An internationally acclaimed British barrister blasted the International Criminal Court after it issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Natasha Hausdorff, an expert on international law, foreign affairs, and national security policy, recently appeared on Dan Senor&#8217;s Call Me Back podcast.
She noted that the warrant was “principally an allegation of intentional starvation, which included a host of false allegations &#8230; my organization, UK Lawyers for Israel, went through that public summary line by line and in a further submission to the court, and a letter to the prosecutor proved, I should say, line by line, that every phrase of every sentence was, in fact, false.”
Hausdorff explained that when the Rome Statute — the treaty that established the ICC — was drafted, “a particular political agenda started to creep in,” adding that the agenda caused both the United States and Israel to refuse to join the ICC. She further explained the Rome Statute was manipulated so that the presence of Jews in the Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria could be considered a crime.
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“Bashar Assad, under his regime over the last, call it, you know, 10 to 15 years, there has been something in the order of over 600,000 Syrians slaughtered,” Senor noted. “Talk about a genocide, an orchestrated genocide with the use of chemical weapons and the complete shelling and destruction of whole Syrian towns, largely Sunni Muslim towns and villages, and some two million Syrians who have been displaced; some internally, but most of them externally displaced. You have talked about forced starvations. We can talk about what famines are like in places like North Korea. We can talk about the wave of human rights abuses in countries like Iran. So just take Kim Jong-un, Bashar Assad, and the Supreme Leader of Iran, Khamenei, as the three examples. The ICC has never, not once, I don&#8217;t think, targeted any of those leaders.”
“We are seeing a vicious cycle of the misreporting in the media and the false narratives, the blood libels, ultimately,” Hausdorff stated. “This is the modern blood libel, to accuse Israelis of killing Palestinian children while Jews were accused of killing Christian children in the Middle Ages in pursuit of their blood. This is no different, except that it now has the modern acceptable face of the hatred of the Jewish state. And I think that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s become so pervasive and it&#8217;s so effective at fueling this weaponization of international law against the Jewish state.”
“Members of the ICC have said, ‘We&#8217;re not going to participate. And we&#8217;re not going to comply,’ I think also chips away at the credibility of the institution,” Senor stated. “I know the U. S, with the new administration coming in and the new Congress coming in, are talking about taking some very strong action against the ICC. We could wind up a year from now with the ICC being a shell of itself.”
“All of these legal terms, genocide, apartheid, all of the Arab world is Jew-free,” Hausdorff noted. “And yet, this allegation is directed at Israel, where there is a 20% minority of Arabs that live as equal citizens. I mean, all of this is utterly extraordinary. But, outside of these exchanges that we&#8217;re having, it is becoming the received wisdom. The ICC isn&#8217;t launching this initiative in a vacuum.”
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A courageous woman from Kenya who serves as the United Nations’ Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide was fired after she stood up to the Israel-haters in the U.N. and refused to declare that Israel has committed “genocide” in its war against Hamas, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“Alice Nderitu said Israel’s campaign in Gaza doesn’t meet the definition of genocide. She was fired,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-ns-anti-israel-genocide-purge-c8feef1a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Monday. “On Wednesday the U.N. will refuse to renew the contract of Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Kenyan who is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide.”
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“The UN long ago lost credibility as a moral arbiter, but its assault on Israel is hitting a new low. On Wednesday the U.N. will refuse to renew the contract of Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Kenyan who is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide.” <a href="https://t.co/6uV6ELCJnU">https://t.co/6uV6ELCJnU</a>
&mdash; Fredric U. Dicker (@fud31) <a href="https://twitter.com/fud31/status/1861223440373416045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Nderitu’s office released a guidance paper in 2022 on “when to refer to a situation as ‘genocide.’” She warned that U.N. officials should “adhere to the correct usage” when referring to genocide, noting “its frequent misuse in referring to large scale, grave crimes committed against particular populations.” She pointed out that the term was originally conceived by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944 and meant eliminating entire ethnic groups.
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“As a legal matter, establishing a pattern of violence as a genocide requires demonstrating intent,” the WSJ editorial explained, adding, “Israel’s campaign of self-defense doesn’t qualify. The war against Hamas has had many deaths, but Israel’s strategy is intended to dismantle a terrorist regime, not eliminate an ethnic group. The Jewish state has gone to great lengths to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties, even as Hamas uses civilians as shields so their deaths can be used as propaganda.”
But the anti-Israel contingents at the U.N. are determined to smear Israel with the charge of genocide. Thus the U.N. Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices issued a report earlier this month accusing Israel of “the possibility of genocide in Gaza and an apartheid system in the West Bank.”
“The committee is taking its cues from Austrian Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, who has spent the past year assailing Israel,” the WSJ editorial board noted. “His claims are often echoed by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Israel’s critics. &#8230; Ms. Nderitu serves at the pleasure of Mr. Gutterres, and Mr. Turk and the anti-Israel faction want her out. “
The Journal received a statement from a U.N. spokesman saying, “Alice Nderitu is leaving the U.N. as her contract is expiring.”
“Yet the Secretary-General has the authority to extend Ms. Nderitu’s contract, and U.N. contracts are often renewed when their terms expire. Ms. Nderitu’s removal is a political choice,” the board posited.
“Ms. Nderitu may be out, but her refusal to endorse a lie in service of a political agenda has been a profile in courage. Can anyone with integrity survive at the U.N.? “ the board concluded.

