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As the United States struggles to maintain influence across vast parts of the Global South, the expanding BRICS bloc led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is receiving more applications than ever before, signaling a growing shift in the international economic order

For many years, many countries around the globe were getting concerned over Washington’s impositions of economic and trade sanctions as a form of weaponisation of the dollar, prompting them to diversify their portfolio of foreign currency reserves

They seek to counter the claim that any criticism of the billionaire qualifies as antisemitic.

By JNS

The recent incident featuring Twitter owner Elon Musk comparing nonagenarian financier and philanthropist George Soros to the supervillain Magneto again opened debate about where legitimate ideological criticism of the prolific political funder ends and antisemitic hate begins.

Now, two Jewish conservatives have launched a grassroots initiative to clarify.

Newsweek senior editor-at-large Josh Hammer and Missouri Attorney General candidate Will Scharf have launched “Jews Against Soros.”

Their new website says: “There is nothing antisemitic about identifying the many ways that George Soros and his network of organizations fund the radical left. Leftism isn’t Judaism, and being anti-leftist is not the same as being Antisemitic. Period.”

The site then lays out the 92-year-old Hungarian Holocaust survivor’s history of funding political activism, including support of the anti-Israel BDS movement.

Hammer tweeted: “Soros has dedicated his life to fomenting American anarchism, undermining Israel’s territorial integrity, and destabilizing Western nation-states more generally.”

Scharf told The Daily Caller, “We plan to build a grassroots army of Jews committed to standing up against Soros and his brand of leftism.”

Soros has dedicated his life to fomenting American anarchism, undermining Israel’s territorial integrity, and destabilizing Western nation-states more generally.

As @cjvalues‘ Rabbi Dov Fischer wrote last year, criticism of Soros is, in fact, a *mitzvah*. https://t.co/AJj0ChNzUz

— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) May 31, 2023

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Jeffrey Lax, business department chair at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community College and founder of S.A.F.E. CUNY, a non-profit that advocates for Zionist Jews systemically discriminated against and excluded by the university and its union, slams Jewish politicians and organizations that join CUNY’s gaslighting of its Jews, most notably Hillel International and Councilwoman Inna Vernikov.

CUNY “knows exactly which Jewish organizations to go to which will cover them…That should nauseate any Jewish person,” he said.

@HillelIntl and @InnaVernikov are lying to the Jews they represent at @CUNY, parroting@CUNY‘s gaslighting of its Jews. Shameful and disgusting. We must call it out and it must end NOW or we will destroy ourselves.@CUNY_Prof explains the horror to JBS: pic.twitter.com/GmFqzgT2YA

— SAFE CUNY (@SAFECUNY) June 2, 2023

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In a secular age, two mythic stories starkly contrast good and evil with an inter-generational appeal:  J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and George Lucas’ Star Wars.  Both reemphasized the distinction between objective good and evil in an age marked by moral opacity.  One aspect of Christianity, as with other religions, is its casting of humanity’s ultimate struggle between our tendencies towards vice and virtue, something Tolkien and Lucas clearly understood.  In our heart of hearts, we realize that belief does matter, from the box office to the Oval Office.  Ask those in corruption-riddled countries:  can you trust your government and its bureaucracy to serve the people honestly?  Many will answer with an emphatic no and wish for a world where the distinction between good and evil was clearly distinct.

In his May 11 article Heroes and Anti-Heroes, Eric Patterson provides a wonderfully concise definition of a hero: “A hero is someone who fights against something larger than himself for something larger than himself.”  And further, “Heroism is about the moral quality of the action, not the amount of power at one’s disposal.”  Whether sourced from fiction, myth, or history, the quality of heroism is defined by courage to do the right thing, despite all temptations and discouragement. 

Lucas and Tolkien understood the power of heroic myth and wove it deftly into their stories.  In an interview with Sally Kline, Lucas said: “I was trying to say, in a simple way, that there is a God and that there is both a good side and a bad side.  You have a choice between them, but the world works better if you’re on the good side … I wanted it to be a traditional moral study … there is always a lesson to be learned.” Belief does matter in ways that reflect the moral barometer of society and the health of its political institutions.  John C. McDowell records Lucas saying: “The dark side…is like a huge cancer, alive, festering – both a reminder of a moral state and, at the same time, symptom and symbol of a very sick society.”

In Star Wars, young Anakin is seduced by Palpatine to the Dark Side by essentially blurring his distinction between good and evil.  In the novelization The Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover, Palpatine tells Anakin: “Good is a point of view, Anakin.  And the Jedi concept of good is not the only valid one.  Take your Dark Lords of the Sith, for example.  From my reading, I have gathered that the Sith believed in justice and security every bit as much as the Jedi.”  Palpatine’s greatest power, even beyond his Force Lightning, is his verbal deception and dissimulation;  He is the proverbial snake in Lucas’ Eden.

In Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the One Ring clearly represents a power analogous to Original Sin.  Joseph Pearce in Tolkien Man and Myth, cites Tolkien: “This Catholic theology, explicitly present in The Silmarillion and implicitly present in The Lord of the Rings, is omnipresent in both, breathing life into the tales as invisibly but as surely as oxygen.” Personally, this was hard at first to see as a young man reading Tolkien, when the most salient things were dragons, Nazgul, Orcs, and ring magic.  As an adult, one appreciates the deeper level of religion and myth that permeate both Tolkien and Lucas.

