Until illegal aliens are given amnesty in the United States, Kamala Harris does not think we can or should say “Merry Christmas.” Here is Kamala outraged, shaming actual Americans, citizens, and legal residents for enjoying a Merry Christmas when people are coming into our country illegally, not having a Merry Christmas. Who is she to […] The post Kamala Shames Americans Who Enjoy a Merry Christmas appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

On Wednesday, pro-Hamas protesters held a disturbing demonstration in Times Square, with the waving of a Hamas flag, accusing Israel of “raping children,” chanting “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada,” “There is no God besides Allah,” and “Raise the banner of the revolution.” Protesters in Times Square Rally Following Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hizbullah Military Leader Fuad Shukr, Wave Hamas, Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam, Hizbullah Flags, Chant: The Martyr Is Beloved by Allah! Israel Is the Enemy of Allah! pic.twitter.com/ZnyOxCbstR — MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) August 1, 2024 The demonstration followed the death of the Hamas terrorist organization leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Tuesday in an apparent assassination. One demonstrator carrying a Hamas flag also “wore a hat with a yellow headband around it that represents the terror group Hezbollah,” The New York Post reported. One protester held up a sign with the acronym “ACAB,” which stands for “all cops are bastards.” Haniyeh, who headed Hamas’ Politburo since 2017, spoke at a conference of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in Doha, Qatar, three months after the October 7 massacre. He declared, “We should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it … the time has come for the Jihad of the swords,” the Middle East Media Research Institute reported. “In 2012, when asked by Reuters reporters if Hamas had abandoned the armed struggle, Haniyeh replied of course not and said resistance would continue ‘in all forms – popular resistance, political, diplomatic and military resistance,’” The Hindu reported. In reference to “globalizing the intifada,” according to the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, during the Second Intifada, 887 of the 1,137 Israelis murdered in attacks from September 2000 – 2005 were civilians. Just between May 2001 and May 2002, prior to the bombing at Hebrew University, there were these massacres: five Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the HaSharon Mall in May 2001; 21 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at the Dolphinarium Discotheque in June 2001; 15 Israelis murdered by a suicide bomber at Sbarro’s Pizza in August 2001, including six children and a 31-year-old woman who was the only child of her parents and was five months pregnant; 11 Israelis murdered in a bus bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem on December 1, 2001; 15 more Israelis murdered the very next day in a Haifa suicide bombing; 11 more Israelis murdered in a bus attack 10 days later in Immanuel; six Israelis murdered in an attack at a bat-mitzvah in January 2002; 11 more Jews killed in an attack on a yeshiva in March 2002, including a five-month-old child; 11 Jews murdered in a bombing at Café Moment in March 2002; 30 Israelis killed as they celebrated Passover in Netanya on March 27, 2002; 16 Israelis murdered in a suicide bombing four days later at the Matza restaurant, and 16 Israelis murdered in Rishon LeZion in May 2002. As EMET has reported, through Palestinian laws passed in 2004 and amended in 2013, Palestinians and Israeli Arabs convicted by Israel of involvement in terror attacks in Israel received monthly “salaries” commencing with their arrest and continuing for life for men in prison for five years and women for two. By 2016, EMET reported, the so-called “Pay for Slay” program handed out $315 million, roughly 8% of the PA budget of $4.4 billion.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) rejected a call from more than 200 Jewish staffers, contractors, suppliers, and contributors for a formal investigation into its alleged anti-Semitic reporting. The call came in a July 19 letter whose signatories included Danny Cohen, the former director of BBC Television; “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” Executive Producer Neil Grant; Fulwell 73 managing partner and former “Cinderella” Executive Producer Leo Pearlman; Claudia Rosencrantz, former controller of entertainment for ITV; and Will Daws, managing director at Plum Pictures. “We write to you today to request an urgent formal investigation by the BBC board into systemic problems of anti-Semitism and bias at the BBC, alongside senior management’s demonstrable failure to properly address the issue,” the letter stated, adding the signatories’ “anguish and disbelief because we fear we have now exhausted the process of raising our very serious concerns about anti-Jewish racism with BBC Management,” according to The Telegraph. “The group also sent the board members what they describe as a non-exhaustive list of social media breaches and ‘impartiality breaches in matters of public controversy relating to Israel and Gaza,’ broadcast mistakes that ‘suggest bias,’ and an account from anonymous sources ‘of the fear and mental health