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The H-1B Visa Fraud Network

June 8, 2026/in Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, News, Regulation, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Amil Imani

The H-1B visa program, originally designed by the United States to attract the world’s brightest minds and bridge critical high-skilled labor gaps, has morphed into a playground for systemic manipulation. At the epicenter of this distortion is a highly sophisticated network of IT consulting firms, staff augmentation agencies, and body shops operating primarily out of India or managed by Indian-origin syndicates in the U.S. What was conceived as a pipeline for specialized talent — the software architects, researchers, and engineers capable of driving global innovation — has instead been choked by a deluge of coordinated deception, designed to monopolize a finite public resource at the expense of legitimate professionals worldwide.

The mechanics of this exploitation were laid bare during recent lottery cycles, exposing a staggering disparity between honest applicant volume and coordinated fraud. Because the annual allocation of H-1B visas is strictly capped by Congress at 65,000 caps, alongside a 20,000 master’s degree exemption, the selection process relies on a random computer lottery. For fiscal year 2024, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recorded an unprecedented, mathematical anomaly of 781,000 total registrations. Shockingly, more than 408,000 of those entries were multiple registrations submitted on behalf of the exact same individuals. A shadowy conglomerate of shell companies and interlocking IT consultancies colluded to file dozens of duplicate applications for single candidates. By artificially inflating their numbers, these bad actors drastically reduced the selection odds for independent applicants to a dismal percentage, effectively hijacking the lottery through sheer volume.

The architecture of this fraud relies on a multi-tiered system of smoke and mirrors. Rather than offering real, specialized positions at established enterprises, these fraudulent operators utilize ghost offices — empty storefronts and mail-forwarding addresses scattered across states like Texas and California — to create the illusion of local demand. These entities submit legally binding attestations to the U.S. government affirming that a specific, specialized job awaits the foreign national. In reality, these positions are entirely fabricated. A prominent case recently prosecuted by the Department of Justice involved Indian-origin executives who went so far as to falsely promise placement at prestigious institutions, like the University of California, (allegedly) utilizing fraudulent employment contracts to siphon visas for non-existent projects. Once these visas are successfully obtained through deceit, the beneficiaries are benched — held in employment limbo without legal pay — until the firm can contract them out to actual American businesses as cut-rate contractors, undercutting the domestic labor market and violating federal wage protections.

The corruption is not limited to small-scale fraudulent rings; it extends historic roots into some of the largest tech conglomerates originating from the Indian subcontinent. To bypass the stringent oversight and numerical limits of the H-1B program, massive outsourcing giants have historically weaponized alternative visa pipelines, establishing a blueprint for systematic evasion. This institutional misconduct was punctuated when Infosys paid a record-shattering $34 million civil settlement to immigration authorities following allegations of systemic visa fraud. Federal investigators discovered that the company was systematically using B-1 visitor visas — intended for short-term business meetings — to deploy foreign nationals for full-time, hands-on software development work in the United States. To pull this off, the corporation explicitly distributed internal “Dos and Don’ts” memos, coaching foreign employees to deliberately lie to U.S. consular officers, and scrub their correspondence of revealing technical words like implementation, design, or testing that would indicate they were arriving to perform actual local employment.

The damage inflicted by this institutionalized gaming of the system is vast and multifaceted. It breeds a culture of exploitation where the foreign workers themselves are trapped by predatory employers who hold absolute power over their legal status, often taking kickbacks or withholding wages. Simultaneously, it locks out genuine global talent — brilliant scientists, medical professionals, and innovators, who possess genuine job offers from premier institutions but are shut out by a lottery system stacked against them by automated fraud rings. This rampant gaming of federal regulations finally forced USCIS to dismantle its old framework, moving to a strict beneficiary-centric selection model for the fiscal year 2025 and 2026 cycles, an intervention that saw fraudulent multiple registrations plummet from over 400,000 down to fewer than 8,000.

While these tighter guardrails have begun to stem the flow of duplicate registry scams, the legacy of this deception casts a long shadow. Decades of unpunished exploitation have permanently distorted the public perception of skilled immigration, fueling valid domestic skepticism and provoking aggressive regulatory crackdowns, including sweeping executive restrictions on entry. The widespread fraud originating from India’s predatory IT shell sector has not just broken American immigration laws; it has actively betrayed the global community of honest professionals, turning a merit-based ideal into a game of corporate numbers where the only true winners are the cartels pulling the strings.

