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US News.
Woman Stabs Three People, Including Police Officer and Cab Driver, at Atlanta Airport
A knife-wielding woman allegedly stabbed three people — including a police lieutenant — inside Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Wednesday, according to officials.
Frightening footage showed the woman, identified by WSBTV as Damaris Milton, 44, waving the blade at approaching officers as travelers stood within feet of her, only separated by glass.
Police were alerted around 4:45 p.m. to the armed woman who stood outside the security checkpoint near the airport’s south terminal, which features domestic flights.
5 law enforcement officers shot in Benton County, expected to survive
Five members of a Sherburne County Drug Task Force were shot Thursday morning while executing a search warrant at a Benton County residence.
All of the officers are expected to survive, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
According to Heck, officers were executing a warrant at a residence in the area of 190th Avenue Northeast and Glendorado Road in Glendorado Township shortly after 7 a.m. when they “came under fire.” Five members of the task force were transported to the hospital by ambulance or air ambulance.
They included three Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office members, a Princeton Police Department officer, and an Elk River Police Department Officer.
No, this isn’t the Gaza Strip; it’s a convention hall in Michigan…
You will raise an eyebrow or two at the video we’re about to present. It’s not footage from a Hamas gathering, but rather a rally right in Dearborn, Michigan.
During the pro-Palestinian event, attendees were waving Palestinian flags high inside the spacious Ford Community & Performing Arts Center.
The rallygoers seemed to have found their new favorite team: Hamas. “You think we’re going to zip our lips and tiptoe around when folks label Hamas as a terrorist gang? Think again. They aren’t the bad guys,” declared one speaker.
His comments were met with roaring cheers from the crowd. But he didn’t stop there.
“You want a real terrorist? Point your finger at Benjamin Netanyahu and his posse,” he proclaimed. The applause just kept coming. “And it’s not just Netanyahu; it’s every puppet dancing on his strings, backing his agenda in Palestine,” he added, fueling even more cheers.
This was the scene in Dearborn, Michigan, right after the pro-Palestinian speaker defended Hamas.
15-year-old accused of murder in Las Vegas hotel room shooting
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 15-year-old boy faces a murder charge as an adult for a deadly shooting at a teenager’s birthday party inside a Las Vegas hotel room, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained.
Sin’cere Smith was accused of killing Omarion Wilson, 17, during the gathering at a hotel on March 25, records said. The hotel is located on Flamingo Road about a block east of the Las Vegas Strip.
The party in the one-bedroom suite was to celebrate an 18-year-old’s birthday, police said. Several witnesses told police a group of teenagers, some wearing ski masks, came to the room right before the shooting.
Inflation rises more than expected in September as high prices persist
Inflation rose more than expected in September thanks to a jump in food and housing costs, underscoring the challenge of taming price pressures within the economy.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the consumer price index, a broad measure of the price for everyday goods including gasoline, groceries and rents, rose 0.4% in September from the previous month, a slight improvement from August but still more than expected.
Prices climbed 3.7% from the same time last year, matching the August reading and coming in slightly higher than the 3.6% projected by Refinitiv economists.
Excluding the more volatile measurements of food and energy, so-called core prices increased 0.3% for the month and 4.1% on an annual basis, in line with expectations.
Altogether, the report painted a picture of extremely stubborn inflation that has been slow to retreat, even as the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates to the highest level in two decades.
EXPOSED: Biden let Iran access MUCH MORE than $6 billion before Israel war
The Biden administration is taking heat for giving Iran access to $6 billion in return for the release of hostages just a month before Hamas (which Iran supports) attacked Israel. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Glenn reads a story from The Federalist exposing how “the money trail with Iran is WORSE than you think.”
Iran also has access to billions from other countries while U.S. officials have quietly acknowledged that they’re allowing Iran to export more oil to China.
In the end, Iran has access to about $50 billion, the article argues, not $6 billion. And that’s not all that the Biden administration has allowed …
Hamas and Amoral Clarity
One unexpected blowback from the medieval Hamas’s barbaric murdering of hundreds of Israeli civilians is the revelation of current global amorality.
More than 20 Harvard university identity politics groups pledged their support to the Hamas murderers—to the utter silence for days of Harvard President Claudine Gay.
Americans knew higher education practiced racist admission policies. It has long promoted racially segregated dorms and graduations. And de facto it has destroyed the First Amendment.
But the overt support for Hamas killers by the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd on a lot of campuses exposes to Americans the real moral and intellectual rot in higher education.
Democratic Socialist members of the new woke Democrat Party openly expressed ecstatic support for Hamas’s bloodwork.
