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With less than six months to go until Election Day, Americans have ample reason to be concerned that a wave of non-citizens casting ballots could undermine the integrity of our elections. Urgent federal action is needed to address this threat before it is too late.
Many in the corporate media and the political establishment have assured Americans that they need not worry because non-citizens voting, or even registering to vote in federal elections, is already illegal – and indeed, this is the case. But this prohibition has been effectively neutralized by caveats and special carve-outs in dozens of states’ laws which create ample opportunity to violate federal election law.
One of the biggest glaring weak points in U.S. election law is the voter registration process itself. Under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, every state must use a common voter registration form that only asks applicants to check a box stating that they are an American citizen.
In other words, states must take someone’s word for it that they are eligible to vote in federal elections – effectively eliminating all structural barriers to non-citizens registering to vote.
To make matters worse, 14 states, including the swing states of Nevada and Pennsylvania, don’t even require any sort of identification to cast a ballot. This is also the case in populous states like California and New York, which in 2022 determined control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
To help guard against non-citizens voting, many states have wisely implemented voter ID laws. But even these safeguards might not be enough.
For instance, in 28 states, including the swing states of Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina, a student ID counts as a valid form of identification for voting. But student IDs do not distinguish between citizens and noncitizens.
Moreover, at least 19 other states and the District of Columbia have passed bills allowing noncitizens to obtain driver’s licenses which also do not distinguish between citizens and noncitizens. According to Judicial Watch, roughly 80,000 illegal aliens in Minnesota alone became eligible to obtain driver’s licenses when Democrats there passed the “Driver’s Licenses for All” Act last year.
These problems have, of course, been made exponentially more severe by the more than seven million foreign nationals who have illegally poured across our southern border over the past four years. Even if only a very small fraction of these individuals illegally cast ballots this fall, it could prove decisive in states that have won or lost by just a few thousand votes in recent elections.
Instead of addressing this problem, the Biden administration has actively made it worse. Under the provisions of a 2021 Biden Executive Order, the U.S. Marshals Service is now required to provide everyone in its custody information on how to register to vote. This apparently includes illegal aliens who are ineligible to vote under federal law.
Earlier this year, AMAC’s advocacy arm, AMAC Action, launched an ongoing grassroots campaign demanding Congress take action to ensure only eligible American citizens cast ballots in federal elections. Within the first 24 hours after the campaign went live, AMAC members sent 21,000 messages to members of Congress, a clear sign of how important this issue is to the American people.
One simple step Congress can take right now is to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a common-sense bill introduced this month that gives state officials important new tools to crack down on non-citizens voting.
Specifically, this bill would fix the shortcomings of the 1993 Voter Registration Act by requiring voters to provide documentary evidence – in person – that they are a U.S. citizen and an eligible voter.The SAVE Act would also require states to work to remove non-citizens from voter rolls and require the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security administration to provide states with no-cost access to their databases. Currently, federal agencies can provide this information to states, but are not obligated to do so.
Importantly, the bill would also empower citizens to initiate legal action against election officials who fail to enforce proof of citizenship requirements, creating an important new tool to ensure accountability.
While federal legislation is urgently needed, the American people must also take action at the local level to secure their elections and ensure existing laws are being followed. That’s one reason why AMAC is hosting a series of Bootcamp for Boomers events to empower citizens to get involved in local elections, advocate for legislative reforms, and mobilize their friends and neighbors to turn out in overwhelming numbers in November.
The American people deserve the confidence to know that their elections are secure. For too long, loopholes in state laws and unaccountability from elected officials have undermined the integrity of the American electoral system, and changes are overdue.
AMAC members and millions of other Americans have sent this message loud and clear to our representatives in Washington. It is time for them to listen.
Rebecca Weber is the CEO of the Association of Mature American Citizens.
I believe that the truth about COVID vaccines is starting to come out. I wasn’t sure whether it would or not for quite a long time—whether this would be suppressed or whether it would come out into the widespread public domain. What I want to look at today is a very encouraging article from The New York Times. This is the article here… ‘Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them." Is Anyone Listening?” Now, this article is not an interrogative or analytical article that you and I might like. But what it does do is it admits overtly that there are serious side effects in some people with these vaccines.
