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Biden’s America: Jewish Students Advised to Flee Columbia University for Their Own Safety

The Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University and Barnard College issued a statement advising Jewish students to leave campus and return home because of ongoing demonstrations by anti-Israel activists that threaten their safety.

Rabbi Elie Buechler, director of OU-LJIC at Columbia/Barnard, urged students via WhatsApp to leave campus “as soon as possible” prior to the onset of Passover. He emphasized the urgency of the situation, noting that “what we are witnessing in and around campus is terrible and tragic.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, USA, WTF?

The Town at the Center of a Supreme Court Battle Over Homelessness

A lawsuit by a group of homeless residents of a small Oregon town could reshape the way cities across the country deal with homelessness.

Inside a warming shelter, Laura Gutowski detailed how her life had changed since she became homeless two and a half years ago in Grants Pass, a former timber hub in the foothills of southern Oregon.

Her husband’s death left her without steady income. She lived in a sedan, and then in a tent, in sight of the elementary school where her son was once a student. She constantly scrambled to move her belongings to avoid racking up more fines from the police.

“I never expected it to come to this,” Ms. Gutowski, 55, said. She is one of several hundred homeless people in this city of about 40,000 that is at the center of a major case before the Supreme Court on Monday with broad ramifications for the nationwide struggle with homelessness.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", USA

Israel Under Attack – U.S. Administration Abandoning Its Ally?

Gaza – one can only imagine the hardship.

Amid the relentless assaults from multiple adversaries — Iran’s regime, Qatar, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis — Israel finds itself surrounded by Iran’s “ring of fire” on all fronts.

These coordinated attacks, originating from both neighboring states and non-state actors, pose, as clearly intended, a threat to Israel’s existence. In these dire circumstances, Israel looks to its longstanding ally, the United States, for crucial support and solidarity. However, the Biden administration’s approach has left Israel feeling isolated and abandoned at a time when it most needs unwavering backing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

US migrant crisis shifts from Texas to California border

On a blustery morning last month, volunteer Adriana Jasso raised the flaps to a tent propped up against the massive steel bars of the fence that straddles this stretch of the US-Mexico border. On her side, plastic tables were piled with apples, packets of hot chocolate, mylar blankets and stacks of ponchos – supplies waiting for hungry and tired migrants who had travelled for weeks, or even months, to reach California.

On the other side, visible through the gaps in the towering barrier, a group of more than 100 people – from countries including Ecuador, Colombia, China and Rwanda – huddled together, waiting to be let through on to US soil. This border point south of San Diego is now one of the busiest along the entire US-Mexico frontier, which stretches around 1,950 miles (3,140km) from here to eastern Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", California, USA

Most Canadians and Americans don’t trust the UN, poll finds

United Nations meets Beaver

The majority of Canadians and Americans do not trust the United Nations, according to a new poll.

The Leger survey for the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) and the Metropolis Institute was conducted about four months after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Since then, the UN has been under fire for its response to the attack, and for a UN agency’s alleged connections to the Hamas terrorists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, United Nations, USA

Inside the Los Angeles highway houses

Caesar Duarte didn’t flinch as an Amazon truck barreled down the busy 110 Freeway in Los Angeles, missing his makeshift home by just a few feet.

The only thing that stood between Duarte’s outdoor kitchen and speeding vehicles was a three-foot retaining wall and metal fencing.

The 44-year-old mechanic and house painter said he has learned to deal with the danger and noise since he erected his homestead by the freeway about four years ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Progressive Paradise", USA

You’re Only as Free as Your Oppression

We are two years and spare change away from the American semiquincentennial which will celebrate 250 years since some brave men ratified the foundational document of our nation.

The Declaration of Independence’s bold assertion that the people were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” is all the more relevant in the age of relativism where fewer people believe in a ‘Creator’ or in unalienable rights. That radical document is why America remains the only place on the planet where freedom of speech is absolute.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Israel Under Attack – U.S. Administration Abandoning Its Ally?

Amid the relentless assaults from multiple adversaries — Iran’s regime, Qatar, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis — Israel finds itself surrounded by Iran’s “ring of fire” on all fronts.

These coordinated attacks, originating from both neighboring states and non-state actors, pose, as clearly intended, a threat to Israel’s existence. In these dire circumstances, Israel looks to its longstanding ally, the United States, for crucial support and solidarity. However, the Biden administration’s approach has left Israel feeling isolated and abandoned at a time when it most needs unwavering backing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

US agrees to withdraw troops from key drone base in Niger

The long-expected move effectively marks a new regional gain for Russia, which has ramped up its focus on Africa and backed military regimes in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso.

Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell accepted the call to remove troops in a meeting in Washington with the prime minister of the junta, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, US officials told AFP on condition of anonymity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNiger, USA

As West Coast Cities Descend Into Squalor, Supreme Court Will Weigh Whether Homeless Tents Can Be Removed

Since 2018, a federal appeals court has prevented West Coast cities from arresting homeless people for camping on public land in the absence of available shelter beds — ruling that doing so is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause.

My theory: The “homeless crisis” is a form of blockbusting but done on a city-wide scale, or in Canada’s case on a nation wide scale.

Portlandia …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", USA

The US Navy finally has an unmanned fifth generation carrier jet. The Topguns should unleash it

US aerospace firm Boeing is still hoping to weaponise the new MQ-25 Stingray drone it’s building for the US Navy’s aircraft carriers. Sure, there’s a profit motive. But Boeing isn’t wrong. Adding missiles to the far-flying MQ-25 – the Navy’s first in service carrier-capable drone – is a really good idea.

Put simply, the MQ-25 is the only aircraft currently in development for the Navy’s carrier air wings that possesses the range to strike at Chinese forces without forcing the carrier itself to sail dangerously close to those same forces.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", Militaria, USA

Biden’s Kill Switch: The Growing Threat of Government Control of Your Car

Soon the government might shut down your car.

President Joe Biden’s new infrastructure gives bureaucrats that power.

You probably didn’t hear about that because when media covered it, few mentioned the requirement that by 2026, every American car must “monitor” the driver, determine if he is impaired and, if so, “limit vehicle operation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", USA

Black Chicagoans Blast Mayor Brandon Johnson over Spending on Migrants

Brandon Johnson – Looting Enthusiast

A group of black residents tore into Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday over his plans to spend an additional $70 million to feed and house illegal aliens, and to drive their point home, they wore former President Donald Trump’s signature MAGA hats during a meeting at city hall.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

Muslims Among Us – ‘Good People, Good Times’

In a remote corner on a relatively isolated WAWA parking lot not far from my Philly home, I spotted a platinum-haired guy about 25 years old kneeling face-to-the-ground on a prayer mat. This non-Middle Eastern, Caucasian prayer penitent could have been any one of the local Catholic boys you sometimes see playing street hockey. I had to look twice: what is his story? How had he converted to Islam – or had he? And what do his poor parents think about that?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Jon Voight: If Re-Elected, Trump Will ‘Overrule the Barbaric Animals Destroying Our Country‘

Hollywood legend Jon Voight is in no doubt former President Donald Trump must be returned to the White House in 2024 to “overrule the barbaric animals destroying our country.”

He made his declaration by bookending it with the observation Israel is also in grave danger and both countries must safeguard their futures through backing Trump because the alternatives do not bear thinking about.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA