November 22, 2023 Good morning, Leading the News . . . Israel-Hamas War: Four-Day Pause in Fighting Agreed Upon as Hostage Deal Reached — Latest Updates . . . The agreement between Israel and Hamas to release 50 hostages held by militants in Gaza
is the first major diplomatic breakthrough since the war started Oct. 7. The deal: Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to free civilian hostages in return for the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails and a four-day pause in fighting. Hostages: All of those hostages to be released by militants are women and children,
including at least three Americans. They will be exchanged for women and child prisoners. Gaza-based militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad said it wouldn't release the Israeli hostages it is holding in the Palestinian enclave. Timeline: The first hostages could be freed as early as 5 p.m. Thursday, people familiar with the deal said. Wall Street Journal Trump’s Truth Social Files $1.5BN Lawsuit Against MSNBC, Daily Mail, Axios, Reuters, Many More . . . President Trump’s Truth Social firm — Trump Media & Technology Group Corp — is suing 20 corporate media organizations, claiming a coordinated attack involving the false reporting of a $73 million loss by the firm. In truth, they claim, “This number was an utter fabrication,” designed to cause harm. “This was a coordinated effort to
damage TMTG’s reputation, degrade the firm’s financial standing, freeze its access to capital, and torpedo the anticipated merger,” the complaint asserts. TMTG is seeking $1.5bn in damages, explaining that they first contacted the media outlets listed, though no substantial corrections nor apologies for the false reports were made. The outlets being sued are: The Guardian; The Hollywood Reporter; McClatchy; Alex Mena; Reuters; Rolling Stone; Nexstar; Deadline Hollywood; Accretive Capital; MarketWatch; Forbes; Axios; The Daily Beast; Gizmodo New York Daily News; Newsweek; MSNBC; Mediaite; Daily Mail; CNBC. The National Pulse Love it. Does anyone really think Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, or the Ayatollahs would mess with The Donald?
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Problems Mount for DeSantis as Haley Rises and Trump Dominates . . . Tough new polling in Iowa and New Hampshire. A rising Nikki Haley. And an ever dominant Donald Trump. Ron DeSantis’s campaign is heading in the wrong direction, and time is running out. The Florida governor has less than two months before the first 2024 Republican presidential nominating contest on Jan. 15 in Iowa, a state he is banking his campaign on to show he can compete with Trump. But he now finds himself
battling Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, for a distant second place in the state behind the former president. Wall Street Journal Nikki Haley is consolidating the ‘Never Trump’ vote . . . Two years after Nikki Haley vowed not to challenge Donald Trump for the presidential nomination, the former South Carolina governor who served in his administration and once called him a “friend” is becoming the standard-bearer of the movement to knock him out.
In recent weeks, Haley has drawn a surge in support from Trump-skeptical Republicans across the GOP, including donors and organizers in early voting states. A group of former Tim Scott donors is preparing to host a fundraiser for her in Manhattan. Haley’s campaign events in New Hampshire this week required overflow rooms. And in Iowa — where Haley has steeper competition from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — some conservatives are busy corralling
support for her. Politico Haley and DeSantis still can’t solve their Trump problem as time runs short in GOP race . . . A weekend of ferocious political exchanges laid out the tumultuous reality of the 2024 White House campaign less than a year from Election Day. The fight for the GOP nomination is about far more than a horse race between candidates. Its outcome will decide whether the country faces an extraordinary general election – which one potential nominee,
ex-President Donald Trump, would fight while facing multiple criminal trials and promising a presidency of retribution that could shake US democracy as never before. CNN Trump Tells Biden To 'Bring It On'
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Trump is doing right . . . Former President Donald Trump has been leading the 2024 Republican presidential race for months, one of the most consistent trends of the past year as the Iowa caucuses fast approach. Morning Consult, the Messenger-HarrisX, CNN, CBS News, and Tipp-Insights are among the recent national polls that show Trump with 60% of the vote or better. Trump is at 58.5%, good for a 44.1-point lead over his next nearest competitor, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
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Vivek Ramaswamy sets record straight on RNC Chair, Nikki Haley after 'girl problem' claim
