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[Regnum] Former SHABAS (Israel Prison Service) officer Shalom Nagar, who carried out the death sentence of a Nazi criminal, has died at the age of 86.This was reported on November 27 by The Jerusalem Post.
Shalom Nagar was born in Yemen and immigrated to Israel with his brother in 1949. He served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army and after completing his service became a prison guard in the city of Ramla. It was Shalom Nagar who was chosen by a prison officer to carry out the death sentence of SS-Obersturmbannführer Eichmann in 1962.
Eichmann was a key figure in the management and logistics of transporting Jewish deportees to ghettos and concentration camps. He has been called one of the architects of the Holocaust. After World War II, Eichmann, hiding his SS affiliation, managed to emigrate to Argentina and lived under the name Ricardo Klement. In 1960, Israeli intelligence detained him and managed to bring him out of Argentina for trial.
In Jerusalem in 1961, a trial began, as a result of which Eichmann was charged with 15 charges, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out in 1962, and the Nazi's ashes were scattered at sea. According to the publication, this was the first trial in history to be broadcast on television, and the only official execution in Israel.
The identity of the executioner who carried out the sentence was kept a closely guarded secret.
"I had dreams where I always felt like Eichmann was stalking me. This went on for a year. Then it all stopped, as if nothing had happened. I kept the secret for 30 years," said Shalom Nagar. He worked in the Israeli prison system until 1986, and after retiring, he turned to religion.
[FoxNews] Some North Carolina residents struggling to rebuild homes due to government regulations or lack of funds
As the holiday season begins, residents of western North Carolina who lost everything during Hurricane Helene want their fellow Americans to keep them in mind.
Some people in hard-hit areas like Swannanoa and Burnsville, or in hard-to-reach places nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, are still living in tents or RVs where their homes once stood.
"We've been delivering campers," Robert Pearson, a member of the Louisiana-based rescue organization Cajun Navy 2016, told Fox News Digital. "We delivered one just an hour before we're doing this interview, and we've got two more we're going to deliver this afternoon. But people have been donating campers to us, and we've been doing whatever we can to try to help. We have a list of people that need help."
Cajun Navy 2016 is a group of civilian volunteers that formed after Hurricane Katrina to help those in need during and after disasters. They have had volunteers on the ground, including Pearson, since Sept. 27, the day Helene struck the North Carolina mountains.
When we first got here, it was just utter chaos. There was a complete infrastructure failure. There were no phones, no electric, no water," Pearson said. "And I'll be honest with you, nobody knew what to do. We had wound up in a little town called Clyde, and they had their fire department destroyed. Like, just one whole section of town just had gotten wiped out there. And we stayed there."
The town of Montreat offered Cajun Navy 2016 a building to house 30 beds, and when volunteers filled all 30 beds, Montreat gave them another building for more beds, Pearson said.
People are still without cars, heating or internet in some places.
"Just looking at it in person [versus] seeing the pictures, it's just hard to imagine how bad it is. … I went through Katrina, and this is Katrina-like to me," Pearson said. "The damage is every bit as bad. It's just different because it's in the mountains, 100 yards this way, everything's fine. But 20 miles down this river, it's just utter chaos."
Some can't rebuild due to government regulations; others can rebuild but don't have the money. Some are still without vehicles, and others have not found new work after losing their jobs. Bridges across towns and counties were destroyed and will take time to replace.
Pearson recalled delivering a camper to one family after their house was damaged by about 18 inches of flooding during Helene.
"So, definitely salvageable. Everything could be fixed. But they got this big sticker on the door that says the house has to be razed," Pearson said. "So … there was a mortgage on the house. It's not covered by homeowner's insurance because the river took it out. They didn't have flood insurance because it wasn't a flood zone. … They owe a mortgage. They don't have a house they can live in. What are they going to do? I don't have an answer for that."
Pearson delivered another camper to a family of five, including three children, who lost their house in a mudslide.
