For a growing number of Jews in Israel, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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Israel is the only safe haven for Christians in the Middle East. In fact, the Christian community in Israel is thriving. Contrast that with areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, were Christians have been cleansed, persecuted, and relegated to second class status. By the way, Christmas in Israel is beautiful. Watch Below.

For a growing number of Jews in Israel, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

An influx of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, combined with tech firms trying to project image of cosmopolitan savvy, mean the festival is becoming increasingly mainstream

By TOI, December 24, 2021

JTA — You ask Yaeli Amir, a seven-year-old Jewish girl growing up in a rural town in Israel, what her favorite holiday is, and she won’t name any of the almost countless Jewish ones. Instead, she’ll say, without hesitation, “Christmas!”

Amir knows all about Santa Claus, and the decorated tree people keep in their home, and the gift-giving. But the joy derives primarily from the weather: “It’s fun because it snows and you get to play in the snow,” she said.

She hasn’t exactly gotten to play in the snow on Christmas in Israel. But she’s imbibed the holiday’s traditions while watching movies like “The Grinch” and going on a family trip to New York City, where she got to hug a Santa mannequin.

Amir’s secular Jewish parents embrace Christmas, not for religious reasons but as an occasion for celebration. The same holds for Halloween.

Yaeli’s mother, Dana, said her rural cooperative village, known as a moshav, is planning to host an American-style Halloween with costumes and trick-or-treating next year.

“I am on the moshav’s education committee and we just talked about how we have to plan a Halloween party next year because all over Israel they have started to celebrate Halloween,” she said. “We are about the last moshav that hasn’t.”

Signs that similar sentiments are widespread can be seen all over Tel Aviv, the bastion of secular Israel. The party stores near Tel Aviv’s Levinsky Market carry Christmas-themed decorations and clothing accessories. Tiv Ta’am, a supermarket chain notable for selling food that doesn’t meet kosher dietary rules, has a large Christmas tree display at the entrance to its flagship store. Only about 2 percent of the population of Israel are Christian, the vast majority of whom identify as ethnically Arab, according to the Pew Research Center.

One of the factors likely driving this trend is the influx over the past 30 years of more than a million immigrants from the former Soviet Union, many of whom were deeply secular and, in some cases, identified as Christian or had Christian spouses. The highly assimilated immigrants also brought with them a civic holiday called Novy God that resembles Christmas.

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Have you seen anyone wearing a ‘Build Back Better’ hat? Me neither!

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When a president creates a motto or slogan for their administration we normally see people wearing hats, t-shirts and other items with that motto printed on it. We also see signs and bumper stickers with their motto or slogan on cars, trucks, buses and on bill boards, yard signs or banners paid for by supporters.

Have you seen anyone or anything with a Build Back Better slogan on it?

Me neither. Nada, nichts, rein, nichego takogo, nothing!

Why aren’t Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and every Democrat in Congress wearing a Build Back Better t-shirt?

Why aren’t everyone who voted for Biden, that’s 81 million people, supporting Build Back Better by wearing the motto or putting it in their businesses’ window, on their vehicles or wearing it on hats and t-shirts at public rallies or perhaps at sporting events?

Is it because they don’t understand what Build Back Better means? Or is it because the know exactly what Build Back Better means and they don’t like it?

When we Googled Build Back Better we got the following results:

  • Hats, t-shirts and stickers that read “Build Back Better 4 Them Worse 4 U.
  • Hats with “Build Back With Brandon. Thank You Brandon!”
  • Hats with “JOEFLATION BUILD BACK BROKE.”
  • Hats with “46 BOTCH BLAME BLUNDER.”
  • Hats with “CLEAN UP ON ISLE 46.”
  • Hats with “Build Back Better?”
  • Hats with “Biden Build Back Broke.”
  • Hats with “FU46.”
  • Hats with “BIDEN BUILD BACK BROKE LGBFJB.”
  • Signs with “BUILD BACK BITTER.”
  • And of course hats embroidered with “Joe and the Hoe Gotta Go.”

It’s not like there aren’t a variety of items on the market with the Build Back Better slogan on them. It’s just that you’re not seeing any of these items worn in public.

What does that tell you???

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Covid Insanity – Everywhere! STOP IT!

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As many of you know my wife and I recently took a road trip to two historic Florida towns, Deland and Saint Augustine. Being as neither of us are vaccinated, nor plan on it, international travel of which we have done more than most, is not on the cards. The thought of wearing a mask for a long flight or a 7 plus day cruise is not something either of us can even contemplate.

So we are planning a series of road trips with the next being approximately a month in duration in February out west. (Not to the Commie Republic of California!)

But I digress!

Back to the subject matter.

Covid insanity.

We have all witnessed the stupidity and sheep like actions of far too many Americans who have forgotten their beliefs and heritage. You know – freedoms, liberties etc.

They would rather buckle down to the whims and unconstitutional mandates of petty Libtard administrations, locking down, social distancing and wearing pathetic masks that do next to nothing. My goodness, they are even ready to close their businesses and their ability to support their families at the drop of a hat! In many cases bankrupt themselves!! All with barely a whimper.

Then you have hotel groups, large and small as well as independents, who have used Covid to cut overheads and destroy the very reasons we use hotels. I don’t know about you but one of my joys is staying in a grand hotel with views, ambience, a great bar and restaurant, with a huge comfy bed and fluffy towels. I like the room cleaned daily, my linens and towels changed out. Am I alone in this?

Major chains like Marriott etc. have now made their policies that when you arrive you get a clean room with clean towels etc. but if you need new linens or your room actually cleaned you need to ask and it may happen. Now understand that prices have not gone down at all for your stay and in many cases gone up. Despite the cost savings in staff, laundry supplies, cleaning supplies, water, electric etc.

