T. Belman. On Feb 23, 2023, Bloomberg reports Russian Support for Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Hardening. A year after the invasion, the Kremlin is confident the country is ready to keep fighting.

Keep in mind that Russian media is tightly controlled.

By  Natasha Lindstaedt, THE CONVERSATION  Dec 8, 2022

Career limiting move: a Russian journalist stages a one-woman protest against the war on Russian primetime news.

Leaked internal Russian government polling recently indicated that as few as one in four Russians may be in favour of the war in Ukraine. Analysts believe that the forced mobilisation of over 300,000 civilians and the high level of casualties have all contributed to waning support for Russia’s war effort.
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By Autumn Spredemann, EPOCH TIMES    16.4.23

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) inspects an honor guard with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony held outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on April 14, 2023. (Ken Ishii,-Pool/Getty Images)

Amidst the buzz surrounding Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s China visit that began on April 12, the leaders of both countries have signed more than 20 new bilateral agreements.

On the surface, the trip was a run-of-the-mill diplomatic visit. However, some say it underscores an ongoing deprioritization of relations with the United States.

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By Mike Lindell

As I’m writing this email, volunteers are gathering in Texas to do trial run throughs on paper ballot hand count elections that HAVE NO COMPUTER VOTING MACHINES. 7 counties in Texas ALREADY do strictly paper ballot hand count elections- it’s a proven and secure method of tallying election ballots! Imagine….

TEXAS FIRST Volunteers perfecting election procedures using an enlarged calculator to track number of votes per candidate. No wifi, no bluetooth, no modems, no access.

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By Nadav Shragai / Israel Hayom – May 4, 2022

(JCPA) The status quo on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as formulated by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in 1967, no longer exists. Today, the reality on the mount is very different from what it was 55, 40, or 30 years ago.

One of the explanations the Palestinians often give for the recurrent riots and violence on the mount is that Israel is violating and altering the status quo in ways that favor Israel and the Jewish side and harm Muslims. They call this an “assault on Al-Aqsa,” an “invasion of Al-Aqsa” and, most frequently of all, proclaim that “Al-Aqsa is in danger.”

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T. Belman.  I wrote to Christine :

I just posted your excellent article even though I had a few problems with it.

” Although Dayan formulated the agreement to pacify hostile Arab forces that were bent on obliterating Israel, this fact does not alter the reality about Jewish rights or about the violent outbreaks on the Temple Mount. “

Dayan gave the keys to the Wakf to Jordan after Jerusalem was liberated in the ’48 war. He did so, not to pacify hostile Arab forces, but to remove a grievance from the Arabs throughout the ME which might result in a forever war with the Arabs.

He did this without the approval of the Israeli government. He acted alone.

It should be pointed out that there is no Israeli law which prohibits Jews from praying on the Temple Mount. The SC acknowledged this but went on to say that the Police can prevent it to avoid violence. Ben Gvir wants to change the police action.

One final thought.  The Al Jazeera article is full of lies.

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, JIHAD WATCH

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now barred Jewish visitors from the Temple Mount until the end of Ramadan, due to widespread violence. According to the prime minister’s Office, this was done “on the unanimous recommendation of the Defense Minister, the IDF Chief-of-Staff, the Director of the ISA and the Israel Police Inspector General.” But Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir called the move a “‘serious mistake’ that risks further inflaming tensions.”

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by Anna Borshchevskaya, Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2023 (view PDF)

Syria’s Hafez al-Assad (right) and Iranian president Akbar Rafsanjani, Tehran, 1997. Syria was the first Arab state to recognize the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Both Russia and Iran have deep, multifaceted, and long-standing connections to Syria. During the

Cold War, Damascus emerged as the Soviet Union’s most loyal Middle Eastern ally, and the relationship regained vibrancy in the 2000s as Vladimir Putin strove to reestablish Moscow’s regional preeminence.

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American intelligence officials do not believe there will be negotiations to end the war between Russia and Ukraine this year, according to the trove of recently-released Pentagon documents.

Despite a stalemate throughout much of the country and a pitched battle over the eastern city of Bakhmut, neither Russia nor Ukraine will likely come to the table soon, according to assessments in the leaked documents.

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L. Goudsmit. I just watched the video – Bill Gates is a monster, Ted.

It does not matter how many indoctrinated millennials defend him, Bill Gates is a sociopath, a megalomaniac, and a eugenicist just like his father. He is a racist who used vaccines in Africa to depopulate the continent. I feel like vomiting, and it makes me even sicker that any Jew anywhere in the world is duped by this man. Gates makes Mengele look like a kindergartener.

https://rumble.com/v1hur41-the-real-bill.html

One of the most important speeches ever. The sinister plan to destroy humanity by the US Department of Defense with Pfizer is now in plain sight for everyone to see

By URI WEISS   17.4.23

https://rumble.com/v2hpryu-naomi-wolf-whats-in-the-pfizer-documents.html

The extraordinary speech of Dr. Naomi Wolf at the Hillsdale College in Michigan a few days ago garnered already millions of views worldwide. In my view, it’s one of the most powerful speeches, by a declared feminist, who I couldn’t fathom of watching, let alone following until three years ago when the COVID19 PLAN-DEMIC has been launched upon humanity, by what we now know being the rogue US Minister of Defence and the US Intelligence agencies.