"I don't think they had insurance. This was a 200-year-old home that had been handed down to the family for years and years. They're just not well-off people, but great people. And they're running off of generators because they don't have a house to hook [a] power pole to," Pearson said.
Counties that were dependent on the fall tourism season lost millions of dollars in revenue. Buncombe County officials are estimating a 70% loss in revenue for businesses reliant on tourism and hospitality in the final quarter of 2024, according to WFAE.
Volunteer organizations like Samaritan's Purse, as well as churches and ministries from across the United States, still have boots on the ground in various towns around western North Carolina. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) also has employees still deployed in the area.
FEMA recently came under fire after former supervisor Marn'i Washington instructed the agency’s relief workers to avoid reaching out to homeowners in Florida who had Trump signs displayed outside their homes after Hurricane Milton, which struck the U.S. about two weeks after Helene. Washington appeared on "Fox News @ Night" on Nov. 14 and said she was "simply executing" orders from her superiors to avoid political encounters that could be hostile.
FEMA did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital when asked to comment for this story.
In North Carolina, FEMA has so far approved "$722 million to support survivors with housing repairs, personal property replacement and other essential recovery efforts" and $1.1 billion for debris removal and other emergency protective services, according to a press release from the agency. FEMA has also deployed more than 4,800 personnel to the affected areas.
Americans from across the country have been donating everything from RVs to cars to tree-cutting and roof repair services to those in need. But what western North Carolina needs most now is money, according to those in the area.
Coree Loffink, a resident of Bakersville, told Fox News Digital that locals are struggling to get their day-to-day necessities because some large grocery stores are still closed and certain roads remain inaccessible.
"A lot of people are still living out of campers or looking for campers to live out of because they're … living out of their cars or living in neighbors' houses," Loffink said. "But yesterday is going to be our last day of warm weather after this. … The high next week on Tuesday is 28 degrees, the low is like 14. So it is going to be a struggle for having heating sources out here."
Even two months after Helene, while many roads and properties look better than they did after Sept. 27, "there's still so much struggle and so much personal struggle and individual struggle from family to family," Loffink said.
"It's going to be a problem here for at least a few years for rebuilding, you know, creating jobs, just people trying to figure out their lives." she said. "Do they want to stay? Do they want to go? If they stay, they have to try and rebuild. It's just there's a lot of complicated and stressful things that have popped up since the hurricane for families here."
Loffink said it's been hard to drive by the same destruction every day that cost some people their lives.
"There's people out here who just cry every day because it's so upsetting," Loffink said. "I mean, you drive down Green Mountain and you see all the destruction out there. … There are some houses, and they got completely washed away in the Green River, and there's a cross there. Those families did not make it, and it's really unfortunate, but they had nowhere to go. And you still [are] going to see that stuff every day when you're driving around."
Volunteers are organizing hot Thanksgiving meals or delivering boxes of Thanksgiving food directly to people to cook themselves at home.
An Asheville-based charity called Chances for Children Carolinas, which was created by a group of children as a Destination Imagination Club service project to help other children receive scholarships for extracurricular activities, partnered with Grateful Village to host a holiday fundraiser for Helene survivors.
Volunteers with Chances for Children Carolinas organized a holiday pop-up store with donated giftable items that locals could purchase with vouchers, and 100% of the proceeds go directly back to families in need in western North Carolina.
Founder Mary Hudson Harrelson and her mother, Anna Harrelson, said they wanted to create a way for people who lost everything to purchase gifts with dignity rather than collect free donations. Harrelson described the people of western North Carolina as resilient and said even those who have lost homes and vehicles are still volunteering to help their neighbors.
Chances for Children Carolinas is collecting monetary donations through its website, chancesforchildrencarolinas.com, which they put directly into the hands of those in need who apply for assistance.
[Breitbart] President-elect Donald Trump is being honored with a larger-than-life two-story tall bronze statue, which is being shaped to capture his iconic defiance in the wake of the assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July.
