Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
NEW: President Trump releases a statement on the conflict between Israel and Gaza:

"Under Biden, the world is getting more violent and more unstable because Biden's weakness and lack of support for Israel is leading to new attacks on our allies."

Jordan Schachtel
@JordanSchachtel
They kicked Donald Trump off of Twitter. Meanwhile, the leader of Hamas is on this platform celebrating "the bombing of Tel Aviv."

Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
Does the leader of the terrorist organization Hamas celebrating rocket attacks against Israel violate your terms of service @TwitterSupport? https://twitter.com/IsmailHaniyyeh/status/1392214479363051520
6:57 PM · May 11, 2021

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
Absolutely ghoulish. Never let a crisis go to waste!

White House reporter eagerly asks Energy Secretary Granholm how these gas shortages due to the Colonial pipeline will help the administration push people toward accepting renewable energy. //

The reporter asks how does this fit their overall effort toward renewable energy, how does this “speed up” that effort? In other words, how can you use this crisis to your advantage? That’s why Granholm is smiling because she thinks this helps their case, hang who it hurts or the threat to the infrastructure. She also taunts Americans who drive gas-powered cars, with a little smile, “If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you.”

It was never about black lives.

That simple fact is something that’s haunted the Black Lives Matter movement throughout its existence. When it first came about in 2016, it did so just as the 2016 elections were coming into full swing. The timing seemed awfully convenient giving us the first clue that this new civil rights movement wasn’t so much about the well-being of the black community and more about politics.

Unsurprisingly, all the issues surrounding the black community were highlighted within the BLM movement but very rarely was a solution ever settled upon for these issues. In fact, their real interest seemed to be reacting to problems rather than solving them. Solving them, and working with others, would eliminate the need for the BLM movement. //

“We don’t sit on panels with law enforcement, and we don’t have BBQs or cookouts with law enforcement,” she said. “We feel the best method at this point in history is by holding police accountable by organizing and advocating for police accountability.”

They want to react to problems not solve them.

After the election, Black Lives Matter largely disappeared and it wasn’t brought up a lot by the Democrat politicians that backed the group at every photo-op and media interview. //

Fast forward to the 2020 elections and suddenly the BLM movement was back after the death of George Floyd, but as many knew from the very beginning, Floyd was just the excuse, not the cause of the reemergence of Black Lives Matter. The real cause lay in the fact that Donald Trump needed to be defeated, and the left needed a way to paint Republicans, Trump, and the entirety of America as racist.

What followed was a summer of destruction, death, and unending, fawning media coverage. Every burning store and assaulted person, every death and crime from minor to major were excused, defended, and sometimes even applauded by people on your television screens.

Black Lives Matter became the most popular political party in our nation. //

It was a full-on mainstream frenzy…

…and then Joe Biden was elected.

The quest to get Trump out of office was successful. What’s more, the “trained-Marxist” leaders like Cullors had made their money. //

BLM could be tucked away for another day. The frenzy can now settle. The last thing Democrats need is the BLM movement going nuts on their watch.

Politicians can now go back to ignoring it, BLM leaders can rest in their expensive homes till the next time it’s needed, and they can even paint over the words on the road in DC.

The black people of America were once again used by Democrats. None of the problems it faced were solved and were likely only made worse as burned businesses and dead family members are the real legacy it left behind. In a number of years, it will likely resurface when a Republican is threatening the Democrat party’s power and the process will begin again with more ruin and dead in its wake, accompanied by the applause of the left as they rake in power and money.

Meanwhile, black people will suffer the most from it.

It was never about black lives.

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
Don't worry, folks. Joe Biden has got this situation in Israel under control. 🙄

Psaki say's he's "directed his team to engage intensively with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials" and are in "support of de-escalation" while also "candidly" telling off Israel on settlements. //

It’s absolutely disgusting to draw an equivalence between what the Palestinians are doing and what Israel is doing, yet that’s what Psaki does here on behalf of the Biden administration. Israel spent decades litigating those settlements. They didn’t just walk in and throw people out. They gave the people squatting a chance to pay restitution and stay. They refused to do so and were removed. That is in no way comparable to Palestinian terrorists indiscriminately launching hundreds of rockets at Israelis, already killing several. Further, Israel retaliating with airstrikes to an act of deadly aggression is also not comparable.

In response to Whitmer’s imperialistic order, Enbridge told her to pound sand, saying the oil will keep flowing regardless of her demands because the two sides are still in the middle of court-ordered mediation.

