Peloni: While I agree with the general sentiments cited by Kirkland in this article, it has long been my view that what was achieved at Nuremberg was less than justice, and I would argue that what is needed in this moment is not to empower such a tribunal with powers greater than that of the individual nation states.  The source of many of the crimes which Kirkland suggests should be tried in another extra-national tribunal extends from the globalist ambitions, ambitions which would only be augmented by empowering such an extra-nationalist court.  In fact, I would argue that these crimes should be weighed in the local communities in which their toll was exacted.  Ceding this responsibility to something presumed to be more powerful or legitimate than the nation states in which the crimes were committed would only serve to delegitimize the nation states as the model best capable of serving justice for the respective communities of the world.

You Say You Want a Revolution? YOU GOT IT!

RESA WARCHICK KIRKLAND | July 15, 2024

The Zapruder Film of the Trump Assassination Attempt, July 13, 2024

The original fighting of the Revolutionary War began with a shot that has unknown origins, although most historians and witness accounts place it on an agitated British Soldier.

I concur. Had it been an American, he would have come forward after America’s shocking victory against what was then the greatest standing Army in the Western hemisphere.

He’d have been hailed an HERO.

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Peloni:  A really insightful endorsement of free speech.

Jeffrey A. Tucker | July 15, 2024

There is only one major social media platform that is relatively free of censorship. That is X, once known as Twitter, and owned by Elon Musk, who has preached free speech for years and sacrificed billions in advertising dollars in order to protect it. If we don’t have that, he says, we lose freedom itself. He also maintains that it is the best path to finding the truth. 

The crisis that broke out after the attempt on Donald Trump’s life put the principle in motion. I was posting regular updates and never censored. I’m not aware of anyone who was. We were getting second-by-second updates in real time. The videos were flying along with every conceivable rumor, many false and then corrected, alongside free speech “spaces” in which everyone was sharing their views.

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From the little man on the wedding cake to Donald Trump.

by Robert Spencer | July 15, 2024

On Saturday evening, we saw where the left’s overheated rhetoric leads.

Leftists have called Trump a traitor, an insurrectionist, a dictator, and much more. Above all, they have repeatedly likened him to the man whose name has become synonymous with evil, Adolf Hitler. Is it any wonder, in light of the way the left has portrayed Trump since 2015, that someone tried to kill him?

Trump, however, is by no means the left’s first Hitler, and likely won’t be the last. You probably remember “Bushitler,” but this reprehensible and incendiary tactic goes back for earlier than Bush 43. The left has been using it for decades, and despite the assassination attempt, Donald Trump isn’t even likely to be the left’s last Hitler.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
July 12, 2024

*The October 7, 2023 horrific Palestinian terrorism was committed by graduates of the hate-driven K-12 Palestinian school curriculum, which has been a most effective production-line of terrorists, since it was established in 1993 by Mahmoud Abbas. The tightly controlled Palestinian school curriculum, as well as the official Palestinian mosque sermons, constitute the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian culture, aspirations, strategy and policy.

*In contrast, the UAE school curriculum was thoroughly overhauled since the conclusion of the 2020 peace accord with Israel, highlighting peaceful coexistence, and reflecting the peace-driven vision of the UAE.

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Barry Shaw | July 13, 2024

There is nothing wrong with a nation state.

Iran, for example, would be far more civilized, far more peaceful, far less a threat, as a
nation state, and not the revolutionary regime projecting a barbaric medieval form of
Islam.

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Peloni:  This tragedy, which has been ongoing for decades, is far more effective than even the tragedy of October 7 at defeating the Jewish People.  Indeed, the very purpose of the Pals deminishing our past is so that they can be better situated to erase our future.  This must end.  Just as the old conception which held that a terror statelet posed no threat to the Jewish State has been overturned, so too must long held conception that the historical record of our past is not worth the trouble which would be needed to secure it from the malicious intents of our enemies.  This betrayal of the Jewish people and its historical record must be ended.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | July 15,2024

The Palestinians do not only want to destroy the Jews living in Israel, and to replace the Jewish state “from the river to the sea” with a 23rd Arab state. They also want to destroy the evidence of the Jewish past — 3000 years of Jewish history — in Judea and Samaria. More on this attempted annihilation of the history that connects the Jewish people to their land can be found here: “Palestinian destruction of Jewish archaeological sites must be halted – opinion,” by David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, July 13, 2024:

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Peloni: Highly concerning, yet fascinating analysis indicating upto three shooters involved in the attempt to assassinate Pres. Trump.

Was there a Second Shooter? New Acoustic Forensic Evidence

by Stephen Bryen | WEAPONS AND SECURITY  | July 15, 2024

AR-15 from article Accurize your AR-15

An audio forensic analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate, also at Media Forensics, based on audio recorded in Butler Pennsylvania, appears to show the possibility of three shooters.  According to these experts, “The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final “acoustic impulse” was emitted by a possible weapon C.”

Only one shooter has been identified and the FBI says he acted alone.

They may want to reconsider their conclusion.