Breitbart News has obtained exclusive photos of the statue, which is still under construction. Backers behind the project hope to unveil the finished product at Trump’s inauguration.
Crypto investors with the project $PATRIOT commissioned Ohio artist Alan Cottrill to create the bronze statue after Trump was nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. Trump’s pro-crypto policies also helped motivate backers to support the project, Breitbart News has learned.
Cottrill is working to capture Trump’s courage and defiance immediately after being shot. In iconic fashion, Trump rose with a bloodied face and pumped his fist as he repeatedly shouted, “Fight!” to his supporters before U.S. Secret Service agents rushed him off stage.
Cottrill, who also created the Thomas Edison statue in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, said in a statement shared with Breitbart News that this is the largest figure he has ever set out to create.
“I’ve sculpted and cast 400 life size or larger bronze statues across America and the Patriot Statue is our largest single figure to date,” he said.
Along with forging the Edison statue in 2016, Cottrill has also fashioned statues of several other presidents for universities and museums.
“The Patriot Statue of Donald J. Trump was our largest and most controversial undertaking, especially considering the scale and relevance of the event in Butler that took place,” Cottrill said.
Dustin Stockton, who helped lead the project, detailed the process that Cottrill is undertaking to forge the statue.
First, Cottrill sculpts a clay mold, and then individual bronze pieces are shaped based on the mold. The bronze pieces are then welded together and buffed out, creating the final product. Stockton estimated the statue would be completed by the New Year.
“The statue had to be Trumpian. It had to be larger than life and over the top,” Stockton told Breitbart News.
He noted that he has spoken with several members of the Inaugural Committee about the logistics of unveiling it at the inauguration.
After the unveiling, the statue will embark on a year-long cross-country tour on the back of an 18-wheeler with a crane, Stockton said.
Once the tour is completed, those involved with the project hope the statue can be displayed in Butler before ultimately being placed forever at the eventual Trump Presidential Library.
“It’s been one hell of a ride the last decade; the PATRIOT project, statue, and tour is our way of claiming how these incredible times are remembered by history,” Stockton said.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan has announced that the necessary budget for implementing the measles vaccination campaign for the next year has been secured.
On Tuesday, November 26, Noor Jalal Jalali, the acting head of the Ministry of Public Health, held an online meeting with representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO), Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI ), UNICEF, and other vaccination partners.
The Ministry emphasized that the nationwide measles vaccination campaign will begin next year across the country.
Previously, the World Health Organization expressed concern over the increase in measles cases in Afghanistan, noting that the number of cases this year has surpassed the previous year’s figures.
According to WHO statistics, at least 160 deaths related to measles have been reported in Afghanistan in 2024.
Humanitarian organizations have repeatedly expressed concern over the lack of access to healthcare services for Afghan citizens, especially in rural areas.
The WHO reported that, as of the start of 2024, a total of 36,618 measles cases have been registered in Afghanistan.
While the government’s efforts to address the measles outbreak through vaccination are promising, addressing the larger issue of healthcare access—particularly in remote areas—remains a significant challenge.
The success of the vaccination campaign will depend not only on local government efforts but also on continued international support and collaboration with organizations like WHO and UNICEF to ensure that vaccines reach every corner of Afghanistan.
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[KhaamaPress] Rooters reported that Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... ’s team, the elected president of the United States, is discussing the possibility of reviving direct negotiations with Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , the leader of North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... On Tuesday, November 26, Rooters reported that many people in Trump’s team believe direct talks with Kim Jong-un are the best way to improve relations.
According to the report, discussions among Trump’s close circle on this issue are ongoing, but Trump has not yet made a final decision.
During his first term as president, Trump initiated direct negotiations with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea. He met with Kim several times, including a historic handshake and dialogue at the border between North and South Korea.
After Trump’s defeat to Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... in the 2020 election, direct talks with North Korea were halted, and North Korea signed a strategic pact with Russia.
