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October 11, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Health
News

New Study Finds Trump-Backed Hydroxychloroquine Was an Effective Covid Treatment After All.

Coronavirus patients treated with a combination of hydroxychloroquine – furiously denounced by the media and medical establishment after then-President Donald Trump revealed he was taking it – and azithromycin enjoyed better survival rates, a study has revealed.

The study, published in the scientific journal New Microbes and New Infections, evaluated “the efficacy and safety of a treatment protocol with [a] standard dose of hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection” by comparing the 28-day mortality rate of 352 patients treated with the drugs to a contemporary control group of 3,533 patients who received standard care.

Researchers found a “statistically significant reduction in crude mortality rate at 28 days was observed in the [hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin] group” – emphasizing their findings “do not support the current negative recommendations regarding this treatment.”

Donald Trump, who stuck by his belief in hydroxychloroquine, based on the testimony of frontline doctors, despite pressure to withdraw his support, long argued the animus against the drug was motivated purely by the fact he had endorsed it.

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Coronavirus patients treated with a combination of hydroxychloroquine – furiously denounced by the media and medical establishment after then-President Donald Trump revealed he was taking it – and azithromycin enjoyed better survival rates, a study has revealed. show more
October 11, 2023
Jake Welch
News
TECH

Utah Is Suing TikTok.

Utah has filed a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the Chinese Communist Party-owned social media app uses its technology and algorithms to promote harmful content to children and minors.

Governor of Utah Spencer Cox announced the legal action on Tuesday afternoon in an effort to stop TikTok’s “illegal business practices” and to implement stronger protections for children across the state. Utah is also seeking corrective action and damages well in excess of $300,000.

“We will no longer tolerate TikTok misleading parents that its app is safe for children,” Governor Cox explained before adding, “Social media companies must be held responsible for the harms they are causing. The experts… all agree that social media is affecting our children’s mental health and it’s time to intervene.”

The lawsuit claims TikTok uses tools such as “filter bubbles” to feed consumers more extreme videos to pique their interest and keep them on the app as well as “infinite scroll,” which always provides a video tailored to the user’s interests.

“TikTok directly profited from addicting children to the app and continued to capitalize on the addictive nature of the app despite knowing the harm that addiction would cause Utah’s children,” the lawsuit states.

Utah is now the third state after Arkansas and Indiana to sue TikTok. Montana is pushing for an outright ban.

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Utah has filed a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the Chinese Communist Party-owned social media app uses its technology and algorithms to promote harmful content to children and minors. show more
October 11, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

EU Spent $100M On Pipelines That Hamas Turned Into Rockets.

The European Union (EU) spent $100 million of taxpayer funds on building over 30 miles of water pipelines for Palestinians in Gaza, despite Hamas having bragged about their ability to turn the piping materials into makeshift rockets online.

The EU participated in a number of initiatives between 2015 and 2022 to ensure Palestinians have fresh water, including working alongside UNICEF to install an 11-mile pipeline to Khan Yunus and Raha in southern Gaza.

Footage emerged, in 2021, of Hamas fighters digging up the pipes and fashioning them into rockets to launch over the border into Israel. Despite this, the EU bankrolled another 10 miles of pipelines in 2022.

The main missile used by Hamas – an internationally recognized “terrorist organization” – is the Qassam rocket, which is assembled using industrial piping along with chemicals and explosives.

“There must be prudent security assessments before giving taxpayers’ money to Palestinian organizations for infrastructure that can be utilized for military ends by Hamas terrorists,” argued Frank Furedi, executive director of the MCC Brussels think tank.

“Those running EU diplomacy are naive,” he added.

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The European Union (EU) spent $100 million of taxpayer funds on building over 30 miles of water pipelines for Palestinians in Gaza, despite Hamas having bragged about their ability to turn the piping materials into makeshift rockets online. show more

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The Qassam rocket is no relation to yours truly, I assure you, though I do have a funny story to tell from when I was in Sderot in 2012
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October 11, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Media
News

The BBC Won’t Call Hamas ‘Terrorists’ Because They Think It Means They’re ‘Picking Sides’… Which They Do On Literally Every Other Topic Anyway.

The BBC has defended its decision to refer to Hamas terrorists as “militants” amid criticism from Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, declaring it is “an editorially independent broadcaster whose job is to explain precisely what is happening ‘on the ground’ so our audiences can make their own judgment.”

Shapps had said the BBC’s behavior was “verging on disgraceful… they’ll always say, well, there’s two sides [but] what Hamas have done, as a proscribed terrorist organisation, meaning that they are illegal in Britain, it’s illegal to support them, is to have gone out and slaughtered innocent people, babies, festival-goers, pensioners.”

