Look at this. Trump called Kamala lazy yesterday and the media is saying he’s talking about black people…
…because the media thinks black people are lazy? He didn’t say anything about her race. The only ones equating laziness with black people are Democrats and the media.
Never forget who the real racists are.

Rescue teams in the Philippines waded through deep floodwaters on Wednesday to help residents trapped by Tropical Storm Trami, which has forced thousands of people to evacuate as it approaches the country's eastern coast. The storm's torrential rains have caused severe flooding, transforming streets into rivers, submerging entire villages, and burying cars in volcanic debris that has been loosened by the downpour.

In northern parts of the Philippines, at least 32,000 people had fled their homes, according to police reports, as the storm moved closer to Luzon, the country's main island. The Bicol region, located about 400 kilometers southeast of Manila, was particularly hard hit, with "unexpectedly high" floodwaters complicating rescue efforts, according to regional police spokeswoman Luisa Calubaquib. Rescue teams encountered difficulties entering some areas due to the strong currents and high water levels.

By 8:00 a.m. local time, the national weather agency reported that Trami's center was located 310 kilometers east of Aurora province, with maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour. Verified photos showed streets in the Bato municipality of Camarines Sur province submerged in muddy water, with only the rooftops of homes and small businesses still visible.

"It's getting dangerous. We're waiting for rescuers," said Karen Tabagan, a resident of the affected area. In Naga City, about 40 kilometers from Bato, half of the city's 600 villages were reported to be entirely flooded.

During an emergency meeting with government agencies, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos expressed concern, warning that "the worst is yet to come." He acknowledged the limitations of the response, saying, "All we can do is sit tight, wait, hope, and pray that there is not too much damage and no casualties."

Around 2,500 evacuation centers have been set up across the Bicol region to shelter the displaced families. In addition to the flooding, the Bicol region also experienced lahar flows—volcanic sediment and debris carried by water—coming from the Mayon volcano, further worsening the situation.

The Philippines is regularly hit by around 20 major storms and typhoons each year, which often lead to widespread destruction, displacement, and loss of life.

India's capital, New Delhi, was engulfed in thick, acrid clouds of pollution on Wednesday as air quality levels reached "hazardous" for the first time this winter. The severe pollution, driven by the combined effects of fireworks and large-scale farm stubble burning, has created a toxic smog that experts warn could result in thousands of premature deaths each year. Despite the grave health risks, commuters heading to work braved the poisonous air, with few choosing to wear masks for protection.

Each year, New Delhi faces an alarming spike in air pollution, with much of it attributed to the burning of agricultural stubble by farmers in neighboring states who are preparing their fields for the next planting season. The problem is expected to worsen significantly during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which falls on November 1 this year. Firework displays, a traditional part of the celebrations, further contribute to the city's already hazardous air quality by releasing toxic smoke.

Monitors recorded the concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) — tiny, cancer-causing particles that penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream — at levels more than 68 times higher than the World Health Organization's recommended safe limit. On Wednesday, the level of these pollutants reached 344 micrograms per cubic meter, according to data from IQAir, making New Delhi the most polluted city in the world at that time.

In an attempt to address the severe pollution, authorities in New Delhi implemented a complete ban on both the manufacture and sale of firecrackers this year, citing the urgent need to combat the city's high pollution levels. However, similar restrictions have been routinely ignored in the past, with enforcement proving difficult due to the deep religious significance attached to fireworks during Diwali celebrations.

Efforts to curb stubble burning have also been met with resistance. While police in Haryana state arrested several farmers this week for setting fires before tilling their land, widespread enforcement remains a challenge. The combined effect of stubble burning, fireworks, and general urban pollution continues to be a major health crisis in India. According to a study published in the Lancet medical journal, air pollution was responsible for 1.67 million premature deaths in India in 2019, highlighting the urgency of the country's ongoing struggle with hazardous air quality.

Tropical Storm Trami has caused significant disruptions across the Philippines, leading to the suspension of government operations and the closure of schools throughout the main island of Luzon. In response to the approaching storm, the Philippine central bank also halted foreign currency trading and monetary operations for the day, citing safety concerns. According to the latest bulletin from the state weather agency Pag-asa, Trami’s center was last tracked approximately 180 kilometers off the coast of Virac, a central town in Catanduanes province.

The storm is bringing strong winds, heavy rainfall, and the possibility of storm surges, especially in coastal towns situated along its projected path. With sustained winds reaching 85 kilometers per hour (53 mph), local authorities have been evacuating residents from high-risk areas to ensure their safety as the storm intensifies.

