UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) still plans on allowing the Iranian regime to lead its human rights forum later this week despite its abysmal record on women’s rights where they beat and jail women for not covering their hair. The forum also comes just weeks after Hamas, an Iranian-funded terrorist group slaughtered 1,400 Jews in southern Israel and took another 220 Jews hostage. The death count continues to climb as more hostages are confirmed dead by Israeli authorities. Hamas barbarians slaughtered 1,400 Jews on October 7, 2023, in the most horrific ways imaginable. Now Iran, the Hamas funders, will be lecturing the world on human rights. It really is time for the US to exit this sham organization.

USA - A truck driver in a viral video explained that poor infrastructure and inefficient, heavy electric batteries make it nearly impossible to switch semi-trucks and other large vehicles to fully electric. "This truck," Barber said. "A logging truck uses about two and a half megawatts of power per day. With extra capacity in the battery means you need a three-megawatt battery pack. The biggest one is like a Tesla semi, which is like a one-megawatt. So you need three megawatts to run an electric truck,” he went on.

YEMEN - In the morning of Tuesday, October 31, there were reports of a rocket attack on Israel from Yemen. Now there has been an official statement indicating that the country is officially entering into combat. The official spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree Anu, declared that his country officially declares war on Israel. The statement refers to the "third operation in support of the oppressed brethren in Palestine." The Yemeni spokesperson acknowledged that rockets were launched towards Israel, including a "significant number of ballistic and winged missiles." Additionally, drones were launched. The attacks targeted "enemy installations in occupied territories." Saree also noted that the strikes will continue until the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) cease operations in the Gaza sector.

USA - The 360-kiloton bomb will “credibly deter” potential threats, a top defense official has claimed. The US Defense Department has announced that it will develop a new version of the B61 nuclear bomb with 24 times the destructive power of the one dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II. According to a fact sheet accompanying the announcement, the bomb, dubbed the B61-13, will have a similar yield to the B61-7, which it is intended to replace. The B61-7 has a maximum yield of 360 kilotons, making it 24 times more powerful than ‘Little Boy’, the 15-kiloton bomb that leveled Hiroshima. The B61-7 is not the most powerful nuclear weapon in the US arsenal. That title goes to the B83, a thermonuclear gravity bomb with a yield of 1.2 megatons of TNT. The B83 replaced the even more powerful B53, which packed a 9-megaton punch and was retired in 2011.

USA - Pro-Hamas Demonstrations Prove We Need to Change Our Immigration Strategy. If the jihadist butchery of October 7 was monstrous, the spectacle of huge crowds applauding it was appalling. It shocked many people. It shouldn’t have. Many of us have spent years writing endlessly about the ugliness of Islamic ideology — notably the murderous hatred of Jews that is enshrined in the Koran, taught in the madrassas, and preached in the mosques — only to feel that our words were falling on deaf ears. Radical proposal: America not only needs to stop accepting sharia-following immigrants, but needs to identify and deport every immigrant in the country who has been observed celebrating Hamas terrorism. This is a proposal that, before October 7, would have sounded offensive to many American ears. Perhaps after October 7 it doesn’t sound quite so harsh. But if the truth offends, so be it. Germany considers backing Israel part of its atonement for the Holocaust perpetrated by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime in 1933-45. An estimated 120,000 Jews lived in the country as of 2021.

GERMANY - Berlin has a “historical responsibility” to protect Jews from hate crime, Robert Habeck has said. Too many people in Germany are anti-Semitic and this must change, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck has told Bild in response to the tabloid’s manifesto on what Berlin needs to do about millions of Muslim immigrants. “The extent of anti-Semitism is frightening,” said the head of the Greens and federal minister for the economy. “We have a historical responsibility and anti-Semitism, no matter what form it takes, must have no place in Germany.”

USA - Terrorist threats against the US reached “a whole other level” after the Hamas attack on Israel, FBI Director Christopher A Wray told Congress on Tuesday, saying the big players in terrorism have all renewed calls to attack America and its interests. He said the level of threats has heightened since President Biden took office, though US law enforcement is “better prepared to deal with them.” “The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of attack on Americans to a whole other level,” Mr Wray said. He said al Qaeda has issued its most specific call for attacks on the US in years, Islamic State leaders have ordered followers to attack Jewish communities, and Hezbollah is eyeing US targets in the Middle East. Iran, meanwhile, has pushed proxy attacks on US military bases.

