FREEDOMIST INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR
Presents
FIA WEEKDAY
THURSDAY OCTOBER 19, 2023
editor Paul Collier
A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
with breaking news added at the time of publication (released weekdays by 10AM eastern time).
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(News recap from 6a October 18 to 6a October 19)
“(Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. “ – 1 Corinthians 13:6
THE “BOOK BAN” TROPE, A REAL INSURRECTION, DNC WALMART, FOG OF HOSPITAL-BOMBING WAR, CARJACKED SOROS DA
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TOP STORIES
“BOOK BAN” IS A DOG WHISTLE FOR NONCE ADVOCACY – A Colorado Springs School District Library contains books that “teach” children to find adults to have sex with. Parents want these books removed. Meanwhile, the far left’s “book ban” narrative continues as they pressure Scholastic Books to not remove sexually explicit content targeting kids from their catalogue. GO DEEPER
HAMAS FANS LAY SIEGE TO U.S. CAPITOL; NO CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED – While the Progmericans (which are no Americans at all) continue to ree-ree over the January 6 protests of an illegal Mass Mailer election that they claim was LITERALLY worse than 9/11, they cheer the storming of the U.S. capitol by “Americans” protesting resistance to the genocidal death cult known as Hamas. The “protestors,” (actual insurrectionists) illegally stormed the Capitol Rotunda and ripped down a pro-Israel sign in front of Representative Randy Weber’s (R-TX) office. GO DEEPER
DEMOCRATS MOVE TO PROTECT WALMART FROM EXPENSIVE CREDIT CARD NETWORKS AT YOUR EXPENSE – Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is advancing a bill that will allow merchants to use any network they want to complete your credit card transaction with them. This bill will have the net effect of allowing merchants to use much-less secure networks, even foreign networks, to complete their transaction, saving them lots of money but putting you at risk of credit card fraud they themselves won’t be held accountable for. GO DEEPER
WHO BOMBED GAZA HOSPITAL? U.S. INTELLIGENCE SAYS HAMAS DID – The bombing of a Gaza Hospital that has left hundreds dead, including at least scores of children, has led Hamas supporters to up their violent assaults around the world, with Hamas itself leading the call for yet another day of violence, day of “rage.”
However, the claims Israeli missile strikes were the cause have been countered by the IDF as well as U.S. intelligence. Some even claim there was no bombing in the first place. The truth behind the bombing will most likely not be known for years after the conflict is over.
FAR-LEFT SOROS-FUNDED DA GETS CARJACKED – Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams was carjacked at gunpoint Monday, October 16, 2023, with his elderly mother present in the car. His district has seen violent crimes spike under his reign due to his soft-on-crime policies, the same kind of policies his colleagues, Soros-backed DAs, are executing in an anti-American revolutionary assault aimed at destabilizing the republic and replacing it with a Soros-friendly oligarchy where children are the playthings of the state and Christianity is deemed illegal because it “hates the gays.”
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HEADLINES
TRENDING (M-F)
BIDEN APPROVAL GOES DOWN AS TRUMP GOES UP – A new CNBC poll shows Trump is now leading Biden by four points while Biden’s approval rating has reached a second-all-time low on the poll at 37 percent. The poll also shows Biden’s disapproval rating is up to 58 percent. That is his highest disapproval rating ever for this poll. He has a 32 percent approval rating on the economy and a 31 percent approval rating on foreign policy.
ADL INTERN CAUGHT PROTECTING HAMAS TERRORISTS – If you don’t think the Jewish Anti-Defamation League actually hates the Jews, well, meet Yazmeen Deyhimi, a former ADL intern who was caught ripping down posters featuring pictures of hostages taken by the anti-Jewish genocidal death cult Hamas. It took some internet sleuthing, but the identities of the two women in the viral video were tracked down, exposing the ADL as another Orwellian-named far-left institution.