The storm’s impact has led to widespread disruptions in daily activities across Luzon, including the suspension of public services. However, agencies that are essential for disaster response and other critical functions remain operational, ensuring that emergency services and vital assistance continue to be provided to affected areas. The government is closely monitoring the situation as Trami moves closer to land, emphasizing precautionary measures to minimize potential damage and protect lives.

With the U.S. presidential election nearing, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigned in key battleground states over the weekend, targeting different voter bases with distinct messages. On Sunday, Harris visited two churches in Georgia, emphasizing unity and compassion, while Trump visited a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, engaging with supporters and challenging Harris's personal and political background.

Harris, the Democratic vice president, spoke to thousands at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia. She urged voters to choose leaders driven by "kindness and love" rather than division, warning against those who "spread hate" and "sow fear." Harris also highlighted the selflessness of responders to Hurricane Helene in Florida, framing her campaign as one of empathy and action. In an MSNBC interview, she responded to Trump’s recent criticisms, calling him out for his divisive rhetoric and stating, "The American people deserve so much better."

Meanwhile, Trump took a more casual approach, visiting a McDonald's in suburban Philadelphia, where he cooked and served fries while interacting with supporters. He used the event as an opportunity to mock Harris, questioning her claim that she worked at McDonald's during her college years. Trump’s visit to the fast-food chain was also seen as a jab at Harris's policies, particularly her support for wage increases and labor rights. Trump's playful antics at McDonald's contrasted with Harris’s church-centered outreach, symbolizing the differing styles of the two candidates.

Harris, celebrating her 60th birthday, continued her campaign in Georgia with a musical tribute from Stevie Wonder at Divine Faith Ministries International in Jonesboro. She addressed concerns about her support among Black men, expressing confidence in earning their votes by working to meet their expectations. Strong support from Black voters will be crucial for her success in states like Michigan and Georgia, key to the Democrats' 2020 victories.

Trump, who spoke at a rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, extended a somewhat sarcastic birthday wish to Harris while continuing to criticize her policies and raise doubts about her mental fitness. Both candidates are intensifying their efforts as they approach the November 5 election, vying for every vote in a closely contested race.

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor, Josh Shapiro, has called for an investigation into Elon Musk’s recent $1 million daily giveaway at a pro-Trump rally, expressing concerns about the legality of Musk’s actions. Over the weekend, Musk, through his America PAC, began giving $1 million checks to individuals who sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. The petition is part of Musk’s initiative to support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The giveaway occurred at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where Musk handed a $1 million check to a random attendee. Musk has pledged to continue giving $1 million daily until Election Day, offering financial incentives to registered voters in key swing states, including Pennsylvania. The petition also promises $100 to registered voters in Pennsylvania who sign and refer others.

Shapiro described Musk’s actions as “deeply concerning,” particularly due to the legal issues that arise when money is used to influence voter registration or voting behavior. U.S. federal law prohibits offering monetary rewards or anything of value in exchange for votes or voter registration, and violations are punishable by imprisonment.

Musk’s America PAC has been instrumental in mobilizing voters in battleground states, but the legality of these financial giveaways is likely to be scrutinized in the coming days. Given Musk’s wealth and increasing political involvement, the situation is drawing significant attention, especially as Pennsylvania remains a crucial state for both Trump and his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Truong My Lan, the former chairwoman of property developer Van Thinh Phat, will have her death sentence appeal heard by the People’s High Court of Ho Chi Minh City in a 20-day trial starting on November 4. Lan, who was sentenced to death in April for embezzling VND677 trillion (US$27 billion) from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) over a decade, is seeking a reduced sentence along with 46 other defendants involved in crimes related to SCB and Van Thinh Phat.

Lan's crimes include bribery and violating banking regulations, as well as orchestrating a long-term scheme to use SCB as a "cash cow" for her illegal activities. To conceal her actions, she reportedly bribed State Bank of Vietnam auditors, including head banking inspector Do Thi Nhan, who received $5.2 million and was sentenced to life in prison.

Lan's husband, Eric Chu, was sentenced to nine years for assisting in the fraud, while her niece, Truong Hue Van, received 17 years. In a separate trial, Lan was also handed a life sentence for fraudulent asset appropriation through bond issuance, money laundering, and illegal cross-border money transfers.

The upcoming trial will involve 100 lawyers representing the defendants, with five specifically assigned to Lan.

You can’t make this sh*t up. CNN is whining that Elon Musk may be tweaking the X algorithms to promote Trump and suppress Kamala content.
Did they already forget? Twitter was shadowbanning conservatives and even BANNED President Trump and conservatives altogether just a few years ago.
There were actual Congressional hearings about it.
These people are comically stupid.