Earlier, Trump appointed Alex Wong, one of the key figures in advancing direct talks with North Korea during his first term, as his deputy national security advisor.
The potential revival of talks with North Korea reflects Trump’s ongoing interest in engaging with Kim Jong-un despite the challenges faced during his previous term. Direct diplomacy, which was a hallmark of Trump’s approach to North Korea, had gained some attention and support for its potential to ease tensions.
As the situation develops, it remains to be seen whether Trump will proceed with this initiative or whether his administration will focus on other diplomatic strategies. Regardless of the outcome, the implications for U.S. foreign policy and relations with North Korea will be significant in the coming years.
[Breitbart] The government of Paraguay announced on Tuesday that, with the help of the United States, it had identified Chinese state-sponsored hackers who infiltrated the nation’s government networks.
The Paraguayan technology minister made the announcement in a joint statement with the U.S. Embassy in Asunción following a joint cybersecurity review of Paraguayan government networks conducted by local officials and the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).
The review found that Flax Typhoon, a hacker group linked to the Chinese communist regime, had infiltrated the Paraguayan government’s systems.
“Recent breaches of private telecommunications infrastructure in the United States demonstrate the importance of cooperation and strengthening of critical infrastructure, especially in the cyber and communications domains, to reduce vulnerabilities,” the U.S. Embassy in Asunción said.
The Paraguayan Technology Ministry explained that the joint review was part of a series of initiatives aimed at “strengthening Paraguay’s digital security, improving cyber defenses and mitigating potential damage from external threats,” highlighting the importance of cooperation for the strengthening of critical infrastructure.
“Paraguay, like every country, faces a variety of cybersecurity challenges, which is why the government of Paraguay reaffirms its commitment to work closely with international partners, such as the United States, to face the global challenges of cyberspace and protect its digital assets,” the Paraguayan Technology Ministry stated.
According to information published by Microsoft in 2023, the Chinese regime-linked Flax Typhoon hacking group has been active since mid-2021 and, at the time, had almost exclusively targeted Taiwanese government agencies, manufacturing, and IT organizations to engage in espionage. The group made minimal use of malware and instead relied on tools built into the company’s operating systems, along with some normally benign software to quietly remain in the Taiwanese networks.
While the group mainly targeted Taiwanese infrastructure, other victims were detected in Southeast Asia, as well as in North America and Africa. Microsoft explained that the group exploits known vulnerabilities to gain initial access to the targeted systems — only using malware to gain further access to the compromised networks if needed.
In September, an FBI operation dismantled a massive Chinese botnet that Flax Typhoon built by compromising over 260,000 devices in the United States and worldwide.
The U.S. Justice Department explained that the Chinese hackers had infected numerous types of consumer-grade devices such as network routers, internet protocol cameras, video recorders, and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The hackers’ malware connected the devices into a botnet allegedly used to conduct malicious cyber activity disguised as regular internet traffic from the infected consumer devices. The FBI operation allowed U.S. authorities to take control of the malicious infrastructure and disabled the hackers from using the infected devices.
The Justice Department further explained that, during the course of the operation, there was an attempt to interfere with the FBI’s actions through an unsuccessful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the operational infrastructure used by the Bureau in the operation.
A DDoS is a type of cyber-attack where a server or network is flooded by an excessive surge of traffic that can overwhelm or outright crash the targets, rendering them inaccessible for the duration of the attack.
“The Justice Department is zeroing in on the Chinese government backed hacking groups that target the devices of innocent Americans and pose a serious threat to our national security,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at the time.
“As we did earlier this year, the Justice Department has again destroyed a botnet used by PRC-backed hackers to infiltrate consumer devices here in the United States and around the world. We will continue to aggressively counter the threat that China’s state- sponsored hacking groups pose to the American people,” he continued.
Last week, the FBI informed that an investigation found a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign mounted by the Chinese communist regime in Beijing aimed at stealing information from Americans politicians and government workers.