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WORLD (M-F)
CATALAN SEPARATIST AMNESTY MIGHT BE REQUIRED FOR LEFT TO HOLD ON TO SPAIN – Against the opposition from within its own camp, the ruling far left party of Spain might have no choice but to offer amnesty to thousands of Catalan separatists, including their former leader Carles Puigdemont, if they are to stay in power. Efforts to claim a majority government without including the Catalan faction have failed. The election resulted in a conservative victory, but one that did not give them a majority, leaving the left with a better chance to form a coalition government than the right.
POLAND’S LEFT NUDGES CLOSER TO TAKING POWER – The ruling conservative party of Poland won the most votes of any party in their national election but will still most likely lose the government to a coalition of self-hating leftist parties that promise to destroy Polish sovereignty and return it to the oppressive clutches of the EU.
The leftists are calling on the President to give them first right to form a coalition as if they would ever offer the same “courtesy” to them. The ruling party has an outside chance of holding on to power, but it seems unlikely as the far-left coalition has a much easier path to majority than they do.
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U.S. POLITICS (M-F)
STILL NO SPEAKER AS 22 REPUBLICANS NOW REJECT THEIR OWN NOMINEE – A coalition of deficit-spenders, blue district freshman, and Ukraine zealots are preventing the Republican party from uniting behind Jim Jordan, as he has failed a second vote, with another vote scheduled for later today. Redstate flushed out the opposition to Jim Jordan and found three main groups it calls the “Appropriators,” the “Defense Hawks,” and freshman congressmembers for Biden-won districts.
The moves show how corrupt the party is, preventing a man from becoming the next speaker that 80 percent of Republicans support, a figure far higher than the most recently selected GOP House Speakers could ever achieve. The GOP has fallen long ago to DNC insurrection from within, and these 22 members belong in the anti-American party, not the party whose very name alleges to hold up what America is, a republic, not a communist “democracy.”
JACK SMITH TRIES TO HIDE EVIDENCE FROM TEAM TRUMP – Lawfare DNC-CCP Assassin Agent Jack Smith has tried to prevent the Trump legal team from seeing the top secret documents they allege Donald Trump mishandled, but Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is having none of it, cancelling Smith’s efforts to bottleneck access to the documents and coming up with a process of review that allows the team to view these documents in a “timely” manner.
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FINANCE (M & TH)
FORD HEAD SUGGESTS STRIKE WILL END THE COMPANY, AND THAT MIGHT BE EXACTLY WHAT THE FAR-LEFT CONTROLLED UAW WANTS – Ford’s executive chairman, Bill Ford, is pleading with the striking UAW workers to come back to work or else find there is no work left for them, and no company in America will fill the void. He said the push by the UAW for what he calculates as unreasonable demands will bankrupt the company. He stated, “It’s the absolute lifeblood of our company. And if we lose it, we will lose to the competition. America loses. Many jobs will be lost.”
As the head of the UAW, Shawn Fain, is a far left fanatic who has American hate built into his ideology, appeals to the good of the American whole will do nothing to touch the ears or heart of this radical wanna-be Marxist revolutionary. Workers having collective bargaining is good, unions being allowed to exist that openly support anti-American Marxism is not.
APPLE VIRTUE SIGNALS ANTIFA AT HOME WHILE EMBRACING IT IN CHINA – Another far-left embracing “woke” corporation, Apple, likes to spend millions funding antifa actions through its “Racial Equity and Injustice fund” and other anti-American fascist organizations that claim to be against the thing they represent while supporting overt fascism abroad.
Tim Cook is in meetings with China’s top Communist Party members in Beijing, working to make a deal that will allow Apple help the CCP in exchange for 30 pieces of silver it can use to continue to support anti-American revolutionary organizations at home.
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CULTURE (M & TH)
OHIOANS REJECT GOD AND CHOOSE BA’AL IN LATEST PRO-ABORTION POLL – America’s rejection of God’s law can be seen in its continued majority support of abortion, the cult of child sacrifice disguised as “choice.” Ohioans, in a poll from Baldwin Wallace University shows 58 percent of Ohioans support an amendment to their constitution enshrining child sacrifice disguised as “choice.”
The amendment would be created if a voter referendum called Issue 1 gets a simple majority vote, making Ohio a Democracy and not a Republic, where the rights of the minority are protected against the will of the mob, a mob hellbent on living no-commit sexually permissive lifestyles with no consequences save to the innocent lives they take. The DNC-CCP is the Babylonian punishment on a land that has long ago rejected the God that blessed them in the first place.