But Whitmer doesn’t care. Her quest to please her climate-change-gods takes precedence over the needs of her residents and the residents of other states which will inevitably suffer as a result of her decision. Though Line 5 has previously had issues with small leaks, those leaks have amounted to just 1.1 million gallons leaked over 29 leak incidents, over the last 53 years. While 1.1 million gallons may seem like a lot, it amounts to 56 gallons a day, less than 5% of the total oil that is pumped through the line in just one day, or just 0.0002% of the 446 Billion gallons of oil that has pumped through the line since 1968. If I were running a business and my safety and prevention efforts resulted in a 99.9998% success rate, I’d be asking for a raise.

That doesn’t stop the fearmongering left. Their stupidity in practice means we shut down those oil pipelines, leading to shortages, stagnation of the economy (or outright economic collapse), further victimization of America’s poverty-stricken population, and of course, a significant rise in carbon pollution as the transportation of those oil resources is moved to truck and diesel pushing trains. Of course, Whitmer and her team of “experts,” don’t factor for any of these issues in the fancy reports. To them, the reduction of the consumption of carbon-producing fuels is worth it. Your immediate physical and mental health matters not to them. Neither does your financial situation or your ability to provide for your family. It all can be sacrificed at the altar of “good intentions” as the left continues the worship of their climate change gods. To them, your health, freedom, and happiness are expendable as long as they feel like they are doing the will of their progressive agenda.

Vince Coglianese
@VinceCoglianese
The CDC has been DRAMATICALLY overstating the risk of outdoor transmission.

They claimed it's been "less than 10 percent." It's a lot closer to .1 percent.

https://nytimes.com/2021/05/11/bri....

Jason Willick
@jawillick
NYT report violates YouTube’s Covid-19 misinformation policy, which prohibits “content that contradicts WHO or local health authorities’ guidance” including on “transmission” and “social distancing and self-isolation guidelines.”
Ross Garber
@rossgarber
NYT says CDC Report is "misleading" and "deceiving" https://nytimes.com/2021/05/11/bri....

Information about these deaths hasn’t been confirmed and it’s possible they’re being exaggerated for political reasons. It’s also quite possible that this is true, but that has nothing to do with Israel being evil and everything to do with Hamas using citizens as human shields. The death of Palestinian civilians is worth as much as the deaths of Israelis to Hamas because then Hamas can use these civilian deaths on their own side as PR fodder.

Using children as human shields, in particular, is an old tactic of Hamas’s. A 2015 UN report stated that Hamas hid mortars and rockets in at least three UN schools and fired on Israel from at least two of them. They know that if Israel fires back, they’ll be firing on the school itself and the ignorant and gullible left in the western world will gnash teeth and rend clothing in rage over it.

Case in point, Andrew Yang can’t even condemn a terrorist attack by terrorists who use children as human shields without inducing screams and tantrums from the left on Twitter.

Perhaps the left should start condemning Hamas for the children’s deaths instead of Israel who can’t just let terrorists attack innocent civilians, including children, in perpetuity. It doesn’t make the deaths of children any less tragic, but if the left really wants to help these children, they’ll stop standing by and defending terrorist groups who harm children.

Girl Who Killed DC Area Uber Eats Driver Pleads Guilty, Literally Gets Away With Murder
By Scott Hounsell | May 11, 2021 2:45 PM ET

Credit: @Mrtdogg/Twitter
In March the country was shocked as it watched two teenage girls attempt to carjack an Uber Eats driver in the DC area, which ended in the death of 66-year-old Mohammad Anwar, an immigrant from Pakistan. The video, which we originally reported on here, is graphic in the detail and shows the girls speeding off in Anwar’s car, Anwar still stuck in the door attempting to wrestle control of the vehicle away from the two girls. The vehicle then crashes at the end of the block, rolling onto its side. The girls are seen climbing out of the passenger side of the vehicle. One of the girls was more concerned about finding her phone, which was lost in the accident, than the welfare of Anwar, whose mangled body is seen lying lifeless near the front of a building.

According to WTOP, the 15-year-old girl pled guilty to felony murder on May 5th and now awaits sentencing on June 4th. The other girl in the car at the time, who is just 13, is scheduled for a hearing next week. As alluded to in our previous reports, the harshest sentence she faces is less than 3 years in a juvenile detention facility.

During a time when the left has been talking about the way that the criminal justice system “victimizes” minorities, little is being said about this case, which is among the most clear-cut cases of murder in a long while. When cases like the Ohio officer who shot Ma’Khia Bryant are being debated and people are questioning whether or not use-of-force was necessary despite clear video evidence of Bryant attempting to stab another girl, it is shocking the left is so silent about this case. Could it be that it doesn’t match their narrative?

