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President Joe Biden will speak with the families of the Americans believed to be currently held captive of the Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip on Friday, a White House official tells NBC News.

“I think they have to know that the president of the United States of America cares deeply about them, deeply. We have to communicate to the world this is critical. This is not even human behavior. It’s pure barbarism, and we’re going to do everything in our power to get them home – if we can find them,” Biden told CBS’s Scott Pelley in a 60 Minutes interview recorded this week.

“1200 Israelis died to protect Hunter Biden” – The current top comment on the Thursday night TownHall.com article titled “Hunter Biden Just Got Off Easy,” which opens with “With all of the overwhelming brutal attacks on Israel plaguing the media and everyone’s minds, let us not forget Hunter Biden’s criminal history that the Democratic Party wants us to pay no heed to.”

Come to think of it it’s actually kind of surprising we hadn’t seen this usual line of solipsistic bullshit this week like we did when the Titan submersible imploded to distract people from Hunter something and when Russia invaded Ukraine to crowd out the EXPLOSIVE allegations that Hillary Clinton had spied on Trump when he was in the Oval Office. Would’ve thought Maria Bartiromo would be right on it like she was with the Ukraine-Hillary one, but last we saw of her she was legitimately fucking pissed over the House GOP shitshow. Almost like she’s distracted or something.

Document obtained by the CBC reveal Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have been warning Inuit leaders to watch out for ChiCom and Kremlin agents offering their communities infrastructure investment to exploit access to natural resources like minerals or even military targets.

“Foreign interference is a significant threat, primarily from China and then Russia. Both desire access to natural resources in the Arctic, like minerals,” the CSIS report reads, concluding that the agency’s “presence in Canada’s North and Arctic has been limited” and they need to step it up.

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed says the problem, beyond the one of the CSIS not sharing with him any classified intel on the Xi-Putin Regimes’ efforts to infiltrate the communities he answers to, is that the demand for infrastructure is very much there and leaders may not give a shit as long as the money is green. “There’s still incredible infrastructure deficits in the Canadian Arctic, whether it be for airports, for marine facilities, or for just a network for shipping,” Obed said, also mentioning a lack of housing and roads. “If the Canadian government is not investing in infrastructure development in the Arctic, then it pushes our pursuit for partners in investment into other places,” he continued, while stressing he doesn’t actually want the goons to be lording over his people. “If we are, without our knowledge, entering into spaces where there may be considerations from the federal government for foreign interference, we don’t want to ever get caught up into that.”

A new Washington Post analysis of how much disgraced former President Trump’s 91 felony charges have increased his lead in the GOP primary includes the usual insane quotes from focus group participants telling Never Trumper organization Republican Accountability Project how deeply they love and worship the Holy Orange Messiah now that he’s being persecuted by the socialists:

“Most of us are just so sick to death and have become deaf because of the constant crucifixion of Trump and this has gone on now for so many years that we just don’t even hear it anymore. They’ve just got him under a microscope. They’re just following him around waiting for the next thing they can pin on him,” said a South Carolina woman identified only as “Cheyenne.” Age unknown.

“A jury could very well find him guilty and he may very well be guilty, but why are they going after him and not everybody else?” another Palmetto stater named Larry said in a June focus group. “If they’re going to go after him, I want to see him go after the Clintons and I want to see him go after Biden. The fact that they’re just going after Trump, I don’t believe that this should be happening.”

“I would have preferred DeSantis,” New Jersey Republican voter Joey Marino said. “But I have to support Trump because we have to gain back our country. I only switched over to support Trump because indicting him is an outrage and threatens democracy.” Yes, irony is still dead.

“The closer a person is to God, and the more that they’re trying to do to fulfill God’s plans, and do the right thing, the more Satan attacks him,” said Iowa man John Nish, who is considering supporting DeSantis but says he gets more “energized” for Trump every time he thinks about him.

Dumbass Republican South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace thinks she could be disgraced former President Trump’s running mate in 2024, sources tell the Daily Beast of the ridiculous pipe dream from the idiot who once filmed herself begging for forgiveness in front of the Trump Tower after the Orange Warlord endorsed a (ultimately failed) MAGA primary challenger in 2022.

