Despite War, Israel Ranks 5th in World Happiness Report

Despite five months of war with Hamas, Israel ranked fifth in the 2024 World Happiness Report.


The annual report ranked the happiness of 143 countries based on life evaluation, positive emotions, and negative emotions, among other factors.

Anat Panti, a happiness policy researcher at Bar-Ilan University University in Ramat Gan, explained, “Even this year, which was one of the most difficult in the country’s history, Israel is ranked in the top five of the international happiness index.

The reason for this lies in the fact that life satisfaction, the index by which the level of happiness is measured, is a stable index over time and refers more to the characteristics of the country itself such as the strength of the economy, the degree of social involvement, and the health services in the country, than to fleeting feelings.”

Finland was ranked as the happiest country for the seventh consecutive year. Israel finished behind Denmark, Iceland and Sweden.

Afghanistan edged Lebanon as the least happy country.

“In order to give a more accurate picture of the state of happiness in all countries, the editors of the report refer to the average life satisfaction in the last three years when calculating the ranking. Therefore, Israel’s ranking in fifth place in the happiness report marks the stability in life satisfaction in Israel over the last few years, and not only in this one,” Panti explained.

“For example, even during the Corona period, which was traumatic all over the world, it was still possible to see that the top ten of the global happiness ranking includes more or less the same countries every year.”

The annual report is based on data from US market research company Gallup, and analyzed by international experts led by the University of Oxford.

In addition to self-assessed evaluations of life satisfaction, analysts also assess each country’s healthy life expectancy, freedom, GDP per capita, social support and more.

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SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Actually Argues That First Amendment is Getting in The Way of Government Censoring Speech

“My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” — First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.


That is, quite literally, the very point of the Constitutional amendment.

DEI on the Supreme Court. Not qualified, not smart.

The First amendment is not obtuse, nuanced or complicated.

She’s a moron.

Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘concerned’ First Amendment is ‘hamstringing’ government from censorship

By: Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner, March 18, 2024:

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson raised concerns that the First Amendment may stand in the way of government censorship in unique times.

In Monday’s oral arguments for Murthy v. Missouri, Jackson appeared to be skeptical that the government could not censor social media posts in “the most important time periods.”

“My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods,” Jackson said to Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga.

“You seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,” Jackson said. “So, can you help me? Because I’m really worried about that because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances, from the government’s perspective, and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”

Aguiñaga said his view was that the government should intervene in certain situations, but it has to do so by following the First Amendment.

“Our position is not that the government can’t interact with the platforms there. They can and they should in certain circumstances like that, that present such dangerous issues for society and especially young people,” Aguiñaga said in response. “But the way they do that has to be in compliance with the First Amendment. And I think that means they can give them all the true information that the platform needs and ask to amplify that.”

Jackson said a “once-in-a-lifetime pandemic” or other emergencies would provide grounds for the government to censor social media posts that are misinformative.

“I’m interested in your view that the context doesn’t change the First Amendment principles,” she said. “I understood our First Amendment jurisprudence to require heightened scrutiny of government restrictions of speech, but not necessarily a total prohibition when you’re talking about a compelling interest of the government to ensure, for example, that the public has accurate information in the context of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.”

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Washington Supreme Court Rules That Bar Exam No Longer A Requirement Because It’s Too Hard For People of Color

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


The Supreme Court of the State of Washington has ruled that prospective lawyers will no longer be required to pass a bar exam to practice in the state.

The decision was reportedly made because the bar exam was too difficult for “examinees of color.”

Hardcore racist policy. Washington Supreme Court is actually saying people of color are too dumb?

The high bigotry of low expectations.

Who would want a lawyer who couldn’t pass the bar whatever race, creed or colour?

Washington Supreme Court Rules That Bar Exam No Longer A Requirement To Practice Law, Cites Impact On “Marginalized Groups”

By: Natasha Biase, The Publica, March 18, 2024

The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that the bar exam is no longer a requirement for prospective lawyers. On Friday, The Bar Licensure Task Force explained that the bar is “minimally effective for ensuring competency” and “disproportionally and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from becoming practicing attorneys.”

According to The Spokesman-Review, after appointing the task force in 2020 to assess “disproportionate impacts on examinees of color and first-generation examinees,” the courts agreed to substitute the exam with “experiential-learning alternatives.”

The task force was made up of over 50 groups of representatives and “examined the character and fitness process for lawyer licensure.”

Although students have historically interned under another lawyer before becoming attorneys, they still had to pass the bar to get their license to practice. Under the new guidelines, lawyers can forgo the bar, first administered in Delaware in 1783, by participating in a six-month apprenticeship and finishing three courses.

Additionally, students must complete a minimum of three hours of legal work per week and 12 skills credits as licensed legal interns, garnering up to 500 hours of law experience before graduation to complete their portfolios.

The eligibility to become a licensed law practitioner will also extend to law clerks even if they haven’t finished law school by completing 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern and “completing standardized educational materials and benchmarks under the guidance of a mentoring attorney.”

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How Very Fitting: Satan Endorses the Palestinian Cause

When Satan endorses your cause, you just might not have the moral high ground, but it is certain that no lessons have been learned from a recent imbroglio in Phoenix. A drag performer who calls herself (that’s the pronoun in the news stories, but you never know what it might mean these days; she does, however, appear to be female in her video about this event) “Daddy Satan” was set to be the featured performer at a “Drag Show for Palestine” in Phoenix on Saturday evening, but this gala display of unintentionally revealing virtue-signaling was canceled after a “backlash.” Why, that’s staggering. Who could possibly have objected to such a splendid display of leftist lunacy?

