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Legacy media outlets and left-leaning nonprofits may seek to distance themselves from the anti-Israel protests on college campuses and in Washington, D.C., many of which have devolved into outright antisemitism. Yet influential outlets and activist groups have at least one key tie to a notorious group supporting the anti-Israel protests, and an organization that represents more than 2,000 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is sounding the alarm. Despite its anodyne name, Jewish Voice for Peace enflames anti-Israel sentiment. On the very day that Hamas terrorists raped, murdered, and took hostages in Israel (Oct. 7, 2023), JVP leaders blamed “Israeli apartheid and occupation” as “the source of all this violence.” In the weeks afterward, Jewish Voice for Peace rallygoers in Providence, Rhode Island, chanted, “Hey hey, ho ho, the Yahudi [Jews] have got to go!” JVP speakers in Philadelphia stated: “The anticolonial armed resistance out of the Gaza Strip was provoked by decades of Israeli state-sanctioned violence and to report it otherwise is false and misleading.” According to the Anti-Defamation League, which monitored these and other incidents, Jewish Voice for Peace “considers supporters of Israel, or even critics of Israel who do not hew to JVP’s own extreme views, to be complicit in Israel’s purported acts of racist oppression of Palestinians.” Jewish Voice for Peace hosted a protest July 23 in the Cannon House Office Building ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress. U.S. Capitol Police told The Daily Signal on Friday that the agency arrested 248 protesters that day, charging them with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding under D.C. Code Section 22-1307. Jewish Voice for Peace did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The Washington-Baltimore News Guild Amid a resurgence of labor unions on the Left, many nonprofit organizations have unionized. Jewish Voice for Peace is no exception. Although Americans traditionally associate unions with physical labor and for-profit companies, the labor movement has struggled in the private sector even as it grows and thrives among government employees and nonprofits. Nonprofit employees, who ostensibly work to advance a cause rather than their own pocketbooks, seem an odd fit for unions. Employees at Jewish Voice for Peace, however, unionized in August 2020. The Washington-Baltimore News Guild, which came about as a 1964 merger of the Washington Newspaper Guild (founded in January 1934) and the Baltimore Newspaper Guild, represents a broad swath of news outlets and left-leaning nonprofits. The list includes two American Civil Liberties Union chapters (North Carolina and West Virginia); the AFL-CIO; the American Nurses Association; the Democratic Socialists of America; the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers; the LGBTQ group Lambda Legal; the environmentalist group League of Conservation Voters; the National Abortion Federation; and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The guild also represents news outlets including Politico; Raw Story; the Baltimore Sun; The Charlotte Observer; the Richmond Times-Dispatch; and The Washington Post. None of these nonprofits and news outlets responded to The Daily Signal’s requests for comment about their relationship with Jewish Voice for Peace. Communication Workers of America, the umbrella union under which the Washington-Baltimore News Guild falls, did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. Loud Condemnations of Anti-Israel JVP The Coalition for Jewish Values, which represents more than 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis in American public policy, asked the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, known as WBNG, to stop representing employees of JVP. “There are two compelling reasons why the Coalition for Jewish Values unequivocally calls on the Washington-Baltimore News Guild to stop representing Jewish Voice for Peace employees,” Rabbi Ze’ev Smason, midwest regional vice president for the coalition, told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Wednesday. “JVP is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism,” Smason said. “JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel. Furthermore, the spread of JVP’s most inflammatory ideas can help give rise to antisemitism.”  “As the ADL has documented, JVP leaders blamed ‘Israeli apartheid and occupation’ as ‘the source of all this violence’ on the very day that Hamas terrorists raped, murdered, and took hostages in Israel,” the rabbi added. “Therefore, representing JVP employees is tantamount to representing the hate-filled, anti-Israel, antisemitic ideas and actions that JVP has engaged in and promotes.” Smason also noted that WBNG states on its website: “Together, we hold our employers accountable and ensure that our workplaces reflect our values, which include ensuring everyone is free from harassment and retaliation, earns equal pay for equal work and has a voice in their workplace.” “It is hard to imagine an organization more antithetical to the values of ‘ensuring everyone is free from harassment and retaliation’ than JVP, that openly espouses anti-Israel sentiment and unabashedly supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel,” Smason said. “Based upon the hateful actions and incendiary, anti-Israel ideals of JVP, and the avowed inclusivity mission of WBNG, the Coalition for Jewish Values emphatically calls upon WBNG to disassociate itself from the representation of JVP employees.” The New Tolerance Campaign, which publishes a “hate map” to track “hate and hard left extremism” across the United States, has put four chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace on its map. “The Washington-Baltimore News Guild is free to engage with whichever groups they like under the union banner, but they can’t do so without question—and there are a lot of questions surrounding Jewish Voice for Peace, their methods, and JVP’s associations with groups engaging in political violence,” New Tolerance Campaign President Gregory Angelo told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Wednesday. “Is this really a group WBNG wants carrying their banner—literally—into campus riots this fall?” An Unofficial Response Although none of the involved nonprofits and news outlets responded to The Daily Signal, an employee of the ACLU of West Virginia did send an unofficial response. Kyle Vass, whose profile on the ACLU of West Virginia’s website identifies him as an investigative reporter who launched the website Dragline, posted an unofficial response to The Daily Signal’s request for comment on the social media platform X. The ACLU of West Virginia didn’t respond, neither to requests for comment for this story nor to a request to confirm that Kyle Vass represents the organization’s union. Vass identified himself as “the union steward for our collective bargaining unit,” and gave what he characterized as “my official statement from our staff union” on X. “Shaking down nonprofits for falling under the same union as an org you oppose highlights why companies like The Daily Signal and The Heritage Foundation are enemies of the working class,” Vass wrote. “ACLU-WV Staff United opposes this thinly veiled effort and stands in solidarity with WBNG.” "Shaking down nonprofits for falling under the same union as an org you oppose highlights why companies like the Daily Signal and the Heritage Foundation are enemies of the working class.ACLU-WV Staff United opposes this thinly veiled effort and stands in solidarity with WBNG."— Kyle Vass (@WilliamKyleVass) August 14, 2024 Vass did not comment on Jewish Voice for Peace’s anti-Israel activism nor respond to concerns about organizations that unionize alongside JVP. The post Radical Anti-Israel Group Shares Union With WaPo, Politico, SPLC, Lambda Legal, and AFL-CIO appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A former Donald Trump advisor said FBI agents raided his Virginia home this week. Dimitri Simes, a policy analyst who hasn’t been in the United States since October 2022, spoke out against the raid. Simes, a Russian TV Channel One presenter and founder of the US-based think tank Center for the National Interest, spoke with Sputnik about the raid. “My suspicion is that instead of trying to get me to come to the United States and to interrogate me or even to arrest me, their real purpose is to make sure that I would not come back to the United States. They want to block any attempt to have a Russian-American dialogue,” he told the outlet. “Simes revealed that in addition to the FBI raid on his home in Virginia, the bank account that he uses to pay his mortgage was also frozen. Despite this series of escalatory moves, the US Department of Justice have yet to notify Simes or his lawyers about ‘what is going on and about any problems they may have with me,'” Sputnik noted. “Simes emphasized that there was little of informational value in the house since he has been living and working in Russia since October 2022,” the outlet added. Simes said he thinks the FBI is trying to punish him for his commentary on Russian television, which often criticizes Biden’s Ukraine policy. “In my view, this is clearly an attempt, to frighten me, to discredit me, and to do damage to my ability to live in the United States or even visit the United States, and