'War is
coming!' Xi Jinping's Taiwan invasion plan includes chilling warning about US 'attack' . . . Xi Jinping’s plan to invade Taiwan includes a chilling warning about attacking the United States, a foreign policy expert has claimed. The Chinese President, who recently returned from a visit to San Francisco, is expected to have the capacity to annex the island nation by 2027. Great Britain News Biden using wartime
powers to expand green agenda raises concerns of overreach, best use amid wars . . . The law that granted the president of the United States sweeping powers during the COVID-19 pandemic is now being utilized to advance President Joe Biden’s climate agenda. Last week, the Biden administration announced $169 million to advance nine projects to accelerate heat pump manufacturing – utilizing the 1950 Defense Production Act, which grants emergency authority to the president in matters
considered of national security. Just the News
Navy Test-Fires Ship-Launched Hypersonic Missile for 2025 . . . The Navy is intensifying testing of its evolving ship-launched Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic weapon slated to arm destroyers by 2025, a fast-moving weapons development effort intended to
quickly close any potential “deficit” or “gap” in the area of hypersonics between the US and major power rivals such as Russia and China. Warrior Maven Air Force Begs Troops Booted Over COVID-19 Vax To Come Back . . . The U.S. Air
Force sent out a letter telling an airman booted from the service over the now-rescinded COVID-19 vaccine mandate of an opportunity to rejoin the service, mirroring similar letters sent to former Army service members. A former Air Force service member who was separated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine received the letter Sunday addressed with the recipient’s name, according to a source familiar with the matter. The letter tells former airmen they can request to have their service records
amended to show that they received honorable discharges and seek reentry into the service amidst the service’s failure to meet recruiting goals. Daily Caller Wouldn't it be great if the government stopped making dumb
decisions? International
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Rescue All The Hostages Quickly – And Protect The West From The Islamic Terrorism Of The Crime Family That Rules Qatar . . . In the struggle to obtain the release of the hostages held by Hamas, there is a vitally important path to rescuing them – and it is a path that the Israeli media and the government of Israel are refraining from presenting to the public and to the families of the hostages. It is the path of using massive unprecedented pressure on Qatar. Qatar is a state that
sponsors Islamic terrorism worldwide: Al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, Hizbullah, and also Hamas. The case of Al-Qaeda is particularly important: Qatar sheltered the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM). Qatar has invested billions of dollars in American institutions of higher education – and much more in Islamist educational, social, religious, and media bodies and organizations throughout the West. This is in addition to its investment in the Western economy –
investments that have facilitated its reach into other areas. It is doing all this in order to stop Muslim society from developing towards a modern Western Islam and to bring it back to the primeval Islam of the seventh century. MEMRI Cry no more for Argentina — it’s about to be a new model for economic reform . . . Argentina is an 11-hour flight and two time zones away from New York, so the news it has just elected a radical
free-market economics professor named Javier Milei as its new president may not resonate with many Americans. But Milei’s landslide win over an entrenched left-wing political machine Juan and Evita Peron founded in the 1940s (immortalized in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Evita”) is significant on many levels. Milei will replace an anti-American Peronist regime that was cozy with US adversaries. New York Post Summit in San Francisco . . . By Miljan Vešović. Last week in San Francisco there was a meeting between US President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden and his administration need talks with China for another reason. In the world full of international crises, of which the Middle Eastern and Ukrainian ones are of course the most serious and complex, the American president wants to avoid even the slightest destabilization in the
Indo-Pacific. However, the root of the problem in the relationship between the USA (and the West in general, although some European countries are still hesitant to understand this) and China is the same one
that led to “deep freeze” with Putin's Russia - the Chinese Communist Party needs the destabilization of the existing world order in order to achieve its goals. The main goal is to stay in power as long as possible and to control the Chinese society as tightly as possible. Antena M
