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Biden administration to restore aid to Palestinians

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BBC:US President Joe Biden’s administration will restore aid to the Palestinians that was cut by his predecessor Donald Trump and reopen diplomatic missions.

The acting US envoy to the UN, Richard Mills, told the Security Council that Mr Biden supported a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

To help advance one, he said, the US would “restore credible engagement”.

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Palestinians broke off contacts with Mr Trump’s administration and rejected his peace plan as biased towards Israel.

The plan, unveiled a year ago, envisaged recognising Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley, and Jerusalem remaining Israel’s “undivided capital”.

It also proposed the creation of a Palestinian state in about 70% of the West Bank, all of Gaza, and with its capital on the fringes of East Jerusalem. Read More

Twitter will allow some users to ‘fact-check’ tweets by others

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LifeSite News: Continuing the trend of Big Tech censorship, Twitter announced on Monday that it would begin allowing certain users of its social media platform to “fact-check” tweets, with the ability to add notes if they discern the content to be “misleading.”

To this end, Twitter has created Birdwatch, a “community-based approach to misinformation.” The users who are selected to be part of the community watch will be asked “to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context.”

Jack Dorsey and Twitter employees

Twitter envisages that the new initiative will enable them “to respond quickly when misleading information spreads.”

The program is currently in the pilot stage of development. Americans using Twitter who have not violated the platform’s “Rules and Policies” are eligible to join the program. While Twitter will be starting with 1,000 community users for now, the hope is to extend the program to 100,000 users.

Anybody can attempt to sign up for Birdwatch at the official website.

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Rally gains steam as market rebounds from worst sell-off in 3 months, Dow up 500 points

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CNBC: U.S. stocks climbed on Thursday following a sharp sell-off on Wall Street that saw the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffer their worst drop in three months.

The S&P 500 rose 1.4%, led by health care and utilities, while the blue-chip Dow gained 500 points, or 1.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.0%.

The Collapse of American Airlines Stock Has Created an Opportunity

Shares of American Airlines surged more than 15% after the carrier posted better-than-feared quarterly results. The company, the most-shorted U.S. airline, saw it shares keep ripping higher as hedge funds and other short sellers rushed to buy shares to cut their losses.

Wall Street suffered steep declines on Wednesday. Read More

Israel vaccinates imprisoned terrorists against the Coronavirus and the PA ‎spreads libels

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Palwatch: While the State of Israel has begun to vaccinate the Palestinian terrorists being held in ‎the Israeli prisons against the Coronavirus – and is doing so even before millions of ‎Israeli citizens have been vaccinated – the PA, for its part, is using the event to once ‎again raise the recurring libel that Israel is conducting medical experiments on the ‎terrorists.‎

The PA’s claims that Israel is neglecting the imprisoned terrorists, both medically and in ‎other ways, and conducting medical experiments on them are nothing new. This is a ‎libel renewed regularly by the PA, and intensifies whenever a terrorist dies of an ‎illness in prison.‎

It goes without saying that there is no basis to these claims.‎

The vaccination of the terrorist prisoners against the Coronavirus is no different. Ever ‎since the vaccine arrived in Israel, the PA and its agents have been demanding that ‎Israel not only vaccinate the terrorist prisoners but also agree to international ‎supervision over the process due to baseless concern that Israel will take advantage of ‎the vaccination to conduct “medical experiments.” ‎ Read More

Remember When Joe Biden Said “You Can’t Legislate By Executive Orders Unless You’re A Dictator”

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Zero Hedge: During a town hall broadcast by ABC News just over a fortnight before the election, Joe Biden was discussing his tax proposals when he declared that in order to see them implemented he would need votes and approval from Congress.

First Images Of Israeli F-35 Stealth Jets Operating Within Lebanese Airspace

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Zero Hedge: For the first time, two Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth jets were spotted over Lebanon.

A reporter posted the images via Lebanese television station, Al-Manar TV. The fighter jets were initially believed to be McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles, but after careful review, they appear to be Israeli Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth jets.

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According to Al Jazeera English, Israeli jets have carried out some of their biggest bombing missions in Syria, apparently striking Iranian targets over the last month. The bombardment has shocked Lebanese residents as Israeli jets use the country’s air space to access Syria.

“Israel does not violate any bilateral agreement with any regional power if its planes invade Lebanese airspace, whereas in Syria it has an agreement with Russia and it’s more complicated for them,” Sami Nader, a Lebanese political analyst, told Al Jazeera.

“On the one hand, Israel is violating Lebanese sovereignty,” Nader added. “But on the other Lebanon has not adhered to its international commitments either, because according to the UN resolutions, Hezbollah is supposed to be unarmed but it very much has its weapons.“

Now it becomes clear why the Israeli stealth jets were spotted over Lebanon. Read More

GameStop rally is warning that market bubbles have gone mad

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New York Post: In the 1630s, it was tulips. In the 1990s, it was Netscape and Pets.com. Later, as we all know, it was housing. Today, the warning sign flashing “danger,” signaling that the stock market has lost its mind, is GameStop.

GameStop is a video game retailer that has been priced at about $3 to $10 a share for much of the year. But in the past few days, individual investors have driven the share price above $300.

Many of these buyers are using Robinhood, an app that lets anyone trade stocks without a commission. Because of the pandemic, people have plenty of time on their hands, and are looking to make cash, and it’s fueled a spectacular rise in individual day trading.

Why are they buying ­GameStop? Well, some of the commentators on ­“WallStreetBets,” the Reddit ­message board driving the frenzy, believe it’s a good company.

But mostly they’re out to hurt the big guys. Read More

San Francisco School Board Removes 44 Names from Schools: Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson

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Breitbart: Schools in San Francisco, California, will be stripped of names honoring famous American leaders deemed unworthy because of a connection to slavery or other unsavory ties, including Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson.

A Denver high school gave parents the option to keep their kids out of a Black History Month assembly

John Muir, Francis Scott Key, and Catholic Priest Junipero Serra are also on the list.

In all, 44 school will be renamed, even as critics of the decision cite the committee tasked with picking the schools did not receive enough input from historians and a lack knowledge about the current school names.

“In one instance, the committee didn’t know whether Roosevelt Middle School was named after Theodore or Franklin Delano,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

And despite concerns that the city has more important issues to address, including the coronavirus pandemic, rampant drug overdoses, and an ongoing homelessness epidemic, the city’s school board believes it can handle multiple issues, including erasing history from the halls of education. Read More

Joe Biden to Ban New Fracking Leases on Federal Lands Despite Promise Not To

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Breitbart: President Joe Biden will announce a ban on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters on Wednesday, according to several reports.

Biden’s decision bars any new fracking on federal lands despite his campaign promise not to ban the practice.

“I am not banning fracking. Let me say that again: I am not banning fracking,” Biden said in August 2020 during the presidential campaign. “No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.” Read More

Massachusetts regulator says GameStop speculation is a danger to whole market as TD Ameritrade restricts trading

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CNBC: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin told CNBC the GameStop trading frenzy represents a risk to the U.S. stock market.

  • “The marketplace should be a place where risk is taken, but not reckless risk,” the securities regulator said.
  • Brokerages such as TD Ameritrade have placed restrictions on trading activity involving GameStop and AMC Entertainment.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 450 points, or 1.5%, on Wednesday and the benchmark S&P 500 slid nearly 2% as Wall Street digests a slew of corporate earnings and the speculative trading frenzy. Read More