Why the Strait of Hormuz Remains Open for India While the World Is Shut Out

March 21, 2026/in Economy, Hot Topics, News, Policy, The Truth/by Amil Imani

The year 2026 has turned the world’s most vital waterway into a silent, jagged canyon of steel and shadow. As the Strait of Hormuz constricts under the weight of modern war, the flags of a dozen nations have vanished from its surface. Yet, through the sulfurous haze of the Gulf, the Indian tricolor still moves – not as an intruder, but as a guest in a familiar house.

As of mid-March 2026, while nearly 500 tankers remain stranded and global oil prices carry a nearly $20 risk premium, India has successfully negotiated the exit of key energy carriers like the Shivalik, Nanda Devi, and Jag Laadki. The question echoing through global capitals is: Why does the Strait remain open for India when it is slammed shut for almost everyone else?

To truly understand why the Hormuz remains open for India, one must look past the oil barrels and the ballistic trajectories. One must look into the “Civilizational Trust” that predates the very concept of a border.

Before there was a New Delhi or a Tehran, there were two people who were one. In the dawn of time, the Indians called their home Aryavarta, while the Iranians spoke of Airyanem Vaejah. Both names were a vow of the “honorable,” a shared identity that has survived three millennia of shifting sands.

When an Indian tanker enters the Strait today, it sails through a linguistic mirror. The Sanskrit Sapta (seven) became the Avestan Hapta. The sacred Sindhu river of the Vedas flowed into the Persian tongue as the Hindu. Even the name Hindustan — the very identity of the subcontinent — is more Persian than Indian; this word is a gift of Persian recognition. More than a relationship of current leaders, it is a memory of the DNA.

The humanitarian window India enjoys in 2026 is guarded by the living presence of shared gods. While modern ideologies have swept the surface of the earth, the foundations remain unshaken. It is on this very foundation that the diplomatic capital, built over decades of cooperation on projects like the Chabahar Port, allows India to be viewed by Tehran not as an adversary, but as a “responsible stakeholder” and a historical friend.

ASpeaking of history, in the Iranian province of Lorestan, a 3,200-year-old plaque of Ganesha sits in the dust, a silent witness to a time when there was no “us” and “them.” In Bandar Abbas, the murals of Krishna still adorn the walls of a Vishnu temple. Even the most radical of modern regimes could not dare to erase these paintings; to do so would be to erase the very roots of the Persian soul.

Perhaps the deepest reason the Hormuz stays open for India is a debt of 1,300 years. When the Sassanian Empire collapsed in 651 CE, and the Zoroastrian fire temples were being razed to the ground, the “Arya” of Persia looked toward the East.

They sailed across the Arabian Sea and knocked on India’s door. India did not ask for their gold or their conversion; she offered them the soil of Gujarat. Today, the Iranshah Atash Behram – the oldest living sacred fire of Zoroastrianism — burns not in Shiraz, but in Udvada. India saved the Persian civilization when Persia could not save itself. Every time an Indian ship passes through the Strait in 2026, it is a silent, poetic return to that sanctuary.

In the history of the world, neighbors are defined by their wars. Yet, between these two great civilizations, there has not been a single war for over 3,000 years. They never invaded each other. Instead, they traded wisdom. The father of Darius the Great studied under Brahmins in Bharat, taking that light back to the Magi. Taxila, the world’s first great university, flourished under the care of Persian administrators.

In the 2026 crisis, while Western navies deploy carriers and threats, India deploys Operation Sankalp. Its warships do not act as an occupational force but as a familiar presence. The Iranian authorities see the Indian flag and recognize a partner that has never sought their destruction.

This civilizational trust manifests in 2026 through a seamless bridge between ancient bonds and modern reality. The linguistic transition from Sapta-Sindhu to Hapta-Hindu has evolved into a contemporary diplomatic ease, where shared nuances allow for a dialogue that transcends standard geopolitics. The profound historical memory of the Parsi Migration in 785 CE continues to command a deep-seated respect from Iran, honoring India’s role as a sanctuary for their ancestral flame. This foundation is fortified by a staggering legacy of zero wars in 3,000 years, a record of peace that translates today into a high level of naval and tactical coordination. Ultimately, the intellectual heritage of Brahmins teaching the Magi survives in the modern era as a robust partnership, ensuring that projects like the INSTC and Chabahar remain vital veins of cooperation even amidst global turmoil.

The Strait of Hormuz remains open for India because trust is the only currency that does not devalue during a war. When a call goes from New Delhi to Tehran, it is much more than a ring in a government office; it rings in a shared history.

