Important Takeaways:
- “If you support a terrorist organization, and you participate in unlawful activity on campuses, you should get a taste of your own medicine. I am going to bet that these pro-Hamas supporters wouldn’t last a day, but let’s give them the opportunity” says Rep Randy Weber
- Several of those protests have turned violent, with clashes between police and activists, as well as hundreds of activists being arrested across multiple campuses.
- While Ogles’ bill text does not mention Israel or the anti-Israel groups, it specifically targets unlawful activity on college campuses after Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants invaded Israel in a surprise attack that killed over 1,000 people.
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Important Takeaways:
- Students participating in the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at universities across the country are being taught to become militants, according to nine manuals obtained by The Free Press.
- Many of the manuals… encourage “militancy” and instruct protesters to break laws, seize buildings, vandalize them, and then use tactics to evade police detection and arrest.
- One guide, called “De-arrest Primer,” teaches protesters to physically resist arrest or, in some cases, assault police officers or throw projectiles at them to protect fellow “comrades” from arrest.
- Another manual, called the “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide,” contains detailed diagrams on how to break into buildings using tools like crowbars, clamps, metal cables, chains, bolt cutters, and a miniature saw known as an angle grinder.
- Three of the guides encourage college protesters to erase the distinction “between students and non-students.” Of the 282 people arrested on Tuesday night between Columbia and the City College of New York, 48 percent were not affiliated with either university, according to the NYPD.
- “This is a global problem. And young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children
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- Virginia U.S. Senate candidate and retired U.S. Navy captain Hung Cao earlier this month toured a nearly-finished state-of-art nitrile rubber plant in southwest Virginia that President Joe Biden’s administration has abandoned, allowing China to be on track to become America’s largest supplier of rubber medical gloves, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.
- “I don’t understand why Joe Biden hates America so much and hates American manufacturing,” Cao said “We are waiting patiently for November 5th so we can go ahead and start this process and really build up the industry in southwest Virginia as well as bring more revenue to an area that’s been depleted.”
- The plant, located in Wytheville, Virginia, was expected to create 2,500 jobs and bring in $1.3 billion in revenue to the area, and eventually create 4,000 more jobs.
- Blue Star NBR completed building the nitrile rubber plant spring 2023 but ran out of funds due to inflation and the increased cost of building materials and energy costs before it could be hooked up to a power source.
- However, the Biden administration’s HHS has, since last year, refused to provide more money to hook up the finished plant and build a planned adjacent rubber glove factory. Blue Star NBR was forced to begin mothballing the equipment in the factory.
- Blue Star NBR CEO Scott Maier’s appeals to the Biden administration have fallen on deaf ears.
- Meanwhile, the Biden administration has reportedly provided a grant to a factory in Louisiana that is much further behind than Blue Star NBR.
- In the short time that it took for the rubber nitrile plant to be built, China went from being a small global supplier of the gloves to now being on track to become America’s (and the world’s) biggest supplier
- Cao also raised the prospect of China — who was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic in the first place — refusing to supply America with gloves.
- “Shocking is the fact that HHS just said no, we have what we need. Because again, they’re reliant on the Chinese-made product instead of relying on Americans,” he said.
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Important Takeaways:
- The number of Chinese nationals is set to break records this fiscal year
- There were more than 1,000 apprehensions of Chinese nationals crossing the U.S. border illegally in the last week
- Overall, across the border, numbers have increased dramatically since FY 21. There were 1,970 encounters in FY 2022, over 24,000 in FY 2023 and so far, there have been over 24,200 encounters so far this fiscal year.
- House Republicans warned that the Chinese Communist Party “wants the chaos and devastation” that comes from fentanyl coming in to the U.S. Illicit fentanyl is primarily made using Chinese precursors by Mexican cartels and then moved across the southern land border
- The majority of the Chinese border crossers are single adult males of military age.
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Important Takeaways:
- Final proof Biden’s America is utterly adrift, ignored – and barreling toward disaster: ANDREW NEIL’s expert analysis of an infirm, incoherent President… now losing all control
- The words were forceful enough on Tuesday when President Joe Biden rightly condemned the current ‘ferocious surge of anti-Semitism in America and around the world.’
- He was speaking, appropriately enough, at a Holocaust memorial ceremony in the US Capitol on May 7 – seven months to the day of Hamas’s unprovoked and barbarous attack on Israel.
- Biden was even explicit about Hamas’s crimes and its responsibility for the war that inevitably followed October 7.
- ‘I have not forgotten,’ averred the President.
- But the most remarkable feature of his speech was how little his words seemed to matter. They disappeared in the wind almost as soon as they were uttered.
- There was a time when America — indeed the world — took serious notice of what a US president said. Biden, it appears, can be safely ignored.
