Peloni:  This was a very large reform limiting Lawfare in the US.  A very sizeable victory.

…“The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution.”… 

Sundance | July 1, 2024

In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court of the United Stated ruled that presidents have “absolute immunity” for official “actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority.”  [SEE RULING HERE] Also, “official acts” cannot be used as evidence against the president in a criminal case.

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Companies are getting rich by contracting with the government to keep tabs on your movements and actions 24/7.

By LEO HOHMANN June 30

In fascist America, many of the corporations we do business with on a daily basis are in fact acting as secret agents of the government.

Facebook, Istagram, Google-YouTube, TikTok, etc., are all working with the government at every level. Your education data, your health data, your financial data, almost all of it can be requisitioned by the government at a moment’s notice and it will be turned over.

But some companies are turning over your personal data where you would least expect it. Remember, the very definition of fascism is when the private sector corporations are colluding with government agencies to oppress the people. Keep that in mind as we look at a shocking story that broke over the weekend that impacts almost every American.

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Israel is the most hated country in a world of 195 countries. Think about that. If we are going to be hated, let’s at least be hated in our entire inherited and promised land. Op-ed.

Diane Bederman     Jul 1, 2024, 

In the words of the late Salomon Benzimra, author of The Jewish People’s Rights to the Land of Israel

“Tell the world there will be no negotiating until the territorial sovereignty of Israel and Judea Samaria is no longer questioned.”

The entire world shared their views on the Jews and Israel after October 7.

We are living through times where too many stand with the Barbarians. Why do people CHOOSE to stand with evil? For surely that is what is happening when western countries stand with Muslim countries against Israel’s right to exist. When US college students demonstrate for Hamas. The question is “which Israel”? What are the borders to which they disagree?

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Peloni:  Caroline interviews Herut CEO Amiad Cohen to discuss how Israel must act to put an end to the mowing the grass in the north.  A very detailed conversation.  Highly recommended.

Peloni: It is the height of irresponsibilty that the US would leave the forces arrayed across the Middle East in the forward positions in which they stand without the means of adequately defending those positions.  These bases were a sign of American strength and power projection in the region.  Well, the strength has weigned and the power has been ceded to Iran and its proxies, and yet those bases are still being maintained.  These positions should be evacuated or at minimum repositioned to positions with better defensive terrain.

Bill Roggio & Janatan Sayeh | FDD | June 27, 2024

The leader of one of Iraq’s most influential and powerful Iran-backed militias threatened US interests in the Middle East in response to a potential large-scale Israeli military campaign against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The Islamic Republic’s proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen have increasingly targeted Israeli territory following Hamas’s October 7 attack.

Qais al-Khazali, the secretary general of Asaib Ahl al-Haq (“the League of the Righteous”), warned in a televised speech that should Israel attack Lebanon, “let America know that it has made all its interests in the region and Iraq subject to targeting and danger,” the Lebanese Hezbollah controlled al-Minar reported on June 25. Asaib Ahl al-Haq is listed by the US as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and Khazali is a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

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Peloni: Naomi Kahn discusses the land right issues in Jerusalem and how they are being applied selectively to support the Arabs and to deny the Jews.  She also explains that UNRWA has been issued an eviction notice from the state owned lands which they occupy in Jerusalem and that Regavim will pursue UNRWA’s having to pay back taxes in the amount of millions of shekels.  In addition to this she explores the manipulations by the UN and EU to manufacture Arab rights in Jerusalem.  Perhaps the most disturbing  revelation in this video, however, is that the PA is moving large numbers of Arabs into municipal Jerusalem, and when enough Arabs are present, the PA will change its restriction on Arabs voting in municipal elections, and thereby come to control the municipality of Jerusalem, even though many of the Arabs will have no legal right to be in Jerusalem.

Peloni:  A stunning victory with the highest turnout since 1986, demonstrating the rejection of the Woke Leftist ideology in yet another European stronghold.   While this victory is important, this is just the first phase of the election.  In any event, the overriding question remains whether Le Pen will ultimately have the support to form a govt and impose an anti NWO agenda in France.