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An astonishing report details how the Biden administration <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/22/us-news/feds-blew-267m-on-misinformation-grants-under-biden-much-on-covid-report-finds-as-trump-vows-to-ban-term/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent $267 million</a> since 2021 on research grants whose proposals mentioned “misinformation.”
The report was issued by OpenTheBooks, a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 as a transparency group. Ironically, in 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama <a href="https://www.fsrs.gov/#:~:text=The%20Federal%20Funding%20Accountability%20and,wasteful%20spending%20in%20the%20government.">co-sponsored</a> the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, which permitted public access to federal spending. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) also co-sponsored the bill, later serving as the honorary chairman of OpenTheBooks before his <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/in-loving-memory-of-open-the-books-honorary-chairman-dr-tom-coburn/">passing</a> in 2020.
Of the $267 million, “The feds have spent at least $127 million in grants specifically targeted to study the spread of “misinformation” &#8212; or to help people ‘overcome’ it, so to speak &#8212; by persuading them to go along with Covid-related public health recommendations and mandates,” the <a href="https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/taxpayer-funded-censorship-how-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> states.
Further, a methodology note in the report states, “This likely does not cover all grants given to combat misinformation, because transaction descriptions may not include this keyword, but the trend in spending illustrates a sudden explosion of interest in misinformation starting in 2021.” The report adds that the Department of Health and Human Services issued grants totaling $185 million, the National Science Foundation total was $65 million, and the Stated Department $12 million.
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Last month, a <a href="https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/We_Can_Do_This_NIH_PR_Campaign_Report_PUBLIC_82616d81eb.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the House Committee on Energy &amp; Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations noted that in August 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services initiated the “We Can Do This” campaign — a campaign that ultimately cost more than $900 million — which was meant to affect the public’s response to the COVID pandemic. “The Campaign came to serve as a critical vehicle for disseminating the Biden-Harris administration’s messaging on mask usage, social distancing, vaccine effectiveness, the risks COVID-19 posed to children, and how to reopen schools, businesses, and civil society,” the report stated.
“It appears the administration most concerned with ‘misinformation’ itself trafficked in misinformation: on masks, on risks to children, on social distancing, and on the need to vaccinate even infants,” the OpenTheBooks report asserted.
In December 2022, then-former President Donald Trump <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/trump-vows-to-ban-feds-from-id-ing-domestic-misinformation-if-elected/">stated</a> he would &#8220;prohibit federal policing of lawful domestic speech&#8221; upon becoming the 47th president: “Within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person, to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as ‘mis’- or dis-information.’ And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship — directly or indirectly — whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.”