CBS 12 in Phoenix reported Monday that the sad news of the cancellation came from “Daddy Satan” herself. Ms. Satan, who says she is a “‘Proud Biracial, Pansexual, Chameleon’ Drag Demon,” had been scheduled to perform at an event that would also have featured the cutting-edge cultural trailblazers and stunning and brave drag queens “Pissunderstood” and “Jacon The Box.” This celebration of depravity, perversion and insanity was going to kick off at six PM on Saturday at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore in Phoenix, and was billed as a “night of Drag and Community as we gather at Palabras Book Store in solidarity with Palestine.”

Alas, the voices of what the left calls hatred, heteronormativity and racism, that is, the voices of common sense and sanity, spoiled the party. Satan first thanked everyone who had been involved in the event and then dived into full-throttle victimhood mode: “To everyone facing bullying as a result I am so so very sorry! My intentions were to raise awareness, bring joy to activists, and express our grief/anger/and hopes within community. And I never intended for anyone to get caught in the crossfires of hate, especially @palabras_bookstore – I can’t thank them enough for all they’ve done and I’m so sorry for the way people are throwing hate towards them.”

Ms. Satan went on to tell address those whom she called “my lovely Drag entertainers,” saying: “you were meant to help people process this terrible time in history and give us hope and joy so that we may all join in on and continue the fight for Justice. You all don’t deserve the hate that has come about and for that I am truly sorry.” What “hate” did Daddy Satan and her cohorts actually receive? She doesn’t mention anything actually illegal, such as threats. It seems that all they got was some pushback about how insane the event really was.

Satan addressed that “hate” forthrightly: “A majority of the comments were the same,” she said. “A lot of them were ‘why don’t you try this drag show in Palestine and see what they think of you?’ I don’t need to go to another country to see how they may treat queers. The way they treat queer people in America is terrifying enough.” Responding to people who were apparently telling her that the prevailing religion in “Palestine” wouldn’t exactly welcome her and her ilk, she insisted magnanimously that “anyone can have a different belief system than me. People can even hate queers all they want – but I will never condone genocide just because someone is different. And that is why I will continue on to the next big thing. A FREE PALESTINE MEANS A FREE WORLD.”

Well, that’s swell. But it’s not just that the Gazans “have a different belief system.” Islam mandates death for homosexuality, in accord with the command of Muhammad: “Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Lot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462). Recently a Muslim cleric in Britain said that Allah had not granted victory to the Palestinians because there were too many homosexuals at pro-Palestinian rallies in the West.

In light of that, Ms. Satan’s Drag Show for Palestine was not only wrongheaded; it was downright stupid, as is the organization “Queers for Palestine.” It was, however, refreshingly forthright that a drag performer calling herself “Daddy Satan” would come out so strongly for the Palestinian cause. After all, those who are calling for a ceasefire today are calling for Hamas to survive, and if Hamas survives, there will be many more massacres of Israelis on the order of the savagery we saw on Oct. 7. Satan endorses Palestine? How very fitting.

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Supreme Court Lets Texas Enforce Law Allowing Police To Arrest And Deport Illegal Immigrants

The Supreme Court allowed Texas’ law enabling local police to arrest illegal migrants to take effect Tuesday.

After extending a pause on the law multiple times, the Supreme Court allowed Texas’ SB 4 to take effect Tuesday, declining the Biden administration’s effort to halt it while litigation continues. The Department of Justice (DOJ) first filed its lawsuit against Texas to prevent enforcement of the law in January.

“The Court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal-state balance of power and sow chaos, when the only court to consider the law concluded that it is likely unconstitutional,” Justice Sonia Sotomyaor wrote in a dissent joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. “This law implicates serious issues that are subject to ongoing political debate, and Texas’s novel scheme requires careful and reasoned consideration in the courts to determine which provisions may be unconstitutional.”

Justice Elena Kagan also wrote in a dissent that she would not have allowed the law to take effect.

U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra, a Reagan appointee, blocked Texas’ law from taking effect in February, finding it “threatens the fundamental notion that the United States must regulate immigration with one voice.” The Fifth Circuit issued an administrative stay early March allowing the law to take effect while it considered the appeal, prompting the Biden administration to file an emergency application with the Supreme Court.

“So far as I know, this Court has never reviewed the decision of a court of appeals to enter—or not enter—an administrative stay,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in a concurrence joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. “I would not get into the business.”

“Texas’s motion for a stay pending appeal was fully briefed in the Fifth Circuit by March 5, almost two weeks ago,” Barrett wrote. “Merits briefing on Texas’s challenge to the District Court’s injunction of S. B. 4 is currently underway. If a decision does not issue soon, the applicants may return to this Court.”

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Good or Bad: You Decide

An unpleasant life experience…


It’s not likely good news when your doorbell is rung at 2 in the morning.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Two days ago our lawn crew came to Spring Clean our yard of pine needles, pine cones, etc. There was a substantial pile of debris that they piled on our concrete basketball patio.

I have carefully burned similar debris over 60 times in the last 15 years. I wait for a calm day when the wind is less than 5 MPH and blowing in the right direction. The fire is kept low and always 20+ feet from anything flammable. I keep a hose on hand in case anything unexpected happens. It hasn’t in fifteen years.

FYI, when I was younger and still living at my family home, the house caught fire in the middle of the night (due to a TV malfunction), and was totally destroyed. No one got hurt, but we lost almost everything. As such I’m hyper-sensitive to fires.

Yesterday, was a nice calm day that met all the criteria, so I burned the debris. Before I went to bed I did a final check: the wind was still low, blowing in the right direction, and nothing but some ashes remained. There was no smoke or noticeable embers.

However, about two hours later, the wind suddenly reversed direction, and started blowing quite hard! I didn’t realize this as I was asleep.

So the doorbell rang at 2 AM last night (3-19-24). I woke up from a deep sleep and went to the front door. A thought crossed my mind: should I even open the door to some unknown stranger at this time of night? I did anyway.

