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Hezbollah Pummels Northern Israel | News on The 700 Club – December 28, 2023
Colorado’s secretary of state announces Trump is back on ballot
Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley weighs in on the Colorado GOP appealing former President Trump’s ballot disqualification.
Unions Push Back As Argentina’s President Tries To Drain His Swamp
The congress’s extraordinary session this week is set to examine the controversial plan, which seeks to cut state spending and loosen government intervention in the market. The country’s heavy reliance on government interventions could not be understated but outright scrapping regulatory measures has been met with hostility.
Protester Adrián Grana described the decree as “a decalogue to favour the powerful to the detriment of the people.” Milei’s proponents laud the plan as necessary for economic growth and creating job opportunities, however.
The outcry from workers’ rights groups and labor unions has put Milei under pressure, but he remains committed to the plan. While reiterating respect for the division of powers, union leaders want to protect worker and consumer interests by ensuring the ruling does not infringe on their rights.
The construction union leader, Gerardo Martínez, urged workers to push back on the plans if an unconstitutionality exists.
Study shows TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube are making billions in ad revenue from kids
Social media companies made nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from U.S.-based minors in 2022, according to a study released Wednesday led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Researchers said the findings illustrated how social media giants significantly profit from child and teen users.
YouTube led in revenue derived from users aged 12 and younger at $959 million, the study estimated, followed by Instagram at $801 million and Facebook at $137 million. Instagram led in ad revenue gained from teen users aged 13-17 at $4 billion, followed by TikTok at $2 billion and YouTube at $1.2 billion.
Biden administration mum about the infectious diseases tracked back into the US by illegal aliens
While numerical values can be assigned to the cost of illegal immigration — an estimated $451 billion annually just to house the migrants who’ve entered under Biden’s watch and another $3 billion in federal welfare benefits for every million parolees released into the U.S. — it can also be observed under microscopes, in hospital waiting rooms, and occasionally in morgues.
Diseases once thought eradicated or controlled in the U.S. have made a comeback, in part due to the influx of illegal aliens from a growing list of countries in recent years.
Leprosy was long a rarity in the U.S. Now this likely import may be endemic in Florida.
Not only did polio hitch a ride back into the country, it made its way into the water supply.
‘WIDE OPEN’: December migrant encounters set to hit all-time record
The ‘Fox & Friends’ co-hosts react to news that December is on track to outpace the monthly record of migrant encounters at the southern border.
Fired university chancellor claims free speech after he’s caught filming porn with wife and others, posting videos online
UW System Regent President Karen Walsh expressed similar “disgust” with Gow’s behavior. “We are alarmed, and disgusted, by his actions, which were wholly and undeniably inconsistent with his role as chancellor,” she said.
As of now, Gow still retains tenure at the school, so he will be placed on paid administrative leave. However, President Rothman said he had asked interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan to reconsider “Dr. Gow’s status as a tenured faculty member.”
The New York Post has reported that Gow and his wife, Carmen Wilson — who met Gow when she chaired the search committee that hired him — have filmed pornographic videos together and posted them online under the name “Sexy Happy Couple.”
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Released from Prison After Serving 8 Years for Mother’s Murder
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who convinced her boyfriend to kill her mother after suffering years of medical abuse, was released from prison Thursday.
Gypsy was granted parole in September, clearing the way for her early release nearly three years ahead of schedule.
Her case inspired the HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and the Hulu scripted series “The Act”, both of which explored Gypsy’s harrowing childhood spent being forced to pretend she was suffering from leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and a host of other ailments.
Besides the medical abuse, which included an unnecessary surgery to remove her salivary glands, Gypsy testified that her mother also beat her and chained her to a bed.
Colby Covington on His Friendship With Trump, and LeBron Disrespecting America
Tucker Carlson is joined by pro fighter Colby Covington to discuss Rosie O’Donnell’s TDS, LeBron James disrespecting the the US, and Covington’s friendship with Donald Trump.
‘Parasite’ Actor Lee Sun-kyun Endured 19-Hour Christmas Eve Police Interrogation Before Apparent Suicide
The news agency Yonhap reported that Lee spent Saturday night into the early morning hours of Christmas Eve at a police station in Incheon facing an interrogation over accusations of drug use.
A woman identified as a bar hostess had denounced to police that Lee ingested marijuana and unspecified other drugs at her home; Lee’s attorneys insisted that he had been blackmailed and did not knowingly ingest any drugs.
Police drug tests did not reveal any evidence that Lee had consumed drugs.