“Washington is a manufacturer of false economic statistics,” says Bert Dohmen, founder of Dohmen Capital Research. In an interview with Daniela Cambone, Dohmen criticizes the Bureau of Labor for inflating job numbers by including part-time positions that 'don’t pay the bills.' He also delves into the gold market's performance cycle, suggesting "we're entering a 30-year bull market fueled by major central banks' unchecked money printing." Meanwhile, Dohmen's optimistic outlook on gold extends to the anticipation of retail investors joining the market, driving prices even higher. Lastly, he reiterates his earlier prediction of a tumultuous 2024 marked by 'riots, wars, and burning cities,' particularly in the lead-up to the election. Link to Bert’s Latest Free Research Report: https://dohmencapital.com/freeaireport 📰 JOIN DANIELA'S NEWSLETTER: https://learn.itmtrading.com/daniela
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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/biden-administration-withholds-sensitive-intelligence-on-hamas-from-israel; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden said, “If they [the IDF] go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities—that deal with that problem.”
He went on to state that his administration wasn’t walking away from Israel’s security and would “continue to make sure Israel is secure in terms of the Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks that came out of the Middle East [i.e. Iran] recently,” such as Iran’s April 14 ballistic missile attack.
However, with regard to offensive armaments of the type that would likely be used in Rafah, “it’s just wrong,” he continued. “We’re not going to—we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells,” he said….
Is it “just wrong” for the Israelis to want to finish off Hamas by dismantling the last four intact? Battalions of its combatants known to be in Rafah? Do the Bidenites want Hamas to still be standing in Rafah when the war sputters to its end, crowing about its “victory” over the “Zionist entity” and preparing to regroup — as Hamas is now doing in northern Gaza, which the IDF had thought had permanently cleared out months ago?
Biden’s CNN announcement came a few days after Israel was blind-sided by Hamas’s public “acceptance” of a ceasefire deal the Jewish state had not even seen.
According to Axios, Israeli officials were reportedly surprised to see “many new elements” in the deal that were not contained in the previous proposal to which Israel had agreed and which had been presented to Hamas by the American, Egyptian and Qatari mediators 10 days earlier.
Among the “new elements” added by Hamas to the proposed deal was the demand not merely for an immediate ceasefire but for an end to the war, and a complete withdrawal of IDF troops from Gaza. Another new element was a reduction in the number of hostages Hamas would be willing to free, reduced from 33 to a mere 20.
The U.S. and the other mediators had drafted “a new deal” and were not transparent about it, two Israeli officials told Axios. The officials went on to state that they suspect the Biden administration gave Hamas guarantees via the Egyptians and Qataris about ending the war, which the terror group demands but which Jerusalem says is a nonstarter until Hamas is defeated, the hostages are released and Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.
The most disturbing news is not that the American mediators were working hand-in-glove with the Egyptians and Qataris, and not keeping Israel abreast of the latest talks, nor of Hamas’ changes to a previous proposal that Israel had agreed to. No, the most disturbing aspect of all this was the Bidenites’ offer to provide intelligence on the three senior Hamas leaders still hiding in Gaza — Yahya Sinwar, his brother Mohamed, and Mohamed Deif. Why has this information been withheld so far from Israel? Had the IDF been given that information, and acted upon it, the war in Gaza might have ended, with a clear Israeli victory, months ago.
Bidenites instead have withheld such critical information from Israel, and they are now proposing to supply it, but only if Israel agrees to their demand that the IDF not enter Rafah. This is not how Washington should treat a loyal ally, one that has always supplied the Americans with whatever information about the Gaza hideouts of Hamas, its security services, especially Mossad, manage to obtain on terrorist plots against America. These information leaders should now be turned over to Israel without delay, and without making it conditional on an Israeli promise not to enter the center of Rafah. Israel is now in the fourth war for its very survival — the first three were in 1948, 1967, and 1973 — and has a right to expect that information critical to its war effort will not be withheld by its American ally, or perhaps one should now put that last word between doubting quotation marks, as in American “ally.”
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/democratic-donor-haim-saban-on-bidens-threat-to-withhold-weapons-for-israel-a-bad-bad-bad-decision; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
It’s domestic politics. He has seen a squalid display of anti-Israel and antisemitic protesters on nearly 100 American campuses, and instead of calling for moral nitwits, at least half of whom are not even students, to be promptly expelled from the campuses, he; merely criticized the disruption they cause to campus life. who want to see Israel destroyed and replaced by a twenty-third Arab state. But instead of denouncing them and demanding that universities call in the police to close those protests down, Biden has chosen to take their “concerns” seriously. He’s worried, you see, about the Muslim and Arab-American vote, especially in the battleground state of Minnesota, home of Ilhan Omar and a large Somali population. Biden wants to hold onto the state by distancing his administration from Israel. Many Democrats, including Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Congressman Ritchie Torres of New York, have deplored Biden’s decision. Republicans across the board have been unstinting in their criticism of Biden’s withholding of weaponry to our closest ally, which they rightly point out “will only help Hamas.”
