Peloni:  The surveillance state apparatus which began with the Patriot Act is getting an upgrade thru the deployment of AI in such a way which is certain to leave some more equal than others, so to speak.  When the American Republic was founded, the central focus of the dignity of men and the primacy of personal liberty was a revolutionary theme.  This theme is now being redefined such that govt oversight is to replace the central focus, calling to mind the statement attributed to Benjamin Franklin when questioned if America was to be an autocracy or a republic: ” A republic, if you can keep it.”

Sundance | May 30, 2025

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The New York Times (think DHS embeds) are not concerned about the building of a surveillance state using cross-reference artificial intelligence systems into various government agencies; no, the New York Times (think DHS embeds) are concerned it is President Trump triggering the building of the process, and the parameters therein.

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Peloni:  In recent days, a well informed source has related that a former journalist for a major network who started his own counterterrorism operation in the aftermath of the OKC bombing and who has deep ties to Israel reported that Syria has suspended all communication for one million Druze.

By Ahmad Sharawi | May 29, 2025

Members of the Syrian General Security Service in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya after the most recent clashes between government forces and Druze militiamen. (SyrNetworkNews on X)

On May 29, an Israeli security official told the Saudi-owned Arabic news channel Al Arabiya that Israel “will not fight in support of any group in Syria.” The official added that while Israel currently maintains a presence in parts of Syria due to ongoing instability, it may withdraw if the situation improves and stabilizes.

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Sinan Ciddi | May 30, 2025

At a future point, many will ask an obvious question: why did the United States and Europe lift sanctions on SyriaAhmed al Sharaa regime when the mirage of a unified Syria governed by a central government gives way to renewed civil war by competing jihadist factions and militias.

At the highest levels of European and American governance, decision-makers want world audiences to believe that Syria’s new government must be given all the support it can get if Syria has a chance of succeeding following the fall of the Bashar al Assad regime in December 2024. Without lifting sanctions, the logic goes that Syria has no hope of economically recovering and risks becoming a failed state.

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Tales from a Super Jew: Never forget. Never again. Really?

Diane Weber Bederman | May 30, 2025

Tales from a Super Jew: Never forget. Never again. Really?

I watched many movies and read many books over the years about Jews in Germany as Nazism rose. And I often asked myself: why did the Jews not leave?
Now I know. We are witnessing the worst Jew hatred in Canada, ever, and that includes during the Holocaust  when Canada’s response to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, well, sorry: None is too many.

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By Christine Douglass-Williams | May 31, 2025

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim.May their memory be a blessing.Israeli diplomats and representatives around the world stand on the frontlines of Israel’s diplomatic efforts — defending the country with their very lives.. (Photo by Eagle003 – Facebook, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Years of DEI which spread the lie that every woe was due to “colonialism.” Zionism was and is viewed as “colonialist,” and the state of Israel as the “Zionist Project.” The truth is that the jihad against infidels and Jews began long before colonialism (as did black-on-black violence). Credit for the mess America is in also goes to those who advocated for open-door, unvetted immigration. A general hatred of America proliferated and became putrid under years of Democrat/leftist rule. “Pro-Palestine, Marxist groups start ‘Free Elias Rodriguez’ campaign, laud ‘legitimate act,’” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2025:

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Peloni:  Freedom of speech is the central core of Western liberties.  As the West tries to redefine democracy as something better accepted as totalitarianship, it necessarily require the resection of the freedom of speech, something which has been pursued in recent years with far too little objection.

12,000 speech arrests a year, 1,000 a month and 30 a day.

by Daniel Greenfield | May 30, 2025

The British economy continues to struggle under PM Keir Starmer, the military is depleted and a pension crisis is on the horizon, but there is one area where the UK is exceeding expectations.

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Peloni:  The move to push thru a 10yr moratorium on all AI regulation in the Big Beautiful Bill, just as AI is being brought on line as it were, provides the gateway entry into a new tomorrow of an unrestricted govt expansion with the simultaneous redefining and redaction of personal liberty which will forever and radically transform the very conception of what defines freedom in the Free World.

By John & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute |May 30, 2025

“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”—Elon Musk

The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced.

Replaced not by a charismatic autocrat or even a shadowy bureaucracy, but by artificial intelligence (AI)—unfeeling, unaccountable, and immortal.

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Peloni:  Highly recommended video

The end of the line for American Muslims for Palestine?

by Hugh Fitzgerald | May 27, 2025

Hatem Bazian

One thing Muslim groups in America really don’t like to do is reveal the sources of their funding. After all, who wants people to know that supporters, or even members, of designated terror groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are also supporting you? One such group is American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), that has been trying to prevent government investigators from finding out who has been funding it. But now the AMP has come to the end of its fight to keep its funding sources hidden; a circuit court judge has become its nemesis, demanding that the AMP provide that financial information it has been fighting to keep hidden.