A man stood there and shouted: there is a large fire next to your house! I’ve already called the fire department. I said OK, TY — there’s a connected hose next to the house.

I got my outdoor clothes on. Between our home and the next-door neighbor’s there are several trees, and a variety of wild plants. Here is a daytime pix, from the street.

The building near the water is a 3/4 scale play house, about 50 feet from the fence. The fire was coming away from that direction.

Anyway, I didn’t have time to take a pix so this is a stock photo that looks somewhat like what I saw when I went outside in the pitch dark (our situation was worse).

I then became aware that the wind was blowing a LOT — like 40 MPH! Hundreds of embers were flying with the wind. The 20-foot buffer had been breached, as embers were flying 30 feet or more…

My initial assessment concluded that (due to the wind direction) our house was not threatened, but the next-door neighbor’s was. I took the hose and started spraying — which did make a difference. I knew then we had a chance of being successful here.

The other guy went to see if the next-door house was catching fire, as fires were flaring up on their property. Fortunately, their driveway acted as a fire break, and the house hadn’t caught fire yet. He looked for a hose on their property, and found one — but their exterior faucet had been shut off. No one was home there.

He brought the hose he found there, connected it to mine, and worked on the fire from the neighbor’s direction. We have a 50-gallon rain barrel that was full (on the far side of our house), so I started filling up some two-gallon buckets, carrying them back, and dumping them on the worst spots. Many times.

In the meantime, several fire department trucks had arrived. By that time, the two of us had succeeded in reducing the fires. The firemen took over, using our hose, and finished the job. They never had to get out their main hose.

It seemed longer, but from when the doorbell rang, it took about an hour to extinguish the fire. The firemen then asked me if I could take it from there, and I said yes, I would keep an eye on things, as the wind was still blowing strongly. Then they left.

The person who rang our bell then told me that he had to go. I said I wanted to give him a donation ($100) for his help. He declined. I insisted, he refused — and then he simply disappeared into the dark night. I have no idea who he is…

We live on a short, dead-end street. This guy was not a neighbor, as I know them all. Who would be going down a short dead-end street at 2 AM? All I know is that things would have been MUCH worse if he hadn’t been going by, and stopped to help.

There are several takeaways, like no matter what the wind situation is, I’ll drown the ashes before going to bed. (BTW, I didn’t as it was never a problem in the prior 60± times, and by letting the ashed continue to cook, the next morning about half of the remaining ashes were gone.)

Another is that despite the very threatening situation, the only loss we had was to several parts of our wood fence that encircles the yard. Here is a sample pix, of just one section, from this morning.

There is a substantial amount of ground cover that is blackened, but with Spring here, in a month or so probably none if it will be noticed.

Of course I lost a good night sleep, and one eye feels scratchy — probably from my being immersed in the smoke for too long. Hopefully it is temporary.

What’s the Big Picture takeaway? On the one hand, such a fire was certainly BAD news. On the other hand, this stranger just appearing (and then disappearing) was certainly GOOD news.

I’m an optimist and a half-glass-full person.

I’m a believer in God, and that He can choose to step in whenever He deems it appropriate. I choose to believe that is what happened here.

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‘Almost Unhinged’: Victor Davis Hanson Lays Out Issues With Media’s Coverage On Out-Of-Context ‘Bloodbath’ Remarks

Hoover Institute senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson detailed issues Monday on Fox News with the media’s out-of-context coverage of former President Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” remarks.

Hanson appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” to discuss the coverage of Trump’s remarks made over the weekend that it would be a “bloodbath for the country” if Biden was reelected in reference to the threat he believes the Biden Administration poses to the auto industry. Fox host Laura Ingraham asked Hanson about the “seriousness” of the issues, adding that the media has continuously taken the former president’s words out of context and claimed that he was escalating violence. 

“It’s serious because it shows you that these people are in free fall,” Hanson said. “They are almost unhinged because they have tried to destroy Donald Trump through lawfare and indictments are not working. They tried to get him off the ballot. They tried to bankrupt him and ruin him psychologically, physically, and financially – that hasn’t worked. They look at the issues that are important to all of us, Laura, the border, crime, inflation, what happened in Afghanistan, two wars that broke out on the Biden watch, energy, and they can’t run on any of them because they have been an ungodly disaster.”

“Then they look at the candidate themselves, and he is not able to function as a normal 21st-century candidate,” he added. “They look at the vice president. So this frustration builds up. And they just lash out and they – they make it worse. They are like an addict – they don’t understand that the fixation is destroying them and destroying their popularity, their theme, and message. But they can’t stop, they’re so obsessed. I’ve never seen anything like this before.”

Following Trump’s remarks on Saturday at an Ohio campaign rally, coverage of the former president’s “bloodbath” line circulated online. Alongside the corporate media’s coverage, Biden’s campaign team posted a nine-second clip of the remark without providing context to viewers that the former president was referring to the auto industry.

Trump took to social media Monday to hit back against the backlash he received, clarifying the context of the comment.

“I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry,” Trump wrote. “The United Auto Workers, but not their leadership, fully understand what I mean.”

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Interview with Ronald Reagan Leadership Award winner Dena DeCamp & Polk County, FL Executive Committee Member in Dissent TV

Dena DeCamp gives her wide ranging views on women, the Presidential Primary in Florida, her thoughts about the 2024 Presidential, and who will succeed President Donald J. Trump after serving as the 47th POTUS.

Dena provides a woman’s perspective on the economy, to the border crisis, to those issues near and dear to all American patriots.

Dena is a business woman and understands how this economy is harming her, her customers and her employees.

