Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York on Wednesday said Eric Adams should resign as mayor of New York City, becoming the most prominent Democrat to push for his ouster amid federal corruption investigations involving his administration.

The Biden administration has shifted into panic mode, and there is a good reason for that.  It has become clear that Israel and Hezbollah are on the brink of all-out war, and once that line is crossed there will be no turning back.  Needless to say, an apocalyptic conflict in the Middle East would have the potential to be the greatest “October surprise” of all time.  If the U.S. is forced to intervene in an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, there are thousands upon thousands of Muslims in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that will simply refuse to vote for Kamala Harris.  We already got a preview of this when large numbers of them cast protest votes against Joe Biden during the Democratic primaries.  Kamala Harris must win Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania if she has any hope of emerging victorious in November, and so keeping Israel out of Lebanon is of paramount importance for the Democrats right now. On Wednesday, ABC News was reporting that Israel “is preparing for a potential ground operation” in Lebanon… Israel is preparing for a potential ground operation as its war with Hezbollah intensifies, according to the Israel Defense Forces. “Today, we will continue, we are not stopping; we keep striking and hitting them everywhere,” Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the chief of the General Staff, said Wednesday. “The goal is very clear — to safely return the residents of the north. To achieve that, we are preparing the process of a maneuver, which means your military boots, your maneuvering boots, will enter enemy territory, enter villages that Hezbollah has prepared as large military outposts, with underground infrastructure, staging points and launchpads into our territory and carry out attacks on Israeli civilians.” In addition to the forces that have already been deployed, the Israelis just called up two more reserve brigades… The Israeli military announced Wednesday afternoon that two reserve brigades will be called up for deployment in Operation Northern Arrows. “In accordance with the situational assessment, the IDF is calling up two reserve brigades for operational missions in the northern arena,” the IDF said. Israel is quite serious about going in, but the Biden administration is trying really hard to find a diplomatic solution to this crisis… The Biden administration is working on a new diplomatic initiative for a “pause” in the fighting in Lebanon and a resumption of negotiations on a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, according to two U.S. officials, one Israeli official and two sources with direct knowledge. According to Axios, Benjamin Netanyahu is quite open to the idea of a peaceful way out of this mess… Over the last two days, the U.S. has been discussing the idea with France, Israel, Lebanon and several other Arab countries, a U.S. official and a European diplomat said. “We are working with several countries on a proposal for a diplomatic solution for the north,” a U.S. official confirmed. “Netanyahu gave a green light to discuss this initiative,” an Israeli official said. If Hezbollah can be persuaded to withdraw north of the Litani River peacefully, Israeli forces would not need to enter southern Lebanon, and the Israeli government would be quite thrilled about that. I am entirely convinced that this is not going to happen, but I think that all of this diplomatic posturing will delay an Israeli ground operation for a little while. For now, Israel and Hezbollah continue to exchange long-range strikes.  On Wednesday, Hezbollah even fired a missile at Tel Aviv… Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides. People in Tel Aviv and the central city of Netanya woke up to sirens on Wednesday as Israel said its air defenses intercepted a surface-to-surface missile – the first time ever a missile fired by Hezbollah has reached close to the city, the Israeli military said. I really wish that Hezbollah would just stop. If Hezbollah stopped hitting Israel and withdrew north of the Litani River, an all-out war could be avoided. Unfortunately, that isn’t going to be the way that things play out. As war approaches, more airlines are cancelling flights to and from Beirut… Egyptair, Emirates, Etihad, flydubai and Qatar Airways are among the airlines this week that have now suspended flights to and from Beirut due to the unstable security situation, according to Reuters and Al Arabiya. Reuters also reports that Britain has advised U.K.-based airlines not to fly into Lebanese airspace until Nov. 4, citing a “potential risk to aviation from military activity”. If you are currently visiting the Middle East, I would get out now while you still can. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to gobble up more real estate in Ukraine. In fact, we are being told that they have just entered Vuhledar… As confirmed by both Russian and Ukrainian sources, the Russians have entered Vuhledar – a key Ukrainian stronghold at the junction of eastern and southern fronts. The potential effect of its capture is hard to overestimate. They are also closing the lid on the near-encircled large chunk of land outside Krasnohorivka – mopping up Zhelanne 2. The situation on the frontline couldn’t be worse for Zelensky-Biden summit. The only way that Ukraine can win this war is if NATO forces get directly involved. Ominously, it appears that NATO is making plans for just such a scenario… NATO plans to coordinate the transport of a large number of wounded troops away from front lines in case of a war with Russia, potentially via hospital trains as air evacuations may not be feasible, according to a senior general. The future scenario for medical evacuations will differ from allies’ experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, Lieutenant-General Alexander Sollfrank, the head of NATO’s logistics command, told Reuters in an interview. We must avoid a direct war with Russia at all costs. Because a direct war with Russia could easily go nuclear. On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin discussed very alarming changes to Russia’s official nuclear doctrine… “The updated version of the document proposes that aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear-weapon state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear-weapon state, should be considered as a joint attack on the Russian Federation,” Putin told the council. He said the conditions for the launch of Russia’s nuclear weapons would be “reliable information about a massive launch of aerospace attack means and their crossing of our state border.” He added, “We reserve the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against Russia and Belarus.” So if Ukraine starts firing long-range missiles that were provided by us at Russian cities, the Russians would consider that to be a joint attack and would reserve the right to use nuclear weapons in such a scenario. Please let the implications of that sink in. Speaking of nuclear weapons, the Chinese just test-fired “an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean”… China said Wednesday that it had successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean, in a rare public test that may raise international concerns as the country builds up its nuclear arsenal at a time of tensions with the United States. The People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force launched the ICBM carrying a simulated warhead at 8:44 a.m. local time (8:44 p.m. Tuesday ET), the Chinese defense ministry said in a statement, adding that it accurately landed in a predetermined area of the high seas. The path of the missile and the exact place it fell were unclear. Why can’t humanity ever seem to learn? War is not the answer. Unfortunately, a really bad case of “war fever” seems to be sweeping the globe. I believe that we are going to see so much death and destruction during the next couple of years, and it all could have been avoided if world leaders had made much different decisions. Michael’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Why” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written eight other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today. 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from RT: Europe cannot be limited by the EU and NATO if the continent is to be peaceful, the French president has said French President Emmanuel Macron has called for reform of the current “unjust” world order so that humans can coexist more peacefully. He outlined his vision on Sunday as part of the international ‘Imagining Peace’ […]