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A new study suggests evidence that life may have existed on Mars billions of years ago.
Researchers at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, examined a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 7034—nicknamed “Black Beauty”—found in the Sahara Desert in Morocco in 2011. They discovered that a fragment of the meteorite included a tiny zircon crystal. That crystal had thin layers of aluminum and iron neatly arranged “like that of an onion,” NewScientist <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2457640-meteorite-crystals-show-evidence-of-hot-water-on-ancient-mars/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“These kinds of zircons are only known to form where hydrothermal processes, hot water systems, are active during magmatism,” Aaron Cavosie, co-author of the paper, explained. “The hot water facilitates transportation of the iron, aluminium and sodium into the crystal as it grows, layer by layer.” He added of the meteorite, “It’s a wonderful buffet of Martian history, a mixture of very old and very young rocks. But many of the fragments in it are among the oldest pieces of rock from Mars.”
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“What we found is by analyzing some of the minerals in this meteorite is evidence for hydrothermal activity in the crust of Mars about 4.45 billion years ago. This is only one hundred billion years after the planet first formed. And so this is a meteorite that’s from an area in the southern highlands of Mars, which is known to be very ancient,” Dr. Jack Gillespie, the lead author of the paper, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNEz60iKLaE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.
“Micro- to nanoscale microscopy of a unique impact-shocked zircon from the regolith breccia meteorite NWA7034 reveals textural and chemical indicators of hydrothermal conditions on Mars during crystallization 4.45 billion years ago,” the <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq3694" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abstract</a> for the study states. “Element distribution maps show sharp alternating zoning defined by marked enrichments of non-formula elements, such as Fe, Al, and Na, and ubiquitous nanoscale magnetite inclusions. The zoning and inclusions are similar to those reported in terrestrial zircon crystallizing in the presence of aqueous fluid and are here interpreted as primary features recording zircon growth from exsolved hydrous fluids at ~4.45 billion years.”
“At such an ancient age of 4.5 billion years, we are placed at the timing of when Mars formed,” Eva Scheller of Stanford University said. “So this would mark evidence of some of the earliest behaviour of water on Mars.”
SpaceX owner Elon Musk has said he envisions a time when humankind will colonize Mars and create a self-sustaining community there. “Musk envisions a Martian metropolis housing up to one million residents by 2054, relying on advanced technologies and innovative solutions to overcome the Red Planet&#8217;s harsh environment,” MountBonnell <a href="https://www.mountbonnell.info/boca-chica-blastoff/elon-musks-vision-for-a-self-sustaining-city-on-mars#:~:text=Vision%20of%20Elon%20Musk,cargo%20to%20the%20Red%20Planet." target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. 
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Wow, they really don’t get it. 
Mars is critical to the long-term survival of consciousness. 
Also, I’m not going to ask any venture capitalists for money. I realize that it makes no sense as an investment. That’s why I’m gathering resources. <a href="https://t.co/XVCpHKlusD">https://t.co/XVCpHKlusD</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1860322925783445956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Musk has also stated that attempting to colonize Mars would enable humans to develop advanced technology.
&#8220;Even if we fail at creating a Mars colony that can grow without continuous support from Earth, the absurdly ambitious nature of the goal nonetheless results in the creation of alien-level technology that is crushingly better than competitors who merely aim for Earth orbit,&#8221; Musk recently posted on X.
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Even if we fail at creating a Mars colony that can grow without continuous support from Earth, the absurdly ambitious nature of the goal nonetheless results in the creation of alien-level technology that is crushingly better than competitors who merely aim for Earth orbit. <a href="https://t.co/GF4iYrSzVg">https://t.co/GF4iYrSzVg</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1860428575016419392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Denver Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston said there would be mass public resistance if President-elect Donald Trump implemented a mass deportation effort of illegal immigrants from federal forces, likening it to a “Tiananmen Square moment.”
On June 3, 1989, after weeks of student moments in Beijing, China, the Chinese communist government declared martial law and sent troops to Tiananmen Square. Government troops entered central Beijing on June 4; many people — estimates range from hundreds to thousands — were killed, including demonstrators, bystanders, and soldiers.
“About 42,000 migrants have arrived in the Denver metro area since December 2022, about 1,800 of which have now been authorized to work as a result of city-led efforts,” Common Sense Institute Colorado <a href="applewebdata://926BF661-1120-4327-B61A-CF2D43490CEE/v">reported</a> in May 2024. “The Common Sense Institute estimates city, education, and healthcare organizations have spent an estimated $216 million to $340 million on the response to feed, clothe, shelter, and provide educational and healthcare services. &#8230; The uncompensated care to migrants in Denver area hospitals is estimated to cost $123 million to providers for care received at emergency departments. &#8230; To date, the City of Denver has spent an estimated $70 million in migrant response goods and services.”
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Asked by <a href="https://denverite.com/2024/11/20/denver-immigration-policies-donald-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Denverite</a> if pressure from the incoming Trump administration would change how Denver treats immigrants, Johnston answered, “The short answer is, we won&#8217;t change that, because those are one of our core values. And we&#8217;re not going to sell out those values to anyone. We&#8217;re not going to be bullied into changing them. &#8230; I think we are gonna continue to be a welcoming, open, big-hearted city that&#8217;s gonna stand by our values.”
Johnston insisted that taking the right to work away from illegal immigrants would “cripple the American economy.” He said of the idea that Trump might elect to use federal forces to round up illegal immigrants, “I do not believe that our governor is going to let them use our [Colorado] National Guard at the state level. Unless they were planning on bringing national guards mobilized from Texas or Alabama to come invade Colorado, I don’t know where they would find the forces to begin to do that.”
“More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston continued. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?” You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.”
Johnston may have conflated the Tiananmen Square massacre, where there was no evidence of someone confronting soldiers with a rose, to a moment on October 21, 1967, when roughly 100,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the war in Vietnam. Then a Magnum photographer, Marc Riboud documented proceedings. A famed <a href="https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/politics/behind-the-image-protesting-vietnam-war-with-flower/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photograph</a> showed 17-year-old Jan Rose Kasmir holding a chrysanthemum flower up to a group of National Guard soldiers.