COLORADO LAW MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO SAVE BABIES FROM ABORTION – A Pregnancy Center run by a Catholic Health Center Clinic, Bella Health and Wellness, is suing the state of Colorado over a law that prevents it from saving unborn babies that were assaulted by an abortion pill. The center can give women who change their minds about murdering their unborn child hormone blockers that can reverse the effects of the abortion pill, saving the child’s life. The state of Colorado will kill you if you attempt to save that child’s life and resist the arrest that will come if you violate their murder-protecting law.
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MORE NEWS LINKS:
ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP
ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agitprop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agitprop intended to undermine American liberty values. The agitprop is not always revealed in the headlines alone.
Flailing House GOP needs a Plan D. It might involve Democrats – Erie News Now – www.erienewsnow.com
MSNBC Analyst: Media ‘Breathlessly, Word For Word’ Repeated Hamas Propaganda – www.newsbusters.org
THIS AGAIN? CNN Reporter Insists Pro-Hams Riots Have ‘Been Mostly Peaceful’ – www.newsbusters.org
Watchdog Finds Big Brands Running Ads On Anti-LGBTQ+ YouTube Channels 10/17/2023 – www.mediapost.com
Corporate Media Are Regurgitating Hamas Propaganda – thefederalist.com
The Far Right Has Gone Global, and So Has Its Conspiratorial Racism – jacobin.com
Israel’s Western Backers Are Still Running Interference for Netanyahu’s War Crimes – jacobin.com
Protests across the world over relentless Israeli bombardment of Gaza – World – www.dawn.com
Trump previews a crackdown on press freedoms with CBS News rant – www.msnbc.com
Part of Donald Trump’s base thinks he is fighting a spiritual war – www.economist.com
More than 900 Birmingham area students take pledge against gun violence – abc3340.com
Cornell Professor Celebrates ‘Exhilarating’ ‘Energizing’ Hamas Attack – HotAir – hotair.com
Column: When the Media’s Humility Died in Darkness – www.newsbusters.org
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MORE TRENDING
Forecasters Say Nor’Easter Brewing for This Weekend at Jersey Shore – brick.shorebeat.com
How the Jim Jordan, House speaker drama has hurt Republicans in polls – www.washingtonpost.com
Sam Bankman-Fried Dined With Eric Adams at NYC Mayor’s Go-To Italian Restaurant – www.coindesk.com
DOD Bankrolls Abortion But Slashes Troops’ Overseas Living Costs – thefederalist.com
U.S. State Department Official Resigns Over Israel Military Aid – www.wsj.com
3 children die following New Orleans East house fire – www.wdsu.com
Millennials, Gen Z Mistakenly Bet on Inheritance From Boomer Parents – www.businessinsider.com
North Carolina mom charged with murder in death of 5-month-old – myfox8.com
Exploding teddy bear leads to guns, drugs bust at San Bernardino home – abc7.com
Driver in ‘rocking’ car was having sex with stuffed animal: cops – nypost.com
California man detonates explosive-filled teddy bear in parking lot – www.foxnews.com
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MORE WORLD
Egypt rejects displacement of Palestinians into Sinai – www.reuters.com
Egypt proposes Europe takes in Gaza refugees – en.globes.co.il
US SecDef calls on Hezbollah to cease attacks on Israel – www.timesofisrael.com
Iraqi Militias Claim Credit for Failed Drone Attack on U.S. Troops – RedState – redstate.com
Putin calls blast at Gaza hospital a catastrophe, calls for negotiations – www.channelnewsasia.com
Russia’s Lavrov arrives in North Korea as cooperation deepens – www.reuters.com
Cambodian govt nixes party application twice, with no clear reason – www.rfa.org
Junta Boss Trying to Sow Division in Myanmar’s Oldest Ethnic Armed Group – www.irrawaddy.com
Analysis: Islamic State strikes in western Uganda – www.longwarjournal.org