Sanskrit may have been suppressed, and Taxila may be a ruin, but the connection was never truly lost. India passes through the Hormuz because she is the keeper of the flame, the sister of the Arya, and the only neighbor who never drew a sword. In the turbulence of 2026, the Strait is not just a maritime route for India — it is a homecoming.

Betrayed American Workers Expose Dark Underbelly Of H-1B Visa Scheme

December 2, 2025/in Budget and Finance, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Economy, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Social Issues, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

They were promised lucrative and stable careers if they “learned to code” and earned a degree in software engineering.

Instead, many Americans in the tech industry have been left disillusioned as they face mass layoffs and chronic unemployment — a crisis they say stems from an addiction to cheap foreign labor pipelines that are made accessible through programs like H-1B, and are touted by companies as a way to hire the “best and brightest.”

“At this point, I’m doing something else,” Jonathan, a cybersecurity professional who is leaving the industry entirely out of frustration, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “My career is basically dead in the water because of these problems.”

Jonathan lost his job in the industry in November 2024 and in the months since, he’s submitted well over 200 applications for tech-related positions in the Seattle area, but received a grand total of zero offers — despite five years of experience and purportedly demonstrating high competency in every interview assessment thrown his way.

He wished to be identified only by his first name out of fear of retribution from past and potential employers, as did most of the seven tech employees who spoke with the DCNF.

Controversy surrounding the H-1B program, which very publicly split President Donald Trump’s inner circle shortly before he began his second term, has once again shot onto the national scene as the White House gives mixed signals on the program’s benefits. The issue has proven divisive for the Republican leader, who was elected to office on a pro-worker platform, but also has powerful allies in the tech world.

When reached for comment, the White House referred to recent statements made by press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“The president does not support American workers being replaced,” Leavitt told a group of reporters earlier in November. “The president has a very nuanced, common-sense opinion on this issue … but ultimately [he] wants to see American workers in those jobs… There’s been a lot of misunderstanding of the president’s position.”

‘Disillusioned’

Public data suggests that many American engineers are being passed over for foreign workers.

Throughout 2025, major technology companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Intel underwent layoffs — continuing what has been a years-long trend in the industry. The workers interviewed by the DCNF were not employed at these specific tech companies.

Roughly 428,000 tech workers lost their job between 2022 and 2023, and a total of 384 tech companies handed pink slips to roughly 124,000 workers in 2024, according to the Institute for Sound Public Policy (ISPP).

While H-1Bs have an outsized influence on the tech world, workers across all major industries are impacted by imported foreign labor.

The flow of H-1B workers into the U.S. has largely kept apace despite these mass layoffs, with the ISPP finding that the number of H-1B visa workers has grown 80% since the Great Recession low in 2011. Experts estimate that nearly 660,000 H-1B workers were living in the U.S. in October 2024.

Established by Congress in 1990, the H-1B program was originally intended to utilize “highly specialized” foreign labor, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Although it’s a nonimmigrant visa, H-1B holders can eventually become eligible to apply for legal permanent residence, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.

The tech industry dominates the use of H-1Bs, with tech companies accounting for nearly 70% of H-1B petitions annually, according to Nation Connections, a site dedicated to helping individuals navigate immigration laws in different countries.

Other American-born tech workers have shared similar experiences to Jonathan’s, and have stayed silent due to fear of retaliation.

“I do feel kind of disillusioned with the industry,” said Riley, who graduated with a software engineering degree in 2021. “Software engineers have a higher unemployment rate right now than art history majors.”

Art history majors have a 3% unemployment rate, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which compiled data released in February. Computer engineering majors, on the other hand, currently suffer from a 7.5% unemployment rate.

Riley said he noticed a monumental shift in the hiring practices of an Austin-based company he worked at for several years. He claims the company — which had faced consistent complaints from engineers about pay — increasingly staffed its engineering departments with employees from South America and eventually established an office in Colombia to better utilize the continent’s workforce.

“I believe that that was done in order to, you know, reduce their labor costs so that they could get engineers without negotiating with [the American-born engineers] or caving to their demands,” Riley said.

Jonathan described a similar situation after the California-based company he worked for introduced an India development center. Roughly six months after the center was launched, he said the company stopped hiring outside of India altogether. About a year after he left, Jonathan’s former coworker informed him that around half of the company’s security personnel was let go.

“You’re going to lose advancement opportunities, you’re going to have HR problems and you’re going to be not a team player if you don’t advocate with open arms the idea of an Indian development center being opened up to your company or a billion H-1Bs flooding the market,” Jonathan said about the situation he was facing and the continued pressure to not speak out.