Trump minions mocked the House GOP edgelord’s aspirations. “I would see Trump pick Pence before he picks Mace,” one said, adding Donald “absolutely hates” and “never really trusted her.”

All this being said, there is one advantage that Mace could theoretically bring in that she is probably by far the most vocally pro-choice House Republican. Emphasis on “vocally” because her actual voting record does not always reflect that abortion-friendly vibe. If Mace were more MAGA and more competent that “vibe” would probably actually make her a favorite. We would still rate Marjorie Taylor Greene the most likely pick for Trump’s numero dos, because it would be the kind of extremely stupid and self-destructive choice the fat bastard has made core to his brand of politics.

Trump calls for Tlaib's impeachment over silence on Hamas terrorism questions https://t.co/Y4mAbk2bZE

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 13, 2023

A Hamas spokesman on Friday claimed 13 people, including foreigners, held captive by the terrorist group in the Gaza Strip were killed when Israeli bombs hit wherever locations they were being held, the AP reports while adding the claim could not be independently verified so it’s likely the hostages were purposely placed in the line of fire or simply executed by the scumbags.

The Israeli military ordered 1.1 million residents of Gaza to evacuate to the region’s southern section within the next 24 hours, a feat the United Nations described as “impossible” without “devastating humanitarian consequences,” the Associated Press reports.  The announcement is seen to foreshadow an Israeli ground invasion of northern Gaza, where Hamas is believed to be holding hostages.

Yeah, it’s shocking that Trump advisor and media propagandist Sean Hannity is hypocritical, but sometimes the clarity of it is shocking, as it is here.  After some predictably annoying cross-talk, Hannity cuts the feed of guest Vivek Ramaswamy but goes on to say–get this–“I think maybe people who never held public office, like you, maybe they’re not qualified to be president.”  Funny how he didn’t profess that view in 2016, huh?

Everything old is new again in the GOP:  voter suppression, old-fashioned corruption, and Kevin McCarthy.  Yep, California Republican Tom McClintock is circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter calling for the Republican Conference to condemn the acts of “eight of our ‘morally superior’ colleagues” and reinstate Kevin McCarthy as speaker.

Dear Colleague:
I have had enough, and I think you have too.
Our conference never voted to oust our Speaker. Eight of our “morally superior” colleagues made that decision for us. And for the last nine days, we’ve been jumping through their hoops. What we’ve found is that if we do it that way, we’ve ceased to be the majority and will eventually cede that mantle to 212 united Democrats and whatever rump group of Republican malcontents they can assemble.
ENOUGH!

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Video verified by the Washington Post shows shells used in an artillery strike in Gaza exploding with the telltale signs of white phosphorus, a chemical that can cause severe burns on people and can be devastating to a civilian population.  The use of the chemical is not banned by conventions of war and it is sometimes used to mark targets for additional artillery or air strikes.  The shells reportedly landed in the Gaza City port away from residential areas, but Human Rights Watch warned that using white phosphorus in densely populated Gaza City will inevitably lead to civilian casualties.

French cops have opened an investigation into a possible assassination attempt on fugitive former Russian television news anchor Marina Ovsyannikova – who skipped out of house arrest last October and fled to Paris after being hit with charges of sedition over her on-air protest of the murderous invasion of Ukraine in March of 2022 – suddenly fell ill after coming in contact with an unknown powdery substance on the door of her apartment on Thursday, CBS News reports.

Whatever happened it appears it wasn’t too bad, as Reporters Without Borders Secretary General Christophe Deloire said that Ovsyannikova was feeling better later on Thursday but remained under medical supervision as doctors try to figure out what the hell she came in contact with. Last week Ovsyannikova was sentenced in absentia to 8.5 years in the gulag for her thoughtcrimes.

