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Middle Eastern states condemn Israel’s invasion of Syria
The IDF’s advance past the Golan Heights is a “flagrant violation of international law,” Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has said
Israel’s military incursion into Syria has been condemned by neighbors Egypt, Jordan and Qatar, who have accused the Jewish state of exploiting the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to seize land, in violation of international law.
Israel moved troops into a demilitarized buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday, after opposition forces seized Damascus and Assad fled to Russia. In a video statement from the region, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s 1974 agreement with Syria to establish the demilitarized strip had effectively “collapsed” once Syrian troops “abandoned their positions.”
Israeli troops and tanks moved beyond the buffer zone on Monday, entering Syria proper in an operation that Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said is intended to create a new “security area” that would be clear of “heavy strategic weapons and terrorist infrastructure.”
The move was criticized across the Arab world. Qatar’s Foreign Ministry called it “a dangerous development and a blatant attack on Syria’s sovereignty and unity, as well as a flagrant violation of international law.”
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi issued a similarly worded condemnation, as did the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, which declared that Israel had “exploited the…vacuum in Syria in order to occupy more Syrian land and to impose a new reality on the ground in contravention of international law.”
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed the area in 1981. However, under the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement, Israel and Syria accepted the deployment of UN peacekeepers to the buffer zone, which until Sunday separated Israeli troops in the occupied Golan Heights from their Syrian counterparts.
As Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel pushed beyond the buffer zone for the first time in 50 years, Israeli warplanes struck targets further inside Syria. Among the sites hit were Mezzeh Air Base in Damascus and Khalkhala Air Base, 50km south of the capital, as well as the southern cities of Dara’a and Suweidah.
Katz said on Monday that he had directed the IDF to conduct strikes “throughout Syria” to destroy Syrian Army arms and infrastructure. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that these strikes targeted “strategic weapons systems, like, for example, remaining chemical weapons, or long-range missiles and rockets, in order that they will not fall in the hands of extremists.”
https://www.rt.com/news/609100-israel-condemned-syria-invasion/
Mexican tries to hijack plane to reach US
The suspect claimed cartels had kidnapped his relative and threatened his family
A 31-year-old Mexican man tried to force a plane headed for Baja California to divert to the US, but was subdued by other passengers, according to the police.
Volaris flight 3041 was headed from Leon to Tijuana on Sunday when one of the passengers got up from his seat and tried to divert the flight by force. Other passengers wrestled him into submission and the crew diverted the plane to Guadalajara instead.
“Emergency assistance was provided to the airline, so the aircraft was able to land without incident at the Guadalajara International Airport and the passenger was detained,” the Mexican Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport said in a statement.
The suspect was identified as 31-year-old Mario N, police in Guadalajara told the media on Monday.
According to the police, Mario said that a relative of his had been kidnapped and the abductors had sent him a message that he would be killed, along with his wife and two children, if he went to Tijuana.
A video filmed by one of the passengers and shared on social media showed Mario being subdued on board the aircraft. The struggle reportedly “caused his children to cry and his own wife to scold him,” according to Mexican media.
Mario is a resident of Penjamo in Guanuajuato, the state that has long had the highest number of homicides in all of Mexico. Two drug cartels, Jalisco and Santa Rosa de Lima, have been fighting a years-long turf war, marked by murders and kidnappings. According to police, Mexican cartels have long used hostages to force civilians to commit crimes on their behalf.
https://www.rt.com/news/609098-mexico-plane-hijacking-cartels/
The Beginning of the End of DEI – In the Private Sector and Our Universities
Ferraris are priced between $250,000 and $600,000, but it’s not enough to have the money to buy these pricey Italian sports cars. The company’s Diversity and Inclusion Charter demands that buyers and their families pass “social status” background checks to “ensure they fit the mold of the brand and its desired image.”
Talk about cultivating “inclusivity!”
In a similar charade of ‘woke’ virtue signaling, luxury car maker Jaguar unleashed a futuristic ad in a pinkish palette featuring men posing as women. There are no cars in it, so it's no surprise that it landed like a lead balloon and joined the pantheon of duds like the Bud Light ad featuring trans activist Dylan Mulvaney in a bubble bath.
The Bud Light ad sparked a consumer backlash on social media, including calls for boycotting the beer brand.
In Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America, Charles Gasparino called the Bud Light fiasco the “desecration of a great American brand.” The book—which opens with an account of an incredibly farcical discussion at Goldman Sachs over whether ordering Chick-fil-A sandwiches is sufficiently woke—exposes many such woke/DEI debacles and the brand destruction they wreaked.
Fortunately, the efforts of people like Gasparino (a seasoned business reporter who knows what makes companies succeed or fail) and anti-DEI campaigner Robby Starbuck are paying off. Moreover, the resounding victory of President-elect Donald Trump—who made a campaign pledge to dismantle “divisive,” “un-American” DEI programs—has catalyzed a corporate retreat from leftist “wokeness.”