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The only challenge here was limiting myself to 10 arguments against Donald Trump (and one good reason to vote for Kamala Harris).

By Jackie Calmes Columnist Los Angeles Times

The only challenge here was limiting myself to 10 arguments against Donald Trump (and one good reason to vote for Kamala Harris). So, drum roll, working toward No. 1:

10: As president, he violated his oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.”

Ask Mike Pence, who forfeited his place as Trump’s ticket mate to Ohio Sen. JD Vance because Pence wouldn’t violate the Constitution; Vance would. Even after leaving office, Trump called for terminating parts of it so he could regain power. No one should think he’d keep the oath if given a second chance, especially when the Supreme Court that he packed has ruled that presidents are virtually immune from prosecution.

9: He still won’t say that he’ll accept the voters’ verdict.

And that is still unprecedented. Trump has gravely eroded Americans’ faith in the elections that are fundamental to democracy. He lied after his 2016 victory in the electoral college that he lost the popular vote only because up to 5 million people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton. His efforts to flip his 2020 loss to Joe Biden got him criminally indicted, another first.

8: He will be held accountable for his alleged crimes as president only if he is defeated.

If reelected, Trump can order “his” Justice Department to bury the two federal cases that he succeeded in delaying past the election — the Washington trial for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election, and the case in Florida for allegedly making off with and hiding top government secrets. A third case in Georgia, state charges for attempting to subvert its 2020 vote for Biden, could well be shelved if he were back in office.

7: He’d be the first president with a serious rap sheet.

Trump has been found guilty or liable for sexual abuse, defamation, civil financial fraud and criminal business fraud to conceal a tryst with a porn star. He’s also the first president to be impeached twice, justifiably. Character counts: Voters should not hire for president someone who wouldn’t be hired by any private employer in the land.

6: He’s unfit to be president.

Take it from scores of former top advisors, including nearly half of the 42 people who served in Trump’s Cabinet. The early Cabinet members he once called “my generals”? James N. Mattis, H.R. McMaster and John F. Kelly all broke with their former commander in chief. Even those who back Trump have damned him: Former Atty. Gen. William Barr said Trump “shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office” and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley called him “unhinged.” Let those two shape-shifters put party over country to vote for Trump. Voters shouldn’t.

5: He’s a threat to national security.

Trump is “the most dangerous person to this country,” Mark A. Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says in Bob Woodward’s new book. He’s more likely to be seduced by murderous autocrats than stand up to them. He’s poised to appease war criminal Vladimir Putin and reward Russia’s lawless invasion by abandoning Ukraine. Woodward reports that Trump has had seven calls with Putin since leaving office, suggesting a treacherous willingness to undermine allies’ support for Ukraine, Europe’s security and U.S. alliances generally. He encouraged Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to NATO members who miss defense spending targets. As Foreign Affairs reported: “His first term tested the transatlantic relationship — but his second would break it.”

4: He doesn’t know or care how to constructively address the nation’s problems.

The most policy-ignorant candidate in memory, Trump turned to the extremists behind Project 2025 for a blueprint, though he denies it now. Deal maker? He lacks the attention span, grasp of details and spirit of compromise to enact bipartisan laws. In a Wall Street Journal survey, most economists predicted that inflation, interest rates and deficits would be much higher under his proposed tax cuts and tariffs than under Harris’ policies. (And, no, Trump’s tariffs wouldn’t cut child-care costs.) He had Republicans kill an immigration bill to keep the issue alive for his demagogic campaign. His solution: “bloody” deportations of millions of migrants.

3: He’d further pack the federal courts with right-wing ideologues.

To confirm his picks, Trump would be helped, again, by what is expected to be a Republican-majority Senate. Again, he’d choose young nominees to serve for decades: “You don’t put old in, because they’re there for two years or three years,” he said last week. The Supreme Court’s far-right justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., would likely retire so Trump could seat much-younger, like-minded replacements.

2. He’s a pathological liar.

Trump’s constant lies range from the relatively harmless to life-threatening. Residents of Springfield, Ohio, endured school and hospital closures amid bomb threats after Trump lied that Haitian migrants would eat their pets. Federal hurricane responders in the South were threatened after Trump lied about the Biden administration rescue effort. Local governments are spending tax dollars to protect nonpartisan election workers. Americans prominent and obscure have been forced to get security against death threats after Trump’s mendacious attacks. But more prosaically: Citizens should expect truth from their presidents.

