By Ray DiLorenzo, CFP —— Bio and Archives May 27, 2023

It is only on occasion that we use the words of others to any great extent. But, when someone of great reverence for God, with integrity, and great honor finds the phrasing to disseminate the exact meaning of what is going on in the world, we are compelled to present it. It is a call to action.

Take in the words of Archbishop Vigano on the meaning of what is taking place throughout the Western world today. He has it exactly right. The Archbishop is paying a price for his candor and frankness. I am not Catholic, but I am a Christian and I recognize truth when I hear it.

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by J.B. Shurk, GATESTONE  •  May 28, 2023

Now that the government has fully inserted itself into the news and information industry, the criminalization of free speech is a very real threat. (Image source: iStock)

• [M]edia polling from Harvard-Harris showing that Americans hold almost diametrically opposing viewpoints from those that news corporations predominantly broadcast as the official “truth.”
• Americans have correctly concluded that [with the “Russia Hoax” and suppressing reported influence peddling in Hunter Biden’s laptop ] journalists and spies advanced a “fraud” on voters as part of an effort to censor a damaging story and “help Biden win.” Nevertheless, The New York Times and The Washington Post have yet to return the Pulitzer Prizes they received for reporting totally discredited “fake news.”

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By Jay Valentine, AM THINKER

On the Memorial Day weekend, while most Americans played near water, the leftists impeached the strongest elected voice in Texas for election integrity — Ken Paxton.

Impeachments were history book items until Clinton, then two more for Trump and some predicting one for Biden.  Everyone kind of gets it.  It’s a political thing, with preposterous second-raters giving speeches about honesty, integrity, rule of law as they bend the rules to get their way.
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Simcha Rothman tweeted in Hebrew:

This fake story, and more than that the enthusiasm and trust in it received by the media which of course rushed to publish it, are a sad parable of the ease with which the leadership of the “protest” hijacked the public consciousness, into a world of cynical lies that stems from a lack of agreement to accept the election decision. Put it into people’s heads here that the government has decided to do a “coup” that will turn the country we all love as it is, into a totalitarian and non-democratic halachic state, into a backward third world country, into a country in economic, political, security, and moral collapse.

None of this is true. It’s all false fears and the result of a campaign of intimidation that is astonishing in its lack of red lines, the recipient of enthusiastic cooperation from the media.
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T. Belman.  Netanyahu must stand up to the pressure. Normalization can wait. Capitulation to foreign pressure invites more pressure.

The purpose of this bill was to reduce foreign influence.

Netanyahu, who has been working hard to score a meeting with the US President, had no choice but to capitulate and shelve the legislation.

Israel National News 28.5.23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to shelve the Nonprofits legislation, which aims to limit the aid foreign governments and bodies provide to Palestinian Authority Arabs, following increasing international pressure.

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T. Belman. Ben Gvir’s bill to promote “Zionist values” will likely be shelved as well. Laws such as this is another way to limit the Court’s activism.

Proposed law that would radically limit donations to human rights groups will be ‘reexamined,’ says diplomatic source, following outcry from allies including US, France, Germany

In addition the bills banning the Palestine flag will also be postponed.

By TOI STAFF, JACOB MAGID, JEREMY SHARON and CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, TOI     28 May 2023,  8:25 am<

A contentious bill that would significantly limit Israeli civil society groups’ ability to accept donations from foreign governments will be shelved, at least temporarily, following sharp criticism from key Israeli allies including the US, Germany and France.

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The former German chancellor is unapologetic as critics reexamine her deals with Putin and reluctance to punish his previous aggressions.

By Bojan Pancevski, WSJ

Angela Merkel receives the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit at Berlin’s Bellevue Palace, April 17. PHOTO: MICHAEL KAPPELER/PICTURE ALLIANCE/GETTY IMAGES

By Eric Lendrum, AM GREATNESS 26.5.23

The retail giant Target has lost at least $9 billion in overall value over the last week, following widespread backlash against the company’s debut of pro-transgender and pro-LGBTQ clothing aimed at children.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, Target stocks were valued at $160.96 a share as of last Wednesday, which amounted to a total market capitalization value of $74.3 billion. But as of Thursday, shares had dropped to 141.76 a share, leading to a reduced overall value of $65.3 billion, a staggering $9 billion less.
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T. Belman. Does the Jew Room still exist? I remember that when the US desparately needed Arabic interpreters, she refused to hire Jewish interpreters.

