COMMENTARY / OPINION
The Honeymoon is Over: The GOP Goes to War … with Itself DANA LOESCH
DEC 19, 2024 – The GOP went to war with itself this week over the 1,500+ page omnibus bill that did everything from raise pay for lawmakers to expanding plandemic powers and granting censorship authority. Republicans could’ve passed a simple CR, since the current debt ceiling expires in June, but party leaders are hell-bent on mucking it up.
They were able to whittle the bill from 15,00+ pages to 115, but they didn’t whittle down the billions in deficit spending or the $4 trillion in additional debt from suspending the limit. (Read it here; the bill failed earlier this evening.) It’s not the number of pages but what is written on the pages that matter. POTUS-Elect wanted it passed now, on Biden’s watch, rather than deal with it next year on his, and thought he could use it for leverage in June when the limit expires.
A chunk of Republican lawmakers opposed this before it was ultimately voted down with 38 GOP lawmakers voting against. The most vociferous among them, stalwart Chip Roy (R-TX), took to the House floor earlier today and blasted the spending still buried within the bill. Trump in turn blasted Roy on Truth Social, accusing him of “obstructionism.”
Trump didn’t call for primaries of the Republicans who are blocking his cabinet nominations, or for Speaker Mike Johnson, who delivered this garbage bill and led the House into this mess, but for Roy for opposing suspending the debt limit and for the increasing spending.
Suspending the debt ceiling isn’t a conservative position. It’s not even a fiscally advantageous one. All it is does is allow Congress to spend more in exchange for the mirage of temporary peace.
Disappearing Trump & Netanyahu w/ Lee Smith [40:52] Caroline Glick
December 19, 2024 JNS TV | The Caroline Glick Show
JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick sits down with author Lee Smith to discuss his latest book, Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic, and the similarities between the campaigns against President-elect Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Smith details how Jerusalem’s successes in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Iran and Syria have destroyed the Obama administration’s vision of the Middle East and have paved the way for Trump to ultimately defeat those trying to destroy the United States from within.
Flat-Earthers Come to Devastating Realization After Finally Reaching Antarctica By Samantha Chang
December 19, 2024 at 4:45am – A group of YouTube conspiracy theorists who insisted the Earth was flat now concede that the planet could be a sphere after witnessing the 24-hour Antarctic sun for themselves.
The Dec. 14 trip — which was called the “The Final Experiment” — was led by Colorado pastor Will Duffy, who brought together four flat-earthers and four globe-earthers to prove the Earth is not flat.
“I created The Final Experiment to end this debate, once and for all,” Duffy said in a statement. “After we go to Antarctica, no one has to waste any more time debating the shape of the Earth.”
Flat-earthers have long maintained that Antarctica holds the key to proving the Earth is flat, but falsely claimed that the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 barred them from visiting.
To resolve this controversy, Duffy organized an all-expenses-paid trip with Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions for the eight participants.
The trip typically costs $35,000 per person.
WATCH [2:27]
“In the flat-Earth view of the world, Antarctica is actually an ice wall that encircles the other continents and holds in the oceans,” according to News.com.au.
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“If that view were correct, the sun must rise and set each day — even in Antarctica — and could never circle the sky all 24 hours.”
As soon as The Final Experiment voyagers stepped off the plane, they began monitoring the sun’s activity.
If it stayed in the sky for 24 hours, a core belief of the flat-Earth theory would be shattered. And that’s exactly what happened.
Below is a timelapse of the 24-hour Antarctic sun.
WATCH [0:48]
YouTuber Jeran Campanella, a prominent flat-Earth conspiracy theorist, admitted he was wrong after his trip.
“All right, guys, sometimes you are wrong in life,” Campanella told viewers on a midnight livestream, per News.com.au.
“And I thought that there was no 24-hour sun. In fact, I was pretty sure of it. It’s a fact, the sun does circle you in the south. … What does that mean? You guys are going to have to figure that out yourself,” he added.
