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The left just doesn't know what to do about former President Donald Trump. His enemies have impugned, impeached, indicted, convicted and even shot at him -- but Trump continues to appear unstoppable. This fact has kept them locked in an endless loop of returning to previously tried-and-true tactics in the...

Australia has forbidden Candace Owens from entering the country, rejecting her visa application ahead of a planned national speaking tour. According to The Guardian, Australia’s immigration minister, Tony Burke, said she had the “capacity to incite discord.” Candace Owens banned from visiting Australia ahead of speaking tour. Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/e6JONXkBki — AF Post (@AFpost) October 27, 2024 “From downplaying the impact of the Holocaust with comments about [infamous Nazi doctor Josef] Mengele through to claims that Muslims started slavery, Candace Owens has the capacity to incite discord in almost every direction,” Burke said, according to The Guardian. “Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else,” Burke added. The Jerusalem Post noted that Jewish groups previously called for her visa to be canceled in August. What are your thoughts on Candace Owens being banned? Right move or wrong move? pic.twitter.com/iU29F4K0Ph — Alex James (@actualAlexJames) October 27, 2024 From The Guardian: Owens had scheduled a five-date speaking tour of Australia in November, with events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Tickets ranged from $95 for general admission to $295 for a VIP meet and greet and $1,500 for a private dinner with the conservative media personality. She has courted controversy with incendiary claims about Jewish, transgender and Muslim people. In July, she appeared to cast doubt on well-documented Nazi medical experiments on prisoners, calling such accounts “completely absurd” and “bizarre propaganda”. The US Anti-Defamation League, which works to combat antisemitism, has accused Owens of coming to “embrace and promote antisemitic tropes and anti-Israel rhetoric”, noting comments where she called Judaism a “pedophile-centric religion”. LGBTQ+ advocacy organisation Glaad has pointed to allegedly anti-trans comments from Owens, including calling the trans equality movement “evil” and “satanic”. She has also claimed “white supremacy and white nationalism is not a problem that is harming Black America”. Owens’ Australian tour had been opposed by some local Jewish groups while the opposition home affairs spokesman, James Paterson, called her “a dangerous antisemite and a conspiracy theorist” during a Sky News interview. However, the Australian Jewish Association (AJA) criticized the decision. “We have called out Candace Owens for spreading unhinged bizarre antisemitic conspiracy theories including an allegation that human sacrifices around Passover were done in Europe by ‘Frankists’ who established Israel! However we have NOT called for her to be banned from Australia. Jewish values support for free speech and debate. We also see it as a strategically flawed proposal,” the AJA stated. The group said banning her may be counter-productive. “Sometimes attempting to ban a speaker can have the opposite effect and fuel more interest. It may also encourage ugly conspiracies that Jews seek to control who can speak, exercising undue power. If Candace Owens is banned, it hands her an ‘I told you so’ excuse to perpetuate that allegation,” the AJA wrote. “AJA is more concerned with the failure of the Labor government to deal with the real threats to our community such as antisemitism at universities and importing thousands from Gaza with minimal security. The ban would give the Government the false appearance of acting against antisemitism, in effect throwing us a few crumbs while ignoring the big issues,” it added. CANDACE OWENS VISA BANNED We have called out Candace Owens for spreading unhinged bizarre antisemitic conspiracy theories including an allegation that human sacrifices around Passover were done in Europe by “Frankists” who established Israel! However we have NOT called for her… pic.twitter.com/Ct9zhpb9yw — Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) October 26, 2024 From the Jerusalem Post: The Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) called the decision a “victory for truth.” The visa cancellation of Owens, “a known peddler of dangerous rhetoric against Jews and other groups, and unapologetic Holocaust denial,” is a victory for “the millions of Jewish souls and millions of others whose memory she so shamelessly desecrated,” the ADC added. The ADC, along with Annetta Able, the oldest surviving victim of Dr Josef Mengele, and her daughter Daphne, have fought to prevent Owens from holding the events. The ADC lamented Owens’ “vile revisionism,” in which she claimed that the atrocities of Dr. Mengele, who subjected many Jews to experiments and torture, were “propaganda.” “This is more than just a visa being revoked. This is a tribute to every single survivor who bore witness to the horrors of Auschwitz,” the ADC added.

The Democrat Party, A Threat to Democracy RFK Jr.’s Vice Presidential candidate, Nicole Shanahan, released an ad, The Big Cheat, exposing the Democrat election fraud that stole an election from Bernie Sanders, kept Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from competing, and installed a woman who had no chance of becoming the candidate on her own. When […] The post Nicole Shanahan’s Ad, The Big Cheat, Swinging an Election appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

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For a musical group that only recorded together for less than four years, The Mamas and The Papas created a long-lasting legacy of music that defined a new era of music in the mid to late 1960s. Our Top 10 Mamas And The Papas Songs list defines a band that crossed the genres of folk, pop, and rock into grooving musical nuggets filled with luscious harmonies. The Beatles influenced so many groups in the mid-1960s and beyond. John Phillips took the folk music that he had been writing and created a sound influenced by The Beatles into his original sound The post Top 10 Mamas And The Papas Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

A new study proposes the intriguing idea: alien life may not need a planet to survive. Published in the journal Astrobiology, the research challenges conventional thinking, suggesting that certain organisms might thrive in the depths of space, fundamentally reshaping how we approach the search for extraterrestrial life. Traditionally, scientists focus on planets in the search for life, with Earth as the only example we know of. Earth’s gravity, thick atmosphere, and abundant chemical elements—like carbon and oxygen—create ideal conditions for life. Sunlight provides a continuous energy source, making planets, in theory, the natural candidates for sustaining life. However, the authors of this study argue that life could exist in an entirely different environment—free-floating in space. While it may seem far-fetched, this concept has precedent: astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) survive in space, albeit with substantial resource support from Earth. Simpler life forms, they suggest, might manage on their own. In fact, the microscopic tardigrade has demonstrated survival in the vacuum of space, hinting at the possibility of life beyond planetary surfaces. A community of free-floating organisms in space would need to overcome unique challenges. First, it would require a way to maintain internal pressure against the vacuum of space, likely by forming a protective membrane or shell—a feat many organisms on Earth already achieve. Second, sustaining liquid water would be essential. Earth’s atmosphere naturally provides insulation for this, but a space-based colony would need to generate a greenhouse effect without an atmosphere. Some Earth organisms can regulate internal temperatures to mimic this effect, suggesting that a similar adaptation could work for a floating space colony. Furthermore, a space colony would need to address the loss of light elements that planets typically retain via gravity. To sustain itself, such a colony would likely begin with a store of essential elements like carbon and oxygen, then rely on a closed-loop recycling system to conserve resources. Scientists say a space biocolony would also need to be in the habitable zone of its star to get as much light as possible. Such a biocolony could span up to 100 meters and be housed within a thin, transparent shell. This shell would stabilize internal water and temperature, maintain necessary pressure, and facilitate a greenhouse-like effect to sustain life. While we don’t yet know if such life forms exist, this research opens up exciting possibilities for the future of space exploration. Beyond current metal habitats supplied by Earth’s resources, future space stations or colonies might incorporate bioengineered materials, creating self-sustaining ecosystems that more closely resemble living organisms. The post Alien Life May Not Need a Planet To Survive appeared first on Anomalien.com.

These Coconut Pralines are super easy to make and are the perfect candy for any gathering, especially the holidays! If you love these pralines you will also love these wonderful Graham Cracker Pralines. They are very versatile and a great addition to any Christmas dessert table. ❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE  If you like coconut...