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On Tuesday, House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Dan Bishop (R-NC) ripped into the Biden administration for its policies at the U.S. southwest border that have devastated children.
“We are here today to examine how the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies have allowed dangerous cartels, criminals, and human traffickers to prey upon the world’s most vulnerable people – unaccompanied children,” Higgins began.
“As the administration’s border crisis continues to spiral out of control, the number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the Southwest border has skyrocketed, turning the situation at the border into a devastating humanitarian catastrophe,” he continued. “In fact, the Biden-Harris administration has encountered nearly 530,000 alien children at the border to date. In comparison, the previous Trump administration had less than half that number”.
“America, ask yourself, ‘Why are so many children arriving at the border alone and afraid and sometimes in the hands of unconfirmed ‘relatives’ with no apparent familial indicators?’” he urged. “These children show up with arbitrary phone numbers and addresses scribbled across their arms as if they are a package arriving at somebody’s doorstep. Some children arrive at the border drugged, preventing law enforcement authorities from questioning them about those they are traveling with. This is a moral outrage.”
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“The Biden-Harris administration has touted that they have the most ‘humanitarian’ border policies in history,” he noted. “Yet, there is nothing humanitarian about enabling the cartels to exploit, abuse, and profit from vulnerable children!”
Bishop added:
<blockquote>While CBP is usually the first point of contact for UACs (unaccompanied alien children) who cross the border, the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is primarily responsible for the care and placement of these children. Much of this work is done in partnership with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that provide shelter and services.
Under the Biden-Harris Administration, these NGOs received a windfall of taxpayer money through ORR, whose budget for its unaccompanied children program was 6.9 billion dollars in FY 2023. &#8230;
What did we spend all that money on? The Biden-Harris Administration placed political aims above the welfare of unaccompanied migrant children who crossed, or were trafficked across, the southern border, releasing UACs with inadequate vetting and follow-up to avoid the bad optics of crowded facilities. &#8230;
32,000 children didn’t show up for their immigration court hearings. Those hearing dates are one of the only opportunities that ICE must engage with unaccompanied children and observe signs of trafficking or exploitation.
What happened to those 32,000 children? We don’t know. We can’t reach them.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Over 290,000 have been released by HHS without a notice to appear for an immigration court date. There is no way for ICE to monitor the location and status of these migrant children or verify their safety. </blockquote>
The Biden administration was so focused on moving people through the system as fast as it could that it failed to ensure the safety of the children being released. Many of these children already suffered at the hands of criminal cartels on the treacherous journey to the border, only to find themselves exploited again after leaving government custody.
The human cost of this crisis is simply heartbreaking and tragic.

