23 Jan 2023

The Internal Debate in the Iranian Elite Over the Hijab Protests
The four-month-long protests deeply worry the Iranian leadership. The hijab is a basic tenet of the Iranian ayatollahs’ theology. The wave of protest is now a force that threatens the stability of the regime. So far, between 400 and 500 people have been killed in the protests, among them members of the Iranian security forces, and about 18,000 people have been arrested. The execution of Ali Reza Akbari symbolizes the victory of the extremist faction of the Iranian elite. Some senior officials at the top of the Iranian regime believe that flexibility should be shown in handling the protests to calm the atmosphere.

In the US, COVID decreased prayer attendance but increased levels of faith
The study polled 9,425 Americans by phone and online between February and April 2022. To help researchers focus on pandemic-driven changes, the study included only individuals who had registered their religious affiliations and church attendance patterns in a previous survey between 2018 and March 2020. The report concluded that religious identity remained stable through the pandemic but religious attendance was significantly lower in spring 2022 than it was pre-pandemic.

Mysterious antennas keep popping up in Utah’s mountains
On Wednesday, Jan. 4, officials with Salt Lake City, Utah’s recreational trails management team had to hike up a mountainside to retrieve a mysterious antenna popping through the snow. But this antenna was not the first they’ve encountered. As many as a dozen have now been found. “These towers have been bolted into different peaks and summits and ridges around the foothills,” Fonarow told KSL 5 TV in a recent interview.

Subpoena emails, phone records, polygraph law clerks to nab Dobbs leaker, urges ex-Gorsuch clerk
“The fact that the draft decision leaked … along with a separate leak of the internal deliberations shows me it was probably a law clerk,” he said. “It was probably one of the 12 law clerks to the three liberal justices who were upset that they were gonna overturn Roe v. Wade, and they were trying to change votes.

Expert Warns: Twitter Files Prove America Fast Becoming a TOTALITARIAN STATE
When asked what will happen if the country’s current trajectory continues for three to five years, Peterson said, “We’ll be in totalitarian state territory, there’s no question about it.” remember, this went so far as the government saying, ‘You need to find evidence that there are Russians influencing the election on Twitter.’ And Twitter saying, ‘No, that’s not happening.

Mexican president hails ’40 million Mexicans in the United States’
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador remarked on the tens of millions of Mexicans living in the U.S. during a recent summit with President Joe Biden. The pair of presidents joined Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City last week for an annual gathering of the North American leaders nicknamed the “Three Amigos Summit.”

Where Did All The Workers Go?
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell blamed most of the 3.5 million estimated shortfall in the US labor force on premature retirements. He also blamed a large portion – between 280,000 and 680,000 – on “long Covid.” In a footnote, however, Powell acknowledged a far more somber factor: an estimated 400,000 unexpected deaths among working age people.

WSJ Shreds Vaccine Makers, Biden Admin Over “Deceptive” Booster Campaign
Wall Street Journal editorial board member Allysia Finley has taken a flamethrower to vaccine makers over their “deceptive” campaign for bivalent Covid boosters, and slams several federal agencies for taking “the unprecedented step of ordering vaccine makers to produce them and recommending them without data supporting their safety or efficacy.”

US Quietly Boosts Military Training For Taiwan:
The training, not previously known, began some time before the spring of 2022 in an attempt to increase the island’s deterrent effect against a possible Chinese invasion and improve U.S.-Taiwan cooperation, sources familiar told Nikkei. While the exact scope and duration of the expanded training mission in Taiwan remain unclear, training of this sort has proven effective in enhancing U.S. partners’ abilities to defend against attackers.

Priests Were Called to the Pelosi Home:
Nancy Pelosi reportedly arranged for priests to conduct what her daughter called an “exorcism” of the Pelosis’ San Francisco home after the October attack that left Pelosi’s husband, Paul, badly injured. Nancy Pelosi, an ardent advocate of legal abortion, identifies as a “devout” Roman Catholic,

AWOL Navy SEAL Confirmed Dead on Battlefield
The U.S. Navy has confirmed former SEAL Daniel Swift, who was listed as absent without leave, was killed on Wednesday while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces against Russian invaders, as first reported by Time magazine.

Biden is finished. Here are the deep state’s 3 possible replacements
Poor helpless, hapless, mumbling, stumbling, bumbling, brain-dead President Joe Biden. It’s all over for him. The puppet’s days are clearly numbered. The cat is out of the bag. Everyone knows. Even most Democrats finally got the message: They don’t want Biden in 2024. For Biden, the end is near. Soon he will be impeached, indicted or forced to resign in disgrace.

How the American cultural establishment submits to Islam
The American cultural establishment behaves like the Saudis when it comes to Islam. Hamline president Fayneese S. Miller said respect for Muslim students “should have replaced academic freedom.” We are at this level now. What about respect for Catholic, Jewish or Hindu students?

Will the A-G declare Netanyahu unfit to serve? Guess again
Reports on Friday said that the attorney-general is considering declaring Netanyahu unfit because of conflict of interest.

The Myth of Israel’s ‘Mass Anti-Government Protests’
While Israel is a small country, getting 100,000 protesters, on any side, to take to the streets is really not very hard. Here are just half a dozen examples:

US forces capture two ISIS members during air and ground raid in eastern Syria
The raid occurred on Saturday, according to Central Command spokesperson. Few other details made available.

Pompeo to INN: You can’t give an inch on things that matter most
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells Israel National News that the controversy that has erupted this week stemming from a passage in his new book about Nikki Haley plotting to be named Trump’s vice president while she was serving as the administration’s UN ambassador reveals a great deal about the way Washington D.C. functions. “The fact that it became a story of the day tells you a lot about Washington D.C.,” Pompeo says. “The story I was telling was about teams and how you build them and about commitment and duty.

‘The rampant Arab illegal building has come to an end’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Sunday evening that during the month of January, the defense establishment cleared 38 illegal structures in Judea and Samaria. … there cannot be one law for the Arabs and one law for the Jews. The law should also be enforced on Khan al-Ahmar and dozens of illegal Arab outposts.”

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