Their biggest fears were not dead fellow Americans or hostages, or some 1,000 butchered Jewish civilians. Instead they were fearful that righteous Israeli retaliation might destroy the Hamas death machine.
Palestinians for years fooled naïfs in Europe and the Obama and Biden administrations into sending billions of dollars into Gaza…..
Armed dad finds naked drunk intruder throwing toys around daughter’s room: police
The couple told police that they found the suspect, identified as Alvin Ducheneaux, trashing their daughter’s unoccupied bedroom and throwing toys and clothes around the room.
Ducheneaux reportedly told the homeowner he was there to pick up clothing for himself, the Bismarck Tribune reported.
Ducheneaux was charged with Burglary, Night (Class B Felony), Criminal Mischief, Willful Damage (Class B Misdemeanor) and Disorderly Conduct, Offensive Condition (Class B Misdemeanor). He was being held in the local jail on a $5,000 cash bond.
Social security benefits are expected to jump 3.2% in 2024
The agency stated that those on Social Security will receive the increased payments on Dec. 29.
“Social Security and SSI benefits will increase in 2024, and this will help millions of people keep up with expenses,” said Kilolo Kijakazi, acting commissioner of Social Security.
This is a small boost compared to the 2023 cost of living adjustment which was 8.7% in 2023.
World News.
UK to Deploy Royal Navy Ships and Aircraft to Eastern Mediterranean to Support Israel
Royal Navy vessels and surveillance aircraft are being sent to the eastern Mediterranean to support Israel, the Prime Minister has announced.
Rishi Sunak said the deployment of the British armed forces would “support efforts to ensure regional stability and prevent further escalation” in the conflict between Tel Aviv and Gaza.
The flare-up of violence in the Middle East, ignited by a wide-ranging Hamas attack on Israel at the weekend, has already claimed at least 2,400 lives.
Rape as an Arab terrorist’s weapon
The news that some women at the Israeli music festival were raped by Hamas terrorists before they were cruelly murdered is a reminder that this is not the first time Palestinian Arab terrorists have employed sexual violence as a weapon.
Nearly a century ago, in the aftermath the Arab pogrom against Jews in Hebron in 1929, a journalist visiting one of the victims’ homes reported:
“The 12 foot-high ceiling [was] splashed with blood. The rooms looked like a slaughterhouse…the severed sexual organs and the cut-off women’s breasts…lying scattered over the floor and in the beds…[N]ot a single item had been left intact except a large black-and-white photograph of Dr. Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism. Around the picture frame the murderers had draped the blood-drenched underwear of a woman.”
Many accounts of the Arab invasion of the newborn state of Israel in 1948 have described the sexual mutilation of Jewish corpses that was discovered after Arab forces overran the Kfar Etzion bloc.
Israel Vows No End to Siege of Gaza Until Hostages Released
Israel on Thursday launched new attacks on Gaza, vowing there would be no letup in its bombardment of the Hamas-controlled territory until the militants release the estimated 150 hostages they are holding.
“Humanitarian aid to Gaza? No electrical switch will be lifted, no water hydrant will be opened, and no fuel truck will enter until the Israeli hostages are returned home,” Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz posted on X, formerly Twitter. “Humanitarian for humanitarian. And nobody should preach us morals.”
Israel ramped up preparations for a ground invasion of Gaza but said no decision had been made on moving forward with such an offensive.
Israel’s military has positioned 300,000 reservists near the Gaza border as it responds to a Hamas attack that killed at least 1,200 people in Israel.
Ex-Hamas chief calls for day of protests by Muslims for Palestinians
A former head of Hamas has called for protests across the Muslim world on Friday in support of Palestinians.
Khaled Meshaal also called on the people of countries neighbouring Israel to join the fight against the country.
“[We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday,” said Meshaal, who in 1997 survived an assassination attempt by Israel in retribution for Ḥamas’s suicide bombings.
Meshaal, who now heads the diaspora office in Qatar of the group considered a terrorist organisation by most of the West, said the governments and peoples of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt had a duty to support the Palestinians.
Ukraine updates: Russians repelled in Avdiivka
Ukraine says it has held off a Russian attack on the frontline town of Avdiivka in the eastern Donbas region.
Kyiv’s claim appears to contradict Moscow, which says its forces have improved its position near the town.
Military analysts say Russia appeared to have suffered significant losses of equipment in the area.
In other news, Romanian authorities say they found a crater from a suspected drone being used to attack a nearby Ukrainian Danube port.
Here are the headlines concerning Russia’s war in Ukraine on Thursday October 12:
Israel Bombs Damascus Airport
Israeli missiles bombed landing strips at Syria’s Damascus Airport and at its second-largest airport in Aleppo.
