Choice of Cabinet Ministers Get a D-

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

 Three of President Donald Trump's most vulnerable Cabinet nominees testified before Senate committees. National Intelligence Director nominee Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel, Trump's pick to run the FBI, faced senators for the first time in the confirmation process.   They do not seem to be favorites of either Democrats or Republicans or Independents.                                       

                                                                Tulsi Gabbard

• Republicans and Democrats on the Intelligence Committee repeatedly asked Gabbard — in sometimes fiery exchanges — about her past praise for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and comments that appeared to sympathize with Russia on matters involving Ukraine.                                                                           

                                                                 Kash Patel 

• Questioned about his allegiance to Trump, Patel pushed back on assertions that he might go after Trump's political opponents or pursue a so-called enemies list, phrasing he called a "mischaracterization."

                                                                            

                                             Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.                                                                  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, faced a second day of sharp questions, this time from the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, about his anti-vaccine activism and other controversial views, after he was grilled by the Finance Committee.  He's being questioned in a 2nd round as his answers were simply insufficient, and showed a complete change in his history.  

•   Even a family member thought he was a bad choice for the position, being this nephew of President John F. Kennedy isn't helping a bit in wooing many of the senators.  It's what he had believed about vaccines and now says they're okay.....

The three people that Trump selected for high level positions in his cabinet couldn't be worse for their positions, is my thinking.  Is Trump showing us his above normal ability to pick the best in the USA for these positions, proving he is such a perfect selection for the presidential position or what?  If so, he's sure got it wrong!  Their resumes show that none of them has what it takes to run the selected positions.  The only thing they've got going for them in my opinion is that all three seem to be YES men and women.  They'll do whatever Trump wants.  

Many parts of our lives will be affected by these choices if they pass and receive the vote, affected in a very negative manner.  It seems that the money for these accounts will be drained and placed in Donald's choice of accounts.  

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison, succeeding to the presidency following Harrison's death 31 days after assuming office. Tyler was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states' rights, including regarding slavery, and he adopted nationalistic policies as president only when they did not infringe on the states' powers.

To date, nine nominations to the cabinet have been rejected by the Senate. In addition, 19 nominations or near nominations have been withdrawn, either by the president or by the person chosen. President John Tyler holds the record for most cabinet nominees rejected by the Senate; four of his nominees failed to win confirmation.

                              The three fictional superstates of the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four are Oceania (Black), Eurasia (Red), and Eastasia (Yellow). 'Disputed territories' are indicated in grey.

The book, 1984 has segments of our lives today, eerily.  Right now I'm watching the movie, that came out October 10, 1984 from the book.  Big Brother looked just too familiar, like I've seen him before.  If you haven't read the book, please do, before books go completely out of style.                                          

George Orwell wrote this book about his near future with John Heard, published as a book on June 8, 1949.  Longing for freedom, the lowly bureaucrat of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith, summons up the courage to write down his unspoken desires in his little secret diary. Serving silently at the pleasure of the grim, autocratic hyper-state of Oceania, Smith knows that the English Socialist Party's supreme leader, the omnipotent Big Brother, watches his every move, condemning the already terrified people into a life of slavery. Under those dire circumstances--as the totalitarian government's suffocating stranglehold tightens more and more--Julia, another equally seditious party member, crosses paths with Winston, and a dangerous clandestine affair begins. Now, there's no turning back, and, sooner or later, the illicit couple will have to pay for its hideous crimes against the dictatorial state. What makes a good citizen? 

What have I learned?  A dictatorial  state can be created out of a Democracy or a Republican Party.  It's up to the leader chosen and the backbone of the senate.   Hitler and Stalin are famous dictators.  That's why our government has so many checks and balances.  We do not allow for a dictator.   First check-point are our Senators.  

• Resource:
• https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/politics/rfk-gabbard-patel-confirmation-hearings-takeaways/index.html
• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/trump-cabinet-senate-confirmation-hearings-live-updates-rcna189116

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsuccessful_nominations_to_the_Cabinet_of_the_United_States#:~:text=Roger%20B.%20Taney%20was%20the,or%20by%20the%20person%20chosen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler

TV on CNN film the questioning period;  especially of Kennedy.  

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Blinken Lets Cat Out Of The Bag Caroline's Holding

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                                 

"Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 71st United States secretary of state from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. Blinken was previously national security advisor to then–Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2013."  

Knowing his background makes it all the more shocking as to the Leftist Democratic Stand he is taking, yet also showing his environment being under Obama and Biden.