Then you are lucky to get a breakfast that is no better than a fast food chain, gone are those glorious buffets with fresh eggs, bacon and other delicious foods, to be replaced with sub standard coffee, sub standard food and service where you mostly do everything yourself. Some even give you a bagged breakfast with an apple, a bar of some cardboard flavored substance and some other odds and ends. They try make you feel grateful.

I am not.

If you are open as a luxury hotel for service then you are open for service. Unless you as a consumer want to just get a low income motel where the above is acceptable then you want the luxury you pay for. These chains need to stop using the Chinese Virus to rip us off. It is pathetic.

Then let’s look at the loony tunes walking around.

You still see many mainly northern libtards, mostly transplants, walking around on their own here in Florida masked and sometimes gloved! Some even wear those stupid plastic screen things! They wear these in wide open areas, in cars when alone or with their partner, even when jogging, in fact everywhere! Most wear them wrong with many wearing them under their noses! They are mostly vaccinated which makes me laugh. If they believe in the vaccines, or should I call them the China Virus shot, they don’t act like it. 😂😂😂

Then there are the Scientologists. What a laugh they are! They are all vaccinated and have to wear masks and gloves at all times! You see them walking around downtown Clearwater or driving alone with their little blue masks and clear gloves on. The bus driving employees are to be seen similarly attired driving their big blue Scientology Flag buses, usually alone, obviously living in fear!!

What about those stores? The cashiers are stood or seated behind small sheets of clear Perspex that are open above, on both sides and underneath. I guess those little China Virus germs are too dumb to go round or under or even over the top and just commit hari-kari against that sheet!

Or how about those arrows on the floor in stores telling you which way to walk up and down? I have to admit I was that man walking maskless the wrong way because I just had to! I am not able to consciously do stupid! Sorry Publix Supermarkets. Apart from the idiocy of your policies and the massive overcharging for goods, I have to wonder how you all sleep at night. Probably soundly like all Woke Company owners!

One day down the road I will re-read this blog and laugh again and then wonder again how so many Americans drank the lying Commie propaganda. How so many just blindly followed orders that were not only plainly wrong but illogical. How many gave up their rights and freedoms along with their liberty just to be a sheep. Baaaaa!

Then I will remember the obscene amount of money the drug companies and most likely politicians and their friends and families made from the shots and other developing China virus related treatments. That they for once were risk free, able to rape the taxpayers and world citizens with no risk of being sued. Boy, they sure are taking advantage of that. Great work if you can get it. Taxpayers fund research and then are totally and so easily overcharged for the shots which are responsible for many deaths for which they will never answer. Then you just keep bringing on new variants and the number of shots just keeps magnifying along with the profits and dividends. No risk. Just money.

Plus – please do not get me started on those “parents” who are rushing to vaccinate their 5+ year olds with a Covid shot they have no idea on how it will adversely affect them down the road. I call that Child Abuse. Why would you put something in your child when they have practically 0% chance of dying from Covid? I mean, more children have died in Chicago ( the land of gun bans where only the bad guys have guns!) alone from gun fire in mostly black in black crimes this year than have died from Covid!

It’s time to stop this insanity. Stop living in fear. Stop listening to these liars screaming out like Chicken Little that the sky is falling. Stop listening to the MSM who wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them on the head with a sledge hammer.

Start researching yourselves.

Start using common sense.

Start using critical thinking.

Start being Americans!!

And if you want to come to the Free State of Florida, keep your liberal thoughts and politics behind. They are not welcome!

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Fake Students, Vacations for Random Koreans, and Fattening Up Eels: Rand Paul Exposes 8 Insane Ways the Feds Wasted Our Money in 2021

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Yet again, taxpayers are footing the bill for some truly crazy expenditures.

Every holiday season, Senator Rand Paul honors the fictional Seinfeld holiday “Festivus,” an annual airing of grievances, with a report exposing how the federal government wastes taxpayers’ money. The libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican just released his latest report for 2021 and its findings are even worse than expected.

And that’s saying something.

Senator Paul’s office documents $52.6 billion in waste, which is equivalent to wasting the taxes of 3.43 million Americans! The full 43-page report covers far too many egregious examples of government waste to list in one article. But here are 8 of the most outlandish ways the federal government wasted our money according to this year’s report.

The federal government’s COVID-19 efforts were a scammer’s dream. The Paycheck Protection Program was meant to help struggling small businesses stay afloat during the pandemic, but it sent an astounding $4.29 billion to ineligible businesses or duplicate loans. It even sent $3.6 billion of that money to businesses explicitly on the Treasury Department’s “Do Not Pay” list—which includes known scammers—yet, it didn’t bother to check!

So, too, countless billions were lost to unemployment fraudsters during the expanded pandemic benefits system.

Apparently, the federal government gives out more than $9,000 in federal funding per student in Baltimore, Maryland. One school evidently decided to take advantage of this system, claiming $1.27 million in funding for 140 students who were not actually enrolled and whose “whereabouts were unknown.” According to the report, “A City of Baltimore investigation found some administrators were changing grades and padding enrollment with ‘ghost students’ who were not actually attending the school in order to get more funding.”

The federal government’s multi-trillion-dollar COVID-19 “stimulus” efforts flooded the coffers of state and local governments with more money than they knew what to do with. This resulted in many absurdly wasteful programs, like one in New York City where Mayor Bill de Blasio used federal taxpayer money to set up a “City Arts Corps” paying artists to create public art and “resurge the cultural scene.”

