Brilliant speech addressed to our ‘woke’ youth fighting #climatechange by Konstantine Kisin. pic.twitter.com/mFS8w0t2ip
— Brandon Taylor Moore (@LetsGoBrando45) January 14, 2023
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If you think that you, president Biden, Gretta, Al Gore, or anyone in government will do anything that matters about climate change, the video is for you.
by Judith Bergman, GATESTONE • January 16, 2023
The headquarters of ByteDance in Beijing, China. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
Justice Minister Yariv Levin and MK Simcha Rothman at a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee hearing. Credit: Oren Ben Hakoon
The country is in turmoil over the fast-track legislation submitted last week by Justice Minister Yariv Levin to give the Knesset the power to override Supreme Court decisions, give politicians a majority of votes on the judicial selection committee and do away with the courts’ reasonableness standard. In addition, a bill proposed by Simcha Rothman, chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, would allow ministers to choose their own legal advisers.
15 January 2023,
On Monday, Herzi Halevi will enter office as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Force, as it marches into a political battleground, with members of Israel’s new right-religious government taking aim at the army’s chain of command.
Under coalition agreements signed between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leaders of the far-right Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism parties, control over the appointment of several generals and authority over some military units will be taken away from the IDF.
By David Rosenberg, INN 15.1.23
A majority of new immigrants to Israel are non-Jews, according to a new report, cutting into the country’s Jewish majority.
The report was produced by the Center for Immigration Policy, and draws on data collected by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
Based on the CBS statistics, the report found that in 2022, a total of 77,000 people immigrated to Israel, including 71,000 people who made Aliyah, entering the country and receiving citizenship under the Law of Return.
To view the video interview of Dr Peter McCullough or to read the article in full go HERE.
By Tatiana Vorozhko, VOA NEWS 13.1.23
Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state, speaks during the opening ceremony of the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, Nov. 11, 2019.
As the United States increases military assistance to Ukraine with advanced weapons like the Patriot missile defense systems and Bradley Fighting Vehicles, former U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice tells VOA Ukrainian that Washington should provide all the military assistance Kyiv needs to push back Russian forces.
By Ted Belman
Shahriar Heidari, a member of the National Security Council in Iran, announced in a press interview today that Russia will provide Iran with fourth-generation Sukhoi-35 fighter jets as early as the Persian New Year (March 21). Additionally, Russia reportedly plans to also supply Iran with helicopters, tanks, and defense systems.
I don’t believe it. Russia is in the middle of a long gruelling war. Surely now is not the time to sell its hardware.
T. Belman. What more is there to say. So much for the vaunted Res 242 and its land for peace principle.
By Robert L. Meyer
It is now more than 25 years since the Oslo Accords were signed in October 1993. Yet in the many published opinion pieces and reporting on this anniversary and the failure of the parties to agree on a final two-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, nowhere is found any Israeli politician or journalist who has the slightest inkling of the massive effect of Islam in influencing and motivating the Palestinian supposed peacemakers.
Islam is indeed “The Elephant in the Room.”
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By Michael Ordman, VGNI
There has been so much more happening in Israel recently. A higher number Israeli startups than ever were on display at CES Las Vegas, which handed out more CES awards to Israeli innovators. There was more European funding for Israeli agricultural technology; and another Israeli satellite was successfully launched. In the health arena, Israeli doctors have again been treating patients in Africa; a further 1000 Europeans and Israelis can walk without pain thanks to Israeli knee implants; and a UAE sheikh was more than happy with the medical treatment he received in an Israeli hospital.
Elsewhere, Israel sent another hundred power generators to Ukraine and even more are on their way; more Israeli women are being encouraged to pursue careers in hi-tech; and $2 billion of extra funds were raised for Israel’s zero emissions target. Finally, additional archaeological discoveries are further evidence of Jewish links to the Land of Israel. I’m sure that’s more than enough for this introduction.
In the 15th Jan 23 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
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By Daniel Greenfield, 14 Jan
The decision by Hamline University to purge a minority art teacher for showing a Shiite painting of Mohammed has traveled from the outskirts of a few blogs, and a student paper of the small private college in St. Paul, to art sites, a PEN condemnation and finally the New York Times.