While the FBI did not identify individuals that the Chinese hackers targeted, it explained that most of them “are primarily involved in government or political activity,” adding that the hackers sought to copy “certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders.”
[ZeroHedge] Texas is leading a new lawsuit with 10 other red states against BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street for allegedly breaking antitrust law by colluding to suppress coal - causing electricity prices to spike.
"Competitive markets — not the dictates of far-flung asset managers — should determine the price Americans pay for electricity," wrote Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the complaint.
The Republican-led states, including West Virginia and Montana, are asking the court to bar the three largest US investment firms from using their stock in coal companies to vote on shareholder resolutions and take other steps in a way that restrains output and limits market competition. -Bloomberg
The complaint, filed in Tyler, Texas, is one of the highest profile lawsuits targeting companies that promote environmental, social and governance goals, or ESH.
"Over several years, the three asset managers acquired substantial stockholdings in every significant publicly held coal producer in the United States, thereby gaining the power to control the policies of the coal companies. Using their combined influence over the coal market, the investment cartel collectively announced in 2021 their commitment to weaponize their shares to pressure the coal companies to accommodate "green energy" goals," the complaint continues.
"Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street utilized the Climate Action 100 and the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative to signal their mutual intent to reduce the output of thermal coal, which predictably increased the cost of electricity for Americans across the United States."
The 'cartel' is accused of "deliberately and artificially constricting supply," which "increased prices and enabled investment companies to produce extraordinary revenue gains."
The other states involved in the lawsuit are Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, West Virginia and Wyoming.
"Texas will not tolerate the illegal weaponization of the financial industry in service of a destructive, politicized 'environmental' agenda. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street formed a cartel to rig the coal market, artificially reduce the energy supply, and raise prices," said Paxton in a statement. "Their conspiracy has harmed American energy production and hurt consumers. This is a stunning violation of State and federal law."
The lawsuit follows years of investigation by GOP officials, who have taken aim at Wall Street's efforts to force a green agenda.
Specifically, the lawsuit accuses BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street of using their shareholdings in Peabody Energy Corp, Arch Resources, Inc. and others to press management to cut their carbon emissions starting in 2021 - at the height of the ESG boom, Bloomberg reports.
The firms also joined activist groups such as Climate Action 100+ and the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative in which they formed "a syndicate and agreed to use their collective holdings of publicly traded coal companies to induce industry-wide output reductions."
The suit repeatedly refers to allegations that BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street have the power through their large shareholdings to constrain the supply of coal, which significantly diminishes competition in the market and produces “cartel-level profits” for the firms.
Climate-finance coalitions are “voluntary associations and therefore don’t include any form of collusion and coercion, so it’s hard to see a legal basis for this claim,” said Lisa Sachs, director of sustainable investment at Columbia University Law School. But “coal-financed politicians are now using the bully pulpit to scare financial institutions, which won’t in any way benefit the coal sector and will harm the constituents these AGs purport to represent.” -Bloomberg
That said, the firms have since reversed course - with State Street announcing in February that it quit Climate Action 100+ because its requirements were inconsistent with the firm's "independent approach" to shareholder voting. Vanguard left the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative in 2022, however BlackRock and State Street remain members of the group.
Plaintiffs in the Texas lawsuit acknowledge the departures, but say that they don't "change the reality that defendants’ holdings threaten to substantially reduce competition in violation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act."
The case is Texas v. BlackRock, 24-cv-00437, US District Court, Eastern District of Texas (Tyler).
"In Denmark there has been a large-scale failure of the mobile network. Customers had reported problems to the country's largest telephone company, TDC. TDC announced that emergency call 112 could also be affected. The Danish police are increasingly present on the streets in areas with an emergency call failure, Danish media reported."
"There were also major failures in many rail connections in Denmark. Trains have occasionally stopped on the open track. The operator Banedanmark had temporarily ceased operations. There were problems with the digital signal system, a message said, which the company shared on the X online platform."
"So far it is unclear whether the parallel failures of the mobile network and the rail system are related. "
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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