to do damage to my finances,” he said. “They clearly are trying to create the situation when they’re not luring me to come to the United States to face the American justice system. But on the contrary, they’re doing everything possible to make it very difficult, or indeed impossible, for me to come to the United States. That clearly cannot be right,” he added. ‘They don’t want me back in the United States’: Dimitri K. Simes speaks out about FBI raid “My suspicion is that instead of trying to get me to come to the United States and to interrogate me or even to arrest me, their real purpose is to make sure that I would not come back… pic.twitter.com/AP91x1ySpZ — Sputnik (@SputnikInt) August 16, 2024 From the New York Post: Dimitri Simes, whose name came up over 130 times in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report into Russian interference in the presidential election, told the Rappahannock News he was out of the U.S. and wasn’t notified ahead of Tuesday’s search. He also insisted he’s not aware of being the focus of any law-enforcement investigation. The Russian-born policy analyst advised Trump’s 2016 campaign. The raid “clearly is an attempt to intimidate, not only somebody from Russia, but just anyone who goes against official policies and particularly against the deep state,” he later told the Russian government-owned Sputnik News. FBI raided Rappahannock County property owned by Dimitri Simes, who is currently in Russia. https://t.co/YzDkbxhkPE via @rappnews — Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 15, 2024 Per Sputnik: Sputnik: It is obvious that you didn’t do anything legally wrong. So you are being punished for your opinions. What will be your next steps in this situation? Does it make sense to resist, to seek the defense of the law? Dimitri K Simes: Well, let me start by saying that I do not know what I am being charged with. I don’t even know if I am being charged with anything. Is it the FBI [pursuing me], or am I charged by the Department of Justice or any other US government agency? They did not notify me or my lawyers about what is going on, or about any problems they may have with me. The only comment we have from them so far is a comment they made to a local paper in Rappahannock County where the house is located and they told the paper that, indeed, they’re conducting a law enforcement investigation, and they are not in a position to say anything more because the investigation is not complete. This is the fourth day of their operations in the house already. We’re being told that they’re moving things out of the house. What are they doing? Which things are they moving? I have no idea. It is suffice to say that I was not in the house. I have not been to the United States since October 2022. So there is absolutely nothing that can be there that is connected to my current professional life or my other activities. It was reported to me by the neighbors, who were not on my territory themselves, but who observed it from the outside, that there was quite a crowd [during the raid]. About 40 people, perhaps more. And, what was remarkable, many, even most of them, have arrived in private cars, which obviously is against the rules. Normally you would not have an FBI agent arrive at a [facility] he or she is going to search in a private car. Because if they use private cars, these FBI people would be very easily identified and suffer [the] consequences. So, I really would be curious to know who these people are. These people could actually be not FBI agents, but some kind of anti-Russian Ukrainian activists. We did have a precedent before when these [so-called activists] tried to enter my property, but because they were not with the FBI, these people were stopped. That happened in the past. If needed, I obviously will defend my interests. I will do it quite aggressively, but I repeat: it will be done if needed. There were a lot of fairly good paintings. Some of them belonged to my late parents. These were gifts from prominent Russian avant-garde artists. And, obviously, if they were taking them during the search, I would consider it theft. Well, if they just took the paintings for examination, I think it would be totally inappropriate and unnecessary. But if they would try to keep the paintings, most definitely it would be theft, in my view. As for my bank accounts, it’s an interesting story. They froze my accounts last night but today one of these accounts, which I use to receive my Social Security pension, was, unfrozen. So, I can receive my small Social Security pension. But my main account, which I use to pay for my activities in the United States, the most important account for my family, it stayed frozen. I use it to pay my mortgage.