Campanella said he has been accused of being a “shill” for promoting the flat-Earth theory for YouTube views and internet fame, but he insists he actually believed it.
“I honestly believed there was no 24-hour sun,” he said. “I honestly now believe there is.”
WATCH (Complete trip 51:35)
Another flat-Earth YouTuber, Austin Whitsitt, also conceded “we were wrong” about the 24-hour sun.
“I was one of the people that said I definitely didn’t think that there was a 24-hour sun,” he said, per News.com.au.
However, Whitsitt insists the 24-hour sun does not totally disprove the flat-Earth theory.
“The point of this trip is to see if there’s a 24-hour sun. There clearly is,” he said.
“I don’t think it falsifies plane-Earth. I don’t think it proves a globe. I think it’s a singular data point.”
Another flat-earther, Lisbeth Acosta, said she hasn’t completely abandoned her flat-Earth narrative, either.
However, she said, it’s important for people to put their egos aside to investigate the truth.
“That’s not saying a 24-hour sun proves a globe model,” Acosta said, per News.com.au. “There’s still things that are definitely in question.”
There are several amusing aspects to this story. One is that the expedition was led by a Christian pastor.
This is ironic because flat-earthers have often been dismissed as religious zealots who blindly reject science.
However, in this instance, Pastor Will Duffy clearly has no problem reconciling his Christian beliefs with an acceptance of scientific data.
Another interesting revelation is that there are many people who subscribe to the flat-Earth theory. Many of us never even gave this a second thought.
However, given the steady stream of lies and propaganda the public has been fed about practically everything, it’s not surprising that skepticism over any “official narrative” has mushroomed.
[Ed.: You mean flat like a pizza? Hey! That’s even further out than ‘Climate Change’/’Global Warming’! So, what time is Shabbos?]
Terrorists Liberate Terrorists from Other Terrorists Daniel Greenfield
What Jerusalem knows and Foggy Bottom has yet to learn is that the Middle East is a bunch of tribal factions, warlords and gangs pretending to be countries, but all are some version of Al-Jawlani bouncing between ISIS, Al Qaeda and a new governing coalition. Opinion.
December 12, 2024 Israeli National News – In a stunning win for freedom, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni terrorist organization defeated the Assad regime and its Shiite terrorist groups to take over Syria. HTS is led by Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, a Saudi former associate of the caliph of ISIS who has a $10 million reward on his head from the U.S. while Assad was supported by Hezbollah whose leaders had multi-million dollar rewards on their heads until Israel killed them (but didn’t collect the money.)
Assad was backed by the Shiite terror state of Iran while HTS is backed by the Sunni terror state of Turkey. Geopolitical experts say that Sunni Islamists defeating Shiite Islamists to rule the pile of rubble that’s left of Syria is the biggest win for human freedom since the Muslim Brotherhood took over Egypt and parts of North Africa (before being ousted from Egypt and some other parts of the region) in the freedom phenomenon known as the Arab Spring.
The media broadcast scenes of Jihadists praising Allah for helping them defeat the other Jihadists who also praise Allah (but not in the right way) and liberating political prisoners to shortly replace them with other political prisoners (assuming that they even bother taking political prisoners or any kind of prisoners.) Talks are underway between the terrorists of the former regime with the terrorists of the current regime to see if they can work it out.
And maybe just focus on killing Christians, Jews and other infidels.
Some might suspect that a former ISIS associate tied to Al Qaeda (who admittedly turned on his former group to lead another Jihadist organization) taking over a country would be bad news. But they’re clearly bad people who don’t realize that Al-Jawlani is a changed man, an austere religious scholar who underwent a makeover courtesy of Queer Eye for the Syrian Guy and now, in the words of the BBC, wears a “more western style wardrobe”. At least if you count rocking Zelensky’s military fatigue hand-me-downs as looking like a regular western warlord.