Blinken was born on April 16, 1962, in Yonkers, New York, to Jewish parents. His mother was Judith (née Frehm) Blinken and his father was Donald M. Blinken, a co-founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus who later served as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews. Blinken's uncle, Alan Blinken, served as the U.S. ambassador to Belgium. His paternal grandfather, Maurice Henry Blinken, was an early backer of Israel who studied its economic viability, and his great-grandfather was Meir Blinken, a Yiddish writer.

During the 2021 Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Blinken expressed "absolute" support for Israel's right to defend itself but warned that evicting Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem is among the actions that could further escalate outbreaks of violence and retaliation.

During a visit to Tel Aviv following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Blinken promised to help defend Israel "as long as America exists." Blinken said that "Israel has the right, indeed the obligation, to defend itself and to ensure that this never happens again." He rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war but said he supported "humanitarian pauses" to deliver aid to the people of the Gaza Strip.

            Ministers of the Israeli war cabinet meeting with Blinken, January 9, 2024

 Blinken participated in Netanyahu's cabinet policy decisions on humanitarian aid, which allowed the targeting of aid convoys that could "reach Hamas." Implementation of the policy resulted in assaults on UNRWA aid trucks, Palestinian police escorts for aid convoys, the World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack, and assassination of Anera aid workers. 

 Blinken is now out of a job with Trump coming in as President.  Is he still the Jewish ambassador?  

"In what could be his final speech on the job, Secretary of State Antony Blinken also accused Israel of systematically undermining the Palestinian Authority, which he said should govern a unified Gaza Strip, in addition to Judea and Samaria after Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists concludes.

May I remind readers and Blinken that the PA lost the election for who was to govern them, encouraged or even more by Obama himself.  They lost to Hamas terrorists.   The Arabs were not familiar with governing, elections, or freedom and they cast their vote probably at the end of a gun, knife or rifle, at least without thought,  only might.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Atlantic Council, January 14, 2025.

"What followed was a psychedelic fantasy with no connection to recent events in the Middle East, with Blinken floating in the sunny air of Narnia inside his head:"

“We believe that the Palestinian Authority should invite international partners to help establish and run an interim administration with responsibility for key civil sectors in Gaza like banking, water, energy, health, and civil coordination with Israel,” Blinken began. (Who is "WE?")

 “The international community would provide funding, technical support, and oversight. The interim administration would include Palestinians from Gaza and representatives from the PA – selected following meaningful consultation with communities in Gaza – and would hand over complete responsibility to a fully reformed PA administration as soon as it’s feasible.”

"The “capacity and legitimacy” of the PA, which Blinken described as the “only viable alternative” to Hamas, has been undermined by the current government in Jerusalem, Blinken claimed."

What Netanyahu says, and it is Israel who has bore the pain, bloodshed of defending their country; is slightly different, not choosing the present PA to run Gaza since he has had experience in dealing with them for years and years.

"Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly prepared to allow Palestinian Authority officials to govern Gaza when the war against Hamas has ended. Top aides of the Israeli prime minister told the Times of Israel that while he is opposed to the “current PA,” Netanyahu could accept a reformed Ramallah leadership playing a role in running the territory.  That would likely involve the authority better addressing extremism and terrorism in the West Bank, the Israeli newspaper wrote." Netanyahu has considered many options for the position, 

    Mahmoud Abbas, President after Arafat died, since May 8, 2005.  born 15 November, 1935; almost 90 years old, a little younger than me; and I can tell you that he's in no position to run Gaza.  

The Palestinian president has yet to condemn the October 7 attack, though he has criticized Hamas’s decision to launch the terror raid.

Blinken let the cat out of the bag today through Glick that Hamas has been non-compliant for 2 main reasons.  1. When Israel is pressured by the USA, they are happy so refuse to agree to a cease-fire and the hostage releases.  2.  They are waiting for more attacks from their friends to supplement theirs.  They expect more from Hezbollah, for instance.  In other words, they want more fighters than those already signing on.  So has Blinken done his best to shore up Netanyahu's defense plan for Israel?  I certainly hope so.  We never want to see another October 7th again!  