by Ron Paul, Survival Blog: Last weekend several hundred of us gathered in Washington, DC, at the Ron Paul Institute conference to again proclaim our dedication to the cause of liberty and our opposition to constant US government assaults on that liberty. Our collaborators included old friends like Judge Andrew Napolitano, who explained that the […]

from Fleccas Talks: TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/

The illegal immigration crisis at the southern border has not only created a culture of lawlessness at the southern border, it has also adversely affected the labor and housing markets. That’s according to the testimony of Center for Immigration Studies director of research Steven Camarota at a hearing of the House Oversight subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, “The Border Crisis: The Cost of Chaos.” Camarota said at the hearing that the amount of illegal immigration in recent years has been “unprecedented” in scale. He said that a recent report by the House Judiciary Committee found that at least “5.6 million illegal immigrants have been released into the country since January of 2021.” That was when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office. In addition, he said, there were an estimated 1.7 million “got-aways,” who were never apprehended from fiscal years 2021 to 2023. Camarota said that the enormous amount of illegal immigration has consequences for housing and labor markets. For one thing, the increased demand for housing drives up prices. “My own analysis suggests that a 5-percentage-point increase in the share of a community [comprising] recent immigrants will cause a 12% increase in what the average U.S.-born household pays for rent,” he said. In addition to the increased housing cost for American families, Camarota said that there’s a significant fiscal and societal cost to bringing in illegal immigrants on such a large scale. “Using estimates by the National Academy of Sciences, we calculate that the lifetime fiscal drain, considering all the taxes an illegal immigrant may pay, and all the services and costs they would create, is about $68,000 per illegal immigrant, or if you like, $68 billion for each 1 million illegal immigrants,” Camarota said. This net drain is due to the “modest education levels” of most illegal immigrants. He said that nearly 80% of them have no education beyond high school, double the share of U.S.-born citizens. The result is generally low incomes, low tax payments, and high use of public services, Camarota said, qualifying that statement by saying that most illegal immigrants aren’t lazy and aren’t coming for welfare. Instead, this “simply reflects what happens when you add large numbers of less-educated people who have modest incomes to a modern economy that spends a lot on social services,” he explained to the House panel. Camarota disputed the oft-stated claim that illegal immigrants will do jobs that native-born Americans won’t do. “Of the 474 occupations as defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant, and practically none that are a majority illegal immigrant,” he said. “There’s good evidence that immigration, by increasing the supply of workers, reduces wages and unemployment for some American workers.” The most important takeaway from these numbers, Camarota stressed, is how it has coincided with the “long-term increase in the share of working-class men not in the labor force.” They are not showing up as unemployed because they aren’t seeking work at all, he said. He said that 1 out of every 9 men without a high school education is not in the labor force. The Center for Immigration Studies expert laid out the depth of the growing crisis for male unemployment in his written testimony to the committee: For example, 4% of “prime-age” (25 to 54) U.S.-born men with only a high school education or less were not in the labor force in 1960—neither working, nor looking for work. By 2000, it was 13%, and in 2024, it is 18 percent. Competition for jobs with illegal immigrants is only part of the reason for this change, Camarota said, but tolerating illegal immigration “has allowed employers and, frankly, policymakers to ignore this huge social problem.” But having huge numbers of unemployed men is linked to social maladies, he said, including “drug-overdose deaths, crime, suicide, and alcoholism.” Camarota concluded that reducing illegal immigration would force the country to finally deal with that crisis. The post Here’s How Much Your Rent Has Gone Up Due to Illegal Immigration, Expert Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.