On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) assailed the lack of arrests related to the riotous protest over the weekend near the White House urging President Joe Biden to cut military aid to Israel and demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza war against Hamas. The Louisiana Republican reacted to the demonstration that trashed Lafayette Park, as well as a widely-condemned protest in New York outside of an exhibit memorializing the victims of the deadly Hamas attack on Israel last October, during a press conference. “Outside a New York memorial for October 7th victims, shamefully, protesters chanted ‘Long live the Intifada,’ and outside the White House, vandals and apparently aspiring Hamas members chanted ‘Hezbollah, Hezbollah!’ and ‘Kill another Zionist now,'” he said. “Yeah, that happened in Lafayette Park,” Johnson added. “Plain and simple, it’s dangerous behavior and it’s disgusting that the Metro PD didn’t arrest anyone.” The Secret Service, D.C. police, and U.S. Park Police told The Washington Free Beacon that they did not detain anyone in connection to the D.C. protest. Police said they tried to arrest one person who climbed a statue, but that individual got away as members of the crowd intervened and officers deployed pepper spray, according to NBC News. A video from reporter Julio Rosas showed police officers being chased out of the park while being followed by some protesters as chants of “You have to leave” morphed into “F*** the police.” Another video appeared to show objects being thrown at a park ranger. Images of the statues in Lafayette Park being covered in spray paint with messages such as “Free Gaza” have stoked outrage and called for a response from law enforcement. Fox News reported on Wednesday that the U.S. Park Police is conducting a probe into the rowdy gathering. A National Park Service spokesperson said Park Police investigators are looking to identify “anyone involved in criminal activity that occurred on Saturday.” The “permitted demonstration resulted in an assault of a park ranger, injuries to two U.S. Park Police officers, and significant damage to the park resources,” the rep said, adding that staff were “undertaking extensive cleanup and repair efforts to address the damage.”

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One can easily argue that most Steve Miller Band fans first discovered the group in the 1970s when the song “Joker” became a huge hit on the radio. However, it wasn’t until a couple of years later that the band became a household name with the release of the Fly Like an Eagle album. Do you remember how big that album was? The follow-up album, Book of Dreams, was just as big. Of course, there would be a lot of fans who would dig deeper into the catalog and discover how different the band sounded in the late sixties and The post Steve Miller Band’s Best Song On Each Studio Album appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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When Congress and the White House enact a spending bill for foreign operations, will it contain the sharp cuts in funding for the United Nations and related entities found in the version a House subcommittee passed last week? Highly unlikely. Yet that didn’t stop critics from voicing howls of anguish and warnings of peril. However, the House bill needs to be seen as a bright warning light for the United Nations if former President Donald Trump wins in November and/or Republicans gain control of both the House and Senate. President Joe Biden entered office in January 2021 boasting that “America is Back” and pledging to reverse many policies of Trump to “repair our alliances and engage with the world.” He quickly followed through by restoring funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Palestinian humanitarian organization UNRWA, rejoining the U.N. Human Rights Council and UNESCO, and rescinding sanctions on the International Criminal Court. The White House did not condition its reengagement on reform and fought to wrangle all the funding it could from Congress. U.S. contributions to the U.N. system rose from $11.6 billion in 2020 to $18.1 billion in 2022. But this generosity has not enhanced the U.S. relationship with the U.N. Quite the opposite. Instead of working with the U.S. to address its concerns, the U.N. and the member states have done the opposite, squandering the opportunity to demonstrate to its largest financial backer that the organization can be a useful partner of America. The WHO never condemned China for contributing to the severity of COVID-19 and has squandered over two years of negotiations on a misguided pandemic agreement that would not address the flaws that contributed to COVID-19. The Human Rights Council remains dominated by anti-democratic human rights abusers that focus disproportionately on Israel while rejecting U.S. efforts to even debate a U.N. report on China’s human rights crimes in Xinxiang. UNESCO continues to support Palestinian efforts to rewrite history to scrub Jewish ties to the Holy Land, including designating “Tell es-Sultan” near the ancient city of Jericho as a World Heritage site in 2023. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas praised UNESCO for the designation that “testifies to the authenticity and history of the Palestinian people.” The current conflict in Gaza has exposed clearly how deeply Hamas has infiltrated and compromised UNRWA, including misusing its facilities as shields for its weapons, tunnels, and militants. Yet UNRWA continues to downplay its complicity and echo Hamas propaganda. Meanwhile, the U.N. legitimizes Hamas’ false casualty numbers for months, the International Criminal Court is prepping charges against Israeli leaders, the International Court of Justice accuses Israel of genocide, and the secretary-general reportedly is set to include Israel on a blacklist of governments like Russia and terrorist organizations like al-Qaida that deliberately harm children in conflict zones. Likewise, the U.N. General Assembly continued its annual practice of condemning the U.S. for its economic sanctions on Cuba, the U.N. Human Rights Committee found that the U.S. had not upheld many of its human rights obligations, the U.N. General Assembly rewarded the Palestinians with enhanced privileges and status over U.S. objections, and so on. No wonder House Republicans—and the American people who overwhelmingly think the U.N. is doing a “poor job”—are fed up. Given this recent record, is it shocking that the desire to fund UNRWA, UNESCO, the Human Rights Council, and the United Nations is coming up short in Congress? The bottom line is that the U.N. is increasingly irrelevant in solving major world crises and seemingly less interested in a good relationship with the United States than in it is in placating America’s adversaries. The Biden administration—naively fixated on having a seat at the U.N. table for its own sake—has protected the U.N. from the brunt of congressional ire despite being repeatedly rebuffed by the organization. If Trump and Republican House and Seante candidates win in November, the toll may come due. Originally published by RealClearWorld. The post House GOP Signals Tough Line for UN if Trump Wins in November appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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