For the First Time Since the Second Temple: Shofar Sounded on Temple Mount; Silver Trumpet Sounded as Call to War
On Thursday, the first day of Rosh Hashanah, a group of Jews smuggled shofarot (ritual rams’ horns) onto the Temple Mount and, despite police efforts to stop them, blew all of the requisite shofar blasts for the holiday. It should be emphasized that this is most probably the first time since the Second Temple stood that the shofar has sounded at Judaism’s holiest site.
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues city of Austin for using taxpayer money to fund abortions out of state
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Austin after the city allocated $400,000 to fund out of state travel expenses for abortion, which Paxton says violates the state’s constitution.
IDF has destroyed 50% of Hezbollah’s missiles, say new intelligence assessments — but serious threat remains
Hezbollah can activate missiles and overseas sleeper cells to kill Americans and Israelis Levitt was quick to note that Hezbollah “still maintains an arsenal of surveillance and attack drones and some 60,000 to 100,000 rockets and missiles,” which can be fired deep into Israel.
Trump says Israel should hit Iran’s nuclear facility first ‘and worry about the rest later’
Criticizing US President Biden’s statements at the G7 conference that Israel should refrain from striking Iran’s nuclear facilities, former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump said Israel should “hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later.” … That’s the thing you wanna hit, right?
Nasrallah’s successor eliminated
An Israeli security source on Saturday confirmed to Sky News Arabic that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s successor, Hashem Safieddine, was eliminated in a Friday night strike.
Lebanese media outlet: Israeli strike on Iran to begin soon
MTV quoted a US official as saying that the Israeli attack on Iran will begin “very soon.” The official did not specify a date, but indicated that the “wheels had begun to turn backwards.” In addition, American political scientist Ian Bremmer tweeted that he is “hearing Israel national security advisor just called Indian counterpart to warn that their retaliation (in Iran) is imminent.”
Blasts seen in Dahiyeh as Israel strikes Beirut, secondary explosions heard
Explosions were heard in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut on Saturday night, with the IDF confirming it was conducting strikes in the area against Hezbollah terror targets. Lebanese MTV also reported that a fire had broken out at the studios of Hezbollah-affiliated news outlet Al Manar, in the same suburb.
With a new year, comes a regional war for Israel
Israel is expected to attack Iran relatively soon and with a power that it has never done before following Tehran’s October 1 direct assault on the Jewish state. … the regional war that many wanted to avoid since October 7 has finally arrived. A quick strategic decision was made on Tuesday not to retaliate immediately but to keep the focus on pummeling Hezbollah
Airstrikes Launched on Several Parts of Yemen, Houthi Al Masirah TV says
Airstrikes were launched on Friday at several parts of Yemen including its capital Sanaa and Hodeidah airport, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement controlling much of Yemen, and residents said. Strikes also targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province, the channel added. Residents said that the attack on al-Bayda province targeted several Houthi military outposts.
Khamenei: Israel ‘will not last long’
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday described Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of some 1,200 people in Israel as “logical and legal,” and vowed that the Jewish state “will not last long.” During a rare Friday sermon, Khamenei also defended the Islamic Republic’s massive ballistic missile assault on Israel on Tuesday, saying it “was the minimum punishment for the crimes of the usurping Zionist regime,” and claiming it accorded with international law, as well as Islamic beliefs.
International investigation: Iran used criminals and drug dealers in Europe to target Israelis and Jews
Joint investigation reveals how Iran operated terror cells on European soil using figures from the criminal underworld to try and orchestrate massive attacks. This is not a “symbolic” modus operandi which takes advantage of frustrated and disenfranchised immigrants. Rather, these cells are planning and carrying out attacks and assassinations on a large scale. The cell that was arrested in France also planned to kill three other Israelis who work alongside Roey and three senior members of the Jewish community in Germany,
Israeli air strikes target Palestinian refugee camp, Hezbollah TV studios in Beirut
Powerful new explosions rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs late Saturday as Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon, striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep in the north for the first time as it targeted both Hezbollah and Hamas fighters.
Katrina-Like Disaster Unfolds For Biden-Harris As New Round Of Tropical Trouble Takes Aim At Florida
Hurricane Helene has passed, leaving a trail of destruction across the US Southeast, and the Biden-Harris administration’s relief response with FEMA has been nothing short of a massive failure. Meanwhile, another storm is brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, which could potentially usher in another round of tropical trouble for the US East Coast next week. FEMA admitted, “We got here yesterday,” a full week late.
What Would World War III Really Look Like? It’s Already Starting…
One of the most common assumptions I come across in the survival-sphere is the idea that the next world war would automatically necessitate global nuclear conflict and a Mad Max-like outcome. What people are overlooking is the fact that we are ALREADY in the middle of WWIII. … collapse is a process, not an event.
Tropical Storm “Milton” forms, forecast to strike Florida as a hurricane
Tropical Storm “Milton” formed in the Gulf of Mexico at 17:25 UTC on October 5, 2024, as the 13th named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. The current forecast track takes it right toward Florida, strengthening into a hurricane before making landfall.
Dunedin records wettest day since 1923 with 2.4 times the average October rainfall in 40 hours, New Zealand
Dunedin has recorded its wettest day since 1923, with a staggering 130.8 mm (5.15 inches) of rain falling in just 24 hours between October 3 and October 4, 2024. As a result, the region experienced widespread flooding, with authorities placing Dunedin and the Clutha districts under a state of emergency.
Netanyahu Rips France’s Macron For Urging Arms Embargo On Israel: “A Disgrace”
On Saturday French President Emmanuel Macron called for a halt to arms shipments to Israel for use in Gaza. He told national broadcaster France Inter in an interview that finding a “political solution” to the Gaza and Lebanon conflicts must be a “priority” and that a full arms embargo would help create the conditions.
What Would World War III Really Look Like? It’s Already Starting…
One of the most common assumptions I come across in the survival-sphere is the idea that the next world war would automatically necessitate global nuclear conflict and a Mad Max-like outcome. In other words, a lot of people assume we aren’t in a world war until the nukes start flying and the survivors are left fighting in soda can armor over an irradiated desert. This is a dangerous misunderstanding for a lot of reasons.
UN Secretary-General, UNRWA nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The head of the UN, under whose leadership war broke out in Ukraine and in the Middle East, has been nominated for promoting world peace, alongside an organization whose employees were involved in acts of massacre and kidnapping. The International Criminal Court in The Hague is also among the nominees for the prestigious prize.
Germany Targets American Writer: Facing Jail for Satirical Swastika Image Comparing Covid Policies to Nazi Germany
C.J. Hopkins’ legal battle in Germany exposes a chilling global crackdown on free expression, as governments weaponize hate speech laws to crush dissent and silence those who dare challenge authoritarian state narratives, particularly regarding Covid.
India plans to launch a pilot project for facial recognition at airports for foreign nationals
India is set to launch an international pilot project for Digi Yatra in June 2025, which will introduce facial recognition technology and e-passports for foreign nationals traveling to and from the country.
Proof that the Covid-19 vaccine causes mental illness
The study set out to investigate psychiatric adverse events from covid vaccinations. The authors recruited 50% of the Seoul-resident population randomly selected from the Korean National Health Insurance Service (KNHIS) claims database on 1 January 2021, resulting in a total of 2,027,353 participants. The participants were divided into two groups according to Covid-19 vaccination status: vaccinated and non-vaccinated.
Netanyahu: Israel has duty and right to hit back at Iran for missile attack, will do so | The Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday repeated his promise to strike back against Iran for its ballistic missile attack earlier in the week, saying Israel has an obligation to retaliate and will do so.