Barbara Diamond | Jan 31, 2025

Archives New Zealand from New Zealand, CC BY-SA 2.0 

Most of us feel that we understand the spy-game intimately. We have been invited into its glamour, drama, twists and turns through the creative minds of Ken Follet, Tom Clancey, John le Carre and the Grand-daddy of them all…. Ian Fleming. There are hundreds of authors who entice us into the world of intrigue. Hollywood has made billions of dollars quenching our thirst for the excitement and the glamour.  But it is not quite like that. Certainly not here in the Middle East.

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Peloni:  It should be recalled, as explained by Mike Benz, USAID is nothing more than local and regional capacity building across the whole world of assets that can be used by either the Pentagon, the State Dept or the CIA for their own activities.  Hence, while it is good to see that the USAID program is placed under the watchful auspices of the US State Dept, it should be recalled that the ranks of the US State Dept oversaw partial funding of some of the alarming anti-Bibi protests on the streets of Jerusalem during the attempt to pursue Judicial Reform in Israel in early 2023.  So, as Greenfield describes it, rolling the USAID under the control of the State Dept is only a good first step, and the second and third steps will require significant reform from within the US State Dept, something which is not entirely likely under Marco Rubio – recall the section relating to Rubio in Part II of Nelson’s important review of  Trump’s nominees:

MR. PRESIDENT, WHO ON EARTH IS VETTING YOUR MAGA APPOINTEES? PART TWO

It’s time to get our foreign aid under control.

by Daniel Greenfield | Feb 2, 2025

United States Agency for International Development, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USAID has been a major problem for a long time, but, under the Biden administration, it turned into a rogue agency that actively resisted the efforts of the Afghan watchdog to get information about its activities and that has directed billions of aid to terror states in ways that are completely unaccountable by moving the money through the UN and third party NGOs while making it impossible to track what they were doing with it.

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Peloni:  As Project Stargate is in line to be the follow up to Project Warp Speed, closer attention should be paid to the unbridled assault on public health to bring Warp Speed online, and the reality is that all this assault began while manipulating scientific research to satisfy corporate profits rather than scientific inquiry.  And while Warp Speed was catastrophic, it will be dwarfed by the much grander, more ambitious, better funded, and more far reaching followup program, Stargate.  Bring scientific research back to support the principles of scientific inquiry and out of the pockets of corporate profiteers and stop this madness.

By Jordi Pigem | Brownstone Institute | February 2, 2025

Julie_Perkins_at_LLNL from en.wikipedia to Commons

In light of RFK, Jr.’s confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, it is good to remember that much of what is presented to us as science stems from vested interests and an outdated mechanistic worldview.

Science is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. But it is not infallible — that’s why it is science and not dogma — and is sadly not immune to the virus of corruption. For many decades, the mirror of science has become increasingly blurred by a storm of vested interests, particularly when research and the communication of results are linked to large corporations.

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by Con Coughlin  •  Gatestone Institute  •  February 2, 2025

If US President Donald Trump is really serious about making a positive impact on the Middle East, a good place for him to start would be to designate the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement as a terrorist organisation and scale down Washington’s ties with the Gulf state of Qatar. Pictured: President Donald Trump and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meet in the White House July 9, 2019. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

• For Trump to make genuine progress in bringing peace and stability to the region in his second term, though, his administration must first focus on the root cause of much of the unrest blighting the region.

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Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser | JCPA | Jan 27, 2025

Alisdare Hickson from Woolwich, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed each year on January 27 as a solemn reminder that the Holocaust was not an isolated atrocity but the result of incremental decisions and actions by individuals. These choices culminated in the largest genocide in human history, driven by waves of antisemitism, intolerance, and hatred.

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Fears in Israel that negotiations for Phase 2 could cause a breakdown of the ceasefire deal

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 2, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press before leaving for the US. (Photo: Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed for the United States this morning, Sunday, in order to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House.

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@Osint613 tweeted the following:

President Trump when asked if he would levy tariffs against Israel…

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Peloni:  Excellent article by Gary Littwin!!  As I have noted before, the growing arrogance of the Supreme Court keeps the issue of Judicial Reform ever in the forefront of the Israeli electorate, over whom it exploits its use of arbitrary power.  This is not the hallmark of a democracy, but the mark of judicial tyranny which acts to coincidently disregard the dignity and liberties of the public at large…which is why the demand for Judicial Reform will only grow louder and louder and be perceived as being more and more necessary as time passes by.

There is no longer such thing as “clear language”; a judge tells the parties to a contract what they really intended, overriding their actual language and the accepted meaning of their words. The judge’s interpretation is based on “basic principles” such as justice, equality and minority rights.

Anjuli Pandavar |Murtadd to Human

Daniel Greenfield | Jan 25, 2025

“As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people,” President Trump tweeted. “It would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch)” along with a long list of others.

But by then it was already too late. The Kochers were already on the inside.

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Peloni:  I believe that Trump’s position on this point is quite clear.  Jordan and Egypt will take the Gazans.  And this will begin to revolutionize the entire region.

Shoshana Bryen •  JPC • January 31, 2025

The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

President Donald Trump was contemplating, and, as he often does, set off a firestorm.

Gaza is, he said, “literally a demolition site, almost everything is demolished, and people are dying there.” On the other hand, “Gaza is interesting. It’s a phenomenal location, on the sea. The best weather, you know, everything is good. It’s like, some beautiful things could be done with it, but it’s very interesting.”

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J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: January 31, 2025

Palestinians, who fled the eastern part of Gaza City after they were ordered by Israeli army to evacuate their neighborhoods, carry their belongings, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 7, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

The continuation of the hostage release ceasefire agreement, which led to the return of thousands of Palestinians evacuees to the northern Gaza Strip this week, is raising security concerns for Israeli leaders.

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UAE’s EDGE Group deepens military technology ties with Israel through $10 million investment.

Israfan | January 30, 2025

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By Gerald A. Honigman

Terrorizing the hostages till the very end. pic.twitter.com/nSU42xgwnS

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) January 30, 2025

I was getting ready to do some chores and decided to check my incoming email first.

The link above is what stood out, and then I realized that I needed to take additional blood pressure medication.

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