- Certainly, few seem to heed his warnings these days.
- He told Iran ‘don’t’ when it threatened to retaliate for Israel’s fatal attack on its Revolutionary Guard HQ in Damascus, Syria. Tehran proceeded to launch over 300 missiles and drones at Israel, nearly all of them thankfully taken out before reaching their targets.
- He informed Israel that rooting out what’s left of Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah was a ‘red line’ the Jewish State must not cross because of the potential for more civilian casualties. This week Israel started rooting out Hamas in Rafah.
- He informed Israel that rooting out what’s left of Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah was a ‘red line’ the Jewish State must not cross because of the potential for more civilian casualties. This week Israel started rooting out Hamas in Rafah.
- On Tuesday, he addressed the poisonous anti-Semitism now rampant on university campuses.
- He highlighted ‘vicious propaganda on social media … Jews forced to hide kippahs under baseball caps, tuck Jewish stars into their shirts … Jewish students blocked, harassed, attacked while walking to class .. anti-Semitic posters, slogans calling for the annihilation of Israel … too many people denying, rationalizing, ignoring the horrors of the Holocaust and October 7th … it’s absolutely despicable — and it must stop.’
- He is, of course, absolutely right to call this out. The pity is that it’s taken him so long to do so.
- The so-called National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), instigators of many of the encampments, has called October 7th ‘a historic win for the Palestinian resistance.’
- New York’s Columbia University SJP has declared ‘full solidarity with Palestinian resistance,’ praising the ‘historic’ attack ‘despite the odds.’
- These are not protestors pleading for peace to be given a chance. They want to see Israel destroyed and Hamas victorious.
- Biden’s own campaign supporters are funding this pro-war rabble.
- Money from Democratic megadonor George Soros has gone to a group called Jewish Voice for Peace which immediately after October 7 blamed, ‘Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity,’ for the slaughter.
- Yet as President, Biden couldn’t even bring himself to condemn the notorious anti-Semitic ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ chant so beloved of the protestors.
- As Biden claimed his support for Israel is ‘ironclad even when we disagree’ we learned that his administration was holding up shipments of precision bombs to Israel to signal to the Israeli government that Washington really doesn’t want it to pursue the all-out defeat of Hamas.
- To be fair, Biden’s intervention, well-meant and heartfelt – as it no doubt was despite all its inadequacies – was over-shadowed by Stormy Daniels testimony in the Donald Trump hush-money trial in New York.
- The media was more obsessed with that than Biden’s important words about anti-Semitism, which is not the President’s fault.
- But you can’t help feeling that a President with more authority and respect would also have commanded more attention.
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Important Takeaways:
- Farmers ‘Prepare For A New Normal In 2025,’ As Prices On New And Used Equipment Become Overinflated
- This rapid supply increase forced the erosion of the scarcity premium placed on equipment during 2020 to 2022 and is responsible for the correction of the market we see today.
- Casey Seymour for Successful Farming dives into what’s going on in a vital sector that’s not getting enough attention for such a notable problem. Seymour discusses what this so-called “new normal” will look like in 2025 and factors that will trigger this “reset.”
- Seymour wrote:
- The state of the used market is top of mind for anyone involved in the farm equipment business. Dealers’ lots are as full now as they were pre-COVID. Based on the data I have collected, that equipment has seen a 40% to 60% price increase over the last six years, and in the same period, interest rates have increased a staggering 188%. The reset is happening, but what will the new normal look like?
- As you drive from town to town, it’s easy to see that supply has caught up with demand. The manufacturer doesn’t matter; dealer lots are full and, in many cases, teeming with model-hour equipment. The cost of holding the equipment is also at record highs. Typical large ag equipment carries a price tag of $400,000 to $500,000. With floor plan interest rates at 7%, dealerships are paying $28,000 to $35,000 in interest per year per machine.
- More dealerships than ever are motivated to sell equipment. This has generated liquidation auctions not seen since 2014 to 2020. I spoke with several auction companies and heard the same account each time: The dealers need to get machines off their books, and they plan to use every means possible. Some reports have dealers taking machines straight from the farm to the auction block.
- The price of late-model equipment is also a problem. In 2020, a new Class 8 combine cost $450,000. Today, the same spend would get a used Class 8, with 500 hours. Finding buyers for a used $450,000 combine is growing more complicated, not because the money isn’t there but trading a low interest rate for a higher one isn’t attractive.
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- Economies around the world are staring down the barrel of everything bubble that was created post-2008, and then has been hyper-inflating since 2020, and with rates where they’ve been at it’s pushed nearly all sectors to the breaking point.