1. He was not, and would not be, a president for all Americans.

Not MAGA? Not worthy. Trump talks of withholding disaster aid from blue states. He assails Democrats, other domestic critics and the free press as “the enemy within,” subject to possible military action.

Finally, the bonus, a positive reason to vote Harris. She’s not only among the most experienced applicants for the job ever, but also: She’s not Trump.

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The growing list includes former vice president Dick Cheney, top George W. Bush and Reagan officials and many who served under Donald Trump.

By Niha Masih

A growing number of prominent Republicans have come out in support of Vice President Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the November election, sounding the alarm over the potential dangers of a second Trump term.

The list includes former vice president Dick Cheney, several people who served directly under Trump and hundreds of officials in the George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan administrations who articulated their positions in open letters.

The Harris campaign has discreetly sought some of these endorsements, while the Trump campaign has criticized and attacked those who crossed the partisan divide — even as his latest bid for the Oval Office is backed by only half of those who worked in his Cabinet, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Defections from the Democratic Party to the Trump camp have been far smaller in scale. Trump has scored the endorsement of two prominent former Democrats, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, both of whom he added to his transition team in August.

Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, publisher of the Bulwark, a center-right online publication that opposes Trump, said the number of high-level Republican endorsements of Harris was unprecedented. She added that this lack of support for Trump — including from his own vice president, Mike Pence, who in March refused to endorse the former president — “sends an important signal to conservative-leaning swing voters.”

“It helps establish a permission structure for them to vote their conscience by supporting Kamala Harris, or at least leaving the top of the ticket blank. For an election that is likely to be decided by the narrowest margins, every one of these voters matters,” she said in an emailed statement.

Here are the prominent Republicans who are backing Harris over Trump for president.

Dick and Liz Cheney

Dick Cheney, who served as vice president under President George W. Bush, last month became the most notable defection from the Republican Party over its embrace of Trump. He said he would vote for Harris to “put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution.”

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in his endorsement. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”

His daughter, former congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), once the No. 3 Republican in the House, had earlier made a similar argument when she revealed she would vote for Harris. This month, she campaigned with Harris in Ripon, Wis. — known as the birthplace of the GOP — in an emphatic display of cross-party support for the Democratic nominee. Cheney was one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Jimmy McCain

Army 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain, the youngest son of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said last month that he planned to support Harris and has changed his voter registration from independent to Democrat.

Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), “embody a group of people that will help make this country better, that will take us forward,” he told CNN. He added that he “could never forgive” Trump for what he said about his father. Trump has for years mocked John McCain, saying he was not a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam War.

Adam Kinzinger

Former congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) — one of the 10 House Republicans to vote for Trump’s impeachment over Jan. 6 — also made his case for Harris at the Democratic National Convention.

In a Substack post defending his decision to speak at the convention, Kinzinger called himself a “lifelong Republican” and wrote: “There will be those who accuse me of betrayal, who see this as a repudiation of conservatism. But I see it as a defense of conservatism, of the true conservative values that prioritize the common good over personal power.”

Geoff Duncan

Former Georgia lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan, who broke with Trump over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, spoke at the DNC convention to woo anti-Trump Republicans into Harris’s camp.

“These days, our party acts more like a cult — a cult worshiping a felonious thug. … Let me be clear to my Republican friends at home: If you vote for Kamala Harris in 2024, you’re not a Democrat; you’re a patriot,” he said.

Stephanie Grisham

Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to Trump and chief of staff to first lady Melania Trump, captured attention when she appeared at the DNC convention in August and appealed for voters to back Harris. Trump mocked his supporters as “basement dwellers,” Grisham said in her speech.

“He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth,” she said. “He used to tell me, ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie. Say it enough, and people will believe you.’”

Bush, Romney, McCain staffers

In an open letter published in USA Today in August, 238 Republicans who worked for the late President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) or John McCain endorsed Harris and warned that another Trump term “will hurt real, everyday people and weaken our sacred institutions.”

The Republican alumni wrote that Trump presents a threat to the United States and countries around the world, adding that Trump and his “acolyte,” running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), “kowtow to dictators like [Russian President] Vladimir Putin while turning their backs on our allies. We can’t let that happen.”

Republican national security leaders

In September, 114 Republican former national security and foreign policy officials who served under the administrations of Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump released a letter urging people to support Harris, saying that Trump is “unfit to serve again as President, or indeed in any office of public trust.”

Those who signed the letter include former CIA director Gen. Michael V. Hayden; John D. Negroponte, former director of national intelligence; former FBI and CIA director William H. Webster and former deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick.

