Author: Freedom Watch

Biden pressed to send clear message on economy as warning signs flash By Victoria Guida, Christopher Cadelago, Natasha Korecki POLITICO May 16, 2021 The Biden administration is taking pains to explain to Americans where the country is headed as the economy spits out anxiety-inducing data on prices and jobs. But it’s struggling to find a clear message. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spooked markets this month when she said interest rates could rise if the economy heated up too much — then clarified a few hours later that it wasn’t a prediction. President Joe Biden held a press conference…

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Tensions Among Democrats Grow Over Israel as the Left Defends Palestinians By Lisa Lerer and Jennifer Medina New York Times May 16, 2021 In 1988, when James Zogby, the founder of the Arab American Institute, pushed Democrats to include a mention of Palestinian sovereignty in their platform, party leaders responded with a clear warning, he recalled: “If the P-word is even in the platform, all hell will break loose.” Eager to stave off an angry confrontation at the convention, the issue was shelved without a vote. Now, with violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories forcing the issue…

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Bill Gates’s Meetings With Jeffrey Epstein Are Apparently a “Sore Spot” for Melinda By Emily Kirkpatrick Vanity Fair May 16, 2021 Bill Gates’s meetings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are apparently an issue that’s weighed heavily for a long time on his now estranged wife, Melinda Gates. “Epstein is definitely a sore spot” for Melinda, a source confided to People. “That’s a long time for issues to fester.” They added that anything involving Epstein was a “major trauma” for Melinda and that “she was totally opposed to what she considered shady dealings and some other issues he…

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By Andrew Mark Miller Washington Examiner May 16, 2021 A CNN staffer can be seen in a newly released undercover video calling out his own network for “propaganda” and boasting that the cable news giant successfully removed former President Donald Trump from office. “Look at what we did, we got Trump out,” Charles Chester, a network technical director at CNN, said to an undercover journalist from the political action group Project Veritas in a tape released Tuesday. “I am 100% going to say it. And I 100% believe it that if it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that…

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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government By Bernie Sanders New York Times May 15, 2021 “Israel has the right to defend itself.” These are the words we hear from both Democratic and Republican administrations whenever the government of Israel, with its enormous military power, responds to rocket attacks from Gaza. Let’s be clear. No one is arguing that Israel, or any government, does not have the right to self-defense or to protect its people. So why are these words repeated year after year, war after war? And why is…

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Biden kills Trump’s sculpture garden of ‘American heroes’ By Nick Niedzwiadek POLITICO May 14, 2021 President Joe Biden on Friday revoked several of the executive orders issued in his predecessor’s last year in office that were penned to address conservative cultural grievances, including the sculpture garden he proposed on July 4 at an event at Mount Rushmore. Biden rescinded a pair of executive orders tied to the creation of what former President Donald Trump envisioned as a “National Garden of American Heroes,” one of which was signed on Jan. 18, just days before Trump was set to leave…

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Arab Israelis are rising up to protest. Here’s what you need to know about their status in the country. Washington Post May 14, 2021 Many of the Arab Israelis taking part in recent mass protests are angered not only by the ongoing airstrikes against Palestinians but also their own sense of being second-class citizens. Some Israelis worry that the clashes between Jewish and Arab citizens will cause irreparable harm to the social fabric or could even trigger a civil war. Here is what you need to know about the history of Arab citizens of Israel and the conditions…

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U.S. Marine Major Christopher Warnagiris is arrested for participating in Capitol riot CNBC May 13, 2021 An active-duty U.S. Marine officer has been arrested and charged with participating in the invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by a mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump. The 40-year-old officer, Major Christopher Warnagiris, is accused of pushing his way past a line of police protecting the Capitol and forcing his way through a doorway in the East Rotunda of the Capitol. Warnagiris, of Woodbridge, Virginia, is charged in federal court with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. He…

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