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ABOUT DENA DECAMP

Dena Decamp has a reputation for working hard. Dena had her first job at 14 and her first business, Helen’s Uniform Store, when she was 23. Dena has been building a custom embroidery business in S. Lakeland, for the last 20 years.

Dena joined the Polk County Republican Executive Committee in 2006, became Vice Chairman in 2008 under Chairman Gene Roberts. Since then, she has held duties within the REC as Voter Registration chair, EventsChairandhas run the Polk County campaign HQ from 2010until 2020.

Dena joined the local Republican Women’s Clubin1996 and was elected President of the RWC. From2009-2014, she was president of Republican Women Federated of Lakeland served as volunteer, team leader and field director for several campaigns. In 2014, Florida Gov. Rick Scott presented DeCamp with the Republican Party of Florida Volunteer of the Year Award.

Decamp was elected president of the Florida Federation of Republican Women after serving as 1st and 2nd vice presidents and in several other states. In 2016, the Trump campaign asked FFRW President Dena DeCamp to help rally women to the Trump ticket. Dena gave speeches at 4of the central Florida Trump rallies – Tampa, Kissimmee, Daytona and Lakeland in addition to being on various live radio shows, encouraging women to vote for Donald Trump. Dena was honored to be an Elector for Donald Trump and attended the RNC Convention for Presidential candidate Donald J Trump in Cleveland, OH in 2016.

Florida Republican leader Dena Stebbins Decamp was awarded the prestigious Ronald Reagan Leadership Award in 2017 during the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) 39th Biennial Convention

The award was established by the NFRW in 2005 to recognize the outstanding leadership of one state president and is presented every two years at the biennial convention.

Decamp and four other state presidents were selected as nominees based on overall leadership and initiation of new programs, increases in membership, participation in national programs, and excellence in public relations and campaign e orts.

Dena DeCamp currently serves on the POLK REC as Chair of the Events Committee, Fundraising committee and assists the Membership Committee chairman.

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JOSH HAMMER: Donald Trump Has A Clear Path To Victory. Will He Take It?

Following this week’s primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have both attained enough delegates to be their respective parties’ presidential nominees this fall.

Barring some sort of unforeseen event — a debilitating hospitalization, an ultra-expedited criminal prosecution, or a convention floor revolt — we will thus get a rematch of the 2020 presidential election.

For the many Americans who are neither Trump enthusiasts nor card-carrying Democratic partisans, this choice at the ballot box may be less than fully enticing. But for those patriots who still love this country, warts and all and in spite of our ruinous current trajectory and decadence, it is imperative that Trump secures a second presidential term.

It really is that simple.

You may admire Trump’s willingness to challenge conventional orthodoxies and his instinctual nationalism; or maybe you think he is an unprincipled politician and an obnoxious boor, to boot. Perhaps you believe Trump is now being persecuted by a weaponized prosecutorial apparatus; or you might have deep qualms about voting for someone found guilty of a crime by a jury of his peers.

But whatever it is you think about the polarizing 45th president of the United States, it doesn’t really matter. The reality is the Democratic Party in its fetid current form is wholly unfit to govern the local assisted living facility — to say nothing of the greatest country in the world. And whoever once said American elections don’t present a binary choice is a moron; that is precisely what they do. 

Patriots of all stripes must therefore band together to get Trump across the finish line this November. Trump can certainly make that task easier (or harder) based on how he runs his campaign this year. Here is what he should do.

Since Trump is the first former president to run for a non-consecutive additional term since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, his campaign is somewhat anomalous. Most challengers to an incumbent president seeking reelection can only talk about what they will do once they are in office and how that agenda differs from the incumbent’s record. But Trump already served a full term; he has  a record. What’s more, that term was just a few years ago; most voters remember it well.

The key to Trump’s reelection this fall, then, is to make the straightforward case that his term was demonstrably better for the median American citizen than Biden’s term has been.

On the economy, Biden has presided over the worst inflation in four decades, declining real wages, a formal recession and a historic supply chain crisis. Trump, by contrast, oversaw a generally flourishing pre-COVID economy: The stock market soaredinflation was generally subdued, America became a net exporter of oil and natural gas for the first time ever, and the black unemployment rate even reached the lowest it has been since that statistic was first measured.

On the border, Biden has presided over the worst crisis in American history: Endless streams of unknown illegal aliens have flooded over, leading to a massive strain on municipalities’ resources, skyrocketing violent crime, depressed wages for working-class Americans and the mass importation of terrorism-implicating “special interest aliens.” Trump, by contrast, may not have finished construction of the border wall, but illegal immigration was orders of magnitude lower than it is today due in no small part to the prudent measures he implemented, such as Remain in Mexico.

On the world stage, Vladimir Putin did not march into Ukraine under Trump (indeed, it is curious that Putin invaded Crimea during the Obama presidency in 2014 and then waited patiently until the next Democratic president to invade again), and under Trump, Hamas did not infiltrate Israel and kill the most Jews in a single day since the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Iran was on the brink of economic catastrophe by the end of Trump’s term due to his administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign; under Biden, the Islamic Republic has been “maximally emboldened” to sow the seeds of jihad all over the Middle East.

For all the talk of Trump’s “chaos,” there was not a single major war abroad during his presidency.

The 2024 presidential campaign is going to get ugly. Democrats have barely commenced the advertising onslaught that is to come, wherein they will depict Trump as a Mafia-like thug and shamelessly compare Jan. 6, 2021, to 9/11.

Trump’s best chance this fall is to ignore the noise and prove, contrary to the smear campaigns, that he is the superior candidate in terms of competence, stability and sanity. He has the record to prove it.

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Lebanese Muslim caught at border says he’s Hezb’allah jihadi, ‘I’m going to try to make a bomb’

When will Old Joe and his henchmen invite Basel Bassel Ebbadi to the White House?

