U.S. to Send Thousands of Extra Troops, Fighter Jets to Middle East –The additional deployment includes squadrons of F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16, A-10, and F-22 fighter jets, along with the personnel needed to support them. | 30 Sept 2024 | The U.S. is sending an additional “few thousand” troops to the Middle East to bolster security and to be prepared to defend Israel if necessary, the Pentagon said Monday. The increased presence support multiple fighter jet squadrons, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters during a press briefing. It follows recent strikes in Lebanon and the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a significant escalation in the war in the Middle East, this time between Israel and Hezbollah. There are fears Israel could launch a ground invasion of Lebanon, significantly escalating the conflict. On Sunday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also announced that he was temporarily extending the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and its associated squadrons in the region, emphasizing the U.S. commitment to ensuring stability in the face of growing tensions.  

Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, Reuters witness, security source say  –The IDF had warned it would strike specific buildings in the neighborhood, a densely populated district south of the Lebanese capital, as fears grow of a looming ground invasion. | 1 Oct 2024 | At least two Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs late on Monday, a security source said, with Reuters reporters seeing two flashes of light and hearing loud blasts coming from the neighborhood. The Israeli military had warned an hour earlier that it would strike specific buildings in the typically densely populated southern suburbs, saying armed group Hezbollah was using them as facilities and telling residents to leave. Many residents had fled the area in recent days after a spike in Israeli strikes but ended up sleeping in the streets of the city as shelters were full.  

North Korea says U.S. risking ‘nuclear disaster’ | 29 Sept 2024 | The U.S. is taking a dangerous gamble by providing Ukraine with ever more weaponry and seemingly ignoring Russia’s warnings, something that could trigger a “nuclear disaster,” Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korea’s leader, has claimed. During a state visit to North Korea this June, Russian President Vladimir Putin and leader Kim Jong-un signed the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. The document includes a pledge by Moscow and Pyongyang to assist each other in case of foreign aggression. Putin also stated at the time: “Russia does not rule out the development of military cooperation with the DPRK,” given that Western nations are supplying advanced weapons to Ukraine. In a press statement released on Sunday, Kim Yo-jong predicted that “additional US military support for Ukraine will bring about a nuclear disaster to the world.” She denounced as “foolish” Joe Biden’s decision earlier this week to supply Kiev with nearly 8 billion worth of military aid.

Ukraine Preparing to Use Chemical, Biological Weapons in Kherson Region – Governor | 30 Sept 2024 | Ukrainian prisoners of war say that Kiev is preparing to use chemical and bacteriological weapons to infect the water bodies in the Kherson Region, the governor of the Russian-controlled part of the region, Vladimir Saldo, told Sputnik on Sunday. “They [the Ukrainian authorities] are preparing for it, unfortunately. That’s what prisoners say. They are preparing to use chemical weapons to potentially infect water bodies, which will then be a biological weapon,” Saldo said. In light of this, the governor proposed introducing civil defense lessons in local schools.

Ukraine Loses Over 400 Troops, One Tank in Russia’s Kursk Region in Past Day – MoD | 29 Sept 2024 | Ukraine has lost more than 400 service-people and a tank in Russia’s Kursk Region over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. “In the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 400 personnel and nine armored vehicles, including a tank and eight armored combat vehicles, as well as an artillery gun, a Czech-made RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket system and nine motor vehicles,” the ministry said in a statement. This brings Ukraine’s total losses in the Kursk Region since the start of its offensive to over 18,560 troops, 133 tanks, 64 infantry fighting vehicles, 97 armored personnel carriers, 850 armored combat vehicles, 550 motor vehicles, 146 artillery guns and 32 multiple rocket launchers, according to the ministry.

Israel says it has secured $8.7 billion U.S. aid package | 26 Sept 2024 | Israel said on Thursday it had secured an 8.7 billion aid package from the United States to support its ongoing military efforts and to maintain a qualitative military edge in the region. The package includes 3.5 billion for essential wartime procurement, which has already been received and earmarked for critical military purchases, and 5.2 billion designated for air defense systems including the Iron Dome anti-missile system, David’s Sling and an advanced laser system. The aid announcement came after negotiations at the Pentagon between Eyal Zamir, the director general of Israel’s defense ministry, and U.S. defense officials, including acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Amanda Dory, Israel’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. [Can Asheville, North Carolina, get a d-llar? The U.S. can’t go six hours without feeding the military-industrial complex and Ukraine and Israel.] 

