Important Takeaways:
- The United States Catholic bishops reasserted Thursday that fighting abortion is the “pre-eminent priority” for Catholic voters, since protecting human life is the first duty of the law.
- “Abortion directly attacks life itself, takes place within the sanctuary of the family, and destroys over a million lives annually in the United States,” states the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities as part of its “9 Days for Life” campaign.
- The prelates go on to note that the Declaration of Independence “boldly affirms that first among our inalienable rights is the right to life, given to us by the Creator.”
- But despite being so solemnly proclaimed, “the right to life is today threatened and often denied, particularly at the moments when life is most fragile,” they observe.
- “Our laws should — first and foremost — protect life,” they declare, and yet even with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, “many states still do not recognize children in their mothers’ wombs as persons and still claim that abortion is a right.”
- As Breitbart News reported, abortion was the leading cause of death globally in 2024, with a record 45 million unborn babies intentionally killed in the womb.
- In the course of the year, 8.2 million people died from cancer, 5 million from smoking, 1.7 million of HIV/AIDS, 1.35 million from traffic fatalities, and 1.1 million from suicide, while 45.1 million died from abortion.
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- With the burning of both the Pacific Palisades and most of Altadena (a town just north of Pasadena), over 15,000 structures went up in smoke, sending plumes of toxic ash into the air that included lead, asbestos, and many other chemicals. According to the New York Times, the neurotoxin lead reached 100 times “average levels even miles from the flames,” while levels of chlorine reached 40 times the average
- The fire’s aftermath could lead to greater damage to brains and nervous systems from the lead in the air, especially in children, with chemicals like chlorine potentially damaging the lungs. A previous study showed that the 2018 Camp fire may have killed as many as 12,000 Californians prematurely due to the effects of toxic smoke and ash in the air.
- According to Axios, standard air quality measurements do not take into account the particles in the air like lead, asbestos, and other chemicals.
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- The $417 billion in economic losses represents a 15% increase above the decade average. The record high of $154 billion in insured losses surpasses the recent 10-year average by 27%. Despite these significant insurance payouts, a substantial protection gap remained, with $263 billion, or 63% of total losses, left uncovered, the report found.
- The year was marked by several record-breaking natural disasters. For the first time in history, 21 separate incidents resulted in multi-billion-dollar insurance claims, surpassing the previous record of 17 set in 2023 and 2020.
- The insurance industry’s response to these challenges will play a key role in shaping future premium costs and coverage availability. As annual loss volatility continues to be influenced by climate risk, insurers must balance the need for financial stability with their critical role in providing protection against increasingly unpredictable natural catastrophes.
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- Trump on Monday evening signed an executive order that read:
- National security is also damaged by the publication of classified information. Former National Security Advisor John R. Bolton published a memoir for monetary gain after he was terminated from his White House position in 2019. The book was rife with sensitive information drawn from his time in government. The memoir’s reckless treatment of sensitive information undermined the ability of future presidents to request and obtain candid advice on matters of national security from their staff. Publication also created a grave risk that classified material was publicly exposed.
- To remedy these abuses of the public trust, this Order directs the revocation of any active or current security clearances held by: (i) the former intelligence officials who engaged in misleading and inappropriate political coordination with the 2020 Biden presidential campaign; and (ii) John R. Bolton.
- Trump also revoked the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation — which was used as justification to suppress reports about it just days before the 2020 presidential election.
- Bolton served as Trump’s third national security adviser, after Gen. (Ret.) Mike Flynn and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) H.R. McMaster.
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Letter from a terrorist to the world is written by Jerusalem Jane to reveal the horrendous reality and deep trauma facing the Jewish people and Israel.
- For years, we slaughtered thousands of Jews in horrific terror attacks, including Holocaust survivors and babies; then we slaughtered even more Jews because we are never satisfied with how much blood we shed in those attacks.
- In 2011, two of our terrorist brothers, armed with four knives, entered the Itamar community and entered the Fogel family home.
- They went from room to room and brutally murdered most of the family. They stabbed 10-year-old Yoav multiple times, then strangled and stabbed 4-year-old Elad.
- They proceeded to stab the parents to death, and in the act of killing them, these evil terrorists heard the cry of the Fogel’s three-month-old baby Hadas. With utter cruelty and no mercy, they murdered her with a strong stabbing to her head that penetrated her tiny skull from side to side. We celebrated their demise, and congratulated our jihadist brothers.
- Yes, our brothers also butchered Jewish fathers on Independence Day by chopping them down with axes in front of their small kids. We gleefully carry out attacks that include shooting, ramming, stabbing, rocket attacks, and everything possible that we can imagine to kill Jews.
- Over the years, we fired more than 40,000 rockets into Israel from Gaza; we have repeatedly set Israel on fire with hundreds of arson kites and balloons with the support and cheers of the civilians in Gaza.
- Then we attacked on October 7th, 2023, and commit war crimes that are the most heinous atrocities since the Holocaust by murdering more than 1200 people, burning people alive, decapitated hundreds of people, or mutilated many of them.