‘We’re All In The Process Of Being Replaced’

India stands far above any other nation as the top source of foreign labor, making up 72% of all H-1B recipients between October 2022 and September 2023, per a March 2024 report from the Department of Homeland Security.

“We’re all in the process of being replaced,” John, who worked for an insurance company in Connecticut, told the DCNF.

John said there were around 350 IT employees — all purportedly American — at his company when he first began in 2006. Throughout his decade at the company, he claims they were all steadily booted out in favor of foreign workers.

“Most of the time they had them train their Indian replacements before they left as a condition of receiving their severance,” he told the DCNF. “So what I saw over a period of time was a whole bunch of lives being destroyed.”

“A lot of the younger kids can’t find employment,” John said of the industry. “They spent a whole bunch of money learning all of this stuff — computer programs, cloud platforms, this that the other thing — but they can’t find work.”

The tech employees who spoke to the DCNF are struggling to find work in the U.S. at a time when college debt has skyrocketed to historical highs. Roughly 44 million Americans owe more than $1.7 trillion in student debt, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Engineering degrees in general are consistently ranked as one of the costliest to earn.

Like his coworkers before him, John was ultimately “replaced” and handed a severance agreement that forbids him from discussing the matter publicly.

“Coming home to western Washington from Alaska, I assumed that finding a better-paying job would be no issue — we are home to some of the nation’s largest tech companies,” Luke Hawthorne told the DCNF. “I spent nearly a year over 2022 and 2023 searching for my current job, a job which pays me about the same as I was making before.”

While Hawthorne still considers himself lucky to be employed, he said his current salary “doesn’t even approach” the threshold it takes to afford a home in his area of Washington State. His home state’s software developer workforce grew by more than 16% through H-1B certifications over just a 9-month period, with 83% of these positions approved at or below Washington State’s median wage, according to public data he analyzed and shared with the DCNF.

“The ‘best and brightest’ argument simply doesn’t square with how the program is being used,” Hawthorne said. “Another important aspect of it is that you aren’t competing just with the new arrivals, but with all of the tech workers who have been replaced — I have friends with talent and experience who have been out of work for years.”

Many of the tech workers who spoke to the DCNF have since become involved with U.S. Tech Workers, an advocacy group that highlights the plight of American employees negatively affected by the H-1B program and pushes Washington, D.C., for change.

Trump, who has implemented some of the most hawkish immigration policies since returning to office, has appeared to give mixed signals on the issue as major players within his own inner circle disagree over reform.

The president’s coalition appeared fragmented in the weeks leading up to his second presidential inauguration, with business magnate Elon Musk touting H-1Bs in December 2024 and Vivek Ramaswamy suggesting that the U.S. needs foreign talent because American culture “venerated mediocrity over excellence.” Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former a top Trump ally who is resigning from Congress, said in November she would introduce legislation completely phasing out the H-1B program, accusing tech companies of abusing the system at the expense of Americans.

Trump initially appeared to side with the pro-H-1B faction, declaring in December 2024 that he was “a believer” in the visa program. In what appeared to be a major shift into the pro-American worker camp, Trump in September signed a proclamation slapping a $100,000 fee on all new H-1B applications, but opponents of the program have criticized the fee’s limitations and workarounds. Earlier in November, Trump once again publicly touted the need for H-1Bs to import foreign workers.

As Washington, D.C., continues to debate the value of H-1Bs, American tech workers say they’ve been left out to dry.

“I graduated college seven years ago and I remember in high school them telling us, ‘learn to code and you’ll have a good job,’” Joseph Ibrahim, an unemployed tech worker based in Florida, told the DCNF. “Well, it turns out they outsource the coding jobs also, not just the manufacturing jobs.”

Ibrahim got a degree in information systems, business analytics and information systems, but has been struggling to find work since April. Unlike many of the tech workers who spoke to the DCNF, he had no problem being identified by his full name.

“What are they gonna do?” Ibrahim asked. “They’re already not hiring me.”

“You know, if I went into college and on the pamphlet, there were like, ‘pros and cons of studying something in computer science: you may have to train your replacement at some point in your career,’ I would have never studied this,” he said.