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The other implication of recent events is that the probability of @POTUS Biden stepping aside is now very close to zero. The Democratic Party will not be able to find anyone capable willing to run against @realDonaldTrump. With no good potential replacements, the pressure on…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) July 14, 2024

By Prof. Eitan Shamir | July 14, 2024

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2.289, July 14, 2024

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Ten months after the surprise attack by Hamas on October 7, it is possible to assess the strategic achievements of the antagonists. In addition to inflicting heavy casualties and many wounded on the Israelis, Hamas succeeded in undermining Israeli society and causing divisions within it on the issue of the hostages. Hamas also succeeded in undermining Israel’s international status. Israel’s economic situation has been severely damaged and continues to deteriorate. Hamas brought the Palestinian issue back to center stage as a condition for a regional settlement, and recruited the Iranian proxies, mainly Hezbollah and the Houthis, for a war of attrition against Israel.

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By Allan J. Feifer | July 15, 2024

Events may have overtaken Biden’s now widely known cognitive issues.  What you can readily take away from past assassination attempts is the empathy factor.  None of the major networks (except Fox) regularly carry Trump rallies.  This is likely to change after the near assassination of President Trump.  Merely the optics of Trump, wounded but defiant, standing beneath an American flag and railing against a lone gunman, already dead but who thought he would rid the planet of Trump, is a harbinger of a November win.

By that act, Thomas Matthew Crooks will be recorded by history in one of several ways: misguided, crazy, a true believer, or perhaps even as a dedicated soldier of the progressive Left.

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Morning Intelligence Report

MG Paul E Vallely, US Army (Ret)

Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump Failed! What’s Next?
by George Mcclellan

July 14, 2024

Guest Editorial:

The Progressives, as I have often predicted, have so vilified Donald Trump as a danger to democracy that it was almost inevitable that somewhere, sometimes, a true believer would self-activate to try to take Trump out. They tried and failed, and Trump lives! The attempted assassin, supposedly a 20-year-old white male named Thomas Matthew Crooks, was a registered Republican. However, a short video surfaced of a fellow claiming he was Thomas Matthew Crooks, adding: “I hate Trump, I hate Republicans, and guess what, you got the wrong man!” And yet, there he lies DRT, on a rooftop in Butler, Pa., but not before he got his shots off. It is probable that the short video, allegedly made by Crooks, was misinformation, a prerecorded effort to confuse the investigation. The issue of the shooter’s true identity needs to be clarified, and that can be accomplished by bringing the person on the video up on the stage for all to see. Any bets?

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Sundance | July 15, 2024

Cliff Notes – On the upside JD Vance brings with him the full support of Silicon Valley and unites the various social media clans and venture capitalists (Musk, Ackerman, Thiel, etc.).  This means a big boost to the financial position of the Trump campaign, support from half the banking community, and also the absence of internet protocols that would restrict or oppose his 2024 campaign platform.

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Peloni: Most of Trump’s Secret Service security detail was reassigned to protect Jill Biden, leaving Trump to be protected by temporary replacements.  Another timely coincidence.

Sundance | July 14, 2024

New details about the assassination attempt on President Trump are coming fast.

Earlier this morning former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino gave his opinion about the Secret Service almost unfathomable drop in security protocol that allowed a gunman with a rifle to climb atop a building a mere 130 yards away from President Trump.  Having some very specific insight into protection detail protocol, Bongino gives a unique perspective on what might have gone wrong.

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Peloni:  The outrages from the American govt continue to build in support of terror and towards the slaughter of the Jewish people.

Daniel Greenfield | July 14, 2024

USAID boss Samantha Power has some news for Americans. Another $100 million for terrorists.

Today, Administrator Samantha Power announced that the United States, through USAID, will provide an additional $100 million in critical humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in dire need throughout Gaza and the West Bank.

Critical and dire need. So critical and so dire that we’ve been lied to and told that all the Islamic terrorists and their supporters have been starving to death for 8 months.

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by Jonathan Spyer | The Australian | July 8, 2024

The Lebanese Hezbollah organisation has in recent days carried out the largest drone and missile attacks on northern Israel since the latest round of hostilities commenced on October 8.

Two hundred missiles and 20 drones were launched at Israel’s north, according to a statement issued by the Iranian proxy Shia Islamist group. The barrage came hours earlier in response to Israel’s killing of a senior Hezbollah commander, Mohammed Nasser.

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Peloni:  This is an important report.

Just as in the North, the question of a major war breaking out is when, not if.

By Eric R. Mandel | July 14, 2024

AN IDF soldier walks along the barrier surrounding Kalkilya, on the seam line.  (photo credit: Courtesy Eric Mandel)

I recently visited with the new IDF Panther battalion created specifically to deal with the growing threat of Hamas and other jihadist groups on Israel’s seam line, the boundary between the northern West Bank (Samaria) and Israel’s narrow waistline, only nine miles to the Mediterranean Sea.

The seam line is part of the 1949 Armistice line (Green Line or 1967 line) that runs north to south on the western border of the West Bank, close to Israel’s major coastal cities, including Tel Aviv. Two large Palestinian cities, Tulkarm and Kalkilya, are on the seam line.

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