Ivanka Trump visits tomb of the Lubavitcher Rebbe as election nears

Unattributed report says president’s adviser was praying at Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s grave for her father’s reelection

JTA — Ivanka Trump visited the tomb of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as an election approaches that could oust her father from the presidency or give him another four years.

Smartphone video posted on social media captured US President Donald Trump’s daughter emerging, masked, on Thursday night from the “ohel,” a modest structure in Queens where Schneerson is buried with his father-in-law. The structure is adjacent to a cemetery.

Trump had just completed his second debate with Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, in Tennessee.

22, 2020. (YouTube via JTA)

JTA — Ivanka Trump visited the tomb of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as an election approaches that could oust her father from the presidency or give him another four years.

Smartphone video posted on social media captured US President Donald Trump’s daughter emerging, masked, on Thursday night from the “ohel,” a modest structure in Queens where Schneerson is buried with his father-in-law. The structure is adjacent to a cemetery.

Trump had just completed his second debate with Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, in Tennessee.

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Ivanka Trump was praying for her father’s reelection, according to Yeshiva World News, which did not give attribution for the claim.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ivanka-trump-visits-tomb-of-the-lubavitcher-rebbe-as-election-nears/

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1912920/watch-ivanka-trump-visits-ohel-of-lubavitcher-rebbe-ahead-of-election.html

Sheerson is also known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe and is one of the key architects of the Satanic plan to murder 90% of humanity and enslave the survivors.

US State Department Halts All Diversity Training After Trump's Exec Order

A US State Department cable, obtained by Reuters, shows "all training programs for employees related to diversity and inclusion" have been halted after President Trump directed the federal agency in September to end the programs.

"Beginning Friday, October 23, 2020, the Department is temporarily pausing all training programs related to diversity and inclusion in accordance with Executive Order … on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping," the cable said.

"The pause will allow time for the Department and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to review program content," it said.

Reuters said the order comes nearly two months after a White House Office of Management and Budget's memo advised federal agencies that taxpayer dollars were no longer allowed to fund "un-American propaganda sessions" that taught critical race theory, white privilege, and or "taught that the United States is an inherently racist or evil" country.

Trump signed the executive order suspending the diversity training program on September 22. The order forbids any teaching by federal agencies of "divisive concepts," implying that the US is "fundamentally racist or sexist."

And the move to stop the spread of diversity training doesn't just stop with the Trump administration. The UK's equalities minister has warned schools against teaching some aspects of critical race theory.

MP Kemi Badenoch said the rise of critical race theory was a "dangerous trend in race relations."

"We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt," she said.

"Any school which teaches these elements of critical race theory or which promotes partisan political views such as defunding the police, without offering a balanced treatment of opposing views, is breaking the law."

Notably, Badendoch also warned against importing the rhetoric on race from America.

“Our history of race is not America’s history of race. Most black British people who have come to our shores were not brought here in chains, but came voluntarily due to their connections to the UK and in search of a better life. I should know. I am one of them.

But, as Tucker Carlson recently discussed, the ideology is nothing but "divisive," reiterating President Trump's recent warning that "this ideology is rooted in the pernicious and false belief that America is an irredeemably racist and sexist country; that some people, simply on account of their race or sex, are oppressors; and that racial and sexual identities are more important than our common status as human beings and Americans."

https://youtu.be/rBXRdWflV7M

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-state-department-halts-race-diversity-training-after-trumps-exec-order

Judicial Watch Statement on Senate Confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement in response to the Senate confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court:

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a great victory for the U.S. Constitution. It is another great victory for constitutional government. Most Americans agree with Justice Barrett that the Supreme Court should apply the law as it is written and leave the legislating to the people’s elected representatives.

We are grateful that the Senate rejected the leftist attacks on Justice Barrett and moved to solidify a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. As she testified at her confirmation hearings, Justice Barrett rejected the idea that judges should be political activists:

I interpret the Constitution as a law, that I interpret its text as text and I understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. So that meaning doesn’t change over time. And it’s not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it.

As an immediate priority, Justice Barrett and the rest of Supreme Court should reject the Left’s desperate efforts to use the courts to undermine election security and rig the elections.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/acb-statement/

New Strzok-Page Emails, Fauci’s Emails, and Important Updates on Illegal Immigration

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 163 pages of emails between former FBI official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page. The records show that Microsoft Outlook’s exchange server had to recreate multiple meetings that were “missing” from Lisa Page’s initial calendar entries. These missing meetings included the subjects “Going Dark Strategy Meeting,” “Twitter,” and “702 Reauthorization Strategy Coordination Bi-Weekly.”

The records were produced in response to Judicial Watch’s January 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the DOJ failed to respond to a December 2017 request for all communications between Strzok and Page (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)). The FBI is only processing the records at a rate of 500 pages per month and has refused to process text messages. At this rate, the production of these emails will not be completed until late 2021 at the earliest.