The Biden administration has already made contact with the terrorist organization led by a man on whose head is a $10 million reward to offer to rebuild Syria just in time for the next civil war. Publicly, the administration has already taken credit for helping defeat Assad by insisting that the Israelis must stop attacking Hezbollah at once. Had the Israelis listened, Assad would still be in power. But the Biden administration was surely using reverse psychology and by threatening Israel with an arms embargo was really getting the Israelis to fight even harder.
Or at least that’s the story that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is going with.
While the world (or at least the parts of it that completely forgot about the Arab Spring) rejoices, the Israeli government which (for all its failings) has more sense than the State Department or a headless chicken, has begun bombing what’s left of Syria’s rocket factories and chemical warfare plants that Secretary of State John Kerry (despite promising Obama) somehow never got around to making sure that Vladimir Putin would dismantle and put away in cold storage.
The Israelis are also expanding their presence in Mt. Hermon and building their own security zone because they trust Syria’s new terrorist masters as much as they trusted the old.
What Jerusalem knows and Foggy Bottom has yet to learn is that the Middle East is a bunch of tribal factions, warlords and gangs pretending to be countries, but despite the flags, anthems, UN memberships, World Bank positions and invites to climate change summits, are all some version of Al-Jawlani bouncing between ISIS, Al Qaeda and a new governing coalition.
Over a thousand years of Islam comes down to some guy with a beard uniting a few key families with whose backing he then seizes a bunch of cities that used to belong to long lost great civilizations and then his men settle down to some murdering, looting and raping while thanking Allah for the privilege of a mission to kill, loot and rape the world. Or die trying. [Emphasis added]
[Ed.: I rate this as the best article of the month.]
Islam conquers Europe and Jews flee Giulio Meotti
For whom the bell tolls? Make that for whom the muezzin calls. Opinion.
Dec 18, 2024, 11:02 AM (GMT+2) Israel National News – For years, writers like Douglas Murray, the late Christopher Hitchens and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have been warning us that radical Islam is the greatest threat to the West, to our cultural and physical security. “You don’t have to be paranoid or bigoted to be alarmed,” Hitchens said.
And the canary in the Western coal mine is Europe, which is disintegrating into enclaves, while the numbers indicating Islamization continue to grow.
“Islam is advancing and I see in the West a desire to disappear,” Michel Houellebecq told the Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera.
In the Paris of the author of “Submission”, a dystopian novel that has become a daily chronicle, the famous philosopher Pierre Manent has just been reported to the judiciary, guilty of having said that “the number of Muslims in France cannot be allowed to grow at an indefinite rate. Secularism can more easily move a statue of Saint Michael than transform Islam. Failure to act could lead to a tragedy that no version of secularism will enable us to face”. The left-wing deputies have denounced him. “Incitement to hatred”. Article 40 of the penal code.
“Victims of anti-Semitism and Islamism, unite! The time of pogroms has returned, the Jews know it and have been saying it for a long time”, said the courageous Algerian writer Boualem Sansal.
In California, two children from a Christian school were seriously injured in a rifle attack: the attacker wanted to “avenge Palestine”.
At least in the minds of the enemies of the West, the victims of anti-Semitism and Islamism are united.
In London, a 14-year-old Jewish girl ended up in hospital for injuries sustained in an attack. In that London where strange writings have appeared on the walls of Jewish neighborhoods: “Zionists, leave the country or you will be massacred”. And in the meantime, a bus of Jewish students was attacked. That is why a month ago the city inaugurated a special bus line for Jews.
In the meantime, Jews are leaving the West.
Young English Jews are leaving their country.
And the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of England is also leaving.
A third of all Jewish doctors in Ontario, Canada, are packing their bags.
Over 2,000 French Jews have already left for Israel in the first ten months of 2024, a 95 percent increase over 2023.
And everywhere it is the same scenario.