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On Tuesday, a Texas father who has spent years fighting his ex-wife’s attempt to trans their son said a California judge had sealed the boy&#8217;s fate, allowing the mother to go forward with “gender-affirming care” that would enable her &#8220;authority to castrate my son.”
“I lost all parental rights to my sons. Goodbye, boys. Perhaps, we will meet when you are adults. California Judge Juhas gave my ex-wife authority to castrate my son, James,” Jeff Younger posted on X.
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I lost all parental rights to my sons. Goodbye, boys. Perhaps, we will meet when you are adults.
California Judge Juhas gave my ex-wife authority to castrate my son, James.
All contact with my boys must be supervised. I won&#8217;t do that. I send letters and gifts to my sons. My ex… <a href="https://t.co/N7XKj168RV">pic.twitter.com/N7XKj168RV</a>
— Jeff Younger (@JeffYoungerShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffYoungerShow/status/1858974777228284235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“My trial in California is finished,” he continued. “The Judge may not like me posting photos of my sons, but so many of you have prayed for and supported my sons. You have a right to see who these young men are. Thank you. I did my best to stop the transgender castration of my son. My expert witness, @Miriam_Grossman, did a superb job explaining the harms of transgender ‘treatments’ on kids.”
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My trial in California is finished.
The Judge may not like me posting photos of my sons, but so many of you have prayed for and supported my sons. You have a right to see who these young men are. Thank you.
I did my best to stop the transgender castration of my son.
My… <a href="https://t.co/12361dj5io">pic.twitter.com/12361dj5io</a>
— Jeff Younger (@JeffYoungerShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffYoungerShow/status/1855979468730376670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Younger has been battling his ex-wife, pediatrician Anne Georgulas, for custody of their son James, who is now 12, since 2018, when Georgulas filed a restraining order to prevent Younger from entering James’ school and referring to his son as male. Younger‘s marriage had been annulled in 2016. Georgulas claimed James wanted to be called “Luna” and <a href="//0AF28F9C-1AF7-4372-8299-CD1CE143DA1F/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowed her son</a> to paint his nails and wear dresses, while Younger said the boy <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=A+Texas+man+says+his+7-year-old+isn%E2%80%99t+transgender.+Now+his+custody+fight+has+reached+the+governor%E2%80%99s+office.&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acted like a boy</a> when with his father.
In 2019, Dallas County District Judge Kim Cooks <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/parents-in-fight-over-childs-gender-identity-awarded-joint-custody/">granted</a> both parents full custody. However, in 2020, Judge Mary Brown ruled that Georgulas should be granted full custody, although “gender-affirming care” would still have to be approved by Younger. “Georgulas has the exclusive right to consent to James’ medical procedures except for hormone suppression therapy, puberty blockers, or transgender reassignment surgery,” The Texan <a href="https://thetexan.news/state/legislature/87th-session/court-strips-james-younger-s-father-of-custody-but-says-permission-needed-for-puberty-blockers/article_40a2ce4d-fc80-543c-851c-9dcbbae29bd8.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
In February 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an <a href="https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/global/KP-0401.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion</a> in which he stated, “The medical evidence does not demonstrate that children and adolescents from engaging in these irreversible sterilization procedures,&#8221; adding that the “&#8217;sex change’ procedures and treatments enumerated above, when performed on children, can legally constitute child abuse.” Those procedures and treatments included sterilization through castration, orchiectomy, and penectomy, among others.
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In September 2022, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> Senate Bill 107, which made California a “sanctuary state” for children seeking “gender-affirming care.” In November 2022, Georgulas moved to California.
In February, Georgulas filed a motion in Los Angeles County Superior Court “aiming to dissolve the protective order preventing her from subjecting James to ‘gender-affirming care,’” The Daily Signal <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/07/california-courts-sealed-my-case-hide-corruption-ex-wife-seeks-castrate-my-son-father-warns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In July 2024, Younger claimed California Judge Michelle Kazadi “illegally sealed my case with no public access,” as The Daily Signal added.
“Judge Shelley Kaufman’s court has misrouted orders to the wrong address,” Younger stated. “Judge Mark Juhas denied me access to crucial evidence by setting a too-early trial date. I can’t even get an independent medical exam of my son. The corrupt Los Angeles courts sealed my case to hide their corruption as they castrate my son.”
The Daily Signal reported that Georgulas had quoted psychologist Brigid Mariko Conn’s statements that James “is interested” in “puberty blockers,” estrogen, and “bottom surgery.” “Bottom surgery” refers to the removal of his penis and testicles.
Younger cited Dr. Miriam Grossman, who was featured in The Daily Wire’s “What Is a Woman,” who said James is not suffering from gender dysphoria and that “gender-affirming care” is not an effective treatment for gender dysphoria.

Judge Mark Juhas in Department 43 of the Civil Courthouse on Hill Street, Wednesday December 13 200

‘Goodbye, Boys’: Texas Dad Says California Judge Gave Ex-Wife ‘Authority To Castrate My Son’

California

Gavin Newsom

gender-affirming care

Social Issues

Texas

Transgender

On Monday, in a bipartisan move, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ban contracts with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL). President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for national security advisor, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) introduced the bill.
“The BOLIVAR Act compliments existing sanctions by prohibiting the U.S. government from contracting with any person that has business operations with the illegitimate government of Nicolas Maduro, as well as any successor government of Venezuela not recognized as legitimate by the United States,” Waltz <a href="https://waltz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=952" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted.</a>
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“Venezuela is in crisis due to the illegitimate, authoritarian rule and the Marxist policies of Nicolas Maduro and his Caracas cartel,” Waltz stated. “Maduro and his cronies have mocked and ignored the electoral will of the Venezuelan people, inciting violent action against the democratic opposition. Our policy must be based on solidarity with the brave activists that strive to break the shackles of oppression and not provide aid and comfort to their oppressors. We must maintain existing sanctions against the regime and seek to expand sanctions to minimize Maduro’s resources to abuse the freedoms and prosperity of the Venezuelan people.  This legislation sends a clear and powerful message to Maduro, as well as other dictators around the world, that there will be no appeasement, there will be no tolerance, there will be no reward for their rogue, illegal actions. &#8230; I urge the Senate to quickly pass this important bill and send it to the President’s desk for his signature.”
In September, Maduro ordered the arrest of presidential opponent Edmundo González Urrutia on grounds he had claimed that Maduro stole the election. Prosecutors charged him with &#8220;&#8216;usurpation&#8217; of public functions, &#8216;forgery&#8217; of a public document, incitement to disobedience, sabotage, and &#8216;association&#8217; with organized crime and financiers of &#8216;terrorism,'&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/venezuelan-prosecutors-seek-arrest-of-opposition-presidential-candidate-official-ee005e09" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AFP</a>.
“The head of an executive agency may not enter into a contract for the procurement of goods or services with any person that the head of an executive agency determines, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, knowingly engages in significant business operations with an authority of the Government of Venezuela that is not recognized as the legitimate Government of Venezuela by the United States,” H.R. 25 <a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr825/BILLS-118hr825ih.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>.