Reagan staff members

Seventeen former Reagan staff members endorsed Harris in a letter this month, adding that had the former president been alive, he would have supported the Harris-Walz ticket too, CBS News reported.

“Our votes in this election are less about supporting the Democratic Party and more about our resounding support for democracy,” they wrote, according to the report. The signatories include Ken Adelman, the ambassador to the United Nations and U.S. Arms Control director under Reagan, and B. Jay Cooper, his special assistant and deputy press secretary.

White House lawyers

A dozen lawyers who served under Republican presidents backed Harris in a letter published in August by Fox News. “Trump’s attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after losing the election proved beyond any reasonable doubt his willingness to place his personal interests above the law and values of our constitutional democracy,” they wrote.

Former chairs of the Maine Republican Party

Robert A.G. Monks, Ken Cole and Ted O’Meara, three former chairs of the Republican Party in Maine, endorsed Harris in an op-ed last month. Trump was on a mission to divide the nation, they wrote, arguing that they worried his presidency “will follow the Project 2025 blueprint to gut programs and policies that are good for Maine people.”
John Giles

Mayor John Giles of Mesa, the third-largest city in the battleground state of Arizona, endorsed Harris in a July op-ed and later appeared at the DNC convention.

“The Republican Party with Trump at its helm continues down the path of political extremism, away from focusing on our fundamental freedoms,” wrote Giles.

Jeff Flake

Jeff Flake, the former senator from Arizona who served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey in the Biden administration, announced his support for Harris in a social media statement last month.

“I believe in our constitutional system and in the rule of law and I want to support a candidate who respects the will of the voters and would never attempt to use the powers of the presidency to overturn an election after having been turned out by the voters,” he wrote.

Alberto Gonzales

In an op-ed in Politico last month, Alberto R. Gonzales, who served as U.S. attorney general and counsel to the president in the George W. Bush administration, described Trump’s reelection as a threat to the rule of law.

“Power is intoxicating and based on Trump’s rhetoric and conduct it appears unlikely that he would respect the power of the presidency in all instances; rather, he would abuse it for personal and political gain, and not on behalf of the American people,” Gonzales wrote.

Olivia Troye

Olivia Troye, the former homeland security, counterterrorism and coronavirus adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, wrote in an op-ed MSNBC in August that she was a “proud member” of Republicans for Harris and described Trump as “unhinged, dangerous and extreme.”

“Trump wants to be a dictator on day one and his MAGA loyalists are all too willing to let it happen,” she wrote.

Nancy Kassebaum

Former Kansas senator Nancy Kassebaum — along with former Kansas state senator Sandy Praeger and retired federal judge Deanell Reece Tacha — endorsed Harris last month, Fox News reported. “This election presents a stark choice that is not easy for any of us,” they said in a statement, adding that it “requires Republicans speaking out and putting country over party when those values are at stake.”

5:55 PM – Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Trump’s campaign announced on X that Independent politician Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat who previously served as a U.S. Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021, has switched parties to join the GOP.

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During their 90-minute address in Omaha, Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the Biden-Harris administration, emphasized specific information concerning disaster relief funds, and discussed all the advantages and benefits of another Trump presidency.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s reaction to the hurricane clearly “failed,” Gabbard asserted on stage.

Kennedy told Fox News‘ ‘Gutfeld!’ host Greg Gutfeld that Democrats are “much more intolerant” than Republicans and that the party is now associated with Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex, unlike the old Democrat party of the past.

Meanwhile, Gabbard has also expressed similar sentiments regarding the Democrat party as well.

“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith & spirituality, demonize the police & protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war,” Gabbard stated.

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With just two weeks remaining until Election Day, a new poll of Arab-American voters has significantly impacted the presidential race. Conducted by YouGov and commissioned by the Arab News Research & Studies Unit, the poll reveals that former President Donald Trump holds a narrow 2-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris among Arab-American voters. This development is notable as the Middle East conflict has been a focal point in the presidential campaigns since last year.

The poll suggests a strong expected turnout, with 87% of Arab-Americans planning to vote in the upcoming election. The issue of Palestine remains a top priority for many respondents, which may be contributing to Trump’s slight lead. His administration’s past policy approaches to the Middle East, in contrast to Harris’, appear to resonate with this voter bloc, particularly as the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict continues to dominate the headlines.

The survey, conducted between September 26 and October 1, surveyed 500 Arab-Americans nationwide. While the poll has a margin of error of +/- 5.93%, it provides valuable insights into the candidates’ standings within this crucial demographic, which could influence outcomes in battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Arab-American populations are substantial.

