The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran told you all this was coming

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I wrote it in 2016, but I could have written it yesterday. The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran details the Islamic Republic’s militaristic aims, its support for global terrorism, its oppression of its own people, and much, much more, including exactly why Barack Obama’s late and much-lamented nuclear deal was so disastrous.

Here is the publisher’s statement about the book from 2016. This sentence jumped out at me: “The Islamic Republic is already at war with America. If we refuse to recognize that fact, we are only falling prey to the mullahs’ campaign of duplicity.”

Our Most Dangerous Enemy

Think it’s ISIS? Think again.

Iran is the terrorist powerhouse of the world—made all the more dangerous by the disastrous “nuclear deal” that restricts Iran’s nuclear ambitions hardly at all.

The Iranian government is an open enemy of the United States—and of anyone who dissents from Shia Islam.

Iran confronts U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf “on a near daily basis.”

It executes more of its citizens than any other nation.

It is a country torn by hypocrisy—lectured by mullahs, and with brutally enforced Islamic religious laws, but rife with alcoholism.

Once America’s ally, Iran now claims leadership of the global jihad, and the ayatollahs’ aim is nothing less than world conquest for Islam.

In his extraordinary new book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer reveals:

How the Iranian “nuclear deal” is sheer capitulation to the mullahs, allowing Iran to inspect its own facilities and pursue nuclear weapons

Iran’s long-standing support for terrorists—including shocking evidence that Iran helped plan the 9/11 attacks

Why Iran wants nuclear weapons—clue: it’s not about deterrence

American diplomatic folly—why the Obama administration has grossly underestimated the Iranian threat

A new grand strategy: how Iran’s Shi’ite terrorism might be contained and its threat to the United States reduced

The Islamic Republic is already at war with America. If we refuse to recognize that fact, we are only falling prey to the mullahs’ campaign of duplicity.

The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran exposes the true nature of the threat, lays out what America must do to defeat it, and gives you all the information you need about America’s least understood yet potentially most lethal foe.

“The brilliant and courageous Robert Spencer rips to shreds the claim that the Iran nuclear deal will bring peace to the world, and shows the truly shocking extent to which Iran is a threat to the stability not just of the Middle East, but of the entire world — and has been for decades while all too many American leaders have dithered, temporized and appeased it. The Islamic Revolution (enabled by Jimmy Carter), the hostage crisis, the Green Movement — it’s all here, including little-known facts about Iran’s role in 9/11 and its sponsorship of terror around the globe. Here is the one book that will put to rest forever the idea that the Islamic Republic will ever be a peaceful member of the family of nations, and shows what’s at stake if our leaders continue to pretend otherwise.” (Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (2002-2007))

“Robert Spencer has succeeded where many fail, sweeping through Iran’s history with a sure touch and an eye for the essential. He has also understood the monumental significance of Iran’s material contribution to the September 11, 2001 plot. Despite sectarian enmity, Sunnis and Shia can get along just fine when it comes to killing Jews and Americans.”  (Kenneth R. Timmerman, President, Foundation for Democracy in Iran)

“Robert Spencer is arguably the most knowledgeable, authoritative and prolific of American infidels with respect to sharia, jihad and their most dangerous state sponsor: the Islamic Republic of Iran. Naturally, his is the complete guide for what all of us — Muslim and non-Muslim alike — need to know about Iran.” (Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy)

“Simultaneously, Iran is the modern iteration of one of human history’s richest civilizations and a paranoid jihadist state bent on global conquest, the destruction of Israel, and ‘Death to America.’ It is our most immediate threat, yet one strangely remote from our understanding. In The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran, Robert Spencer punctures our common misconceptions and Washington’s dangerous delusions about Iran, bringing to bear his unique blend of fearlessness, erudition, and clear-eyed analysis. All Americans, and most especially the political class, would do well to read this highly accessible book and grasp the challenge that confronts us.” (Andrew C. McCarthy, bestselling author, National Review contributing editor, and former federal prosecutor)

“Iran is the gravest threat to world peace today, and in this essential new book, Robert Spencer explains why. From all the astonishing details of just how disastrous Obama’s nuke deal is to Iran’s continuing war footing toward the U.S. and Israel and the shocking beliefs that may lead the Iranians to decide to nuke Israel, it’s all here. The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran should be placed on the desk of every official in Washington — especially in the Oval Office.” (Steve Emerson, Investigative Project)

“This masterpiece illuminates the most lethal threats against America and civilization today. Iran aims at global and hegemonic control through its terror networks, which are widely dispersed over the planet. Robert Spencer’s vivid, lucid and comprehensive record of Iran’s genocidal apocalyptic nuclear program gives us an invaluable and perspicuous tool for understanding current crucial topics. Essential reading to prevent mass extermination.” (Bat Ye’or, author of Eurabia : the Euro-Arab Axis)

“Eye-opening. Sobering. Informative. Gripping. The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran is a comprehensive and unique look at the world’s foremost and most dangerous rogue state. It’s what every American needs to know about the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Robert Spencer makes it all clear: Iran’s magnificent history and terrible present, the full horror of the Obama/Kerry nuclear deal, Iran’s global anti-U.S. and anti-Israel adventurism, its role in 9/11, and the warped theology that makes it so eager to destroy Israel. No one who cares about America’s future and the survival of the free world should miss this book.” (Pamela Geller, President, American Freedom Defense Initiative)

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MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen Just Got a Settlement From CNN. Media: Learn Your Lesson.

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While the media often portray themselves as noble guardians of the truth who keep a close watch on those in power, the reality is quite the opposite: It is they who are in power and often swoop down to crush the powerless.

This was the case in the frenzy surrounding Nick Sandmann, a teenage student at Covington Catholic High School who donned a “Make American Great Again” hat and became cast as a national villain overnight.

On Tuesday, Sandmann enjoyed some measure of vindication. After suing multiple media outlets for libel, including the Washington Post, he confirmed that CNN had reached a settlement with him for damages and “emotional distress” caused by the network’s coverage of the viral incident that took place in 2019.

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The financial terms of Sandmann’s settlement were not disclosed.

In January 2019, a series of major media outlets published stories about a videotaped encounter he had with a Native American activist in Washington, D.C. That viral video proved to be highly deceptive, as was the media account about the incident, which painted a complex scene in simple terms.

It was a shameful example of media outlets rushing to fuel a preconceived narrative, recklessly pursuing a story with a high potential for “rage clicks” as well as high potential to permanently harm a teenager who never sought the public spotlight.

This story was fake news built on top of fake news, a leading example of why Americans have lost trust in media and journalists. It was Example A of how the media can fail to act with appropriate objectivity in the search to shine a light on those in power, and can instead be weaponized against the powerless who don’t have favored status in America’s elite newsrooms.

Celebrities, politicians, and social media mobs did the work of piling on to destroy a young person who had been carelessly dropped into the maelstrom.

In a now-deleted tweet, former CNN host Reza Aslan said that Sandmann had a “punchable face.”

The whole situation was a fine example of why the Founders distrusted unchecked democracy.

Crowds can easily be ginned up into a mob by false information, and as the frenzy peaks, the rights and very lives of individuals can be ruthlessly trampled on.

None of this would have happened if CNN and other outlets had been more cautious in their reporting on a story with such explosive potential. Instead, they were derelict.

They chose to push the tale that Sandmann acted in an aggressive and racist manner toward a Native American man, who simply wanted to protest peacefully and play music.

As my colleague, Katrina Trinko, wrote at the time: “Finally, [the media] had a piece of proof that supported their cherished narrative: that most Trump supporters were bigots and racists who backed the wall and other initiatives because of their racist views.”

Only after these stories were published, and the mobs had been armed with their digital pitchforks, did a slow trickle of information begin to reveal the reality of the situation.

With time, it became clear that the facts did not support the misleading initial reports and commentary.

Sandmann, it turns out, had not been the aggressor in the situation. The Native American man, Nathan Phillips, actually approached the teen after being egged on by a group of Black Hebrew Israelites, a black nationalist group, who had been yelling out racist and other derogatory comments, but were completely absent in the initial reporting.

In addition, many outlets initially reported (falsely) that Phillips was a “veteran,” which of course increased the rage toward Sandmann. That turned out not to be true after a review of his military records, which revealed that he had briefly been in the U.S. Marines, but never deployed.

In the end, the media’s forced story collapsed under the weight of evidence.

One would hope that the Covington fiasco would be a wake up call for the media, a “teachable moment.”

But given all of the other media follies in the last few years and a poor response to public criticism, it seems unlikely the media will change their ways.

To win back the public, media outlets need to ditch their preconceived narratives and work harder to find the truth.

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THE ECONOMY: The Big White Elephant in the Room

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If you are wondering why the Democrats in Congress are so aggressively resisting President Trump, look no further than the big white elephant in the room, the economy.

More than anything, the Democrats are terrified of the president’s accomplishments in terms of the economy as it poses the single biggest threat to their regaining control of the House, along with winning the Senate and Presidency. They have been putting on a full court press against the president in the hopes the American taxpayer will forget the prosperity triggered by Mr. Trump’s policies.

This is why Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D CA-12) made her formal request for articles of impeachment on Thursday, December 5th; one day before the release of the Labor Department’s December report on job growth, the second-biggest monthly gain in the Trump presidency. Knowing such a report of prosperity would hurt them politically, the Democrats tried to preempt it by calling for impeachment, thereby disrupting the news cycle.

