In the midst of a triple-digit heatwave, firefighters and the state National Guard were fighting to contain three large wildfires that were raging throughout Southern California on Tuesday. The fires still remain a threat to thousands of homes, officials reported.

The Biden-Harris Administration subsidized the Venezuelan migrants, who took over the apartments in Aurora, Colorado, through a funnel of government agencies and left-wing NGOs. The Biden-Harris NGO scheme is happening everywhere. Tren de Aragua followed them. This was done for unvetted, anonymous people and funded by the American taxpayer. Follow the money. The Biden-Harris scheme […] The post Biden-Harris Funded the Venezuelans Who Took Over Aurora Apartments appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Twenty-three years ago, Americans woke up to the shocking reality that radical Islamic terrorism was a very real, and very dangerous threat. In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attack, the United States vowed to make the world safe from those forces. For years, it kept that vow, killing Osama Bin Laden and other terrorist masterminds, diminishing Al Qaeda, and waging two wars in the Middle East to decimate terrorist networks. But now, 23 years after the worst-ever attack on the United States, terrorism is on the rise. In Afghanistan, President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal, which led to the death of 13 American service members, gave the Taliban power and $7 billion worth of U.S. military equipment. In Iraq and Syria, Iranian-backed militia groups continue a barrage of attacks on U.S. military bases, often injuring personnel. Worse than the resurgence of Islamic terrorism is Americans’ reaction. At protests across the country, “United We Stand” has been replaced by anti-American chants. Pledges to “Never Forget” have themselves been forgotten by Americans, many of whom have turned 9/11 into a meme, as pointed out by a 21-year-old college student who said she “genuinely forgot that not everyone thinks it’s funny now,” in an X post that was favorited more than 10,000 times. Others have found much to agree with in Bin Laden’s infamous 2002 “Letter to America.” A recent poll found that almost one-third of Gen-Zers think Bin Laden’s views were a “force for good,” reported The Jerusalem Post. Perhaps it’s unsurprising, then, that members of this same generation sympathize with Hamas terrorists who raped, massacred, and kidnapped over a thousand Israelis on October 7th, 2023. They wear Hamas headbands and wave terrorist flags at protests, and harass Jewish students from the illegal encampments they’ve constructed on college campuses. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Hamas, which killed 43 Americans, still holds seven captive. Hamas originally took eight American hostages, but last month executed Hersh Goldberg Polin by shooting him in the back of the head at close range. It’s unclear precisely what’s driving this rise in terrorist sympathy. But perhaps one answer can be found in the actions of Democrats and their media allies. Biden has virtually halted former President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” to destroy Iran’s ability to support destabilizing terrorism in the region and instead has helped Tehran pad its coffers, allowing the regime to have access to $6 billion in a prisoner swap. The Biden-Harris administration’s lax border policies have allowed 250 individuals on the terror watch list to enter the country, a congressional report found. Under “Border Czar” Kamala Harris, the administration released 99 of them. Harris, who boasted that she was the “last person in the room” when Biden made his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, did not attend a memorial service for the 13 servicemen killed in Afghanistan, and then attempted to use Trump’s attendance as a political attack. At Tuesday night’s debate, moderators asked Harris if she stood by Biden’s withdrawal decision, but did not press her when she not-so-subtly dodged the question. In Biden and Harris’s wake, the Taliban has grown stronger than ever and has implemented draconian policies against women including banning them from speaking or showing their faces in public. Today, Biden and Harris, along with Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, are together at the 9/11 memorial. That is, perhaps, a good sign. But the fact remains that Americans’ attitudes towards Islamic terrorism would have shocked anyone who remembers how they felt on September 12th, 2001. As the nation reflects on the 23 years since 9/11, we must ask ourselves: How will the U.S. stand against terror in the future as the younger generation’s fading memory emboldens America’s enemies?