‘Historic’: Federal Court Says AstraZeneca Not Immune From Liability in Case Involving Woman Injured by COVID Vaccine During Clinical Trial  

Peloni: Congratulations to Brianne Dressen!  Her steadfast pursuit of justice in this matter has laid an important path for others to pursue just compensation after being injured during the drug trials testing.  Of course, this victory has been achieved in spite of the PREP Act liability protections rather than overturning them, but it remains as an important victory, nonetheless.  The PREP Act needs to be overturned, and those who have been injured must be awarded the care, support and clear recognition of their injuries.  It is impossible to believe how many have been abandoned to such a fate of incapacitation due to this single piece of legislation.

Federal Judge Robert J. Shelby said the PREP Act’s liability shield does not extend to breach-of-contract claims. He said the basis of Brianne Dressen’s claim “is a broken promise, not a countermeasure.”

A federal court ruled Monday that a lawsuit filed by a woman injured by AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine during a U.S. clinical trial can continue. The court rejected the drugmaker’s claim that a federal liability shield protects it from breach-of-contract claims.

Brianne Dressen sued AstraZeneca in May, alleging she was injured and became disabled by the company’s vaccine in 2020 when she participated in the company’s clinical trial.

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November 8, 2024 | 12:20 am | 1 Comment »

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Knesset passes controversial law to allow expelling terrorists’ family members  

MK Hanoch Milwidsky, a sponsor of the bill, speaks at the plenum hall of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, on May 27, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

The Israeli Knesset approved a law to allow the Interior Minster to deport the family members of Israeli citizens involved in carrying out terror attacks early on Thursday morning.

The law has been controversial since its submission to the Knesset earlier this year. It was subjected to a filibuster late Wednesday evening, which ran into the early hours of Thursday morning.

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Is Brandeis University being ‘Palestinized?’  

There are signs that leaders of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies are regurgitating parts of an anti-Israel narrative that has been poisoning the academic world.

Moshe Phillips | November 5, 2024

The Undergraduate Admissions Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Credit: Leo Felici via Wikimedia Commons.

Why is the Israel Studies Center at Brandeis University describing the Hamas war against Israel merely as the “suffering of Israelis and Palestinians?” Why is the center boasting that it “brings Palestinian scholars” to campus? Why is it calling the biblical heartland of Israel “the Palestinian Territories”?

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November 7, 2024 | 2:54 pm | 2 Comments »

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Newly Deciphered Ancient Babylonian Map Supports Bible  

Peloni:  Fascinating: an ancient map reveals location of Noah’s ark.

Points to Noah’s Ark Spot, Archeologists Say

Talia Wise | CBN | November 1, 2024

Scientists have finally deciphered an ancient Babylonian artifact and say its inscription points to the location of Noah’s Ark.

It has taken years to uncover the meaning of a 3,000-year-old clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi.

“This is the oldest map of the world, in the world,” said Dr. Irving Finkel, a British Museum curator and cuneiform expert.

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November 7, 2024 | 9:25 am | 1 Comment »

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David Wurmser on the incoming Trump administration  

Peloni:  The interviewer is very difficult to understand, but the captioning service helps overcome this fact.  In this 12min. interview, David Wurmser provides insights into the coming administration on the topics of Israel, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the likely fate of NATO.

November 7, 2024 | 7:56 am | 1 Comment »

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The nuclear program target in the 26 October 2024 strike on Iran  

Peloni:  J.E. Dyer provides a granular examination of the evidence that Israel did indeed strike a facility known to previously be connected to a highly sensitive aspect of Iran’s nuclear program, and which will be difficult for Iran to replace should the strike have had its desired effect.

Understated event; effect that probably can’t be overstated.

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic ConservativeOctober 30, 2024

IAF strike-fighters in formation return from the 26 October strikes against targets in Iran.  Video posted by Jewish News Syndicate on X/Twitter.

The purpose of this article is to highlight the nuclear program target struck in Iran by Israel on 26 October 2024.  Public reporting has not counted this target as a “nuclear program target.”  But the history of the facility is connected solely to the Iranian nuclear weapons program, and there is good reason to believe it continues to be.  The fact that Israel found it worth attacking in a limited strike is a strong indication of that – whatever its current state of activity.

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November 7, 2024 | 2:03 am | Comments »

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Russia’s Deal With Iran and Middle East Peace  

Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen JPC  

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian meets with Russian Security Council’s Secretary Sergei Shoigu in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 5, 2024. (Photo: Iran’s President’s Office)

According to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Russia is close to signing a comprehensive treaty with Iran that will include defense cooperation. At the moment, there is no text of the agreement nor any detailed description of its actual contents.