If you will excuse the pun, the economy represents the Trump card for the 2020 presidential election. The Democrats have tried to run from it, take credit for it, say that is was a flash in the pan, even calling it a total failure. There is one problem, the Democrats are offering no alternatives other than Socialism and skyrocketing taxes, which would likely cause the economy to go into a tailspin. The Democrats fully understand the political importance of a prosperous economy on the American public, and know it is the biggest obstacle to their success, which explains why we are faced with an impeachment based on flimsy charges and evidence

These diversionary tactics have been going on since Mr. Trump assumed the presidency. To illustrate:

First, the Democrats claimed it was President Obama’s policies, not President Trump’s, that pointed the economy in the right direction. In reality, President Obama’s true economic record doesn’t come anywhere close to President Trump’s, and the Democrats know this, but hope they can fool the public. To illustrate, everyone knows manufacturing stalled out at the end of President Obama’s term, yet it has been experiencing a Rennaisance under President Trump. According to Barron’s just one year ago, “2018 was the best year for manufacturing job growth in the U.S. since 1997. Factories added 264,000 workers in 2018, up from 176,000 workers in 2017.” It was even better in 2019

Even the Washington Post, one of the president’s chief antagonists, had to reluctantly admit the economy is booming, “The November and December data is preliminary, so the numbers could change, but without a doubt, it’s a great result: the largest annual gain in manufacturing jobs since the Great Recession wiped out nearly 1.4 million just in 2009.”

Second, the Democrats insist the United States is going into a recession. This is nothing more than political spin. If you study the data, this is simply not true. It is scary the Democrats want to panic the public with a doom-and-gloom scenario, but this is politics and they hope it will trick people into voting for them. Whether you like President Trump or not, it is disturbing the Democrats want to see the country fail.

Third, the Democrats would have us believe the Trump tax cuts only benefit the rich. The tax cuts helped John Q. Public in terms of putting more money in their pockets, which invigorated consumer confidence and led to the largest holiday spending spree in history, thereby propelling business and jobs even farther.

It has also brought more jobs back to our shores. As Bloomberg recently admitted, “Corporations have brought back more than $1 trillion of overseas profits to the U.S. since Congress overhauled the international tax system and prodded companies to repatriate offshore funds, a report showed Thursday.” And even more is on the way. It is no small wonder the unemployment numbers have declined sharply, particularly for African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and women, which will help President Trump at the ballot box, all of which terrifies the Democrats.

The Reshoring Initiative, a group which monitors jobs returning to our shores, insists President Trump is setting records for companies returning jobs to our shores. All of this translates into more jobs, a higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and prosperity for everyone.

It is likely the Democrats will try other diversionary tactics in order to dissuade people from voting for the president. I suspect, they will make some obscure claims that the stock markets, which have reached historic highs recently, will flounder and decline, or maybe claim it is slow and grew faster under Democrat administrations. They may also delay pending trade deals, all of which helps American workers.

All of these false claims and political histrionics is aimed at diverting Americans from the big white elephant in the room, the economy, which will ultimately torpedo Democrat fortunes in 2020, a year of reckoning for them. This is why they refuse to discuss it. We should be celebrating the economy, as opposed to trying to torpedo it. The American public will look past the facade, and likely re-elect the president, making him the most effective president since Theodore Roosevelt.

Just remember, “It’s the economy, stupid!”

Keep the Faith!

P.S. – Also do not forget my books, “How to Run a Nonprofit” and “Tim’s Senior Moments”, both available in Printed and eBook form.

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VIDEO: President Trump’s message to terrorists — ‘If you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our people.’

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TRANSCRIPT
Remarks by President Trump on Iran

Grand Foyer
January 8, 2020
11:28 A.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT:  As long as I am President of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

Good morning.  I’m pleased to inform you: The American people should be extremely grateful and happy no Americans were harmed in last night’s attack by the Iranian regime.  We suffered no casualties, all of our soldiers are safe, and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases.

Our great American forces are prepared for anything.  Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world.

No American or Iraqi lives were lost because of the precautions taken, the dispersal of forces, and an early warning system that worked very well.  I salute the incredible skill and courage of America’s men and women in uniform.

For far too long — all the way back to 1979, to be exact — nations have tolerated Iran’s destructive and destabilizing behavior in the Middle East and beyond.  Those days are over.  Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism, and their pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world.  We will never let that happen.

Last week, we took decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist from threatening American lives.  At my direction, the United States military eliminated the world’s top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani.  As the head of the Quds Force, Soleimani was personally responsible for some of the absolutely worst atrocities.

He trained terrorist armies, including Hezbollah, launching terrorist strikes against civilian targets.  He fueled bloody civil wars all across the region.  He viciously wounded and murdered thousands of U.S. troops, including the planting of roadside bombs that maim and dismember their victims.

Soleimani directed the recent attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq that badly wounded four service members and killed one American, and he orchestrated the violent assault on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.  In recent days, he was planning new attacks on American targets, but we stopped him.

Soleimani’s hands were drenched in both American and Iranian blood.  He should have been terminated long ago.  By removing Soleimani, we have sent a powerful message to terrorists: If you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our people.

As we continue to evaluate options in response to Iranian aggression, the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian regime.  These powerful sanctions will remain until Iran changes its behavior.

In recent months alone, Iran has seized ships in international waters, fired an unprovoked strike on Saudi Arabia, and shot down two U.S. drones.

Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013, and they were given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash.  Instead of saying “thank you” to the United States, they chanted “death to America.”  In fact, they chanted “death to America” the day the agreement was signed.

Then, Iran went on a terror spree, funded by the money from the deal, and created hell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq.  The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration.  The regime also greatly tightened the reins on their own country, even recently killing 1,500 people at the many protests that are taking place all throughout Iran.

The very defective JCPOA expires shortly anyway, and gives Iran a clear and quick path to nuclear breakout.  Iran must abandon its nuclear ambitions and end its support for terrorism.  The time has come for the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and China to recognize this reality.

They must now break away from the remnants of the Iran deal -– or JCPOA –- and we must all work together toward making a deal with Iran that makes the world a safer and more peaceful place.  We must also make a deal that allows Iran to thrive and prosper, and take advantage of its enormous untapped potential.  Iran can be a great country.

Peace and stability cannot prevail in the Middle East as long as Iran continues to foment violence, unrest, hatred, and war.  The civilized world must send a clear and unified message to the Iranian regime: Your campaign of terror, murder, mayhem will not be tolerated any longer.  It will not be allowed to go forward.

Today, I am going to ask NATO to become much more involved in the Middle East process.  Over the last three years, under my leadership, our economy is stronger than ever before and America has achieved energy independence.  These historic accompliments [accomplishments] changed our strategic priorities.  These are accomplishments that nobody thought were possible.  And options in the Middle East became available.  We are now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world.  We are independent, and we do not need Middle East oil.

The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration, at a cost of $2.5 trillion.  U.S. Armed Forces are stronger than ever before.  Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal, and fast.  Under construction are many hypersonic missiles.

The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it.  We do not want to use it.  American strength, both military and economic, is the best deterrent.

Three months ago, after destroying 100 percent of ISIS and its territorial caliphate, we killed the savage leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, who was responsible for so much death, including the mass beheadings of Christians, Muslims, and all who stood in his way.  He was a monster.  Al-Baghdadi was trying again to rebuild the ISIS caliphate, and failed.

Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters have been killed or captured during my administration.  ISIS is a natural enemy of Iran.  The destruction of ISIS is good for Iran, and we should work together on this and other shared priorities.

Finally, to the people and leaders of Iran: We want you to have a future and a great future — one that you deserve, one of prosperity at home, and harmony with the nations of the world.  The United States is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it.

I want to thank you, and God bless America.  Thank you very much.  Thank you.  Thank you.

END

11:37 A.M. EST

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The Axis of Evil: A Base of Soviet Fascism

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When the fortieth President of the U.S. Ronald Reagan said “NO” to Michael Gorbachev in Reykjavik, he himself was not absolutely sure of his accuracy. Many years of fighting Communists helped his intuition to choose a correct answer. Dealing with the Union members in Hollywood, he had learned the methods of deception and Communist’s fraud and trickery. These experiences and awareness of the enemy dictated “NO.” I am reminding you of Reagan’s achievements for a reason—following him all four U.S. Presidents, unfortunately, did not fully understand know Communism/Socialism, which, by the way, is not dead today. That exact fact had produced the calamity in politics inside and outside current America…

The Soviet System and Ideology of Soviet Fascism

Watching Fox News regular, I viewed once the Bret Baier show Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Understanding this fall is crucial to give Americans a sense of history and bring to light the leaders of the world at a time of war. Yet, knowing the truth about the subject is imperative. Misleading phrases used in the report have the opposite effect. Bret’s phrase “the Soviet System was crushed” is very wrong and misleading. As a matter of fact, the Soviet Union did not collapse in 1991—it was Socialist economy, unable to produce that collapsed. Yet, the other part of the Soviet System, all security services have survived. I use the term KGB talking about them. It was the force of the KGB that helped Socialism to deceive and fool people by using Stalinist Political Correctness for seventy years. In 1991 the fraud died in the country where Socialism was born and practiced. Yet, the Soviet System continues functioning and controlling the population. The people of the KGB and the bureaucracy of the Soviet System were usurping governmental power, and prolonging the life of the fake ideology…

In the labyrinth of the Soviet history and politics the KGB catapulted Putin to the Presidency of the Russian Federation… The knowledge he obtained from his teacher Yuri Andropov came with him to the Kremlin. Not a lot has changed in Russia: instead of failed Socialism Russia has now a Crony capitalism run by the Soviet System. The war against Western civilization and predominantly against American interests is still intact and history should determine a new term identifying the ideology of giant hate based on the militant, aggressive and expansionist force in Russia. I did it many years ago calling the dogma Soviet fascism and knowledge of Stalinism had provided me with the adequate definition of the ideology.