MIDDLE EAST - "Israel is a country that has no place on our land," Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Lebanese news outlet LBCI news this week, according to a report and translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) released on Wednesday. "We must remove that country," he continued. Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified - "We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth. Because we have the determination... to fight."

GERMANY - Boris Pistorius cited the Russia-Ukraine conflict as well as the Middle East escalation as among the threats to the continent. A new war in Europe is no longer unthinkable and German society must adapt to this reality, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has claimed as he called for increased military spending. In an interview with Germany’s ZDF broadcaster on Sunday, Pistorius insisted that Germans “must again get used to the thought that the danger of a war in Europe could pose a threat.” Discussing Berlin’s defense capabilities, the minister called on his compatriots to “become war-capable.”

TURKEY - "Türkiye attaches great importance to its longstanding relations with friendly and allied Germany, which encompass political, economic, military, cultural, and humanitarian dimensions," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his message on the 10th anniversary of the Turkish-German University in Istanbul. Türkiye considers the more than 3 million of its people living in Germany as a "human bridge" between the two countries, he said. "The German citizens living in Türkiye and our growing commercial relations are the clearest indicators of our friendship," the Turkish president added. Stressing that Ankara and Berlin have always been in communication, cooperation, and solidarity throughout history, Erdogan said: "I sincerely believe that the friendly relations between Türkiye and Germany will become even stronger from now on.”

GAZA - As Israel continues to exchange rocket fire with Hamas fighters in Gaza, the IDF has officially entered an underground network of tunnels that serve as a respite for militants, terrorists, criminals, and others connected to Hamas. An Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip is underway in the most devastating war yet with Hamas after the group led an incursion into Israel on October 7th, massacring nearly 1,500 people and taking over 200 hostages, with the tunnels becoming one of the greatest threats to both Israeli troops and the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped inside the seaside enclave buried deep underground.

USA - Billionaire Leon Cooperman, who wears his Polish-Jewish heritage as a badge of pride and has made giving away his billions to make the world a better place a major part of his life, is angry. The 80-year-old estimates that he has given $50 million over the years to New York City’s Columbia University, where he earned a master’s degree in business administration in 1967. But he will give no more to the school due to the way some students and faculty celebrated the slaughter of Israeli civilians in the massacre of October 7 that claimed more than 1,400 lives. “These kids at the colleges have sh** for brains,” Cooperman told Fox Business host Claman last week. “We have one reliable ally in the Middle East. That’s Israel,” Cooperman said. “We only have one democracy in the Middle East. That’s Israel. And we have one economy tolerant of different people, gays, lesbians, etc. That’s Israel. So they have no idea what these young kids are doing."

ISRAEL - Elon Musk has promised to help humanitarian organizations to stay connected amid an information blackout in Gaza. Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Kahri has vowed that “Israel will use all means at its disposal to fight” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s planned provision of Starlink internet access to Gaza. “Hamas will use it for terrorist activities,” Kahri claimed in a post on X (formerly Twitter), adding that “there is no doubt about it, we know it, and Musk knows it.” In response, the tech billionaire said he is “not so naive,” explaining how the proposed scheme would work, while promising to “do a security check with both the US and Israeli governments before turning on even a single terminal.”

ISRAEL - A former Navy Seal and combat medic-turned-congressman says the aftermath of Hamas’ slaughter of Israeli civilians October 7 was the most horrific and barbaric sight he ever encountered. “This is ISIS times 1,000,” Representative Derrick Van Orden (Republican for Wisconsin), who toured Israel last week, told The Post, referring to the jihadists known for beheading hostages. “I can speak with authority. I’ve done multiple combat tours. People were slaughtered at a level not seen since the Holocaust,” he said of the attack on Israel, which killed at least 1,400 people, many civilians. “These Hamas terrorists — these savages, these beasts — they specifically targeted children. They were told to cut people’s arms and legs off …It’s gut wrenching,” Van Orden said. “People are trying to legitimize this.”

USA - It is happening again. All over America, borrowers are getting behind on their payments. In particular, subprime borrowers are having a very difficult time paying the bills. Does that ring a bell? That should, because the last time we witnessed anything like this was during the last financial crisis. When things start to go bad, those at the bottom of the economic food chain feel it first, and that is why the numbers that have been coming out lately are so alarming.