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Israel and India: The Defense Ties That Bind

November 12, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, National Security, News, Policy, Politics/by Jihad Watch

Of the 1.3 billion people in India, at least 1.1 million Hindus and Sikhs have no love for Islam. When Muslims ruled over India, between 70 and 80 million Hindus were massacred, until those Mughal rulers realized it was better to keep the Hindus alive so that they might provide the jizyah that would support the Muslim state. India and Israel thus have a natural affinity with one another, sharing a common enemy,, and the latest defense deals between the two countries are another example of the ties that bind. More on those deals can be found here: “Israel’s Rampage missile success in Operation Sindoor drives new India defense deal,” Jerusalem Post, November 10, 2025:

Ministry of Defense director general Gen. (res.) Amir Baram last week signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with his Indian counterpart Rajesh Kumar Singh for strengthening defense collaboration. India is the biggest customer of Israel’s defense industries, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Between 2020 and 2024, India accounted for about 34% of all Israel’s defense exports.

Building on this, a delegation from the Indian Ministry of Defense has secretly visited Israel, as reported on the “India Defense Research Wing” website, to reach agreements that would allow India to not only procure Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) Air Lora ballistic missiles and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ice Breaker cruise missiles, but also to manufacture them.

Allowing another country to manufacture its most advanced ballistic and cruise missiles is a sign of how close the Jewish state’s ties with India have become. It is especially notable because India also has ties to Russia, and if the Russians were to acquire that missile technology, and then to pass it on to Moscow’s quasi-ally Iran, this would be cause for alarm. Apparently Israel’s defense and security establishment has faith that the Indians will be able to protect the secrets of the Jewish state’s latest ballistic and cruise missiles. I assume that no Muslims will be involved in the manufacturing of those missiles.

Previous reports in India have already suggested that India wants Air Lora missiles following the great success of the Rampage missiles during recent skirmishes with Pakistan. Rampage has a range of about 250 kilometers, and the Indian Air Force deploys it on Sukhoi 30 and MiG 29 aircraft. It is very precise, but its range puts India’s combat aircraft at risk from Pakistan’s Chinese-produced air defense systems. The Air Lora missile has a range of 400 kilometers, which enables combat aircraft to hit their targets without endangering themselves in the face of advanced air defenses.

Air Lora, which was developed in IAI’s MLM Division, is designed for attacking missile sites, military bases, and air defense systems, without endangering planes and pilots. The missile weighs 1,600 kilograms, flies at supersonic speeds, and uses satellite navigation protected against disruption. One of its outstanding features is that it is “fire and forget”, meaning that once it has been launched at the target, there is no need to guide it. It can carry various warheads, for deployment against soft targets or against bunkers. With its 400 kilometers range and accuracy to within ten meters, it will enable India to hit any Pakistani base.

At the same time, India is also interested in the “Ice Breaker” cruise missile, which is designed for attacks at ranges of about 300 km against land and sea targets. The missile is effective in all weather conditions, can function well in environments saturated with electronic warfare, and has infrared (IIR)-based navigation and missile guidance capabilities, which, through AI, can acquire and identify targets.

Israeli defense industries in general, and IAI in particular, are very experienced in operations in India….

The Indian military was impressed with how well the Rampage missiles that it had bought from Israel performed in the latest skirmish with Pakistan. And that, in turn, made the Indians eager to acquire the Air Lora ballistic missiles and the “Ice Breaker” cruise missiles from Israel. In fact, the Israelis did not agree just to sell both missiles to India, but to allow the Indians to manufacture them, a sign of the tremendous trust between the two states’ militaries.

One wonders if, given India’s eagerness to have access to Israel’s advanced weaponry, the Israelis could not persuade the Indians to cease voting against the Jewish state at the UN, and even, instead of voting “Present,” do the right thing and vote, along with the United States and a dozen other countries, against those endless anti-Israel resolutions that keep being brought to a vote at the General Assembly.

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Hugh Fitzgerald

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The ‘New’ New World Order

September 5, 2025/in Chinese influence, Communism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Techno-Fascism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Kenneth R. Timmerman

China’s President Xi took center stage this past week, hosting leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries to an economic summit that many have touted as the model for a “new” New World Order.

Notable among those attending was Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of the first world leaders to visit the White House after Trump’s re-election. Trump called Modi “a great friend of mine,” and said there was “a special bond” between the US and India.

That was then. After the China summit, Trump posted on Truth Social, “Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together.”

What happened? For starters, of course, was Trump’s effort to pressure Putin by imposing an additional 25% tariff on Indian exports to the United States, bringing total tariffs on Indian goods to 50%.

As I have mentioned previously in this space, Trump, Putin, Xi, and Modi are playing geopolitical chess. Modi could have responded by cutting off his imports of Russian oil. Or he could have doubled down on his alliance with Putin.

It certainly looks like he chose Putin.

But has he also chosen China?

Remember, the two fought a brief but fierce border war as recently as 2020 that plunged relations between them into a deep freeze. It wasn’t until October 2024 that the Modi and Xi spoke again face to face, agreeing to disengage troops along their mutual border in the Himalayas.