Illegal migrant from Lebanon caught at border admitted he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping ‘to make a bomb’ — and was headed for NY

by Jennie Taer, New York Post, March 17, 2024:

A Lebanese migrant who was caught sneaking over the border admitted he’s a member of Hezbollah, he hoped to make a bomb, and his destination was New York, The Post can reveal.

Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was caught by the US Border Patrol on March 9 near El Paso, Texas. While in custody, he was asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied, “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” according to a Border Patrol document exclusively obtained by The Post.

But Ebbadi later claimed in an interview that he had been trying to flee Lebanon and Hezbollah because he “didn’t want to kill people” and said “once you’re in, you can never get out,” according to internal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents.

Ebbadi said in a sworn interview after his arrest that he had trained with Hezbollah for seven years and served as an active member guarding weapons locations for another four years, the documents show.

Ebbadi’s training focused on “jihad” and killing people “that was not Muslim,” he said….

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The Toxic Fruit of Reformed Theology: Part Two — Two theological Butchers Origen and Tertullian

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”  ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, on Hitler’s evil.

“The devil is not fighting religion. He’s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.” — Vance Havner

“You can’t love God without loving the Jewish people.” —  Corrie Ten Boom


Amen to Corrie Ten Boom who lost her sister and father in the concentration camps, but survived to tell the story of how her family saved Jewish brethren and then ended up in the camps simply for loving God’s people.  She is considered one of the Righteous Among the Nations.”

So many Christians are on a collision course with God.  Many evangelical believers, to their utter shame, are joining ranks with the enemies of Israel in attempting to “lift Jerusalem.”  Surely, the ugliest and most pernicious partnerships ever witnessed in the history of Christianity, is the joining together with, and marching arm in arm with, those of false doctrines, including the likes of liberal protestants, Islamists, humanitarians, secularists, politicians and a host of other ungodly rubble of society.  (Like heretic Rick Warren’s Chrislam.)

Rallying under the banner of “justice for the Palestinian people,” these multifaith crusaders are blissfully unaware that they are on a collision course with the God of Israel.  This is a theologically driven jihad and those who are united in their opposition to the State of Israel will not be held guiltless.  Some join because of their anti-Zionist prejudice; others with a pro-Palestinian axe to grind, likely bent on furthering their careers at the expense of truth.

Jew Hatred has grown tall in the amillennial seedbeds of our churches.  Amillennialism is a laundered system which has bleached out the plain meaning of Scripture; it cannot be deduced from Bible study, but must be taught.  Amillennialism makes no distinction between Israel and the church, wrongly asserting that there is only one people of God and one overarching covenant, the so-called covenant of grace.  They do not believe in the thousand-year reign but that the millennium is symbolic of the church age.  Symbolizing the Word of God, where there is no symbolism, has created some of the most heretical doctrines of both Christianity and cults.

Remember that many uninspired hands have commented on the words in the Bible.  Not all Bible commentaries are of sound doctrine.

In 1867, J.C. Ryle wisely urged his readers to “Cleave to the literal sense of Bible words, and beware of departing from it, except in cases of absolute necessity.  Beware of the system of allegorizing and spiritualizing, and accommodating, which the school of Origen first brought in and which has found such an unfortunate degree of favor in the Church.”

Unfortunately, Ryle’s wise teaching went against the Church of England which was steeped in allegorical methods of Biblical interpretation which can be found in the writings of their most learned and influential theologians.  They believe they must always look beyond the plain literal sense of the text to the “mystical meaning therein.”  Many of the theologians did not agree with the prophecy that Israel would again inhabit the land.  But Ezekiel’s prophecy is true, “And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.  And they shall say, ‘This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced and are inhabited.’”  (Ezekiel 36:34-35)

Scripture teaches us that an escalation of opposition against Israel from the international community will build.  Zechariah speaks of that time of unprecedented pressure when “all the nations of the earth” will rise up against Jerusalem to besiege it.  In that day, when world attention is fixed on God’s beloved city, the Lord declares that He will make Jerusalem “a cup of reeling to all the peoples round about.”  He will give advance warning to would-be meddlers that “all who burden themselves” with Jerusalem, those who attempt to lift it, will be “cut in pieces,” (Zechariah 12:2-3).

Origen and Tertullian

Origen of Alexandria, also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria, Egypt (c.185 – c.253).  He died in Tyre, Lebanon.

Tertullian of Carthage was born in 160AD and died in Carthage 240AD.  He wrote his main theological works at the turn of the third century, primarily apologetics, mainly targeting Gnostics and Marcionites. But in his Apologies, he includes An Answer to the Jews. As with most early Church fathers, his anti-Judaic works have been largely ignored by scholars but they are, frankly, an embarrassment.

The Jews, with their constant idolatry, writes Tertullian, deserve less than the Christians, who have fled idolatry to worship the true God.

Like Philo of Alexandria before him, Origen believed he had uncovered the doctrines of Plato in the writings of Moses.  (Plato offers a state in which there are justice, good and wisdom, his state was criticized as “anti-democratic, anti-humanitarian, anti-individualistic, and totalitarian.”)

Once again Greek allegorical tools were used to “excavate” the Old Testament text to reveal its true “hidden” or “higher spiritual” meaning.  Like Clement and Philo before them, Origen and Tertullian were able to make the Bible dance to whatever tune they chose to play.  They claimed that faith was also the basis of gnōsis, a spiritual and mystical knowledge.

Origen’s lengthy treatise, Against Celsus, opens a window into Origen’s Greek-Christian mind, revealing just how deeply convinced he was that there was no future for the Jewish nation in the purposes of God.  He therefore set the theological stage upon which Israel’s “irrevocable judgment” would be performed with the church playing the lead role.  As far as the church of Origen’s day was concerned, the Jews had committed the unpardonable sin, deicide (the murder of God), and all they could expect was unrelenting punishment and the harshest condemnation from the Christian.