The Soviet System is Alive and Well

A lot has changed in the world for the last thirty years, in term of new technology and industry, yet the Soviet objectives, strategy, methods, and tactics of war remains the same in the Kremlin. The Chief Commissar of this war is Vladimir Putin and the countries of the Axis of Evil including China and Iran are all under his ideological command. Yes, China economically and militarily is a major threat for us, but the ideology, agenda, strategy, tactics, methods, and tricks inculcated by the KGB in all countries of the Axis of Evil plays a crucial role. It took Stalin 29 years to create the Chinese Communist State…Do you remember the Gulag in Russia? China has the same Gulag on a quadrupled scale—the Soviet System is alive and well.

Professor Niall Ferguson calls this war—the Cold War II, I strongly disagree. Writing about this asymmetrical war for the last thirty years, I called it WW III and defined it as “Recruitment, infiltration, drugs and assassinations”. If the Cold War was officially between U.S. and Russia, today it is multi-national aggressive and disruptive global forces of the Axis of Evil under Russian ideological command, attacking Western civilization every day. Read my column: The Ideology of Soviet Fascism vs. Trump, December 6, 2019 and a book What is Happening to America?  The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction, Xlibris, 2012, pp. 161-180

America and its Intel apparatus had apparently been sleeping for those thirty + years given the enemies a tremendous opportunity to fulfill their agenda spreading the ideology of Communism/Socialism. And all these years, I was warning you by my books and columns describing that agenda of an asymmetrical-proxy global war (I called it WW III), infiltration, and destruction of Western civilization from within. Today, thirty years later, we are coming very close to the agenda declared by Lenin/Stalin Dogma to be fulfilled. Infiltration and the destruction of Western civilization from within gradually, but surely is going on in Europe and America. The war is surely underway on our planet: we experiencing it in the beginning of 2020…

The airstrike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani caught the world by surprise. Massive escalation with Iran will follow—we can expect “harsh retaliation” against U.S. forces and allies. A shadow General Solaimani led vicious attacks against our forces across the Middle East. He was a terrorist, and war criminals, I was writing about him and know something vitally important, nobody is talking about. General Qassem Soleimani grew from the Iranian Revolution 1979 and close ties with Russia. He was trained by the Russian Security Services for many years, while the KGB was building the Revolutionary Guard and Quds-Force. I believed that Soleimani learned Russian and had a friendly relation with Vladimir Putin. He was a Putin’s point-man for the Mideast in the Axis of Evil. The number of Americans killed by him is astonishing. After reading the column in the New York Times, I believe my predictions had been right.

“The commander helped direct wars in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, and he became the face of Iran’s efforts to build a regional bloc of Shiite power. He changed the shape of the Syrian civil war and tightened Iran’s grip on Iraq. He was behind hundreds of American deaths in Iraq and waves of militia attacks against Israel. And for two decades, his every move lit up the communications networks — and fed the obsessions — of intelligence operatives across the Middle East. On Friday, Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the powerful and shadowy 62-year-old spymaster at the head of Iran’s security machinery, was killed by an American drone strike near the Baghdad airport…” Qassim Soleimani, Master of Iran’s Intrigue, Built a Shiite Axis of Power in Mideast, New York Times, January 3, 2020

Please, pay attention to “a Shiite Axis of Power in Mideast,” those are the key words. Do you remember that I was writing about the Axis of Evil under Russian umbrella for last decade? It is about the countries adhered to the ideology of Soviet Fascism, waging an asymmetrical-proxy war against the West. Soleimani is not a master of Iranian intrigue—Vladimir Putin, a devoted disciple of Comrade Stalin is. There are two points to prove it. Stalin visited Iran in his youth and left the order to his disciples to infiltrate Mideast via Iran. And the second his decision—to stretch America’s forces by involving the U.S. to a war in the Mideast, as he put it: “the sectarian war will never end.”  The Axis of Evil, ran by Putin does just that in the case of Iran. … “a Shiite Axis of Power in Mideast,”  is a part of the Axis of Evil. If you know the Soviet System, you’ll indicate many other cases of the Axis of Evil adhered to the ideology of Soviet Fascism involved.

“An Iraqi security source: Two Katyusha rockets landed in the vicinity of the American embassy in Baghdad,” Al-Arabiya reported on Twitter in Arabic. Reuters reported that two Katyusha rockets also hit Balad air base, an Iraqi Air Force station that hosts U.S. forces and is located about 50 miles north of Baghdad. Breaking: Explosions Near Baghdad Embassy, Rockets Pummel Nearby Air Base by Jared Harris WJ, January 4, 2020. Are you familiar with the name Katyusha? It is a Russian name of a woman or the name of the deadly Russian artillery-rockets. The criminals who have Katyusha rockets are sponsored by Putin’s Russia and belong to the Axis of Evil.  I called all their leaders—Stalinist Charlatans.  

Qassim Soleimani was killed, because he represented a country of the Axis of Evil waging a war against Western civilization, his footprint was global. President Trump is the first American President, who grasp the depth, parameters, and nefarious danger of the Axis of Evil, built on the Soviet System’s foundation. The Axis of Evil has intertwined all the current Evils of the world—The Soviet System, the ideology of Soviet fascism, and Russia. The revenge in the realms of usual mechanism of Soviet Fascism has already started in the Iraqi Parliament enforcing our leave from Iraq—the legacy of the KGB asset—Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. I don’t know about the current one, but knowledge of Soviet fascism is a MUST…

The revenge in the future can be a variety of different terrorist acts of sabotage and destruction to destabilize the world: a crush of an American civil plane with 200 people on board, a catastrophic car’s accident with many deaths, or an orchestrated massive wild fire in any place of the world in the countries of different continents. Soviet Fascism never sleeps. You can read about all possible acts of revenge in the above mentioned book: What is Happening to America? Xlibris, 2012

 The Stalinist Charlatans in America

I’ve already introduced you to the term Stalinist Charlatans in my column Soviet Fascism Attacks America Via Democrat Party. The recent events should open your eyes even wider on the goings-on within the Democrat Party—the impeachment game. As a matter of fact, all Stalinist Charlatans in America belongs to the Democrat Party. This is the answer to sham-impeachment, when the Kremlin is behind impeaching the U.S. President Donald J. Trump. The KGB infiltrated the Dems’ leadership the same way it had infiltrated all countries of the Axis of Evil, including the building of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Quds-Forces. There is a possibility that those nefarious entities in Iran have been built on the money that Democrat Obama had given to Iran…

There is more: look at the Dems’ candidates for the U.S. presidency, 6 of them were sponsored by the KGB and the KGB agent, Georg Soros. Stop deceiving yourself talking about Radical Left, they are Stalinist Charlatans! They are the carriers of the ideology of Soviet fascism in America!

Watching the scenes of mourning the death of Solaimani in Iran, I recalled the same event in Moscow after the death of Comrade Stalin in March 5, 1953. I was a participant in Moscow and the scenes were analogous. When people believe in the cult of personality of their leaders, they behave emotionally the same way in the system that cultivated cult of personality under the ideology of Soviet Fascism. And we should understand the nature of this ideology to confront it successfully. Now I read that 40 people were killed in the mourning Solaimani in Iran. The same thing happened at Stalin’s funeral when tens of people were killed in the chaos of emotions mourning Stalin. Most Americans and especially the current FBI Director doesn’t know Soviet fascism and can’t defend us adequately to the threat of menace we are facing…

My fellow Americans!

The Axis of Evil is waging a war against Western civilization for decades. President Donald J. Trump was acting bravely and decisively against the global terrorist conglomerate. God bless him! God bless now and forever our political system, left to us by our Founding Fathers! We must keep defending our exceptional and most humane American Republic! We must stop and expose America’s traitors!

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DECADENT DEMOCRATS: From Creating Weak Men and Disorderly Women to Making Sex a Biological Reality Illegal

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“There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike. They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things–their occupations, their pleasures, their business. It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, “How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes,” 1840

“If families are falling apart, it’s because men are suffering. Men are hurting. It’s not just that they’re walking away from their families. It’s that they’re not being the fathers they’re meant to be.” — Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, U.S. Army (Ret.)

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” — Genesis 1:27 King James Version

EDITORS NOTE: This is the fifth in a series titled Decadent Democrats. You may read the previous installments here:

DECADENT DEMOCRATS — From Pedophilia to Sex with Animals

DECADENT DEMOCRATS — From Electing a Dream ‘Queer Latina’ Candidate to No Incarceration For Drug Use of Any Kind

DECADENT DEMOCRATS: The Enemies of America are Our Best Friends Forever

DECADENT DEMOCRATS — From Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globe Diatribe to Abortion to Climate Change [+Videos]

A Democrat Party of weak men and disorderly women

One of the main goals of Democrats has been to make men and women the same. We are not talking about voting rights, equal pay for equal work or access to opportunities to advance in our society and culture.

What Democrats have embraced is making men and women biologically alike. Hence degrading both sexes.

Democrats support the ideal of gender neutral pronouns, bathrooms that allow men and women equal access, homosexuality, bi-sexuality, transgenderism and even having sex with animals.

This issue made front page headlines recently after J.K. Rowling posted this on Twitter:

This tweet drew backlash from Rowling’s liberal fans. According to The Daily Signal’s Nicole Russell:

Rowling’s level-headed take on this topic may come as a surprise to some, given her history of supporting liberal politicians. But just as surprising are the facts that led to Maya Forstater’s firing.

Forstater, 45, was employed as a tax expert at the Center for Global Development, a British think tank. In 2018, her organization fired her after she posted comments on Twitter that criticized the U.K. government’s plans to let people self-identify according to the gender they choose.

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After being fired, she filed a complaint with an employment tribunal and alleged that she was discriminated against on the basis of her beliefs.

She reiterated those beliefs in her witness statement to the tribunal. She said she is “gender critical,” meaning that she believes “‘sex’ is a material reality which should not be conflated with ‘gender’ or ‘gender identity’ and that “being female (or male) is an immutable biological fact, not a feeling or an identity.”