It is likely no coincidence that a Meraj Airlines passenger jet reportedly carrying Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian was on its way to Damascus at the time of the bombing.
European’s Visegrád 24 reported that the flight also had “several commanders of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps on board and several tons of anti-tank missiles for Hezbollah.”
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Reports that Amirabdollahian was on board are credible since flight trackers show that the Meraj flight is a jet typically reserved for Amirabdollahian’s use. But another report claims that he was on a different flight. I’ll update as more reliable information comes in. Still waiting for more sources to confirm the anti-tank weapons.
Here’s video of the strike:
Citing German responsibility for Israel’s security, Scholz offers military aid
Germany has offered military help to Israel and promised to crack down on support for the Hamas terror organization at home following the group’s devastating attack on Israel that killed over a thousand civilians, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday underlining Germany’s historical responsibility for Israel’s security.
“At this moment, there is only one place for Germany — the place at Israel’s side,” he told lawmakers. “Our own history, our responsibility arising from the Holocaust, makes it a perpetual task for us to stand up for the security of the State of Israel.”
Scholz said that Germany will issue a formal ban on activity by or in support of Hamas, which is already listed by the European Union as a terror group. He said groups such as Samidoun, which was behind the weekend pastry action, will be banned.
Chancellor urges Germans to ‘guarantee safety’ of Jewish population
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls on his compatriots to show solidarity with the country’s Jewish population and guarantee their safety, condemning incidents at pro-Palestinian rallies.
Despite a ban on such demonstrations, around a hundred people gathered in Berlin’s Neukolln district on Wednesday evening in support of the Palestinians, in a tense atmosphere surrounded by a heavy police presence.
Several dozen people with Palestinian flags attacked some demonstrators with Israeli flags, witnesses told the newspaper.
Israel pledges to wipe out Hamas; UK, U.S., German step-up support for Israel -TV7 Israel News 12.10
1) Israel has entered into the sixth day of war, since the Islamist Hamas, and its affiliated terror groups, mounted a massacre on Southern Israel.
2) Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announces that Israel has turned from defense to offense.
3) The United States, Britain and Germany step-up efforts to support Israel during its hour of need.
Peter McIlvenna Warns Of Extremist “Flare-Ups” In London Following Israel Attacks
Photos of babies being burnt, decapitated confirmed
(photo credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS)
The Jerusalem Post can now confirm based on verified photos of the bodies that the reports of babies being burnt and decapitated in Hamas’s assault on Kfar Aza are correct. May their memory be a blessing.
The photos were shown to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to Israel on Thursday by the Public Diplomacy Directorate in the Prime Minister’s Office.
Later in the day, the photos were published by the Prime Minister’s Office on Twitter.
The photos are graphic and have a content warning covering them until a button reading “show” is pressed.
https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1712471782303867144?s=20
Islamic State Flag Found on Hamas Terrorist Participating in Kibbutz Massacre
As of Thursday, Israeli authorities have confirmed the deaths of 1,300 people, many of them infants and elderly civilians.
At least 97 people remain under Hamas’s control and scores of others are missing at press time.
Beheadings, burning “infidels” alive, and forcing “Caliphate Cub” children to participate – in some cases by playing “soccer” with the heads of their victims – were not uncommon scenes in Islamic State propaganda.
“We spoke to soldiers who took part in the initial defense of the adjacent military post, who pulled this flag from the vests of one of the Hamas fighters. It seems as though the terrorists planned to raise the flag at the military post in the event that they succeeded to capture it,” the account explained.
Israel War: Survivor butchered by Hamas “Terrorist” | LiveNOW from FOX
Woman relives horrors of Hamas attacks after being butchered by Hamas terrorist back in 2010.
Israeli president has TENSE exchange with reporter over Gaza airstrikes
Israeli President Isaac Herzog sparred with the press in Jerusalem over the airstrikes in Gaza.
‘They plan to kill all Jews’: Hamas objective revealed after ‘undercover’ interview
Filmmaker Ami Horowitz says he spoke undercover to a Hamas leader who was the mastermind of many major terrorist attacks including the Passover bombing in Netanya, Israel.
Mr Horowitz claims Hamas is not looking to make peace but is instead looking to wipe out all of Israel.
Be’eri’s residents are gone, but their homes attest to the horrors they endured
KIBBUTZ BE’ERI, southern Israel — None of the residents of Be’eri were in the kibbutz when it reopened Wednesday for civilians for the first time since Hamas terrorists perpetrated a massacre here.
Some 400 survivors are staying at a hotel near the Dead Sea. At least 112 are dead, and multiple others are thought to be in Gaza as prisoners of Hamas, which sent over 100 terrorists into Be’eri alone.