In Berlin, Police Chief Barbara Slowik advises Jews and Lgbt to hide. “Berlin places great importance on being perceived as a diverse, liberal, tolerant, cosmopolitan city that offers everyone the opportunities for development that they only know from TV series”, comments the brilliant Henryk Broder in Die Welt. “Breakfast around the clock, parks with integrated medicine offers, and nighttime car races on the Kurfürstendamm.”
“If the current police chief is now highlighting the dangers that threaten certain groups in certain neighborhoods, then the situation must be serious. There is nothing to suggest that Ms Slowik wants to damage Berlin’s reputation and scare members of threatened minorities. She simply does not think it makes sense to wait until the Foreign Office issues an official travel warning for Berlin. As in winter on snow-covered and uncleared paths, the police chief may now start putting up large signs at the edges of ‘certain areas’ with just one sentence: ‘Proceed at your own risk!’”.
Apeldoorn in the Netherlands may be one of the “healthiest cities in Europe” according to a recent survey. But stickers declaring the city “Jew-free” have also appeared on the streets of Apeldoorn, an hour from Amsterdam. Free from smog and Jews. Joden vrij. It seems like “The City Without Jews” by Hugo Bettauer, a prophetic pre-Nazism novel.
“Europe will become jüdenrein,” says Abe Foxman, a Holocaust survivor and historic head of the Anti Defamation League.
In that case, perhaps we will see the proposal of Ahmed Marcouch, the mayor of a municipality west of Amsterdam, come to fruition. He has asked that part of the city be declared a “privileged area for Muslims.” An enclave reserved for Muslims in the capital.
That it is too late for many European countries is easily understood from the video in which the mayor of Amsterdam, the Green Femke Halsema, meets Palestinian demonstrators wearing balaclavas and the green sash of the Hamas military brigades.
European leaders know that the situation is compromised.
Palestinian flags fly every day in Dam Square, the main square of the Dutch city of Amsterdam. But the same square is off limits for a demonstration against anti-Semitism. Western institutions are conquered from within. Islam advances on the worn-out body of European culture.
“For whom do the bells toll?”, asked Israeli ambassador Zvi Mazel in a paper on the Islamization of Europe. “It would seem that Europe has lost the will to fight and is also losing the ability to control its own destiny. The bells may ring, but no one listens”.
Bells? For whom the muezzin tolls.
The muezzin can continue to call to prayer in Cologne. In October two years ago, Germany’s first major city began a controversial project. Every Friday a muezzin calls the city to prayer towards Mecca. Now the city of the cathedral visited by the Popes has granted approval for an indefinite period. During the construction of the mosque, residents were assured that the muezzin’s call would not be audible.
But there is no multicultural red line that is not written in sand in Europe.
So, since it seems like we are living in a cruel twist of fate and that according to some calculations, one in four Europeans will be Muslim by 2100 (large cities will be predominantly Muslim within 10-15 years), then let’s play a little with our imagination.
2024: Jews and gays should hide their identities in Muslim-majority neighborhoods, warns Berlin’s police chief.
2030: Women should wear headscarves in Muslim-majority neighborhoods, warns Berlin’s police chief.
2035: Atheists are being asked to wear djellabas in some neighborhoods, warns Berlin police.
2040: Berlin police tell non-believers they must pay a fee when entering Muslim neighborhoods.
2045: The last Germans are being asked to leave Germany, warns the Grand Mufti of Berlin.
After Assad: Recalibrating risks of an Israel-Iran nuclear war Prof. Louis René Beres
Israel must be prepared for an Iranian nuclear conflict that is deliberate, unintentional or even accidental. Opinion.
Dec 19, 2024, 6:44 AM (GMT+2) Israel National News – At first glance, the fall of Syria’s Assad dictatorship was net-gainful for Israel. Nonetheless, Iran’s military nuclearization continues to accelerate, and the Islamic leadership in Tehran has no credible reason to fear a Damascus sort of regime change. On the contrary, this Iranian leadership is now subject to new worries about being “cornered” by Israel during various crises of competitive risk-taking. In turn, these historically-unprecedented worries could heighten the likelihood of an inadvertent nuclear war with the Jewish State, even while Iran remained pre-nuclear.