Count me as skeptical that Modi has bought into the Russia-China-Iran axis. My guess is, he is trying to get a better deal from Trump.

After the economic summit, Xi donned a Mao suit and walked the red carpet side by side with Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to oversea China’s annual military parade.

This year they commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, which Xi said had been won by the heroic efforts of China and the USSR.

He seemed to forget that China, at the time, was led by the Nationalist Party of Chang Kai-shek, and that the United States airlifted massive amounts of military supplies to Chang’s forces to help them expel the Japanese occupiers. Or that we did the same for the USSR, opening an air and land resupply corridor through Iran.

Both Xi and Putin have selective views of history. And they also share a very different view of the future.

For many years, they have been exploring the possibility of launching a new gold-backed currency to replace the dollar. China, Russia, and Iran have all been buying massive quantities of gold on world markets, a significant factor in driving up the price of gold.

But Mr. Market doesn’t believe in an alternative BRICS economy. Not even the Euro, which has the merit of being relatively transparent, has succeeded in supplanting the dollar. No one trusts that a BRICS yuanble would be fully convertible.

I see the summit and the military parade as more aspirational than reality. Would Xi, Putin, and Little Rocket Man like to see themselves as the alternative to the United States? Sure. Do they have the capabilities to supplant us? No way.

Trump was asked at the White House summit with US tech leaders if he feared a new “axis of evil” of China, Russia and North Korea when it came to developing Artificial Intelligence.

“I have no concerns,” he said. “We have the most brilliant people at this table, and nobody’s close.”

And the Russians and the Chinese know it.

Under Trump, the Pentagon is developing the first sixth generational fighter, the F-47, as well as a new supersonic stealth bomber, the B-21. We are also developing new generations of missile interceptors, drones, and battlespace management systems incorporating AI. Some truly scary stuff.

It was no accident that Trump staged that flyover of a B2 bomber in Alaska when Putin walked toward him on the red carpet.

The US has weapons that far outclass those of our rivals in current inventory and under development.

That doesn’t mean that we don’t face threats.

EU President Ursula von der Leyden claimed this week that Russia attempted to bring down her aircraft with a cyber attack on GPS satellites during a recent flight to Bulgaria.

She said that the pilots had to land the jet by reading from a map — you know, the paper kind you used to keep in the glove compartment of your car. (The technical term is a “sectional aeronautical chart.” Thank goodness we still have pilots who can read them).

Russia denied the allegation, as did the Bulgarian government. If true, it shows that Putin is very serious about his threats to the EU not to station troops in Ukraine. It also shows he is one very bad and ruthless головорез (golovorez). (No, I’m not a Russian linguist, but that’s the AI translation of “bad hombre.”)

I discuss all this, as well as the consequences of designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorrist organization, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

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‘Failed The Community’: Indian-Americans Sound Off On Kamala Harris’ ‘Submerged’ Indian Heritage, Focus On Black ID

August 3, 2024/in Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

Indian-Americans are sounding off on Vice President Kamala Harris’ alleged attempts to downplay her Indian heritage in favor of her Jamaican side of the family.

Less than a week ago, as Harris entered the presidential race, the New York Times wrote that the vice president’s Indian heritage is “little advertised.” Harris, with an Indian mother and black Jamaican father, has long been touted as a historic figure breaking glass ceilings. But some Indian-Americans told the Caller they feel Harris’ Indian identity is highlighted only when it’s “convenient” for her.

“It appears now, as both a vice president and then subsequently, now as a presidential candidate, that she’s made the calculation and the party has made the calculation that her African-American background needs to be emphasized, and that she needs to really kind of lead with that identity in order to continue to secure the African-American vote across the country, which strongly identifies with the Democratic Party, and specifically tied to Joe Biden,” Suhail Khan, a conservative activist and former Bush administration official, told the Caller. “If you look at the 2020, election in the primary, Joe Biden outperformed Kamala Harris on every level, including with African-Americans.”

“While she might want to lean into her ethnic background when it is politically convenient to do so, the reality is that it does not matter. What matters are her policy positions, which would be a nightmare for most Americans and especially for the Indian-American community,” Akash Chougule, an Indian-American conservative commentator, told the Caller.

When it has come to Harris’ identity throughout her political career, the media has “long focused on Harris’s Black identity” because of historic discrimination against black people, Vox wrote. In 2016, the outlet notes, the media highlighted that Harris was the second black woman to be elected to the Senate. But in the historic moment, Harris’ Indian heritage was often snubbed. The coverage of Harris’ historic election failed to mention that she was also the first Indian-American — not just woman — elected to the senate.