Resource:

Blinken confession, Caroline Glick,

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=3055248201304140

 JP, file:///C:/Users/Nadine/Downloads/Blinken%20Confess'n%20-%20Glick%20-%20JP%20-%201-29-25%20(1).pdf

file:///C:/Users/Nadine/Downloads/Shlomo%20Ben%20Yosef%20-%20Singer%20-%20JP%20-%201-29-25.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Blinken

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/palestinian-authority/on-his-last-week-in-office-blinken-blames-israel-for-undermining-the-pa-threatens-unsc-resolution/2025/01/15/

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/netanyahu-prepared-to-allow-palestinian-authority-to-govern-gaza-ql99kv01

Caroline Kennedy Tells Us The Facts She Knows Robert F. Kennedy, Jr A Day Before It's Too Late

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                     

U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy speaks during a tour of the Osbourne Naval Shipyards and Australian Submarine Corporation facilities in Adelaide, South Australia, on March 22, 2024Michael Errey/AFP via Getty Images

Finally, Caroline Kennedy spoke out today making the news about her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is about to be voted on as head of the USA's health for the Trump administration for his confirmation hearings.  He was known to her as putting small animals in a blender and killing them.   She said he was a predator.  He keeps birds of prey as pets, she stated.  She described her cousin’s basement, garage and dorm as being an epicenter for drug use, where he would also put baby chickens and mice in blenders to feed to his hawks.“It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence,” she wrote.       

He allegedly showed others “how he put baby chickens and mice in a blender”

Caroline alleged that when Robert “encouraged others into substance abuse,” he would have people in his basement, his garage and his dorm room, locations that “were always the center of the action where drugs were available.”She claimed that her cousin “enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in a blender to feed to his hawks,” adding, “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”         

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, tomorrow,  in his bid to become Trump’s health secretary. Another hearing for his nomination will be held on Wednesday in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee, the panel his uncle, Ted Kennedy, once chaired.

When I heard this news, I was sick;  physically sick.  This is animal abuse; some-one causing pain to animals, no matter that it was a small baby chick or a teeny mouse, small enough to fit into a blender.  It sounds like they were even, G-d forbid- alive when it happened.  

You read about children who abuse animals.  This is a man still doing it,  and as Caroline's story progresses, one sees that Robert was a drug dealer using his own relatives as well.  Anyone abusing animals to enjoy seeing their pain has got to be sick themselves.  Our civilization will not stand for this.  

October 7, end of Sukkot, a happy festival, celebrating life,

also known as a festival of harvest

You may not realize it, but the same thing just happened on October 7th in Israel with Hamas terrorists enjoying their brutal attack on young Israelis who were enjoying life and dancing outside at the time of attack.  I just heard the depth of brutality that was done to the Jews' bodies;  the cutting, mutilating, burning, beheading of babies, etc, that Israel does not want to talk about.  It's like its a sacrilege to their bodies to do so.  Oh, I hope the mothers died before their babies did; how horrible to see their children harmed in such a way!!! We know some of this did happen, no doubt, during the Holocaust.  Mengele, the doctor who did such horrid experiments to Jews, must have enjoyed his work!  

We are taught through our kashrut or kosher laws, to realize that animals have feelings, and that we don't eat meat and drink milk at the same meal in respect to

the cow who gives us milk and meat;  we think how she would feel if she saw this.  As children, we understand and this stays with us.  It goes on to respect the feelings of other animals; birds, etc. and of course continues to people.  So it's hard to stand by and see people so perverse that would purposely hurt an animal.  Somehow, parents need to remember to teach their children to be kind to animals; perhaps by having pets and caring for them-properly.   

• The Torah says, "Do not boil a kid in its mother's milk" (Exodus 23:19). 
• Some say the prohibition comes from an ancient pagan ritual of cooking and eating meat and milk.  Many recipes today are a combination of meat and milk somehow in sauces, gravies, etc.
• Kabbalah says that meat represents judgment and milk represents kindness, and these opposing characteristics should not be mixed. 

Nothing else matters as much as this as a reason not to allow Kennedy any position.  Caroline give many reasons, and I see some reporters didn't even include this information that she gave about this brutality; it's hard to believe, I know.  However, according to her, he was into drugs, and that could be the cause.  Because she was brave enough to come out the day before confirmation and give her report;  and I am still aghast at it after reading about it, I will join her.  I know there are some other stories about him, animals and parks and death that I'll research another day.   One more thing; Samuel chose David because he was such a good shepherd.  What you are like as a child in also important.  This was enough.

