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Exposed: The US and Canadian Funding Behind Israeli Soldiers Accused of Rape

Cuffed and blindfolded 24 hours a day. Confined to animal pens. Attacked by dogs. This is reportedly the treatment of Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman, an Israeli military base in the Naqab desert. While claims of torture and abuse at the facility began circulating in December, the Israeli military did not open an investigation into the allegations until July 29, when 10 Israeli soldiers were detained on suspicion of sexually abusing a detainee.

In response to the soldiers’ detention, a mob of right-wing extremists stormed Sde Teiman and later broke into the Beit Lid military base, where the detained soldiers were being held. Among those detained were soldiers from the Force 100 unit, which was resurrected at the onset of the war and has been responsible for guarding the detainees at Sde Teiman. Masked soldiers, wearing black shirts emblazoned with the unit’s logo—a snake inside the Jewish Star of David—were seen participating in the protests.

Several Israeli lawmakers took part in the riots, including Otzma Yehudit’s (Jewish Power) Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu, Religious Zionism member of parliament, Zvi Sukkot, and parliamentary members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, Nissim Vaturi and Tally Gotliv.

Protests have continued to erupt in support of the soldiers, including, most recently, outside an Israeli High Court hearing on the case on August 7, 2024.

As allegations of torture and sexual abuse at Israel’s Sde Teiman detention facility escalate and Israeli Military Police prepare to conclude their investigation and file indictments against the suspects, MintPress uncovers the financial and political infrastructure, including from the U.S. and Canada, backing these soldiers through tax-exempt organizations and crowdfunding platforms. This marks a disturbing shift in global support for human rights violations, now extending even to those implicated in the Israeli military’s acts of sexual violence.

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Trans prisoners to get wigs, prosthetic penises and breasts under Democrat bill

Trans prisoners in New York City will have access to ‘gender-affirming’ devices such as prosthetic penises and breasts under a new bill proposed by a Democratic lawmaker.

Councilwoman Crystal Hudson’s bill would also give guards at NYC prisons access to items like breast binders, wigs and tucking undergarments, as first reported by the New York Post. 

Hudson is expected to introduce the bill during Thursdays city council meeting.

The legislation is backed by fellow Democratic councilmembers Farah N. Louis, Chi A. Ossé.

‘This bill would establish a process for people in custody to obtain wigs, hair extensions, chest binders, tucking undergarments or gaffs, prosthetics, or other similar items or medical devices that are used by individuals to affirm their self-determined gender identity,’ according to the NYC Council website.

‘The bill also requires Department of Correction staff to have access to gender-affirming items or medical devices while at work.’

According to the bill, it would be up to the NYC Department of Correction to decide who foots the bill for the gender-affirming care. 

Prosthetic penises are sold on Amazon for about $130 while tucking undergarments go for about $15 and silicone breasts for $39. 

DailyMail.com has reached out to Hudson’s office for comment on the bill. 

According to her website, Hudson ‘was first elected in 2021 and made history as one of the first out gay Black women ever elected in New York City.’

The DOC confirmed to DailyMail.com that began quietly providing chest binders to detainees last year after apparently receiving them ‘as a donation.’

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The Obscure State Department Bureau That Fosters Global Illegal Migration

It is remarkable how many well-informed conservative foreign policy strategists have never even heard of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM).  Even those who closely follow immigration and border issues rarely understand the role PRM plays in accommodating and promoting the worldwide movement of illegal migrants. 

PRM should not be confused with State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, which is in charge of issuing visas to foreigners to enter the United States and is known in Foggy Bottom as “CA.” Because so many interest groups constantly want more visas to be issued, CA gets its fair share of scrutiny from the media, lobbyists, and members of Congress. The PRM bureau has nothing to do with visas, and so it often flies under the conservative policy radar. 

PRM manages, along with DHS, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Under Biden-Harris, PRM currently resettles around 125,000 refugees annually. Trump had cut admissions down to 15,000. 

While 125,000 a year is not an insignificant number of admissions—and Biden-Harris want it to massively grow—the figure is still small potatoes compared to the millions of illegal and quasi-legal migrants that this administration has admitted into the country. 

