By Randy DeSoto, WESTERN JOURNAL
In a video released Wednesday, President Donald Trump called a drug he received called Regeneron not just a treatment, but in effect a “cure” for COVID-19.
He further pledged to make it free to any who need it.
Trump began the video offering his greetings from “your favorite president.”
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By Joey Pietro, WESTERN JOURNAL
During the first presidential debate of the 2020 election, moderator Chris Wallace asked President Donald Trump to disavow white supremacy — again.
“Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence?” the Fox News host asked.
Trump responded, “Give me a name. Who would you like me to condemn?”
T. Belman. As always, Black is on the money.
His vice president has done all he could to regain the initiative for the administration. It is up to Trump to raise his game, hammer home his argument, and sweep Biden aside in the last two debates.
The vice presidential debate was a refreshing upgrade on the cacophonous fiasco last week between the presidential nominees.
The incumbent, Mike Pence, was an easy winner on substantive points and general demeanor. The only question he did not really answer was how the administration is going to protect people with pre-existing medical problems if it succeeds in a judicial rejection of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). He effectively replied to the customary Democratic falsehoods about the failures of this administration’s management of COVID-19. More importantly, as the evening wore on, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Senator Kamala Harris, was more and more frequently reduced to the default page of the Democratic campaign: defamatory mudslinging against the president.
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T. Belman. This agreement augers well for peace in the Middle East. It sets the template for all future agreements with countries like Saudi Arabia.
The seven-page deal avoids any topics that may be controversial, such as a Palestinian state or American weapons sales to Abu Dhabi.
By LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST
L to R: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed wave and gesture from the White House balcony after a signing ceremony for the Abraham Accords. Septembe
The cabinet will hold a vote on Israel’s peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Monday.
There has not been a full cabinet meeting since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from the signing ceremony at the White House, almost a month before the planned vote. The agreement is expected to get unanimous support from the ministers. Read more…
The complexity of the dispute has implications for many other similar conflicts • The Golan Heights is part of Syria not because of some ancient connection, but because France and the UK decided so.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST Oct 8/20
People supporting Armenia protest against the military conflict with Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Brussels, Belgium October 7, 2020
Over the past week major countries, such as Russia and Iran, have indicated their desire for the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia to de-escalate. At the same time, both countries have said they stand by international law and that Azerbaijan’s claims to Nagorno-Karabakh, where most of the fighting is taking place, are legitimate.
The complexity of the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh has implications for many other similar conflicts. However, the stances of the various countries involved are not consistent. It shows how countries use claims of international law when it benefits them, and disregard other parts of international law when it doesn’t.
By Dr. Susan Berry, BREITBART 8 Oct 2020
Dozens of medical experts, epidemiologists, and biologists gathered last weekend to urge the adoption of a strategy they call “focused protection” to replace current coronavirus pandemic policies that, they say, have produced nothing less than “devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”
The internationally known experts, who identify themselves as “coming from both the left and right, and around the world,” have produced what they call the “Great Barrington Declaration,” which, to date, has been signed by nearly 4,700 medical and public health scientists, 8,900 medical practitioners, and 123,300 members of the general public.
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EMERGENCY REQUEST to PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP:
Governor Cuomo had decreed that every single one of our synagogues will be fined $15,000 if we dare to assemble for prayer, starting this coming Friday.
This is a blatant violation of our First Amendment right to freedom of religion.
The death rate from COVID in New York State is now essentially zero. There is no justification for this suspension of our civil liberties.
By Burak Bekdil, BESA October 8, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: After the infamous Mavi Marmara incident of May 2010, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and then foreign policy tzar Ahmet Davuto?lu (later PM and now an Erdo?an opponent) pledged to internationally isolate Israel. This was intended to help them advance their Islamist agenda and augment an emerging unity in the umma, preferably under Turkish leadership. A decade later, pragmatic Arab states are lining up to normalize relations with Israel, leaving state actors Iran and Turkey as well as non-state actor Hamas in a punishing position of international isolation—exactly where Turkey wanted to push Israel.
Erdogan’s Jerusalem threats shouldn’t worry Israel. But the Islamist’s aggressive moves are signs that America’s approach to Ankara is a mistake.
By Jonathan S. Tobin 10-07-2020 18:40
Does it matter that Turkey appears to think that it can relitigate the outcome of World War I? That’s the question observers were forced to confront last week when its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, opened that country’s parliament with a speech about the status of Jerusalem.
The Islamist government Erdogan leads is among the leading boosters of the Palestinian war against Israel’s existence, as well as an ally of the Hamas terrorists in Gaza. But the Turkish leader’s remarks weren’t framed as a response to American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital or the peace and normalization agreements reached between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Rather, it was an argument that Jerusalem belongs to the Turks, rather than the Jews or the Arabs.
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The Left’s ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Revolution/Coup
By William L. Gensert, AMER THINKER
Since the advent of the Trump presidency, the left engaged their greatest minds in planning the “Russia Hoax Coup” and then the impeachment farce. Having failed miserably at both, they are now carrying out an information operation to sell maundering Joe Biden as inevitable in his attempt to win the coming Presidential Election.
They insist that Joseph Biden is leading Trump in the polls by an insurmountable 16%. Before the end of October, the New York Times and the Washington Post both will run articles using anonymous sources in the Trump Administration expounding on how they believe Biden will deservedly win in a landslide but fear the president is planning on stealing the election with the help of Vladimir Putin. CNN and MSNBC will have on ex-generals and other retired military officers expressing lugubrious concern for the future of the republic.
Or… something like that.