By Bruce Brill (A former NSA Mideast Intelligence Analyst.) oCT 29, 2017

We in the Arabic Section of the US National Security Agency (NSA), where I worked at the time, knew days in advance and with certainty that Syria and Egypt were about to launch a coordinated attack against Israel on October 6th 1973.

Yet, on the eve of the 1973 Yom Kippur Surprise, Israel’s Prime Minister, Chief of Staff, and Defense Minister were all given absolute assurances that the Arabs had no intention of attacking Israel on or before Yom Kippur, October 6th. The assurances were given by Israel’s Head of Military Intelligence, General Eli Zeira. In spite of his very own Army Intelligence indications, General Zeira was thoroughly convinced the Arabs had no intention of attacking because of unnamed friends’ assurances.
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Redacted with Clayton Morris

By Mykhailo Minakov, KENNAN INSTITUTE     on June 9, 2022

Public governance and politics in Ukraine changed profoundly after Russia’s full-throated invasion of Ukraine beginning February 24, 2022. June 3 marked the hundredth day of what can be called Ukraine’s new administration—though the people in government have not changed. What has been held over from the “old” administration, prior to the invasion, and what new directions for the administration have emerged? As the below assessment shows, today’s situation is dauntingly complex for President Volodymyr Zelensky to negotiate, with the revival of domestic political conflicts adding to the burdens of a wartime presidency.

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By Ekatarina Blinova, SPUTNIK   20.05.2023)

© AP Photo / Ukrainian Presidential Press OfficeEkaterina Blinova

Exactly four years ago, Ukrainian actor and entertainer Volodymyr Zelensky was sworn in as the nation’s sixth president. People who personally knew Zelensky have told Sputnik about his transformation from a popular comedian into a politician.

Zelensky’s ascent to power was really impressive: having zero experience in politics, the 41-year-old outperformed his rival, then-President Petro Poroshenko, by a staggering 49% margin. On May 20, 2019, Zelensky was inaugurated as the sixth president of Ukraine.

But how did Zelensky enter politics and end up in the presidential palace?

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Yevgeny Prigozhin has been ramping up pressure on Russia’s military leadership and extending his criticism to the country’s moneyed elites.

By Valerie Hopkins, NYT 24.5.23

Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group, in Moscow last month.Credit…AP

As Russia vowed to respond “extremely harshly” to a rare, two-day border incursion by pro-Ukrainian fighters, the leader of Russia’s largest mercenary force warned that it faced further setbacks unless its ruling elite took drastic, and likely unpopular, measures to win the war.

“The most likely scenario for us in a special operation would not be a good one,” Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group, said in a profanity-laced interview with a pro-Kremlin political observer published late Tuesday on the Telegram messaging platform. “We are in such a condition that we could lose Russia,” he continued, his speech laced with profanity. “We have to prepare for a very hard war that will result in hundreds of thousands of casualties.”

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The way to transform these sub rosa ties into an above-the-table alliance is for Israel to undermine Iran’s power.

By Caroline Glick

The Torch 750 system, made by Elbit, feeds devices held by field commanders with updated battlefield pictures of blue (friendly) forces and red (hostile) forces, as well as links ground forces to the Israeli Air Force and Israeli Navy. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

(JNS) Over the past week, the media have been aflutter with reports and rumors that the Biden administration has decided to mediate a peace accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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This is the Biden administration’s betrayal of Jews in a nutshell.

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM

There were many expectations for Biden’s U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism among the usual organizational types, but anyone with common sense could have seen this coming a mile away.

The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism fails to address Muslim and leftist antisemitism, it briefly delves into, but does not address where campus antisemitism is coming from, has a single throwaway line about the attacks on Orthodox Jews in New York City, and gives the IHRA pro-Israel definition of antisemitism nearly equal billing with the Nexus anti-Israel one.

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