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House Votes To Ban Doing Business With Socialist Maduro’s Venezuela Regime

Mike Waltz

National Security

Nicolas Maduro

Venezuela

On Sunday, far-Left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — who <a href="https://x.com/YWNReporter/status/1441110231094759432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">appeared to be crying</a> in September 2021 when the House of Representatives passed funding for the Iron Dome defense system that keeps Israel safe — got slammed on social media after she attacked the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), saying it pushed a “wildly unpopular agenda.”
In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez made a series of inflammatory statements against Israel, saying she absolutely&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50075/watch-ocasio-cortez-agrees-you-can-absolutely-have-molly-prince">agreed</a> with a host that Israel was “very, very criminal” and “very, very unjust, ” as the host claimed there were &#8220;white supremacist Jews.&#8221; She later tried to justify violence from the Palestinian people against Israel, saying: “I believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people, because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized — once someone doesn&#8217;t have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot, right? ” In 2018, Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://x.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1019702821032218624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">said</a> she learned about Israel from the anti-Israel groups Jewish Voices for Peace and J Street as well as “Palestinian rights organizations.”
Last May, Ocasio-Cortez posted a statement on X supporting the Biden administration&#8217;s decision to put a hold on some military aid headed for Israel. “The United States has an obligation to uphold its own laws and to respect human rights globally. Amidst the Israeli gov’s siege on Gaza, blocking humanitarian aid, and threats on Rafah, withholding US military aid is a major development towards ceasefire, ” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
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The United States has an obligation to uphold its own laws and to respect human rights globally.
Amidst the Israeli gov’s siege on Gaza, blocking humanitarian aid, and threats on Rafah, withholding US military aid is a major development towards ceasefire.<a href="https://t.co/MY2WFn94rb">https://t.co/MY2WFn94rb</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1787151463275233326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X: “If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by a special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats then they should be discussing AIPAC.”
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If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by a special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats then they should be discussing AIPAC <a href="https://t.co/2o22CMMtqw">https://t.co/2o22CMMtqw</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1858275868336152645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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AIPAC pointed out that Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s former teammates on the far-Left Congressional Squad had wound up getting rejected from Congress:
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Fact check on what Democratic voters find popular vs unpopular, <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>. <a href="https://t.co/hwCTqBS0SS">https://t.co/hwCTqBS0SS</a> <a href="https://t.co/CQjZIp4Kil">pic.twitter.com/CQjZIp4Kil</a>
— AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱🎗️ (@AIPAC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AIPAC/status/1858284190984216731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It was also noted that a Harvard/Harris poll found more than 80% of Americans supported Israel over Hamas.
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“Wildly unpopular” says <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>
Here’s a Harvard-Harris poll showing that the vast majority of Americans support Israel <a href="https://t.co/keyzkBcioL">https://t.co/keyzkBcioL</a> <a href="https://t.co/xrDN0kOkK0">pic.twitter.com/xrDN0kOkK0</a>
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1858279575098163226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Comedian Michael Rapaport bluntly called Ocaasio-Cortez a “race con artist.”
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You’re reason 57 why the Kamala &amp; the Dems lost. 
You’re a liar,unqualified &amp; race con artist. <a href="https://t.co/Oj6nVbm0hx">https://t.co/Oj6nVbm0hx</a>
— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelRapaport/status/1858291416402710880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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If your response to an election where your party lost ground with every minority group in the country &#8211; losing the popular vote and losing every swing State &#8211; and you blame it all on a pro Israel lobby group, you are unquestionably an Antisemite. <a href="https://t.co/CQrwQesUId">https://t.co/CQrwQesUId</a>
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) <a href="https://twitter.com/Joelmpetlin/status/1858299012769886596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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AOC is blaming the Jews for the Democrats losing the House, Senate, and White House.