BREAKING: National Rally dominates the first round of parliamentary elections in France, a fataI blow to Macron. Turnout reached the highest level in 40 years. pic.twitter.com/mkW7sdLAaW

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 30, 2024

Peloni:  So the No Spin Zone says Biden is out.  That means Newsom is in.  Will this make a difference?  It will of course change the optics, but the election fraud is already in place.  Hence, if the election result is based on the number of votes Trump will get in November as was the case in 2020, logic would suggest that the optics are all that will change.

It would of course be interesting to read what others think.

?Here's a Biden update from https://t.co/rryWmyXe7C news headquarters.  The decision has been made that the President will quit the campaign.  Two reasons: Democrat internal polling says he cannot recover from the debate, and fundraising is drying up. (1/2) #JoeBiden

— Bill O'Reilly (@BillOReilly) June 30, 2024

Peloni:  Amb. Friedman discusses the movement of some in the Republican camp to shy away from supporting foreign aid to Israel.  He explains that it is a symptom of a ‘broken country” rather than a symptom of hostility to Israel, while acknowledging the fact that some bearing hostile intentions towards Israel feed into this discussion.  In fact, the entire discussion should be made irrelevant by ending the aid to Israel and simply supporting Israel as an ally should, with good terms and free access to munitions needed to win a war which is in fact dealing with an enemy of both Israel and the US, Iran.  As Bibi stated in his chastising statement to Washing, “Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job a lot faster.”

Stephen Bryen | Weapons and Strategy Substack | July 1, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Minsk, Belarus, Feb. 2015.

The Ukraine war will end in a surrender, not in a negotiated deal.  That is my sense of where the war is headed and why the parties cannot negotiate a settlement.

The latest wrinkle in the missing negotiating saga is a declaration, in the form of an interview given by Volodymyr Zelensky to the Philadelphia Inquirer.   Zelensky says there can’t be direct negotiations between Ukraine and Russia but there could be indirect negotiations through a third party where Ukraine and Russia will not only have the third party as an intermediary, but any deal will only be with the intermediary, not Russia or Ukraine.  Zelensky suggested maybe the UN could act in this role.

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Peloni:  Greenfield is quite correct in his analysis here, especially about the interest which some on the Right have come to develop in using a expansive govt to implement their own agendas.  Whether it is for the policies on the Right or those on the Left, bigger govt is never the answer, but always results in creating greater problems.  Less govt restores power to the people, and that should be the guideline of reason and liberty, as well as those on the Right.

Daniel Greenfield | June 30, 2024

The Supreme Court’s decision striking down Chevron Deference has set off Democrat hysteria, but as I warned in my post on it, Republicans will soon miss it once they take office and every federal agency gets sued.

Chevron Deference abusively allowed federal agencies to interpret the laws they implement. The argument though was that the alternative was having judges settle every dispute. And while Chevron Deference rarely favored conservative agendas (but then again how often do federal agencies implement conservative policies), federal judges are at best a mixed bag. Without judges deferring to the agency position, judges will come away with even more power. That’s an argument Justice Elena Kagan ironically made in her dissent.

But the underlying problem, as is often the case in political battles between branches of the government, is the government. We have far too much of it. Federal agencies have been given vast powers over everyone. So has the judiciary. The ultimate solution has to be less power, not more of it.

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Peloni:  The US has a great deal for which to answer in Ukraine, and across Europe and the Middle East as well.  The ventures of such ill considered operations to enrich the American oligarchs as are described by Sachs, lack support of the American people.  In fact, the slaughters resulting from the unrestrained nature of the Neocons led in no small part to the burgeoning anti-Neocon coalition known as MAGA, which has become the dominant political faction in the US for over the past decade.  It is time to end the madness which has left Ukraine with a fraction of its territory and only a fraction of its population intact in that territory.  This war must end, and it would be quite an easy task to accomplish, as we will see when Trump hopefully becomes President elect in November.

