The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is facing fierce resistance from Palestinian armed factions while advancing in the Gaza Strip.

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, and the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both released videos on December 8 showing their fighters clashing with Israeli troops in Gaza City and targeting several main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers and bulldozers.

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The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades said that its fighters destroyed or damaged 21 vehicles of the IDF and targeted several gatherings of Israeli troops in different parts of Gaza over the past 24 hours. Al-Quds Brigades said that 12 other vehicles were targeted by its fighters during the same period.

On December 8, the Russian Ministry of Defense summed up the preliminary result of the ongoing military operations in Ukraine. Over the past week, December 3-8, ‘the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation completed a number of tasks and destroyed personnel, military equipment, weapons, and ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in different regions.

In the Kupyansk region, the Ukrainian army lost more than 480 soldiers in a week. Losses in equipment included 3 tanks, 13 armored vehicles, 12 cars, and 7 artillery units. Our troops managed to improve the situation on the front line and repel 19 attacks launched by Ukrainian forces.

10 attacks of the Ukrainian assault groups were repelled in the Krasny Liman region. More than 1,445 soldiers, 11 armored vehicles, 17 cars, 5 artillery pieces were illuminated in the area.

During the battles in the Donetsk direction, the total losses of the Ukrainian army amounted to more than 1,560 servicemen, 12 armored vehicles, 17 vehicles and 22 field artillery units.

Special Counsel David Weiss unveiled nine federal tax-related charges against Hunter Biden on Thursday more than four months after a plea deal was derailed by a federal judge.

The Biden son will return to court facing three new felony charges and six misdemeanor counts relating to tax evasion and filing false returns, but he will escape penalties related to foreign influence-peddling that involves his father in the White House.

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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is investigating whether the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter were paid by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

After Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop surfaced during the 2020 election, more than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter in Politico saying the computer “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” In a letter to CIA Director William Burns on Monday, Jordan, who leads the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, demanded the CIA chief come clean about the agency’s alleged involvement in branding the laptop as Russian disinformation, which plainly amounted to election interference.

“We understand that former intelligence officials often return to the intelligence community under private contract for their previous agencies,” Jordan wrote. “It is vital to the Committees’ oversight to understand whether any of the signatories of the public statement were actively employed by CIA as contractors or consultants at the time they signed the public statement.”

“If so,” Jordan added, “this information would raise fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA as it pertains to the October 19, 2020, ‘Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails’ signed and published by 51 former intelligence community officials in the weeks preceding the 2020 presidential election.”

America’s leading public health official is recommending Americans to wear a mask this flu season to stop the spread of illnesses such as COVID, the flu and RSV.

Mandy Cohen, M.D., MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in the video posted to her social media accounts that Americans could take precautions to protect themselves against respiratory illnesses heading into the holidays.

“To protect yourself and your family this holiday season, take the steps that we do every year to protect ourselves. Get your updated COVID and flu vaccines and your RSV vaccine if you're over 60. It's not too late to get vaccinated if you haven't already,” she said.

She continued: “Use additional layers of protection like avoiding people who are sick, washing your hands, improving ventilation and wearing a mask.”

Masks have largely fallen by the wayside in the U.S. A regular sight during the first two years of the pandemic, mask orders have largely vanished across the U.S. Just a fraction of Americans still say they regularly wear a mask outdoors.

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An American boy who says he is a “transgender” girl has won a slot in the Irish Dancing World Championships for girls after winning a girls’ competition he switched to when he lost competing against other boys.

In a chilling revelation, New Mexico authorities have uncovered a series of communications among sex predators operating within the state, utilizing the seemingly innocuous term “PIZZA” as a code word to obscure their illicit activities.

The Gateway Pundit reported that the New Mexico Democrat Attorney General Raúl Torrez took decisive action against tech giant Meta Platforms, Inc., its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and associated entities, including Instagram, LLC, and Facebook Holdings, LLC.

The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, represents a bold effort to curb the exploitation of children on social media platforms.

The watchdog group Judicial Watch has done a deep dive into the voter rolls of Washington, DC and some other places and found an absolute mess.

In Washington, DC, eligible voters are registered at a rate of 131%, violating standards of basic math.

It’s probably just an oversight, right? It couldn’t be a problem of fraud or anything nefarious.

A report released by Statistics Canada   (“StatsCan”) on 27 November showed that the number of covid deaths in highly vaccinated Canada rose by 36% last year.  The nation recorded a record number of covid deaths, despite high vaccination uptake and the pandemic being over.

The largest increase was in Atlantic Canada, where number of covid deaths per 100,000 population in 2022 was more than seven times higher than in 2021.  Atlantic Canada also had the highest uptake of covid “vaccines.”

As well as soaring covid deaths, Canadian government data reveals a staggering 135% death spike listed classified as “other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality.”

A groundbreaking study found that 17 million people died worldwide after the Covid “vaccine” rollout and therefore should be garnering worldwide attention and calls for an immediate cessation of all Covid vaccines. Instead, it has been CENSORED! The shocking study, COVID-19 vaccine-associated mortality in the Southern Hemisphere, by Drs. Denis Rancourt, Marine Baudin, Joseph Hickey and Jérémie Mercier was published September 17, 2023, yet, also shockingly the study has not had the attention it deserves, but, has met only censorship and narrative-confirming “fact-checks” on the safety and effectiveness of the as-yet untested Covid-19 “vaccines.”