By Victor Rosenthal
Time to take a break from giving and receiving abuse on Twitter and do some work. Last night we watched the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma.” It’s about the big tech companies and how their systems manipulate us into giving them what they want, which is our time and attention.
About 25 years ago I was stuck in the airport in Reno, Nevada, where there were slot machines available for waiting passengers to entertain themselves. I recall watching a woman play one, rhythmically swaying back and forth to the musical accompaniment from the machine as she pulled the lever over, and over, and over. I could see from her glazed eyes that she was in a trance, one with the machine. I wondered if she would succeed to pull herself away in time when her flight was announced, or if indeed she would even hear the announcement. Later, I recognized the same look in the eyes of someone scrolling through Facebook or Twitter on their phone.
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By Nandita Bose and Diane Bartz, REUTERS
A U.S. House of Representatives panel looking into abuses of market power by four of the biggest technology companies found they used “killer acquisitions” to smite rivals, charged exorbitant fees and forced small businesses into “oppressive” contracts in the name of profit.
The antitrust subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee recommended that Alphabet Inc’s Google, Apple Inc, Amazon.com and Facebook should not both control and compete in related businesses, but stopped short of saying a specific company should be broken up.
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By Kipp Jones, WESTERN JOURNALISM Published October 5, 2020
President Donald Trump, who is currently hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus, leads Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with likely voters in eight battleground states and with the national popular vote.
The monthly Democracy Institute Sunday Express poll released on Monday found that 46 percent of likely voters nationwide support Trump while 45 percent support Biden.
That represents a statistical tie, as it is within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points with regard to the national popular vote.
A national lead four weeks before the Nov. 3 election is good news for Trump, but there is more good news for the president.
VP Pence was masterful and unflappable. He got his message out on every question and was not deflected in any way. He was very prepared. He has mastered the art of finishing what he wanted to say even though his time was ended. He had mastered the art of avoiding the question and instead giving the statement he wanted to give.
He even interrupted Harris in a gentleman like manner and dominated her in the exchange. He really threw her off her game.
If only Trump, was able to do the same. Three cheers.
Six Women Create A Song and Video to Inspire a Wave of Women Voters in the Presidential Election
Their message to millions of women everywhere is simple: “We Need You!” (WATCH VIDEO.)
Brittany, Dahlia, Jessenia, Soleil, Virginia and Ximone are not bandmates. They never formally worked together on any musical projects until they realized that 50 Million women who were registered to vote in the 2016 Presidential election did not.
The country is in turmoil. Conditions are finally right for a change of leadership. Can Yamina leader Naftali Bennett withstand temptation and beat Netanyahu in an election?
In August 1970, then-Opposition leader Menachem Begin walked up to the Knesset podium and issued a harshly-worded warning to the government about Israel being unprepared for an attack by Egypt.
Three years passed before Begin’s warning came true. The 1973 Yom Kippur War, which came as a surprise, resulted in heavy casualties to Israel’s air force, which hampered its ability to provide cover for the ground forces. It was then-Prime Minister Golda Meir who had shut her eyes to Egypt’s progress on its anti-aircraft batteries, about which Begin had warned the Knesset. The price was unbearably heavy.
Four years after the Yom Kippur War came the first political change of leadership in Israel. The thousands of casualties, the military failure, the economic crisis, the mass protests, and the public’s dissatisfaction with the socialists, did their work. Menachem Begin, who had been a junior and right-wing partner in Golda’s government, was elected prime minister. His prophetic speech from 1970 contributed to his victory. He was seen as someone who had warned about an impending disaster while the leaders preferred to ignore it.
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T. Belman. They aren’t just lying in a descriptive sense. They are using the lies, better called ad hominin attacks or smears, to induce extreme hatred of Trump. And they have succeeded. We all have encountered many friends and relatives who are apoplectic when it comes to Trump and explode if any one defends him. This election will be determined by the haters or the lovers. That’s what it boils down to.
By Janice Shaw Crouse, AM THINKER
The fog of lies clouding the current political climate has all but completely hidden the truth. Let’s clear some things up so the American public can see what’s going on. Here are just a few of the major lies and the issues that have been wildly distorted.
Trump is a liar: Rolling Stone claims that Trump is a “Hall of Fame” liar. Other leftists call him a “pathological liar.” CNN says the “defining characteristic” of the Trump presidency is the “bombardment of lies.” You can even buy T-shirts with that logo. The internet is full of references to the Washington Post’s claim that President Trump has made more than 20,000 false claims, averaging 23 lies a day. A close look reveals that any generalized statement, any opinion some snowflake finds “hurtful,” any rounded-off number, and anything the left disagrees with is ipso facto judged by these supposed fact-checkers to be a lie. Note that these “lies” include general statements like Trump saying he has “tremendous support” from blacks; the Washington Post deems this a lie because no poll had been taken to prove it.
Senior Palestinian leaders held a summit on September 30, to discuss ways to bypass or reverse EU rules banning funds being paid out to NGOs with terror ties.
By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS, JPOST
Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat gestures as he speaks to the media in Ramallah, July 1, 2019
Palestinian Foreign Ministry officials have convened with representatives of Palestinian factions, civilian organizations, and prisoners organizations to discuss ways to remove terror organizations from the European Union’s lists of restrictive measures. The listing is significant as the EU cannot pay out funds to NGOs who have ties to the terror groups on the lists, or who refuse to sign.
According to a statement on the official news-site of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the meeting, chaired by Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Dr. Saeb Erekat, focused on the need to preserve a relationship with the EU while at the same time rejecting the terrorist label attached to the factions and the need to comply with that designation to access the funding.
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