Senator Paul’s report documents billions wasted on jaw-droppingly dumb expenditures in Afghanistan. The US reportedly allowed foreign nations to use military aircraft for free at a total expense of $773 million and spent $549 million on planes that were later scrapped and sold for parts. The federal government also apparently wasted $2.4 billion on constructing buildings in Afghanistan that were left unused as well as $88 million invested in building irrigation systems for Afghan farmers—only 2.7 percent of which were later used properly.

There’s a hot debate in American politics about how much money the federal government should spend securing our southern border. Yet apparently we are already spending hundreds of millions on border security—in other countries.

“$250 million of your taxpayer dollars are going to building borders in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman,” the report notes. “While Americans may be divided on how to solve the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, we should all agree that using our taxpayer money to fix someone else’s border is not the best idea.”

Many Americans could use a vacation but can’t afford one right now. Well, rest assured that the federal government is using their tax money to send random South Koreans on climate change vacations.

“Partnering with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States Embassy in Seoul is allocating up to a $150,000 grant to send ten Koreans aged 15-30 to Washington, D.C. for two weeks to learn about climate change activism,” the report notes.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reportedly gave $337,500 to a Canadian company to fatten up eels for human consumption in an effort to boost the… eel market?

“This is corporate welfare, driven by somebody at the FDA who must really like eating eel,” the report notes. “Someone should remind the FDA that there are other fish in the sea.”

At least the federal government is carefully stewarding our retirement money, right? Yeah, about that…

According to Senator Paul’s report, the Social Security Administration made “100,766 overpayments totaling nearly $4.2 billion that may not be fully recouped until 2049. Of this, the Administration completely deleted and could not account for over $1.2 billion due to an error in their system.”

Rest assured, this list is hardly exhaustive. The full depths of waste across trillions and trillions of dollars in federal expenditures can’t be captured by one report or one senator’s office. The above items and $52+ billion are just the tip of the iceberg, indicative examples that remind us how wildly irresponsible the government is with our money. But as Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously explained, that’s a feature of the government, not a bug.

Why? Friedman identified four ways money can be spent. We can spend our money on ourselves, in which case we have every incentive toward frugality and quality assurance. We can spend our money on someone else or someone else’s money on ourselves, like buying gifts or spending a gift card. In either scenario, some incentive toward frugality still exists.

Yet Friedman outlined a fourth scenario, wherein someone spends other people’s money on other people. In that scenario, there’s really no incentive at all to spend frugally or wisely. And that scenario perfectly describes most government programs.

The takeaway here is clear. There’s only one way to get the government to waste less of our money, and that’s to give them a lot less of it in the first place.

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Brad Polumbo

Brad Polumbo (@Brad_Polumbo) is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education.

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Is ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ a reflection of Orwell’s Dystopian novel ‘1984’?

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“At a time when political dishonesty is rampant, we should remember 1984s most important lesson: The state can occupy your mind.” – Matthew Feeney, June 5, 2019 commentary titled Seventy Years Later, It’s Still ‘1984’

I watched the latest Matrix film titled “Resurrections” and saw on the silver screen the true meaning of Eric Blair’s dystopian novel “1984.”

According to Warner Brothers The Matrix Resurrections is a struggle:

To find out if his reality is a physical or mental construct, Mr. Anderson, aka Neo, will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. If he’s learned anything, it’s that choice, while an illusion, is still the only way out of — or into — the Matrix. Neo already knows what he has to do, but what he doesn’t yet know is that the Matrix is stronger, more secure and far more dangerous than ever before.

QUESTION: But is this true? Is Resurrections about “constructs” and “choices” or something else?

The Matrix Resurrections is about Language

After watching and reflecting overnight about this latest in the Matrix series of dystopian films, I came to the realization that Mr. Anderson, a.k.a. Neo, learned that the real danger of the Matrix is language.

Eric Blair, pen name George Orwell, published his novel “1984” in 1949 yet the lessons in his seminal work are still applicable today. Many who have read “1984“, including myself, had a false notion of the true meaning of Orwell’s work.

In a June 5th, 2019 op-ed published in the Fredericksburg Free Lance‐​Star titled “Seventy Years Later, It’s Still ‘1984’” Matthew Feeney wrote:

The main lesson of “1984” is not “persistent surveillance is bad,” or “authoritarian governments are dangerous.” These are true statements, but not the most important message.

“1984” is at its core a novel about language; how it can be used by governments to subjugate and obfuscate, and by citizens to resist oppression. [Emphasis added]

It seems that The Matrix in its latest evolution “Resurrections” has addressed this core dystopian notion of how the state can occupy your mind.

Resurrections’ main character is The Analyst played by Neil Patrick Harris. The Analyst is the consummate wordsmith. He uses language to subjugate Neo and Trinity. As George Orwell wrote,

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

The Analyst is a master at tearing apart human minds and putting the pieces back together again to maintain the myth of the Matrix. You see the Matrix is the ultimate myth!

Resurrections it is not a love conquers all story between Neo and Trinity. It is neither about persistent surveillance nor about authoritarian rule by machines. It’s not even about choice.

It is all about how language is used to create an alternate reality that even the citizens of IO cannot resist.

IO is a human city led by Niobe. Niobe believes that IO is the second chance for machines and humans to coexist together peacefully. This is a false flag used to suppress resistance. IO is a sub-state created by Niobe to keep its people from dissenting.

In Resurrections we see Bugs, played by Jessica Henwick, who is the blue-haired gunslinger with a White Rabbit tattoo and captain of the hovercraft Mnemosyne, as the true leader of the dissidents and the resistance against the Matrix.

Bugs understands that Niobe has been subjugated using the language of coexistence, the language that has kept Niobe from resisting the Matrix.

In order to be set free the people of IO must resist the oppression of the Matrix’s (government’s) ability to subjugate and obfuscate using words like coexist. Coexist is a word seen on car bumpers. Coexist is a myth.

