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תחשוב טוב יהיה טוב, אבל אם לא תחשוב בכלל יהיה *עוד יותר* טוב! – הרב אלימלך בידרמן

הרב אלימלך בידרמן – להתחזק באמונה: תן לה’ לנהל לך את החיים

Oct 1, 2018

בס”ד. מתוך הרצאה של הגה”צ רבי אברהם אלימלך בידרמן שליט”א, שניתנה בישיבת “אשרי האיש” בירושלים, במסגרת כנס ליל “הושענא רבה”.

המשך לקרוא…

מאתר יוטיוב, כאן.

A ProtonMail Privacy Victory

ProtonMail Wins Appeal Over Surveillance Rules

Geneva-based Proton AG, the company behind ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, has won an appeal regarding its treatment under Swiss law governing telecommunications surveillance, a Swiss Court said Friday, Reuters reported.

On Friday, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court upheld Proton’s appeal against the Swiss Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service (PTSS) over obligations to store data and monitor email traffic. The court confirmed that email services can’t be considered telecommunications providers in Switzerland, and therefore are not subject to data retention requirements.

Reuters also posted a quote from Proton founder and Chief Executive Andy Yen about the ruling. Andy Yen said it was an “important first step” in its campaign to advance privacy and freedom.

“We expect there to be further attempts to force tech companies to undermine privacy in both Switzerland and abroad, and we are committed to continuing to challenge this through both our encryption technology and through the courts,” Andy Yen said.

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court is the highest judicial authority in Switzerland. It rules as the final instance on all appeals against decisions of the highest cantonal courts, the Federal Criminal Court, the Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Patent Court. The court ensures that Swiss federal law is correctly applied in individual cases and the rights of citizens enshrined in the Constitution are protected.

ProtonMail’s About Page says that their founding team met at CERN and created ProtonMail, Proton Technologies AG has grown into a global leader in online security. The About Page also says: Today, we are the world’s largest secure email provider with over one million users. In addition to our headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and we have support centers in San Francisco, CA, and Skopje, Macedonia.

From Geek News, here.

יצחק, מנחה, זיווג – ואת בריתי אקים את יצחק

יצחק אבינו | מנחה בהר הבית מסוגלת לזיווגים

יצחק תיקן תפילת מנחה בתפילה על הזיווג • האבות תיקנו את התפילות • כל אחד התכוון לדבר פנימי יותר מקודמו • הר הבית, העזרה, בית המקדש עצמו • תפילת מנחה מתאימה לתפילה על הזיווג הפרטי ועל הזיווג הכללי בינינו לאבינו שבשמים • הרב יצחק ברנד • פרשת חיי שרה • בית המדרש בהר הבית

מאתר חדשות הר הבית, כאן. (יוטיוב)

Ron Paul Abusing, Misusing ‘Or Something’ Phrase (Oh Yeah, and Saying ‘These Are Dangerous Times’)

Will Biden Start Nuclear War with China Over Taiwan?

by Ron Paul

Ron Paul Institute

October 25, 2021

President Biden’s “townhall” meeting this past week was a disaster. From his bizarre poses to the incoherent answers, it seemed to confirm America’s worst fears about a president we are told was elected by the most voters ever. Though he didn’t bother campaigning, we are to believe he somehow motivated the most voters in history to pull the lever in his favor. Or mail in a ballot in his favor. Or something.

After the townhall, the Wall Street Journal was early among mainstream media publications to observe that the emperor has no clothes. In an editorial titled “The Confusing Mr. Biden,” the paper wrote, “Even with a friendly audience and softball questions, Mr. Biden’s performance revealed why so many Americans are losing confidence in his Presidency.”

The Journal focused on one of the most shocking and disturbing revelations from the carefully crafted event: asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper if the United States would come to the defense of Taiwan should it come under attack by the Chinese mainland, he replied, “Yes, we have a commitment to do that.”

Anderson threw him another softball in hopes he might correct this dangerous misstatement, but Biden was not nimble enough to see his gaffe. He doubled down.

It was left to the “Chemical Ali” of this Administration, White House Spokesman Jen Psaki, to “clarify” that when the President signaled a major shift in US policy – a shift that could well lead to nuclear war with China – he was just kidding. Or something.

Said Psaki the next day: “Well, there has been no shift. The President was not announcing any change in our policy nor has he made a decision to change our policy. There is no change in our policy.”

In other words: “Pay no attention to the man who pretends to be the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States.”

But this is not George W. Bush, who was elected in 2000 with zero experience in foreign policy. This is not Trump, who was so hapless that he campaigned on a policy of peace while hiring John Bolton to carry out that policy.

No, Biden has twice been Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Foreign policy has always been considered his one area of competence. Surely the Biden of even the Obama Administration would have understood the potentially catastrophic implications of his statement.

Strategic ambiguity has been US policy toward Taiwan/China for decades, but the new Biden China policy could be re-named “strategic incoherence.”

The policy of “strategic ambiguity” is foolish enough – who cares who rules Taiwan? – but advancing the idea that the United States is willing to launch a nuclear war with China over who governs Taiwan is a whole other level of America-last foolishness.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Miley was heralded as a hero for betraying his Commander in Chief Trump by seeking to restrict Trump’s access to the US nuclear arsenal. Milley claimed that Trump was so unsound of mind that he could not be trusted with the nuclear football.

Yet when actual unsoundness is there for everyone to see, Milley and the other “woke” generals are silent as the grave. These are dangerous times.

Ron Paul is a former U.S. congressman from Texas. This article originally appeared at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and is reprinted here with permission.

From The New American, here.

‘Parent A; Parent B’ Perversity Propaganda PUSHBACK…

Yeshiva deans ban students from donating blood until ‘normal’ version of forms is restored

Several Zionist yeshivas discovered students would have to enter names of “Parent 1” and “Parent 2” on MDA forms, blocked donations until original version is restored.

Arutz Sheva Staff, Oct 26, 2021, 3:54 PM

In Har Hamor Yeshiva, Mitzpe Ramon Yeshiva, and several other Zionist yeshivas, students have been told to refrain from donating blood via MDA until the original version of the documents which ask for “name of father” and “name of mother” is restored.

In recent months, several organizations have been altering official documents, replacing “father” with “parent 1” and “mother” with “parent 2.”

Usually, a Magen David Adom (MDA) van arrives at Zionist yeshivas once every three months, in order to enable the students to donate blood on site.

In some yeshivas, when the administration realized that the updated version of the medical forms was to be used and would be filled out by the yeshiva students, the rabbis ordered a cessation of donations.

According to a report by Besheva correspondent Dvir Amar, a message distributed to yeshiva students at one of the yeshivas read: “In the MDA medical questionnaire forms, instead of ‘father’ and ‘mother’, ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’ appear. By order of the Rosh Yeshiva shlit”a, all blood donations at the yeshiva are canceled and no young man or yeshiva student may, even privately, go and sign this form until it is restored to normal.”

From Arutz Sheva, here.