There is more. A new and unpredictable cadre of jihadist terrorists is already rising in post-Assad Syria. Though Hezbollah, Houthi and other Shiite insurgents are now clearly less of a threat to Israel, these Sunni terror groups
(1) are being fashioned out of al-Qaeda and ISIS remnants; and
(2) are apt to engage Israel in ways that extend palpable confidence to Iran and encourage direct war against Israel.
In a very limited form, we have “seen this movie before.” The next time around, such direct war could become an “all-out” conventional conflict and sometime elicit “limited” nuclear operations by Israel. Such an asymmetrical nuclear war scenario is especially concerning in circumstances where Iran would target Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor or employ radiation dispersal weapons against the Jewish State. In principle, at least, similar escalations could follow in the wake of Iranian resort to electromagnetic pulse (EMP) ordnance.
What about the oft-discussed option of an Israeli preemption against a still non–nuclear Iran? All things considered, the fall of Bashar al-Assad should have no calculable bearing on an Israeli preemption against Iran (an act of “anticipatory self-defense” under international law), but a singular or one-off Israeli preemption would still likely prove irrational. Only during an active and already-escalating war against Iran could Israel rationally launch multiple and mutually-reinforcing preemptive strikes.
There are additional details and nuances. In scientific terms, it is meaningless to estimate the probabilities of unique events. In extremis, however, Israel ought not allow itself to be bound by strict analytic standards of logic and mathematics. Whatever their inherent limitations, Jerusalem’s estimations of enemy capacity and intent would be necessary. Moreover, just as before the Syrian government collapse, determinable risks of an Israel-Iran nuclear war would depend on whether such a conflict was intentional, unintentional, or accidental.
What about Israel-Iran tactics of “pretended irrationality” after Assad? Foreseeably, though it is more reasonable to expect such dissembling tactics from a “cornered” Iranian side, Israel could conceivably also expect benefits from such a posture. Years ago, Moshe Dayan openly expressed pertinent hopes. Warned the IDF general and minister of defense: “Israel should be seen as a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.”[1]
An unintentional or inadvertent nuclear war between Jerusalem and Teheran could take place not only as the result of misunderstandings or miscalculations between fully rational leaders, but also as an unintended consequence of mechanical, electrical or computer malfunction. This should bring to mind a further distinction between unintentional/inadvertent nuclear war and an accidental nuclear war. Though all accidental nuclear war must be unintentional, not every unintentional nuclear war would occur by accident. An unintentional or inadvertent nuclear war could sometime be the result of certain fundamental misjudgments concerning enemy intentions.
“In war,” says Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously in On War, “everything is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.” In fashioning a successful “endgame” to any future nuclear confrontation with Iran, Israel’s leaders should understand that this sort of crisis would be about more than maximizing any relative “force-ratios.” To an unknowable but meaningful extent, it would also be about Islamic “martyrdom” hopes for “power over death.” In this regard, the ongoing re-assembly of certain Sunni terror groups in post-Assad Syria could become an enabling war factor for Iran.
As a nuclear war has never been fought, Israel will require more broadly intellectual guidance than Israel could reasonably be expected from even its most senior military officers. In essence, there are no recognizable experts on fighting a nuclear war – not in Tehran, not in Jerusalem, not anywhere. To manage its unprecedented existential problem, Israel needs “high thinkers” of Yuval Ne’eman[2] or J. Robert Oppenheimer stature.
There is a further point concerning estimable risks of an Israel-Iran nuclear war. From the standpoint of Jerusalem, the only truly successful outcome of any direct conflict would be one that ends with a slowing or prevention of Iranian nuclear war fighting capabilities and intentions. Israel ought never to incur survival risks with Tehran if the best outcome could only be status quo ante bellum. On this calculation, the fall of al-Assad should have no discernible impact except for previously-mentioned enhancements of extreme Sunni terror threats.