The Real Lesson of The Matrix Resurrections 

We are now in an era where political dishonesty is rampant. It’s name is not The Matrix but rather the Cancel Culture.

QUESTION: Who are the Cancel Culture’s enemies?

ANSWER: Those who dissent and speak truth to power.

As The Analyst uses language to subjugate and obfuscate, so do todays politicians and world leaders. Political dishonesty is the new normal.

The media, social media and even Amazon’s Alexa use language to lull you into not thinking but rather obeying. Because if you think then you will resist their efforts to subjugate you via their language. Like Bugs, Neo and Trinity you must first dissent and then revolt in order to change the world.

George Orwell in 1984 wrote,

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

Neo and Trinity were not mad when they suddenly realized the truth. The truth that they were being told untruths by The Analyst using obfuscated language. So to must we all be alert to being subjugated by the state that uses obfuscate language. For you see in Orwell’s dystopian world, and in The Matrix Resurrections,

“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

Today we have the new language of the Cancel Culture, its the language of “the woke.” The Cancel culture or “call-out culture” is a nuevo form of ostracism in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles – whether it be online, on social media, or in person. Those subject to this nuevo ostracism has then, by definition, been “cancelled.”

Woke is a mythical language created by people so that other people are first ostracized and then cancelled. It is the nuevo Matrix.

The authoritarian government of Orwell’s Oceania doesn’t merely punish dissent severely—it seeks to make even thinking about dissent impossible. So too does the dystopian Cancel Culture.

Don’t be cancelled like Neo and Trinity were. Stand up, like Bugs, and understand the language of the cancel culture’s myths. The Matrix is a myth. The Cancel Culture is a myth. So don’t submit to a world driven by the language of myths.

As Plato wrote, “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”

Howard Rotberg wrote, “Any strong ideological belief carries with it a risk of denying those facts that do not support the ideology.”

QUESTION: What do we do to cancel the cancel culture?

ANSWER: Tell the truth using indisputable facts.

Seek the truth at all cost. The truth will set us all free.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

MICHIGAN: Similar COVID-19 Case Rates in Schools With No Mask Mandates

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And yet schools are expelling students if their mask mandate is violated.

Michigan: Similar COVID-19 Case Rates in Schools With No Mask Mandates

By Jeremy Frankel | Newsmax,  19 December 2021:

The state of Michigan last week published data that shows schools with no mask mandates had “similar” COVID-19 case rates to schools with mandates.

The report, titled Michigan COVID Response Data and Modeling Update,” examined COVID-19 data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Disease Surveillance System as recently as December 3rd, of school students ages 5-18, according to the Blaze.

It stated that “case rates in 5–18-year-olds have become more similar across mask rule types.”

TheBlaze adds that schools with few or no mask rules had fewer 7-day average cases per 100,000 students than schools with strict or partial mask rules, and that the report stated that “differences due to masking potentially being washed out by transmission in other settings.”

However, the report did not elaborate further on why transmission rates, regardless of mask mandates, were similar.

A peer-reviewed study by researchers from the University of Louisville released in August had similar findings, concluding that “mask mandates and use likely did not affect COVID-19 case growth.”

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POLL: 40% Of Democrats Say ‘Biden Deserves to Be Impeached’

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Only 40%? Can so many Americans be that cracked?

Biden Gets Devastating Impeachment News from Democrats: Poll

By Western Journal, December 23, 2021:

Do you think President Joe Biden deserves to be impeached for his failure in Afghanistan? A whopping 60 percent of voters do — including 40 percent of Democrats. The startling numbers come from a new Rasmussen poll that indicates Biden’s popularity is slipping not only overall but also among a key demographic, the very one that propelled him to the White House: the members of his own party. By Taylor Penley, The Western Journal, September 3, 2021:The majority of several demographics agreed that Biden deserves to be impeached, including 56 percent of black voters, 61 percent of other non-whites and 58 percent of those with no party affiliation.All told, a full 60 percent of voters think Biden needs to go.

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The poll was conducted on Monday and Tuesday among 1,000 likely voters with a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.

It’s glaringly obvious: Biden can’t escape his stunning failure in Afghanistan, nor should he be allowed to.

Yet as his approval rating wanes and he sits at the point of no return, he doubles down on his decision to execute the withdrawal as he did, blames anyone and everyone for the consequences, and continues his run of disregard and disrespect.

It’s no wonder even Democrats can’t defend this.

We’ve also heard calls for Biden’s impeachment from another shocking source: his longtime friend Sen. Lindsey Graham.

“[Biden] deserves a lot of accountability for this. And I’m sure it will be coming,” he told CBS on Sunday, according to The Guardian.

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“I think it’s dereliction of duty to leave hundreds of Americans behind enemy lines, turn them into hostages, to abandon thousands of Afghans who fought honorably along our side, to create conditions for another 9/11 that are now through the roof,” he added.

Of course, Graham isn’t the only GOP lawmaker who wants Biden to be removed from office. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has already introduced articles of impeachment against him.

Across the pond, the British Parliament help Biden in contempt over the disaster in Afghanistan, with one member even questioning his fitness for the presidency.

“If this does destroy Biden’s presidency, you have to question his fitness for the role,” MP Bob Seely said. “You have got to address Biden’s intellectual fitness and health fitness for the role.”

“I’m sorry, he is just gaga … he doesn’t have a grip. How many slip-ups before people think, yep, he can’t do the job.”

The discontent was inevitable, and the effects of Biden’s botched withdrawal will linger for years — including, no doubt, at the polls.

If 40 percent of Democrats have withdrawn their support from the leader of their party, 2022 and ’24 are bound to be interesting.

