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Swarm of ‘violent’ anti-Israel protesters ‘begging for cease-fire’ clash with Capitol cops outside DNC HQ; 6 officers injured . . . Hundreds of “violent” anti-Israel protesters clashed with Capitol Police in Washington Wednesday evening during a rally outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters, prompting its evacuation. Dozens of officers in riot gear desperately pushing back the unruly protesters as they charged toward the building. The demonstrators — many wearing black shirts that read “Cease Fire Now” — were also seen trying to grab hold of metal barricades as the officers rushed in to make arrests. Six officers were treated for injuries – ranging from minor cuts to being pepper sprayed to being punched. One person has been arrested for assault on an officer. New York Post

The American Multimillionaire Marxists Funding Pro-Palestinian Rage . . . The pro-Palestinian protests over the last month, where tens of thousands in the U.S. have chanted for the end of Israel, are not merely a story of organic rage. They are also funded in large part by an uber-wealthy American-born tech entrepreneur: Neville Roy Singham, and his wife Jodie Evans. Since 2017, Singham has been the main funder of The People’s Forum, which has co-organized at least four protests after 1,400 innocent Israelis were slaughtered by Hamas on October 7. One rally, in Times Square, happened on October 8 before Israel had even counted its dead.

Based in Midtown Manhattan, The People’s Forum calls itself a “movement incubator for working class and marginalized communities to build unity across historic lines of division at home and abroad.” But a review of public disclosure forms show that multimillionaire Singham and his wife Evans have donated over $20.4 million to The People’s Forum from 2017 to 2022 through a series of shell organizations and donor advisory groups—accounting for nearly all of the group’s funding. Free Press

Wall Street megadonors warm to Nikki Haley as their anti-Donald Trump Republican . . . Nikki Haley’s strong performances in the Republican presidential debates have won over several of the party’s big donors and intrigued other Wall Street figures this week, as she swung through New York seeking moneyed backers who want an alternative to Donald Trump. The former US ambassador to the UN drew big names to New York events on Tuesday, among them a small meet-and-greet breakfast with financiers including BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink, and an evening fundraiser co-hosted by former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn. Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, traditionally a big GOP donor, announced his support on Monday and New York-based donor Eric Levine said he would host a fundraiser for Haley in early December with Elliott Management executive Terry Kassel and Annie Dickerson, who has close ties with Elliott president Paul Singer. Financial Times

Joe Manchin Says He Is ‘Absolutely’ Considering a Run for President . . . West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said he is considering launching a presidential campaign, moving closer toward a bid that could shake up the 2024 election. “I will do anything I can to help my country, and you’re saying, ‘Does that mean you would consider it?’ Absolutely,” Manchin, a Democrat, said Wednesday in an interview with NBC News. Bloomberg

Battleground States Reject Biden's Border Recklessness . . . Opinion. By Steve Cortez. Are terrorists among the millions of illegal migrants who pour across our border under Joe Biden? Recent evidence suggests the answer to that question is yes—and raises more questions regarding the severe risks of an effectively open border. An illegal migrant, wanted for terrorism in his home country of Senegal in West Africa, was arrested in New York City last month. This indicted terrorist sauntered into the United States with amazing ease, mingling among the more than 8 million crossings of illegal migrants who form a human tsunami of trespassers into our homeland. He crossed from Mexico into Arizona, unvetted and unencumbered, where he was processed and cordially served up with legal passage to his requested destination of New York. The only restriction placed upon the accused terrorist was a self-enforcement request to appear in court in New York. Fortunately, ICE discovered this entry and apprehended the fugitive two weeks into his U.S. stay. Newsweek

Ronna McDaniel is under siege — and, her critics concede, likely to survive . . . Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel is bearing the brunt of her party’s frustrations, with conservative activists calling for her ouster and Donald Trump privately criticizing the organization’s handling of the debates and its election year priorities. But party insiders say they still expect McDaniel to survive. Even her critics inside the committee say trying to replace her now would be too chaotic in the middle of a presidential election cycle. Politico