The poll also delves into voters’ broader views on issues related to the Middle East. When asked which presidential administrations would be most likely to successfully resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, respondents were divided: 39% favored Trump, while 33% supported Harris. Jill Stein, running as a Green Party candidate, received 8% support. Notably, 11% of respondents indicated that neither major party candidate would effectively manage Middle East policies.

Additionally, 38% believe a two-state solution is the most viable path forward for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Arab-American voters seem divided on how U.S. foreign policy should evolve under a new administration. For example, 41% think the next administration should focus on diplomacy with Iran, while 32% prefer maximum diplomatic pressure and increased sanctions. Only 4% advocate for military intervention.

Another poll by the Arab American Institute (AAI) highlights a strikingly divided Arab American electorate ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The poll indicates that Trump and Harris are virtually tied among Arab American voters, with 42% backing Trump and 41% supporting Harris. Concerns regarding the Biden administration’s handling of the Gaza crisis have caused a significant shift in Arab American support, resulting in the community being evenly split at 38% for both Republicans and Democrats

America has pledged over $100 billion in military aid since the War in Ukraine began. Most of that stays in the US to fund military operations and weapons contracts.
But the US has also sent Ukraine its own shells, tanks, rockets, cannons, anti-tank weapons, drones, and missile defense systems worth $1 billion each. So which weapons have proven most critical on the battlefield? And will the latest round of aid really help Ukraine against Russian forces in a war many are calling a stalemate?

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Jujube fruit, also known as the red date, is not only delicious but also packs several health benefits due to its rich nutritional content. This low-calorie fruit is packed with essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, making it a great addition to a balanced diet. Here's a breakdown of some of the key health benefits jujube offers:

Rich in Nutrients
A 100-gram serving of jujube (approximately three fruits) contains 79 calories, 0.2 grams of fat, 1.2 grams of protein, 250 milligrams of potassium, 69 milligrams of vitamin C, 0.48 milligrams of iron, and 6 grams of fiber. Its high fiber and vitamin C content make it an excellent choice for maintaining overall health.

Reduces the Risk of Chronic Diseases
Jujube is abundant in antioxidants such as flavonoids, polysaccharides, and triterpenic acids, which combat free radicals. These antioxidants may help lower the risk of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, by reducing inflammation and oxidative stress in the body.

Improves Sleep
In traditional Chinese medicine, jujube has been used for centuries to enhance sleep quality. Its antioxidant properties may play a role in promoting better sleep, helping those who struggle with sleep disorders or insomnia.

Supports Digestion
The high fiber content in jujube aids digestion by preventing constipation and promoting regular bowel movements. Studies have shown that jujube extract can relieve constipation, making it a good natural remedy for digestive issues.

Aids in Weight Management
Due to its high fiber content, jujube promotes satiety, helping people feel fuller for longer. This can help reduce overall calorie intake and support weight management efforts.

Boosts Immunity
Jujube is rich in vitamin C, with a 100-gram serving providing about 77% of the recommended daily intake. Vitamin C is essential for maintaining a healthy immune system, helping the body fight off infections and contributing to overall health.

Overall, jujube is a versatile fruit that can be enjoyed fresh, dried, or in teas, offering both flavor and numerous health benefits.

The DGB Financial Group from the Republic of Korea (RoK) has partnered with the Vietnamese Students Association in Korea (VSAK) to offer programs aimed at protecting Vietnamese students in the RoK from financial fraud. On October 16, they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), outlining plans to develop financial initiatives to safeguard the students from scams, particularly phishing, which has increasingly targeted international students.

Since July, the financial group has been collaborating with the VSAK to train four Vietnamese students to lead financial education programs, which were launched in August. These programs, delivered in Vietnamese, cover essential topics like phishing prevention, bank transactions, and foreign exchange, to equip students with the necessary financial knowledge.

Hwang Byung-woo, CEO of DGB Financial Group, expressed the group's commitment to helping Vietnamese students enhance their financial understanding through various programs.

DGB Financial Group, based in Daegu, also owns Daegu Bank, a major regional bank. In November 2023, the group signed its first business cooperation agreement with a foreign company—FPT Software, part of Vietnam's FPT Group—marking a significant step in its international collaboration efforts.

Kamala Harris intensified her criticism of Donald Trump's mental state and fitness for office after a peculiar display at a televised town hall. During an event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, Trump interrupted his usual campaign Q&A to engage in a surreal 39-minute music session, dancing and standing in place while playing his favorite songs, including "YMCA" by the Village People. Harris's team quickly capitalized on the incident, questioning his mental stability.

