[AMP America] During the debate on Tuesday, one of the ABC News moderators corrected former President Donald Trump’s claim about babies who survive unsuccessful abortions, stating that they are not killed. However, recent records from Minnesota indicate that eight babies have survived such procedures but subsequently died after being denied critical medical treatment.
Donald Trump claimed that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who is Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick, supports abortion up until the ninth month and even condones "execution" after birth, which Trump argued is unacceptable.
ABC News’ Linsey Davis countered Trump’s assertion, clarifying, "No state in the U.S. permits killing a baby after birth."
However, data from Minnesota reveals a more complex situation. Under Governor Walz’s administration, five infants who were "born alive" during failed abortions in 2021 did not receive life-saving care, though two were given "comfort care," according to a report from the Minnesota Department of Health on July 1, 2022. Additionally, three infants "born alive" in 2019, Walz’s first year in office, also died without life-saving treatment, as reported by the same agency on July 1, 2020.
Minnesota was one of the few states that required public reporting of "born-alive" abortions, providing a significant statistic for pro-life and anti-abortion advocates. However, in 2023, Governor Walz collaborated with the newly Democrat-controlled Legislature to remove both the reporting requirement and the state’s mandate for doctors, nurses, and medical professionals to provide life-saving care to infants born alive during abortion procedures.
In 2023, the House of Representatives approved the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act with a vote of 220-210. If enacted, this legislation would mandate that healthcare professionals provide care to any infant born alive following a failed abortion.
This would most be rescinded with a radical Harris/Walz Administration. Walz has a long history of being on the forefront of the murder of American infants.
Governor Walz enacted a law that secures abortion rights by removing nearly all state-imposed restrictions and offering safeguards for patients traveling from states with stricter abortion laws. During a visit in March to a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, he joined Vice President Harris, who praised Minnesota’s progressive stance on abortion rights. This visit marked what the Vice President’s office described as the first tour of an abortion provider by a sitting President or Vice President. The new legislation abolished several restrictions, including a mandatory 24-hour waiting period and the need for parental consent.
Read that again slowly. Tim Walz wants children to be able to access abortion on demand with no parental consent required. This is the only part of the debate I watched. I remember wondering how and why Linsey Davis was so quick to "fact check" what Trump said. I remember wondering who checks the checkers?
And then you found this article, just one of the many fact checks put out by America’s loyal conservative opposition. Skills are sharpening all over the right side of the field, now that we aren’t waiting for the politicians to get to it.
[IsraelTimes] Dalia Ziada was forced to flee Cairo for criticizing Hamas after October 7; today a lobbyist against Iran in DC, she explains why Egypt rejects Israeli control over the corridor.
A major sticking point in the floundering ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... revolves around control of the Philadelphi Corridor, a 14-kilometer (8.7-mile) strip of land along the border between the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the case for maintaining an Israeli military presence in this area, calling it a "strategic imperative" to prevent the Hamas terror group from rearming, as he explained during a presser.
But both Hamas and Egypt have vehemently opposed the possibility of the IDF remaining in the Philadelphi Corridor.
While Hamas’s objection is self-evident — the Philadelphi Corridor is often referred to as the terrorist organization’s "pipeline for oxygen" as it is Gaza’s only contact with the outside world aside from Israel — Egypt’s resistance has baffled many, since Cairo already shares a long border with Israel that runs for over a hundred miles, south of the Gaza Strip.
In a recent interview with The Times of Israel, Egyptian analyst Dalia Ziada viewed Cairo’s stance very critically.
"Egyptian negotiators should approach Israel from a point of view of cooperation, rather than applying pressure," said Ziada, who recently relocated to Washington, DC.
"The national security of our two countries is interdependent," she added. "Israel has helped Egypt in the past against Islamist militias in Sinai, and cooperation between the two countries has been very successful in the past. Why doesn’t Egypt do the same with Israel now?"
At the same time, Ziada noted that the rhetoric around Hamas has become more positive in official Egyptian media discourse after October 7. Hamas is no longer referred to as a terror organization but as a "resistance group," even though its button men have killed Egyptian soldiers and civilians in Sinai in the past.