While Asheville, NC, is completely submerged, Biden approves $567 million in defense assistance for Taiwan | 30 Sept 2024 | [As millions in the U.S. are without power, the city of Asheville, North Carolina, is completely submerged, and hundreds are dead and missing from Hurricane Helene,] Joe Biden on Sunday approved 567 million in defense assistance for Taiwan, the White House said, as China [allegedly] ramps up political and military pressure on the self-ruled island. While the United States does not officially recognize Taiwan diplomatically, it is Taipei’s key partner and major provider of weapons — a point of consternation for Beijing, which has repeatedly called on Washington to stop arming the island, which it claims is part of its territory. In a brief statement, the White House said Biden had delegated the secretary of state “to direct the drawdown of up to 567 million in defense articles and services of the Department of Defense, and military education and training, to provide assistance to Taiwan.”

Fury in France as student is murdered in exclusive Paris suburb ‘by 22-year-old Moroccan rapist who had been released from jail and was awaiting deportation’ | 25 Sept 2024 | The murder of a French student in an exclusive Paris suburb, allegedly by a Moroccan rapist who had been released from jail and was awaiting deportation, has ignited fury in France. The body of the 19-year-old woman, named only as Philippine, was found buried in the Bois de Boulogne park in an affluent area in the west of Paris on Saturday. Philippine was studying economics at Paris-Dauphine university and was last seen a few hundred metres away from campus around midday on Friday. The suspect, named by French media as Taha O., is a 22-year-old from Morocco who had been due to be expelled from France after serving five years in jail for raping a student in 2019, Le Monde newspaper and BFM TV said.

Trump assassination attempt: Secret Service to face new lawsuit over DEI quota | 30 Sept 2024 | A nonprofit defending women’s issues plans to sue the U.S. Secret Service for what it alleges is an “arbitrary” diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiative that harms female employees. The proposed lawsuit comes more than two months after some pointed fingers at female USSS agents assigned to former President Trump’s detail at his July 13 presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old shooter gained access to a nearby rooftop and shot at Trump with an automatic rifle. “In our country, it is illegal for the government to discriminate on the basis of sex. That is the Constitution’s 14th Amendment,” May Mailman, director of the Independent Women’s Forum, told Fox News Digital.

U.S. East Coast port strike looms Tuesday with no talks scheduled | 30 Sept 2024 | U.S. East and Gulf Coast port workers are set to go on strike at midnight on Monday with no talks currently scheduled to head off a stoppage threatening to halt container traffic from Maine to Texas and cost the economy as much as 5 billion a day. The labor contract between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union representing 45,000 port workers and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) employer group expires late Monday, with negotiations at an impasse over pay. A port strike will go ahead starting Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. ET, the ILA said on Sunday. The USMX “refuses to address a half-century of wage subjugation,” the union said in a statement on Sunday.

COVID vaccines worsen outcomes after heart attacks in patients with prior infection, study suggests | 29 Sept 2024 | Global research already suggests the risk of COVID-19 infection rises with each mRNA vaccine dose and a higher risk of heart inflammation in jabbed young people, especially males, who face a low risk from COVID itself. Now a three-year study of nearly 1,000 heart attack patients at a hospital in Spain, published in a peer-reviewed Elsevier journal this month, suggests vaccination makes them far more likely to have “major adverse cardiovascular events” including death within six months of their heart attacks, especially when they’ve also recovered from COVID infection.

Hundreds still missing in devastated North Carolina after hurricane Helene –35 dead in North Carolina’s Buncombe County –More than 2 million homes and businesses across U.S. Southeast without power, communication outages widespread | 30 Sept 2024 | Western North Carolina residents faced a “post-apocalyptic” landscape on Monday in the wake of hurricane Helene, with hundreds of people still missing and residents struggling amid flooded roads and a lack of basic services. More than 100 deaths across a half-dozen states have been attributed to the powerful storm that slammed into Florida’s Big Bend region late on Thursday before cutting a destructive path through Georgia and into the Carolinas. As many as 600 people remain missing, U.S. Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall stated, though she noted that the numbers could vary as responders reach more locations. The death toll was likely to rise, officials said.