The tribunal rejected her claim. In a lengthy judgment issued on Dec. 18, Judge James Tayler ruled that her view is “not worthy of respect in a democratic society,” calling it “absolutist” and “incompatible with human dignity and fundamental rights of others.” [Emphasis added]

Here is Maya Forstater’s tweet on allowing people to self identify:

First Non-Binary Person Rejects Transgenderism

Jamie Shupe, retired from the Army with the rank of Sergeant First Class. Shupe, who previously identified as transgender, was the first American to obtain nonbinary status under law. In an article titled I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham Shupe wrote:

Three years into my gender change from male to female, I looked hard into the mirror one day. When I did, the facade of femininity and womanhood crumbled.

Despite having taken or been injected with every hormone and antiandrogen concoction in the VA’s medical arsenal, I didn’t look anything like a female. People on the street agreed. Their harsh stares reflected the reality behind my fraudulent existence as a woman. Biological sex is immutable.

It took three years for that reality to set in with me. [Emphasis added]

Conclusion

Ayn Rand wrote, “The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.”

Jerome Huyler posted on Facebook,

“What are today’s absurdities? Capitalist greed, rampant racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia and police brutality, hate speech, income inequality, white privilege, rape culture, toxic masculinity, man-made global climate change, and the many “micro-aggressions” that send our college-aged daffodils searching for safe spaces.”

We must add to this the absurd idea the a man and a woman are biologically the same.

Watch this Eva Vlaardingerbroek speech about the dangers of Modern Feminism [English subtitles].

As Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America:

[A]nd if I were asked, now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

Today America’s disorderly women are in the Democratic Party and are no longer superior. Rather they are slaves to the decadent policies of their political party. As are their weak and decadent men.

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Iranian Terror Threat Exacerbated by Sanctuary Policies: Exposing the politicians’ deadly lies.

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The United States and Iran has been on a collision course since the Carter administration and the seizure of the U.S. Embassy at Tehran, Iran on November 4, 1979.

Iran has issued a string of threats against the U.S. since that day.  Consider my earlier articles published in 2018: Iran Threatens U.S. And Its Allies With “Drugs, Refugees, Bombs And Assassination” and Congressional Hearing: Iranian Sleeper Cells Threaten U.S. So many hearings, so little action

On January 2, 2020 the New York Times reported, U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces.  The Iranian response was reported on January 3, 2020 by Radio Free Europe / Liberty Radio: Khamenei, Other Iran Officials Vow ‘Severe Retaliation’ For Soleimani Killing.

The United States has been in the crosshairs of foreign terrorists for decades- and not just those affiliated with Iran.  Almost exclusively, these terror organizations have been affiliated with radical Islam.  Wikipedia posted a list of terror attacks in NYC up to and including 2017.

On September 11, 2001 the United States suffered the most devastating terror attacks in history.  By far, the greatest destruction and casualties occurred in NYC at the World Trade Center.

The 9/11 Commission, to which I provided testimony, was convened to not only document what had occurred, but to also determine what vulnerabilities enabled those attacks so that appropriate actions could be taken and measures implemented to thwart future terror attacks.

The 9/11 Commission ultimately authored the 9/11 Commission Report that identified multiple failures of the immigration system that enabled international terrorists, and not only the 19 hijacker/terrorists who carried out the savage attacks of 9/11 but other terrorists who attempted to carry out terror attacks in the U.S. in the decade preceding September 11, 2001.

The Executive Summary of the Final 9/11 Commission Report included this excerpt:

Permeable Borders and Immigration Controls

There were opportunities for intelligence and law enforcement to exploit al Qaeda’s travel vulnerabilities. Considered collectively, the 9/11 hijackers

  • included known al Qaeda operatives who could have been watchlisted;
  • presented passports manipulated in a fraudulent manner;
  • presented passports with suspicious indicators of extremism;
  • made detectable false statements on visa applications;
  • made false statements to border officials to gain entry into the United States;  and
  • violated immigration laws while in the United States.

Neither the State Department’s consular officers nor the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s inspectors and agents were ever considered full partners in a national counterterrorism effort. Protecting borders was not a national security issue before 9/11.

These obvious facts were not only a major theme of the 9/11 Commission report, but also for the staff of federal agents, from a variety of federal agencies, and for the attorneys who were assigned to assist the 9/11 Commission.

That staff produced an official report that focused on the myriad failures of the immigration system, 9/11 and  Terrorist Travel – Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.

The preface of this report begins with the following paragraph:

It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.

Over the years Iran has quietly and covertly moved their sleeper agents into the United States to scope out potential targets and embed their operatives to pre-position them.  Several have been arrested.

While our officials know who they have found, they obviously don’t know who they have not found.

I wrote about one of those sleepers, a naturalized citizen who was from Lebanon, in my article, Hezbollah Sleeper Agent Convicted Of Plotting U.S. Terror Attacks.

The threats posed by sleeper agents have been the subject of a series of Congressional hearings and yet the federal government, even after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 has failed abysmally at addressing the failures of the immigration system while sending American troops into harm’s way around the world.

Far more is involved than securing our dangerous southern border.  Immigration fraud undermines the integrity of the entire immigration system yet even after the terror attacks of 9/11, when it was well understood that immigration fraud was the key method of entry and embedding for international terrorists.

This vulnerability was the predication for my extensive article, Immigration Laws, Lies That Kill.

The only way to uncover fraud and locate aliens who violate our immigration laws and those who may enter into criminal conspiracies to violate our immigration laws including human traffickers is to have field agents conduct investigations and make arrests.

There are, nevertheless, precious few ICE agents.  While the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has 45,000 employees, our military has more than 1.2 million members, however, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) only has about 6,000 agents for the entire United States with only about one-third of those agents devoting their efforts to the enforcement of our immigration laws.

In essence our politicians have, by design, turned America into a Sanctuary Country.

This lunacy is vastly exacerbated by the creation of Sanctuary Cities and Sanctuary States that openly, gleefully and contumaciously obstruct immigration law enforcement and of late, have taken to issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens and even blocking access to DMV computers in New York and New Jersey.  This outrageous betrayal of America and Americans was the focus of my recent article, New York State Blocks ICE and Border Patrol Access to DMV Database.

Now let’s consider the reaction of New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio to the latest Iranian threats as reported by the January 3, 2020 edition of the Daily Mail: ‘We are at a state of war’: NYC mayor’s Iran warning as Homeland Security braces for attacks on U.S. soil – and sleeper terror cells could already be here.

That report quoted de Blasio:

‘No one has to be reminded that New York City is the number one terror target in the United States. We have to recognize that this creates a whole series of dangerous possibilities for our city,’ de Blasio said.

‘We have plenty of knowledge of previous efforts by Iranian proxies to scout and target locations in New York City. Hezbollah and others have made it a point in recent years… We know there’s been an effort to target and prepare to attack in New York City in the past.’

The mayor said the threat has changed significantly given the resources that a state such as Iran has compared to non-state organizations like Al Qaeda or ISIS.

‘It’s just a world of difference,’ de Blasio said.

In a series of tweets later on Friday, de Blasio added: ‘We are in an unprecedented situation today, but the NYPD is ready for any scenario. New Yorkers will see heightened security at locations around the city, but there is NO credible and specific threat at this time. If you see something, say something.

‘The NYPD has a strong relationship with our security and intelligence partners around the country and the world. They will be working together non-stop to keep New Yorkers safe, and I have absolute faith in them. Everyone should go about their lives unafraid.

The last paragraph is an utter, bald-faced lie and de Blasio knows it!  Sanctuary policies effectively obstruct ICE from carrying out its vital duties in apparent violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1324.  Immigration law enforcement is a major factor in the investigation of foreign terrorists who operate on American soil.

De Blasio and every candidate for every significant elected position must be asked, without equivocation, “Have you read the ‘9/11 Commission Report’ and the ‘9/11 Staff Report’ in their entirety?”  As a follow-up, they must also answer the question, “How does your position on immigration square with the findings of those reports?”

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DECADENT DEMOCRATS — From Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globe Diatribe to Abortion to Climate Change [+Videos]

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EDITORS NOTE: This is the fourth in a series titled Decadent Democrats. You may read the previous installments here:

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Hollywood is both decadent and deeply Democrat blue. There is nothing that the majority of Hollywood “actors and actresses” won’t do or say that supports the Democrat agenda. In Hollywood if you aren’t decadent and deep blue you probably won’t get a leading role in any film. Remember sexual predator Harvey Weinstein and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein?

Well Hollywood got a dose of its own decadence during the 77th Golden Globes Award dinner on Sunday, held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles.

Who gave those elite actors and actresses their much needed dose of Hollywood’s deceit and decadence comeuppance? None other than from English stand-up comedian Ricky Gervais.

Ricky Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globe Diatribe

Merriam-Webster:

Definition of diatribe

1: a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing

2: ironic or satirical criticism

In an article titled At the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais Exposed Hollywood’s ‘Woke’ Culture Jarrett Stepman wrote:

His speech ended up being a phenomenal takedown of an overly political and absurdly left-wing Hollywood that’s become obsessed with self-righteous crusades, such as the #MeToo movement, or with bemoaning the supposed lack of racial and gender diversity in movies.

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Gervais also poked fun at the smug—yet clueless—way Hollywood talks down to everyone else.

“You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything,” he said. “You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.”

Read more.

Stepman concludes with this statement, “Perhaps, through mockery, this really is the beginning of the end of Hollywood’s ‘Great Awokening’.”

Abortion

In an article titles Actress Michelle Williams Celebrates Abortion During Golden Globes, “Thank God” We Can Kill Babies Micaiah Bilger wrote:

Urging women to act in their “own self-interest,” actress Michelle Williams thanked God for her “right to choose” abortion Sunday at the Golden Globes.