The same libel against the Jews was uttered and written by Tertullian.  Third century anti-Judaism libel was the accusation of Christ-killing. This is not done by isolated Jews or religious groups according to Tertullian, but “all the synagogue of Israel did slay Him, saying to Pilate, when he was desirous to dismiss Him, ‘His blood be upon us, and upon our children.’”

Reality has it that the Romans murdered Christ.  But if one digs into history, you’ll find that the Jewish leaders did not want Him crucified for fear He would become a martyr.  For Christians, our belief is that our sins were laid upon Him and he was the final and perfect sacrifice, the perfect lamb of God slain for us.  Nevertheless, we should never have been separated from Passover in the earliest church.  How sad the cost to our Jewish brethren, most unforgiveable, and how sad the poisoning of the true church by men filled with demonic hatred.

Origen was a Neo-Platonist, and he immersed himself in Greek philosophy, and was “one of the first to place the authority of tradition on a level with the Bible.”  Link

Origin and Tertullian influenced Augustine and in turn Augustine influenced Calvin.  The lie continues despite the truth being written in the Lord’s Word.  Augustine was the patron saint of the heretical doctrine, “Replacement Theology.”

Can readers see how this false and heretical doctrine from such an early age could turn into the massive hatred and destruction of all things Jewish?  Surely these early men, although having some things right, were accursed of God because of their demonic hatred of His people.  The Lord calls Israel His Wife!  The unconditional Abrahamic Covenant speaks volumes regarding the harsh punishments and curses that will befall those who hate Israel and who have cursed her throughout history.

The anathematizing of the Jewish people had begun.

For Origen, all souls, including the devil himself, will eventually achieve salvation, even if it takes innumerable ages to do so. Origen believed that God’s love is so powerful as to soften even the hardest heart, and that the human intellect – being the image of God – will never freely choose oblivion over proximity.

Tertullian believed that only martyrs go to paradise.  All other Christians (the Theotokos being an exception?) have to wait in Hades for the resurrection.  The Greek word, Theotokos, means to bear God, as in to bear a child, and was used to refer to Mary as the mother of Jesus. Mary is named Christotokos (Christ-bearer) in 431 by the Council of Ephesus in response to this insight.

In the year 400, Theophilus summoned a council in Alexandria, which condemned Origen and all his followers as heretics for having taught that God was incorporeal, which they decreed contradicted the only true and orthodox position, which was that God had a literal, physical body resembling that of a human.

Both Origen and Tertullian profoundly shaped the way Christian minds would interact with the Scriptures, but it later fell to Augustine of Hippo, the unrivaled patron saint of replacement theology to systematize Origen’s allegorical methods.  Augustine’s harsh amillennialism dominated the Reformation and exercised great influence on the theology of John Calvin.  Then too, there is Emperor Constantine who, by legalizing Christianity, declared “open season” on the Jewish people.  And of course, let’s not forget John Chrysostom, called the “golden mouth,” whose virulent anti-Semitic Eight Homilies Against the Jews find their equal with Martin Luther’s treatise, On the Jews and Their Lies (1543).  These men may rant and rail against the Jews all they like, but the God of Israel will have the final word.

Far too many have tried to excoriate the Jews from modern day prophecies, but it will never work for God has decreed for His ancient covenant people, a foundation of truth upon which the doctrine of Israel’s restoration stands.  No Origin, Tertullian or Augustine, Luther or Calvin, or any of their twenty-first counterparts, can halt the progression of God’s prophetic purposes.

The Lord is gathering the Jews to their ancient homeland; He is watching over their flourishing land; He sees Israel’s enemies rising on every side; He hears the Christian Palestinian lies; and He bears witness to the injustice of the anti-Israel boycotts.  The stage is being set for the end of this era, and when it comes, there will be hard times, but our Lord God will set everything righteous for His people.

Thomas Newton had this sober warning to all who would touch the “apple of God’s eye.”  (1 January 1704 – 14 February 1782) Newton was an English cleric, biblical scholar and author. He served as the Bishop of Bristol from 1761 to 1782.

“We see that after so many ages, [the Jews] are still preserved by a miracle of providence a distinct people; and why is such a continual miracle exerted, but for the greater illustration of the divine truth, and the better accomplishment of the divine promises, as well as those which are yet to be, as those which are already fulfilled?  We see that the great empires, which in their turns subdued and oppressed the people of God, are all come to ruin: because though they executed the purposes of God…all that they intended was to satiate their own pride and ambition, their own cruelty and revenge.  And if such hath been the fateful end of the enemies and oppressors of the Jews, let it serve as a warning to all those, who at any time or upon any occasion are for raising a clamor and persecution against them.”

Conclusion

Next up a deep dive into Chrysostom, Ambrose, Augustine and Calvin and the rotten fruit their reform churches are built upon.

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‘SICK’: Unmasking Big Medicine | TRAILER OUT NOW

“You follow the money, you pretty much discover everything,” says just one of the medical professionals the Daily Caller sat down with for our latest documentary. And that’s exactly what we did.

The Daily Caller’s new documentary, “SICK,” dives into the deceitful history and shameful practices of America’s Big Medicine industry. From doctors and therapists to scientists and executives, these pill pushers all claim to be the experts. They say we should trust them when they promise to cure all our ailments.

But the patients, advocates and doctors we spoke to all agreed: Big Medicine has made us less healthy and more dependent on the toxic chemicals they prescribe.

“SICK” is available exclusively to Patriots subscribers. Subscribe here to watch Thursday, and check out our entire collection of original documentaries.