Similarly, the NYT highlighted the historic nature of Harris’ presidential campaign following Biden’s dropout in July. The outlet noted that Harris was elected as the first Black woman to serve as California’s attorney general and the second black woman to be elected to the Senate, but did not make the same note of her historic “first” status in those positions as an Indian-American.

Conversation around Harris’ identity came to a head Wednesday when former President Donald Trump sat down for a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists’ conference.

ABC reporter Rachel Scott asked the former president if he believed that Harris was only on the Democratic ticket because of her race. Biden previously noted in 2020 that he was considering four black women to be his vice president and had promised to pick a female.

“Well, I can say no, maybe it’s a little bit different,” Trump said. “So, I have known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much. She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn black, and now she wants to be known as black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she black?”

“I respect either one,” Trump said as one of the panelists told him Harris always identified as black. “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went and became a black person.”

The comment caused a media uproar, with many accusing Trump of a racialized attack against Harris.

“It was the same old show. The divisiveness and the disrespect,” Harris said in response to Trump’s remarks.

“And let me just say, the American people deserve better.”

Harris’ record in office hasn’t delivered for Americans of Indian descent, Chougule argued.

“She’s made very clear that she does not look highly upon entrepreneurship. She does not look highly upon meritocracy. The administration supports affirmative action, which harms Indian-American applicants to college. You can go down the list and see that regardless of the identity politics that Democrats and the media want to play, it’s clear that she does not value the things that have made the American dream possible for us, and that’s because unlike many on the left, most Indian-Americans aren’t interested in competing in the victimhood Olympics,” Chougule said.

Similarly, Ricky Gill, the former director for Russia and European energy security at the National Security Council and former senior advisor at the State Department, told the Caller that Harris’ track record has reflected that she is trying to distance herself from the Indian-American community and that it has been “submerged by design.”

Gill pointed to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, when Harris raised funds to bail rioters out of prison.

“[Rioters] were torching and looting businesses, and there were innocent business owners, people who were immigrants, in some cases, Indian-American business owners who identified with the dream of starting a business. They saw those dreams go up in a smoke of flames. Why? Because Kamala Harris, as a national figure, and then as a potential vice president, was raising money for protesters to get out of bail or get out of jail scot-free,” Gill said.

“I would tell you, the Indian-American community cares a lot about education, prioritizes security, and I think on both those fronts, Kamala Harris has failed the community that she’s now de-emphasizing in her own past,” he continued.

“Only Kamala Harris knows why her Jamaican heritage is more relevant than her Indian heritage, and while she fixates on that, voters are smart enough to judge her on the Biden-Harris economic and energy policies that has made life more difficult for all Americans,” Jahan Wilcox, an Indian-born Republican strategist and Trump administration EPA official, told the Caller.

In 2020, the Washington Post wrote that Harris’ Indian identity was “left out of the story.” Four years later, the New York Times admitted the same, saying Harris’ Indian heritage is “little advertised.” The NYT wrote in 2020 that ABC News had tweeted a list of seven facts about the California senator. The list, the NYT pointed out, made mention of Harris’ age, her marital status and her “African-American” heritage, but not her being Indian.

Regardless of Harris and the media’s focus on “racial attacks,” some Indian-Americans continue to feel snubbed by the vice president.

For Puneet Ahluwalia, an Indian-American Republican strategist and first generation immigrant, the downplaying of Harris’ South Asian heritage is offensive.

“As an Indian-American we’ve left identity politics and this hierarchy of power structure, of people choosing the leaders for the rest of the people to follow. We left that behind from the countries that we immigrated from. This is the reason why we all came to America. It was about freedom. It’s the individual liberty and pursuit of happiness and a free Republic,” he told the Caller.

“I feel it’s glued to whoever the segment of the population is she’s trying to woo, if it’s going to be Indian, then she wants to raise money, she’s going to highlight her Indianness,” he added. “And if she wants to get a large base of black Americans, she’s going to play her black identity.”

“To me, I think who’s more able and capable, who’s going to serve the people of America, is far more important.”

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Reagan Reese

White House correspondent.

RAMADAN 2022: The Holy Month and the Pursuit of Jihad

May 4, 2022/in Courts & Law, Policy, Politics, Religion, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

The world can now breathe a sigh of relief that the holy month of Ramadan is finally over. In recent years, the world has witnessed a surge in the intensity and frequency of Islamic jihad violence during this “holy month.” The pattern was no different this year; if anything, there have been more instances of recorded Islamic violence than the previous years.