Christ’s salvific sacrifice is symbolized clearly in both Tolkien and Lucas as well.  When Palpatine thinks he has converted Luke to take his father’s place, Luke instead mercifully and defiantly throws down his lightsaber, telling the emperor he has failed, and that he is a “Jedi like his father.”  Luke defeats Vader’s evil not with force of arms, but with a more primal and basic force:  the power of love and the appeal to mercy in Vader.  Luke’s wager is Christ-like:  to gamble that love is a power even stronger than the power of Palpatine’s deception, and he was right.  Lucas completes his mythic tale of good and evil with a classic religious lesson.

Frodo’s march to Mt. Doom also parallels Christ’s last footsteps to Golgotha.  Joseph Pearce described it well in Tolkien: Myth and Man: “The parallels with Christ’s carrying of the Cross are obvious … Frodo’s burden may even lead the reader to greater understanding of Christ’s burden.  All of a sudden, one sees that it was not so much the weight of the Cross that caused Christ to stumble but the weight of evil, symbolized by Tolkien as the Eye of Sauron.” The power of the ring, and the need to vanquish it runs throughout the story:  the perennial temptation of original sin pulling mankind to grab that power which will delude us into thinking we are equal with God.  Tolkien understood myth was the true power of a story calling to the deepest niches of human psychology, what Carl Jung might call the “archetype.”

Tolkien and Lucas have tales of myth, but they have been so popular because their themes resonate so clearly with real life.  They allow us to escape the world while retelling its perils on a bolder, more heroic scale; a world where good does indeed conquer evil though not always with lightsabers or swords as one might expect.  In our world, we witness incessant striving after power, with myriad quotidian choices between good and evil.  In the comfort of our first-world security, we often forget these beliefs matter as long as Starbucks never runs out of coffee and the grocery store is always well-stocked.  Yet the health of political-economic institutions invariably depends on the integrity of the belief systems upon which it invisibly depends. Adam Smith called the function of our moral conscious the “impartial spectator,” while Abrahamic faiths simply call this God.  And the sheer idea of God gives vitality to Smith’s impartial spectator, and the struggle of good and evil, in a way not totally different from the works of Tolkien and Lucas.  Indeed, one need not win a philosophical argument about the factual existence of God to see that conceptually this matters to the health of a political culture. 

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Travel plans for Deanne Niedziela and her husband, Ken, took a drastic turn as the couple was on vacation in Costa Rica. While touring La Paz Waterfall Gardens Nature Park, a five-foot tree limb suddenly fell and crushed Deanne – Executive Director of Nursing at Providence Mission Hospital in California. Ken rushed to her aid, and other tourists nearby followed suit, but the couple had to wait a few long hours before they could get her to a hospital.

Her medical ordeal was just beginning, which included nine hours of surgery and a still unclear prognosis. Deanne has no sensation from the chest down, limited arm movement, and no finger strength. Nevertheless, the goal is to transport her back to California to Santa Ana’s Mission Hospital, where she oversees the Spine and Neuroscience Institute. Unfortunately, the medical fees for air transport alone could cost a whopping $100,000. To help deal with such costs, a GoFundMe page has been established.

Ken stressed that the number one priority is to stabilize Deanne to fly her back home safely. The accident has been an overwhelming tragedy for Deanne, her family, and her friends. Adding to their hardship is the challenge of getting Deanne back to California while covering the medical expenses collectively. On the flip side, her family and friends remain hopeful that with enough support, Deanne can fully recover and return home.

Jennifer Cord, Chief Nursing Officer of Providence Mission Hospital, thanked all the caregivers and physicians overseeing Deanne in Costa Rica and expressed eagerness to welcome her home. Ken added that Deanne’s strength would aid her in her endeavor to recover fully.

Zachary Holston III, a 50-year-old Michigan man, and CEO of Kath Khemicals, a soap-making company, is facing second-degree murder and felony firearm charges after the death of his half-sister and CFO, Rita Evans. The tragedy transpired in the parking lot of their family business, located in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

At Holtson’s arraignment Wednesday, conducted via Zoom, a ‘not guilty’ plea was entered on Holston’s behalf. While his defense attorney admitted that steps had been taken to avert confrontation, the prosecutor asserted that charges were in line with what the surveillance video revealed.

The incident occurred on May 26, shortly after Holston was leaving the building. While he was heading to his vehicle, Evans, accompanied by her husband and daughter, came up to the passenger door.

According to reports, a confrontation regarding paperwork found in the vehicle began, seemingly triggering Holston to shoot Evans. Evans died later from her injuries at a local hospital.

Holston served as the Chief Executive Officer of Kath Khemicals, a company based in Sterling Heights. Additionally, Evans acted as the Chief Financial Officer, as stated in a release from the Detroit-based media outlet, WDIV.

Kath Khemicals, issued a statement on the situation, noting their pledge to contribute positively to the investigation. They declined to comment further, as it would impede the process.

In response, Macomb County Prosecutor Peter J. Lucido issued an official statement sternly condemning the use of firearms in any Macomb County dispute, encouraging peaceful resolutions outside of or in the courtroom. He additionally shared his sympathies for the families affected by the incident.

Rita Evans’ death is a stark revelation of the relevance of peaceful solutions in times of disagreement and stresses the importance of gun control. Our thoughts are with those affected at such a painful and challenging time.

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