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Erika Lopez Prater, an adjunct at Hamline, showed a Persian painting of Mohammed to her class. Aram Wedatalla, a president of the Muslim Student Association, objected. The MSA rallied to denounce her, along with its advisor, Nur Mood: the college’s Assistant Director of Social Justice Programs. The Latina professor was dumped and condemned as an Islamophobe. Jaylani Hussein, CAIR-Minnesota’s director came in to hold a session on Islamophobia. The MSA and CAIR have both been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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By Amir Taheri, GATESTONE • January 15, 2023
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
by Pete Hoekstra, GATESTONE • January 15, 2023
Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele arrives at the High Court in London on July 24, 2020, to attend a defamation trial brought against him by Russian entrepreneur Alexej Gubarev in connection with the “Steele dossier”. (Photo by Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images)
T. Belman. This is very odd. I can’t imagine Abdullah or Hamas agreeing to it let alone backing it. This trial balloon would only be acceptable to the Saudis if Mudar had replaced Abdullah as leader and Hamas was banned.
I have spoken to a very knowledgeable source in the intelligence community and he tells me that I have it partially wrong. The Saudis have nothing to do with this plan. This new version comes from certain elements in Abdullah’s office who are trying to avoid his replacement by showing he has softened his approach. But don’t believe it. Abdullah has always kept the Palestinians in Jordan suppressed and he intends to do likewise if he takes over lands to the west of the Jordan river. Under his control they would have fewer rights than they have now.
This plan is not being considered by either Israel or the Saudis.
Bottom line, ignore it.
Dry Bones – The 3 godfathersY. Kirschen
The Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plan (Saudi Plan) – initially published in Al Arabiya News on 8 June 2022 – has been revised in a later document containing amendments that appear to have been made at the request of and agreed to by Jordan, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Hamas – the three parties most affected if the Saudi Plan is successfully implemented.
BREAKING: Dr Peter McCullough shows us that pre-COVID, myocarditis ran about 4 cases per million. Post-vaccine, Myocarditis is now running at 25,000 per million and rising.
Since the openly West-backed Maidan Putsch in 2014, January 1st has been proclaimed a national holiday in Ukraine, celebrating the birthday of the genocidal WW2-era West Ukrainian fascist and antisemite ideologue, terrorist insurgent leader, Nazi collaborator, and Holocaust perpetrator, Stepan Bandera.
By David Weinberger, AM THINKER
One of the most pervasive “isms” of our time is moral relativism, the idea that there is no standard of right and wrong independent of either our personal beliefs or our societal conventions. But in his book, A Refutation of Moral Relativism. Interviews With an Absolutist (Ignatius Press), philosopher Peter Kreeft exposes not only the incoherence of this thinking, but where it comes from, and why it remains so seductive.
M. Diamond. The latent effects of the policies we have followed, both in Canada and the US, are in part:
– we fear covid more than we should relative to its impact due to the campaign of our governments intended to create that outcome.
– we have spent trillions on covid, the repayment of which will be next to impossible, and the debt payments on which will make it difficult to do any number of things in the future which will leave us lacking in our medical systems, our educational systems, and our policing and defence. It’s a zero sum game and we have dramatically overspent on a short term problem (which is becoming a long term reality) at the expense of so many other alternatives.
– the closing of businesses have wiped out many who will never recover.
– the closing of schools has created a whole new class of students, many of whom will never recover to the potential they had.
This will ultimately weaken our productivity, and lead to a greater need for support for this group of young people who will, I predict, soon have a name….
– at a time when trust in government is needed more than ever, because there is so much to deal with both locally and internationally, trust has reduced because we were lied to and/or manipulated for so long in the pursuit of some grand solution to the pandemic which was at best, possible, and at worst, illusory, even as we intentionally eliminated the ability of dissenters to share their views.
When you do that, you cannot be following the science because science requires constant testing, disagreement, dissent, debate. That is its essence. We have not followed the science, we have reduced its ability to help us and broken trust at the same time.
By VINAY PRASAD
For the last few weeks, the media has been filled with stories about what The New York Times has described as our latest “viral onslaught.” It’s been dubbed a “tripledemic”—a combination of Covid-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which is being blamed for high rates of illness and an excess of hospitalizations, especially among children.