Color us shocked. <a href="https://t.co/60uBhZXjMS">pic.twitter.com/60uBhZXjMS</a>
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1858335345965707551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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And if you are calling being pro-Israel a &#8220;wildly unpopular agenda,&#8221; you have learned nothing from this last election loss. The American people REJECTED the far left&#8217;s bs claims against Israel. <a href="https://t.co/2dy4w3GPPP">https://t.co/2dy4w3GPPP</a>
— Rep. Esther Panitch (@epanitch) <a href="https://twitter.com/epanitch/status/1858307116416614609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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AOC Slammed After Saying Pro-Israel Group’s Agenda ‘Wildly Unpopular’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Senator John Thune (R-SD) told current Senate Majority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that he should warn the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it could be hit with sanctions if it issues arrest warrants against Israeli officials — or Thune would make it a top priority for the incoming Senate.
“If the ICC and its prosecutor do not reverse their outrageous and unlawful actions to pursue legislation, as the House has already done on a bipartisan basis, the Senate should immediately pass sanctions legislation, as the House has already done on a bipartisan basis,” Thune wrote. “If Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republican majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make this – and other supportive legislation – a top priority in the next Congress.”
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If the ICC and its prosecutor do not reverse their outrageous and unlawful actions to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, the Senate should immediately pass sanctions legislation, as the House has already done on a bipartisan basis. If Majority Leader Schumer does…
&mdash; Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnThune/status/1858265616073015757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The House passed a bill last June to impose sanctions on officials at the International Criminal Court after ICC prosecutors equated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister to Hamas terrorist leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh, asking for arrest warrants for all five on grounds of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC accused Netanyahu and Gallant of “systematically depriving civilians in Gaza of ‘objects indispensable to human survival,’” Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-war-crimes-are-israel-hamas-accused-one-year-2024-10-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported,</a> adding, “Israel is not a member of the ICC and does not recognize its jurisdiction.”
President Joe Biden’s advisers said he was “strongly opposed” to the bill.
By October 23, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), tired of Schumer stalling on the issue, <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2024/10/house-speaker-pressures-schumer-to-bring-up-legislation-sanctioning-the-icc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to Schumer, “In a bipartisan vote, the House passed H.R.8282, The Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, to sanction employees of the ICC. President Biden condemned the ICC, and you yourself called the ICC’s decision ‘reprehensible’ and promised to negotiate on a sanctions package. Unfortunately, after five months, neither your statements nor those from the Biden-Harris White House have materialized into action.”
As far as the accusations against Israel from the ICC, there have been repeated reports of Hamas stealing humanitarian aid that Israel has let through to Gaza.  In May, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stated, “The convoys from the Jordanian military that brought the aid in unloaded the aid in Gaza. It was then picked up by a humanitarian implementer for distribution inside Gaza. That aid was intercepted and diverted by Hamas on the ground in Gaza.” “The supplies were the first to be shipped from Jordan to the Palestinian enclave through a newly reopened border crossing authorized by Israel,” The Washington Times <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/3/us-says-hamas-stole-aid-gaza-sent-through-newly-op/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
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In September, the Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/tags/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “Hamas terrorists have confiscated so much humanitarian aid that the terror group is struggling to find space in warehouses to store all of it, according to intercepted communications between Hamas operatives that were played during an episode of N12&#8217;s ‘Ulpan Shishi’ on Friday.”
Earlier this month, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/10/world-news/hamas-steals-humanitarian-aid-trucks-from-gaza-strip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported,</a> “Hamas terrorists were captured on video taking control of 47 of 100 aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
“We let all those trucks come in, and Hamas’s strategy is to steal, hoard and gouge. That’s what they do,” Netanyahu said in September. “They steal the food. They charge exorbitant prices from the Gazans. And that’s how they continue, [or] they hope to continue, to survive. And we have to take that away from them.”