Mutation L108F in MPXV is a ‘gain-of-function’ mutation, which most likely enhances processivity, changes sensitivity to nucleoside inhibitors, and fidelity of DNA synthesis. The following information comes via Dr. Peter McCullough’s substack and the Kanan study. In 2022, HHS Secretary Becerra declared US Monkeypox a public health emergency. Monkeypox occurred almost solely in gay or […] The post Gain-of-Function Mutation Found in Monkeypox appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

In Type 1 diabetes, the body’s immune system attacks the pancreas, destroying the cells that make insulin. Type 1 diabetics must use insulin injections to control their blood sugar levels. That is where our diabetic fitness coach comes in. Sitting in a mall, he was filming an educational video for others with diabetes. He realized that his blood sugar levels had dropped too low, causing him to develop shakes. What happened next surprised him. @jchristofitness This is crazy! Tagged the smoothie bar below that this happened to me @fitstopshakes smoothie acaibowl insulin fitnesstype1diabetes weightloss type1diabetesweightloss diabetes type1bodybuilding type1diabetic insulinpump bloodsugar glucometer gym bodybuilding jim fitness fit diabeticmusclebuilding a1c foryou foryoupage fyp foryoupage supplements energy lowbloodsugartype1diabeticmusclebuilding diabeticmusclebuilding diabeticfatburning ♬ Nothing burns like the cold sped up – When he tested his blood sugar, it was low. The owner and an employee at the smoothie shop behind him approached. After listening to the diabetic fitness coach explain what was happening, the owner told him to hang on. Within seconds, he returned with an Acai Bowl. The man explained that he had a friend with Type 1 diabetes and knew how important it is to bring blood sugars up quickly. Image from TikTok. Diabetes is a disease that occurs when blood glucose rises too high. There are three main types of diabetes: Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational. Type 1 diabetics need insulin to maintain appropriate sugar levels. Type 2 diabetics typically control levels with oral medications or through their diet. Gestational diabetes occurs in some pregnant women. Jason Christo is a diabetic and a fitness coach. His TikTok channel is dedicated to keeping people healthy through exercise and diet. Several videos address diabetes, controlling sugar levels, and staying healthy while managing the disease. The video he was working on was about adjusting insulin levels when cutting calories. You risk low blood sugar episodes if you don’t adjust insulin when lowering your caloric input. The best medicine is knowledge and being prepared. If you know someone with diabetes, please share this with them. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Diabetic Fitness Coach Begins Filming Educational Video… Is Left Speechless By Store Owner’s Reaction! appeared first on InspireMore.

Legacy media outlets and left-leaning nonprofits may seek to distance themselves from the anti-Israel protests on college campuses and in Washington, D.C., many of which have devolved into outright antisemitism. Yet influential outlets and activist groups have at least one key tie to a notorious group supporting the anti-Israel protests, and an organization that represents more than 2,000 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is sounding the alarm. Despite its anodyne name, Jewish Voice for Peace enflames anti-Israel sentiment. On the very day that Hamas terrorists raped, murdered, and took hostages in Israel (Oct. 7, 2023), JVP leaders blamed “Israeli apartheid and occupation” as “the source of all this violence.” In the weeks afterward, Jewish Voice for Peace rallygoers in Providence, Rhode Island, chanted, “Hey hey, ho ho, the Yahudi [Jews] have got to go!” JVP speakers in Philadelphia stated: “The anticolonial armed resistance out of the Gaza Strip was provoked by decades of Israeli state-sanctioned violence and to report it otherwise is false and misleading.” According to the Anti-Defamation League, which monitored these and other incidents, Jewish Voice for Peace “considers supporters of Israel, or even critics of Israel who do not hew to JVP’s own extreme views, to be complicit in Israel’s purported acts of racist oppression of Palestinians.” Jewish Voice for Peace hosted a protest July 23 in the Cannon House Office Building ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress. U.S. Capitol Police told The Daily Signal on Friday that the agency arrested 248 protesters that day, charging them with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding under D.C. Code Section 22-1307. Jewish Voice for Peace did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The Washington-Baltimore News Guild Amid a resurgence of labor unions on the Left, many nonprofit organizations have unionized. Jewish Voice for Peace is no exception. Although Americans traditionally associate unions with physical labor and for-profit companies, the labor movement has struggled in