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Census: Americans Are Fleeing Big Liberal States

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They are fleeing Democrat ruin. They should be banned from bringing their cesspool politics with them.

Census: Americans Are Fleeing Big Liberal States

By: TrishIntel.Com Staff, December 22, 2021

(The Center Square) – New York, California and Illinois saw the largest declines in population due to outmigration in 2020, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data, as overall population growth slowed to the lowest levels since the nation’s founding.

The U.S. added only 392,665 people between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021 – about a 0.1% increase – when accounting for births, deaths and international migration.

“Population growth has been slowing for years because of lower birth rates and decreasing net international migration, all while mortality rates are rising due to the aging of the nation’s population,” Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Population Division at the Census Bureau, said in a statement. “Now, with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this combination has resulted in a historically slow pace of growth.”

California lost 367,299 people this past year through domestic migration, which accounts for those moving into the state and those moving out. For the first time since 1850, California’s population declined in last year’s Census estiates [sic], when it lost 70,000 residents. Increasing taxes, restrictive policies on businesses and ongoing lockdowns have led individuals and Silicon Valley companies to exit the Golden State in record numbers over the past two years.

New York lost the next most people over the past year – 352,185 on net – because of migration.

Illinois, which has been losing population for years, lost the third most…

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PODCAST: A patriot mother does the impossible and wins two ‘write-in’ election campaigns

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I was initially shocked to learn that so few parents wanted to hear the story a determined mother who successfully flipped her 4-3 liberal school board into a 5-2 conservative majority.

I thought Patriots would be excited, emboldened and ready to duplicate her efforts to rid themselves of pompous, out-of-touch, parent-hating school board members.

I was wrong. Few have even bothered to read past the headline!

Last week, I sat down with as she told me her remarkable story of mapping out a roadmap to overturn her local school board during last November’s elections. That roadmap would require her to achieve victory using ‘write-in’ candidates only, something unheard of in America.

No one wins elections through ‘write-in’ campaigns!

So how could she possibly achieve TWO write-in victories, flipping her local school board into a dominant conservative majority?

She joined Shout Out Patriots to explain that strategy in detail.

But why don’t parents want to hear it? Duplicate it? Especially parents outraged over school face-mask mandates, Critical Race Theory, and gender-fluid indoctrination?

Then I reminded myself of this sad fact:

It’s easier to complain than do something. It’s easier to watch others than do the hard work. As Americans, we’re more accustomed to sitting in the cheering section than playing on the field.

So, though Mary Katherine Bennett has a remarkable – if not genuinely miraculous – story to tell, it’s not for everyone. But it is perfect for those who want to take back control of their child’s education – and health – and ultimately win the future of America.

Watch our podcast:

Mary Katherine Bennett’s son is autistic and she didn’t want her young child forced to wear a face mask all day at school. The liberal school board dug in their heels and demanded to see her child’s medical records. She dug in her heels and they didn’t get them. What they did get was far worse.

Martin Mawyer, president of Christian Action Network, joins Pastor Jason Binder to learn how Mrs. Bennett and her fellow Patriots took to the streets with ‘write-in’ campaigns.  When the votes were counted, they turned a 4-3 liberal school board into a 5-2 conservative majority. But, wait! Write-in campaigns never work, do they? And twice during the same election? Her stunning story will leave you smiling and shouting.

Patriots. They need a voice. We give it to them!

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Coal Hit Record Highs in 2021

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China and India drive coal to record highs.

Reports of the death of coal are, to quote Mark Twain, “greatly exaggerated.”

In fact, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals that coal is having its best year ever, propelled by insatiable demand from China and India.

Read the IEA’s full “Coal 2021” report at CFACT.org.

Here are a few eye-opening takeaways:

  • The price of coal more than doubled, hitting an all time high of $298 this fall, up from $81 last year
  • “Coal is the largest source of electricity generation”
  • Global coal power is “on course to increase by 9% to 10,350 terawatt-hours (TWh) – a new all-time high”
  • Coal is the “second largest source of primary energy”
  • China, which both produces and imports the most coal, increased its coal use another 9%
  • Chinese power accounts for “one-third of global coal consumption”
  • Chinese “overall coal use is more than half of the global total”
  • India, the number two coal user, increased coal 12%
  • “Global coal consumption is not on the Net Zero trajectory”

Click Here for a chart showing coal use by region with the IEA’s projections out to 2024

China and India value coal so highly that they worked together to scuttle tough anti-coal language at COP 26, the UN climate conference in Glasgow, prompting COP President Alok Sharma, MP, to issue a tear-filled apology.

While China and India ramp up their economies, the Biden Administration is strangling American energy production, crippling decades of work toward energy independence, and causing severe inflationary pressure.

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (if that’s your thing) count for nothing with nations such as China and India eager to supply the goods we no longer manufacture… and expand their fossil fuel energy use as fast as their economies will allow.

COLUMN BY

Craig Rucker

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president.

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What Does ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ have to do with the Vietnam War?

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“There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.” – William Frederick Halsey Jr., fleet admiral in the United States Navy during World War II.

I went to see the latest Spider-Man film titled “No Way Home.” After thinking about it I began to connect with and embrace what the fictional character Peter Parker went through and what I went through upon returning home from Vietnam in December, 1968.

You see, I, and my Vietnam brotherhood of veterans, like Spider-Man had no way home.

It’s ironic that I watched this film exactly 53 years after my flying home from Vietnam back to my wife and family in St. Louis, Missouri.

It’s also ironic that the sub-title of the film is No Way Home.

You see my fellow Vietnam veterans, my brothers in arms, like Peter Parker, were ostracized upon our return home. We were called baby killers, spat upon and canceled by our nation. We were even shunned by WWII and Korean War veterans as unworthy. That is why we had to create our own veterans organizations like the Vietnam Brotherhood.