Now a major donor to Biden’s reelection campaign, the Israeli American billionaire Haim Saban, has come out swinging, declaring that Biden threatening to withhold weapons shipments to Israel is “bad, bad, bad, decision, on all levels.” More on Saban’s reaction, that is likely to be shared by many of Biden’s biggest donors, can be found here: “‘Bad, bad, bad,’: Major Israeli-American Biden donor criticizes US threat to halt weapons,” by Yuval Barnea, Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2024:
A major donor to President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has criticized his handling of the weapons shipments to Israel, calling it a “Bad, bad, bad, decision, on all levels” in a text published online on Thursday.
Haim Saban is an Israeli-American billionaire and long-time supporter of Israel and Jewish political causes and has been a consistent donor to the Democratic party since the 1990s.
“This sends a terrible message to our allies in the region, and beyond that, [that] we can flip from doing the right t[h]ing to bending to political pressure.”
He then reminded Biden that “There are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters that care about Hamas.”…
Where appeals to common sense and decency don’t work, a hint from deep-pocketed Democrats that they will no longer be contributing to the care and feeding of candidate Biden might prove persuasive. And Saban is not alone; he’s a harbinger of disaffections to come.
A controversial program relocating asylum seekers from 4 specific countries has come to light, but although critics say the program is a bad idea, proponents say it's decreasing congestion at the border. What do you think?
The United Methodist Church just voted to reject the authority of God’s Word over the issues of sexuality, marriage, and church leadership. Sadly, this sinful decision will cause the demise of their denomination. What should Bible-believing Christians within the church do?
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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/un-rewards-palestinians-for-october-7-votes-143-9-to-upgrade-status-of-palestine; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
Exactly.
“UNGA votes 143-9 to upgrade Palestinian statehood status,” by Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2024:
The United Nations General Assembly voted 143-9 to upgrade the Palestinian’s status as a non-member observer state, granting it all but voting rights with regard to all activities related to its plenum.
Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Papa New Guinea, Palau, and the United States opposed the resolution.
Among the countries that supported the test were many European Union members, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.
Australia also supported the resolution, while Canada, Great Britain, and Ukraine abstained.
There are already some 143 countries that recognize Palestine as a state.
The UNGA vote, which is mostly symbolic, is viewed as an international referendum in support of unilateral Palestinian statehood.
Many Western and European countries believe that full Palestinian statehood recognition and Palestinian UN membership should come at the end of a final status agreement that tends to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In light of Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel on October 7 that sparked the Gaza War, a number of Western countries have reconsidered their position.
Israel immediately attacked the decision, as a prize for terrorism, given that it comes in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attack, which sparked the Gaza war.
It also warned that such a step would harm negotiations for the release of the remaining 132 hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza.
“The message that the UN is sending to our suffering region: violence pays off,” the Foreign Ministry stated.
“The decision to upgrade the status of Palestinians in the UN is a prize for Hamas terrorists after they committed the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and perpetrated the most heinous sexual crimes the world has seen,” it stated.
“The decision also provides a tailwind to Hamas amid negotiations for the release of the 132 hostages and humanitarian relief, further complicating the prospects for a deal,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry stated….
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/hamas-wont-even-release-the-bodies-of-dead-hostages; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
“38 Israeli families mourn while Hamas holds their loved ones’ remains,” by Amelie Botbol, JNS, May 9, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Families of deceased hostages whose bodies are still being held by Hamas in Gaza carried an empty coffin through Jerusalem on Thursday to raise awareness of their plight and call for the return of their loved ones.
“I am attending this rally because we, the families of deceased hostages, are a unique group,” Ruby Chen, the father of American-Israeli dual citizen Sgt. Itay Chen, 19, told JNS on Thursday.
Itay, from Netanyahu, was stationed at the Nahal Oz army base as part of a tank unit when he was captured along with three other soldiers on Oct. 7. He was one of six hostages with U.S. citizenship thought to have still been alive in Gaza. The Israeli Defense Forces declared him dead on March 12.
“We decided to organize an alternative service to highlight the fact that the State of Israel must do everything it can to bring all the hostages back, both the living and the deceased,” Ruby Chen said.
Hundreds of new families will be mourning Yom Hazikaron: Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism, though some will not have anywhere to pay their respects.
“We do not have a burial site. If you ask me where I will be going on Monday, I can tell that I don’t have a good answer,” Chen told JNS. He will also be attending Saturday’s rally at Tel Aviv’s “Hostage Square,” which this week will focus on those declared dead in Gaza.