Thus, even more consequential than PRM’s refugee admissions is the bureau’s diplomatic support and international grant-giving to the worldwide “irregular” migration industry. PRM doles out around $4 billion annually, mainly to establishment international organizations such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).  

These multilateral organizations, funded by Washington, do more than manage genuine refugees and displaced persons. They are the juggernaut of today’s open-border ideology, taking resources from donor governments to promote concepts that chip away and undermine national borders, while advancing a global “right to migrate.”  

When they go before Congress, PRM officials, of course, pay much lip service to the idea that their bureau’s international funding and diplomacy help keep would-be illegal migrants at home and discourage them from undertaking dangerous journeys. Surely, sometimes that happens, but that is not the primary and overarching mission of the grantees that take PRM funding.  

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Kamala’s brother-in-law fleeced BILLIONS from U.S. taxpayers to funnel into left-wing groups, lawyers

Americans, and specifically U.S. taxpayers, are in for more financial raping should Kamala Harris get installed into the White House.

Kamala’s brother-in-law Tony West, who headed up the Department of Justice‘s (DOJ) Civil Division back during the Barack Obama years, is poised to “claim the crooked crown” from Kamala in the event her backers are successful in pulling off another election heist.

West, who is married to Kamala’s sister Maya, invented what the New York Post described as an “Honest Graft” by manipulating the purse strings of the DOJ’s Judgment Fund, which is used to settle civil suits against the federal government.

Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the federal government over $100,000. That year, Congress removed the cap and basically gave the DOJ a blank check to pay any and all settlements from the Judgment Fund at its own discretion.

“Run by the Treasury Department, the Judgment Fund’s secrecy is so complete that our often-penetrated CIA might study it for lessons,” the Post‘s Daniel Huff and Clark S. Judge write.

“The limited data released omits recipients, the facts underlying the case, and often the lawyers involved. By statute, attorneys’ fees awarded need not be disclosed.”

Detailed information about the flow of money in and out of the Judgment Fund is so secretive, in fact, that a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study found that “no one knows the number of claims processed by the federal government each year.”

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Gavin Newsom to Decide After CA Democrats Pass $150,000 Home Loans for Illegal Aliens

California Governor Gavin Newsom will make the final decision on a bill that would make illegal aliens eligible for $150,000 in home loans for first-time buyers, after the State Assembly passed a final version of the bill on Wednesday.

Assemblyman Bill Essayli (R-Corona) helped lead Republican opposition to the bill, but Democrats passed it by a three-to-one veto-proof majority, sending it to the governor’s desk — and drawing attention to the party’s pattern of creating incentives for illegal migration by heaping taxpayer-funded benefits onto people who are not supposed to be in the country at all.

As Breitbart News has reported, the loan program expands an existing program that does not require a down payment or interest payments, but instead requires borrowers to repay the principal and a percentage of the appreciation of the value of the home.

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Mpox Update: WHO Says $87 Million ‘Critical’ for Containing Outbreak + More

Stopping and containing the current outbreak of mpox will require $87.4 million over the next six months, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.

The WHO said it would use the money to “implement critical activities” outlined in its global strategic preparedness and response plan for mpox, which include supporting surveillance, research, community empowerment and equitable access to medical countermeasures to contain and stop the spread of the virus.

At least 14 African countries have reported mpox outbreaks this year, with more than 17,000 suspected cases across the continent since the start of 2024 and 517 confirmed deaths, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

More than 96% of all cases and deaths have occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with many of those affected being children.

The WHO has declared mpox to be a “public health emergency of international concern,” adding that a coordinated international response is needed to stop the outbreak and save lives.

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“Who Is Running The Country?”: Biden On The Beach For TWO WEEKS

Joe Biden has been on holiday for a week in Santa Barbara, California. Now he has returned to Delaware… for another NINE DAY holiday, prompting Americans to ask again “who is running the country?”

The guy is just gone.

Biden arrived via Marine One Wednesday to Vandenberg Space Force Base where he boarded Air Force One straight to his Rehoboth Beach house in Delaware, where he will stay for the next nine days.