The greatest number of deaths globally in 2019 were due to abortion 42.3 million preborn babies killed worldwide. According to LifeSiteNews

More than 42 million abortions took place globally in 2019 according to the tracking service Worldometers, once again finding abortion to be the single largest cause of death across the planet for the year.

As of December 31, Worldometers had counted 42.4 million abortions, which is more than half the total number of deaths by every other cause (58.6 million). Abortions dwarfed every individual cause of death, including overall deaths due to disease (13 million).

Read more.

The Catholic News Agency reported:

Planned Parenthood released its latest annual report on Monday [January 6, 2020], showing a continued increase in the number of abortions performed.

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According to its latest report, Planned Parenthood affiliates around the country performed 345,672 abortions in the 2018-19 fiscal year ending June 30, a three percent increase from 332,757 abortions in the previous fiscal year.  The organization performed 321,384 abortions in the 2016-17 fiscal year.

Watch: Michelle William’s statement.

Climate Change

The Democrats have made stopping the climate from changing a major priority leading up to the 2020 election. Their solution to a changing climate is to deny the world access to cheap and reliable power, i.e. fossil fuels.

In a January 7, 2020 fundraising email titled the need help to demand 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 >>>> Climate DISASTER (Equality Democrats) state:

Breaking News: UN Report Warns Only Rapid and Transformational Action Can Stave Off Global Climate Disaster

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The climate crisis is devastating communities around the world every single day. Australia is on FIRE as we speak.

We need a MASSIVE wave of grassroots momentum to tell Congress we won’t stand for inaction any longer — every signature counts when our planet is DYING.

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This topic came up at the Golden Globe Awards in relation to the fires in Australia. On Demand Entertainment published the below video titled Australian Bushfires Given Spotlight At Golden Globes.

The problem is that Australian authorities have arrested nearly 200 people for setting brush fires. In an article titled Nearly 200 People Arrested In Australia For Deliberately Lighting Bushfires Katabella Roberts reported:

State authorities in Australia have arrested nearly 200 people for alleged arson since the devastating bushfires began.

A total of 183 people have been arrested by police across the states of Queensland, New South Wales (NSW), Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania since November for 205 bushfire-related offences, local media reports.

In NSW, 24 were apprehended and charged with deliberately lighting bushfires. A further 53 people are facing legal action for allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban, while 47 others are accused of improperly discarding a lit cigarette or match outdoors, according to the Nine network.

In Queensland, police concluded that 103 fires had been deliberately lit, with 98 people—67 of them juveniles—having been identified as the culprits.

Conclusion

The Hollywood elites didn’t listen to Ricky Gervais when he said,

So if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and fuck off, OK?

Hollywood’s elite just can’t seem help themselves. Stupid is as stupid does. Hollywood is the perfect example of a stupid decadent Democrats stronghold.

Proverbs 17:28 reads:

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Hollywood elites are neither wise nor silent. They are all fools in their own theatre of the absurd.

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What is online porn teaching our children? Decades of research document the untold harm of pornography.

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Last year groups like Protect Young Eyes testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee in an effort to seek better and more objective rating systems for phone apps that often appeal to children but may play host to pornographic content. Numerous states, meanwhile, recently followed Utah’s lead in passing resolutions declaring pornography “a public health crisis.”

Reacting to such efforts, some have voiced personal scepticism, citing an “absence of any credible research” on the negative effects of pornography. Is there really no credible research regarding societal harms of sexually explicit material? Is a shrug of the shoulders the appropriate response to the modern proliferation of pornography and the ease with which it is now accessed by minors?

Decades of research document myriad harms of pornography, hardly justifying a laissez faire attitude toward adolescent exposure to sexually explicit material. There are strong correlations, for example, between early encounters with pornography and potentially unhealthy sexual pathologies and behaviors.

As just one of many examples, with respect to the impact of early porn exposure on attitudes toward women, Alyssa Bischmann, a researcher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has found “that the younger a man was when he first viewed pornography, the more likely he was to want power over women.”

A recent German study, meanwhile, has further found that adult women who viewed pornography were much more likely to engage in “submissive” sexual behavior. The authors suggest that pornography was providing “scripts” that were then acted out by viewers. Others contend, of course, that correlation does not prove causation, and it’s possible that pre-existing sexual interests lead to porn consumption and not the other way around.

A more circular relationship seems likely. A person has a particular interest and goes online to find out more. Interest in sex is biologically normal, but porn provides harmful scripts shaping sexual interest. As daily crime report headlines attest, what sexual media promotes, children, teens, and adults may ‘buy into’ or be attracted to when it comes to sex.

What are the scripts porn invites its users to ‘buy into’? Is there reason for concern?

As a society, it’s perfectly reasonable to voice concerns regarding the kinds of sexual “scripts” and socialization children, teens, and adults may encounter online. Indeed, society’s collective well-being depends, in large measure, on the life scripts we all learn and choose to adopt. This is not to say that any of us are merely the products of our environment, but there’s little disagreement that careful attention to child nurturing and caution concerning socialization, sexual or otherwise, provides a healthy pathway from adolescence to adulthood.

In studying religious teenagers, for example, scholar Kenda Creasy Dean found that those who were less likely to engage in “high-risk behavior” and who were “the most positive, healthy, hopeful, and self-aware” were heavily influenced by “religiously articulate adults.” The life scripts learned from “the rich relational soil of families, congregations, and mentor relationships” provided models for young people to “see what faithful lives look like, and encounter the people who love them enacting a larger story of divine care and hope.”

By contrast, what relationship models and sexual scripts do children discover when confronted by gratuitous forms of pornography?

Studying the effects of prolonged consumption of pornography on family values, Zillman and Bryant found that, in contrast to a control group, young adults exposed to pornography were less likely to consider marriage an essential institution and had less desire to have children; they were more likely to view male and female promiscuity as natural and to accept “male dominance and female servitude.”

Far from “rich relational soil,” porn’s sexually explicit scripts train viewers to focus solely (even obsess) on the physical gratification of sexual experience, altogether ignoring relational regard, respect, or ethics, as well as the emotional, psychological, and yes, spiritual elements of human sexuality. Porn scripts its users for eroticism, objectification, promiscuity, and misogyny, altogether denying the humanity of sexual intimacy.

Pornography presents and caters to a one-dimensional, me-focused sexual experience. In these scripts, the rich, fully realized view of others and of the self is too often lost completely. Porn is myopic about personal gratification, obsessed with it, without regard to enriching and bonding relationships through sexual caring and commitment.

Porn doesn’t regard or script for relationship attachment, genuine connection, or committed caring for each other. Instead of fidelity, users often encounter scripts of promiscuity. Such scripts don’t inconvenience physical gratification with relational boundaries, constraints, or consequences—absent is the inter-personal accountability so central to sustainable real-life relationships.

In place of true intimacy, pornography scripts for objectification and sexualization of others—viewing the other (and oneself) not as a person but as a series of sexual parts and triggers. Along the way, as some porn users dehumanize one another and real-life relationships inevitably suffer, misogyny—a dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women—can creep in.

When it comes to our children’s education, eroticism, objectification, promiscuity, and misogyny are unlikely on any parent’s list of ideal lessons for sexual wholeness and well-being. These scripts are no better for adults’ sexual wholeness and well-being, either. Stable marriages depend in part on the biological, emotional, relationship, and spiritual bonding experience that sexual union can contribute to. The very biological dimensions of sex include what scholars call our “cuddle chemicals,” released following sexual experiences, that promote couple bonding. Pornographic material works hard to turn attention away from such attachment bonding and commitment.

From this flows another, indirect harm to children. Stable marriages support stable families, and children need families. Human children, unlike other offspring, need upwards of twenty years or more to grow, develop, and reach maturity. So a durable, reliable parental support system and family training ground, there for the long-haul of family life, is vital.

Sexuality focused on the couple relationship and secure attachment supports the couple bond, and the couple bond in turn helps sustain family life. Sexuality is biologically designed to support couple attachment, yet pornography is more often all-in on diverting attention away from and dangerously undercutting the connection of sexuality to attachment bonding. Porn’s scripts neither educate or socialize us toward bonding and commitment.

Because we care about marriage and family—the very fabric of society and a fulfilling life rich with meaningful connection—we must also care about the kind of sexual education children receive. To the degree porn threatens sexual wholeness and well-being and weakens the relationship fabric of our lives and society, it’s not irrational to see the ease and frequency with which children now access online pornography as a serious public health issue.

We ignore at our peril the kind of anti-relationship sexual education that porn promotes to children, teens, and adults. In addition to the deeply concerning social science regarding exposure to pornography—by children, teens, or adults—common-sense suggests that we can and should seek greater enforcement and retooling of laws already on the books designed to keep porn away from children in an age of cellphones and easy online access.

When the relationship education of our children suffers, and when porn’s scripts erode vital human connections, commitments, and ethics, our social fabric starts to fray. Sound, research-based policies, coupled with vigilant parenting and other social safeguards, and combined with positive relationship socialization can hopefully help to foster healthy sexual ideals, improving the well-being of youths and mending the tapestry of our shared future.

COLUMN BY

Daniel Hilton , Hal Boyd , Jacob Gossner , Julie Haupt and Mark Butler

Mark Butler, Hal Boyd, and Julie Haupt are professors in Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life. Jacob Gossner is an undergraduate student at BYU and Daniel Hilton is a graduate student at Indiana Wesleyan University.

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At the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais Exposed Hollywood’s ‘Woke’ Culture

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Hollywood can’t take a joke.

At the annual Golden Globes, an awards show for both movies and television, on Sunday night, host comedian Ricky Gervais was actually funny, lampooning Hollywood in general and its “woke” culture in particular.

“Let’s have a laugh at your expense,” Gervais said in opening his monologue at the Globes’ 77th awards ceremony, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. “Remember, we’re all going to die soon. And there’s no sequel.”

