Where to find evidence-based adult vaccine recommendations

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/12/vaccine-recommendations-adults-acp-medical/

Many readers praised the American Academy of Pediatrics for issuing its own childhood immunization guidance after federal health officials stopped broadly recommending key vaccines for children. Bruce, a family physician from Ohio, wrote that the AAP’s guidance, now endorsed by 12 other major medical organizations, gives him the professional backing he needs to continue advocating the shots.

That’s no longer the case, said ACP President Jason M. Goldman. An internist in private practice in Florida, he called what is happening with the CDC “absolutely horrifying.”

“I never thought in my lifetime [that] I have to say we can’t trust the recommendations coming out of the CDC, which was always the gold standard for the world,” he said.

Terror ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful by UK High Court

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/13/uk/uk-palestine-action-ban-gbr-uk-intl

The UK High Court has ruled that the government’s decision to ban activist group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization last summer was unlawful.

It follows one of the largest campaigns of nonviolent civil disobedience in recent history, with nearly 3,000 people – many of them pensioners or the elderly – arrested at solidarity protests nationwide since July.

Most of those arrests were for holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action,” at the demonstrations, according to Defend Our Juries – which has been instrumental in organizing the protests.

Tzadikim Die early to save them from sin

 Zohar (Bereishis 56b) There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there be righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked, etc.. How there are righteous men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked we have just explained, viz. that because their deeds are good, God removes them from the world before their time and before they become liable to punishment. The rest of the verse, there be wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous, means that God gives them a respite and is long-suffering with them. Thus the good die early in order that they may not degenerate, and the wicked live on in order that they may have a chance to repent, or in order that a virtuous progeny may issue from them. See now, Enoch was virtuous, but God saw that he would degenerate, and therefore gathered him in in time, as one gathers lilies  because of their good scent. And he was not, for God had taken him. This means that he did not live to a great age like his contemporaries, because God took him before his time. R. Eleazar said: God removed Enoch from the earth, and took him up to the highest heavens, and there presented to him wonderful treasures, including forty-five mystical key-combinations of graven letters which are used by the highest ranks of angels, as has been explained elsewhere.

Magic Origin

 Zohar (Bereishis 56a) In the time of Enosh, men were skilled in magic and divination, and in the art of controlling the heavenly forces. Adam had brought with him from the Garden of Eden the knowledge of “the leaves of the tree”, but he and his wife and their children did not practise it. When Enosh came, however, he saw the advantage of these arts and how the heavenly courses could be altered by them, and he and his contemporaries studied them and practised magic and divination. From them these arts descended to the generation of the Flood and were practised for evil purposes by all the men of that time. Relying upon these arts, they defied Noah, saying that divine justice could never be executed upon them, since they knew a way to avert it. The practice of these arts commenced with Enosh, and hence it is said of his time, THEN WAS THE NAME OF THE LORD CALLED UPON PROFANELY. R. Isaac said: All the righteous men that were among them sought to restrain them, such as Jered, Methuselah, and Enoch, but without success, and the world became full of sinners who rebelled against their Master saying, “What is the Almighty that we should serve him?. This is not so foolish as it sounds, for they knew all the arts we have mentioned and all the ruling chieftains in charge of the world, and on this knowledge they relied, until at length God disabused them by restoring the earth to its primitive state

Tzadikim are godly

Bamidbar Rabbah (14:4) when the tzaddikim decree, Hashem fulfills their words.

Bereishis Rabbah (08:10) When G-d created Adam, the ministering angels mistook him for a divine being and wished to exclaim ‘Holy’ before him. What does this resemble? A king and a governor who sat in a chariot, and his subjects wished to say to the king, ‘ Sovereign!’ but they did not know which it was. What did the king do? He pushed the governor out of the chariot, and so they knew who was the king. Similarly, when the Lord created Adam, the angels mistook him for a divine being. What did G-d do? He caused sleep to fall upon him, and so all knew that he was but mortal man; thus it is written, Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath, for how little is he to be accounted!

Devarim Rabbah (10:03) The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: Ruler over men shall be the righteous, even he that ruleth in the fear of God. And what means, ' The righteous, even he that ruleth in the fear of God? The righteous have power over the same things as God, if one may say so. In which way? Everything that God does, the righteous do. How is this illustrated? God remembers barren women; Elisha, too, remembered the Shunammite woman. Whence this? For it is said, At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son. God quickens the dead; and Elisha, too, brought back to life the son of the Shunammite woman. God parts the seas, Elijah and Elisha, too, parted seas. Whence this? For it is said, And smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither. God heals without emollients, and Elisha healed Naaman without emollients. God sweetens the bitter waters, and Elisha sweetened the bitter waters, for so Scripture says,  And he said: Bring me a new cruse, etc., and it is further written, So the waters were healed. God withholds the rain, and Elijah withheld the rain, as it is said, ‘As the Lord, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, etc.. God causes rain to fall, and Samuel caused rain to fall, as it is said, Is it not wheat harvest to-day? I will call unto the Lord, etc.. God sends down fire, and Elijah brought down fire from heaven, as it is said,Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt-offering.