toll on Jewish BBC staff, their feelings of isolation and alienation from their bosses and experiences of prejudice and racism at work,’” Deadline reported. The letter pointed out “impartiality breaches in matters of public controversy relating to Israel and Gaza,” broadcast mistakes that “suggest bias,” and an account from anonymous sources “of the fear and mental health toll on Jewish BBC staff, their feelings of isolation and alienation from their bosses and experiences of prejudice and racism at work.” But BBC Chairman Samir Shah dismissed the call for a formal investigation, responding that the BBC is “successful” in creating an “inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds feel welcome, safe and supported. … I am satisfied, however, that where we have made errors, the executive has acted appropriately and handled matters in accordance to the guidance as they apply to my colleagues. Following your correspondence, I have asked the executive to review the papers you sent and to see if there’s anything included that has not been previously considered.” Pearlman called Shah’s response a “dismissive letter,” adding, “No other minority has been or ever will be treated with this level of disdain. Over 200 Jews from within the industry, many of whom work at the BBC, felt the need to add their names to a detailed letter, over 30 pages of grievances beyond refute. The response, nothing to see here, not even worthy of an investigation, gaslighting by every definition.” The BBC’s response to the letter “would have made that ex-employee George Orwell smile,” Daws snapped, calling it “disingenuous and frankly mealy-mouthed. … The BBC has a systemic problem with its reporting of Israel that often crosses the line into anti-Semitism. I for one will not be placated with merely sympathetic words. To quote Orwell – ‘Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’ – unless you’re Jewish writing to the BBC board he could have added.” In February, former British attorney general Sir Michael Ellis accused the BBC of institutional anti-Semitism, stating, “The BBC’s senior management has fundamentally failed to deal with this problem and uphold its own guidelines, and the organization now appears complicit in peddling misinformation and allowing anti-Semitism to fester. And in those circumstances I have come to the conclusion that the BBC is institutionally anti-Semitic. …‌What makes the BBC institutionally anti-Semitic is not that there is bias or anti-Semitism within – sadly, there’s a lot of that everywhere. It is the fact that management has not done what they should be doing about it.‌ … To hold oneself up as neutral and to be biased is a form of corruption.”‌ “In January, the BBC was forced to apologize for airing an unverified December radio report that accused Israel Defense Forces troops of executing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” Fox News noted. “In November, BBC News Channel aired a report that claimed Israeli forces had descended on Al Shifa hospital in Gaza and targeted ‘medical teams and Arab speakers’ inside. While reports did indicate the IDF had entered the hospital, none corroborated the claim that soldiers had targeted those inside. … Following Hamas’ invasion of Israel on October 7, the BBC repeatedly referred to the organization as ‘freedom fighters,’ ‘gunmen’ or ‘militants’ rather than terrorists.”

Parents and pet owners alike know that, when your little ones are quiet for a long while, it’s usually not a good sign. So, when this dog mom noticed that her home was a little too peaceful, she knew that her golden retriever puppy was getting into trouble! In a hilarious video on social media, the woman decided to check up on her pooch. As suspected, he was nose-deep in mischief! When Mom found her golden retriever puppy in the backyard, he was chowing down on a big tub of peanut butter. He’d also gotten this sticky treat all over his adorable face! As soon as his owner came outside, this pup knew he’d been caught. You could tell from his guilty expression as he looked up at her. However, it didn’t stop him from enjoying his ill-gotten snack. In fact, he quickly tried to wolf down as much as he could before it was taken away from him! @rebeccalouise544 You always know they are up to something when it all goes quiet #goldenretriever #goldenretrieverpuppy #naughtydog #guiltypuppy #guiltydog #dog #puppy #peanutbutter ♬ Funny – Gold-Tiger After bringing him inside, Mom got the most hilarious footage of the naughty golden retriever puppy covered in peanut butter. Even with the evidence of his crimes all over his face, he was still way too cute! Commenters loved the hilarious video. “Oh my word!!!” wrote one user. “But you can’t be mad at that sweet face.” Another joked, “Best day of his life! Generations will pass down the story of the day he had an entire bucket of PB to himself.” Of course, Bernie the golden retriever puppy isn’t always a bad boy. In fact, his mom has caught plenty of other sweet clips to prove it! @rebeccalouise544 Best decision #goldenretriever #goldenretrieverpuppy #puppy #newpuppy #babydog ♬ Wash. – Bon Iver One tub of peanut butter is a small price to pay for having such a cute pup in the house! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Golden Retriever Puppy Caught Red-Pawed After Being “Quiet For Too Long” appeared first on InspireMore.