Ramadan started on April 2 this year, coinciding with the first day of the Hindu New Year, celebrated in India. In the Indian state of Rajasthan, Muslim crowds unleashed a planned attack on the Hindus’ procession. The procession was attacked by bikers when it passed through a “Muslim area” in Karauli. The Muslims had placed stones, brickbats, and petrol bombs on their rooftops, and began throwing them at the Hindus at first sight of their procession. What started with a hail of stones culminated in arson attacks, as well as the vandalizing of Hindu ships, and the burning of bicycles.

On April 3, Ahmed Murtaza, a chemical engineer, tried to enter a Hindu temple in Gorakhnath; he screamed “Allahu akbar” while wielding a machete. Though the police arrested him before he could cause any significant harm, he succeeded in injuring two cops in the brawl. Investigations revealed that Abbasi was a terrorist-in-the-making; he was committed to the ideology of the Islamic State and had used various social media platforms to establish contacts with ISIS terrorists.

After this rocking – quite literally – start to the “holy month of peace,” Muslim forces in all corners of the globe took to innovative ways of continuing their legacy of violence.

On April 7, Raad Hazem, a 28-year-old Palestinian gunman, opened fire in a crowded bar in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing three and wounding ten more. The police gunned him down near a mosque on Jaffa the next day.

Synchronized mobs of Muslims attacked Hindus in seven Indian states on the occasion of the Hindu Ram Navami festival on April 10. The modus operandi of these attacks was similar to the onslaught of April 2.

The following day, Muslim youths in Spain tried to block an Easter procession, as they believed that the Holy Week procession was wrong and offensive. Some in the Muslim community seem to harbor a detestation for processions of non-Muslims anywhere, be it the Hindus in India or Christians in Spain.

Another shared virtue of some Muslims worldwide is their penchant for collecting stones and hurling them at the “kaffirs.” Taking a cue from their coreligionists in India, Palestinians sheltered in the Al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem began throwing stones at Israeli forces on Friday, April 15. There was no respite for the Israeli police during this time. They had to go into action against Muslims again in less than 48 hours when Palestinians started throwing stones to block Jewish visitors from the Temple Mount on April 17.

The stone-throwing in Israel took place just a day after Muslim mobs in Delhi, India, attacked Hindus again in the familiar and tested fashion when the Hindus began a procession for Hanuman Janmostav. Interestingly, reports suggest that the Muslims who attacked the Hindus in the nation’s capital were illegal Bangladeshi immigrants who entered India over the porous Indo-Bangladesh border. Right about this time, Muslims in Sweden decided to go on a rampage after hearing that so-called far-right activists were planning to burn copies of the Quran. This led to violent clashes between the Police and the mob.

It’s not just the kaffirs that have to bear the brunt of Islamic jihad. This ideology is plagued with sectarianism; Muslims don’t go easy on the “other” kind of Muslims, either. Infighting is common among the different schools of Islam. On April 5, Abdullatif Moradi, a 21-year-old Muslim youth from Uzbekistan who illegally entered Iran in 2021 from the Pakistan border, reached the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, and stabbed two Shia clerics to death. His plan was to take down three, but he could only manage to injure the third one severely before being arrested along with his six other accomplices. He was identified as a “takfiri,” a Muslim who believed other Muslims were not truly Muslim, and who believed that Shia Muslims were heretics whose blood should be spilled.

The blasts that rocked the Abdul Rahim Shahid High School area on the 19th, in a Shia-dominated part of Kabul, Afghanistan, were another instance of Muslim-on-Muslim violence. Afghanistan kept trembling under the absolute rule of Sharia as one bomb after another exploded through the remaining days of Ramadan. Deafening explosions ripped through the Kunduz mosque, killing over 39 and injuring 43 Muslims who had gathered to offer Friday prayers on April 22.

Things weren’t peaceful in the neighboring country either. On April 26, a 31-year-old Muslim Balochi woman, a mother of 2, blew herself up in Karachi, Pakistani, to support the Balochi freedom movement. Three Chinese nationals became victims in the ongoing conflict between Pakistan and the Balochis. The suicide bomber, a primary school teacher by profession, was convinced that disappearing in a ball of fire was more important than educating children in a crisis-stricken country.

These incidents, steeped in the blood of the innocent people, corroborate the fact that regardless of geography, languages spoken, education, and profession, the philosophy of the jihadi mind remains constant and adamant in its pursuit of the blessings of Allah.

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