Ziada saw three reasons for Egypt’s refusal to cooperate with Israel over the controversial corridor: the opposition of Sinai Bedouin tribes, the embarrassment of the Egyptian leadership over its failure to secure its border with Gaza, and the potential backlash from Egyptian society and the Arab world on the lam.
For at least two decades, Bedouin tribes in Sinai have profited from smuggling all sorts of goods, including weapons, to Gaza through tunnels beneath the border. Despite an Egyptian effort in 2015 to flood and close these tunnels in cooperation with Israel, Ziada noted, the tribes and Hamas found ways to resume their operations within two years, thanks to the complacency of corrupt members of Egyptian security forces.
Today, "Egypt is careful not to raise outrage among the tribes in Sinai by closing their source of income again, especially under the current economic crisis," Ziada said.
In recent months, after the IDF took control of the Philadelphi Corridor, it has uncovered dozens of tunnels crossing into Egypt, including one large enough for vehicles to drive through.
Ziada believes Egyptian security authorities are embarrassed to admit that there were corrupt officials in their midst who allowed the tribes to reopen tunnels with Gaza.
"All the official statements coming out of Egypt are insisting that tunnels do not exist, despite the very clear footage that the IDF has shown of the tunnels," Ziada said. "Their discovery is proof that the Egyptian army has failed in doing its primary job of securing the borders and protecting Egypt’s national security. Now [they are confronted with the possibility that] the Israelis are going to play this role and protect the border instead," Ziada said.
Acquiescing to Israeli control of the Philadelphi corridor would negatively impact the image of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, both within Egypt and across the Arab world, where support for Hamas and the Paleostinian cause is widespread, said Ziada.
"It will make him appear complicit with the Israeli government," Ziada explained.
"The narrative presented in the Arab media is not that Israel wants to control the Philadelphi Corridor to prevent weapons smuggling to Hamas and avert another October 7 attack. It is that Israel wants to further suffocate the people of Gaza," she added.
DEFLECTING PUBLIC OUTRAGE OVER EGYPT’S ECONOMIC WOES
A potential embarrassment for el-Sissi would be highly inopportune at a time when the country is mired in a deep economic crisis. Public discontent has been mounting following years of economic mismanagement, the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and the fallout of the wars in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the Middle East, not only in Gaza but also in neighboring Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... and Libya.
Egypt has been struggling to revive the lucrative tourism sector decimated by years of turmoil, and attacks by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s on shipping routes in the Red Sea have slashed Suez Canal revenues.
In addition, a Western-backed reform program adopted in 2016 has caused prices to soar due to austerity measures. Nearly 30 percent of Egyptians currently live in poverty, according to official figures.
Egyptian citizens have endured frequent power outages over the summer months, a recurrent problem in the populous North African country that leaves people without air conditioning in the unforgiving summer heat. Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... videos have gone viral of citizens filming themselves from the fully lit New Administrative Capital under construction outside Cairo.
Appeals for demonstrations have gone unanswered, however, as citizens fear repression. Amnesty International reported in July that over the span of three weeks, over 100 people were arbitrarily detained over calls for anti-government protests.
Maintaining a strong stance in opposition to Israel appears to be a way for the government to deflect public anger, Ziada said.
"Gaza and the Paleostinian cause are a golden opportunity for the Egyptian leadership to cover its domestic failures in the economy," Ziada said. "They have greatly exaggerated their reaction to what is happening in order to direct public outrage towards Gaza. They don’t want to face double public outrage."
THE DIRE CONSEQUENCES OF CRITICIZING HAMAS
Ziada, an outspoken human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... activist and the former director of a think tank that promotes liberal democracy, paid a heavy price for publicly condemning Hamas in her home country.
In the immediate aftermath of the October 7 savagery, Ziada did not mince words to criticize Hamas and those who supported it and justified its actions, calling them "a partner in their crime."
The public uproar erupted when a few weeks later, Ziada gave interviews to the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), an Israeli think tank, and to Israeli public broadcaster Kan in which she justified Israel’s military response against the terror group.
The backlash was immediate. Complaints were filed with Egyptian prosecutors demanding she be put on trial as a spy for Israel and for inciting war crimes, and she received death threats.