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An hour and a half. That’s how long went between deaths from work-related injuries in the US in 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They recorded 5,486 people being killed by their job over the year – the equivalent of one every 96 minutes.And that’s just a speck in the data pool compared to non-fatal injuries in the workplace – more than 2.8 million of which were recorded in 2022. But of course, all those deaths and injuries weren’t evenly spread throughout the workforce. A firefighter, for example, shouldn’t expect the same injury rate as an accountant. So which jobs are the most dangerous? Here are some of the worst offenders.Logging workers and tree trimmersThere are a few different lists of the “most dangerous jobs in America”, and few of them are in total agreement with each other. One common thread, however, is that working with trees is really, really dangerous.That’s not entirely surprising. We’re talking about jobs that involve heavy machinery and chainsaws as standard, in an industry that frequently pushes workers to their limits in terms of time and physical exertion. Loggers often work in isolated environments, in all weathers, and rely on on the job training, and so it’s no wonder that most injuries are caused by “contact with equipment” and falls – both of objects onto the workers, and of the workers themselves.Working with chainsaws and heavy machinery is risky business.Image credit: adriaticfoto/Shutterstock.comTo add insult to (literal) injury, the average salary for loggers is just $47,900 per year – just four-fifths of the national average. For that, they can expect a fatality rate more than 22 times that of the national average and a non-fatal injury rate about 15 percent higher than the average. And sure, that latter statistic doesn’t sound too bad, until you think about what it really means: that if you get injured as a logger, it’s really likely to kill you.Truck driversWith a fatality rate almost eight times that of the national average, delivery and truck drivers are another group whose risk seems outsized for their salary – an average of $48,240, per Forbes. Unsurprisingly, by far the most deaths on the job came from “transportation incidents”, with literally 70 percent of fatalities arising from vehicular collisions. The same figure across all occupations is about 37 percent, according to the Bureau, making delivery and truck drivers roughly twice as likely as any other job to die in a car crash.Meanwhile, the non-fatal injury rate is around 30 percent higher than the national average – though a few issues stand out as being particularly common. Truck drivers are almost three times as likely as other occupations to suffer from musculoskeletal disorders and problems with their backs and trunks. There are a few reasons for all these injuries, but one seems particularly problematic for professional drivers: their position. Spending too long sitting is known to be bad for your health, and truck driving is associated with a whole host of sitting-related ailments such as heart disease and diabetes.Then there are the stresses of being forced to stay awake too long, being away from home for extended periods of time, irregular work schedules, and just the sheer loneliness of it all – things that both compound health issues and act as barriers to getting regular healthcare. Even if you can see a doctor, there’s about a one-in-three chance you have no insurance. Is it any wonder the industry has long been bemoaning a lack of drivers to fill positions?“We’re tired. Our bodies are starting to go. Our bladders have been put to the test. And no exercise,” trucker Stephen Graves told the New York Times in 2022. “We end up with all types of heart and other health ailments. You can’t truly fathom what it’s done to you.”Truck drivers' fatality rate is nearly eight times that of the national average.Image credit: Drazen Zigic/Shutterstock.comRoofersCracking the top five, if not the top three, in all the lists we found was the occupation of roofers – the people who, not surprisingly given the job title, repair, maintain, and construct roofing for buildings. Many of the occupational hazards of this job are similar to those in the logging industry: people are working at great heights, outside and exposed to the elements, and learning on the job. With a fatality rate 16 times the national average, the main killer on this job is pretty much what you’d expect it to be: a full 86 percent of workplace deaths were caused by “falls to a lower level” – that is, going from the top of a building to the bottom, at speed.Roofers do have a couple of pieces of good news, though: their non-fatal injury rate is actually slightly lower than the national average, and they do earn a higher wage than our previous two high-risk jobs. So, it’s actually a pretty sweet gig, assuming you don’t literally die.Agricultural workersThe term “agricultural worker” can encompass a wide range of farming-related occupations, and basically all of them are riskier than the average job. What the Bureau labels “miscellaneous agricultural workers” has a fatality rate about 5.5 times the national average, with most deaths coming as a result of either “contact with objects and equipment” or incidents with vehicles. Both of which, if you’ve ever seen, say, a combine harvester up close, make total sense.Agricultural workers come into contact with lots of dangerous machinery.Image credit: vlalukinv/Shutterstock.comDig a little deeper into the data, and we get a clearer picture of what’s particularly dangerous on the farm. Agricultural equipment operators – the people actually driving the combine harvesters and suchlike – have a fatal injury rate some 13 times higher than the average.A little lower on the risk-of-death ladder are the first-line supervisors of farming and fishing