It was quite a performance, though it’s clear that while some celebrities laughed along with the jokes, many others were not amused, or had uncomfortable reactions.

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During the course of his monologue, Gervais joked that this would undoubtedly be his last awards show, so he didn’t care if he offended people.

His speech ended up being a phenomenal takedown of an overly political and absurdly left-wing Hollywood that’s become obsessed with self-righteous crusades, such as the #MeToo movement, or with bemoaning the supposed lack of racial and gender diversity in movies.

Gervais said that he couldn’t begin the show with a rundown of the celebrity deaths in 2019 because “when I saw the list of people who died, it wasn’t diverse enough.”

He then mocked the entertainment industry for being shamelessly transactional—despite its moralistic pretenses.

Apple roared into the TV game with “The Morning Show,” a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing—made by a company that runs sweatshops in China.

So, you say you’re “woke,” but the companies you work for, Apple, Amazon, Disney … If ISIS had a streaming service, you would be calling your agents.

Gervais also poked fun at the smug—yet clueless—way Hollywood talks down to everyone else.

“You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything,” he said. “You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.”

Gervais concluded his monologue by making an appeal for award recipients to drop the political lectures.

“Don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You are in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world,” he said.

What was particularly great about the Gervais monologue is that Hollywood was exposed on its own turf.

Of course, not everyone was pleased. Some in the media—the less-glamorous handmaiden of the Hollywood set—groused that it was inappropriate to mock celebrities, who are clearly having such a tough time right now.

“At the Beverly Hilton, where the three-hour-plus ceremony took place, the mood was already somber, thanks to an impeachment, the threat of war with Iran, and devastating bush fires in Australia,” wrote Lorraine Ali, the Los Angeles Times’ television critic. “The last thing anyone needed was for the smirking master of ceremonies to reprimand them for having hope, or taunt the room for trying to use their influence to change things for the better.”

Maybe the speech wasn’t for them. Maybe it was simply a comedic reminder to the entertainment industry that their talents are best put to use by sticking to entertaining, and that the country really is sick of their tedious and often mockable political sermons.

At the very least, it exposed a vapid Hollywood for what it is, while deflating the superficial virtue-signaling of hypocrites who use their platforms to lecture America and the world about their sins.

Perhaps, through mockery, this really is the beginning of the end of Hollywood’s “Great Awokening.”

COMMENTARY BY

Jarrett Stepman

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Islam, Realism, and the Church

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William Kilpatrick: Church leaders continue to insist that Islam is not a threat, despite the fact that an abundance of facts shows Muslim hostility to Catholicism.

In comments last year, Marcello Pera, a prominent Italian intellectual and non-believer, criticized Pope Francis for “openly going against tradition, doctrine, and introducing inexplicable innovations, behaviors and gestures.”

A philosopher of science, former president of the Italian Senate, and close friend of Pope Benedict XVI, Pera asserted that Francis had turned Catholicism into “a Church so outgoing that it can no longer be found anywhere.”

In an earlier 2017 interview with Il Mattino, Pera was even more outspoken.  In answer to a question about “indiscriminate” welcoming of migrants to Europe, he replied: “Frankly, I do not get this pope, whatever he says is beyond any rational understanding.  It’s evident to all that an indiscriminate welcoming is not possible:  there is a critical point that can’t be reached.”

He continued: “If the pope. . . insists in a massive and total welcoming, I ask myself:  why does he say it?. . .Why does he lack a minimum of realism, that very little that is requested of anyone?  The answer I can give myself is only one:  The Pope does it because he hates the West, he aspires to destroy it. . . .As he aspires to destroy the Christian tradition.”

Two years ago, most Catholics would have found that hard to swallow.  But now, the idea that Pope Francis hates the West is beginning to seem plausible.  It would explain much of what he says and does – his criticism of capitalism and colonialism, Amazonian initiative and, above all, encouragement of mass Muslim migration into Europe.

Does he also aspire to destroy the Christian tradition?  Well, he rarely misses an opportunity to criticize traditional Catholics.  At the same time, he seems intent on introducing exotic and decidedly non-traditional practices into the life of the Church.

The key word, of course, is “aspires.”  Does Francis consciously desire to “destroy” the West and traditional Christianity (aka Christianity).  Or is he simply a well-intentioned do-gooder who doesn’t understand the consequences of his experiments?

That’s a serious question, but it’s unnecessary to know the answer in order to raise a related question:  Whatever the intention, do his policies and programs actually tend toward the destruction of the West and of Christianity?

I would say, “Yes, they do.” And I would argue, as Professor Pera does, that they “lack a minimum of realism.”  Future historians may well look back upon our era as the Age of Unreality.  And many in the Church have embraced this unreality as though it were a newly revealed Gospel.

Some Church leaders have been flirting with the idea of same-sex marriage, and some seem willing to believe that females can transition to males and males to females.  Others, including the pope himself, seem to believe in the fantasy idea that the lot of the poor can be improved by getting rid of fossil-fuels – which may be the reason that they have also revived the fantasy of the Noble Savage.  Because, minus the benefits of electric power, much of the world will be quickly reduced to a primitive level.  In which case, we may all find ourselves praying to Pachamama and the rain gods for a good harvest.

The most dangerous fantasy, however, is the one that Church leaders have created about Islam.  We are told that it’s a religion of peace, that it shares much common ground with Christianity, that Muslims venerate Jesus just as Catholics do, that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, and that the slaughter of Christians by Muslims can be attributed to a tiny minority who “misunderstand” their religion.

At the same time, we are taught that “Islamophobia” – an irrational fear of Islam – is a far greater danger than Islamic aggression.

Pera’s point is that these supposedly “irrational” fears are actually quite reasonable.  He is mainly concerned with the fantasy that Europe can successfully absorb millions of Muslim migrants who don’t want to assimilate.  But as one can see, there is a whole basketful of other fantasies that Catholic leaders believe about Islam.

Where does the fantasy come from?  Some attribute it to the influence of Louis Massignon (1883-19620, a French Catholic scholar of Islam whose work had a profound effect on Catholic thinking.  Yet Massignon’s main interest was in the Sufi mystical tradition within Islam, which is only a sliver of the whole.  In short, Massignon and his followers seem to have confused Islam with a relatively small sect of Islam – one that is unrepresentative of mainstream beliefs and practices.  Indeed, many Muslims look upon the Sufis as heretics.

Massignon’s magnum opus was published almost 100 years ago, yet many Catholics still take his idiosyncratic view of Islam to be the “true” and “authentic” Islam.  Ever since the publication of Nostra Aetate in 1965, this woefully inadequate view of Islam has been handed down to successive generations of Catholics, and it’s well past time to challenge it.

Over against the fantasies, there stands an abundance of facts about Islam that are not friendly to the current Catholic narrative.  Catholics need to acquaint themselves with these facts lest they be lured into a deadly complacency.

Let’s start with one rather large and longstanding fact:  All of North Africa, Turkey, and the Middle East were once Catholic.  In fact, for many centuries they were the great centers of Catholic culture.  Now, however, these regions are over 90 percent Muslim.

Fast forward a millennium and it looks like the same thing is happening again.  Lebanon was 62 percent Christian in 1970, but by 2010 the Christian population was only 36 percent.  In Iraq, the Christian population has declined by more than 90 percent just since 2003.  Meanwhile, Christians are being slaughtered in the name of Islam all over the world – in Nigeria, Syria, Kenya, Burkina Faso, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere.

It’s not a pretty picture, but it’s a much more accurate one than that painted by the Church’s current cadre of whitewashers, and one that those of us possessing even “a minimum of realism” need to take very seriously.

COLUMN BY

William Kilpatrick

William Kilpatrick is the author of Christianity, Islam and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West, and a new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad. His work is supported in part by the Shillman Foundation. For more on his work and writings, visit his website, The Turning Point Project.

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Islam’s Contributions to Iran

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Islam, “the religion of peace,” has contributed to Iran Absolutely nothing, except misery, servitude, hatred, backwardness, hypocrisy, ignorance, superstition and more. From the moment, the Arab barbarians stamped into Iran with the sword of Allah, imposing their desert ideology onto the sophisticated Persian culture, Iranian people haven’t been able to find peace.

Throughout the years, this barbaric ideology brought intolerance, fatalism, institutionalized slavery, injustice, jihadism, oppression of women and non-Muslims, celebration of death, lack of respect for individualism, rejection of freedom and democracy, belief in the theocracy of Allah as ministered by the self-serving clergy who are not accountable to the people, stifling of questioning and inquiry, disallowing all legitimate forms of freedom, hatred of others, blind servitude, and superstitious.

They say history repeats itself. What the hordes of Arabs, did to Iran 1400 years ago, today, the children of these savages, the Islamic Republic and their proxies are doing the exact same thing to the people of Iran. Just take a quick look at Islam’s history as well as what is happening today in the Islamic lands. Islam is not a religion of peace and it has never been. Islam is violent, oppressive, racist, and irrational at its very core. It is treachery for people to present it as otherwise, either out of ignorance or because of their own personal reasons.

In most other lands conquered by Islam, the conquered peoples have lost their own identity and heritage and embraced the ways of their new rulers, under an “Arab” identity. Conversely, in Iran a band of indigenous victims, “infected” by Islam, have mindlessly turned on their Iranian compatriots and tried to rob them of their remaining ancient heritage.

It is exactly this savage minority that has established an oppressive tyrannical rule and wields power against the Iranian people. Yet, even under the rule of the Mullahs, the overwhelming majority of Iranians of various ethnicities and religions remain faithful to their ancient creed – Zoroastrianism.

