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When the coronavirus pandemic was just starting, then-Defense Minister Naftali Bennett had a brilliant idea.

At the time, Israel's Shin Bet security service was making a great effort to exempt itself from the dubious mission the government had imposed on it: Using sophisticated cellphone traffic tracking systems (also known as the “tool”) to trace contacts between people infected with the virus and those they could have infected.
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Former Shin Bet director Nadav Argaman really didn’t like his agency being inserted into what was an expressly non-security mission, and Bennett thought he had found a replacement. The offensive cyber company NSO Group offered to the then-defense minister – and today’s prime minister – that the firm take over the huge project.

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By Matt Purple

What a pair are Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew — like peanut butter and petroleum jelly, like pepper and road salt. With Epstein conveniently self-strangulated, it’s Andrew’s turn to face the music now, as a US judge ruled on Wednesday that the civil case against him can proceed. Andrew stands accused of sexually assaulting a then-underaged American named Virginia Giuffre. He’s alleged to have violated her multiple times, in New York, in London, and on Epstein’s eponymous Pedo Island.
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So while the grand old duke of York might have 10,000 men, they’re about to square off against one of the most hellish forces ever to prowl this earth: American lawyers. And cheers to the unwashed hordes in this case. Save for a few British royal flatterers — the sort who appear in trumpeted-up BBC documentaries about the queen’s furniture and insist on drawling the word “incredibly” before every adjective — no one is convinced that the prince is innocent. There is, after all, quite a lot of evidence against him: Giuffre’s ex-boyfriend’s corroborating account, eyewitnesses to the duke’s dirty deeds, that awful, unseeable photograph.

All of which naturally puts one in the mind of Ross Douthat. The thoughtful columnist and last person on earth able to regularly smuggle conservative opinions past the New York Times admittedly isn’t a natural fit for the Epstein fiasco. But Douthat a few years ago wrote an essay that seems worth revisiting today.
The piece, “Why We Miss the WASPs,” is an attack on the modern American conception of meritocracy. Far from being democratic, Douthat argues, the meritocrats have become their own kind of aristocracy, except lacking in the virtues that formed the bedrock of the old WASP aristocrats: piety, service, noblesse oblige. America’s reverence for eminences like George HW Bush is thus more than just gauzy nostalgia; it’s a yearning for the better moral stewardship of an elite gone by.

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Residents of Chios successfully prevented a cargo ship from delivering equipment for the construction of a new migrant center on the Greek island. “At the sight of the ship, residents and elected officials stood in front of the mooring ramp, preventing the crew from dropping the ship’s catapult,” Politischios reports.
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It is common wisdom that poor Africans swarming your country like locusts is our greatest strength. Despite that known fact, many people don’t like to become greatly stronger.
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This used to be an article on Merck’s Covid pill but one that attracted a very interesting perspective on the site. LankyLep expressed an honest opinion with some true constructive criticism, one that deeply troubled me. I now realize I am equally part of the problem as much as part of the solution.
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Please share your thoughts on the matter, if any.
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Think Pelosi and Schumer will nominate Biden for the Nobel Peace Prize ?

Video explaining the ideas of history's great thinkers in order to help supply the world with more knowledge, to empower the individual, and to promote freedom.

Hmmmmm? Any ideas ?

Could the moon be a hollow-bodied construct that contains a hidden message encoding the deeper mysteries of our universe and life on Earth?

Watch Dan Bongino every Saturday Night at 10:00 pm, on FOX give his UNFILTERED opinion, based in truth, to the world.

“History instills a sense of citizenship, and reminds you of questions to ask, especially about evidence,” Willis told me. In a follow-up e-mail after our conversation, Mikhail wrote, “A study of the past shows us that the only way to understand the present is to embrace the messiness of politics, culture, and economics. There are never easy answers to pressing questions about the world and public life.”
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THE ARTICLE:
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A part of the Article by Eric Alterman i liked in the New Yorker. I understand that Mr Alterman has a big bag of political accusations but his work and dedication in history is important and offers food for thinking, mostly for the Americans and their way of life and thinking. I hope that others will enjoy the article the same as me, for a brief overview in modern fashion media and main stream speak up.

NB: I personally haven't payed any attention to his point of view for
Trump but to the rest of the Article which i find more important
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Jessica Campos Visalia Ca. 3 year old girl dies in hot car as mom tended pot plants. Expansive marijuana plant operation discovered.

Mother of the year candidate ......

Juden Verboten
On May 13, 2021, as rockets were flying into Israel, hate speech was reigning supreme on Facebook. The Jerusalem Prayer Team page was bombarded with 800,000 nasty, anti-Semitic remarks....


FB is THE enemy