South Korea has a growing recent history of high-profile suicides, many of them similarly employing charcoal. Multiple Korean pop (K-pop) singers, artists, and politicians have been found to have committed suicide in the last five years, some as young as 25 and several explicitly mentioning the pressures of fame and constant media surveillance in the notes they left behind
Shuttered Social Media Platform Parler Plans 2024 Relaunch
The revival comes after Parler was acquired by PDS Partners, a limited liability company co-owned by Parler’s former chief marketing officer Elise Rhodes-Pierotti and Ryan Rhodes.
They aim to relaunch the platform in the first quarter of 2024, with Rhodes-Pierotti returning as chief marketing officer and Ryan Rhodes stepping in as the CEO. Joining them in this endeavor is anti-human trafficking activist Jaco Booyens, who will serve as chief strategy officer.
Rhodes-Pierotti emphasized a “renewed commitment to Parler’s original vision — an open marketplace for all.” This relaunch is backed by advanced technology and a private cloud, promising new features and aiming to fill a gap in the market for competitive apps with cutting-edge technology.
Boycotting the Woke Worked, PublicSq Shows Us What We Do Next
Consumers can download the PublicSq app on their smartphones via iPhone’s App Store and Android’s Google Play Store, or they can visit the desktop website here.
Seifert went on to say that with the creation of PublicSq, they “turned that frustration into a solution, because we didn’t want to just boycott, we wanted to actually put our money toward something positive.”
“I think that’s more powerful over the long run,” he said. “Boycotting is important, but it’s incomplete unless I shift my consumer spending somewhere else.”
Second American held hostage by Hamas confirmed dead in Gaza
Judi Weinstein Haggai and her husband, both Israeli Americans in their 70s, were shot and taken hostage from their community of Kibbutz Nir when Hamas-led forces mounted a deadly terror attack on Israeli communities on Oct. 7. They disappeared in the fields surrounding Kibbutz Nir Oz early that Saturday morning and had not been heard from since.
The announcement comes just a week after the community said Haggai’s husband, Gad, had died. He was the first American hostage to die in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The six other Americans being held hostage by Hamas include Omer Neutra, 21; Itay Chen, 19; Sagui Dekel-Chen- 35; Edan Alexander, 19; Hersh Goldberg Polin and Keith Samuel Siegel.
Nigeria: Christmas Massacre Death Toll Hits 195, 10,000 Displaced, More Than 1,000 Homes Burned Down
Attackers identified in Nigerian media as “bandits,” believed to be members of the majority-Muslim Fulani ethnic group, went on a killing and pillaging rampage in the heart of Plateau beginning on Christmas Eve, burning down hundreds of homes and killing entire families.
The mass murder, which law enforcement authorities described as “well coordinated,” was the latest in a string of killings that religious freedom advocates and Christians on the ground denounce as genocide — an attempt by the Fulani to eradicate the Christian presence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region and usurp its territory.
The Middle Belt is the dividing line between Nigeria’s majority-Christian south and majority-Muslim north.
The conservative pin-up calendar is harmless kitsch, not pornography
In the dumbest possible online nontroversy that has been branded #Calendargate, a handful of conservatives — and disproportionately, conservative women — are apoplectic over a calendar featuring photo shoots of various right-wing bloggers and “influencers.”
Meant to lampoon the leftist notions that men can be women and that anorexia and obesity are considered beautiful by Hollywood and the corporate media, the “Real Women of America” 2024 calendar operates as part pin-up and part not-so-subtle advertisement for the creator, “Conservative Dad,” and his Ultra Right Beer.
But the calendar itself is anodyne and innocuous at worst and a fine celebration of real, conservative women of all races and healthy,
Vaccines without needles
The pharmaceutical industry has continued to receive large amounts of funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as United States government health agencies to develop innovative vaccine administration techniques without the use of a syringe, such as delivery through ultrasound.
Last month, the Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a total of more than $31 million in grants to various pharmaceutical companies to advance the manufacturing of needle free vaccine systems.
The U.S. has a significant financial stake in the Global Needle Free Injectors industry, with Germany, Japan, and China also accelerating development of needle free technologies.
Biden administration to send Ukraine last batch of aid as US depletes available funds
The administration has been pressing Congress to approve the multibillion-dollar national security supplemental package initially requested in October. However, Republican lawmakers have linked the $60 billion additional aid to Ukraine with changes in border security policies as a prerequisite for its passage.
The package provides military equipment like air defense weapons, artillery ammo, anti-armor gear, and over 15 million rounds of ammunition.