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia announced on Monday that his government will introduce legislation that would “enforce a minimum age for social media and other digital platforms.” He followed up on Tuesday by informing the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he is considering making the platforms unavailable to children under the age of 14-16. “Parents tell me they’re worried about what age their kids should be on social media,” he wrote on X. “We’ll introduce legislation in this term of Parliament to enforce a minimum age for social media and other digital platforms. It’s about supporting parents and keeping kids safe.” Parents tell me they’re worried about what age their kids should be on social media. We’ll introduce legislation in this term of Parliament to enforce a minimum age for social media and other digital platforms. It's about supporting parents and keeping kids safe. — Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) September 9, 2024 “We’re looking at the range between 14 and 16,” he stated on Tuesday. “That’s one of the reasons we’re having a trial. And what we’re looking at is how you deliver it. This is a global issue that governments around the globe are trying to deal with. And so we can look at the experience, look at the response, as well, of social media companies. Social media has a social responsibility in order to have that social license that they require to operate in a decent society.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “They’re not above everyone else; they can’t just say, ‘We’re a big multi-national company, we can do whatever we like’ regardless of the harm that’s being caused,” he stated. “So we’ll look at this age-verification trial; we know that it’s not simple, and it’s not easy, otherwise governments would have responded before. But we’ll look at the experience; we’ll look at the report and work that Justice French has done, but we will also have that legislation before Parliament by the end of the year because we know that this is what parents are talking about after school, in the parents and citizens’ groups, at the sideline of sport on the weekend. They’re talking about the impact that this has. And we know, for example, that the banning – which many state governments have done – of phones from school has made a positive difference. And so we know that if we get our youngest Australians off these devices then it can make a positive difference for them.” “Millions of underage children have been able to set up accounts for these services by providing a false date of birth,” The New York Times reported. In March, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law legislation that banned children under the age of 14 from holding accounts on social media platforms such as services like TikTok and Instagram, enacting a strict social media bill that is likely to upend the lives of many young people. The legislation stated, “A social media platform shall prohibit a minor who is younger than 14 years of age from entering into a contract with a social media platform to become an account holder.”

“Saturday Night Live” alum Will Ferrell said he would no longer accept a part that included him dressing like a woman for laughs. The 57-year-old actor discussed playing Clinton-era Attorney General Janet Reno decades ago during a recent interview with his friend, “SNL” head writer Harper Steele, for an episode of “The Interview” podcast, per Variety. Ferrell specifically said he regretted participating in the “Janet Reno’s Fantasies” sketch from Season 23 of SNL in 1997. When the interviewer mentioned that the sketch “hits a false note now,” Ferrell replied by saying, “That’s something I wouldn’t choose to do now.” “This kind of bums me out,” Steele, who identifies as transgender, said. “I understand the laugh is a drag laugh. It’s, ‘Hey, look at this guy in a dress, and that’s funny.’ It’s absolutely not funny. It’s absolutely a way that we should be able to live in the world. However, with performers and actors, I do like a sense of play.” “This is an interesting question to me,” Steele added. “Do queer people like ‘The Birdcage,’ or do they not? Robin Williams, at least as far as we know, was not a gay man, and yet he spent about half of his comedy career doing a swishy gay guy on camera. Do people think that’s funny, or is it just hurtful? I’ve heard from gay men that it was funny, and I’ve heard from gay men that it was hurtful. I am purple-haired woke, but I wonder if sometimes we take away the joy of playing when we take away some of the range that performers, especially comedy performers, can do.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The outlet noted that Ferrell recalled “a fair amount” of sketches from “SNL” which would make him “lament the choice.”  The “Anchorman” star also jokingly said, “I mean, in a way, the cast — you’re kind of given this assignment. So I’m going to blame the writers.” Steele agreed, “Yeah, he’s not culpable at all,” then continued, “I wrote Monica Lewinsky stuff I wasn’t proud of. I wrote some good Britney Spears stuff and some stuff that I’m not as proud of. I wrote some Clinton things I wasn’t proud of. I’m just moving on. I have to.” Ferrell is promoting his project “Will & Harper,” a Netflix documentary he did with Harper featuring the two of them going on a cross-country road trip. 

