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Projected Demographic Changes Indicate a Multicultural Majority in U.S. by 2050
According to a study by Collage Group, the demographic landscape of the United States is set to undergo a major shift by 2050.
The research, drawing on data from the American Community Survey, indicates that white Americans, who currently constitute 58% of the total population (192.2 million), will become a minority. In contrast, the combined population of black, Hispanic, Asian, and other ethnic groups, presently around 141.1 million, is expected to rise.
The Hispanic American demographic is projected to experience the most substantial growth, increasing by about six percent by 2050.
In contrast, the white population is expected to decline by around 11 percent. Sudipti Kumar, Director of Multicultural Insights at Collage Group, emphasized the escalating influence of multicultural populations.
Kumar stated, “The growth in Multicultural populations in the U.S. means these segments wield immense influence. Their desire for diverse perspectives and a deep understanding of their cultural identity by brands and organizations will be ever more critical in the future.”
Billionaires Melinda Gates And MacKenzie Scott Donated $23 Million To Support School-Based Health Centers For “Health Equity”
Prior to the $23 million cash injection, the SBHA took in just under $3.7 million in revenue, with $1.9 million of that coming straight from government grants.
Pivotal Ventures was founded by Gates in oder to “accelerate social progress in the United States by removing barriers that hold people back.”
One of the guiding principles adopted by the SBHA is that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) is “at the core” of the work in helping students, families, communities, and schools. So, the health center “initiates conversations to ensure DE&I are at the forefront of critical decisions.”
Health centers intentionally offer professional development training on cultural humility, implicit bias, cultural considerations, and so forth, too.
Israel reportedly offering two-month pause in fighting for staged release of hostages
Israel has reportedly submitted a proposal through Qatari and Egyptian mediators that would see it agree to a pause in its fighting in Gaza for as long as two months, in exchange for a phased release of the remaining 136 hostages in Gaza.
The proposal does not heed the Hamas demand for Israel to end the war completely, but does appear to go further than Israel has gone in previous offers, according to the Axios news site, which cites two Israeli officials.
The offer is publicized as White House Middle East czar Brett McGurk is in the region for meetings with Egyptian and Qatari counterparts aimed at advancing a hostage deal, a US official told The Times of Israel.
Court convicts first pro-Assad war crimes defendant in Netherlands
The 35-year-old, identified only as Mustafa A., was not present in The Hague courtroom as judges took less than an hour to read out the verdict, finding him guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes for violently arresting a Palestinian refugee and handing him over to Syrian forces who later tortured him.
He was convicted of belonging to a terrorist organization after joining Liwa al-Quds, which operates in the Palestinian refugee camp al Nayrab near Syria’s Turkish border. The armed group worked closely with the security services of President Bashar Assad, who have been accused of engaging in a torture campaign against civilians since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.
“The violence was widespread and carried out systematically,” Judge Jacco Snoeijer said, reading out the verdict.
Under a legal principle known as universal jurisdiction, countries can prosecute offenders of very serious crimes even if they did not occur within their territory.
Germany convicted the first Syrian outside of the country for crimes relating to the conflict. A former member of the secret police was found guilty of facilitating torture in 2021. Last year, a court in the small German city of Koblenz sentenced Anwar Raslan to life in prison for torturing some 4,000 people at the infamous military intelligence facility known as “Branch 251” in the country’s capital, Damascus.
German train drivers warn of nationwide strike starting Wednesday
Union members working at DB Cargo are expected to leave work Tuesday evening, and the remaining workers across Deutsche Bahn companies will abandon commuter trains starting Wednesday morning. The nationwide strike ends on Monday evening next week, the union said.
The coming strike is the fourth within months, stemming from an ongoing dispute between the union and the state-owned railway company. The six-day obstruction to German public infrastructure would be the longest yet.
The union demands an extra 550 euros (close to $600) in monthly wages for its members and a compensatory payment for a fixed period of 12 months to counteract inflation in Germany. It also calls to slim a 38-hour work week to 35 hours immediately, according to Deutsche Welle.