The federal government has sent upward of $100 billion to aid Ukraine since the Russian invasion started, with more than $46 billion earmarked for military assistance.
Almost a year after the East Palestine train derailment, residents still need help
DJ Yokley, a lifelong resident of East Palestine, joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to explain the community’s disappointment in a lack of support from President Biden.
Rashida Tlaib calls Israeli PM Netanyahu ‘genocidal maniac,’ takes shot at fellow Dems who back him
Hardline leftist Tlaib, who is also the only Palestinian American in Congress, has been among the loudest critics of the Israeli government during her tenure on Capitol Hill.
That criticism reached new highs in the wake of the Oct. 7 surprise attack by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel.
Her comments come roughly a week after Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., a more moderate member of her party, returned from Israel. There, he said he met with Netanyahu as well as other Israeli officials and the families of people who remain in Hamas captivity.
China reaffirms its military threats against Taiwan weeks before the island’s presidential election
During Thursday’s news conference, Wu repeated accusations that the U.S. was prompting Taiwan into deliberately raising tensions with China. Beijing has provided no evidence, but the claim meshes with China’s posing itself as an unofficial ally of Russia in opposing the long-predominant Western liberal order, in favor of authoritarian rule.
“Any attempt to use Taiwan to contain China is doomed to failure. … Seeking independence by military force is a dead end,” Wu said.
Taiwan has answered Chinese military expansions with boosts to its navy, air and ground forces, all backed by the possibility of swift intervention by U.S. and allied forces spread across the Asia-Pacific.
Mexican officials use bulldozers to clear migrant tent camp at US border
“What we are doing is removing any tents that we see are empty,” Segismundo Doguín, the head of the local office of Mexico’s immigration agency, told The Associated Press.
Some migrants relocated to another area of the encampment while others fled.
About 70 migrants crossed the Rio Grande and traveled into the U.S. It is not immediately clear if there were any injuries or deaths among these crossings, but several people drowned attempting to cross the river earlier in the week.
The U.S. and Mexico are currently negotiating how to help curb illegal border crossings, with both sides saying the other needs to do more.
Texas has arrested thousands at the US-Mexico border as state expands powers to arrest migrants
Texas authorities have arrested nearly 10,000 migrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border under a new “arrest and jail” operation aimed at deterring illegal immigration.
Following the successful arrests, Texas passed a new law that will bolster the smaller-scale operation to expand the authority to make arrests, as well as give local judges the authority to order the migrants out of the country. The changes go into effect in March.
The new law comes after Texas first launched the smaller-scale operation to arrest migrants on misdemeanor trespassing charges in July 2021 as Texas-Mexico border crossings reached 1.2 million that fiscal year.
Biden admin sues nation’s largest Christian university after hitting it with huge fine
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced it has sued Grand Canyon University (GCU), becoming the second agency under the Biden administration to take action against the largest Christian school in the nation within the past few months in what the university says is a coordinated attack by multiple agencies against the institution.
Mueller told Fox News Digital in late October that he believes the university is unfairly being targeted by the Biden administration, saying multiple federal agencies were involved in a coordinated attack against the school.
Shortly after that, on Oct. 31, the Department of Education (DOE) fined GCU $37.7 million, saying an investigation conducted by the office of Federal Student Aid found the university “lied” to over 7,500 former and current students about the cost of its doctoral programs over several years.
Mueller has argued the federal investigations are tied to the DOE denying GCU’s effort to convert into a nonprofit institution in 2018. The department denied GCU’s nonprofit status for purposes of federal student financial aid, which continues to classify the school as a for-profit entity.
U.K. deploys warship to South America to defend Guyana amid Venezuelan invasion threats
The threat to invade came after Maduro arranged a Dec. 3 national referendum in his home country asking Venezuelans whether they believed the disputed territory was legitimately part of their country, sparking fears that Caracas might ignite the first interstate conflict in South America since the 1982 Falklands War.
The Essequibo territory, which has been in dispute for more than 100 years came into focus in 2015 after ExxonMobil discovered oil reserves and minerals off its shoreline.
“HMS Trent will visit regional ally and Commonwealth partner Guyana later this month as part of a series of engagements in the region during her Atlantic Patrol Task deployment,” a Ministry of Defense spokesperson told the BBC.
The warship is reportedly armed with 30mm cannon, has a top speed of 24 knots, a range of 5,000 nautical miles and a crew of 65 Royal Marines. It can also deploy Merlin helicopters and unmanned aircraft.
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