Whatever the changed situation in Syria, providing for Israeli national security vis-à-vis a still-nuclearizing Iran ought never to become a seat-of-the-pants “game.” Without a suitably long-term and theory-based strategic plan in place, Israel could be unprepared for any Iranian nuclear conflict that is deliberate, unintentional or accidental. At every stage of its competition with Tehran, Jerusalem should keep clear sight of its only sensible rationale for maintaining absolute nuclear superiority. That rationale is reliable nuclear deterrence and (if necessary) stable war management.
What sorts of nuclear war are “in play?” By definition, any bilateral use of nuclear weapons would signify a symmetrical nuclear war, even if Israel were significantly more powerful. But if Israel was the only nuclear combatant state, an asymmetrical nuclear war could still be initiated. Either way, there is nothing about the al-Assad regime collapse in Syria that necessarily implies diminished risks of an Israel-Iran nuclear war. Accordingly, for Israel, the obligation to prevent a nuclear Iran remains conspicuous and primary.
LOUIS RENÉ BERES (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is Emeritus Professor of International Law at Purdue. His twelfth and most recent book is Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy (2016) (2nd ed., 2018)
http://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/content/surviving-amid-chaos-israels-nuclear-strategy
In 2003-2004, Professor Beres was Chair of Project Daniel in Israel (Iran’s nuclear weapons) for PM Sharon. His scholarly publications on Israel include annual contributions to Oxford University Press’ Yearbook on International Law and Jurisprudence. Professor Louis René Beres was born in Zürich at the end of World War II.
Sources:
[1] See my 2011 article with US General John T Chain in Jerusalem Post: Louis René Beres and John T. Chain, https://www.jpost.com/Premium/On-the-need-to-be-seen-as-a-mad-dog. General Chain was commander-in–chief, US Strategic Air Command (USAF), and director of the US Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff.
[2] This author, Professor Louis René Beres, was a long-time friend and correspondent of Professor Ne’eman.
Israel-Irish Relations Worsen Over Dublin’s ‘Genocide’ Stance | Israel Undiplomatic [35:11] Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev
December 18 JNS TV Israel Undiplomatic
After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his testimony in court on Dec. 17, citing “special circumstances,” rumors were abundant about what was imminent to happen. A strike against the Houthis in Yemen? A hostage deal with Hamas? Normalization with Saudi Arabia? Palestinian sovereignty? Or was he running scared because of threats from Iran?
JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev, former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom—both former advisers at the Prime Minister’s Office—unpack the lies, rumors and claims and zone in on what is actually happening.
Also, they discuss Jerusalem’s relations with Ireland as Israel closes its embassy and Dublin doubles down on how it is not really “anti-Israel.” All this and more on this episode of “Israel Undiplomatic!”
US Admits It Was Wrong About the Middle East [43:33] Caroline Glick
December 18, 2024 JNS TV The Caroline Glick Show
The United States intelligence community now admits that its predictions about “catastrophic consequences” if the Israel Defense Forces were to attack Hezbollah were wrong, the United Nations declare that the Iran deal is useless and the Israeli left declares civil war.
SHOCKING: Jewish Journalist Sends CHILLING Warning on Islam [VIDEO 17:39]
Dec 18, 2024 – Bari Weiss, a Jewish American Journalist gave a Heroic speech on the Dangers on anti-Semitism.
Don’t Focus on the Drones… Focus on the Mysterious Floating Orbs! (VIDEO 1:01:44) By Grant Stinchfield
Dec. 18, 2024 2:00 pm – America has a drone problem. They seem to be everywhere now. While our government refuses to take any responsibility for them, few people are talking about the orbs. Sighting of these mysterious plasma like unidentified aerial phenomenon are growing.
