Congregant raised alarm as pre-dawn fire ripped through synagogue ‘jewel’

A witness who was inside the Melbourne synagogue firebombed before dawn on Friday has recounted fleeing the building to raise the alarm.

Yumi Friedman, founder of business Yumi’s dips, told this masthead he was inside Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea, in Melbourne’s inner south-east, with one other person at the time of the attack about 4.10am.

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David Hogg ‘Seriously Considering’ Running For Top DNC Job To Fix Party’s ‘Condescending Tone’

The failed pillow salesman, who has made a name for himself by aggressively calling for taking away American’s Second Amendment rights, appeared on CNN Thursday morning where he addressed the report.

“Well, honestly, I’m considering it because I think that, one, obviously, I think we need a new generation in the DNC, if this election has taught us nothing else,” Hogg said. “I think we need an intergenerational coalition as a party.”

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Trans 10-year-old fears being randomly killed in the street due to trans identity

A 10-year-old boy who identifies as a transgender girl expressed that the child’s greatest worry about the public debate over sex changes for minors: being killed. The child made the comments to CNN’s Lucy Kafanov on Wednesday while discussing the US Supreme Court hearing on the validity of a Tennessee statute that bans sex changes for minors.

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They Have No Plan For America

The following short clip of Nixon is fascinating. For one thing, he totally gets communism as a totally destructive effort. That is promotes nothing, and its entire reason de etre is the destruction of that which is good and that which works. But then his language after that is doubly interesting. He uses words from old-speak.

Readers of this site will experience a little cognitive dissonance as we understand these terms as they were meant before being coopted by the left, while also understanding them as their dialectical opposites as they do now. Newspeak in other words. I’ll link to the amazing essay by Orwell as read in the audiobook of 1984 on New speak. That alone is worth the effort.

Nixon uses progressive, freedom, justice, all as they have always meant in the west till recently. Its an interesting experience when you think of how the left negated these terms and redefined them to mean a rough opposite. Islam did the same. Freedom means freedom from man made laws, and justice means the sharia.

h/t Vlad Tepes

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Howdy Y’all or should that be Arrgh Me Hearties!

Note that the Pirate and Cat depicted are only meant as fictional representations of the author and his feline pal.

So … I went to the hospital yesterday.

On Tuesday the left side of my face decided to go numb and began drooping while the left eye was turned into a very irritated red runny mess.

I decided to ignore it thinking that would make it go away. Come Wednesday morning things had deteriorated enough to merit greater concern. So I phoned my niece who politely advised I was a fool for not calling 911 fearing the symptoms indicated a stroke.

And so I did. And here I am at home.

(more…)

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The world has been warming faster than expected. Scientists now think they know why

Last year was the hottest on record, oceans boiled, glaciers melted at alarming rates, and it left scientists scrambling to understand exactly why.

They know the extraordinary heat was fuelled by a number of factors, predominantly planet-heating pollution from burning fossil fuels and the natural climate pattern El Niño. But those alone did not explain the unusually rapid temperature rise.

Now a new study published Thursday in the journal Science says it has identified the missing part of the puzzle: clouds.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting: Five developments from NYPD’s investigation

Alargescale manhunt for the suspect in the unexpected death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is still underway as of Thursday night, one day after the mysterious shooting.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has not named a suspect in the shooting, but images of a person of interest in the case were released by the department on Thursday afternoon. The department also said the case does not appear to be random, but a motive for the shooting is not clear.

Full disclosure: This is my health insurance company. (Sarcasticat)

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HUNTER: Liberals opt for ‘don’t worry’ on violent sex offenders in women’s prisons

In this country and in this particular year of 2024, up is down, down is up and green is blue.Understand?

That is so because the justice system declares it so. The governing Liberals declare it so. Academics and activists declare it so.

But the truth of the matter is, it just isn’t so.

So, why would you stake the lives of women and young children on the premise that nothing has happened — yet?

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Remember a town called Brampton?

This article was written in 2013 and of course White people are racist.

White flight takes hold in Brampton

Mary Di Biase doesn’t want to become part of a quiet but growing migration out of Brampton. But after living there for almost 43 years, leaving is often on her mind.

h/t Mauser

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Church of England spending ‘excessively’ on HR and diversity officers, report warns

The report, released on Wednesday, said the Church’s 42 dioceses had taken on “large numbers of staff” since the turn of the millennium while merging parishes and reducing clergy numbers to cut costs.
These administrative positions include human resources jobs and a series of “politicised roles” such as diversity, social justice, LGBT+ and net zero officers, the report found.
It means that “dioceses across the country now employ so many people that, on average, there is one administrator to every three-and-a-half priests”.
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