But while the 1,108 residents are now gone, the abandoned homes of Be’eri speak volumes about the atrocities that occurred on the kibbutz. It used to be known mostly for its thriving printing shop and budding cultural scene, but is now a tragic testament to the devastation and cruelty of Hamas’s largest-scale attack ever on Israel.
Politics.
UNHINGED: Rubio/Graham Demand Brutal Escalation in Israel—While Critics Called Hamas-Sympathizers
Dem Congressional Staffer Shared Messages Justifying Hamas Terrorist Attack On Israel
Diala Qasem is a senior legislative assistant for Carson, including on Middle East affairs and Muslim issues, according to her own LinkedIn page.
In recent days, the Daily Caller viewed multiple posts shared on Qasem’s Instagram story which expressed sympathy for, and justification of, the Hamas slaughter of innocent Israeli civilians, including the rape of women and execution of children.
The Daily Caller asked Carson’s office, as well as Qasem directly, if the posts represent the views of the congressman and if they have further explanation to offer. Neither responded to multiple requests for comment. Qasem is also President of the Congressional Middle Eastern and North African Staff Association, according to her LinkedIn.
However, shortly after the Caller first reached out to both, Qasem’s Instagram account was changed to “private,” preventing non-followers from seeing her posts. She also added a disclaimer to her bio stating “my views are my own and do not represent any other persons or entity.” Her bio still includes “Free Palestine.”
Paul Ryan’s Three Payrolls Exposed: The Romney’s, Clinton’s, And Murdoch’s
NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS ON ISRAEL AND HOUSE SPEAKER RACE
Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) joined hosts Shaun Kraisman and Emma Rechenberg, discussing the War in Israel and the race for the House Speakership.
Then VP-Biden Emailed Brother, Son on Business More Than 29,000 Times
Biden has long alleged no knowledge of his family’s foreign businesses, as critics and House GOP investigators note that amounted to repeated lies to the American people since the start of the 2020 presidential campaign – if not potentially criminal or impeachable offenses.
“These damning numbers further confirm that there was never a wall separating the Office of the Vice President and Hunter Biden’s business endeavors,” America First Legal wrote in a statement posted to X. “In fact, there was extensive commingling between them.”
America First Legal tweeted the top line findings earlier Wednesday:
New Indictment Charges Sen. Menendez as Agent of Egypt
Federal prosecutors in New York City have rewritten their indictment against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife to charge them with conspiring to have him act as an agent of Egypt and Egyptian officials.
The superseding indictment was filed in Manhattan federal court on Thursday. It says the conspiracy occurred from January 2018 to June 2022.
The indictments said that while Menendez was chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he took several steps to secretly aid Egyptian officials.
That included ghostwriting a letter to fellow senators encouraging them to lift a hold on $300 million in aid to Egypt.
Sens. McConnell, Cotton Bill Will Freeze $6 Billion to Iran Immediately
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will introduce and seek unanimous consent to pass legislation to block Iran from accessing the $6 billion in funds that the Biden administration released in August for a prisoner swap.
Thus far, five Senate Democrats have joined the bipartisan effort, including Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; Jon Tester, D-Mont.; Jacky Rosen, D-Nev.; Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; and Bob Casey, D-Pa., the New York Post reported.
“Iran is the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism,” Cotton wrote in a statement. “In addition to funding Hamas’ devastating terrorist attacks against Israel, the regime’s proxies have attacked dozens of American targets in the region in recent years.
Bartiromo: This admin is having a hard time admitting Iran is behind this… Why?
A ‘Mornings with Maria’ panel discusses the Biden administration saying that there is no direct link to Iran following the Hamas attack on Israel, the calls to freeze the $6 billion from the prisoner swap deal and the intelligence failure.
Commentary.
‘Evil on Another Level’: Greg Laurie Explains Satanic Roots of Israel Hamas Chaos
Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, decrying the “shocking and horrifying” scenes coming out of Israel after Hamas’ deadly terror attack.
“To see these images of civilians being targeted, women … even elderly people who have survived the Holocaust, and then children — most recently, hearing about babies that were murdered and decapitated,” Laurie said. “This is evil on another level.”
“Hamas has said repeatedly, publicly, ‘We want to wipe Israel off the face of the map,'” Laurie said. “It’s pretty hard to negotiate with that kind of mentality.” The level of depravity and atrocity, he said, hasn’t been seen since the Nazis during World War II.
Evil Invades Israel
On today’s show, the Sekulow team discusses the continuing conflict in Israel, ongoing efforts by the ACLJ to support Israel, and much more. The show also features interviews with Senator Ted Cruz (TX), former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell.
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