“I am calling on the people of Israel to join us. "I am asking leaders and people worldwide to pray with us regardless of their religion so that we will be able to have closure and that our deceased will be buried in dignity,” Chen said.
According to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, 38 families in Israel will be mourning while the remains of their loved ones are still held by Hamas in Gaza….
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/columbia-university-custodian-defends-academic-building-from-anti-israel-mob; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
This viral image captured the clash between anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia and campus workers who tried to stop them. As the mob invaded Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, a facility worker was photographed pushing a demonstrator against a wall.
Later, it emerged that the protester was a 40-year-old trust fund kid named James Carlson, who owns a townhouse in Brooklyn worth $2.3 million. The man who tried to hold him back was Mario Torres, 45, who has worked at Columbia—where the average janitor makes less than $19 an hour—for five years.
Now, in an exclusive interview with The Free Press, Mario Torres describes the experience of being on duty as protesters stormed the building in the early hours of the morning, breaking glass and barricading the entrances. “We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed by an angry mob with rope and duct tape and masks and gloves,” he said.
“They came from both sides of the staircases. They came through the elevators and they were just rushing. It was just like they had a plan.” Mario said protesters with zip ties, duct tape, and masks “just multiplied and multiplied.”
At one point, he remembers “looking up and I noticed the cameras are covered.” It made him think: “This was definitely planned.”
There was nothing spontaneous about the takeover of Hamilton Hall. The pro-Hamas demonstrators came prepared with zip ties and duct tape to be used on any employees in the building attempting to prevent their assault, and with masks to hide their identity, and just to make sure they would not be identified, they had quickly managed to cover all the CCTV cameras in the building.
Torres was trying to “protect the building” when he ended up in an altercation with Carlson: “He had a Columbia hoodie on, and I managed to rip that hoodie off of him and expose his face.” (Carlson was later charged with five felonies, including burglary and reckless endangerment.) “I was freaking out. At that point, I was thinking about my family. How was I gonna get out? Through the window?”…
About half of the demonstrators at Columbia who have so far been arrested have turned out not to be Columbia students at all, but outside agitators, determined to swell the ranks of the mob in Morningside Heights. Torres managed to push one of the protesters against the wall and pulled away his face-concealing hoodie. That “student” was discovered to be James Carlson, 40-years-old man who had nothing to do with Columbia, but was eager to participate in any anti-Israel pro-Hamas demonstration that might be in progress. Torres wasn’t having any of the disruption. He wanted to do his job as custodian. Having pushed back against the mob, he now worries about whether, for opposing the law-breakers and defending Hamilton Hall, he might be in trouble with the pusillanimous administrators who had been so reluctant to arrest the demonstrators holding the building hostage.
Mario Torres should be asked to appear on news programs such as the “Hero of Hamilton Hall,” a Hispanic male version of Barbara Frietchie, protecting university property from the frenzied hate-animated mob. He needn’t worry about losing his job; Columbia’s trustees and alumni, and the wider public, too, wouldn’t stand for it. In fact, he’s due for a raise, for defending his building against those who, according to plan, smashed its windows and doors, and were preparing to do even more damage once inside. Fortunately, the Columbia administration finally called in the NYPD, which cleared Hamilton Hall in a five-hour operation. The cost to the NYPD was $200,000, One hopes that the City of New York will be able to recover that amount from fines leveled on hundreds of demonstrators.
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/biden-risks-american-lives-to-protect-hamas; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently admitted at a congressional hearing that American soldiers operating Biden’s disastrous “aid pier” for Gaza could come under attack from Islamic terrorists.
Biden has not sent a single soldier to recover American hostages being held by Hamas, but there are now soldiers in the line of fire in order to send aid to Gaza.
In the event American forces on the pier come under attack, they would be allowed to fight back, Austin promised. But based on the rules of engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, all the terrorists have to do is attack from a mosque or from behind civilians, and American soldiers would be banned from fighting back.
And those are the ways that Hamas tends to attack.
Late last month, Islamic terrorists fired mortar shells at the pier, forcing a UN team to flee for cover and damaging some of our equipment. After the attack, it was announced that the Israeli military would be tasked with providing security for the pier since Biden’s efforts to recruit Muslim allies to protect it had failed.
After the mortar attack, the terror pier was moved to the Israeli port of Ashdod, allegedly because of the bad weather, but also because of the terrorist attacks. It’s still sitting in Ashdod, despite having been completed because it’s too fragile to move in stormy weather. What’s going to happen if there’s bad weather once the pier is in place? If this one breaks, we’ll probably have to build another one.