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Supreme Court Allows Border Patrol Agents to Remove Wire Installed by Texas at Southern Border
The court also vacated a ruling last month by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
Four conservative members of the court — Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh — rejected the administration’s request.
The wire was initially installed at the behest of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, at Eagle Pass near the Rio Grande to tamp immigration. The state then sued the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after some federal agents cut through some of the wire, claiming they trespassed and damaged state property.
Rumble Announces Partnership With Dave Portnoy’s Barstool Sports
A strategic and comprehensive partnership between Rumble and Barstool Sports, two major forces in the digital sports, lifestyle, and entertainment world, is making headlines.
As a thriving, fast-expanding video platform and cloud service provider, Rumble has today declared its wide-ranging collaboration with Dave Portnoy’s Barstool Sports.
This synergy aims to enhance the user experience on Rumble by enabling access to an extensive range of Barstool Sports content.
The partnership doesn’t stop there, as Barstool Sports also has plans to bolster Rumble’s digital presence by endorsing it as their go-to video platform.
Besides providing these exciting benefits, both companies will mutually assist in the attraction of brand advertisers to Rumble, as part of a new advertising agreement.
Victor Davis Hanson – The Dying Citizen
Victor Davis Hanson explains the dynamics behind the relentless erosion in the power of American citizenship.
Georgia Judge Unseals Trump Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade’s Divorce Records
COBB COUNTY, GA – A Georgia judge ruled Monday that divorce records for Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to prosecute Donald Trump and his associates in Georgia, were improperly sealed.
“Although it was by consent … [the order] was not properly entered because the uniform Superior Court rules require hearing to be had. We can find no evidence that any such hearings ever had. So I’m going to grant the motion vacating the consent order sealing the record,” Judge Henry R. Thompson ruled Monday morning.
After the judge issued his ruling, the hearing continued to debate a subsequent motion as to whether Willis should be forced to give a deposition in the divorce proceedings.
Iran threatens to strike Israel; Netanyahu’ skepticism over 2-state solution – TV7 Israel News 22.01
1) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voices skepticism over the capacity to grant Palestinian statehood while ensuring Israel’s National Security interests.
2) EU Foreign Policy and Security Chief Josep Borrell asserts his own personal opinion as part of which a two state solution should gain precedence over any demands for peace between the Palestinians and Israel.
3) Iran pledges to strike Israel – after unidentified aircraft killed five IRGC operatives in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Fani Willis urged to resign from Trump election case: ‘Should be removed and disbarred’
Fox News’ Steve Harrigan provides details on the allegations against District Attorney Fani Willis as she faces calls to step down from the election interference case against former President Trump. Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt weighs in.
Three Attacked in Central London ‘For Being Jewish’ by Gang of Arabic-Speaking Men, Victims Claim Police Failed to Come to Their Aid
A group of around 20 men, who were “swearing in Arabic”, allegedly attacked a group of three Jewish friends in Leicester Square in central London after they heard the friends “speaking Hebrew” while on their way to a nightclub.
One of the victims, a 28-year-old woman named Tehilla, told The Telegraph: “They heard us talking and said, ‘are you Jewish?’… I said ‘yes, I’m Jewish,’ and then they started chanting ‘Free Palestine’, and f— Jews, all this kind of swearing at us.”
“So we just tried not to get into trouble, to walk away, but they started following us and then all of a sudden, it started with like two or three guys, and all of a sudden, they called all their friends and 15 to 20 guys started attacking us physically.”
Israel Daily News – War Day 108, January 22, 2024
Day 108 of the war in Gaza and the IDF is continuing to close-in on hostages locations, while ongoing diplomatic efforts for a hostage deal are ongoing, but fruitless due to Netanyahu demands. And much more.
Israeli Authorities Foil ISIS Attack in Jerusalem
The Israeli security forces, including both the Israel Police and the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet), said that the two would-be terrorists had hoped to detonate a truck bomb near the Israeli parliament, or Knesset.
The Times of Israel reported:
“Among the targets and plans considered, the accused wanted to carry out a terror attack by detonating a truck filled with gas canisters near the Knesset, in an attempt to kill as many Jews as possible and create mass damage,” the [charge] sheet says.