Today, Iran is under the occupation of the most savage form of the Islamic butchers. These are the descendants of the same Islamic butchers who conquered Persia 1400 years ago with the sword of Islam. These are the same creatures that plundered and burned Iran and took Iranian women as slaves to the desert of Arabia. Even now the Islamic Republic is selling the Iranian women in Dubai and other Persian Gulf kingdoms

In its savage crusade against others, Islam sanctioned slavery, condemned women to a cast of inferior, and summarily sentenced to death any and all people who rejected its yoke of bigotry.

Crimes committed by this cult of savagery are too many to fully enumerate here. Sallying out of the Arabian dessert with the sword of avarice, Muslims attacked civilized people in search of booty. Their early success enflamed their lust and propelled them in their march of death and destruction.

Islamic clergy, the parasitic prime beneficiaries of Islam, are master practitioners of the carrot-and stick-strategy. By drawing heavily from the Quran and the Hadith, the conniving mullahs and imams have assembled a potent arsenal of threats and promises to keep the faithful in line.

They had little trouble in so doing, since Islamic scripture is replete with graphic horrific punishment awaiting the wayward and the unbelievers, while the rewards for the obedient docile, if he is male, are described as endless variety of sensual pleasures.

Anyone daring to leave the corral of Islam is apostate and automatically condemned to death. And that’s just for starters. The punishment awaiting the ungrateful deserter of the one and only true path, Islam threatens, is a raft of horrific eternal torment in Allah’s hell.

The Islamdom is at a crossroads. Millions in Iran, a hugely important force of sustaining and fanning the Islamic fire, have already turned and are turning against Islam. They and the rest of the world need to hear the voices of secular decent people who are in league with them. I am sure you want to play your part in this honorable endeavor and lend your help to put Islam, the very spawning swamp of the deadly virus that makes for jihadists, out of business.

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INTEL REPORT: More Sulaimani Reactions and Key Developments in Libya

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IRAQ

The Saudi owned site alarabiya.net is reporting that in the southern (Shi’a) city of al-Basra, members of the Iraqi Hizbollah, which is one of the heshd sha’bi (popular mobilization) units directed by the late Qaseem Sulaimani and his Iraqi deputy al-Muhandess, drove pick-ups into a crowed of anti-Iranian protestors, in an attempt to break up the protests.  Later the protestors burned one of the trucks belonging to the Hizbollah group.

In Nasriyyah, another southern Iraqi Shi’a city, Iraqi Hizbollah units fired live rounds against anti-Iranian protestors when the protestors refused to engage in even “symbolic” mourning for al-Muhandess.  The protestors then burned the local Hizbollah HQ.

Alarabiya is also reporting that an IRGC asset, who had worked directly under Solaimani in the failiq al-quds brigade, was killed in Yemen.  The report, which came originally from Iranian sources, did not mention where he was killed, or how.

Alarabiya.net is also reporting this morning that the leaders of the Iraqi popular mobilization units have told their people to avoid public appearances and to change their phone numbers, in the wake of the Solaimani killing.

U.S. news sources are reporting that the Somali al-Qaeda franchise, al-shabaab attacked an airfield in Kenya where U.S. troops were training Kenyan troops.  One U.S. serviceman and two U.S. contractors were killed, before Kenyan security forces could react and kill five of the attackers while driving the rest of them off.

COMMENT:  Since al-Qaeda is closely allied to Iran (as well as Qatar and Turkey), it is tempting to see this attack as Iran’s first counter-punch for the Solaimani killing.

IRAQ/LEBANON

On a lighter note, Sarah Dhamdhawi, who hosts a show on al-arabiyya TV called tafaalkom and in which she talks about what is currently lighting up the Arabic social media accounts, commented on the after affects of the Solaimani killing saying that the vehicle bearing the bodies of Solaimani and al-Muhandess through the streets of Bagdad, after the killing, was the subject of lots of sarcasm on twitter.  This is because the vehicle  bearing their bodies was a Chevy, an American-made vehicle.

She also reported on the photos of Solaimani that the Lebanese Hizbollah distributed around Beirut in hopes of eliciting sympathy, instead it became also the subjects of sarcasm, though she didn’t say why.

LIBYA

Both al-arabiyya TV and alarabiya.net are reporting this morning Erdogan’s stooge, Fayez Sirraaj (head of the “government” in Tripoli), along with the Turkish Foreign Minister, visited Algiers in hopes of inducing Algeria to also intervene on behalf of the Sirraaj Government.  So far, no go on that account.

Also this morning alarabiya.net is reporting that General Haftar’s Libyan National Army now has complete control of the city of Sirte, which was one of the only two major cities still allied to the Tripoli faction.  The LNA then announced that they will move on Misratta next (which is the other city allied to Tripoli).

The capture of Sirte was later confirmed by al-arabiyya TV.  The Libyan source interviewed by the TV news anchor said that the LNA entered the city from five different directions and it took them only four hours to put down all opposition and establish complete control of the city.

COMMENT:

Sirte and Misratta are both located on Libya’s Mediterranean coast on the far west side of the country, near Tripoli.  When the LNA’s battle for Tripoli began last Spring, I thought that they had made a huge strategic mistake by trying to go after Tripoli first before taking out Tripoli’s smaller allies first.

My fears proved well founded as during the summer and fall, whenever the LNA began to make progress in Tripoli, fighters from Misratta would come out and hit them in the flanks forcing a retreat.  Also, Turkey alternately used the ports of Sirte and Misratta for landing supplies and terrorists from other countries which would then be slipped into Tripoli to aid the Sirraaj government.

This shift in strategy by the LNA to do what they should have done in the first place, might be traced to the influence of their Russian “advisors” from the Wagner company.

Erdogan’s plans to step-up Turkey’s involvement with regular Turkish troops may have also convinced the LNA of the need to take out Sirte and Misratta.

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MIDDLE EAST INTEL REPORT: Getting Wild

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Recent evens in Iraq and Libya have dominated virtually all Arabic TV news programs and internet sites this weekend, as events and reactions continue to unfold.

EGYPTIAN REACTION

Popular Egyptian talk show host ‘Amru Adeeb, on his show al-hakaya (the story) which airs every weekend on MBS-Egypt, opened his coverage of America’s killing of Qaseem Solaimani with the words:  “Trump just won re-election!”  He repeated the phrase several times, with pauses in between for dramatic effect.

“Nobody’s talking about impeachment now,” he said.  “Trump’s got four more years.”

He went on to say that Trump is “strange.  Perhaps the strangest president America’s ever had, but he made the strong decision.  And the whole world is astonished!”

He added that Qaseem Solaimani has left a “river of blood” all across the Middle East.  The protestors in Iraq, the hundreds that have been killed . . . “that’s on Qaseem Solaimani.”

He noted how Iran had attacked oil tankers, and America did nothing.  Iran had hit Aramco, and America did nothing.  And, the Iranians thought that Trump was a weak president, that he couldn’t do anything until after the elections.  But, then, Iran kills one American . . . “just one!  and Trump takes out Solaimani and al-Muhandess.”

Regarding America’s follow-up attack on installations of the Iraqi Hizbollah (one of the heshd sha’abi (Iranian operated Iraqi Shi’a militias), ‘Amru Adeeb said that it was because Trump wanted to take out those who had attacked the American embassy.

He added that “America is no longer reacting.  America is acting!”

COMMENT:

‘Amru Adeeb is close to the as-Sisi regime, and has connections with the upper echelons of Egyptian General Intelligence (EGI), so his views generally reflect those of the current Egyptian government.

U.S. intelligence is saying that Iran had been planning to stage a coup in Iraq.  Why they would want to do that might be a mystery to some, given that the current Iraqi government is virtually subservient to Iran as it is.  But, perhaps submission is not enough, what the Iranians would want is a clone of themselves in Iraq, so the coup would be to replace the current submissive government with a full Shi’a Islamic Republic.

This coup, had it occurred, would have been spearheaded by the all of the heshd sha’abi (popular militias) and directed by Solaimani.  Therefore,  just taking out Solaimani was not enough.  The Americans had to also take out elements that were to play a key role in the proposed coup.

OTHER REACTIONS

In Iran’s capital city of Tehran, the regime called out tens of thousands of their supporters to protest the killing of Solaimani, whom many thought was a future president of Iran.  However, elsewhere in Iran, there were equally large outpourings of demonstrators expressing their joy over Solaimani’s death.

In Iraq, a similar situation.  In the capital, Baghdad, there were demonstrations by the pro-Iranian crowd against the killing of Solaimani, and chants of “America is the great Satan.”  But elsewhere there were even larger outpourings of people (including shi’a) dancing in the streets, and celebrating Solaimani’s death.  “No more Solaimani” they chanted.

The Saudi-owned www.alarabiya.net is reporting that the Iraqi government has placed additional “restrictions” on the American forces in Iraq after the killing of Solaimani.  Many Iraqis have expressed their fear that their country will become the battle ground for a war between Iran and America.

Most of the guests interviewed by the anchors on the sister Saudi-owned TV channel of al-arabiyya TV were pleased with the take down of Solaimani.  The regular news casts on al-arabiyya TV have reported that Iranian newspapers are reporting that Iran’s revenge will come via their militias, meaning that militias in countries other than Iran will do the dirty work leaving Iran’s hands theoretically clean.

In Lebanon, folks also feared that their country would suffer from Iran’s anger.  In Lebanon, the largest and most powerful “political party” is Iran’s puppet terrorist militia, the heavily armed Hizbollah.  So, the fear is that they might trigger a war with Israel, which would hurt all of Lebanon, and/or attack western embassies and other western interests in Lebanon.

Meanwhile, our great, loyal NATO ally, Erdogan, is crying tears over Solaimani’s death, calling him a great martyr.

LIBYA

The UN SEC GEN Gutierez warned Turkey against intervening in Libya.  This is noteworthy because it is the UN that made the mistake of granting international recognition to the Turkey-supported Sirraaj government in the first place.