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Peloni:  As the British are leading a new push against Israeli development of settlements, this article by Ted from 14yrs ago raises a particularly important reminder that the settlements are both legitimate and legal.

By Ted Belman [First Published Feb 20, 2011]

Secretary Clinton delivered a speech at the Brookings Institute in December 2010 in which she said, “We do not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity.”

In her recent interview with Christine Amanpour, she said, “I think it is absolutely clear to say, number one, that it’s been American policy for many years that settlements were illegitimate”.

So America’s position has progressed from considering “continued settlement activity” as illegitimate to considering the settlements themselves as illegitimate. Is this a change in US policy? Time will tell.

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Peloni:  Also see Ted’s insightful article, The settlements are neither, “illegitimate’ nor “illegal”

Pro-Israel Advocates Reject UK’s Condemnation of New Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria as Misguided and Unjust

By: TheJ.ca Staff | May 29, 2025

Israel’s largest West Bank settlement expansion in decades affirms Jewish historical ties and security needs, despite British government’s harsh denunciation. (Photo: TrickyH/Wikipedia.)

Britain’s Criticism of Israeli Settlements Ignores Historic Realities and Israel’s Right to Security

The British government’s recent condemnation of Israel’s decision to approve 22 new Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria has drawn sharp rebuke from pro-Israel advocates who call the UK’s stance “wrong and immoral.” The British Minister for the Middle East, Hamish Falconer, labeled the expansion a “deliberate obstacle to Palestinian statehood” and claimed the settlements “do not protect Israel.” However, critics argue that these statements overlook Israel’s decades-long restraint and the ongoing threats it faces.

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Peloni:  This is a substantive victory!  Well done to both Min. Chikli and Naomi!

Amichai Chikli leads a government decision to facilitate the absorption of residents of squatter camps into recognized Bedouin settlements.

Naomi Linder Kahn | May 28, 2025

The Ministerial Committee on Bedouin Affairs, led by Cabinet Minister Amichai Chikli, recently approved a policy decision that will empower a wide-ranging reform in land regulation policy in the Negev.

For the first time, the government has created a realistic framework for moving the region forward, approving a decision designed to facilitate the absorption of residents of squatter camps into recognized Bedouin settlements, on land that has been suspended in limbo for decades by  “ownership claims.” 

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Peloni:  Ollie is exactly correct! Thankfully Hamas refused the deal.

by Robert Williams  •  Gatestone Institute  •  May 30, 2025 at 5:00 am

By N509FZ – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

• While it is understandable that President Donald Trump is eager to bring business deals to America, since when has Qatar been “a friendly country that continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East”? The answer is: Never.

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It must be called out for what it is: Jew-hatred.

Ronn Torossian | May 28, 2025

Image by Ana.pullse – Own work, Public Domain

In today’s volatile world, with the Middle East undergoing significant change, Meta (formerly Facebook) has a Supreme Court-like body that determines content on Facebook and Instagram, comprising 21 people on an independent board that even Mark Zuckerberg (its founder, chairman and CEO) cannot fire.

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Peloni:  This is a potentially game changing technology.  I have been looking forward tot the deployment of this technology over the past few years, but this has thus far seemed to be an elusory expectation.  Hopefully the expectation of deploying it this year will not be delayed further.

Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the new lasers will “change the rules of the game in the region — our enemies should fear, not only the capabilities we have already developed, but the capabilities we are developing now.”

By Seth J. Frantzman |  May 29, 2025

An unidentified prototype laser-based air defense system Israel says it has used in combat. (IDF image)

Israel revealed that its military has used prototype laser air defenses to shoot down a number of threats during the course of the multi-front war that the country has been engaged in over the last year and a half.

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Peloni: Per well placed source, Tom Homan revealed to a well-respected counterterrorism analyst who served in the JCS that he goes on national television to talk about illegal alien deportation efforts but, in reality, he has no staff.

Tom Homan Says Illegal Immigrant That Threatened Trump Will Live To Regret It

Border czar Tom Homan said on Thursday that the illegal immigrant who made a threat on President Donald Trump’s life will not get away with his actions.

Ramon Morales-Reyes, a Mexican national with a lengthy criminal record, sent a handwritten letter to the U.S. government stating that he will self-deport himself once he shoots Trump with his “30 yard 6” firearm, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced. Following Morales-Reyes’ arrest, Homan said on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” that he is “foolish” for making a threat against Trump and that he will be deported.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | May 30, 2025

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*Since the 1979 US-assisted toppling of the pro-US Shah, the Ayatollah regime has been driven by a globally-domineering Mega Shia vision, which requires Mega capabilities (conventional, ballistic and nuclear), in order to overcome the Mega obstacle – “the Great American Satan.”

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