Cybersecurity experts have warned that countless people could lose their savings in the coming years as advancements in AI make it much easier for criminals to get their hands on people’s money.

A lawyer who helps individuals recoup lost savings after being victimized by cybercrimes, Marc Maisch, warned in a recent interview with the German Die Welt newspaper that a major crime wave is on the horizon in which clever cybercriminals could scam millions of people out of their money with help from AI tools.

He explained: “AI is a great tool, but of course cybercriminals also use it to create phishing emails in order to have ChatGPT write malicious code that can be used immediately. And we haven’t yet talked about deepfakes and voice phishing, i.e., faces and voices are recreated.”

In a recent testimony to Israel's finance committee, a female relative of a newly released Israeli captive of the militant group Hamas, claimed that the Israeli military is killing its own people and that Tel Aviv is blocking the victims' families from speaking out.

Noam Dan, whose cousin's husband remains in Hamas custody and who suffered the loss of two other family members in the hostilities, said on Dec. 3 that they used to think the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) knew what they were doing. But they were shocked to realize that the forces did not care who they were attacking. "We know for sure that three people were killed by our fire, three hostages," she declared while demanding to be informed of whether the families of captives "were given up on" by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's administration.

 Amazon’s fledgling generative AI assistant, Q, has been struggling with factual inaccuracies and privacy issues, according to leaked internal communications.

Commenting on the recent discovery of DNA fragments inside Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "vaccine" vials, anatomic clinical pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole revealed to "American Thought Leaders" that these contaminants could be related to the increases in cancer, micro-clotting and autoimmune disease among the fully vaccinated.

"My big concern is the fact that billions of people across the earth have received a product that was overtly contaminated with something that should not have been in the product," Dr. Cole explained. "If I went and bought some meat at the grocery store and they had heavy metal or pesticide toxins, they would pull those from the shelves immediately."

Dr. Cole referenced new research looking at Pfizer's COVID jab vials, which were found to contain molecules derived from Simian Virus 40 (SV40), a known cancer promoter.

Well, Kiev – literally – never sleeps.

This document – attached, and verified at the highest level, is a report on several recon operations on the Ukraine-Belarus border conducted four months ago.

Several Ukrainian Special Ops groups had been engaged in deep recon previous to a possible Hail Mary-style plan: launching an offensive against the territory of Belarus, thus expanding the U.S. proxy war on Russia “multilaterally”.

It’s not clear if this was a Kiev idea; a plan dictated by the NATO masters; or a mix of the two. Minsk, of course, was not exactly observing from a distance.

Germany slashed the number of illegal migrants entering the country in the span of a month after introducing tougher border controls.

Federal government statistics showed that there were around 11,029 "unauthorised entries" into the country over its land borders in November - a huge reduction compared with the 18,384 in the previous month. Much of the decline was from migrants from Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, the borders with which have seen a significant tightening of controls.

Around 900 migrants were found along the Germany-Austria border in November - 493 of which were turned back. But just the month before, nearly 7,000 migrants were found in the region.

If anyone actually cared about these Africans, the last thing they’d do is bring them over to the most expensive and overcrowded cities on earth, where every single item and service costs more than almost anywhere else, and instead try to help them where they are, or as close as possible to where they are.

God save Gaza, but on some level, their sacrifice is going to free the world.

No one can defend Israel after this. No one.

The Holocaust narrative is over. They are no longer the victims.

It’s weird that a state would make you swear allegiance to a foreign state, no?

It almost makes you wonder what exactly is going on.

Oh well. I’m sure it’s very normal.

The latest jobs report for November presents a seemingly positive picture of the U.S. economy, with 199,000 jobs added and a dip in the unemployment rate to 3.7%. However, a closer examination reveals reasons for suspicion.

Economists' expectations were surpassed, but the accuracy of the reported figures is now under scrutiny. Despite mainstream media acclaim, 20% of jobs added in 2023 have been revised away, raising questions about the reliability of the initial data.

This photo collection features historical newspaper clippings showing the strange and sometimes hilarious reasons for divorce that made local headlines in the early part of the 20th century.

From the middle to the end of the 19th century, the divorce rate in the United States increased, and Americans obtained more divorces annually than did all of Europe.

Previously, divorces in the US were granted mainly to the middle and upper classes because of their cost, but the legal process became less expensive.

DETROIT — Gangs from South America are breaking into multi-million dollar homes across the country, including metro Detroit, WXYZ reported.

Many animals were used during World War I. Horses, mules, dogs and pigeons were exposed to poisonous gases, so special protection was necessary for them. Horses were equipped with gas masks on their muzzles and were protected from inhalation of toxic gases such as phosgene.

The horse's eyes were not affected by lachrymatory agents, so their masks consisted only of specially made nasal bags, but unfortunately, the eyes of these animals were vulnerable to the effects of chlorine and vesicatory gases.

Of the millions of British horses sent overseas to help with the war effort, only 62,000 returned home. It is the forgotten tragedy of the Great War - a conflict that, like humans, put many animals in the line of fire. For many years, little was known about the unimaginable suffering of animals being carried across the Channel to the Western Front.

These photographs were taken in 1980 by Bruno Barbie and Karl de Keyser and depict everyday life in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

By the end of the decade, the Soviet Union was a country that was plunged into chaos, torn apart by natural and industrial disasters, political and economic crises.

Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost (English: reorganization and opening up) failed to reach Ukraine like other Soviet republics, as Volodymyr Shcherbitsky, a conservative communist appointed by Brezhnev and first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, resigned his post. Had given. 1989.