U.S. President Trump has also advised Turkey to not intervene in Libya.  Yet, the U.S., like most other countries, still maintains an Embassy in militia-controlled Tripoli.

Libyan General Hafter said they will teach Turkey a severe, and historical lesson if they try to intervene in Libya.

Nonetheless, Erdogan seems poised at this point to follow through with his plan to send Turkish troops to Libya.  He is talking about only 250-300 at this point.  However, French intelligence has reported that four civilian airliners carrying fighters from Syria has landed near Tripoli, courtesy of Erdogan.  An article in today’s www.alarabiya.net talks about 1,000 Syrian “mercenaries” that Turkey has trained and shipped to Libya.

These Syrian “mercenaries” are the al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Muslim Brotherhood types whose goals match that of the Turkish regime.

COMMENTS: 

During the above-mentioned al-hakaya program by popular Egyptian talk show host ‘Amru Adeeb, he touched on the Libya situation as well as Iraq.  While condemning Erdogan’s moves, he commented that in his view the Trump administration was okay with Turkey moving into Libya because the Russians were supporting the other side.  At the time, I tended to agree with that comment based on previous statements by the administration.  However, Trump’s more recent comment advising against Turkish intervention has to be seen as a positive development.  It is far better that the U.S. remain neutral on the Libya situation than to offer moral, diplomatic, or any other sort of support to the wrong side (which happens to be the side that Turkey supports).

While ‘Amru Adeeb was ranting about Erdogan’s Libya moves, a split screen was showing scenes from the below-mentioned Egyptian military exercises.  The Saudi-owned al-arabiya TV did the same thing during their coverage of the Libya situation.

I believe that these military exercises by Egypt were not just to make sure the troops were ready in the event they should be needed, but it was also a message sent to Turkey.  Likewise, the TV coverage of these exercises in conjunction with the news coverage on the Libyan situation made it clear that this is a specific warning to Turkey

I doubt that the Libyan National Army by itself could do much against a full scale Turkish invasion.  Their air force consists of about two or three ancient MIGS left over from the Soviet era, and a handful of helicopters.  The mechanized portion of their army appears to be primarily Japanese pick-up trucks with machine guns, artillery, and anti-aircraft guns converted to artillery mounted in the back.  Maybe two or three ancient Soviet tanks.  However, were Egypt to enter the Libyan war in earnest, they would hand the Turks their rear-ends and send them packing.  Some comments coming out of Egypt now indicate that they just might do that.

While previous comments coming out of the Egyptian regime have stressed that Egypt’s army is just for defending Egypt’s soil, and Egypt’s borders.  Period.  Comments coming out this weekend include the importance of defending Egypt’s national security, and a stable Libya (i.e. free of terrorists and Turks) as being in the interest of Egypt’s national security.  There have also been comments to the effect that Egypt is prepared “to defend its coastlines and the coastlines of its neighbors” (i.e. Libya).

Coincidentally, or not, the Egyptian military on Saturday morning 04 January 2020 staged a huge naval exercise and practice marine landing on one of its Mediterranean beaches west of Alexandria.  Participating in this exercise were landing craft for unloading Humvees, tanks, and other heavy equipment, a helicopter “aircraft carrier” and the ‘copters it bore, Apaches and Shinooks, submarines, and anti-submarine aircraft and naval craft, F-16s, and special forces.

In comparing the militaries of Turkey and Egypt, Turkey has the larger and more powerful navy, as Erdogan has been spending billions on his navy in preparation for ruling the entire Mediterranean as in the Ottoman days of old.  But Egypt likely has adequate submarine forces (including the latest German models), and anti-submarine air craft to take out any Turkish ships approaching Libya that it wants to.

In terms of air power, Egypt wins hands down.  Both countries are equipped with substantial numbers of F-15s and F-16s, and NATO helicopters, but Erdogan purged most of his pilots in the wake of the failed coup attempt of 2016, and they as yet do not have adequate replacements.

While the Turkish army could probably muster close to the same amount of manpower, given the respective populations of the two countries (80 million for Turkey, 100 million for Egypt) as Egypt, they would have the logistical problem of transporting them across the sea, and then problems of supply.  Whereas Egypt would have the advantage fighting close to their home soil.  The Turkish army also has command and control, and chain of command problems thanks to Erdogan’s numerous purges of the army beginning in 2009, and continuing through 2016.

Then there is the matter of Egypt’s huge, modern tank force, and the flat, easily traversed terrain between Cairo and Tripoli.

Stay tuned.  Things just might get exciting.

SUNDAY 05 MAY

The Iraqi parliament met to vote on expelling U.S. forces from Iraq in the wake of the killing of Solaimani and a number of his stooges.  Significantly, the Sunni Arabs and the Kurds boycotted the meeting, leaving the Iranian stooges, including the Prime Minister, totally in charge.

After the vote by the Iran-subservient Iraqi parliament, protests broke out in Baghdad against the decision according www.alarabiya.net.  Other protesters in the Shi’a holy city of Karbala protested the parliament’s decision by blocking the road to Karbala, and burning tires.

Iraqi Shi’a leader Muqtada Sadr has recommended that Iraq close down the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, and pass a law criminalizing any contacts of any sort with any and all Americans.  An article in www.alarabiya.net says that Muqtadi Sadr, whom they call a “proxy” of Iran, has also called for the formation of an “international militia.”

Another alarabiya.net article hints that Iran and its proxies may go after European targets.

The Leader of Iran’s puppet Lebanese Shi’a Hizbollah, Nasrallah, has stated that the killing of Solaimani launched a “brand new era in the Middle East.”  The implication of his words were rather ominous.

ANALYSIS:

Judging from the reactions and comments coming out of the Iranian leadership, and from their client terrorist entities around the Middle East, such as Hizbollah and Hamas, Iran will try to unleash a broader reign of terror throughout all of the Arab countries using its proxies to do the dirty work.

Iran’s analysis being that by using their proxies to do their dirty work (including killing American citizens, attacking embassies, consulates, and private businesses) in other countries, that any response by the U.S. will take place in the countries where the attacks take place, causing those countries also to want to sever ties with the U.S. as Iraq is doing.

Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is under increasing pressure, not only economically from Trump’s embargoes, but internally from their own population’s disgust with the regime’s behavior and domestic policies.

BOTTOM LINE:  As things escalate throughout the Middle East, and assuming that the U.S. responses will increase in severity as well, the Iranian Mullah’s may well reach the conclusion that “if we’re going down anyway, we’re going to set the entire Middle East on fire and let Allah sort it out later.”

Pay Attention — Trump Ending Endless Wars

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Welcome to the New Year as 2020 kicks off with a bang!

President Trump is not starting a war with Iraq nor Iran. He is however fighting an ongoing war with the Deep State by delivering a strike against them with the take down of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

The intel. provided to the President indicated an imminent threat to Americans and our allies. You see, the Deep State wants to bring Trump into war since all of the other false flags and coups have failed to remove him from office. By bringing Trump into war, their attempt was to derail his re-election in 2020. This will fail like all other failed attempts. The Deep State is losing control and they know it, especially now with Trump trumping them on first Syria, then North Korea, and now Iraq and Iran. The first manifestation was the planned and orchestrated attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad. This was to escalate to far greater carnage and loss of American lives. Trump, once again, beat them to the punch. What’s next? The world awaits.

Endless Wars

The Deep State has kept us in a perpetual state of war for a very long time and President Trump is beginning to put a stop to these endless wars. We have a long way to go and this will create, needless to say, many confusions, speculations and outright false narratives of which we are all becoming quite used to. You see, places like Cuba, North Korea, and of course the Middle East, are Deep State partners. The Deep State controls and empowers these countries to an extent and uses them as they see fit. This has been going on for a very long time. Trump, once again, is upsetting their apple cart.

Not only is President Trump protecting Americans and their allies, he is neutering the Deep State sites in the Middle East. And has already redirected activities in both North Korea, (despite the fake news narratives), and the crisis with ISIS in Syria. The Deep State failed and we prevailed. Now we embark upon the big one, Iran. This is a MAJOR game changer and will change the course of history. You see Kerry and Obama were busy and are busy as part of the Deep State with their plans with Iran. This just ended. And please don’t forget the $1.6 Billion dollars in cash on pallets in the dark of the night being loaded on planes. Remember this, the Deep State is now being exposed as the de-class is underway and beginning to see the light of day. They are panicking. They need Trump removed. They will fail.

Additionally, the President is freeing the people of North Korea and Iran from the clutches of the Deep State. In the case of North Korea, Kim Jong-un has switched sides if you will and has left the Deep State in the dust. Forget the Fake News.  And as for Iran, we shall see how this all turns but the battle has just begun. This is the first real challenge in Iran since Ronald Reagan took his best shot, then they took a shot at him. This time the ultimate victory may lie ahead. Keep in mind how this relates to the petrodollar, the global financial reset, and how the world will conduct trade that is fair and reciprocal for our global partners. I will be discussing this aspect of Iran with Economist Dr. Kirk Elliott, nominated for two Trump committee positions, this Wednesday on our weekly GFR (Global Financial Reset ) report. Subscribe here and tune in.

What’s Next?

The world is changing. Thank God. But not without chaos, turmoil, instability, economic impacts and sadly, the loss of lives. No pain, no gain. You can’t redirect humanity which has been controlled by an intricate web of evil Globalists without any challenge. Mark my words, it will get worse before it gets better. The way out  is the way through. Support your Commander in Chief. There is a plan and it is unfolding exactly as it should. Look at all the BS they throw at him and us. We have won most all, if not all key battles to date, while others are a work in progress. Look what this miracle President has accomplished and is accomplishing. Do not waffle. Stay the course. There is a plan to save the world and we are that plan as we move from dark to light. Pray for our President and his family. 2020 will be the year that changed everything.

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