus and a plaintiff in the case, disagreed with the judge’s decision and is optimistic the Appellate court will overturn the prior ruling. “If I, as a legislator, don’t have standing to say election laws are being passed without legislature approval, then who does? The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution protects legislative authority to determine the times, places, and manner of elections.”
State Senator Jonathan Lindsey (R), also a plaintiff, concurred with Carra. “I disagree with the judge’s decision to deny my right as a legislator to protect the role granted to me by the U.S. Constitution. When a federal judge misuses their power by denying a valid case to be heard, it damages our entire body politic. I am pleased we are appealing this decision.”
The Founding Fathers feared the government would devolve into authoritarian rule, Carra explained. They wrote both the Elections Clause and the Electors Clause in Articles I and II of the Constitution of the United States, “specifically to put the power to protect elections in the hands of We the People through their locally elected state legislators.”
Attorney Erick Kaardal, who built his 30-year career based on leveling the playing field for working people against the government, is now employing those same skills to help legislators. He explained, “Under the US Constitution’s Elections Clause, individual state legislators—not the group—have the federal right to vote on election laws subject to Congressionally-enacted laws. That power is supreme under the US Constitution. When those federal rights are violated by executive branch officials or otherwise, recourse to federal courts is necessary to protect the individual state legislators’ federal rights. The US District Court decision exclusively gives the right to sue to the Attorney General or the State legislature. But reading the text of the Elections Clause shows the individual state legislators can sue too.” Kaardal, of Mohrman, Kaardal & Erickson, P.A., is representing the case.
State Senator Jim Runestad (R), a plaintiff in the case, emphasized the need for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to rule in favor of the legislators. “It is extremely important to have these constitutional questions adjudicated as rapidly as possible,” he said. “I am a firm believer in the Constitution. The people have a right to have this issue decided in a court of law, so everyone can have confidence that we are preserving civil rights and obeying the Constitution.”
The lawsuit (Case No. 1:23-cv-1025) was first heard in the U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, Southern Division. It names as defendants Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and Jonathan Brater, Director of the Bureau of Elections.
At issue are constitutional amendments that ushered in the most dramatic changes to Michigan’s election laws in a decade. The non-legislatively adopted provisions allow same-day voter registrations without valid proof of identity, nine to 29 days of early in-person voting, private funding of election administration, and no-excuse absentee voting procedures. The adopted ballot proposals also changed in-person voting procedures, reduced board of canvasser authority, and created an independent redistricting commission.
Carra said the powers who sought to change Michigan’s elections laws “weaponized millions of dollars from out of state against the voting public of Michigan using deceptive tactics.” According to Ballotpedia, of the total $31.7 million used to promote Proposal 2 (the Constitutional amendment to change election law), 74% came from out of state, with $11.3 million pouring in from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a 501(c)4 nonprofit based in Washington D.C. The George Soros Open Society Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in New York, accounted for $1.2 million of the outstate money.
Plaintiffs include Senators Jonathan Lindsey and Jim Runestad; Representatives Steve Carra, James DeSana, Joseph Fox, Neil Friske, Matt Maddock, Brad Paquette, Angela Rigas, Joshua Schriver, and Rachelle Smit.
Kaardal has overseen more than 1,000 cases and specializes in constitutional and appellate law. He has achieved 63 election integrity lawfare successes and won two U.S. Supreme Court victories. He graduated from Harvard and earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
Michigan Fair Elections, the sponsor of the lawsuit, is a Michigan-based, non-profit 501(c)3 organization. Its local task forces are dedicated to restoring fair and honest elections through education, local citizen participation, and litigation. MFE continues to remain at the forefront of defending the U.S. Constitution, citizen rights, and election integrity through education and counter lawfare.
To view the full brief, click here
https://www.mifairelections.org/post/eleven-michigan-legislators-appeal-federal-lawsuit-to-the-united-states-sixth-circuit-court-of-appea
I’m not sure I understand “standing”.
Judges find it very useful to avoid a hairy mess. Sloppy and cowardly.
I think – maybe there’s more to it. Maybe it’s a concept that’s been abused in a few cases recently.
Free speech! Peaceful protest!(Keep defending this sort of thing. Till you’re on the other side of this.)
Kosher@KosherCockney
Wow.
A Nazi speech if ever I saw one.
These extremists are getting together and are radicalising each other daily in the UK.
I have never witnessed so much hate until recently. The “Free Palestine” movement is a Hate movement.
Labelling anyone who is friends with Jews “genocide enablers” in order for it to seem like you have a legitimate reason to attack Jews and attack those that protect them.
There is no Genocide.
It is a genocide libel in order for you to attack Jews. This is a classic Nazi propaganda tactic and it’s clear as day.
We’re not falling for it.
https://x.com/KosherCockney/status/1807871587758026858
Seth Frantzman:
Iran’s FM warns Israel in talks with Turkey’s FM
The details of the conversation were reported in Iranian state media Press TV and al-Mayadeen, which is pro-Iranian. The reports indicate this is an important development
In a development that illustrates how Iran and Turkey coordinate policy against Israel, Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani spoke with his counterpart, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan and warned Israel against escalation with Hezbollah. The Iranian claimed that Israel would face “detrimental consequences” if it attacks Lebanon.
The details of the conversation were reported in Iranian state media Press TV and al-Mayadeen, which is pro-Iranian. The reports indicate this is an important development. Iran is speaking with Turkey about “the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah,” which the Iranians claim “is fully prepared to fight off Israel.”
Why is Iran having this conversation with Turkey? Clearly the goal is to bring Ankara in on the side of Hezbollah. Turkey’s government is one of the most anti-Israel in the region and openly backs Hamas.
On June 30 Ankara refused to enable an Israeli flight that diverted to Turkey due to a medical emergency, to refuel.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-808484
Los Angeles: Perp Shot After Attacking Frum Kosher Bakery Owner in North Hollywood
A violent criminal was killed after attacking the frum [observant Jew] owner inside a Kosher bakery in the Kehillah in North Hollywood on Sunday afternoon.
According to Los Angeles Police Department investigators, the shooting happened at around 12:50 p.m. on Burbank Boulevard near Whitsett Ave.
The incident escalated when a 52-year-old homeless man violently attacked the Kosher bakery owner and his son, eventually leading to the Frum owner of the bakery, who is a licensed gun owner, shooting the perpetrator in self-defense.
LAPD Officers on the scene described the shooting as self–defense.
The perpetrator was pronounced dead on the scene.
The store owner, who is a licensed gun holder, is fully cooperating with the investigators.
https://frumnews.com/los-angeles-perp-shot-after-attacking-frum-kosher-bakery-owner-in-north-holywood/
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https://frumnews.com/los-angeles-perp-shot-after-attacking-frum-kosher-bakery-owner-in-north-holywood/