The orbs are performing in strange ways. Darting across the sky at lightening fast speeds, floating in place, causing radio frequency interruptions even leaving strange contrails. One drone even appears to respond to Jesus’s name. It is an eerie, unbelievable site.
Also, we dig into the latest attempt by Congress to spend 100 billion dollars in special interest programs under the threat of a government shut down. The latest 1500 page bill amounts to Washington at its worst.
And, Sen. Josh Hawley joins with Sen. John Kennedy in going after the NCAA for destroying women’s sports by allowing male athletes to dangerously compete against women.
[Ed.: Focus on the organ grinder, and not on his monkeys!]
ABLECHILD: Flawed Report Ignores Key Facts, Leaving America Vulnerable to Future Assassination Attempts by AbleChild
Dec. 18, 2024 7:30 am – The Reality of the Bipartisan Task Force Investigation into Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump
The Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump Final Report. Sounds impressive. A Task Force. Like Storming a beachhead or cracking down on organized crime. Unfortunately, in the case of this Congressional committee, the American People did not get its money’s worth.
In fact, after months of “investigating” the result of those efforts consists of what the People already knew…the Secret Service did an extremely lousy job of protecting the then former President.
Do the People know why the alleged shooter attacked the then former President? No. Do the People know what physical evidence was collected to determine who was the alleged shooter? You know like DNA, fingerprints, photographs? Nope.
Did the Congressional Task Force interview the parents of the alleged shooter to determine what the family may have known about the shooting event, or did it bother to have a conversation with the alleged shooter’s employer?
You know an employer who had a recent photo of the alleged shooter and not some insulting High School photo. No. Neither of those interviews happened.
But the Task Force did provide the American People one hell of a photo op when its members took a day trip to Butler Pennsylvania to get a firsthand look at the rally venue and stand on the roof of the AGR building. How impressive. But was it worth the expense when the Task Force only came away with the Secret Service didn’t do its job?
AbleChild has been following the investigations associated with the attempted assassination in Butler, PA, and held some hope that that Task Force might provide some much-needed answers. Unfortunately, the Task Force Final Report leaves much to be desired so AbleChild must continue to ask the obvious questions.
For example, on Page 24 of the Final Report it is acknowledged that “at approximately 1:30p.m. Crooks’ father gave him the rifle that would later be used in the assassination attempt. The firearm was legally transferred to Crooks by his father the year prior.
Crooks told his father that he was going to the local gun range…” It seems obvious to ask if the father legally transferred the weapon to his son the prior year, why would the father have to give him the weapon?
Seriously, why would the son have to ask for the gun if he owned it for a year and, according to Senator Grassley’s report, the alleged shooter used it all the time at the local gun range?
But it gets weirder, on Page 16 it is explained that “at 10:56p.m. Crooks’ father placed a 911 call regarding his son, stating that he had left earlier that afternoon with his rifle…and uncharacteristically had not returned home. The 911 dispatcher escalated this information, which was then relayed to the AFT.”
According to several news accounts, including Fox, BBC, CNN and CBS, the alleged shooter’s father made a call to law enforcement about his son being missing with a weapon. What’s really bizarre is that all news accounts report that the call was made prior to the shooting incident.
Then the Task Force explains that “Crooks’ father exited the residence, stepped onto the front porch, and asked something to the effect of “Is it true? CNN called me and told me that (redacted) shot Trump.” What? This is just stupid.
Now the Task Force is asking the American People to believe the father waited until 10:56 p.m. to call 911 about his missing son and gun and only after CNN called Dad to advise that his son tried to kill the former President? C’mon. That is just unbelievable.
Clearly these Members of the Task Force are not investigators, or they surely would have asked to see the father’s cell phone records to establish a factual time that the 911 call was made.
More importantly, maybe the Task Force could have asked the father if he phoned his son at any time during the day about his whereabouts. Maybe the son and father had a conversation that day. We won’t know unless some smart person asks for the phone records of Dad and the alleged shooter.