But after having wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on the terror pier, Biden is waiting on the Israelis to secure it. Even with the Israelis physically attaching the pier, so that Biden can claim that there are American “no boots on the ground”, American personnel will still be within firing range of Islamic terrorists in Gaza.
This would not be a threat if Biden stopped interfering with Israel’s war on terrorists. But the pier is part of the Biden administration’s campaign to undermine Israel’s war effort. And that’s putting American lives at risk.
Beyond the terror pier, there are now reports that, after Israel finally took control of the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza (despite years of lies about an ‘open-air concentration camp’, Egypt, an Arab Muslim country, has its own border crossing with the Islamic terror state), Biden wants America to step in.
Unwilling to have Israel control the Rafah crossing into Egypt, where the majority of Hamas’ terror forces are based, negotiations are reportedly underway to bring in a “private American security company” that “has operated in several African and Middle Eastern countries, guarding strategic sites like oil fields, airports, army bases and sensitive border crossings” which “employs veterans of elite U.S. Army units.” This is likely to be Blackwater (which has been renamed several times) or some company like it with similar capabilities.
The ex-military personnel won’t count as “boots on the ground” but having private security contractors performing military tasks and then getting killed is no better than American military forces dying in combat with terrorists. The use of contractors during the War on Terror helped hide casualty rates, but didn’t lessen the fact that Americans were still being killed. As we saw in Benghazi.
Above all else, there is no reason for American forces, no matter how they’re classified to be tasked with securing the so-called aid crossings, whether it’s Biden’s terror pier or the Rafah crossing, when the Israelis should be in charge.
And the Israelis want to be in charge.
The only reason Americans are being put in harm’s way is because Biden doesn’t want the Israelis in control. After trying to solicit anyone else to step in, Americans are being put at risk to protect Islamic terrorists from Israel.
Opponents of the Jewish State have often accused Israel of putting Americans at risk, but it’s those opponents, especially in the Biden administration, whose obsession with protecting Muslim terrorists from Israel is really endangering us.
What is America’s national interest in protecting Iran’s terror proxies in Gaza?
Set aside any sentimental attachments to the Jewish State or any religious and cultural sympathies, and there’s still no conceivable reason to prop up another of the terrorist ‘dragon’s teeth’ that Iran has sown in Yemen, Lebanon and Israel.
The lineage of the 'Palestinian' cause can be traced back to the Soviet Union’s Marxist terrorist operations, Nazi Germany’s influence operation with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and, more recently, the Islamic revolution in Iran. What all of those had in common was that they were efforts to subvert Western presence in the Middle East by recruiting and funding Muslim terror groups.
America tried to stay out of it until Jimmy Carter decided to make common cause with Islamic terrorists. This disastrous policy led to the Islamic takeover of Iran and then Afghanistan, and to the deaths of thousands of Americans. Carter also embraced the ‘Palestinian’ cause and Clinton committed us to spending endless billions trying to create an Islamic terror state in Israel.
Until Trump, no president had the courage to try and disentangle us from the Palestinians. And until Biden, no president was this close to committing American troops to protecting a population that universally wants to kill us.
Israel wants to end the terror threat from Gaza and the West Bank. Biden should let it. Life was a whole lot better for everyone before Clinton’s experiment in ‘nation building’ led to endless waves of terror in pursuit of a Palestinian state.
If Biden really cared about the lives of Arab Muslims living in Gaza, he would let Israel quickly finish the job of putting down the terrorists. Like the rules of engagement imposed on American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, the only thing that the restrictions imposed on the Israeli military have done is get good men killed while dragging out a war that could have been ended long ago.
Too many American civilians were already killed in Islamic terror attacks in Israel. If Israel is willing to drain the terror swamps in the West Bank and Gaza, let it.
No American should die to protect Hamas or its supporters in Gaza.
The idea that we were going to neutralize ‘trouble spots’ through nation building has been tested and failed badly. While Biden washed his hands in Afghanistan, he still insists on keeping the mirage of a Palestinian state going even though it predated our involvement in Afghanistan by a decade and failed even worse.
It’s time to end the worst and longest nation building experiment to date.
The obsession with creating a ‘Palestinian state’ has cost billions of dollars and the lives of American civilians. Now Biden is risking the death of American soldiers, in or out of uniform, to keep the nation-building dream alive.
Biden withdrew from Afghanistan, but now he wants to get us into Gaza.