"Hope he's okay," Harris commented on X (formerly Twitter), referring to the unusual behavior. Trump's performance followed medical emergencies in the crowd, after which he abandoned the discussion about the economy, telling the audience, "Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?"

This shift in the campaign's tone highlights Harris's strategic focus on Trump's age, mental health, and fitness for office, particularly as polls show the two candidates locked in a close race. Trump, at 78, is the oldest nominee in U.S. history following President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the race after a poor debate performance. Harris, 59, has homed in on Trump's lack of recent health reports, positioning herself as a more stable alternative.

In contrast, Trump has continued his usual stump speeches, emphasizing issues like immigration, though Monday's odd rally, where he played nine songs and made unrelated remarks about wealthy friends, beachwear, and President Biden, added to the speculation surrounding his behavior. Despite the criticism, Trump's support in swing states remains crucial, making this election one of the tightest races yet.

During an appearance Wednesday on “Jose-Diaz Balart Reports,” NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard said his team had a difficult time finding any Harris supporters voting early in Mohave County, Arizona, a GOP stronghold.
We went to a couple early voting locations, and we saw lengthy lines during the lunch hour. Thirty people waiting in line, and we should note, we did not find a single person who audibly would tell us that they voted for Kamala Harris,” Hillyard said. “These were Trump supporters getting out to vote early in the all-important Mohave County.”
Hillyard shared how he met one voter who stayed home in 2024 but was “horrified by the state of the country” so he showed up to vote. Some others he met had moved from the blue states of California and Oregon to Arizona and were excited to cast their ballots early for Trump.
When asked why one woman came to vote early, she said because former President Trump has urged supporters to do so.
“He keeps saying it, and I’ve been thinking about it, and so here I am,” the woman said.
MSNBC at an early voting location in Arizona:
"We did not find a single person who would audibly tell us they voted for Kamala Harris."
MSNBC went to Mojave County in Arizona and discovered two unsettling truths for Democrats:
1) They couldn’t find a single Kamala voter
2) Conservatives are lining up to vote early.
Vote now!!

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Trump's sorry he's going have to round up legal migrants and destroy their lives in order to fix the fake problem he opportunistically dredged out of his spider-filled brain.

By Rex Huppke

Great news, fellow Americans! Donald Trump is going to save us from the racist dystopia he has completely fabricated!

It’s clear that in the closing weeks of this presidential campaign, an aging and increasingly uncoupled-from-reality Trump will lean ever harder into utterly false Hitlerian fan fiction. The GOP presidential nominee will keep telling his rally crowds that immigrants, including those here legally, have transformed our country into a violent hellscape in which murder, rape, torture and the rampant destruction of small towns and cities are commonplace.

Trump will say “they” ‒ MILLIONS OF “THEM”! ‒ have killed the economy and taken all the jobs and eaten all the pets and committed all the crimes. The simple fact that border crossings have plummeted, the economy is booming, unemployment is low, everyone’s pets are fine and crime is down means nothing. They’re just examples of the socialists, Marxists and communists lying to you, right?

Trump sees imaginary 'army of illegal alien gang members'

Here’s what Trump said of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris “and her radical-left cronies” at a weekend rally/hate-fest in Arizona:

“For four straight years, she's imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons all over the world. ... From prisons and jails, insane asylums, mental institutions. From Venezuela, from the Congo, all over. And she's resettled them into your communities to prey upon innocent American people. If Kamala gets four more years, the entire country will be turned into a migrant camp, and that's what's happening. Millions and millions of people.”

That’s what’s happening, folks.

“Them” have been resettled into your communities, and those former dungeon dwellers and insane asylum inhabitants are preying on innocent people.

We can't see this racist dystopia, but Trump swears it's there

You might not be seeing any of that happen. You might be reading about statistical evidence showing that none of that is happening. You might even look at a history book and read how this kind of dehumanizing rhetoric and fearmongering is part of the authoritarian playbook, how it directly echoes the way Nazis spoke about Jews during the time of Adolf Hitler.

But you need to ignore all that because the former president has a vision, and he’s sticking with it, dammit. Best of all, he has the solution to these fabricated problems: Donald Trump.

“When I win on November 5th,” Trump said at a weekend rally in California, “the migrant invasion ends and the restoration of our country begins.”

In Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, Trump declared: “I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered. We will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them out of our country.”

I’m sure that’s great news for the people of Aurora, where police data shows the crime rate is down 17.2% and the Republican mayor says the city has most definitely not been invaded or conquered. At all.