The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who publicly praised Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, outlined a plan to help elect 40-50 members to Congress in a sermon last month, MEMRI reported. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said his vision is the “next phase” in dedicating “professional resources to inform the public systematically about this faith,” adding that he recommends a “scientific approach.” “If we commit to do this, four years from now, the Muslim community will have 4,000 new journalists, we will have 4,000 filmmakers, 4,000 lawyers, 4,000 students of political science, 4,000 students of history,” he said. In 15 years, Awad said the numbers will continue to grow, creating “an army” of 50,000 in such fields, many of whom will “most likely” run for office. “We can have in ten years, at least 40-50 members of Congress — in the U.S. Congress,” he said. In the August 30th sermon at the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas, Awad said CAIR has been fighting to eliminate Islamophobia that is “deeply rooted” in American culture, academia, and Hollywood. “For hundreds of years, Islam has been denigrated, the Prophet has been smeared and defamed in books and textbooks that were taught in public schools, that Allah be praised, we have been working to eliminate and change,” Awad said in the sermon live-streamed on YouTube. Awad said it’s time for the Muslim community — which he called affluent, vibrant, educated, and well-to-do — to move to the next phase. While CAIR, founded in 1994, positions itself as the top American Muslim civil rights organization, it has a troubling record that led the Biden administration to distance itself in the fallout of Hamas’ brutal massacre, rape, and kidnapping of Israeli civilians on October 7. The White House distanced itself from CAIR in December after Awad said he was “happy to see” Gazans “breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land” on October 7, the day Hamas massacred over a thousand Israeli civilians. He added that Israel does not have the right to self-defense. The White House condemned Awad’s remarks and removed CAIR as a partner from a White House fact sheet for its National Strategy to Counter Anti-Semitism. On October 7, as Hamas was actively ravaging communities in southern Israel, CAIR’s official account tweeted its “support for the Palestinian people’s right to freedom and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.”  The tweet went on to blame Israel for Hamas’ attack, claiming the Jewish state “sparks the deadly violence that we see again and again, including today.” It concluded its thread by calling on the United States, and Arab and Muslim governments to “exert maximum pressure on the Israeli government” to “respect Palestinian human rights and end the occupation,” despite the attackers coming from Gaza which Israel withdrew from in 2005. Awad and other CAIR leaders are known for making similar anti-Semitic remarks, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Awad has labeled Zionist organizations “enemies of the Muslim community,” claimed they “make up the core of the Islamophobia network in the United States,” and accused pro-Israel groups of having “corrupted” the U.S. government. Following an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Awad shared an article about the Secret Service receiving intel on Iranian threats against Trump, speculating whether it was an “Israeli plot to ignite another war between the U.S. and other countries in the Middle East at its behest.” In July, a man with close ties to Iran was arrested for attempting to hire hitmen to assassinate high-profile politicians, with former President Donald Trump’s name being floated as one of the targets, according to government records. CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area Executive Director, Zahra Billoo, once declared that “Zionists” are “your enemies,” warning followers to “pay attention” to “Zionist synagogues,” Hillels, and Jewish federations. Following the October 7 attack, Billoo further claimed the violence was the world “witnessing decolonization.” Hussam Ayloush, CEO and Executive Director of CAIR Greater Los Angeles Area also has an anti-Israel history, including stating Israel does not have a right to defend itself, and asserting that “Israel should be attacked.” Similarly, on October 7 and 9, Zainab Chaudry, Director of Maryland Outreach, CAIR Maryland referred to the Hamas attack as an “uprising” against “colonizers” and called Hamas terrorists “Palestinian freedom fighters.” In November, Abdullah Jaber, Executive Director, CAIR Florida, stated that Israeli Jews are not followers of “Abraham, Moses, or Jesus.” During Awad’s sermon, he also said that the anti-Israel “uncommitted movement” had “changed the tone” of Vice President Kamala Harris on Israel through uncommitted delegates pressuring Democratic leaders during the Democratic National Convention.