Of course, if the suspect in the killing of a Pakistani immigrant were a white 15-year-old boy, the media would be having a field day and the left would be demanding the suspect not only be charged, but spend the rest of his life behind bars. Most certainly, they would be demanding that the boy be charged with a hate crime. Yet, here we are, simply changing the ethnicity and gender of the person, and the left is nothing but the sound of pins dropping.

Not only that, they seem to be defending these girls. The Mayor of DC, instead of demanding justice for Anwar and his family, decided that it was a better time to hold a PSA regarding how to avoid being carjacked. Of course, this doesn’t include arresting carjackers and holding them accountable. The acting police chief of DC stated that he didn’t think that the two girls, who were certainly adult enough to commit a felony, were not adult enough to be charged as such. Fox’s resident leftist apologist, Juan Williams likened the girls’ actions as a “joy ride” that “went wrong.” Yahoo’s then-White House Correspondent, Hunter Walker, had the garbage-iest of takes when he said that the right was simply trying to use Anwar’s death as a means of sparking criticism of blacks.

No matter how anyone looks at this, it is a tragedy. To somehow attempt to excuse these girls in a way that would be different from a white male of the same age, is downright sickening. As Dr. King dreamt that people would not be judged “by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” the left seems to think that everything must be judged according to what they define to be fair, which almost inevitably comes down to race, gender, or sexual preferences.

I am sure Mohammad Anwar’s family doesn’t care who committed his murder. What they want is justice, and it was totally denied in this case. //

Avery Mann
8 hours ago
If these girls truly repent, they MAY be able to avoid justice. I don't mean in a courtroom. What goes around comes around. //

clconnett -> Avery Mann
7 hours ago
What has been borne upon a cross of wood will not be charged again to any who bows at the feet of the one who bore it. But, for the one who does not bow, these words remain: Vengeance is mine, I shall repay, says the Lord. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. So let us all flee to the hands that were pierced, lest we fall into them unaware.

The Palestinians had not fired a rocket at Jerusalem since 2014 until this week. What changed, exactly? Well, Biden’s handlers decided to reinstate “aid” payments to the Palestinians. They are emboldened, knowing that Donald Trump isn’t there to push back anymore while Biden is happy to play into his own weakness, coddling the terrorists who are currently killing Jews in the streets.

And speaking of Trump, could you imagine the gnashing of teeth that would occur if he just disappeared the day Israel basically went to war and hackers shut down gasoline distribution to the Southeast and East Coast? He’d be accused of being derelict in his duty. Yet, no one in the media seems to even be concerned that Biden is MIA during one of the most consequential, complicated weeks the country has seen in quite some time. In fact, they seem to be far more obsessed with fluffing Liz Cheney than the fact that the jobs market is stagnating while inflation remains out of control.

There are consequences to electing a senile old man to a job that requires at least some level of coherence. The country is receiving those consequences good and hard right now. Voters should take note because this isn’t going to get better. The only way to turn this around is to stop voting with your emotions and start paying attention to the things that really matter.

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The bed where missionary Murray Brown lay was on the fifth floor of a hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. A pressure cooker had exploded, leaving severe burns on Murray’s hands, abdomen and legs. On his right hand the wounds were so deep that the muscles and ligaments were exposed.

“For burns as deep as these,” his doctor advised, “you will need skin grafts.”

Very early one morning as Murray lay awake, he saw a procession of African army ants creep across the floor of his room. In horror he watched them come toward his bed. Up they crawled until they reached his body and made their way under the bandages to chew at his burned flesh.

“Help!” Murray cried. But at that early hour there was no nurse on the hospital floor to hear him.

“Isn’t there anyone to help me?” he called. But no one answered.

Three times he repeated his anguished cry. But his pleas went unheard.

In Scottsbluff, Nebraska, it was the middle of the night. A friend of Murray Brown’s lay in bed, sound asleep. Suddenly he was awakened by a cry of distress. Thinking it might be one of his children, he got up and went to look at them. But they were all sleeping soundly.

After returning to his bed, he again heard a cry for help. Once more he went to look at the children, but they were still asleep.

This time when he returned to bed, he distinctly heard these words: “Help! Isn’t there anyone to help me?”

The man awakened his wife. “I’ve just heard Murray Brown’s voice,” he said. “He is calling for help.”

The man and his wife prayed for their friend. They had no idea what his need might be, but they wrestled in prayer until they were assured victory had come.

No one came to the missionary’s aid that morning in the hospital in Kumasi. But suddenly, to Murray’s amazement, the ants turned away from him and left his bed. They crawled across the hospital floor and disappeared, just as though someone had called them.

Later, when the doctor removed the bandages, he found new flesh forming over the wounds. Even over the exposed tendons on his right hand, healthy pink flesh had appeared.