the private sector even as it grows and thrives among government employees and nonprofits. Nonprofit employees, who ostensibly work to advance a cause rather than their own pocketbooks, seem an odd fit for unions. Employees at Jewish Voice for Peace, however, unionized in August 2020. The Washington-Baltimore News Guild, which came about as a 1964 merger of the Washington Newspaper Guild (founded in January 1934) and the Baltimore Newspaper Guild, represents a broad swath of news outlets and left-leaning nonprofits. The list includes two American Civil Liberties Union chapters (North Carolina and West Virginia); the AFL-CIO; the American Nurses Association; the Democratic Socialists of America; the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers; the LGBTQ group Lambda Legal; the environmentalist group League of Conservation Voters; the National Abortion Federation; and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The guild also represents news outlets including Politico; Raw Story; the Baltimore Sun; The Charlotte Observer; the Richmond Times-Dispatch; and The Washington Post. None of these nonprofits and news outlets responded to The Daily Signal’s requests for comment about their relationship with Jewish Voice for Peace. Communication Workers of America, the umbrella union under which the Washington-Baltimore News Guild falls, did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. Loud Condemnations of Anti-Israel JVP The Coalition for Jewish Values, which represents more than 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis in American public policy, asked the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, known as WBNG, to stop representing employees of JVP. “There are two compelling reasons why the Coalition for Jewish Values unequivocally calls on the Washington-Baltimore News Guild to stop representing Jewish Voice for Peace employees,” Rabbi Ze’ev Smason, midwest regional vice president for the coalition, told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Wednesday. “JVP is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism,” Smason said. “JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel. Furthermore, the spread of JVP’s most inflammatory ideas can help give rise to antisemitism.”  “As the ADL has documented, JVP leaders blamed ‘Israeli apartheid and occupation’ as ‘the source of all this violence’ on the very day that Hamas terrorists raped, murdered, and took hostages in Israel,” the rabbi added. “Therefore, representing JVP employees is tantamount to representing the hate-filled, anti-Israel, antisemitic ideas and actions that JVP has engaged in and promotes.” Smason also noted that WBNG states on its website: “Together, we hold our employers accountable and ensure that our workplaces reflect our values, which include ensuring everyone is free from harassment and retaliation, earns equal pay for equal work and has a voice in their workplace.” “It is hard to imagine an organization more antithetical to the values of ‘ensuring everyone is free from harassment and retaliation’ than JVP, that openly espouses anti-Israel sentiment and unabashedly supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel,” Smason said. “Based upon the hateful actions and incendiary, anti-Israel ideals of JVP, and the avowed inclusivity mission of WBNG, the Coalition for Jewish Values emphatically calls upon WBNG to disassociate itself from the representation of JVP employees.” The New Tolerance Campaign, which publishes a “hate map” to track “hate and hard left extremism” across the United States, has put four chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace on its map. “The Washington-Baltimore News Guild is free to engage with whichever groups they like under the union banner, but they can’t do so without question—and there are a lot of questions surrounding Jewish Voice for Peace, their methods, and JVP’s associations with groups engaging in political violence,” New Tolerance Campaign President Gregory Angelo told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Wednesday. “Is this really a group WBNG wants carrying their banner—literally—into campus riots this fall?” An Unofficial Response Although none of the involved nonprofits and news outlets responded to The Daily Signal, an employee of the ACLU of West Virginia did send an unofficial response. Kyle Vass, whose profile on the ACLU of West Virginia’s website identifies him as an investigative reporter who launched the website Dragline, posted an unofficial response to The Daily Signal’s request for comment on the social media platform X. The ACLU of West Virginia didn’t respond, neither to requests for comment for this story nor to a request to confirm that Kyle Vass represents the organization’s union. Vass identified himself as “the union steward for our collective bargaining unit,” and gave what he characterized as “my official statement from our staff union” on X. “Shaking down nonprofits for falling under the same union as an org you oppose highlights why companies like The Daily Signal and The Heritage Foundation are enemies of the working class,” Vass wrote. “ACLU-WV Staff United opposes this thinly veiled effort and stands in solidarity with WBNG.” "Shaking down nonprofits for falling under the same union as an org you oppose highlights why companies like the Daily Signal and the Heritage Foundation are enemies of the working class.ACLU-WV Staff United opposes this thinly veiled effort and stands in solidarity with WBNG."