Biden admin’s FEMA ‘equity’ plan faces backlash amid historic hurricane damage: ‘What an embarrassment’ –FEMA states on their website that ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion cannot be optional’ | 30 Sept 2024 | The Biden-Harris regime’s disaster relief agency [a disaster in and of itself] is facing backlash after its unearthed emergency management blueprint went viral amid the destructive hurricane that recently ravaged the southern U.S. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website lists a set of three goals as part of their strategic plan to “address key challenges” in emergency management. The number one goal listed in the agency’s priorities is to “instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.” The second goal is “Lead Whole of Community in Climate Resilience” and the third goal is “Promote & Sustain a Ready FEMA & Prepared Nation.” According to FEMA’s plan, “Diversity, equity, and inclusion cannot be optional.” After Hurricane Helene broke out, leaving over 100 dead across six states and millions without power, social media users began criticizing FEMA’s strategic plan in the midst of the damage.

Biden issues bizarre response when asked why he wasn’t at the White House as Hurricane Helene killed 121 in the South | 30 Sept 2024 | Joe Biden said he expects to visit the areas devastated by Hurricane Helene later this week and insisted he was in command even though he was at his beach house this weekend when Hurricane Helene struck land. “I’ve told the governor of North Carolina I’ll go down and I expect to be down there by Wednesday or Thursday when it is clear for me,” he told reporters at the White House… Biden also got defensive when asked how he was in command while spending the weekend at his Rehoboth Beach vacation home while the hurricane was devastating parts of the South. “I was commanding, I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday, and the day before, as well. I commanded, it’s called a telephone,” he said.

Biden gets testy when pressed on Helene response as Americans stranded without water, power | 30 Sept 2024 | Joe Biden discussed the [so-called] federal response to Hurricane Helene during a press conference on Monday, vowed that he would visit some of the most devastated areas — but not yet. At the end of the press conference, which was interrupted by his frequent coughs, Biden grew defensive when a reporter pressed him on who was in command over the weekend to direct hurricane response. Biden spent the weekend at his beach home in Delaware. The heated exchange happened at the White House after Biden concluded his remarks and turned to leave the Roosevelt Room. “And the hurricane. Mr. President [sic], why weren’t you and Vice President [sic] Harris here in Washington commanding this this weekend?” a reporter yelled as Biden exited. “I was commanding it,” Biden retorted from the doorway. “I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well. I command it. It’s called a telephone and all my security people.”

President Trump shreds Kamala Harris’s photo-op fake: ‘You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work!’ | 30 Sept 2024 | President Trump on Monday responded to Kamala Harris’s “FAKE and STAGED photo” pretending to respond to Hurricane Helene in America’s Southeast region. Over 100 people have reportedly died in the hurricane’s more than 500-mile path of destruction across multiple states in the Southeast region. Millions have been hit by power outages. As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump is receiving a briefing on the catastrophic category four Hurricane Helene in Valdosta, Georgia. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris pretends to be “in constant contact with state and local officials to ensure communities have the support and resources they need.” In the photo Kamala posted on X, claiming that she is in communication with FEMA and local governors, one can clearly see that the headphones she’s wearing on the call aren’t plugged into her cellphone. “You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work!” said Trump in a Truth Social post.

Free speech makes U.S. ‘hard to govern’ – John Kerry –The Constitution is a barrier to ending “disinformation,” the former Obama administration official has claimed | 29 Sept 2024 | The freedom for individuals to choose their sources of information makes it difficult to govern effectively, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said. Speaking at a World Economic Forum (WEF) panel [of Agenda 2030 terrorists] on Green Energy last week, Kerry criticized the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects freedom of speech and the press. “It’s really hard to govern today,” he remarked, arguing that social media poses challenges for building consensus in democracies. “The referees we used to have to determine what is fact and what isn’t have kind of been eviscerated,” Kerry stated, whining that individuals now decide where to get their news. “If people go to only one source…and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to simply hammering it out of existence,” added Kerry, who served as secretary of state under Barack Obama.

The Fuzzy Logic of Kamala Harris’s Price-Fixing Scheme By [CLG News Founder] Michael Rectenwald, Special to The Kennedy Beacon | 30 Sept 2024 | Kamala Harris has suggested that, if elected, her administration would “pass the first ever federal ban on price gouging on food.” This proposal represents nothing other than the promise to institute price fixing on groceries. All talk of attacking “price gouging” by politicians implies price fixing. Harris and running mate, Tim Walz, want us to believe that their price fixing scheme will help average Americans. It won’t. The problem with price fixing is that, rather than reducing inflation, it leads to shortages of the goods whose prices are fixed while driving up the prices of other goods.