- Those we didn’t kill outright, we kidnapped and brought into Gaza. We also carried the bodies of other Jews as ransom or negotiation pawns in dealing with Israel.
- These captives were then tortured, starved and raped.
- How many of those captives are actually dead or dying? We won’t disclose that. We want the stress of uncertainty to take a toll on the family of these captives.
- Oh and yes, our fellow terrorists in Hezbollah helped out with over 15,000 rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel.
- We are also aided by hundreds of ballistic missiles launched from our friends in Yemen and Iran, which has sent Israelis running for their lives to bomb shelters over and over again.
- We drive 100,000 Israelis out of their homes, and cause them to be refugees in their own country while destroying many of their homes. We love bringing relentless terror and uncertainty against them, we believe they deserve every moment we rob them of their peace!
- Meanwhile, we play the victim and get people all over the world demonstrating in the streets of their own countries for us, and ultimately supporting us in our wholesale slaughtering of Jews. We have successfully convinced the UN and EU to pour billions of dollars into our hands to educate and train our children to murder the Jews.
- Many of our doctors, teachers, Imams, journalists and aid workers are actually terrorists being paid by UNRWA and among other sources, both in Gaza and The West Bank.
- As matter of fact, we are deeply embedded in UNRWA, and we use their facilities to serve our agenda. Our schools’ books are nothing but lies, hate and propaganda against Israel, which is subsidized and supported by UNRWA.
- Our heroes are terrorists who brutally murder Jews; and those who are martyrs for our cause; are honored by actually naming public squares and streets after them. We regard them as role models for our children, and we gladly glorify them.
- We pay them or their families (when they are martyred) to murder the Jews, we have paid billions of dollars with money streaming in from western countries who must be both deaf and blind to our hate against the Jews, since they are willingly sponsoring their murder.
- We glorify death while the Jews celebrate life, so we fully take advance of that. So, now we get thousands of our most esteemed and cold-blooded terrorists free for the exchange of innocent civilians that we kidnapped and sodomized for more than year.
- Meanwhile, the world is going to pour billions of dollars into Gaza so we can rebuild after the massacre we committed on October 7th. Yes, it pays to be terrorists murdering the Jews.
- We are grateful that we are always getting rewarded with billions of dollars, along with sympathy from the world while the Jews who are being attacked and murdered in the most horrific ways are always being blamed, condemned and charged for war crimes. This is in spite of the fact that we committed these war crimes while trying to commit a genocide on Oct 7th.
- Among our other efforts, we have stolen hundreds of trucks of aid in Gaza, actually more many tons of aid was delivered into Gaza but we lied to the world and said people were starving and Israel was blocking aid – just like we lied and didn’t disclose that about 20,000 of our terrorists brothers were killed in Gaza. Instead, we just told the world that all those casualties were civilians, which they believed.
- Just like when we lied about Israelis bombing hospitals, when in fact, one of our rockets misfired, yes all the lies we told from “The health Ministry in Gaza,” AKA Hamas was believed and shared by mainstream media around the world. We can tell them anything, and they believe us.
- We also turn the Gaza strip into the biggest terror nest in the world, thanks to all the hundreds of millions of dollars we received in aid that was used to build the most sophisticated tunnel system throughout the entire Gaza strip. Every other house had tunnel shafts in them and we store a lot of weapons and rockets in our children’s bedrooms. They are our future, can’t you see?
- Mosques, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, playgrounds, UNWRA facilities were all used to store our weapons and we had command centers in many of these places as well. We also use civilians as human shields, and most of the people in Gaza support us 100%. Conversely, we abuse and murder the people who don’t support us in Gaza.
- As for this battle we fight against our oppressive occupiers, we are actually shocked when we see how the Israeli Army is so humane and in advance of their military operations, tells people to evacuate and move to a safe zone before they come after us, the vile terrorists as they call us.
- Why in the world is the IDF caring about the civilians in Gaza when they are supporting us, the freedom fighters named Hamas, when we in fact don’t give a hoot about any civilians? We need them to be casualties so we can blame Israel.
- Oh well, thousands of our terrorists’ friends are now being set free for a small group of innocent civilians that we abused. We can’t wait to welcome among others our brothers from Hamas, such as Wael Qassem and Wisam Abbasi, they were responsible for attacks that caused dozens of casualties, including bombings at Café Moment in Jerusalem, the Sheffield Club in Rishon Lezion, and the Frank Sinatra Cafeteria at Hebrew University in the early 2000s.
- Yeah, we are actually very good at murdering the Jews whether they’re standing at a bus stop, shopping in the supermarkets, driving in busses and vehicles, or sitting outside a home for the elderly, like when we recently brutally murdered 83-year-old Ludmilla Lipovsky, she was actually a holocaust survivor.
- We are also good at murdering Jews in the privacy of their own homes like Dafna Meir, who was killed when a Palestinian teenager repeatedly stabbed her at the entrance to her home in Otniel in front of her 3 children.