“They are not freedom fighters, they are not militants, they are pure and simple terrorists and it’s remarkable to go to the BBC website and still see them talking about gunmen and militants and not calling them terrorists,” he added.

BBC presenter John Simpson, speaking in a personal capacity, spelled out the broadcaster’s position clearly in a post on X (formerly Twitter), claiming “British politicians know perfectly well why the BBC avoids the word ‘terrorist’, and over the years plenty of them have privately agreed with it.”

“Calling someone a terrorist means you’re taking sides and ceasing to treat the situation with due impartiality,” he said, insisting “ranting” is “not what we do.”

The BBC does appear to “take sides” in terms of its language in many other areas, however, referring to groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaeda as “terrorists”, for example.

BBC partiality is also clear in other areas, with the broadcaster referring to abortion advocates by their preferred “pro-choice” terminology while refusing to refer to pro-life advocates as anything but “anti-abortion,” for example.

Every Briton who watches lives television, even if none of it is BBC content, is forced to fund the broadcaster through a license fee.

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The BBC has defended its decision to refer to Hamas terrorists as "militants" amid criticism from Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, declaring it is "an editorially independent broadcaster whose job is to explain precisely what is happening 'on the ground' so our audiences can make their own judgment." show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
I had to go with the long and sardonic headline on this one, which is rare for me
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October 11, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

DATA: Americans Don’t Seem to Mind Who Trump Picks as VP.

A strong majority of former President Donald Trump‘s grassroots supporters – 57 percent – are not concerned about his choice for his running mate in the 2024 presidential election, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports survey.

Rasmussen pollsters offered those surveyed a number of options for Trump’s potential Vice President, including whether they would be more inclined to vote for the 45th President if he chose a female, black, or non-political running mate. No option received more than 15 percent support.

Only 13 percent answered they were more likely to vote for Trump if he selected a female candidate. Eight percent said choosing a black person would make them more likely to support Trump next year. And a further 15 percent argued they were more likely to vote for him if he chose a “non-politician as his vice presidential running mate.” The remaining seven percent answered “not sure.”

The former President himself has toyed with the idea of a female vice president in his next administration, telling an interviewer in September, “I like the concept, but we’re going to pick the best person.”

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A strong majority of former President Donald Trump's grassroots supporters – 57 percent – are not concerned about his choice for his running mate in the 2024 presidential election, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports survey. show more
October 11, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Economy
News
World

EU Split Over Palestinian Aid.

The European Union’s pledge to suspend €691 million ($728 million) worth of aid to Palestinian territories following the Hamas terror raid on Israel appears to have unravelled, with the governments of France and other EU member-states voicing public opposition.

Hungary’s Oliver Varhelyi, the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, had said all payments to Palestinian territories, comprised of Hamas-controlled Gaza and the West Bank, were “immediately suspended” due to the “scale of terror and brutality against Israel and its people” over the weekend, which Varhelyi called a “turning point”.

France, which along with Germany is the European Union’s dominant power, appears to disagree, however, with Emmanuel Macron’s government announcing on Tuesday it is “not in favour of suspending aid which directly benefits the Palestinian populations” and has “made this known to the EU Commission.”

The Irish government, too, seemed surprised by Verhelyi’s announcement, saying: “Our understanding is that there is no legal basis for a unilateral decision of this kind by an individual Commissioner and we do not support a suspension of aid.”

They were backed up by Belgium, Luxembourg, and Spain.

Notably, Verhelyi put out his announcement through his own social media, not the European Commission’s central communications office. The European Commission now says “[t]here will be no suspension of payments” – though it claims a review of the aid portfolio will still be carried out.

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The European Union's pledge to suspend €691 million ($728 million) worth of aid to Palestinian territories following the Hamas terror raid on Israel appears to have unravelled, with the governments of France and other EU member-states voicing public opposition. show more

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I said after the European Commission announced aid to Palestine was suspended after the terror attacks that it was “a big step for the Europeans, considering their ability to morally obfuscate in such situations
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October 11, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Live In a Mud or Grass Hut to Save the Planet, Says UN.

Humans across the world have to “move aggressively” from carbonized building materials, such as concrete, glass, and steel, when building their houses to so-called eco-friendly, regenerative materials to save the planet and combat climate change, suggests a report recently published by the United Nations (UN).

The German government-funded report argues that the world has to stop extracting and producing raw materials as “[t]he built environment sector is by far the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, responsible for at least 37 [percent] of the global emissions.”

Instead, houses should be constructed out of more environmentally friendly, “bio-based” materials, such as bamboo and agricultural and forest detritus, meaning sticks, leaves, mud, and whatever else can be scavenged from the ground. The UN justifies the radical switch by claiming in the report that “[b]efore the 20th century, the vast majority of cultures built large buildings and cities out of indigenous earthen, stone and bio-based materials – timber, cane, thatch, and bamboo.”

The UN accepts deep within the report that a shift from carbonized materials is likely to have “unintended consequences” to both ecosystems and labor practices, with major gains and losses inevitable as industries transition. Yet, the organization is willing to accept those risks provided it moves the world towards the international goal of “net zero.”

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Humans across the world have to "move aggressively" from carbonized building materials, such as concrete, glass, and steel, when building their houses to so-called eco-friendly, regenerative materials to save the planet and combat climate change, suggests a report recently published by the United Nations (UN). show more
October 11, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
World

BREAKING: Northern Front Opens Against Israel as Hezbollah Launches Attacks.

A new front appears to have opened against Israel as the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group launches strikes against the Jewish State.

UPDATE: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have confirmed the “large-scale” intrusion into Israeli airspace was a “false alarm”. Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said “[t]here was an error, and we are investigating it – we will check if it was a technical fault or human error.” Original article continues below: 

Air raid sirens have sounded across the north of the country amid reports of dozens of drones and possibly paraglider-borne infiltrators entering Israeli airspace.

Ma’alot Tarshiha issued a terrorist infiltration alert, but later cancelled it and issued an all-clear. Citizens have been advised to continue to shelter in reinforced rooms, however, as the status of the supposed drones, which set off dozens of alerts, is still to be determined.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously said they received a report “regarding a suspected infiltration from Lebanon into Israeli airspace.”

Smaller-scale skirmishes and exchanges of artillery and missiles have been taking place between the IDF, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group over the last several days, with casualties on both sides.

This story is developing…

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A new front appears to have opened against Israel as the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group launches strikes against the Jewish State. show more
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October 11, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Crime
News
Politics

Biden Was Being Grilled on Classified Documents During Hamas’ Israel Attacks.

Joe Biden was being interviewed as part of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into the discovery of classified documents in his Delaware home and private office at the Penn Biden Center, formerly run by Antony Blinken, as Hamas was unleashing an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.

The White House has confirmed the 80-year-old Democrat was answering questions about the presence of classified documents in an office closet and in boxes near the spot in his garage where he kept his Corvette over Sunday and Monday, apparently voluntarily.

Biden’s possession of classified documents has received relatively little legacy media attention, and has been investigated much less aggressively than Donald Trump keeping similar material at his Mar-a-Lago estate – despite the fact Biden, as a former vice president and senator, did not have the same authority to declassify sensitive material as Trump.

The timing of Biden’s interview, in the midst of the international crisis following a huge incursion by Hamas terrorists into Israel and a devastating Israeli response, is unusual.

Trump has accused Biden of taking his eye of the ball in the Middle East, empowering state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and “tossing Israel to the bloodthirsty terrorists and jihadists”.

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Joe Biden was being interviewed as part of Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigation into the discovery of classified documents in his Delaware home and private office at the Penn Biden Center, formerly run by Antony Blinken, as Hamas was unleashing an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. show more

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October 11, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
World

Mayor of America’s First Muslim Majority City Council Declares ‘No Peace’ With Israel.

The Mayor of Hamtramck – America’s first Muslim-majority city council – Amer Ghalib, responded to the past week’s events in the Middle East with a pro-Hamas message insisting: “Peace can never coexist with occupation and injustice, anywhere and at anytime، no matter how strong the oppressor or how weak the oppressed is!”

Mayor Ghalib, who became the Hamtramck’s first mayor without a Polish background for a century in 2021, added there “are enough lessons from history for some people to learn this principle.”

The Michigan city has undergone a radical demographic transformation due to mass migration – Ghalib is himself a Yemeni migrant.

Like Ghalib, most of the city councilmen have a history of posting anti-Israel or outright anti-Semitic content online. Councilman Khalil Refai, for example, has referred to Israelis as “Zionist criminals” and called on Allah to help Muslims “plant firmly our feet and give us victory over the disbelieving people” in Israel. Councilman Mohammed Hassan, meanwhile, has shared images depicting Jewish people as monkeys, and denounced Israel as “the real terrorist!!!”

There are similar issues elsewhere in Michigan, with Dearborn’s Mayor Abdullah Hammoud responding to the Hamas attack with a long social media post suggesting the mass murder of Israeli civilians was the “inevitable” consequence of the “occupation”.

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The Mayor of Hamtramck – America's first Muslim-majority city council – Amer Ghalib, responded to the past week's events in the Middle East with a pro-Hamas message insisting: "Peace can never coexist with occupation and injustice, anywhere and at anytime، no matter how strong the oppressor or how weak the oppressed is!" show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
I wrote about Hamtramck at length in my 2017 book No Go Zones
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