Murray’s healing was so complete that there was no need to graft skin. Eventually, only a tiny scar remained on one thigh to remind him of his dreadful experience.

Many months later Murray learned how his friend in Scottsbluff had heard his voice from the other side of the world. At last he understood why the ants had turned and crawled away.

Murray Brown and his wife, Marjorie, were missionaries to Africa from 1939 to 1980.

I was shocked to find out on the 97th birthday of Kenneth Kaunda - Zambia's first president and a giant in the fight against colonialism - that some people had never heard of him.

I had posted my birthday greeting to the nonagenarian on social media on 28 April with the tag line: "The only African independence leader from the 1960s still alive."

Many celebrated. Other were astonished, saying: "I didn't realise he was still alive."

But to be honest, those under the age of the 30 were clueless.

He went on to become Zambia's founding president at the age of 40.

His wish, he said, was for Zambians to have an egg on their table for breakfast every morning, a pint of milk - and for every Zambian to have a pair of shoes on their feet.

Popularly known as KK, during his presidency he was a fierce critic of apartheid South Africa and white-minority rule in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe - and he allowed groups fighting these regimes, like the African National Congress (ANC), to make Zambia their base.

To begin with he made huge strides towards improving the lot of Zambians, but betrayed the promise of democracy by introducing a one-party state in 1973.

Mr Kaunda was the only candidate in elections in 1978, 1983 and 1987 - scoring more than 80% of the vote each time.

He must have been too embarrassed to register 100%.

Even within his own party, he changed the rules to keep getting selected as the only candidate.

Eventually, Zambians felt Mr Kaunda had overstayed his time in office and voted him out in 1991 after mass protests forced him to reintroduce multi-party elections.

In the three decades since the rush and joy of independence, the continent had become awash with dictatorships - which may explain why some of its post-colonial leaders are no longer remembered by a younger generation.

Some were assassinated or deposed in coups, others had forgotten the dreams of people and the promises made to them.

Africa still has leaders who have been in power for more than 20 or 30 years.

Some have been in power for almost 40 years, like Cameroon's President Paul Biya. He is only the second president Cameroon has had since independence from France in the 1960s.

Perhaps it is because of this legacy that men who should be lionised are largely forgotten.

And it makes me wonder what is taught in African history classes today.

Surely Mr Kaunda - who since leaving office has largely kept out of politics and has devoted much of his energy to fighting HIV after losing one of his sons to Aids in the late 1980s - is someone who ought not to be forgotten.

He is a living reminder of the continent's history - good and bad - and we can learn from both.

But hey, I’ve got some good news – there’s not a mean tweet to be seen.

Donald Trump has been reduced to releasing written statements that get users banned if they share them, and isn’t that truly enough to get us through these tough times? I mean, sure, your savings are evaporating due to inflation, you can’t afford to gas your car up, your grocery bill has exploded, and the Middle East is on fire again, but the decorum we are currently experiencing is just invigorating, right?

All of this was preventable, but shallow, cocktail circuit dwellers in the beltway thought it better to promote a “return to normalcy” that has been anything but. Joe Biden’s administration isn’t even six months old and it’s already an abject disaster. Actually, we’d be lucky to just end up with Jimmy Carter’s second term at this point. //

RescueMe
an hour ago
"A three-legged dog could have been elected president in 2020 and done a better job with the economy than Biden"

I'm still waiting for the media to wake up to the reality of our current situation. The Barrack Obama via Susan Rice / Biden administration isn't doing a "bad job." They are skillfully executing a plan to destroy the republic.

• Demoralize the military - purge the patriots.
• Demoralize the CIA - hire based on wokeness not actual qualification and patriots retire in frustration.
• Turn the FBI into a political prosecution machine when they're not being used as wheelmen for white collar crimes.
• Open the border and invite the entire world into our social safety net.
• Pay people to stay away from work until small businesses collapse.
• Spend the country into oblivion... Cloward - Piven.

Does anyone see how intentional this is? This is not a failing or bungling administration and until we stop ascribing their performance to idiocy we're not addressing what is actually happening before our eyes.

Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
China plans to revamp disused US airfield in the Pacific
China aims to bring back strategic airfield in the Pacific
dailymail.co.uk
7:00 AM · May 9, 2021

Any significant build-up on Kanton, located 1,864 miles southwest of Hawaii and U.S. military bases there, would offer a foothold to China deep into territory that had been firmly aligned with the U.S. and its allies since World War II.

It’s possible the airport could support fighter deployments if it is modernized and improved, as well as increased in usable size. //

But just how much domestic air travel would you expect to and from Canton?