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Police said that the suspects, aged 19 and 20, were arrested on December 26 in their homes in Ras al-Amud in East Jerusalem. During a search, security forces found chemicals that were believed to be intended for use in making explosive devices, along with a notebook with instructions on preparing explosives and ISIS materials.
A Culture Of Death Cannot Survive | Lila Rose At 2024 West Coast Walk For Life
32,000 children have been saved nationwide from abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Every life saved is a cause for celebration, and every challenge we face is worth it even if we only save one life.
Yet, even with the momentous victory of overturning Roe, preborn babies are still being killed.
So we cannot stop fighting for life. When we kill our children, we kill our future — but life is stronger than death.
Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, encourages the people of California at the West Coast Walk for Life to continue passionately fighting for the right to life by building strong families and speaking truth to a confused culture.
Exclusive — Aid Group: More Dictators Using ‘North Korean Playbook’ Against Christians
In a conversation on Friday, Ryan Brown, the CEO of Open Doors US, told Breitbart News the organization’s documentation of Christian persecution in the past year found an increase throughout the world in cases of autocratic governments “taking pages out of the North Korean playbook or even Chinese playbook … becom[ing] more and more intrusive in the lives of individual citizens.”
“Being discovered to be a Christian in North Korea is effectively a death sentence,” Open Doors explains in its annual report. “Either believers will be deported to labour camps as political criminals, where they face a life of hard labor which few survive, or they are killed on the spot.”
Below the historically most repressive countries on the list, however, several Christian communities experienced a dramatic rise in persecution, from state-sponsored violence to the threat of terrorists laying siege to known Christian neighborhoods in an attempt to eradicate the faith through genocide…
Military Readiness | Full Measure
With rising tensions around the world, a large question looms: how many wars is the U.S. military prepared to fight at the same time?
Lisa Fletcher speaks with an expert who warns our adversaries are producing ships, bombs, and bullets faster than we are.
Science for Sale | Full Measure
A follow-up to our reporting on government scientists double-dipping. They’re paid by our tax money but also allowed to collect royalties for discoveries made on our dime.
A watchdog group has been able to obtain some information the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, tried to keep hidden, revealing what some say are alarming partnerships with our adversaries.
Former Jan. 6 Select Committee ‘deleted more than 100 encrypted files from its probe in the days before Republicans took over the House majority’
In a new interview with Fox News, the chairman of the House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee, Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, described the revelation as bringing the investigation into a ‘new phase.’
Loudermilk alleges that a forensics team found that 117 files had been either deleted or encrypted on January 1, 2023, shortly before the Republicans took over the investigation that had previously been led by Rep. Bennie Thompson and Rep. Liz Cheney.
The congressman is demanding that Democrats handover the passwords as the files have since been recovered. The files are believe to contain interviews and depositions that could prove crucial to the case.
‘It’s obvious that went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation.It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules,’ Loudermilk said.
DeSantis Drops Out, Endorses Trump | News on the 700 Club – January 22, 2024
Fulton County Board Commissioner Launches Probe into Fani Willis
A member of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners is investigating District Attorney Fani Willis over allegations that she engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a special prosecutor she hired to work on the Trump election-interference case and is thus benefiting from the case.
“Under no circumstances should an elected official contract with or hire someone who they are in a romantic relationship with,” Commissioner Bob Ellis said in a statement, according to NBC News, adding that even in the absence of a relationship, “accepting favors and extravagant gifts from…
FEMA Leader Overseeing $4 Billion Fund to Pay Victims of New Mexico Wildfire Steps Down
Angela Gladwell’s reassignment comes as the Federal Emergency Management Agency restructures its disaster response in the state amid sustained criticism of its handling of disaster aid and payments for damages, which Source New Mexico and ProPublica have reported on for the past year.
Many residents have been in limbo as they await checks to rebuild. The agency’s claims office didn’t make its first payment to a victim until April, seven months after the office was created.
By midsummer, more than a year after the fire had ripped through the mountains of northern New Mexico, the claims office had paid less than 1% of the total allocated.
It has now paid $311 million, about 8% of the total approved by Congress. Several lawsuits allege the claims office has missed payment deadlines.
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