Resource:

https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/01/caroline-kennedy-warns-senators-that-cousin-rfk-jr-is-a-predator-who-killed-animals-in-a-blender.html   In March 2020, MLive Media Group announced Tim Gruber as the President and Chief Revenue Officer.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/caroline-kennedy-alleges-her-cousin-000551854.html?guccounter=1

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5278407/caroline-kennedy-rfk-jr-confirmation-hearing

https://abc7news.com/post/caroline-kennedy-slams-robert-jr-predator-before-confirmation-hearing/15844255/

What Happened At Megiddo and Now?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                    

Today, Megiddo is an archaeological site in northern Israel, situated near the town of Afula, where visitors can explore the ruins of an ancient city that once held strategic importance due to its location on a hill overlooking the Jezreel Valley; it is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, often referred to as "Armageddon" in the Bible, and is primarily accessible through the nearby Kibbutz Megiddo. In 2022, it had a population of 867.

Megiddo was an ancient fortified town in Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.  People lived there from the 4th millennium BCE to 500 BCE.  It stood in a strategic position controling the pass which connected Egypt with Mesopotamia.  It was the site of thevictory of Pharaoh Thutmose III over the king of Kadesh.  It became the scene of many battles, including Deborah's victor over the Canaanites, Josiah's defeat by theEgyptians, encounters in the time of Tiglath Pileser, the Roman War, and theCrusades.                                                       

    This could be the IDF fighting the Hamas terrorists; and after October 7th, cansay for sure that Hamas was so terribly evil!                                    

The place was so noted as a battleground that the New Testament places theapocalyptic war between the forces of good and evil at Har (Mt) Megiddo (Armageddon).  It's just north of Samaria, again in the news with Israel fighting on 7fronts.                                                                

                                      29 min (19.2 km) via Route 60 from Afula

                                                       Jenin, Samaria

Jenin, a city of about 50,000 people in the northern West Bank, has been a center of resistance for generations, first to British rule and then to Israeli forces in the war following Israel's creation in 1948. It's still the scene of being home to terrorists.  

A Palestinian town, the biblical En Gannim in Josh. 19-21), in Roman times called Ginaea, with a small Jewish community inthe 17th century, was a center of Arab nationalist fanaticism in1930's, was part of Jordan from 1948-1967.  Population in1967 was 8,346 apart from 5,019 Arab refugees in the vicinity. 

                      Afula, just 29 minutes away from Jenin

Jan. 27, 2025 / JNS)

The Israel Defense Forces last week launched a significant counter-terrorism operation in Jenin, Samaria. Dubbed “Operation Iron Wall,” its aim is to dismantle the area’s growing terror infrastructure. According to IDF International Spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, the situation in Jenin has become critical over the past 15 months, contributing significantly to the ongoing wave of deadly violence  in Judea and Samaria and across Israel. During a briefing with journalists on Jan. 22, Shoshani reported that over 2,000 terror attacks and attempted attacks had been launched from Judea and Samaria since the Oct. 7, 2023 war began, resulting in 46 Israeli and foreign national casualties and over 1,200 injuries. Several high-profile attacks were linked to Jenin.  Located in the northern West Bank, the city of Jenin (pronounced like the girl’s name Janine) has become a tinder box that could lead to the next Israeli war. 

What started out as a territory, which belonged to the Israelite tribe of Issachar, and only 25 kilometers from Megiddo, the place which Biblical prophecy states will be the site of the last war to be fought (Armageddon), a battle is already taking place. In 1950, the city of Jenin was annexed by Jordan, with a refugee camp being founded by 1953. 

As a result of the Six-Day War, Jenin came back into Israeli hands but has been governed by the Palestinian National Authority, as a result of the 1996 Oslo Accords. Today, there are mixed reports as to how many refugees are in that camp, but some estimates place numbers as high as over 20,000 Palestinians. The city has been dubbed, “The Martyrs’ Capital,” and is home to such terror groups as, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Tanzim, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas. Many suicide bombers, as well as terrorists, have been sent from Jenin to wreak carnage on Israeli citizens, and that is the reason that Israeli Defense Forces must regularly go in to fight these organized attackers whose sole existence is for the purpose of coming against the Jewish state.

Pope Paul VI visited Israel in 1964 and was received by President Shazar at Megiddo.A communal settlement (KA) was founded nearby in 1949 by immigrants fromPoland.  The population there by 1990 was 387.  After Paul VI has been 2 other Popes.  Two popes succeeded Pope Paul VI: John Paul I and John Paul II. This period is known as the "Year of the Three Popes". Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have visited Israel after Pope Paul VI in 1964.  

Resource: 

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://allisrael.com/why-the-city-of-jenin-could-lead-to-war