Jim Jordan Wins GOP Nomination for Speaker of the House

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan won the House Republican Conference’s nomination to become the Speaker of the House of Representatives on Friday, after his primary competitor, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, dropped out of the race.

Jordan, who has represented Ohio’s 4th Congressional District since 2007, won a secret ballot of conference members by a vote of 124 to 81, with the remainder going to Republican Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, who entered the race on Friday.

In a second ballot of the conference, which asked members whether they would support Jordan on the floor following his nomination, he received the support of 152 members, with 55 members voting to indicate they would not support his nomination on the floor. The House Republican Conference has a narrow majority of four seats in the chamber and will require nearly all members to vote in favor of Jordan for him to be elected speaker. (Read more from “Jim Jordan Wins GOP Nomination for Speaker of the House” HERE)

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IRS Misled Taxpayers in Surveys and Made up Cost Estimates for New Filing Initiative, Watchdog Report Finds

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The IRS misled taxpayers in surveys and generated unsubstantiated cost and user estimates for a new direct online tax filing initiative, a new watchdog report concluded.

The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report on Oct. 2 assessing the IRS’s plan for a free e-filing system and the TIGTA concluded that the IRS misled taxpayers in surveys about the e-file system and failed to produce data to justify its cost and user estimates.

“The IRS obtained taxpayer opinions on a Direct File system. However, taxpayer interest in a Direct File tool may be overstated due to the design of the surveys conducted,” the report states. “In addition, the survey prompt may have led taxpayers to believe that the tool would have more options than it will immediately have available, such as the ability to file State tax returns.”

“Finally, the IRS could not provide TIGTA with any supporting documentation to support its cost estimates or how it determined there would be at least 5 million users. As a result, TIGTA had no way to identify the reasonableness of the IRS’s cost estimates,” the report adds. (Read more from “IRS Misled Taxpayers in Surveys and Made up Cost Estimates for New Filing Initiative, Watchdog Report Finds” HERE)

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Biden Trips Before Saying Hamas Makes ‘Al Qaeda Look Pure’

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President Biden stumbled twice Friday while walking up the steps of a stage in Philadelphia — before telling his audience that Al Qaeda terrorists seem “pure” next to those from “evil” Hamas.

The 80-year-old president initially staggered as he began to climb a small set of stairs to the stage, then lurched forward as he threatened to lose his balance completely — recalling a bad spill he took earlier this year during the Air Force Academy commencement exercises.

When Biden regained his footing, he theatrically gripped the railing with both hands and mugged for his audience before making his way to the lectern and giving an unexpected appraisal of the global terror network that carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, killing 2,977 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa.

“These guys make — they make Al Qaeda look pure. They’re pure evil,” Biden said of the Palestinian jihadist organization that rules the Gaza Strip. “As I said from the beginning, the United States, make no mistake about it, stands with Israel.”

Biden made the comment one day after slamming former President Donald Trump for calling Hezbollah terrorists “smart” following diversionary attacks on northern Israel, with the commander-in-chief tweeting Thursday that “the right time to praise the terrorists… is never.” (Read more from “Biden Trips Before Saying Hamas Makes ‘Al Qaeda Look Pure’” HERE)

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‘Top Secret’ Hamas Documents Show Palestinian Terrorists Intentionally Targeted Children: Report

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Documents that were labeled “top secret” in Arabic were discovered on the bodies of dead Hamas terrorists this week after they launched an unprecedented terrorist attack against Israel.

The documents showed that the detailed plans Palestinian terrorists were given ordered them to “target elementary schools and a youth center” in Kfar Sa’ad, a kibbutz in Israel, and to “kill as many people as possible.”

The documents also ordered the soldiers to take hostages and return back to Gaza as fast as possible. More than 1,300 Israelis were murdered, 3,000+ more were injured, and well over 100 hostages were taken.

Surveillance footage viewed by NBC News lined up closely to the orders that were given in the documents, including the use of specific tactics.

The documents showed that Hamas had conducted extensive intelligence gathering to carry out their attacks and that they had “specific plans of attack for each village that included the intentional targeting of women and children.” (Read more from “‘Top Secret’ Hamas Documents Show Palestinian Terrorists Intentionally Targeted Children: Report” HERE)

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Israel Starts Raids Inside of Gaza—What a Full Scale Ground Invasion Will Include and How It Could Play Out

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A full-scale Israeli ground invasion of Gaza was imminent Friday after the Israel Defense Force confirmed for the first time its troops and tanks had started carrying out raids inside the Palestinian enclave.

Israel has amassed a significant arsenal at the edge of Gaza as its war with terror group Hamas escalates including 35 battalions containing 300,000 troops who will be led into battle by 100 D9R fortified Bulldozers, 300 tanks and scores of Armored Personnel Carriers [APCs].