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First, the Daily Caller uncovered the true cost of the Defund the Police movement in “Lawless.”  Then “Rigged” exposed the issue Democrats fear most: how their political machine managed to install Joe Biden in 2020. Now, we are taking on one of the Swamp’s most powerful allies, the massive pharmaceutical companies they all begged us — no, forced us — to trust for our COVID vaccines.

“SICK” goes back long before the COVID disaster. Our investigative team examines the opioid epidemic foisted on us by Purdue Pharma, which still wreaks havoc on families and communities across the country. We take a deep dive into the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) craze, which for 50 years was sold as the miracle cure for depression and anxiety despite often creating the problems it’s meant to treat. We ultimately go back over one hundred years to show how the use of toxic chemicals to treat medical conditions was part of a coordinated push by one of the wealthiest families in American history.

The same tactics are at work today, as drug pushers and government ideologues team up to pump vulnerable children with irreversible hormone treatments under the guise of “gender-affirming care.”

There is a silver lining: after COVID, more Americans are waking up. Americans’ trust in the medical system is approaching an all-time low as they tune out the expert advice that would turn them into lifelong patients and cash cows.

The only message Big Medicine will understand is a hit to their bottom line. And by shedding further light on their decades of abuse, the Daily Caller aims to deliver just that.

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Kamala Harris’s Hypocrisy On ‘Women Having Miscarriages In Toilets’

It almost seems ridiculous to point out that a politician did something hypocritical, but Kamala Harris inverted reality in an especially egregious way during her first (and hopefully last) vice presidential visit to an abortion facility last week. As part of her ongoing campaign against life, she claimed, “I have heard stories of — and have met with women who had miscarriages in — in toilets.” Like most of Harris’s speeches, she had said it all before. The vice president shared a video clip of herself repeating the same story on “The View” in January. Harris said she could not believe states still resist abortion “in this year of our Lord 2024,” before saying, “Women are having miscarriages in toilets.”

Harris presumably said this because she believes having a miscarriage in a toilet is a grave injustice to mother and child. Yet Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are actively promoting the outcome they claim to be fighting. The Biden-Harris administration has boasted in its proposed 2025 budget it has done all it can to “protect access to abortion, including medication abortion,” and it has taken numerous steps to shut down efforts to halt the distribution of abortion pills.

But having a miscarriage in a toilet is precisely how chemical abortion works. Don’t take my word for it; listen to the abortionists themselves. In a website titled “How does the abortion pill work?” Planned Parenthood notes, “The abortion pill process has several steps and usually includes 2 different medicines: mifepristone and misoprostol. You can also have an abortion using only misoprostol.” The abortion cocktail “causes cramping and bleeding that empties your uterus. The pregnancy tissue will come out through your vagina. The process is very similar to an early miscarriage. … For most people, medication abortion feels like having an early miscarriage.” Planned Parenthood has a list of items for mid-abortion women to “make you more comfortable.”

“Sit on the toilet,” Planned Parenthood’s abortion pill website tells women.

It’s not even merely the United States; the British abortion business BPAS instructs abortion-minded mothers that their aborted child’s remains “can be flushed down the lavatory or wrapped in tissue, placed in a small plastic bag and put in the dustbin [trash can].”

This is not a new phenomenon that Harris, or any reasonably informed person, might not have heard. It dates all the way back to the very first “M&M trials” of the abortion pills in Des Moines in 1994. “I aborted at 6:30 on Friday night. I heard it fall into the toilet. It looked like a blood clot. I cried when I knew it had passed,” recalled “Patient 001.” It permeates the medical advice abortionists give mothers along with the mifepristone and misoprostol that induce the miscarriage-like abortion.

Leslie Wolbert took Planned Parenthood’s advice. Leslie had a chemical abortion using RU-486 at age 21. “I thought I was dying,” because of the pain caused by her cramps, she said. “I was crying hysterically and begging to die because the pain was more than I could handle. I was sweating like crazy and on the toilet while throwing up too.” In the shower, “I bled so much that it clogged the drain.” When she looked down, she saw “the ‘blood clot’ or the ‘blob of tissue’ that the clinic talked about. It was my baby that was clogging the drain of the shower. I had to turn off the water, get out, and clean it up myself and then I flushed it down the toilet.”

“It was even more horrifying than it sounds,” Leslie swore in an affidavit for a 2013 Supreme Court case.

Wolbert’s story is cited in the Supreme Court case to reverse FDA approval of the abortion pill — a lawsuit the Biden-Harris administration has fought tooth-and-nail.

Unfortunately, Leslie’s story is the norm, rather than the exception. “I looked down, and I screamed,” said one mother. “It was not just a blob of tissue. I gave birth to what looked like a fully formed, intact, 14-week-old fetus covered in blood. I scooped my baby out of the toilet. I sat on the floor, and held him, and cried.”

Part of the problem of self-managed abortions comes from discovering the reality of human life, alone, when it’s too late. Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, has written in The Washington Stand, “It’s hard to put into context the damage caused to a mother who expected to see a clump of cells and instead sees her visibly recognizable unborn child delivered dead into the toilet.” Her words were echoed by “Courtney,” who recounted the grief she experienced precisely over her deceased child’s final resting place. “My cramps were very intense and painful,” she said. “My baby was disposed of in a toilet. A toilet.”

Sometimes the baby doesn’t just look fully-formed. One grieving mother sued Planned Parenthood claiming that during a brief telehealth session, the abortionist miscalculated her full-term pregnancy at six weeks and gave her a prescription for the abortion pill. As a result, in May 2020, the woman gave birth to her dead-but-fully-formed, 30-36 week-old baby on the toilet. “At approximately 3:00 am, while sitting on the toilet, Plaintiff gave birth to a fully formed, stillborn baby boy named J.T.,” says the 2021 lawsuit. “Plaintiff was shocked and traumatized when she saw the lifeless, fully-formed baby in the toilet covered in mucous, blood, and the placenta.”