Jake Sherman from Punchbowl News reports, and MSNBC confirms, Steve Scalise announced that he is taking himself out of the running for the Speakership in the House.  This confirms earlier reported–reported here–from NewsMax, which again comes through with a scoop on news from the conservative rumor mill.  (Step aside, Fox, as the favored outlet for insider leaks.)

While Scalise won the vote within the GOP Conference last week, he needed virtually every Republican to win in the vote of the full House, including Democrats.  As many as two dozen Republicans stated they would never support Scalise as Speaker.  Jim Jordan now becomes the presumptive favorite, but he has a number of “Never Jordan” opponents himself.  The circus continues.

With the Republican House Conference suddenly calling a meeting for 7:30 p.m. ET Thursday, the House remains without a permanent Speaker for the ninth day, an administrative and public relations disaster.  According to the Washington Post, Ohio Republican Max Miller is planning to bring a motion to the conference to grant Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry more powers to conduct the business of the House for up to two months.

Earlier in the day, some of Steve Scalise’s proxy promoted the idea that the “conference designee” for Speaker–based on his winning a vote over Jim Jordan–has been picking up supporters among the Jordan faithful, but at last tally, the unofficial count still had about a dozen Republicans standing firm against Scalise.

In a statement that starts off saying “There was no better friend or ally of Israel than President Donald J Trump. Under my leadership, the United States stood in complete solidarity with Israel,” and then just diverts into his own overrated “peace deals” and lies about the stolen election and Joe Biden, the fat bastard does absolutely nothing that comes anywhere close to what might reasonably be considered an “apology” or “damage control” or even an excuse for his ongoing meltdown over Israel and its dictator Benjamin Netanyahu after the country suffered a horrific terrorist attack and retaliatory strikes that left at least 1,200 Israelis and 1,300 Palestinians dead.

We’re not going to print the whole thing, but we can say that Trump did not really make it worse for himself, we guess. He definitely got pushed into doing this by his aides and then watered it down.

The Atlanta Humane Society on Thursday announced they had rescued more than 150 dogs and cats from some sick asshole’s property in southeast Georgia this week, Atlanta News First reports.

“There were many chihuahua mixes, medium breed dogs and cats living outside in pens in their own filth, roaming free inside a house and in kennels inside a carport,” said AHS in a statement, adding that the animals will be distributed to shelters and adoption agencies for re-homing.

National Zero will now return to covering death, violence, and malevolent political dysfunction after this brief good news update… Well it’s still bad news but it had a happy ending at least.

Republican Senator John Thune is happy to address Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto’s questions about Trump’s Israel meltdown by saying it’s a free country so Donald can say whatever he wants.

Sources tell Rolling Stone disgraced former President Trump now wants Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu to be “impeached” for the intelligence failures that led to the horrific Hamas terrorist attack on civilians last weekend and also has been asking his minions if he should publicly call on Netanyahu to resign, something they warned him off of since the blood is still fresh.

Obviously there’s no impeachment in the Israeli system and Trump is a fucking idiot. If and when the evidence showing Netanyahu failed to heed credible warnings does surface he’ll be gone pretty quickly because his coalition partners will quit which will trigger snap elections. All of Trump’s anger at his former best buddy “Bibi” stems from Netanyahu publicly congratulating Joe Biden on winning the presidency almost immediately after the major networks called it for him in November 2020.

“Senator Menendez should not be a US Senator. He should have been gone long ago. It is time for every one of my colleagues in the Senate to join me in expelling Senator Menendez. We cannot have an alleged foreign agent in the United States Senate. This is not a close call,” says Dem Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman in a statement responding to the superseding indictment against DINO scumbag Bob Menendez, the second time in as many months Fetterman has done so publicly.

We cannot stress this enough, the vote is a win-win and it would be political malpractice not to do try it before Menendez can resign (which he probably won’t). At least 25 Senate Dems and zero Republicans have called on the asshole to quit – because that would mean they agree that a credibly accused felony criminal defendant has no business holding federal office. Forcing them to go on the record means either they do have to agree – and that it also applies to the disgraced former president a lot of them don’t even actually like – or they let a corrupt Dem off the hook. Do it now.