Brendan Banfield was found guilty on all counts in the 2023 double murder trial in Fairfax County, Virginia.  
Prosecutors say Banfield orchestrated killings with Brazilian au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair

1)foxnews.com/us/virginia-ma… A jury convicted him of two counts of aggravated murder for the killings of his wife, Christine Banfield, and Joseph Ryan, a stranger lured to their home under false pretenses.  
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Just for information:

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon make a decision affecting citizenship—birthright citizenship—so here is some explanation for those interested.
1) Citizenship in the USA was not really defined until the passage of the 14th Amendment in 1868, other than in the qualifications of the President and Vice President, where both offices could be held only by someone born in what became a U.S. state.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The Don Lemon case has caused a lot of the “woke” left to do what they do best—conflate issues, distract from the facts, and confuse the public in order to control the narrative.
1) If you listen to ABC, NBC, MSNBC, etc., Don Lemon’s arrest is about freedom of the press and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. We hear outrage about the persecution of journalists, censorship, and dictatorship.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "TU B’SHVAT (THE 15TH BDAY OF THE MONTH OF SHVAT)

Tu Bishvat

The Jewish "New Year for Trees," is observed on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat (falling on February 2, 2026).
1) It marks the ecological New Year, celebrated by planting trees, eating fruits from the Seven Species, and environmental awareness, honoring the connection between people and nature.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Another view of the anti-ICE protests.

I support ICE’s goal of arresting illegal migrants who are criminals and deporting them. Such criminals prey on the people in their own communities.
1) But I question how this is being done. The federal government has options. They can send in heavily armed paramilitary-looking fighters to do the arrests when the city or state refuses cooperation for political purposes, and
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The protester who died in Minneapolis came to the protest with a 9mm handgun, loaded with 12–15 bullets, and had an additional two clips with 12–15 bullets each in his pocket.
1) That means he was armed, with the potential of shooting up to 36–45 shots, prepared to shoot up to that many.

A “peaceful protester”? Other videos show him behaving very differently from being peaceful—screaming at ICE officers and damaging ICE vehicles.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote "The Zionist narrative needs a new look, a more accurate narrative.

How would you characterize a narrative that strengthened one’s enemies and helped them create a completely dangerous and erroneous narrative...
1) of their own because of what was omitted?

So began the narrative of Zionism in the late 19th century, emphasizing persecution and exclusion and the need for a homeland where that would end—a place of refuge to which Jews could escape.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "If you really want to clean up politics, the following is necessary:

A. Any politician, in office or a candidate, who says something is illegal when it is not, or unconstitutional when it is not,
1) should immediately be disqualified to serve and, if in office, removed and replaced. Those who are lawyers should be disbarred for their false statements about the law.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Shabbat Shalom
Parshah Beshalach
Exodus 13:17–17:16

And…..

Soon after allowing the people to leave Egypt, the Pharaoh decides that maybe his agreement was a mistake, and
1) he orders his army to pursue them, block them, and turn them back, and the newly freed people find themselves trapped between Pharaoh’s armies and the sea, on the coast of Egypt at the Sea of Reeds.
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1. Presidential Actions
ADDRESSING ADDICTION THROUGH THE GREAT AMERICAN RECOVERY INITIATIVE
Executive Orders
January 29, 2026

1)whitehouse.gov/presidential-a… 2. Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Launches the Great American Recovery Initiative to Address the Addiction Crisis
The White House
January 29, 2026

2)whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…

Red-Washing: How the Media Sanitizes Radical Leftists as Sympathetic Figures
1) In early 2025, 22-year-old Jessica Plichta, who proudly identified herself as a “cadre member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO),” was arrested during a pro-Maduro protest in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "NOTE TO USA VOTERS

The media in the USA seems to be cheering for a Democrat takeover of the Senate and the House of Representatives to stop and reverse Trump.
1) I’m not going to explain here why that would be a horrible tragedy for the USA and for the world long term, though it is very easy to explain.

But this article is about how to change that expectation.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Is a tragedy in the making in the Middle East?

I rate the chances quite high unless hard choices are made.

Hard choices need to be made.
1) When World War II ended, Poland expelled Germans living in areas that became Poland. The reason? Poles claimed the Germans were a threat to their culture and sovereignty if allowed to remain.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “This is supposed to be International Holocaust Day, but it has been ruined for me.

Why, because the world, specifically the European part of the world, seems to have chosen to distort why the Holocaust happened and what it means.
1) And they have cheapened the term almost to meaninglessness. Everything today in the European media is a Holocaust, just as the word ‘genocide’ has been misused, making it impossible to understand what the Holocaust was really about.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Two things have delayed the final confrontation with the leadership of the Iranian Islamic regime.

One is logistics.
1) The U.S. is faced with the reality that the UAE and the Saudis are concerned about possible Iranian attacks against their oil-rich areas and about the problem of domestic terrorism. (Both nations have substantial foreign worker populations that are not fully trusted.)
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Eric Swalwell, congressman, candidate for California governor, yes, the same guy whose Chinese Communist spy girlfriend raised money for his campaigns, and yes, the same guy who knowingly lied about Trump and the Republicans and
1) has been shown to be antisemitic, now has threatened that when he is governor, he will revoke all driver licenses from employees of ICE. Though he swore an oath to the US Constitution, he clearly does not understand anything about it.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “The political lies governments tell – Israel and settlements

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said that Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria are illegal and should be dismantled.”
1) First of all, the ICJ has no legal jurisdiction as Israel is not a member (the USA is also a non-member). Second of all, it gets the law wrong. Why? Politics, antisemitism, double standards.

Let’s be honest. There is no occupation by Israel.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The lies governments tell. - Israel and the settlements

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said that the Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria are illegal and should be dismantled.
1) First of all, the ICJ has no jurisdiction. Secondly, it misleads the law. Why? Politics, antisemitism, double standards.

Let's be honest. There is no Israel business. There are no conquered territories.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Lies pretending to be history.

I just was alerted to watch a video by someone called Professor Stein, in which they list 20 different “Terrorist Groups.”
1) But not all the 20 were Terrorist Groups, and not all the stories attached to the listing are factual.

Three Jewish organizations are listed.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "It has been brought to my attention that there is a correlation between the speed of the internet service and the ability of a country to deal with and take advantage of technological innovation in an entire population.
1) Israel has a transmission rate (medium download speed) of 64 megabits per second.

But, around israel we have the UAE with an average rate of 652 megabits per second (the highest in the world), China with 160, USA with 170.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote:
“Just a thought.

China is really the ‘We Copy Nation’ (but not all copies are done so well).

A lot of China scholars have said that Chinese culture tends not to be creative, not innovative, but still imitative and adaptive.
1) As it is a culture with a tradition of ‘the nail that sticks up, gets hammered down’. ‘木秀於林，風必摧之’

But China has also grown an economy fast, having a habit of appearing to develop technological expertise by a combination of stealing proprietary information...
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