After Starbuck told Walmart he was investigating their DEI practices, the retail chain – America’s largest private sector employer, with over 4,600 units in the U.S. – announced plans to end its DEI initiatives. It has agreed to drop the term ‘DEI’ and instead focus on “Belonging for All.” Not only that, it will stop financing events aimed at influencing children sexually; scrap the Corporate Equality Index, a benchmark created by the Human Rights Coalition (HRC) to monitor LGBTQ+ policies; remove gender-neutral terms such as Latinx from documents; end a program incentivizing suppliers who hire LGBTQ+, racial minorities, and women; discontinue racial equity training; and stop funding the Center for Racial Equity. Walmart will no longer sell products such as chest binders marketed, among others, to “transitioning” children.
Many other major companies have followed suit. Molson Coors, Ford, Lowe’s, Harley-Davidson, and Toyota are dumping the Corporate Equality Index. John Deere will no longer participate in “cultural awareness” parades, etc., and instead focus on professional development and recruitment of talent. Toyota will “refocus its DEI programs” and stop sponsoring LGBTQ+ events; its community activities will now align with “STEM education and workforce readiness.” Tractor Supply Co., an animal feed and farm equipment retailer, is abandoning all DEI goals and programs and will no longer sponsor pride events.
Gasparino and Starbuck have succeeded because they have relentlessly criticized, mocked, and exposed the hypocrisy of companies embracing DEI instead of focusing on efficiently delivering goods and services and bringing profits to shareholders. Starbuck is effective because he has a huge social media audience, and Elon Musk has reshared many of his posts on X.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/the_beginning_of_the_end_of_dei_in_the_private_sector_and_our_universities.html
Why Are Dems Appeasing the Cop Who Killed Ashli Babbitt?
Incredibly, U.S. Capitol Police captain Michael Byrd, the cop who shot J6 protester Ashli Babbitt, appears to have been extorting the Democrats for favors, including a promotion. Even more incredibly, leading House Democrats have obliged him. Much of this bizarre saga Rep. Barry Lourdermilk (R-GA) has documented in a detailed letter to U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) chief Thomas Manger.
What is undeniable is that Byrd shot and killed an unarmed woman of a different race. Undeniable, too, is that no police officer in recent memory has received anything like the treatment proffered to Byrd for a comparable shooting. Indeed, only in the DIE-infested miasma of the D.C. swamp does Byrd’s story make any sense at all.
In the way of background, Ashli Babbitt entered the Capitol alone on the Senate side through a broken window at 2:23 P.M. on January 6, 2021. Upon entering, Babbitt climbed over a velvet rope to honor the walking lane designated for visitors. She had less than 20 minutes left to live.
Still alone, Babbitt continued to explore the Capitol. At 2:36, citizen-journalist Tayler Hansen, camera rolling, followed her down a long, narrow corridor leading to the Speaker’s Lobby. Guarding the lobby doors were three USCP officers. A 14-year Air Force veteran with military police experience, Babbitt identified with the officers and joked with them.
Within a minute or two, a trailing crowd of roughly thirty people quickly filled up the corridor in front of the lobby doors. One provocateur reached between the officers and began punching the glass panels. Babbitt’s police training kicked in. “Call f-- back-up!” she shouted at the feckless officers as they stood in place with their backs to the doors, doing nothing.
When the officers inexplicably abandoned their post, the provocateur busted out a window pane with a helmet. After yelling for the window-breaker to stop, Babbitt slugged the man in the face and knocked his glasses off. Fleeing the madness, she hopped into the window frame, now fully free of glass, a feat only a person as small as she could have managed.
On the far side of the barricaded lobby doors stood Lt. Byrd, his arm outstretched, gun in hand. Other armed officers hovered nearby in the narrow Speaker’s Lobby. No members of Congress remained in the lobby, and only a handful of Republicans, all men, remained on the adjacent House floor.
How Lt. Byrd came to be there in the role of incident commander is something of mystery. As Loudermilk documents in detail, Byrd had a career-long record of reckless behavior. He shot at a stolen vehicle, got cited for “conduct unbecoming an officer” after a racial confrontation, left his service weapon unattended in a public bathroom, later failed a routine background check for a shotgun purchase, and then failed the USCP shotgun training course.
The IRS seems to have treated Byrd preferentially as well. As licensed private investigator Susan Daniels has reported, a year before the shooting, the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County slapped Byrd with a $56,000 federal tax lien. The case remains open.
Once Babbitt appeared in the window frame, Byrd gave her no chance to explain her motives. Without a word of warning, he shot and killed her. Once shot, she instantly fell backward onto the marble floor of the corridor. Within a minute of shooting Babbitt, a panicky Byrd made an astonishing radio call:
405B. We got shots fired in the lobby. We got shots fired in the lobby of the House Chamber. Shots are being fired at us and we’re sh, uhh, prepared to fire back at them. We have guns drawn. Please don’t leave that end. Don’t leave that end.
Less than a minute later, Byrd made a follow-up call: “405B. We got an injured person. I believe that person was shot.” Believe? Indifferent to the possibility that the shooting had been recorded, Byrd reflexively created his own reality, a reality in which “insurrectionists” were shooting at him.
more…
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/why_are_dems_appeasing_the_cop_who_killed_ashli_babbitt.html