workers, whose fatality risk is a mere seven times the national average. Agricultural inspectors, meanwhile, are bringing that mean down, with so few on the job deaths that an average figure couldn’t be collected.One subcategory that might surprise you, though, is the animal workers – the people whose job it is to tend livestock on farms and ranches. While data is patchier in this industry than others – it’s pretty highly stocked with self-employed people or very small businesses who aren’t required to complete the Bureau’s annual surveys – the picture we do have is one that’s unexpectedly dangerous: with a fatality rate 15 times the typical American’s, it’s actually the third-most deadly job in the country. Luckily, those taking up this work have an average salary of a whole $32,000 per year to make up for it. Which must soften the blow.Aircraft pilots and flight engineersIf there were a running theme in the list so far, it would be this: blue collar. None of the deadly jobs we’ve talked about up until now require, say, a college degree – most are either taught on the job or via apprenticeships – and equally, none have been what you might call high-earning professions.All of which makes the next one on the list kind of stand out. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers require years of training for their profession – and while college and university degrees aren’t strictly necessary, they’re certainly not frowned upon.Of course, there’s a reason for all that preparation: the job involves hurtling through the air at hundreds of miles per hour in a tin can that, for all we know, may only be staying in the sky through sheer force of will. And when you put it like that, the fatality rate, at 13 times the national average, doesn’t seem so strange, does it?Whether it’s the pilots driving the thing or the engineers monitoring the various mechanical systems and statuses, the main risk for workers in this group is – unsurprisingly – what the Bureau labels “vehicular and transportation operations”. In fact, all but one death fell into this category.Flying a plane is, understandably, pretty perilous.Image credit: Carlos E. Santa Maria/Shutterstock.comThe non-fatal accident rate, meanwhile, is twice the national average. The risk is particularly great in private planes and helicopters, which aren’t bound by the same safety regulations as commercial aircraft – flying as a passenger is quite a lot safer, you’ll be happy to know.Honorable mentionsThis is far from an exhaustive list, and we’re sure there are more deadly jobs out there. Firefighters spring to mind, as do the intriguingly named “explosives workers” and “blasters”.Unfortunately, jobs like that are pretty rare, all things considered, and sometimes there wasn’t enough data to reliably calculate the danger of various occupations. Fatal injuries, for example, can only be calculated for jobs held by at least 20,000 people of which at least four died. This rules out, say, dredge operators – an undoubtedly dangerous job, but one which fewer than 1,000 people actually hold. Basically, while we can’t say that these are definitely the most deadly jobs out there, we do know they rank pretty high.The good news? Generally speaking, workplace accident rates are trending downwards – albeit very slowly. Sadly, the fatality rate isn’t really showing the same pattern.Maybe it’s time to retrain as a funeral director.

There were fewer heart attacks and strokes in England, adjusting for risk factors like age, after people were vaccinated against COVID-19 than before, a nationwide study has found. Moreover, the benefits increased with second vaccinations and booster shots. Although the study cannot completely refute the claim that vaccination is associated with an increase in both events, it makes it staggeringly unlikely.When the conspiracy theory of vaccines containing microchips proved a bit too much for most of the public to fall for, those opposed to vaccines on principle turned to heart attacks and strokes as their main form of fearmongering. Like all the best lies, this had a tiny kernel of truth: A very small number of incidents such as thrombocytopenia did occur soon enough after vaccination that it was considered likely the AstraZeneca vaccine was a cause. The UK restricted vaccinations for most under-40s to Pfizer's one as a result.Even from the start, the evidence was strong that any risks caused by the vaccines were far outweighed by the risk of the virus itself. This was true even when looking at heart attacks and strokes alone while excluding all the other devastating consequences of infection. Nevertheless, the claim that vaccines are killers has refused to die, resurfacing most recently when AstraZeneca announced they would stop making their vaccine for entirely different reasons.No amount of evidence will be sufficient for some people, but a new study involving three of the UK’s leading universities has examined the deidentified health records from 45.7 million adults in England to test this myth. The data used covered the period from December 8, 2020, when only a tiny number of people in clinical trials had been vaccinated against COVID-19, and January 23, 2022.Incidence of arterial thromboses, which covers both heart attacks and strokes, was 10 percent lower in the 13-24 weeks after the first dose of either vaccine used in the UK. This is consistent with widespread previously published evidence, but there has been less research on subsequent vaccinations.After second and subsequent doses, arterial thromboses fell even more compared to the unvaccinated – by 20 percent for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and 27 percent for the AstraZeneca vaccine. Similar results apply to other events such as deep venous thrombosis. Whether this makes the decision to not use AstraZeneca among younger people a mistake will require further work