Multiple meetings were “missing” from Lisa Page’s calendar and had the Microsoft Outlook message “Exchange Server re-created a meeting that was missing from your calendar.” These meetings include a December 15, 2017, meeting that was recreated and has the subject, “Going Dark Strategy Meeting.”

A December 7, 2017, meeting was recreated that has the subject “Twitter” and the location listed as “SFHQ/Lync” [presumably SFHQ referring to San Francisco Headquarters and “Lync,” referring to the FBI’s internal messaging system known as Lync].

A July 10, 2017, meeting was recreated that has the subject “702 Reauthorization Strategy Coordination Bi-Weekly.”

An April 13, 2016, meeting was recreated that has the subject “Investigative & Administrative Law Top Issues Update.”

An April 14, 2016, meeting with the subject “NSCLB Top Issues Update” was recreated.

A July 10, 2017, meeting was recreated that has the subject “702 Reauthorization Strategy Coordination Bi-Weekly.”

A December 7, 2017, meeting with a redacted title under exemptions b6 (personal privacy) and b7C-1 (related to law enforcement sources and methods) was recreated, as was a December 25, 2017, meeting with the subject “702 Reauthorization Strategy Coordination Bi-Weekly.”

On June 8, 2017, in an email to Deputy Asst. Director Jon Moffa and Lisa Page (and an unidentified General Counsel office official), regarding watching James Comey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Peter Strzok concluded his note with “[Redacted] sorry you have stupid NSA.”

On June 10, 2017, Peter Strzok forwarded an email to his boss, Asst. Director for Counterintelligence Bill Priestap, Page and General Counsel James Baker a New Yorker article that Strzok called “thoughtful,” titled “Trump vs. Comey: Hope Against Hope,” discussing the dispute between Comey and Trump about the contents of conversations the two had in private Oval Office discussions about Michael Flynn.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/strzok-emails-missing-entries/

Leading Israeli Modern Orthodox rabbi condemns Trump

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank, questioned Trump’s mental and moral fitness.

While a majority of Orthodox Jews are expected to vote for Donald Trump in next week’s US presidential election, a major Israeli Orthodox rabbi who also has a large following in the United States strongly condemned the president in an interview this week.

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank, questioned Trump’s mental and moral fitness in an interview with the Israeli magazine Makor Rishon.

“This is a mentally disturbed person without any inhibition or judgement who controls the button of the the most powerful nuclear weapons in the world — and here people applaud him for opening an embassy in Jerusalem,” Lichtenstein said.

“They don’t stop for a moment to think about the moral damage that he inflicts on the United States, or even on the world. They don’t ask how it’s possible to abandon the fate of humanity to such an unbalanced man, who doesn’t recognize the concepts of truth and falsehood,” he said.

“All of this will harm us, even if there’s an embassy in Jerusalem,” he added.

Lichstenstein is a highly influential leader among religious Zionists in Israel. He is also the grandson of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, who led New York’s Yeshiva University for decades and is considered the leading spiritual authority of American Modern Orthodoxy in the last century.

In the interview, Lichstenstein also spoke out against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has widespread support among religious Israelis, saying he had focused too much on foreign policy and security at the expense of domestic issues and suggesting he may have been influenced by Trump.

“Part of it is connected to what’s happening in the United States, where norms are being trampled,” Lichtenstein said. “It’s possible that Netanyahu feels that Trump legitimizes certain behaviors, like screaming at representatives of the media in the middle of a gathering of journalists.”

https://www.jpost.com/us-elections/leading-israeli-modern-orthodox-rabbi-condemns-trump-647039

Ric Grenell: Intel agencies don't have a right to cover up internal mistakes

Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell argues there is a crisis within U.S. intelligence agencies.

Premier Daniel Andrews says Victorians will be wearing masks into next year

Premier Daniel Andrews says Victorians will have to keep wearing masks, stressing it's a "very low price to pay for a very significant benefit".

Why are masks remaining?

Has Dan explained why Victorians will have to wear masks when the rest of Australia are able to manage perfectly fine without them? Seems a bit unfair to us :(

-Masked

Daniel Andrews basically said it's because while the numbers are low, they haven't been low enough for long enough to be certain that there aren't more unreported cases around. Here is what he said on that:

"It's based on where we've come from and where we are now, and the fact that there's always more virus out there than you know. Because not everybody gets tested. And not everybody who does get tested gets tested as quickly as they should.

"There are just six mystery cases in the 14 days to 24 October, that's a massive improvement on where we had come from, but there is still some virus out there.

"Masks are an important part of this now. They won't be there forever. They are uncomfortable. It's not a permanent setting, but it will be there for so long as the health team are really clear with us that this does play a role. It has a part to play. And if that gives them greater confidence to advise me to keep on opening up, then I think that is exactly the position that we want to find ourselves in."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-27/coronavirus-australia-live-news-covid19-latest-victoria/12815328

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