Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,
The Spanish government has asked the European Commission to help facilitate the redistribution of migrants arriving in the Canary Islands to other parts of Europe as part of a broader package of measures aimed at easing the demands placed on the archipelago.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., blasted what he called a “rot” within the Democratic Party, citing what he described as its growing anti-Israel wing.
The Pennsylvania Democrat was responding to comments from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suggesting the United States should consider withholding aid to Israel.
Ocasio-Cortez said the United States’ “unconditional” support for Israel helped facilitate a “genocide” in Gaza, a characterization Fetterman rejected.
“There was never any genocide in Gaza, absolutely, and there shouldn’t ever be any conditions for aid for Israel, because they were in an existential war,” he said on “Saturday in America.”
“That’s part of the problem with the very anti-Israel part of my party,” he added.
Fetterman went further, accusing some Democrats of aligning with anti-Israel activists.
“Why would you align yourself [with] raging antisemites and very pro-Hamas people like Hasan Piker?” Fetterman questioned.
“There’s a rot in my party standing with pro-Hamas people like that,” he said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Hasan Piker and Ocasio-Cortez for comment, but did not immediately hear back.
Ocasio-Cortez made the comments while speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference among various world leaders. She and other progressive Democrats have called for conditions on U.S. aid to Israel following its war with Hamas.
Fetterman also questioned why Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t criticized Iran as sharply as she has Israel. As of Jan. 25, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported more than 5,800 people had been killed during the Iranian government’s crackdown on anti-regime protests.
“Why is she so eager to criticize and find a way to criticize Israel? But I don’t really recall them saying anything as Iran was executing thousands and thousands of their protesters,” said Fetterman.
His comments underscore a growing divide within the Democratic Party over support for Israel. Many progressives have pushed for stricter conditions on aid, while Fetterman has repeatedly broken with his party to defend the Jewish state.
Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t the only Democrat at the Munich Security Conference — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Arizona Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly also attended, as political analysts say the event could double as an early stage for Democrats eyeing a 2028 presidential bid.
By Madison Columbo, Fox News
Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna may have gotten themselves into hot water after falsely accusing four men of being tied to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein in front of Congress.
The pair claimed that four names, which the Department of Justice redacted in the release of the files, were “powerful men” engaged in connected to Epstein, but those men were simply randomly selected for a police line up and had zero real connection to the case.
Massive and Khanna claim that the fault in the false accusations lies with Department of Justice officials, stating that the DOJ “illegally redacted names without explanation and then refused to give context for the names once they redacted.”
This week’s major developments feature a number of secondary explosions, including government censors, even more of Epstein's cronies, and the moronic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
This week’s major developments include a number of secondary explosions: government bureaucrats who censored free speech on internet platforms using NGOs as covers will be facing court action; the fallout from the boomeranging Epstein disclosures keep damaging the Democrats and their foreign allies; the media’s promotion of the moronic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez only served to highlight that she’s is ill-informed and too lazy to prepare for interviews; and DOGE and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent are making it very hard to keep hiding Democratic corruption.
Censors Face the Music
The CCDH (Center for Countering Digital Hate) is an NGO headed by Iman Ahmed that operates out of London and Washington, D.C. It was a key collaborator in the COVID-era censorship. Among other things, it tried to deplatform now secretary of HHS, Robert Kennedy, Jr. Ahmed encouraged comparison of COVID source and treatment skeptics to sexual predators, mass murderers, and a criminal network. Now Google, Meta, CCDH and the federal government are being sued in Florida for engaging in this stealth (using this NGO as a cover) government censorship.
Government censorship is facing consequences in Britain as well. Starmer is already under water and this week, per Matt Taibbi, he took another hit:
The Death Throes of Keir Starmer's Government A final report commissioned by Labour Together to spy on critical journalists has reached a Fleet Street newsroom... According to multiple sources, it falsely accuses Racket, journalist Paul Holden, two Sunday Times writers and other media figures of being the beneficiaries of a Russian hack. This report was then passed to the GCSC, a wing of GCHQ, the British analog to the NSA. Scandalous stuff, and couldn’t come at a worse time for Starmer.
The Fallout from the Epstein Files Continues
The biggest domestic hit was Kathryn Ruemmler. She was Epstein’s good friend and the Obama lawyer who vetted cabinet members and oversaw his ethics department. The Epstein disclosures establish that long after his conviction for sexual predation of minors, she flirted with Epstein, accepted lavish gifts from him, and served unofficially as his lawyer. She has just “resigned” from an extremely lucrative position at Goldman Sachs.
How Dumb Must the Press Be to Promote AOC?
Jeff Bezos clearly has not done enough to clean up the Washington Post. In advance of the Munich security conference, it published this drivel on X:
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are poised to deliver clashing visions of U.S. global leadership at the Munich Security Conference as European leaders recoil at America’s populist politics.”