She was forced to flee and go into exile in the US in November, a decision that she described as "emotionally extremely, extremely difficult. It’s like getting out of your skin. But I had no choice."
She lives today in Washington, DC, where she has become a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, an Israeli think tank formerly known as the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
In her new role, and in cooperation with other activists, she seeks to present decision-makers with a "voice from the region" and "influence the general narrative that unfortunately has been hijacked by Islamists, by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i and Iranian political proxies."
"There is a huge misunderstanding about the nature of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict," she explained. "In its core, it is only a conflict over a land. It’s very similar, for example, to the conflict in Cyprus. Two peoples want to divide a certain piece of land."
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt... over time, two layers were added to the core: a regional conflict between Israel and the Arab world, and, starting from the 1980s, a religious dimension that viewed the conflict as between Islam and Judaism.
Ziada maintains that after the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and four Arab countries in 2020, a historic shift has happened with regard to the different dimensions of the dispute.
"The Abraham Accords showed that Arabs and Israelis can be good neighbors and good friends regardless of what happens in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict. They dissolved the layer of the Arab-Israeli conflict," she said. "There are only two layers left. The Israeli-Paleostinian dispute over land, which is very small in my opinion, and the bigger and more complex Islamic-Jewish conflict."
"The latter, unfortunately, has been fueled by Al Jazeera and Islamists. But what we are living right now is not an Arab-Israeli conflict anymore," she said. "It’s Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... versus Israel. Iran is merely using Arabs as its pawns against Israel."
"For at least two decades, Bedouin tribes in Sinai have profited from smuggling all sorts of goods, including weapons, to Gaza through tunnels beneath the border."
actually, it seems a lot of lethal material went right through the main surface gate
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[YouTube] Couldn't win in Iraq, couldn't win in Afghanistan, can't win in Russia, the war in Syria is a quagmire with no exit, now this war they can't win either. Nobody ever gets fired so nothing changes. Why should it? When you reward a behavior you get more of it. Punishment results in behavior changes. But nobody gets punished for failing to win. When was the last time the US military won a war? Grenada 1983?
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Cause all them college educated officers are managers of conflict, not the prosecution of war.
For a start destroy all shipping facilities. Then destroy all POL production and distribution systems. Follow on by destroying all bridges that can carry a load necessary for a truck.
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#1 yes. The current problem is costs. Huge money drain and too many conflicts thru out the world. Nothing resolved but conflicts only continue and money drain. Now we have Iran adding new technologies to Houthis as well. Seasoned with Russian and China in the background. I can see Russia aiding as a response from western attacks thru Ukraine. Then you have the provocative attacks on China from the west allowing for a greater bond between Russia and China. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".
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This idea of Russian partition or China partition is very old. " In 1902 Churchill called China a "barbaric nation" and advocated for the "partition of China". He wrote: I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. The current western diplomacy or lack of.
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In 1902 Britain had already conquered China. The parts that mattered, anyway. The rich seaports. The interior isn't worth it. You cannot conquer China. The Japanese tried for years with a huge army and the utmost cruelty and failed utterly. It's just too big and too rough. Hell, the Chinese don't even want most of China. Just a huge money sink.
Russia and China are natural rivals, not allies.
How do you fuck things up so bad as to drive them together? CIA should be setting up a false flag to wet them at war with each other, as in the Sino-Soviet conflict of the 60s, which was close to setting off an intra-commie nuclear war.
Now BRICS is just getting stronger every day. It's still weak, but what of what use is an infant?
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Then you have the provocative attacks on China from the west allowing for a greater bond between Russia and China.
(a) China has been hungry for Russian Far East for a long time (cf. Domansky Island incident).
(b) We know China has extensive influence in USA ruling cliques (almost daily reports here in 'burg).
(c) USA & allies engineered Russia/Ukraine conflict and expanded it to a proxy war with Russia.
Connect the dots!
#7
yemen is a distraction. hamas is a distraction. hezbollah is a distraction. the giver of most middle east conflict is iran. we need to attack iran. occupy chahbahar and work with what happens.
iran declared war on the US in 1979.
BLUF:
[LI] So, my hot take—though it’s not so hot, as things have cooled off—is that Trump was Trump. He seems to have resonated with voters focusing on the economy and made gains there. He didn’t score the points he could have and should have scored.