US Senate passes stopgap funding bill to avert government shutdown . . .  The U.S. Senate took the risk of an impending partial government shutdown off the table on Wednesday as it passed a stopgap spending bill and sent it to President Joe Biden to sign into law before a weekend deadline. The 87-11 vote marked the end of this year's third fiscal standoff in Congress that saw lawmakers bring Washington to the brink of defaulting on its more than $31 trillion in debt this spring and twice within days of a partial shutdown that would have interrupted pay for about 4 million federal workers. Reuters

Pentagon Fails Its Financial Audit for the Sixth Straight Year . . . The US Defense Department failed for the sixth consecutive year to score a clean financial audit, a goal routinely achieved annually by businesses that have a fraction of its $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 billion in liabilities. Pentagon officials nonetheless claimed significant progress in tracking its assets and correcting hundreds of deficiencies in its accounts. The failure ‘is not a surprise,’ Comptroller McCord says McCord calls audit ‘a massive undertaking,’ cites progress. Bloomberg

Counterterrorism chief says no signs terror groups are exploiting porous U.S. borders; GOP doubtful . . . A top Biden administration security official told Congress Wednesday that she has seen no evidence that foreign terrorist groups are trying to sneak operatives into the U.S. through the southern border. In the face of GOP doubts, National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid said there is a “vulnerability” along the border with Mexico, but terrorist networks don’t appear to be exploiting it. Washington Times

Taiwanese Soldiers May Soon Train on US Soil . . . On Tuesday, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission released an annual report that included a suggestion to Congress to allow the expansion of Taiwanese military training. The US is considered Taipei’s most important ally and remains its main supplier of sophisticated weapons and equipment. Defense Post

Putin 2024: Why he will almost certainly win another term, retaining presidency till 2030 . . . By Rebekah Koffler. "The problem with democracy and its presidential elections is that you never know who is going to win," goes a Russian saying, which reportedly captures what Russian President Boris Yeltsin once told President Bill Clinton. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the decision to run for re-election in 2024, according to six unnamed sources interviewed recently by Reuters. Neither Putin himself, nor the Kremlin have made an official announcement on the matter. But Putin’s press secretary Dmitriy Peskov told CNBC on Friday that Putin "will win confidently," if he decides to run.

Despite the Kremlin’s games intended to create suspense around the issue, Putin will highly likely run in the next election, scheduled for March 17, 2024. Moreover, it is a near certainty that the 71-year-old Putin will win another six-year term, remaining Russia’s president up to 2030, and – barring unforeseen circumstances – even beyond. Here’s why. Rebekah Koffler | Fox News

With mapping robots and blast gel, Israel wages war on Hamas tunnels . . . ZEELIM GROUND FORCES BASE, Israel. After locating what they described as the entrance to a Hamas tunnel under an evacuated hospital in northern Gaza, Israeli army engineers filled the passage with exploding gel and hit the detonator. The blast engulfed the building and sent smoke spewing out of at least three points along a nearby road in a district of the city of Beit Hanoun, surveillance footage showed. "The gel spread out and exploded whatever they had been waiting for us in the tunnel," an army officer told reporters at a briefing at Zeelim Ground Forces Base in southern Israel. Reuters

EU Progress Report – The State of Affairs And What To Do Next . . .  Last week, the European Commission presented annual progress reports for countries that are candidates and aspirants for membership. Ukraine and Moldova received recommendations for opening accession negotiations. Bosnia and Herzegovina received a "conditional" recommendation - accession negotiations will begin when that country "reaches the necessary level of compliance with membership criteria". Georgia received a recommendation to become a candidate for membership (a step before the opening of accession negotiations). As for the other candidates, here a very concise and precise presentation by Montenegrin daily "Pobjeda". Antena M