In fact, Rubio received an unprecedented standing ovation while people who heard AOC were searching in vain for translations.
Larry O’Connor characterized her presentation:
“This is the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic at Chernobyl. "Um... you know... I think that, uh, uh.... this is such a... uh... you know, I... thi... think that this is uh... umm.... this is of course a... uh... A very longstanding, um.... policy."
You needn’t take his word for it. Here are representative samples of Rubio's and AOC’s comments in Munich.
The euphoria that followed the collapse of the Berlin Wall, “led us to a dangerous delusion. That we had entered quote the end of history. That every nation would now be a liberal democracy; that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood. That the rules-based global order, an overused term, would now replace the national interest, and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world. This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded human history, and it has cost us dearly.”
”Rubio gets a standing ovation after his speech at Munich Security Conference.”
Rubio: We care deeply about your future and ours. And if at times we disagree, our disagreements come from a profound sense of concern for Europe, to which we are connected -- not just economically, not just militarily. We are connected spiritually, and we are connected culturally. We want Europe to be strong. We believe that Europe must survive, because the two great wars of the last century serve as history’s constant reminder. Ultimately, our destiny is -- and will always be -- intertwined with yours. And I am here today to make it clear that America is charting the path toward a new century of prosperity -- and that, once again, we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends.”
“Deindustrialization was not inevitable. It was a conscious policy choice -- a decades-long economic undertaking that stripped our nations of their wealth and their strength. Mass migration is not -- was not -- and is not some fringe concern of little consequence. It was and continues to be a crisis, one that is transforming and destabilizing societies across the West.”
Rubio says Europe and U.S. belong together bound by "centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry" and that since WW2 mistakes have been made: outsourcing "our sovereignty to international institutions," imposing energy policies that impoverish our people "to appease a climate cult," and opening doors to mass migration "that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people... we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward to rebuild."
A video of Rubio’s full speech is available online.
As for AOC:
"What we are seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when too often in the west we look the other way for inconvenient populations, to act out these paradoxes."
From Judea Pearl:
Genocide enabler AOC pretends she knows something about the Middle East conflict. At Munich, She inverts cause-and-effect and Claims U.S. Aid to Israel ‘Enabled a Genocide’
Asked about her position on U.S. defense of Taiwan, she struggled and came up with this:
“Um, you know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is, this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said as she struggled to answer the question from moderator Francine Lacqua of Bloomberg TV.
“What we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point,” she added.
Reminds me of beauty contestants and their hope for world peace.
Still, it was good enough for the New York Times, which feeds fantasy narratives under the delusion that readers can’t easily access the original quotations on their own:
Foreign policy has never been a particular focus of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s, and she did not weigh in substantively on Friday on any international conflicts in her limited speaking time, which started with a microphone problem. She had a few stumbles, including a reference to a “Trans-Pacific partnership” that she later correctedon social media.
But she sounded strongest when drawing a direct contrast with Mr. Trump’s vision of the world.
“They are looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can turn into an age of authoritarians that can carve out a world where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can saber-rattle around Europe,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. She urged the United States to instead deepen its bonds with allies and recommit to global projects like the United States Agency for International Development, the aid agency Mr. Trump dismantled.
“The scary thing about today’s progressives is that, unlike in the past, it has no intellectual wing, because its intellectuals study gender and anti colonialism instead of political science or economics. It’s literally just give poor people wealthier people’s money.”
Some NGOs coming Clean on Gaza
Corrupted NGOs operating out of Gaza were given full credit for honesty by the BBC and many domestic news agencies. Now having poisoned the well, some are coming clean. Doctors Without Borders conceded this week that Hamas was, in fact, operating out of Nasser Hospital and withdrew from there.
Oxfam’s former CEO tardily confessed as well:
"We were disproportionately working around the crisis in Gaza.” Helima Begum, former CEO of Oxfam GB, revealed in a new Channel 4 News interview that Oxfam’s coverage of Gaza wasn’t neutral. She said the organization was constantly pushing to use the word ‘genocide’ before it had been proven and without evidence. Under those directives, it was very difficult to remain neutral and impartial on the conflict." One by one, “humanitarian organizations” are being exposed as either at worst complicit with Hamas, or at best completely biased.
New Tech and the Great American Fraud Hunt
Jeff Childers highlights how DOGE, new tech, and geniuses like DataRepublican are making it ever easier to catch corruption.
Beyond all reckoning, the goofy DOGE geniuses did it! It’s done. For six years, they guarded this data like the nuclear codes. Yesterday, DOGE slapped it on the internet, ribbon-wrapped for Valentine’s Day. DOGE -- whose death was obviously slightly exaggerated -- just dropped a tactical nuke on both the vaccine debate and welfare fraud -- and launched the biggest crowdsourcing project in human history. Yesterday, Axios ran the story headlined, “Elon Musk declares victory with Medicaid data release.”