As Peter Parker was demonized by the media so too were we Vietnam veterans. Just as Spider-Man was attacked for fighting evil on the streets of New York City, so too were we attacked for fighting the evils of Communism in the streets of Hue and Saigon, and in the rice patties and the jungles of South Vietnam.

Today a Vietnam veteran greets a fellow Vietnam veteran with the phrase “welcome home brother.” Why? Because we weren’t welcomed home by our fellow countrymen and women. Even our government turned against us.

To this day the names of Jane Fonda and John Kerry will live in infamy to those who served in Vietnam. “Hanoi” Jane and Kerry colluded with the communist regime, which allowed South Vietnam to fall to our communist enemies.

It seems we are seeing the same thing happening today with North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran.

To this day I know that our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines won the Vietnam war on the ground.

Where we lost the Vietnam war was on the streets of America and in the halls of the U.S. Congress.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

It’s ironic that the film depicts past actors who played Spider-Man in previous films fighting together against their common enemies who have returned from the past.

You see we Vietnam veterans fought against the Communist North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong. They have now returned to Washington, D.C. not as Vietnam War protestors but as elected political leaders bent on fundamentally changing the United States of America into the Communist States of America. We all now once again have a common enemy and its name is Marxism.

I never thought, like Peter Parker, that I was doing something wrong by fighting the evils of Communism. But I, like Peter Parker, was pushed, pushed aside by my fellow Americans for serving in perhaps the greatest cause possible – the defence of the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The famous phrase first spoken in the original Spider-Man was restated in Spider-Man: No Way Home, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

Unfortunately, today’s political leaders do not take responsibility for their own actions but they are demanding more and more power. Ironic to say the least?

In the film Peter Parker, with the aid of Dr. Strange, erases all memories of Spider-Man.

We Vietnam veterans cannot erase all the negative memories of those who protested against the war and against our participation in that great crusade against Communism in Southeast Asia. A crusade that was started by President Eisenhower, expanded by President Kennedy and further expanded by President Johnson.

What we, unlike Peter Parker, can do is remember why we fought and how we won the war in Vietnam but lost the war on the streets of Washington, D.C. and in the halls of Congress. I will never forgive nor forget how our elected leaders abandoned our South Vietnamese brothers and sisters who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with us.

In August I sadly watched as we left our citizens behind in Afghanistan after the collapse of Kabul.

History really does repeat itself. The collapse of Saigon in 1974 looks eerily like the collapse of Kabul in 2021.

It is also ironic that there are three Spider-Men in the film “No Way Home” which mirrors the three Vietnam soldiers in a statue titled The Three Servicemen, by Frederick Hart, located near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The Bottom Line

I served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division as a field artillery forward observer with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 501st Airborne. I was there from December 1967 to December 1968. I was there for the 1968 Tet Offensive.

I, and my brothers in arms, served with honor at the behest of our nation. The majority of those who served in Vietnam, like me, volunteered to fight against the communist incursion.

A good friend sent me the video below, a tribute to our Vietnam veterans narrated by Mr. Sam Elliot. The video tells only part of the story.

The story that I know is that the media was against the war and supported our enemies. They printed everything bad they could find, some true,  but most were lies. I personally witnessed a civilian war correspondent demanding to get on a medevac helicopter to report on a story about how our unit suffered casualties from a friendly fire incident. The helicopter was sent to evacuate the severely wounded. The embedded correspondent wanted to take the place of one of our wounded so he could file his story. The company commander had a different view point. While his story did get filed we saved our wounded first and foremost.

This was the first time in U.S. history that the media began using “fake news” to bring about the defeat of U.S. wartime policy in a foreign land.

It began when Walter Cronkite visited Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive and upon his return to the United States declared on CBS Evening News that the Vietnam war was “unwinnable.’

Never forget the lessons of cancelling an entire generation of American soldiers.

Just like all the criminals that Spider-Man fought against were brought back to the present day. So to have those, like the ghosts of Ho Chi Min, Stalin and Mao, who wished to turn American into a Communist regime returned but this time to Washington, D.C. in 2021.

Sad but true.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

Christmas with the Presidents

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For many of us, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas is special for old and young. As Charles Dickens once observed, “For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”

Several American presidents have made interesting observations about Christmas.

John Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president, was a man of few words. He noted,

“Christmas is not a time nor season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.”

During World War II, on Christmas Eve 1943, our 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, gave an address to reassure the nation that we can hope for peace, since Christmas marks the birth of the Prince of Peace. Said FDR:

“I can say to you that at last we may look forward into the future with real, substantial confidence that, however great the cost, ‘peace on Earth, goodwill toward men’ can be and will be realized and ensured.”

As I write this, I am looking at my dad’s edition of the pocket New Testament issued by the U.S. Army in 1942 (although dad served in the Navy). This mini-Bible included a forward by the Commander-in-Chief, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which he wrote,

“Throughout the centuries men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel and inspiration.” Somehow, it’s hard to picture today’s military issuing a copy of the Bible to the Armed Forces.

Meanwhile, on December 24, 1945, on the first Christmas Eve since the end of World War II, President Harry S. Truman described some of the events of the very first Christmas in Bethlehem.

Our 33rd president stated,

“Let us not forget that the coming of the Savior brought a time of long peace to the Roman World. It is, therefore, fitting for us to remember that the spirit of Christmas is the spirit of peace, of love, of charity to all men. From the manger of Bethlehem came a new appeal to the minds and hearts of men: ‘A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.’”