Thune Warns Schumer: Stop Stalling On ICC Attacking Israel

Chuck Schumer

John Thune

Pennsylvania Democrats are openly defying a judge&#8217;s orders ahead of a recount in the state&#8217;s senate race in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver victory to incumbent Senator Bob Casey.
Casey has yet to concede to Republican Dave McCormick, who was winning by more than 26,000 votes as of Thursday, with 99% of the vote counted. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court <a href="https://penncapital-star.com/election-2024/pennsylvania-election-chief-asks-state-supreme-court-to-end-mail-ballot-uncertainty-before-election-day/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> an effort to count mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates on the outer envelopes. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped Democrats in the Bucks County Office of Commissioners from pushing for exactly that.
On Thursday, Gene DiGirolamo, the sole Republican on the three-person panel, introduced a motion to reject the attempt to count what the GOP <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/mccormick-campaign-sues-bucks-county-165814957.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> “noncompliant” ballots. In response, <a href="https://bucksdemocrats.org/who-we-are/our-elected-officials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrat</a> Diane Marseglia, the chair of the commission, dismissed the proposal out of hand.
“Not going to second that, mostly because I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter in this country and people violate laws any time they want,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So for me, if I violate this law it’s because I want the court to pay attention to it.”
“With all due respect, our law department’s goal is to stay out of any kind of court because they’re supposed to do that, but we might — some of us might want them to go to court on this,” Marseglia said in response.
“I think the law department’s advice has been consistent, at least since I’ve been here: to follow the current state of the law,” Bucks County Deputy Solicitor Daniel Grieser responded. “And I know that that’s changed in the last three years. But the current state of the law in this area is that these, y’know, unless it’s signed by the voter in two places, that we shouldn’t count these. That’s the current state of the law. And that’s been consistently our advice is to follow the law at the time.”
Marseglia and the second Democrat on the commission, Robert Harvie, voted to count the disqualified ballots.
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They also discussed how in 2020 they counted ballots that only had one signature, rather than two, which is now illegal. <a href="https://t.co/wkKuGfR3Ei">pic.twitter.com/wkKuGfR3Ei</a>
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Republicans have <a href="https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2024/11/14/david-mccormick-bob-casey-senate-bucks-county-lawsuit-ballot-count-2024-election/76293859007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> a Bucks County Common Pleas judge to reverse the Bucks County Board of Commissioners decision. “The board’s baffling decision not to enforce the date requirement and to count noncompliant ballots thus directly contravenes binding Pennsylvania law,” the GOP’s appeal of the Board’s decision stated.
“As of 4 p.m. on Thursday, Casey received 48.53% of the vote with 3,359,086 votes and McCormick had 48.90% with 3,385,115,” CBS News <a href="//B5BC2102-431C-4457-8496-C0D2C629A8E3/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding, “Counties must begin the recount by Nov. 20, the announcement says. Counties must finish the recount by noon on Nov. 26 and report the results to the secretary of the commonwealth by Nov. 27 at 12 p.m.”
In Pennsylvania, a recount is triggered if a candidate wins by less than a 0.5% margin — but former election officials say a recount &#8220;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-recounts-winners-change-4d8a5000d49f48ee1361a1288cad3b99" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA">might not change the outcome</a> by more than a few hundred votes,” the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/casey-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-recount-f0da8720c540fc1b10328da37135a1ee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Senator-Elect McCormick&#8217;s lead is insurmountable, which the AP made clear in calling the race,” McCormick spokesperson Elizabeth Gregory stated. “A recount will be a waste of time and taxpayer money, but it is Senator Casey&#8217;s prerogative. Senator-Elect McCormick knows what it&#8217;s like to lose an election and is sure Senator Casey will eventually reach the right conclusion.”

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‘People Violate Laws Any Time They Want’: Dem Election Officials State Willingness To Defy Law Ahead Of Recount

Bob Casey

Dave McCormick

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Pennsylvania

Senate

President-elect Donald Trump has announced his choice to be the next Secretary of the Interior: two-term North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum.
“If confirmed by the Senate, Burgum would manage the more than 500 million acres of federal land as well as the fossil fuels and minerals that lie beneath the surface — making him a critical component in Trump’s promise to boost oil and gas output,” POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/14/doug-burgum-interior-secretary-trump-00188590">noted</a>, adding, “North Dakota is the third-largest oil-producing state in the country and also has more than 4 million acres under federal oversight.”
“He’s going to be announced tomorrow for a very big position,” Trump <a href="//5886F98F-01C5-4A75-BE67-0801B0F82ABE/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at Mar-a-Lago Thursday night. “We’re going to do things with energy and with land, Interior, that is going to be incredible. &#8230; He’s going to head the Department of the Interior and he’s going to be fantastic. &#8230; We’ll make the formal announcement tomorrow.”
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Last May, Trump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/climate/trump-burgum-for-interior-secretary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Burgum, who ran for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination but <a href="//5886F98F-01C5-4A75-BE67-0801B0F82ABE/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped out</a> before the Iowa caucuses and <a href="//5886F98F-01C5-4A75-BE67-0801B0F82ABE/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> Trump, “probably knows more about energy than anybody I know.”
In July 2023, after the Biden administration’s federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed regulating onshore oil and gas leases on federal lands, increasing the minimum lease bond to 15 times the previous amount, reducing areas available for leasing, and raising the minimum bid amount to five times the previous amount, Burgum <a href="https://www.governor.nd.gov/news/burgum-proposed-blm-rule-oil-and-gas-leasing-federal-lands-would-discourage-us-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>:
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These proposed changes are just the latest in the Biden administration’s long list of misguided policies that discourage domestic energy production. By raisings costs for oil and gas producers who want to develop minerals on federal lands, BLM will drive away producers and drive up energy costs for consumers, who will be forced to pay higher prices for fuels imported from countries that don’t produce energy as cleanly as the United States. We should be selling energy to our friends and allies instead of buying it from our adversaries and putting our country’s economy, energy security and national security at risk.
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Even some environmental activists praised the choice of Burgum as Interior Secretary; Collin O’Mara, CEO of the environmental group National Wildlife Federation, stated, “I think he’ll be a very strong champion of the energy dominance agenda. But in North Dakota, he tried to find some level of balance to make sure that important conservation areas, important areas for tourism, weren’t harmed in the process.”

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