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Money Food insecurity on the rise as cost of living pinches wallets . . . The cost of living in the U.S. has risen to such a degree that millions of families are being forced to make cutbacks on food, leading to a rise in food insecurity in the country. The New
York-based hunger organization City Harvest is trying to draw attention to the prevalence of this issue, especially as Thanksgiving approaches. To date, the group has served more than 82 million pounds of food to New Yorkers facing hunger. In 2022, the number of people living in food-insecure households across the U.S. reached over 44 million, according to data from the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Fox Business American Shoppers Have Plenty of Dry Powder . . . Americans say they are worried about the economy, and there certainly are reasons to question the staying power of consumer spending. That doesn’t mean they won’t spend heartily this holiday season. The U.S. consumer is in a funk, according to the U.S. consumer. The University of Michigan’s sentiment index, based on a long-running survey of households, remains far below prepandemic levels and lately has been near levels experienced
in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Surveys of chief executives haven’t looked much better. And, while forecasters have lately been a little less dour, economists polled by The Wall Street Journal in October put the chances of a recession occurring within the next year at 48%. Wall Street Journal Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO after his tumultuous ouster . . . Sam Altman is returning as CEO of OpenAI just days after his
ouster, capping frenzied discussions about the future of the startup at the center of an artificial intelligence boom. The ChatGPT maker also unveiled a new initial board with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor as chair and Larry Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, and Adam D'Angelo as directors. D'Angelo was part of the original board that had dismissed Altman. Reuters
Culture, Censorship, and Corruption Biden Admin Gave $3 Billion Loan to Solar Company Accused of Scamming Elderly . . . A solar company that was awarded a $3 billion Department of Energy loan has been accused of scamming dementia patients on their deathbeds
into signing five-figure, multi-decade solar panel leases, according to interviews and state consumer complaint records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon Liberals get triggered by the truth
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Islamic Scholar Railed Against Gays. An Anti-Israel Student Group Invited Him to UPenn's Campus . . . An anti-Israel student group at the University of Pennsylvania invited an Islamic scholar and cleric to campus who last year argued that gay people are "destructive" and "will not be happy." The scholar, former Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center senior imam Yasir Fahmy, delivered a June 2022 lecture titled, "Thoughts on LGBTQ+." Fahmy during the lecture argued that gay people and
those who "indulge in what you like" are living a "destructive" lifestyle. "We're lost, and a true representation of this loss and this waywardness is this LGBTQ movement," Fahmy said. "You see what's happening with Disney—Buzz Lightyear, now Buzz Lightyear is suddenly gay. Suddenly, he's gay." Free Beacon
JFK
assassination: 60 years later we know the truth about the real killer . . . On Nov. 22, 1963, we lost not only a popular young president, but we also lost our national innocence. We lost our trust in government. Once lost, it has not returned and never will. The rifle shots fired at the president’s motorcade changed my own life as I watched TV
coverage of my bloodied "friend" Lee Harvey Oswald dragged into the Dallas Police Station. When the Secret Service knocked on my door the morning after the assassination, they came for me as someone identified as a "known associate" of the presumed JFK assassin. Fox News The Second Shooter | JFK Assassination: What Happened in the Trauma Room
The CIA doesn’t want these files to be released: RFK, Jr.
Inside the secret White House effort to secure the Hamas hostage release . . . The deal to release 50 hostages being held by Hamas since the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel came together after five weeks of intense negotiations involving the White House and Qatar, as
well as Israel and Hamas. The deal, which includes a pause in the fighting, was structured for women and children and is considered a first phase with an expectation for future releases. Among the 50 hostages being released, three are Americans, including two women and one child who will turn 4 years old on Friday. Here is a look inside the secret effort by the White House to secure the release of these hostages. The Hill Guilty Pleasures
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