- 2025 is going to be a watershed year, or I should say a bloodshed year, in my opinion, because a lot of signs seem to indicate this whole gravy train will be allowed to fail next year, because central banks will allow it to; which will be used to usher in this “great reset,” and enforce all these insidious agendas we know these globalists have been working to shove on everyone. The chaos that’s coming in 2025 and after will be a wild ride, and that’s putting it extremely mildly, and a collapse in the farming markets is just one aspect of it.
- A mass consolidation of power and wealth is taking place and it’s all coming to a head, where central banks are closing in on their lifetime wish of finally becoming the buyers and lenders of last resort. No more middlemen, just them, in a land of consolidated power and wealth, of the haves and have-nots.
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Important Takeaways:
- Ivy League schools took millions in gifts from ‘State of Palestine’ entities
- Harvard University and Brown University collected more than $2 million combined from Palestinian entities in recent years, according to a new report released Wednesday that questioned what the universities had to do in exchange for the cash.
- com, a spending watchdog, said Harvard collected $1,575,000 in funds from the “state of Palestine.” Brown received $643,000.
- And Indiana University of Pennsylvania, northeast of Pittsburgh, received $7.3 million from entities labeled, the “State of Palestine” and “Palestinian Territory Occupied.”
- “American universities taking six-figure foreign funding from an area of the world dominated by terrorists raises all kinds of questions,” Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpenTheBooks, said.
- The report comes as college campuses are wracked with conflict over Israel’s war with Hamas. Anti-Israeli students accuse the Jewish democracy of a “genocide” in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops are trying to root out the Hamas organization that launched the murderous terror attack on Israel in October.
- Protesters have dug in on demands that schools divest from Israel to express their sentiments about the ongoing war.
- OpenTheBooks said the Palestinian money may be “radicalizing American students.”
- OpenTheBooks counters that there is no such entity as “Palestine.”
- “Neither the U.S. State Department nor the United Nations recognize Palestine as a country. The ‘State of Palestine’ is a political fiction that provides cover for numerous terror organizations funded by Iran and others,” Mr. Andrzejewski wrote.
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Important Takeaways:
- MPs will be told of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defense later today, targeting service personnel.
- The government will not name the country involved, but Sky News understands this to be China.
- The Chinese state is to be accused of two or three attempts at hacking MoD employees – including personnel.
- The cyberattack was on a payroll system with current service personnel and some veterans. It is largely names and bank details that have been exposed.
- All salaries will be paid this month.
- China’s foreign ministry said it “firmly opposes and fights all forms of cyber attacks” and “rejects the use of this issue politically to smear other countries”.
- Tobias Ellwood, a Conservative MP and former soldier, told Sky News that China “was probably looking at the financially vulnerable with a view that they may be coerced in exchange for cash”.
- Defense Secretary Grant Shapps will make a statement to the Commons today, with the BBC reporting he will set out a “multi-point plan” which will include action to protect affected service men and women.
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Important Takeaways:
- Heightened tornado risk targets Nashville as severe weather outbreak expands to nearly 150 million Wednesday
- Nearly 4 million people, including the cities of Nashville in Tennessee and Bowling Green in Kentucky, are included in a Level 4 out of 5 risk of severe weather. Another 14 million are included in a Level 3 out of 5 risk, including Memphis in Tennessee and St. Louis in Missouri.
- The nation’s deadly severe weather outbreak enters its third day with a higher risk of strong, long-track tornadoes in densely populated areas.
- This comes as several damaging twisters tore across the Midwest and Ohio Valley on Tuesday, with Michigan being the hardest hit.
- Tornadoes, very large to giant hail and destructive wind gusts are all possible. Some of the tornadoes may be EF-2 or stronger.
- “Mayfield, Kentucky, is right in the middle of this. That is always a concern when you see those towns that have been hard hit by severe weather in the last three years or so,” FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin said. “It takes a lot of time to come back from an EF-4 tornado.”
- [According to a Fox graphic: (May 7-8) 126 sever T- Storm warnings, 68 Tornado Warnings, 1 Tornado Emergency]
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Important Takeaways:
- Sick campus protesters called for beheading of school president with chants of ‘guillotine’
- Pro-Palestine protestors at George Washington University called for the beheadings of school administrators before hostile clashes with police over ending their Gaza Encampment.
- Footage taken on campus on Tuesday saw activists condemn GWU President Ellen Granberg and Provost Christopher Bracey to the ‘guillotine.’
- ‘Bracey, Bracey, we see you. You assault students too. Off to the motherf****** gallows with you,’ the protesters were heard chanting as they held a mock court.
- Hours later at around 3:30am, police descended on the encampment after they refused to end the illegal demonstration, with a total of 35 people arrested on campus, reports Fox News.
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