Zohar (Bereishis 10a) Who raises the dead to life? Only G-d alone,  yet Elijah and Elisha came and raised the dead to life. Who causes rain to fall? Only the G-d yet Elijah came and kept back the rain and then made it descend again, through his prayer. Who made heaven and earth? G-d alone yet Abraham came and they were firmly established for his sake. Who regulates the course of the sun? None but G-d yet Joshua came and ordered it to stand still in its place and it stood still, as it is written, And the sun stood and the moon stayed  G-d issues decrees, but similarly Moses issued decrees, and they were fulfilled. Further, G-d pronounces judgements and the righteous of Israel annul them, as it is written, The righteous ruleth the fear of God. 

An epic feud threatens Mideast stability at a delicate moment

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/12/uae-saudi-arabia-trump-gulf-stability/

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the two drivers of modernization in the Middle East, should be rejoicing together these days. Iran is weak, its proxies are on the run, and an American armada approaches the Persian Gulf. But instead they have stumbled into an epic feud that could polarize the region.

When the quarrel detonated in late December, it seemed like a fight over strategy for resolving the forever war in Yemen. But it has since escalated into a social media battle in which Saudis have attacked the UAE as “Israel’s Trojan horse” and denounced the Abraham Accords, joined by the UAE in 2020, as “a political military alliance dressed in the garb of religion.”

The dispute matters because President Donald Trump has placed big bets on both countries as he seeks to transform the Middle East. Trump needs unified gulf support as he threatens military action against Iran, tries to disarm Hamas in Gaza, and seeks to help expand Israel’s ties with the fragile nations of Syria and Lebanon.

Lawmakers express bipartisan outrage as DOJ accused of ‘spying’ on members’ Epstein searches

 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5735974-doj-epstein-file-searches-lawmakers/

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are accusing the Department of Justice (DOJ) of spying on them as they reviewed the unredacted Epstein files on DOJ computers, tracking the documents they examined.

One of the saddest performances in Capitol Hill history: Joe reacts to AG Bondi’s hearing

Bondi Asked Straight-Up Who Had Ghislaine Maxwell Moved To Minimum Security Prison

Pam Bondi makes an ABSOLUTE FOOL of herself frantically ducking Epstein questions

Ted Lieu Accuses Bondi Of Lying Under Oath To Her Face Leading To All-Out Clash

Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi Gets Hammered on Epstein & MAGA Coalition Starting to Crack

Jasmine Crockett Goes Off on Pam Bondi

Law hidden from tzadik

 Bamidbar Rabbah (21:12) AND MOSES BROUGHT THEIR CAUSE. Some hold that the law was hidden from Moses. There are cases where righteous men have boasted of some matter connected with a precept and G-d weakened their power. You find that David boasts: Thy statutes have been my songs, as much as to say that they are easy and familiar like songs. Said G-d ‘By your life! You will in the end err in a matter that children read in the Scripture! ' When he brought up the ark he erred and put it on a cart; as it says, And they set the ark of G-d upon a new cart. The ark suspended itself in the air and the cows beneath it slipped. Uzzah drew near to support it, And G-d smote him there for his error, for an error in learning amounts to presumption. And David was displeased, because the Lord had broken forth upon Uzzah. G-d said to him: ' Did you not say, "Thy statutes have been my songs"? Have you not learned: But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the holy things belonged unto them: they bore them upon their shoulders David began to reflect: The Lord our G-d made a breach upon us, for that we sought Him not according to the ordinance . It was the same with Moses. Because he had boasted: The cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it, He diminished his mental powers. It is like the case of a money-changer who said to his apprentice: ‘If you are brought selaiim to exchange into small coins exchange them, but if pearls come, bring them to me.’ A bead of glass was brought to him and he took it to his master. His master, however, went to consult someone else about it! It is the same here. Moses had said: ’The cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me.’ When the daughters of Zelophehad, however, came, He concealed the law from him, AND MOSES BROUGHT THEIR CAUSE BEFORE THE LORD. THE DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD SPEAK RIGHT. This, He meant, is the law! G-d said to him: ' Did you not say, "The cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me"? The law with which you are unacquainted is decided by the women!