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China’s Xi Draws Standing Ovation From U.S. Business Leaders—and Some Doubts . . . Foreign capital is fleeing China. Yet on his first trip to the U.S. in six years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping didn’t make a pitch to win back American businesses and investors. Instead, at a dinner with U.S. corporate chiefs and other guests, Xi sought to enlist American corporations’ help in easing bilateral tensions, emphasizing the room for both nations to work together—a theme of his meeting with President Biden earlier Wednesday. Throughout his speech, Xi described himself as a leader of the people and stressed the importance of buttressing bilateral ties with people-to-people exchanges, but didn’t specifically highlight trade or investment. Wall Street Journal

Gavin Newsom Ignores Intelligence Warnings, Strengthens Ties With CCP-Linked Climate Group . . . California governor Gavin Newsom made headlines when, after returning from climate change talks in China, he rushed a cleanup of San Francisco in advance of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s stateside visit. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg on the emerging climate partnership between Sacramento and Beijing. The hub of that relationship is the California-China Climate Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Free Beacon

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Company behind Miss Universe files for bankruptcy after accepting transgender contestants . . . While the 2023 Miss Universe pageant, known for its inclusion transgender contestants, will still take place this Saturday, the JKN Global Group behind it filed for bankruptcy just days before the event. Thai business tycoon and transgender activist Anne Jakrajutatip of the JKN Global Group bought the organization for $20,000,000 in 2022. Jakrajutatip, who has international fame as a transgender celebrity, described the purchase at the time as "a strong, strategic addition to our portfolio."

But a year later, the franchise itself appears unstable. Fox Business

Bin Laden's Justification for 9/11 Goes Viral on TikTok in Wake of Israel-Hamas War . . . The late Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s famous “Letter to America,” released one year after the September 11, 2001 attacks, has gone viral on the social media platform TikTok, with thousands of Western users expressing sympathy with the ideas expressed by one of the worst mass murderers of the 21st century.

“In reading the letter, I could only think of this tweet that I saw the other day,” one user declared, quoting a post on X which appeared to justify the October 7 attack on Israel. “Under settler colonialism, any kind of resistance is branded as terrorist because the only acceptable violence is violence by the occupier.” Haaretz

Builders of J6 gallows remain unidentified while FBI and DOJ continue to pursue other defendants . . . In the early morning of Jan. 6, 2021, a group of unnamed and unidentified individuals were seen unloading and transporting the materials to assemble the infamous gallows that became the subject of numerous photographs during the protests. According to surveillance video obtained by the Patriot Freedom Project from the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, the unidentified individuals built the gallows in plain view on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol building. Despite the full resources of law enforcement being deployed against thousands of individuals for participation in January 6—many charged with only misdemeanors—the builders of the gallows remain unidentified. Photos of the gallows were included in the public hearings of the committee regarding the January 6 riot, and tied to right-wing movements by media like The New York Times. Just the News

Biden, Xi Reach Agreement On Illicit Fentanyl And Military Communication After First Meeting In A Year . . .President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reached an agreement on halting the production of illicit fentanyl and resuming military-to-military communications. Biden and Xi met Wednesday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the two world leaders’ first face-to-face meeting since November 2022. In a four-hour bilateral meeting, Biden and Xi agreed to begin taking steps to resume military-to-military communications and the Chinese leader agreed to take actions to “dramatically curtail” the creation of precursors to fentanyl, the president and a senior administrative official said. Daily Caller

US lets UN Security Council resolution calling for pauses in Gaza fighting pass without Hamas condemnation . . . The United States allowed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for pauses in the fighting within Gaza to pass despite a lack of condemnation for Hamas. Fifteen members of the security council passed the resolution Wednesday, which calls for a cease-fire for a "sufficient number of days" in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas. The resolution also calls for the "unconditional release" of hostages taken by Hamas during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

Twelve members of the council voted in favor of the resolution, while the U.S., Russia and Britain, who have veto power, abstained from the vote Wednesday. The resolution doesn't include a condemnation of Hamas' actions. It attempted to pass a resolution four times before the council was successful. Fox News

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