Guinea-Bissau capital without power over unpaid bill to Turkey’s Karpowership – www.bbc.com
US vetoes UN Security Council action on Israel, Gaza – www.reuters.com
Japan asks Iran to talk to Hamas and try to calm tensions with Israel – japantoday.com
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MORE U.S. POLITICS
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Destroying Donald Trump’s Election Chances, Poll Says – www.huffpost.com
Trump Won’t Say Silence, Legal Team to Appeal Gag Order – loyalconservatives.com
Senate to hold Jack Lew confirmation hearing for ambassador to Israel – www.nbcnews.com
Dem Gov Launches Nonprofit Aimed At Codifying Abortion Nationwide – dailycaller.com
The Lookout: What You Should Know About California’s New Gun Laws – sacobserver.com
GOP Lawmaker Decides Against Running for Reelection – conservativebrief.com
Incumbent U.S. Sens. Fischer, Ricketts raise record funds as challengers lag – www.knopnews2.com
Nebraska Don Bacon breaks ranks in Speaker of the House vote – www.ketv.com
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MORE FINANCE
What Budget Crisis? The U.S. Will Borrow Even More as Global Tensions Grow. – www.barrons.com
Fitch places Israel on rating watch negative – en.globes.co.il
Ford Faces $1 Billion in Fines Under Biden’s Stricter Fuel Economy Rules – www.bloomberg.com
Bearish investors flock to cash, sour on economy, poll shows – financialpost.com
BREAKING NEWS: Choice Hotels Offers to Buy Wyndham for Nearly $8B – www.connectcre.com
Netflix stock surges after it announces price hikes and a boost in subscribers – ktvz.com
Nvidia stock falls after U.S. announces new chip export restrictions – www.cnbc.com
Fed’s Goolsbee says declining inflation is a trend and not a ‘blip’ – www.morningstar.com
Americans’ Top Stress-Inducing Financial Issue Is a Blow to ‘Bidenomics’ Narrative – townhall.com
South Africa to overtake Nigeria as Africa’s biggest economy – IMF – Vanguard – www.vanguardngr.com
Rite Aid Rushes Sale of Unit Over Objection of Mystery Suitor – www.bloomberg.com
Fitch Downgrades Rite Aid’s IDR to ‘D’ – Fitch Ratings – www.fitchratings.com
Bank of America profit rises 10% – finance.yahoo.com
10-Year U.S. Treasury Yield Tops 4.9% – www.wsj.com
After sabotaging strike, Unifor rams through sellout contract at GM Canada – www.wsws.org
European Stocks Gain on Diplomatic Efforts; Polish Market Jumps – news.yahoo.com
The Walt Disney Company Reveals ESPN’s Financial Data – barrettsportsmedia.com
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MORE CULTURE
Michigan Democrats Advance Bill to Implement Abortions Up to Birth – www.lifenews.com
Christian Worship Center Demolished in India, 18 Pastors Arrested: ‘We Are Targeted’ – www.cbn.com
This 92-Year-Old Woman Prays Every Day at an Abortion Center to Save Babies – www.lifenews.com
Pastor Could Go to Jail for Holding Pro-Life Sign Outside Abortion Biz – www.lifenews.com
San Antonio sued over Reproductive Justice Fund – www.kens5.com
Is New Twist in Josh Kruger Murder a Reflection of Dems’ “Pedo Problem”? – thenewamerican.com
Mother Rejects Abortion After Seeing Ultrasound of Her Unborn Baby – www.lifenews.com
Why LGBTQIA+ Adults Face Higher Rates of Heart Disease – www.livestrong.com
Donald Trump Runs Campaign Ads Celebrating Overturning Roe v. Wade – www.lifenews.com
UVA Students Protest Event Featuring Author of Book on ‘Trans Epidemic’ – www.breitbart.com
Study examines how religious faith bolsters family hope and unity – phys.org
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Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command. – 1 Chronicles 12:32
FIA Weekday is a link aggregation, news analysis, and editorial commentary report designed to give the public an understanding of the times, compiled and reported on from an American Christian biblical perspective.
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‘“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. ‘ Ezekiel 3:17-19