He should declare victory. DOGE teams originally accessed the HHS data in February, over the backs of hysterical Democrats and enough lawsuits to keep a medium-sized law firm busy for a decade. Since then -- crickets. Until now. And it was the most Elon solution ever. They open-sourced HHS’s top-secret Medicaid claims database -- 11 gigabytes worth -- and dumped it on the internet before Democrats could even say “injunction.”
The release was framed as an anti-fraud move, surfing a wave of public outrage washing out of Minneapolis and Nick Shirley’s viral video. In making the announcement (on X, of course), DOGE-HHS pointed out, “For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota.” The space billionaire quickly chimed in. “Medicaid data has been open-sourced, so the level of fraud is easy to identify,” Musk wrote. “DOGE is not a department, it’s a state of mind,” he added. 🎶 Wastin’ away again in DOGE-eritaville. 🎶
The 11GB file can be searched or downloaded at OpenData HHS, and includes aggregated provider-level claims data, by billing code, by month, between 2018 and 2024 -- bookending the whole pandemic period. (Note -- It does not contain patient-level data.) It includes records from all Medicaid claims submitted by providers for reimbursement during that period.)
This is clearly not just a DOGE project. It is a coordinated effort across the Trump Administration. For example, timed with the release of the data, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a related new program. Not only have they open-sourced the research, but they have gamified it. Bessent said Treasury was setting up a website for people to report Medicare fraud -- and they’ll get up to 30% of whatever’s fined and recovered. [snip]
If the $1 trillion fraud estimate is even half right, the government just turned fraud detection into the world’s largest treasure hunt. Some kid in a bedroom with a laptop, a chatbot, and a case of energy drinks might make more money this year than most hedge fund managers…
Happy Hunting!
A new report accuses the social studies curriculum of the School District of Philadelphia as being anti-Semitic and anti-American due to the curriculum’s new focus on looking at history through oppressor and oppressed categories.
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis published a reportWednesday criticizing the SDP’s social studies curriculum for allegedly attacking Western values and institutions, specifically “capitalism, racism, and settler colonialism.” The report alleged the move toward “anti-racist, decolonizing curriculum” encouraged teachers to openly attack America, Zionism, and Israel in their classrooms, according to a Wednesday X post by CAMERA’s account.
The report alleged the SDP curriculum for World History gives little attention to prominent historical events such as the Ancient Greeks and Romans, Christian history, the Enlightenment, both World Wars, and the Holocaust. The curriculum instead focuses on “settler colonialism, displacement, genocide, how indigenous people view concepts like land and time, and the fight to preserve their language and culture,” according to the CAMERA report.
The curriculum dedicated an entire unit to critiquing capitalism and relayed an overall message to students that capitalism as an economic system is unjust, according to the report. The unit fails to criticize communism in a similar way, only mentioning the ideology in relation to capitalism or as a reaction to European colonialism, the report alleged.
A unit on terrorism presents students with “What is terrorism?” scenarios to illustrate the difficulty in defining the word, according to CAMERA. The scenarios include Israelis killing children in Palestinian refugee camps, Indian farmers threatening and attacking Monsanto, and a 1998 U.S. cruise missile destroying a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant while failing to mention prominent Islamic terror attacks, according to the report.
The same unit also provides students with 10 scenarios that guide the students to a predetermined conclusion that the U.S. sponsors terrorism, while two of the scenarios implicated Israel as doing the same, the report found.
The report highlighted SDP Superintendent Tony Watlington’s email statement related to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, which allegedly connected the attack to liberation movements.“We know this conflict connects to imperialism and other oppressive systems that we encourage educators to name and address with students,” Watlington said in an email the report referenced. “We know that people are dying, fighting for their lives and engaging in liberation movements to be heard and treated with dignity — and that they’ve been doing so for decades. And we know that all children deserve to be safe.”
Many SDP teachers belong to an organization called the Racial Justice Organizing Committee, which began as a subcommittee to a caucus inside the teacher’s union, the report alleged. The RJOC worked with the SDP to make Black Lives Matter Week of Action a district event and helped create the SDP DEI office, according to the report.The SDP’s anti-racist curriculum has its roots back to 2012, when Philadelphia Democrat Councilman Jim Kenney urged SDP to make “A People’s History of America” by Howard Zinn, a prominent leftist historian, required reading for SDP high school students, according to CAMERA. Kenney later served as the city’s mayor from 2016 to 2024.
While SDP never distributed the book to its high school students, SDP used Zinn’s ideological approach to history and posted resources on its website from the Zinn Education Project, according to the report.
The SDP acknowledged receipt of the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment but did not provide further commentParticipation Action Research Center for Organizing and Project48, two activist organizations that receive grant money from a group linked to leftist billionaire George Soros, created academic curricula steeped in leftist ideology that have found their ways into schools. The two activist groups orchestrate programs that blame “white nationalism” for anti-Semitism and ask attendees to consider the “bad habit” of whiteness.
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