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Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security – A wake-up call

The struggle over legal reform has caused enormous damage to the State of Israel. On the political level, the image of American backing has been undermined (even if, in practice, the defense cooperation continues as usual). On the economic level, the country’s credit rating has eroded. The public discourse in Israel reached new heights of acerbity and alienation. Above all, national cohesion was cracked primarily due to the IDF being used as a tool in the political debate and the threats to dodge service.
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Jews being persecuted; Rochester Chronicle, 13th century

Antisemitism, which has been erupting uncontrollably across the west for many years, continues to be bedevilled by confusion about its most frequent public expression in anti-Israel sentiment. This provides the excuse that what’s being expressed is not hatred of Jews (heaven forfend) but hatred of Israel (apparently fine).
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T. Belman.  I don’t like it. I see no reason or precedent for the Judges to be involved in appointing the selection committee..

Compromise would limit both the courts’ and the politicians’ influence on the Judicial Selection Committee.

Israel National News

Supreme CourtOlivier Fitoussi/Flash90

A compromise proposal has been submitted on the issue of the Judicial Selection Committee, one of the most controversial aspects of the government’s planned judicial reforms, Kan Reshet Bet reported this morning (Sunday).

Negotiations between the coalition and opposition on the judicial reforms continue at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem under the auspices of President Isaac Herzog.

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

A new Israeli chest monitor is saving lives every day; so is a new Israeli AI system that unscrambles unintelligible emergency calls. A pacemaker was fitted to a 102-year-old Israeli woman; and Israeli medics saved two passengers flying from Israel to the USA. Israeli doctors saved a 4-year-old Palestinian Arab girl and Israeli NGO Save A Child’s Heart has now saved children from 68 countries. A Thai Princess came to see how cancer is treated in an Israeli hospital; and volunteers from Israeli NGO IsraAID are currently saving lives in hurricane / cholera-hit Malawi.
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By Daniel Greenfield, 15 Apr 11:26 PM

In 2010, the Islamic Society of North America honored one of the unindicted co-conspirators of the World Trade Center bombing.

Also at the ISNA convention were three members of the Obama administration: Rashad Hussain, George Selim and Mazen Basrawi. Hussain went from working as Obama’s envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to serving as Biden’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom, while George Selim joined the ADL as its VP of National Affairs.
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T. Belman. In the past, Maistrovoy and I co-wrote these articles.
– RUSSIA AND THE NEW ME -Part IV: Can Russia be induced to use its UN veto to protect Israel
– Contemplating, a US-Russia Alliance

In the mid and long terms, the Jewish state may face new existential threat from Russia

By Alex Maistrovoy    DEC 4, 2022,

The war in Ukraine has exposed in its entirety the inefficiency of the Russian military machine, extremely bad management and destructive corruption in all echelons of power. What development of the event can be expected in this country, and how will this affect the Jews and Israel?

Russia – exhausted and drained of blood in the war – will probably face two scenarios, as it has happened more than once in the history of this country. The first option is a turmoil (‘smuta’), followed by an even more cruel and despotic regime. The second scenario is a direct transition to even more bloody tyranny. The results will be same.

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T. Belman. This is really weird and unexpected.

Yevgeny Prigozhin says it would be “ideal” to declare an end to the war. But he says Russia must keep fighting, even if it means humiliating defeat.

By Allison Quinn, THE DAILY BEAST  Apr. 15, 2023 3:28AM ET 

Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin says Russia has already accomplished its goals in Ukraine—but must keep fighting even if it means humiliating defeat so that the country can ultimately rise again as a “war monster” that the international community will bow down to.
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JaFaJ INTELLIGENCE    April 14, 2023

1. Summary: the King of Jordan has dispatched his Prime Minister to wealthy Qatar to seek extra financial aid. It is unlikely that Qatar will be providing any additional assistance to Jordan because of its recent reconsolidation with Saudi Arabia and also Saudi Arabia’s normalization with Iran. These political developments have stripped the King of any significance that he has ever had as the “semi-official middleman” between all parties. In addition, the King’s recklessness and arrogant positions and attitudes has cost him friends in the region, especially with the Arab Gulf states who are conscious of their honour and dignity. Strapped for cash and profoundly disliked by his people, the King might face serious public protests and unrest by his subjects by the summer of this year, with no sign from any of his fellow Arab rulers being able or willing to help Abdullah avoid his fate.

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I listened to the whole thing. Very worth while.

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(LifeSiteNews) — BlackRock is one of the most powerful organizations in the world, and its nefarious role in global economics and politics is becoming more apparent.

The investment giant is pushing woke politics in the form of corporate social credit scores (ESG), which includes the dangerous “net zero” and LGBT agenda. BlackRock is also responsible for rigging the financial systems and has control over a significant portion of the world’s wealth.
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T. Belman. If you look at the graph I have posted from the article, it is very hard to support the second amendment. The strongest argument in favour of keeping it is to enable the people to defend themselves from  government overreach. From my point of view, the only reason to support it is that the GOP depends on its supporters to win elections. Please tell me what you think.

BBC

Gun violence is a fixture in American life – but the issue is a highly political one, pitting gun control advocates against people who are fiercely protective of their right to bear arms.

We’ve looked into some of the numbers behind firearms in the US.

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That’s a significantly larger proportion of homicides than is the case in Canada, Australia, England and Wales, and many other countries.

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