- To top all this off, we also have 50,000 children inside Gaza at military boot camps every summer to learn how to liberate Palestine and murder the Jewish people, and yes, we are good at indoctrinating our children with pure hate towards the Jews. That’s why our children are reading “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler.
- Terror against the Jews pays off, big time, and with this investment in our children, it will keep on paying us well.
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Important Takeaways:
- Although the agreement may put an end to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, it does not, in any way, reflect a shift in the radical and dangerous ideology of the Islamist group, as outlined in its 1988 Covenant. The document quotes Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization (of which Hamas is an offshoot), as saying: “Israel will arise and continue to exist until Islam abolishes it, as it abolished what went before.”
- The main points of the Hamas Covenant state:
- The Palestinian issue is a religious-political Muslim problem, and the conflict with Israel is between Muslims and the Jewish “infidels.”
- All Palestine is Muslim land and no one has the right to give it up.
- An uncompromising Jihad must be waged against Israel, and any agreement recognizing its right to exist must be totally opposed.
- The ceasefire-hostage deal does not require Hamas to disarm or cede control over the Gaza Strip…. The terrorist group seems to be convinced that the deal will enable it to keep control of the Gaza Strip and prepare for more massacres of Jews.
- Shortly after the ceasefire-hostage deal was announced on January 15, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya made it clear that his group intends to pursue its Jihad against Israel.
- The new US administration, to avoid more violence and bloodshed, must insist that Hamas be removed from power.
- This can only be accomplished by applying pressure and sanctions on Hamas’s Qatari and Iranian sponsors.
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- The Pensacola area has already received as much as 5.5 inches of snow on Tuesday, likely breaking a 130-year-old record for total snowfall, according to the National Weather Service.
- Despite temperatures sitting around 24 degrees, with wind chills ushering in frigid temperatures around 12 degrees, Pensacola residents haven’t wasted a moment bundling up and taking full advantage of the unprecedented snowfall.
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Important Takeaways:
- A historic plunge in temperatures has gripped the central and eastern U.S., bringing dangerous wind chills and record-breaking cold to many areas. From extreme subzero conditions in the Midwest to snowstorms along the Gulf Coast, the Arctic air has shattered records and created hazardous conditions across the region.
- What to know:
- Extreme cold warnings and advisories stretch from the Midwest to the South and East, with wind chills reaching as low as minus 50 degrees in places like Duluth, Minnesota.
- Tuesday morning saw Kansas City, Missouri, and Pueblo, Colorado, set record lows at minus 8 and minus 19 degrees, respectively.
- Gulf Coast states witnessed unprecedented snowfall, with New Orleans recording 10 inches of snow, and parts of Florida seeing totals of nearly 9 inches—a likely state record.
- The rare storm was fueled by a mix of unusually cold Arctic air and Gulf of Mexico warmth, resulting in record snowfalls and dangerous conditions.
- Temperatures are expected to remain frigid through the weekend, with a gradual warm-up forecast next week.
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Important Takeaways:
- Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian television to appeal to Donald Trump not to start World War III and congratulated him on his win, hours before Donald Trump’s Inaugural address as the 47th President of the United States.
- “We hear [Trump’s] statements on the need to prevent World War III. We undoubtedly welcome such a disposition and congratulate the elected US president,” Putin said in a televised session of Russia’s Security Council.
- He emphasized the potential of rebuilding relations with the US following Trump and his team talking about re-establishing communication as Moscow continues to wage a war in Ukraine.
- Putin said that he has heard Trump and his team’s “statements on their wish to restore direct contacts with Russia, which the outgoing [Biden] administration had cut off through no fault of our own.”
- He said that Moscow “never turned down this dialogue” and highlighted that US-Russia relations should be based on “equality and mutual respect.”
- Putin’s comments show a sharp change in the Kremlin’s stance back in November when they refused to congratulate Trump on his victory, stating the US being “unfriendly” to Russia as the reason.
- On his presidential campaign trail, Trump vowed to end the war in Ukraine.
- Recently, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, too, emphasized Russia’s interest in conversing with the US about the war in Ukraine.
- “No special conditions are needed for this. What is required is the mutual intent and political will to have a dialogue,” Peskov said.
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Important Takeaways:
- Evacuation orders that were issued have expanded due to a growing vegetation fire that broke out in the Bonsall area of San Diego County Tuesday morning.
- As of 4:10 a.m., the Lilac Fire has grown more than 50 acres, according to Cal Fire.
- Additionally, evacuation warnings have also been issued in the surrounding area. Officials said that the fire is a “potential threat to life and/or property. Those who require additional time to evacuate, and those with pets and livestock should leave now.”
- The fire was reported around 1:20 a.m. near Old Highway 395 and Lilac Road, according to the San Diego County Fire Department.
- The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department issued evacuation orders for nearby areas around 1:33 a.m. An interactive map with updated emergency evacuation information is available here.
- A temporary evacuation point is at Castle Creek Country Club located at 8797 Circle R Drive in Escondido.
- There are 66 personnel assigned to the fire, including six engines, two crews and one water tender, officials said.
- The fire is threatening some structures, the fire authority said.
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