The IDF said on Friday troops have already carried out “localized raids” in Gaza to hunt terrorists and to attempt to find some of the approximately 150 Israeli hostages captured by Hamas during last week’s ruthless attacks, which sparked the war and left over 1,300 Israelis dead.

Since then Israel has launched nightly bombing raids on Gaza with some 6,000 airstrikes on strategic targets, reducing many to rubble. The territory’s health ministry said 1,900 people have been killed in the air raids.

On Thursday the IDF dropped flyers in northern Gaza warning its estimated 1.1m residents to head south of the Wadi Gaza bridge within 24 hours, including evacuating 11 hospitals, three UN compounds, and two refugee camps, which most took as a sign a ground invasion would follow. Hamas told its citizens to ignore the warning and stay where they are. (Read more from “Israel Starts Raids Inside of Gaza—What a Full Scale Ground Invasion Will Include and How It Could Play Out” HERE)

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Egypt Intelligence Official Says Israel Ignored Repeated Warnings of ‘Something Big’

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By The Times of Israel. Mounting questions over Israel’s massive intelligence failure to anticipate and prepare for a surprise Hamas assault were compounded Monday when an Egyptian intelligence official said that Jerusalem had ignored repeated warnings that the Gaza-based terror group was planning “something big” — which included an apparent direct notice from Cairo’s intelligence minister to the prime minister.

The Egyptian official said Egypt, which often serves as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, had spoken repeatedly with the Israelis about “something big,” without elaborating.

He said Israeli officials were focused on the West Bank and played down the threat from Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is made up of supporters of West Bank settlers who have demanded a security crackdown there in the face of a rising tide of violence over the last 18 months.

“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the content of sensitive intelligence discussions with the media, told The Associated Press.

Netanyahu denied receiving any such advance warning, saying in the course of an address to the nation Monday night that the story was “fake news.” (Read more from “Egypt Intelligence Official Says Israel Ignored Repeated Warnings of ‘Something Big’” HERE)

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Here’s the Most Provocative Take You’ll Read on the War in Israel…

By Revolver. The situation in Israel is causing a great deal of concern, panic, and heartache for many people all over the world. The stories coming out of Israel of rape and mass murder of innocent civilians are beyond reprehensible. But is there more to the story than what we’re currently seeing?

. . .An X user who goes by the handle SOVEREIGN BRAH published a very provocative post on the Israel war. These thoughts are likely to be among the most contentious you’ll encounter on the subject, but they’re interesting and very popular online at the moment.

Here they are:

“I’ve kept an eye on this Israel situation for the past few days.

Here’s what I’ve learned, & here are my blunt & honest thoughts:

1. Israel chose to ignore intelligence from Egyptian officials about a major attack coming from Hamas.

2. Multiple former IDF soldiers & Israeli intelligence personnel have come forward online and said there’s a zero percent chance Israel was unaware of this attack beforehand or couldn’t have prevented it.

3. We just watched unsophisticated terrorists on hang gliders soar into one of the most heavily-defended & surveilled countries on the planet.

4. Within 48 hours of the attack, we’re now suddenly seeing enormous support for an American war with Iran and the genocide of the Palestinian people.

I’m witnessing American pastors and formerly level-headed influencers in our world completely lose their minds and call for genocide.

It’s unsurprising, but insane to watch.

If the events of the past three years have taught me anything, it’s that when people get whipped into an emotional frenzy, critical thinking completely goes out the window.

People become highly suggestible and will rush to extremely dangerous conclusions without thinking about the consequences.

I think this is what we’re all witnessing with this situation in Israel.

I’m reminded of Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

In both scenarios, the American government received intelligence in advance of the attacks, but chose not to prevent the attacks.

Why?

The American government was willing to sacrifice the lives of American citizens in order to advance its geopolitical goals.

Pearl Harbor gave the justification to enter WWII.

9/11 gave justification to invade the Middle East & drastically expand the American military industrial complex & our surveillance apparatus.

They were brutal & extremely traumatic events for the American public to witness. The emotional trauma caused people to get whipped into an emotional frenzy.

America wanted ONE THING in response to these attacks:

The blood of our enemies.

I see the same psyop playing out now.

People are whipped into a frenzied bloodlust.

In their frenzied bloodlust, people are overlooking some SERIOUSLY important facts here, notably:

1. The fact that none of this adds up,

2. innocent civilians are being threatened with genocide, and

3. Escalated violence in the Middle East and a war with Iran both risk ***the rest of the planet getting dragged into WWIII.***

What happened in Israel this weekend was obviously gut-wrenching and awful to witness, but I do not trust Israel’s so-called “intelligence failure”, nor do I trust the snakes in Washington calling for war with Iran, & I sure as hell no longer trust any of the emotionally-frenzied influencers calling for explicit genocide of innocent civilians.

This was a defining moment in history, similar to Pearl Harbor, 9/11, COVID, the beginning of the Ukraine war, etc, and a lot of people just got played.

Hard.