Yet hidden behind the Russia-Iran deal is a bid by Russia to become the “peace broker” in the Middle East.

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November 7, 2024 | 12:30 am | Comments »

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Not this Year; not these Democrats: Lawlessness leads to looming election losses  

Peloni:  Indeed, it would appear that Jews did respond and say “Not this Year; not these Democrats”, and in significant numbers in key swing states which swung to support a Trump victory.

Abraham Katsman | November 6, 2024

Lawlessness, to borrow the old slogan, is unhealthy for Jews and other living things.  Such as healthy societies. And, I suspect, the Democrats’ chances of election victory.

There are still undecided voters out there—or so, at least, they tell pollsters. I suspect that a headwind facing Democrats will push late-breaking votes toward Republicans, particularly among Jewish voters: the sense of expanding lawlessness.  There is a palpable feeling out there of an accelerating societal breakdown and a disintegrating social contract, of authorities surrendering to the mob, and of menacing, unpunished violence and crime.

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November 7, 2024 | 12:20 am | Comments »

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Trump’s Electrifying, World-Changing Victory  

By  Joan Swirsky | AM Thinker | November 6, 2024

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

It was exactly 1:38 A.M. today that Bret Baier on Fox News said that it was clear “that the next president of the United States of America would be Donald J. Trump.”

Not taking a micrometer of credit away from President Trump 47 and his epically tireless, passionate, often hilariously funny, and brave — in spite of three assassination attempts and then a fourth death threat  —  countrywide, night-after-night, week-after-week, month-after-month, year-after-year campaign.

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November 7, 2024 | 12:10 am | 4 Comments »

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Netanyahu is First to Congradulate Trump  

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Citizenry participation in times of political turmoil  

Peloni:  Great article by Imani! The American people lost control of their govt due to the lack of involvement in the political process.  The way to secure the future is to interact in this process at a local level so that the will of the people can lead govt policy rather than the other way around.  It is vital that political involvement be a consistent and continuous feature of any democracy, and the quickest way to allow tyranny into a democratic govt is for the people to lay quiescent and oblivious as vital decisions about their future are made without their input or interest.

By Amil Imani | AM Thinker | October 2, 2024

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The political landscape of America has grown more divisive and tense in the last couple of decades. Polarizing views on governmental policies, social issues, and the interpretation of the Constitution have led many citizens to question the path that the nation is taking. This period of political discord illustrates quite poignantly the critical need for healthy civic engagement in its many forms, including—but not limited to—voting, education, and active community involvement. Democratically, civic engagement enables citizens to steer government activities toward policy, social, and economic fairness through the integrity of the democratic process.

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November 6, 2024 | 2:35 pm | 1 Comment »

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Something rotten in the land of tricolor  

While France is the origin of the principles of modern democracy, it has also shown a disturbing affinity for tyranny.

Martin Sherman | November 5, 2024

Eiffel Tower. Photo by Faygie Holt.

“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors. … I cannot prevent the French from being French.” — Charles de Gaulle

Bizarre developments seem to be emerging in what is considered by many—rightly or wrongly—the home of modern democracy, for there appears to be a growing alignment between Paris and the tyrannical theocrats of Tehran, particularly over the fate of war-torn Lebanon.

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November 6, 2024 | 9:50 am | 6 Comments »

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How Israel CRUSHED Hezbollah’s First Line of Defense  

Peloni:  This video provides a highly detailed, granular review of IDF actions in Lebanon, in which each casualty is described over the past month’s action.  One point which I found disturbing was the narrator’s description of the pager attack as being perverted.  The incapacitation of these Hezbollah butchers with minimal risk to the general population should not be described as perverse but, rather the exact opposite.  In any event, the detail depicted in this video is well researched and very informative.

 

November 6, 2024 | 9:40 am | 2 Comments »

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After the votes are counted  

The messaging from the left is now more focused on what happens after the election than the election itself.

Avi Abelow  Courtesy

Some of what see unfolding in the United States elections is deeply troubling, and extremely relevant for Jews living in the US – and those living in Israel. Lara Logan, a journalist with over 35 years in the field, has been ringing the alarm about what she calls “the shift”:

“Can you see how the messaging from the left is now more focused on what happens after the election than the election itself?”

Her analysis of this change is that:

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November 6, 2024 | 6:45 am | 1 Comment »

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