As per the Department of Defense, Air Force One costs $177,843 per hour to run, while Marine One costs approximately $20,000 per hour.

That means that this holiday alone cost at least half a million dollars.

Given that Biden spends almost half his presidency on holiday, it means the costs run into the tens of millions if not hundreds of millions.

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The State’s Most Hated Commandment

Congressman Ron Paul’s famous desk sign said Don’t Steal.  The Government Hates Competition.

Government theft is pervasive.  Mission creep and interagency competition give us twice the government for quadruple the money.  In 2001, the first Patriot Act was affirmed by a congress of men and women who did not, and could not, read the 132 pages that altered tens of thousands of pages of regulation.  To fluff the urgency, US-manufactured anthrax spores were mailed to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle – both of whom had been standing in concerned opposition to the rushed, sweeping and anti-Constitutional nature of the proposed Patriot Act.

A new federal department was created overnight – the Department of Homeland Security.  This new department “efficiently reorganized” 22 existing federal agencies under a new Homeland umbrella.  In reality, most of the dissected agencies fought any loss of authority, and maintained much of their old functions and networks, even as the brand new “streamlined” department stood up.

A massive and robust state-centered ecosystem of narrative creation has since evolved. We get the message if we receive a government benefit of any kind, be it a taxpayer-subsidized school debt or education, or a piece of someone else’s productive energy in the form of welfare, retirement or subsidy checks. By virtue of our captive participation in the USDA and FDA food and drug systems – with billions of stolen funds used to ensure we purchase and consume certain products and chemicals – we understand the state narrative. If we participate in any forms of government-subsidized health care, or in any government-initiated war against people, nations, or ideologies, we have our orders.

You benefit from government, you are kept safe and warm by government, government is desperately needed to keep peace and prosperity, so stop effing asking questions.  It’s the whole Jack Nicholson speech from A Few Good Men, where there are two options – serve the state, or barring that, graciously thank it for all that it does.  The most satisfying part of that classic movie was when the truth-seeking upstart got the evil, lying government official to publicly admit what we all knew by then.

What we all know by now is that stealing what it can and coveting the rest is government theology.  Like 300 million Mr. Tooheys, we might wonder what the state thinks of the 8th and 10th commandments?  Why, it doesn’t think of them at all!

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REVEALED: The northeastern state that won’t tell voters about its ‘secret’ $1 billion spend on migrants

Massachusetts Republicans have demanded the state’s Democratic leaders come clean on their alleged ‘$1 billion in secret migrant crisis spending.’

The Bay State’s GOP filed public records requests asking Gov. Maura Healey’s administration to provide a detailed breakdown of spending on shelters, meals and other costs.

The request comes as Massachusetts scrambles to accommodate the roughly 50,000 non-legal migrants who’ve entered the state since President Joe Biden took office in 2021.

The Boston area has in recent weeks been roiled by outrage, after Stoughton school district cut bus services to local kids but kept them running for young migrants living in shelters.

Against this troubling backdrop, Amy Carnevale, the state’s GOP chairwoman, demanded that Healey come clean about how taxpayer dollars were being spent.

Her ‘administration has shrouded nearly $1 billion spent in secrecy, leaving Massachusetts residents in the dark,’ Carnevale said.

‘They have withheld critical information on 600 incidents involving police, fire, and EMT.’

When reporters asked questions about migrant costs, Healey’s team was ‘blocking them at every turn,’ said Carnevale.

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UN votes to adopt roadmap for global tax convention

A “landslide” majority of countries at the United Nations voted to approve ambitious parameters for a new global tax convention that could herald a fresh approach to taxing multinational corporations and the super-rich.

Following three weeks of discussions in New York, on Aug. 16, 110 countries voted in favor of adopting the “terms of reference” that will guide future negotiations for a legally binding framework convention on international tax cooperation — a sort of “global constitution” under which rules, known as protocols, are set.

Eight countries rejected the scoping document, including Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, all of which are members of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Forty-four countries abstained from the vote, including all European Union members and Argentina, the sole participating Latin American country to vote against the draft text.

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