Why are facts out to get a 78-year-old racist running for president?

I know what you’re thinking: KNOCK IT OFF, FACTS, YOU’RE INTERFERING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S XENOPHOBIC FEVER DREAM!

I mean, what does a 78-year-old white guy have to do to scare the tuna salad out of other white people and make them live in fear of waves of nonexistent murderous brown people?

I’ll tell you what he has to do. He has to use terms like “sadistic monsters” and “animals” to describe immigrants. He has to say immigrants have “infested” the buildings in which they live.

He has to make things up, as he did in Colorado, like this: “People come in, they're very sick. Very sick. They're coming into our country, they're very, very very sick with highly contagious disease. And they're let into our country to infect our country.”

He has to say, “I will invoke the Aliens Enemies Act of 1798,” which was horrifically used to justify the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

He has to say of the legal Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio: “You have to get ’em the hell out. You have to get them out. I’m sorry.”

Only Trump can save us from this imaginary world he's lying about

He’s sorry, folks. He’s sorry he’s going to have to round up legal migrants and destroy their lives and entire communities here in the United States to fix the fake problem he opportunistically dredged out of his spider-filled brain.

You see, the fact-less, white-supremacist-worthy version of America that Trump has ginned up can, conveniently, only be saved by Trump himself. So if you believe the vision ‒ if you also are seeing things that aren’t there and believing things that are absolute bunk ‒ then Trump is the savior of all you hold dear. Electing him, he would argue, is the only way to reverse the nightmare you're allegedly living.

But there is another path.

If Trump loses, he and his racist imaginings are sent packing. The false, fear-filled version of America he spun out of whole cloth goes poof. And then, maybe, reality can make a comeback. Maybe the fever dreams can break.

Maybe, at last, we can Make Stupidity Embarrassing Again.

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Trump, by comparison, has cancelled a planned CNBC interview and refused to follow Harris' lead and go on '60 Minutes.'

By Rex Huppke

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris went into America’s Den of Misinformation – Fox News – for a Wednesday night interview that demonstrated two things:

1) She has far more guts than her opponent, Donald Trump.

2) Fox News remains an arm of the Republican Party.

For starters, Harris deserves credit for doing an interview she and her campaign had to know would be a string of “gotcha” questions and attempts to get her to say mean things about Trump supporters, a la Hillary Clinton’s infamous-but-accurate “basket of deplorables.”

Trump, by comparison, has cancelled a planned CNBC interview and refused to follow Harris’ lead and go on “60 Minutes,” preferring to do things like his Wednesday’s Fox News town hall where he was asked coddling questions before a room full of Trump supporters.

Fox News host Bret Baier constantly interrupted Kamala Harris in interview

So points go to Harris in the courage department, while Trump maintains his “weak man who pretends he’s tough” image.

Fox News host Bret Baier was the chosen questioner for Harris’ interview, and he behaved very much like a man with little respect for what a powerful woman has to say. His questions were pointed, which is fine, and he relentlessly asked follow-up question, which is also fine. But Baier barely let the sitting vice president get a word in edgewise, talking over her constantly throughout the interview, interrupting her over
and over again.

Baier went after Harris with a persistence and viciousness his network has never come close to using on Trump.

Trump fans and his many minions at Fox News will undoubtedly say Harris failed miserably, but the truth, for people operating outside the bubble of insanity, is she more than held her own in a wildly adversarial situation.

Harris called out Fox News' disingenuous Trump clip

At one point Baier showed a clip – ironically from an earlier softball Fox News interview of Trump – in which the former president tried to downplay his recent unhinged ramblings about how Americans who don’t support him are “the enemy from within.”

Harris swiftly called Baier out: “I’m sorry and, with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy within, that he has repeated when he’s speaking about the American people. That’s not what you just showed.”

Would Fox ever ask Trump questions like these? Of course not.

During her answer to the interview’s first question, Baier interrupted Harris six times, incessantly talking over her.

The questions were justifiably tough, and the vice president absolutely dodged several of the harder callouts on the Biden administration’s immigration policies. But what the interview showed is Harris can more than hold her own in a wildly hostile environment, something most people already knew but Fox News viewers willing to be honest with themselves probably were surprised to see.

Above all, though, what matters is Harris sat there and took it. She went into a Fox News interview – which in and of itself is a sign her campaign is confident and is looking to expand her reach to conservative and independent voters – and she didn’t storm out. She didn’t whine about or insult the interviewer for asking tough questions.

That’s a lot more than anyone can say about Donald Trump.