The abortion industry regularly tells its patients to dispose of their babies in the toilet, and not just during chemical abortions. Dr. Kathi Aultman, a retired OB-GYN and former medical director for Planned Parenthood of Jacksonville, described how a woman once came to her experiencing “prolonged bleeding from a late-term abortion.” The woman’s story shocked Dr. Aultman to the core. The injured mother “described being given medication and then being left in a cold room overnight with no blanket or call button. The next day, she was given more medication, and eventually told to sit on the toilet and push. She delivered a living 20-week-old baby boy into the toilet, where he drowned.”

“The experience traumatized her,” wrote Dr. Aultman.

A counselor at the Dr. Emily Woman’s Health Center in The Bronx told one woman experiencing a late-term abortion what to do if she passes a third-trimester baby in her hotel room. “If it comes out, then it comes out. Flush it,” she said.

The (now deceased) abortionist Carman Landau gave the same advice to a 27-week pregnant woman at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico. If the child passes, she should “sit on the toilet” and “not move until we come and get you.”

The abortion industry will inevitably claim these “sting” videos were “heavily edited” and imply they are untrustworthy (although Live Action has shared its full, unedited footage of various investigations). Those disinclined to believe Live Action can’t explain away Planned Parenthood and BPAS, nor even numerous left-leaning news outlets.

In a 2022 story published on the feminist website The 19th, republished by PBS (at your expense), a woman named Emma Texas took misoprostol. When it kicked in, Emma “could hardly walk from the pain,” so her boyfriend had to “physically steer her to the toilet.” Since the baby survived that abortion attempt — so much for Planned Parenthood’s medical advice — she took both abortion pills and aborted her baby. “That medication abortion was the most painful experience I’ve ever had in my life,” Emma remembered. “I literally said to my boyfriend — who, that time, knew better and just stayed with me the entire time — I said, ‘I just want to die.’”

The cries, the anguish, the heartbreak of these women are being muffled, multiplied, and ignored each time Kamala Harris and other elected officials promote the use of abortion pills. Women’s suffering is ignored, drowned out by the campaign cash that politicians rake in each election cycle from the abortion industry. These stories should be repeated over and over again, until the manufacturers of the abortion pill note one of its prime side effects is intense grief.

Kamala Harris should spend more time listening to these women and less time hypocritically supporting the industry that victimized them.

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Biden Moves to Erase Voter ID Requirements That Are Backed By 85% of Voters

85% of people across all demographics support voter ID (the same 85% that didn’t vote for him.)

Biden pushing to erase voter ID requirements that are backed by 85% of voters

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Recent comments from Biden administration officials have stirred a debate about the role of federal agencies in supporting citizen participation in elections and the validity of voter ID laws.

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Concerns have been raised by House Republicans over a lack of transparency regarding the implementation of an executive order by President Biden aimed at encouraging federal agencies to assist in voter registration efforts. This is in addition to statements made by Attorney General Merrick Garland questioning the effectiveness of voter ID laws.

Rep. Claudia Tenney, New York Republican and co-chairwoman of the Election Integrity Caucus, disputes claims that voter ID laws disenfranchise voters. “The statistics don’t bear that out. It’s like 85% of people across all demographics support voter ID,” she said, according to The Daily Signal.

Ms. Tenney’s comments were in response to Mr. Garland, who has criticized these laws as “discriminatory, burdensome and unnecessary.”

In a recent speech in Selma, Alabama, the attorney general said he’s committed to election access, noting that he has bolstered the legal team in the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section to challenge what he calls restrictive measures enacted by various states, “including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes and voter ID requirements.”

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Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff Publicly Raising Money for Group Who Was Part of Oct. 7 Atrocities and Terrorist Attack on Israel

Of all the worthy causes for which one can raise money this is what the coprophagic Ella Emhoff comes up with!

However, this should not come as a surprise since her step-mother, Kalamity Harris, was urging people to contribute to a fund for bailing out Antifa and BLM rioters in 2020.

Supporting murderous scum has become something of a family tradition.

Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff publicly raising money for relief group allegedly tied to Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel

By: Jon Levine, NY Post,  March 16, 2024

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The stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris is publicly raising cash for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency — even as the United States has cut funding to the group over its members’ alleged participation in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel.

Ella Emhoff — whose father is second gentleman Doug Emhoff — posted a link to UNRWA’s English-language fundraising page on her personal Instagram, and only removed it after a Post inquiry to the White House.

“We urge Ms. Emhoff to go on the website of UN Watch and read our reports showing how UNRWA teachers and school principals systematically promote and encourage Jihadi terrorism and the slaughter of Jews,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of the nonprofit United Nations watchdog.

UNRWA, the largest employer in Gaza, has long faced international criticism for its close ties to Hamas, which has ruled the enclave since 2006.

Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff makes another bizarre NYFW appearance
UNRWA, the largest employer in Gaza, has long faced international criticism for its close ties to Hamas, which has ruled the enclave since 2006.

President Trump cut US aid to the organization in 2018 — a decision President Biden initially reversed when he took office.

Under Biden’s leadership, at least $730 million found its way to UNRWA’s coffers.

The rapprochement ended, however, in January, when Israel presented evidence that UNRWA employees had been involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks that left at least 1,200 dead at a music festival near the Gaza Strip.

As many as 450 UNRWA workers are members of extremist groups in the Gaza Strip, Israel contends.

Hamas tunnels were uncovered under the agency headquarters in Gaza where they also siphoned off the building’s electricity, Israeli officials said.

One released Israeli hostage said they were held prisoner in the home of an UNRWA teacher, according to the Jerusalem Post.

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