People responded by going full mask-off, exposing themselves as reckless & incapable of exercising sound judgment in moments of chaos and heightened emotion.

And we’re now at the brink of WWIII because of it.

This is all worth noting.

There’s a high likelihood there will be more chaos throughout the rest of this decade.

There will be more psychological operations.

There will be more moments in time in which cooler heads ought to prevail, but people will get whipped into an emotional frenzy instead.

Keep your wits about you, & be cautious in whom you allow yourself to be influenced by.

Recognize that governments & intelligence agencies spend enormous resources waging psychological operations on social media nonstop when stuff like this goes down.

Remember that when chaos is at its peak, history shows there is ALMOST ALWAYS a hidden agenda being played out, & that hidden agenda is ALWAYS designed to prey on our base emotions to facilitate a desired end-result.

Pray for world peace tonight.

Thanks.”

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Thousands of Dead Bodies Lie Under Major U.S. City

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The city of San Francisco is apparently built atop countless forgotten cemeteries, according to an article published Wednesday.

San Francisco’s city leaders banned burials back in the early 20th century, but that doesn’t mean the city is teeming with forgotten graves from long before the ban came into play, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Locals might think the only cemeteries within the city are the military site in Presidio and the Mission Dolores cemetery, but they’d be wrong.

Apparently, there were cemeteries throughout the Bay Area, many of which were overtaken during the development of downtown’s residential neighborhoods that started to sprawl. While many grave sites were moved in the building of the once beautiful city, plenty of corpses were never actually transferred to their new resting places.

As a result, there are likely thousands of bodies hiding under the streets of San Francisco. Saints Peter and Paul Church nearing Washington Square sits atop a former cemetery, as does the San Francisco Public Library at the Civic Center. Even the site of the old Forever 21 in downtown was once a cemetery!

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Israel War: Iran Seeks to Rally ‘All Arab and Islamic Countries’ to Back Palestinian Terrorists

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Iran wants “all Arab and Islamic countries” to unite against Israel in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack that ignited a war in Gaza.

“Today, the most obvious issue before us is that all Arab and Islamic countries should agree on a single and clear position to support the rights of the Palestinian nation and the oppressed people of Gaza,” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi told Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, according to Iranian media.

U.S. and British forces are moving into the eastern Mediterranean in a bid to deter Iran and its proxies, while Secretary of State Antony Blinken conducts his own diplomatic tour of the Middle East to support Israel and discourage a wider war. Iran has launched a diplomatic campaign by phone and in person to rally Middle East leaders against Israel, while Iran-backed terrorist organizations threaten to expand the conflict.

“We have come prepared for you outside Palestine, just as we were inside Palestine, and the events that unfolded in the Gaza Envelope shall be mirrored in other battlegrounds,” Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Hamza said Thursday, according to Iranian media. (Read more from “Israel War: Iran Seeks to Rally ‘All Arab and Islamic Countries’ to Back Palestinian Terrorists” HERE)

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Magazine Names Dylan Mulvaney ‘Woman of the Year’

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A magazine in the United Kingdom and Europe that celebrates LGBTQ issues named trans-identifying male Dylan Mulvaney its “Woman of The Year” at the 2023 annual awards show.

During the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards, which was sponsored by Virgin Atlantic airlines, the host of the awards show proudly announced that the “Woman of the Year” winner was TikTok star Mulvaney.

Mulvaney took the stage and said hello to London before talking about how “honored” he was to be with them.

In his acceptance speech, the social media influencer took a swipe at those who “don’t see me as a woman at all” — and those he labeled “extremist media” who have slammed him — without naming what outlets those were.

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France Bans Pro-Palestinian Rallies – Will Arrest and Deport ‘Trouble Makers’

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The French government announced it was banning pro-Palestinian protests on Thursday, explaining they cause a disturbance to public order and give rise to racial hatred. Paris announced it would arrest organisers and deport “trouble makers.”

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wrote to the nation’s departments and regions on Thursday, informing them he had banned “pro-Palestinian demonstrations” because they are “likely to generate disturbances to public order,” the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Thursday, claiming to have had sight of his communication to regional leaders.

A Parisian court had already ruled that police blocking a specific pro-Palestinian rally in the city this week was lawful and proportionate because the judges found a high likelihood of it giving rise to “attitudes, words, and gestures of an anti-Jeiwsh nature, [including] inciting racial hatred and advocating for terrorist attacks,” reports broadcaster RTL.

In Darmanin’s reportedly instructions were specific instructions to dole out harsh repercussions for those who flouted the ban and staged rallies. Police should arrest organisers and what he called “troublemakers.” He advised that “foreign perpetrators” of antisemitism causing trouble at pro-Palestinian protests should have their residence permits revoked and be deported “without delay.” (Read more from “France Bans Pro-Palestinian Rallies – Will Arrest and Deport ‘Trouble Makers’” HERE)

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