He went on to say that love is the answer to our world’s needs—and love is found in that baby in the manger:

“In love, which is the very essence of the message of the Prince of Peace, the world would find a solution for all its ills. I do not believe there is one problem in this country or in the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. The poets’ dream, the lesson of priest and patriarch and the prophets’ vision of a new heaven and a new earth, all are summed up in the message delivered in the Judean hills beside the Sea of Galilee. Would that the world would accept that message in this time of its greatest need!”

Just one example of a nugget to be found in that Sermon on the Mount of which Truman speaks is the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Christ’s teaching has universal application and meaning to all mankind.

No wonder our third president, Thomas Jefferson, although not orthodox in his understanding of Christian doctrines, understood that no one taught morality better than Christ.

Jefferson said,

“Of all the systems of morality ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus.” (Letter to William Canby, September 18, 1813). Surely, the Golden Rule would be an example of that.

Our 34th president, Dwight Eisenhower noted in 1954,

“This year, even as two thousand years ago when the Prince of Peace was born into the world, the drums of war are still….Mankind’s unquenchable hope for peace burns brighter than for many years…. As I light the Nation’s Christmas tree, ‘God rest you…Let nothing you dismay.’”

Finally, Ronald Reagan, the 40th president, went further than many of his predecessors, rightly looking beyond Jesus’ moral teachings to the deeper and more essential point of His incarnation.

Reagan pointed out on December 24, 1983,

“Some celebrate Christmas as the birthday of a great teacher and philosopher. But to other millions of us, Jesus is much more. He is divine, living assurance that God so loved the world He gave us His only begotten Son so that by believing in Him and learning to love each other we could one day be together in paradise.”

Amen and Merry Christmas.

©Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. All rights reserved.

RELATED VIDEO: On December 20th, 2021  the 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump spoke at the First Baptist church in Dallas, Texas. President Trump said, “The life and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ forever changed the world. And it’s impossible to think of the life of our own country without the influence of His example and of His teachings. Our miraculous founding, overcoming civil war, abolishing slavery, defeating communism and fascism, reaching boundless heights of science and discovery, so many incredible things. None of this could have ever happened without Jesus Christ and his followers and his Church. None of it. And we have to remember that Jesus Christ is the ultimate source of our strength and of our hope and here and everywhere and for all time.” Watch President Trump’s remarks beginning at the 1:31 minute mark:

The Atlantic Claims ‘More People Carrying Guns Tends to Result in More Shootings.’ Decades of Data Show They’re Wrong

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The Atlantic recently suggested the surge of violence in 2020 was the result of the increase in firearms sales in 2020. The claim is pure fiction.

A couple of months ago, The Atlantic published an article written by staff writer David A. Graham that explores the surge of violence the United States experienced in 2020.

Overall the article, which analyzes findings from the FBI’s “Uniform Crime Report,” is quite good. It effectively breaks down what we know and—more importantly—what we don’t know about the latest crime trends in America, which in 2020 saw a record surge in the murder rate amid a broader rise of violence.

On one particular point, however, Graham is simply wrong.

Graham notes that sales of firearms jumped in 2020, as did police confiscation of illegal guns, and he attempts to tie this to the surge in violence.

“You can ask law-abiding people or you can ask people who do not abide by the law, ‘Why are you armed with a firearm?’ ‘I need to protect myself,’” Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, tells Graham.

Precisely what Rosenfeld meant by this statement is unclear, but Graham’s next sentence is clear.

“That creates a vicious cycle: More people carrying guns tends to result in more shootings, which in turn heightens the desire to carry a weapon for protection,” Graham writes. “When crime is decreasing, this dynamic helps it continue to fall, but once it begins to rise, the feedback loop turns ugly.”

Whether this claim is Graham’s or Rosenfield’s is unclear. No link or citation is offered to support the assertion. What we do know is the claim that “more people carrying guns tends to result in more shootings” is simply untrue.

As economist Mark Perry pointed out several years ago, the US saw gun violence steadily decrease over multiple decades as gun ownership surged.

“According to data retrieved from the Centers for Disease Control, there were 7 firearm-related homicides for every 100,000 Americans in 1993 (see light blue line in chart),” Perry wrote. “By 2013…the gun homicide rate had fallen by nearly 50% to only 3.6 homicides per 100,000 population. ”

This decline, Perry points out, occurred as the number of privately owned firearms in America surged from about 185 million in 1993 to 357 million in 2013.

And in case you’re wondering, non-fatal shootings followed a similar decline as fatal shootings, as Vox reported at the time. This is part of a larger decline in gun violence that saw “a 39 percent decline in gun homicides between 1993 and 2011 and a staggering 69 percent decline in non-fatal firearms crimes.”

Mr. Graham, who has also reported for Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal, is no doubt a fine writer and reporter. (Many of his points in the article on the FBI’s recent crime report are insightful.) But he’s simply wrong that more people possessing guns “tends to result in more shootings.” The data simply do not support this claim. During this “staggering” decades-long trend of falling firearms crimes, gun ownership steadily increased the entire time.

None of this is to say that gun ownership caused the decline in gun violence. It very well may have, but that’s a more difficult question to answer. For instance, Max Ehrenfreund, a Harvard scientist, has posited that the decline in gun violence may have stemmed from a decline in alcoholism, more police working the streets, the bullish economy of the Reagan years, and even less lead exposure.

Ehrenfreund says researchers don’t really know for certain why the decline in violence happened, but he said one thing is clear: “America has become a much less violent place.”

The decline in gun violence was no doubt linked to many factors, but it’s certainly possible the rise of gun ownership was one of them.

As Lawrence Reed has pointed out, compelling research shows guns prevent some 2.5 million crimes a year in America—6,849 every day—nearly a half million of which are of a life-threatening nature. And it’s not exactly hard to see why. After all, 60 percent of convicted felons told researchers that they avoided committing such crimes when they suspected the target was armed.