Harris was smug—your typical smug liberal. I see it all over X and elsewhere: They’re thrilled with her facial expressions, thrilled with how she mocked him visually while he was talking, and that was deliberate. There’s no question that was deliberate—that was part of their plan.
I just don’t know how that’s going to play. I don’t think it’s going to play well. I don’t think anybody’s coming out of this feeling warm and fuzzy about Kamala Harris. If her goal was to raise her stature, I don’t think she accomplished that.
I don’t think she did damage to Trump. After everything that’s been said about Trump in the last 10 years, it’s hard to imagine anyone doing damage at this point. People who are going to vote for him will vote for him.
But I think she missed an opportunity as well. She needed to elevate herself, and a lot of the focus group comments I’ve seen said she didn’t convince them she would do anything different.
One thing I will give Trump 100% credit for was his closing two minutes, where he hit on the theme that if she’s going to do all these things, why hasn’t she done them in the last three and a half years?
Very frustrating night—practically throwing things at the computer. I won’t say the TV because I don’t have a TV anymore, but throwing things at the computer. A lot of frustration with the moderators—they manipulate our elections every time. Can we stop going back for more abuse? Can we make that pledge, at least?
That’s how I come away from it. My hot take is I’m not sure how this moved the election, but it was a missed opportunity to deal a deep blow to the Harris campaign.
Now we move on. There are almost two months left, and we’ll see if the trends, which were moving toward Trump, continue or reverse.
All around, if I had to put a single word to what happened last night, it would be: frustration.
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That was a debate where watchers were generally uninterested in Trump -- the known quantity. Rather, Kamala was being closely observed for the first time. And viewers did not like what they saw. Who actually won the debate was immaterial.
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or when asked what she would do to improve the economy she gave a long vignette about when she was growing up people were proud of their lawns
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Not to mention the most visible and amusing proof of how much she lied!
#4
In fairness to Kammie, and Joey B too, their speaking problems actually match how they think, which is not at all.
Then somebody else decides what to do.
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Not to mention the most visible and amusing proof of how much she lied!
She didn't lie - she really believes this. That's that makes leftists so dangerous - they live in a fantasy world.
[BenarNews] What is this Islamic sect and why is it controversial in the Southeast Asian country?
Al-Arqam, a banned Islamic sect in Malaysia, is in the spotlight again after 402 children – including some as young as 1 – were rescued from welfare homes during police raids on Sept. 11. Many of these minors are believed to have been trafficked as well as physically and sexually abused, authorities said.
At least 159 people have been arrested in connection with the case. The 20 homes where the raids occurred were linked to Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH), a company founded by al-Arqam members.
Malaysia banned the sect 30 years ago over allegations that it promoted a deviant form of Islam, the faith practiced by the Malay Muslim majority.
But what exactly is al-Arqam, and why does its shadow linger despite its ban decades ago?
WHAT IS AL-ARQAM?
Al-Arqam was founded in 1968 by Ashaari Muhammad as a spiritual movement focusing on self-sufficiency, discipline, and an Islamic utopia. By the 1980s, it had gained tens of thousands of followers not only in Malaysia but in neighboring Indonesia, Thailand, and Brunei. The sect was banned in 1994.
At its peak, al-Arqam operated a range of businesses, from agriculture to publishing and even restaurants, amassing wealth reportedly worth millions of U.S. dollars.
“We had our own food products, owned schools and ran a few businesses,” Shamsul Mohd Noor, a former al-Arqam member, told BenarNews. “It started as a religious outreach movement, initially focused on addressing issues of Islamic theology.
“It was more centered on education and personal development. Its strength lay in promoting fardhu kifayah – collective responsibilities – within the Muslim community,” said Shamsul, who joined the group in the 1980s.
WHO WAS AL-ARQAM’S FOUNDER?
The late Ashaari Muhammad was a charismatic leader who envisioned creating a self-sufficient Islamic community. In his sermons, he promoted the idea of returning to a “purer” form of Islam.
Ashaari – known among his followers as “Abuya” or “father” – had four wives and reportedly as many as 40 children, before he died of a lung infection in 2010.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