— Kyle Vass (@WilliamKyleVass) August 14, 2024 Vass did not comment on Jewish Voice for Peace’s anti-Israel activism nor respond to concerns about organizations that unionize alongside JVP. The post Radical Anti-Israel Group Shares Union With WaPo, Politico, SPLC, Lambda Legal, and AFL-CIO appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The origins of the Ouija board are shrouded in mystery, but there is evidence to suggest they may have arisen from ancient civilizations. According to occult historians, the first historical mention of something resembling a Ouija board was found in China around 1200 B.C. The Chinese would guide a stick around a tray filled with sand to communicate with otherworldly spirits. Other sources claim that Pythagoras, in 540 B.C., would conduct séances at “a mystic table, moving on wheels, moved towards signs, which the philosopher and his pupil, Philolaus, interpreted to the audience as being revelations supposedly from an unseen world.” Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who made important developments in mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. The first undisputed use of the ‘talking boards’ came when the spiritualism movement swept across the globe in the 1850s. It all started in 1848, when the Fox sisters reported to hear mysterious ‘rappings’ in their home in New York, which they claimed were communications from the spirit world. After a series of question and answer sessions, Kate Fox surmised that the noise was that of a previous tenant who’d been murdered and buried in the basement of the Fox house. The paranormal encounter was given more validity when human remains were reportedly unearthed beneath the floor of the small cottage. The news quickly gained national attention and the Fox sisters became celebrities. The desire to communicate with the dead became a national mania that soon spread all across the United States and Europe. Fox sisters People began holding organized séances where they asked spirits questions that could be answered by a series of raps or knocks. It was said that over ten percent of the population began conducting these seances. Even Mary Todd Lincoln held seances, in the White House on a regular basis in fact, attempting to connect with her deceased children. Methods of divination at that time included swinging a pendulum over a plate that had letters around the edge, or using an entire table to indicate letters drawn on the floor. In its early years the Ouija board was referred to as a Talking Board and looked very different from the packaged consumer goods we recognize today. Then, on May 28, 1890, the businessmen Elijah Bond and Charles Kennard had the idea to patent a planchette sold with a board on which the alphabet was printed. He thus invented the first Ouija board. In 1966, the rights to Ouija board were sold to Parker Brothers, who continues to hold all trademarks and patents. Spiritualists in the United States believed that the dead were able to contact the living, and reportedly used a talking board very similar to the modern Ouija board at their camps in Ohio during 1886 with the intent of enabling faster communication with spirits. Is the Ouija board connected to the paranormal? This all depends if you believe in the spirit world or not. Paranormal investigators believe that there are many different types of spirits co-existing with us in the physical world. They see the Ouija board as having no intrinsic power in and of itself, but rather as a tool that can be used to contact spirits that reside on the lower astral plane. These spirits are often very confused and may have died a violent or sudden death. “Most of the recently dead, who are, in fact, ghosts, are never seen by the living again once they have passed beyond this twilight realm. Under some circumstances, however, the dead can be trapped in the lower etheric regions closest to our physical reality and many times they either do not know how or simply refuse to move on. Oftentimes, this reluctance is the result of sudden, violent death combined with negative emotions or circumstances which serve as tangible links – to the dead at least – to the physical world.” If you don’t believe in ghosts than the Ouija board can be explained simply as a toy that can be manipulated by the subconscious or conscious mind of the players. The Encyclopedia of the Occult and Supernatural points out that when blindfolded, Ouija board operators are unable to produce intelligible messages. The post The Mysterious History of the Ouija Board appeared first on Anomalien.com.