By Michael Ordman, VGNI

In the 30th Jun 24 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• A huge Israeli flag is a defiant symbol of Israel resilience.
• Israeli scientists have developed technology for early detection of pancreatic cancer
• Israel is the best country for creative thinking, raising a family, and retiring.
• An Israeli spray makes fruit and vegetables even healthier.
• If you smash special Israeli glass, it can repair itself.
• Israeli elastic material aims to bounce higher.
• More Israeli medals at the European swimming championships.
• A major victory in the Six-Day War took place at the site of a Biblical miracle.
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by David Daoud and Jonathan Schanzer June 20, 2024

Let’s not mince words: The Middle East is on the precipice of the most destructive war of the region’s modern history.

This war did not begin on October 7. It actually began one day later, when Hezbollah, the most powerful proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, began attacking Israel. The Israelis, already on their back foot from the Hamas assault in the south of their country, struggled to gain equilibrium.

The Israeli Defense Forces began with proportional responses to Hezbollah’s unprovoked attacks. But when that failed to deter the Lebanese terror group, the IDF steadily stepped up its retaliatory strikes. This, too, has done little. Hezbollah has lost more than 300 of its senior Radwan Forces along the border. An estimated 91,000 Lebanese citizens have been forced to evacuate from southern Lebanon. Yet, Hezbollah continues to fire at Israel.
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There is a need to adapt the rules to the conflict scenarios of today’s world.

By ALAN BAKER

The war between Israel, Hamas and other terror organizations has heightened the awareness of the question of whether today’s international law is capable of addressing armed conflict between a state and terror organizations.

Simply put, the question is how a sovereign state, obligated by the customary and conventional rules of international humanitarian law and the laws of armed conflict, is expected to engage in asymmetrical war with terror organizations that distinctly, and by definition, do not consider themselves as bound by such rules. The international community lacks practical and legal means, as well as the basic desire and capability, to oblige such terror groups to abide by the rules.

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While Lebanon sues over allegations of Iranian weapons stored at Beirut airport.

Christine Williams | June 28, 2024

According to the Telegraph, “whistleblowers” at the Beirut International Airport stated that “they were concerned about increasing weapons supplies arriving on direct flights from Iran.” The Lebanese Air Transport Association swiftly denied the claims and is now suing: “Lebanon to sue The Telegraph over allegations of Iranian weapons at Beirut airport stored by Hezbollah,” by Naim Berjawi, Anadolu News Agency, June 24, 2024:

Lebanon has said it will file a lawsuit against the British daily The Telegraph over an article alleging the presence of Iranian weapons and missiles at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport stored by the Lebanese group Hezbollah.

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Iran is operationalizing multiple fronts against Israel. In some areas, the groups claim success; in others, it is unclear if the claims match reality.

Seth Frantzman | June 26, 2024

Iranian proxies, including the Houthis, Iraqi militias, and Hezbollah carried out attacks targeting Israel and Israel-linked targets on June 24-25. However, the attacks are no longer a surprise. In some cases, the proxies have had some successes. However, their successes may have diminishing returns because Iran is now using all these groups to attack, but Iran cannot shift the equation against Israel.

Let’s take a look at what happened. The Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, which are called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, said on Wednesday that they “attacked a vital Israeli target in the Port of Eilat with several drones.” The militias claimed that they were supporting Hamas in Gaza. “The Iraqi resistance fighters targeted the military air base of the Israeli regime in Eilat with a drone,” the statement from the group reads. They sent the statement to Iran’s state media, IRNA.

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Peloni: The Overton Window is shifting, leaving Schumer and his anti-Israel, Democratic-cronyist agenda outside of view.

Poll also shows 46% of New York Jews would vote for Trump.

Daniel Greenfield | June 28, 2028

Two years ago, Senator Chuck Schumer enjoyed an 82% approval among New York Jews. In contrast to the 40% unfavorable rating among New Yorkers, only 18% of Jews disapproved.

Now he’s tied as 45% of New York Jews have come to hate Chuck.

What happened in the last two years to send his approval rating crashing from 82% to 48%?

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