If you’re suspicious of these statistics, it’s worth noting that the Centers for Disease Control, in a report commissioned by President Obama following the 2012 Sandy Hook Massacre, estimated that crimes prevented by guns may be even higher: up to 3 million annually (8,200 per day).

Again, we don’t know for certain. These are estimates. What we do know is that guns aren’t just used to commit crimes; they are also used to stop and deter crimes.

In his famous essay That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen, the great economist Frédéric Bastiat noted there is a pervasive tendency for people to focus on the visible effects of a given policy or action and miss the unseen consequences.

Gun control proponents often make this mistake. They focus on crimes committed with guns (the seen)—some of which are truly the things of nightmares—but ignore all the unseen, all of the crimes prevented by firearms.

Some may not be prepared to accept the idea that guns prevent thousands of crimes in America every single day. That’s ok.

But The Atlantic should correct its claim that “more people carrying guns tends to result in more shootings.” It’s pure fiction.

COLUMN BY

Jon Miltimore

Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, the Epoch Times.

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DC Librarian Who Made Children Reenact Holocaust Is Failed Dem Candidate, Convicted Fraudster and Animal Abuser

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The Democrats elevate these scumbags to positions of influence and power. Evil, pure evil.

DC Librarian Who Made Children Reenact Holocaust Is Failed Dem Candidate, Convicted Fraudster, and Animal Abuser

Kimberlynn Jurkowski defrauded New Jersey of $24k, abused dogs

By: Matthew Foldi • Washington Free Beacon December 21, 2021 3:25 pm

The Washington, D.C., public school librarian who made third graders reenact graphic scenes from the Holocaust is a Democrat who claims she ran for office in New Jersey, where she was convicted of defrauding the state through a tutoring scam and charged with several counts of animal abuse.

Kimberlynn Jurkowski was placed on leave this week after parents complained to Watkins Elementary School that she made students role-play the Holocaust, assigning students to be Jews and pretend to die in gas chambers and dig mass graves, according to the Washington Post. One student was assigned to be Adolf Hitler, who carried out the Holocaust, Jurkowski told the students, “because the Jews ruined Christmas.” A Washington Free Beacon investigation found that Jurkowski was hired by the D.C. public school after a scandalous tenure as a librarian in New Jersey, where she ran in 2010 for a local school board as a Democrat, according to an image posted to her Twitter account.

There is no record of Jurkowski serving on the school board for Hamilton Township in Atlantic County, where she says she ran for office. There is record, however, of New Jersey catching Jurkowski bilking taxpayers out of approximately $24,000 through a program designed to help the children of the state’s educators. The Hamilton Township district paid for Jurkowski’s two children to receive tutoring—but she continued to bill the district for reimbursements once the tutoring stopped. She was convicted of fraud and forced to forfeit her librarian job, according to court records.

Jurkowski’s legal problems continued in 2019 when she faced four charges of animal cruelty for leaving her dogs out in the cold. According to coverage at the time from Pet Rescue Report, Jurkowski left five dogs behind to survive frigid temperatures in a dilapidated environment. Body camera footage from police officers called to the site shows “the entire property was completely run down,” with “dogs in pens with sheets of plywood leaning against a fence to act as shelter.”

One of the dogs, an older Rottweiler named Poseidon, could barely walk, and was found dead and frozen solid to the ground in one of the pens. The dog’s death prompted animal rights activists to launch a #JusticeForPoseidon campaign.

The principal of Watkins Elementary School, Scott Berkowitz, did not return a request for comment on Jurkowski. D.C. Public Schools did not respond to multiple requests for comment, including about whether it was familiar with Jurkowski’s criminal record prior to hiring her.

Since working in D.C. Public Schools, Jurkowski has struck an ultra-partisan combative tone online. Her Twitter account is filled with retweets of calls to abolish the police and defend Palestinian terrorism. One Al Jazeera post she shared claims that a Palestinian terrorist named Ahmad Erekat was killed by Israeli police but fails to mention that he was shot after ramming his car into Israelis.

Watkins Elementary School is located just outside a city ward represented by a Democratic lawmaker who claimed that Jews control the weather.

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Facebook allowed photos of beheadings from ISIS and the Taliban to be tagged as ‘insightful’ and ‘engaging’

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Facebook was only interested in shutting down the speech of dissenters from the Leftist agenda, not Islamic jihadis.

Facebook allowed photos of beheadings and violent hate speech from ISIS and the Taliban to be tagged as ‘insightful’ and ‘engaging’ – despite claims to crack down on extremists, report reveals

by Jonathan Chadwick, MailOnline, December 21, 2021:

Facebook allowed photos of beheadings and violent hate speech from ISIS and the Taliban to be tagged as ‘insightful’ and ‘engaging’, a new report reveals.

Extremists have turned to the social media platform as a weapon ‘to promote their hate-filled agenda and rally supporters’ on hundreds of groups, according to the review of activity between April and December this year.

These groups have sprouted up across the platform over the last 18 months and vary in size from a few hundred to tens of thousands of members, the review found.

One pro-Taliban group created in spring this year and had grown to 107,000 members before it was deleted, the review, published by Politico, claims.

Overall, extremist content is ‘routinely getting through the net’, despite claims from Meta – the company that owns Facebook – that it’s cracking down on extremists.

‘We do not allow individuals or organisations involved in organised crime, including those designated by the US government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the US government as foreign terrorist organisations (FTOs) or specially designated global terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence on the platform. We also don’t allow other people to represent these entities.

‘We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organisations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform or content that praises them or their acts. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organisations.’

The groups were discovered by Moustafa Ayad, an executive director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank that tracks online extremism….

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