There are around two dozen residents on Kanton who rely on subsistence fishing and supply ships.

Yep — it’s just screaming out for scheduled airline service at a shiny new civilian airport to be built by the Chinese. //

The island would in fact become “ a fixed aircraft carrier,” according to one military analyst.

But there are other benefits to China strengthening its ties with Kiribati. The nation consists of 32 atolls dispersed across an area of the Pacific Ocean totaling 1.4 million square miles. As such it has one of the largest “economic exclusion zones” (EEZ) involving a marine environment anywhere in the world. Kiribati limits commercial fishing inside its EEZ, but as I covered in this earlier article, China maintains, by far, the world’s largest fleet of commercial fishing vessels — possibly as many as 13,000 — which travel around the oceans of the world with a voracious appetite for taking seafood.

Let’s listen to Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger explain that whether or not Colonial Pipeline pays ransom to these attackers is a “private sector decision” when a reporter asks what they are going to do about it and what’s the timeline for this problem being addressed. //

Now, there are a lot of things to consider in such an attack, but when it’s a pipeline that is so critical to our infrastructure you don’t just fluff it off as if it really doesn’t matter, as though we don’t really give a darn or the impact isn’t significant to the country. They didn’t give the company any input or express an opinion? This is a national security issue and a serious federal crime. If you encourage the payment of ransom, you encourage similar attacks.

If you want to see how bad Biden’s border crisis has gotten then look no further than the story of a Texas farmer in Quemando on the Rio Grande River that came across a heartbreaking scene while looking over his land.

According to Fox News, the farmer found “baby girls” alone and crying on the border, completely abandoned by adults. One was too young to walk and was crawling naked in the dirt. Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales spoke with the farmer and relayed the event on social media. //

The oldest was seven years old, the youngest was 11 months. Luckily, the girls were no worse for the wear and did not require medical attention. //

Gonzales interviewed the farmer who described the heartbreaking scene. According to the farmer, it was 107 when he found the girls. When he took them in he called a neighboring farmer and his wife to bring supplies to help the little girls and had to find a CBP agent that they knew as the department is overwhelmed with cases right now. //

This is Biden’s border crisis through and through, and as much as the left was upset about “kid’s in cages” they seem to be wholly absent for the problem of abandoned children in the dirt.

Israel Defense Forces
@IDF
After terrorists in Gaza fired a barrage of rockets at central and southern Israel over the past few hours, we just struck 3 Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

We hold the Palestinian terror group Hamas in Gaza accountable for this serious aggression against us.

Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN
Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism.

Palestinians deserve protection.

Unlike Israel, missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians.

It’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid.

Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
The open hostility to Israel from across the Biden administration is as appalling as it is unfortunately typical of the progressive left that controls this administration.

Adam Kredo
@Kredo0
JUST IN: State Dept's controversy-prone spokeswoman singled out & blamed Israel for Palestinian violence. The State Dept now tells me that was a mistake -- Latest gaffe for spox who claimed cops are America's biggest national security threat https://freebeacon.com/biden-administ

For Sunday morning's launch, SpaceX used a first stage that had flown into space nine previous times. After this launch, the B1051 booster landed safely on a drone ship, completing its tenth flight to space. This is a notable milestone because in 2018, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the goal for its Falcon 9 rocket would be to fly each first stage booster 10 times before requiring significant maintenance.

Recently, Musk said the company has found no showstoppers as it flies Falcon 9 first stages more and more times. The company plans to continue to use these older rockets for Starlink missions, thus risking its own payloads in flight rather than those of a paying customer. Musk said the company has set no predetermined limit on the lifetime of a Falcon 9 rocket and that SpaceX would fly some of its Falcon 9 rockets to failure in an effort to identify these limits.

This particular first stage went to orbit for the first time on March 2, 2019, for the first demonstration mission for NASA's commercial crew program. During this flight, a Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station for about five days, paving the way for the first crewed flight in May 2020. //

B1051 trails only NASA's Discovery, Atlantis, Columbia, and Endeavour space shuttle orbiters in terms of spaceflights. Three of those shuttles are now in museums. Columbia was lost in a fatal accident in 2003.

In flying 10 times since early March 2019, this single booster has now flown nearly as many missions as SpaceX's primary US launch competitor. Since the first flight of B1051, United Launch Alliance has flown a total of 11 missions with expendable rockets—two Delta IV launches, two Delta IV Heavy missions, and seven Atlas V rockets. //

Through Sunday's launch, SpaceX has launched 14 orbital missions in 2021, 11 of which have been Starlink flights. That is an average of one launch every nine days, and those missions have been spread across just six different Falcon 9 first stages.