to establish.With almost 97,000 thrombotic events in the average of six months between the start of the study period and first vaccination, reductions like these mean many saved lives.Studies such as these could always be affected by confounding factors. The authors acknowledge provision of the vaccine to the most vulnerable first might have distorted their results somehow. The odds against such an alternative explanation must be astronomical, however."We studied COVID-19 vaccines and cardiovascular disease in nearly 46 million adults in England and found a similar or lower incidence of common cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and strokes, following each vaccination than before or without vaccination,” said study co-first author Dr Samantha Ip of the University of Cambridge in a statement. “This research further supports the large body of evidence on the effectiveness and safety of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, which has been shown to provide protection against severe COVID-19 and saved millions of lives worldwide."Previously reported increases in myocarditis and pericarditis shortly after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and the cases of thrombotic thrombocytopenia from AstraZeneca, were real, the study found – but very rare. They were also usually restricted to the first four weeks or less after vaccination. By comparison, severe cardiovascular disease increased after COVID-19 infection. The authors are cautious about concluding that COVID-19 prevention is the reason for the fall in cardiovascular events, but it is certainly the most obvious conclusion.Failing to get vaccinated out of fears of myocarditis or similar conditions is equivalent to not wearing a seatbelt because of a handful of cases where people became trapped by one, ignoring the demonstrated benefits.Study co-author professor William Whitely of the University of Edinburgh said; "This England-wide study offers patients reassurance of the cardiovascular safety of first, second and booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines. It demonstrates that the benefits of second and booster doses, with fewer common cardiovascular events including heart attacks and strokes after vaccination, outweigh the very rare cardiovascular complications."The study is published open access in the journal Nature Communications

There is an old legend of a "doomsday fish" that has begun to resurface in recent years. According to old Japanese legends, sighting the rare animal – really an oarfish – is a harbinger of earthquakes and tsunamis. The world's longest bony fish – with the longest estimated to be 15 meters (50 feet) in length – are subject to a number of legends, and are thought to be partly responsible for ancient legends of sea serpents. Oarfish generally live at depths of around 200 meters (656 feet), though they have been found at depths of 1,000 meters (3,280 feet), making it rare for them to cross paths with humans, only adding to their mystery and intrigue. Japanese myths call the creature "ryugu no tsukai", or “messenger from the sea dragon god’s palace”, and say that they emerge to the surface to warn the land-dwellers of upcoming earthquakes. In the 2010s, following several deadly earthquakes and tsunamis, this old myth was spread again.The belief that animals act differently prior to earthquakes, or know that earthquakes are coming, dates back at least to 373 BCE, when Greek historian Thucydides wrote that dogs, rats, snakes, and weasels deserted Helice days ahead of a deadly earthquake that hit the city. Other anecdotes from history have claimed animals behaved strangely prior to earthquakes too."Some minutes before they were felt, the oxen and cows began to bellow, the sheep and goats bleated, and, rushing in confusion one on the other, tried to break the wicker-work of the folds; the dogs howled terribly, the geese and fowls were alarmed and made much noise; the horses which were fastened in their stalls were greatly agitated, leaped up, and tried to break the halters with which they were attached to the mangers; those which were proceeding on the roads suddenly stopped, and snorted in a very strange way," one account of the Naples quake of 1805 reads. "The cats were frightened, and tried to conceal themselves, or their hair bristled up wildly. Rabbits and moles were seen to leave their holes; birds rose, as if scared, from the places on which they had alighted; and fish left the bottom of the sea and approached the shores, where at some places great numbers of them were taken."The account goes on to say that ants and reptiles abandoned their homes, while locusts flew through the streets."Some dogs, a few minutes before the first shock took place, awoke their sleeping masters, by barking and pulling them, as if they wished to warn them of the impending danger, and several persons were thus, enabled to save themselves," the account adds.However, the problem with anecdotes like this is that they are anecdotes and they rely on people retroactively noticing the strange behavior of animals after the earthquake has happened. While rare, encounters with oarfish do happen. Sometimes they happen when there are no earthquakes, and sometimes they are found shortly before one. Guess which one is getting talked about? It would of course be really, really useful to be able to predict catastrophic weather events based on fish movements, even if it isn't entirely plausible. Scientists have looked into it, with one team looking at records of sightings of deep-sea fish and records of large earthquakes. The study found that out of 336 sightings of the fish and 221 earthquakes over the same timeframe, only one sighting could be correlated. "As a result," they wrote, "one can hardly confirm the association between the two phenomena."

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