Moving along to the autopsy one cannot help but wonder why the Task Force did not release the autopsy to the public. The public is waiting with bated breath to find out how the alleged shooter was identified.
But, yeah, no, the Task Force did not provide that data. So, was it fingerprints, DNA, photographs? What’s the big secret? Just let the public see the autopsy so it can put that question to bed. And the Task Force does not provide any data that show fingerprint or DNA results for the alleged weapon used in the shooting. Why?
It also is disingenuous how the Task Force explained the removal of the alleged shooter’s body from the roof of the AGR building. “The coroner subsequently removed Crooks’ body from the scene during the early hours of July 14.”
Truth be told, the body of the alleged shooter lay on the AGR building roof all night until 6:30 a.m. the following morning, leaving most to wonder why the Butler County Coroner was turned away at midnight when he first went to the crime scene as was reported by the Butler Eagle Newspaper. The Task Force didn’t bother to ask those questions.
And the autopsy explains that the toxicology findings “show negative results for alcohol and drugs of abuse, including controlled substances.” Yes. Tests were done of “controlled substances,” but how about a host of psychotropic drugs? Nope.
The autopsy explains that “Crooks’ father denies that Crooks ever used illegal drugs and said Crooks was not known to be prescribed to any medication.” This is the same father who also did not know his son was building bombs in the basement.
It also is the same father and mother who allegedly are mental health experts and had no problem handing over a high-power rifle to a child who clearly was having some mental health issues.
Why didn’t the Task Force subpoena the parents to get some much-needed answers? Why does it seem that these parents are being protected? Why does the public know more about the alleged CEO shooter, Luigi Mangione, than alleged shooter Crooks and his parents? Not acceptable.
At the very least the Task Force owed to the American People proof, physical evidence, that Crooks was the shooter. And, to suggest that this report is a comprehensive review of what occurred at Butler Pennsylvania on July 13th is insulting.
Let’s be honest, the American people already knew that the Secret Service was incompetent by virtue of the former President being shot, one dead and two others seriously wounded. Beyond that, this Final Report by the Congressional Task Force is useless and appropriating more money to the Secret Service won’t get the answers the public needs about what occurred at Butler.
South Africa: Next Rich Failed State? by Nils A. Haug
Perfect Target for a Hostile Takeover
December 18, 2024 at 5:00 am
- South Africa… has an active and influential Muslim sector supportive of Hamas and Palestinian land claims. Coupled to its pathetic intelligence services, and its lamentable military and police forces, South Africa is ill-equipped to counter Islamist infiltration from neighboring regions or its growing internal extremist movements.
- Apart from succeeding in overcoming Apartheid, all that the ANC and allies have put their minds to since, ends in dismal failure. Every state-owned enterprise is broke and/or dysfunctional…. The same applies to government departments….
- As a mineral-rich country… South Africa is a prime target for a hostile takeover by opportunistic authoritarian state players. Russia, China and Iran are strongly positioned already…
- Of the three, China, with its vast financial and political investments in Africa, carries the most influence, and this will no doubt increase beyond the West’s capacity to match it as time passes. At this moment, with its primary focus on the Middle East and Ukraine, the West is unable or unwilling to match China’s multi-faceted influence in the region and thus offers China unbounded freedom to accelerate pursuit of its interests there.
- [T]he West’s loss of influence in the region might be greatly regretted for decades to come.
South Africa is a prime target for a hostile takeover by opportunistic authoritarian state players. South Africa conducts joint military exercises with both Russia and China, and is accused of supplying Russia with munitions for its crusade against Ukraine. Iran and its proxy Hamas are both a cause célèbre among ANC politicians, with Hamas having permanent representatives in Cape Town. Pictured: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Although the African National Congress (ANC) remains the dominant political party in South Africa after the 2024 national elections, its power is significantly diminished in addition to its reduced parliamentary representation. After failing to command a majority, the ANC is the largest faction of South Africa’s so-called Government of National Unity – although there is little unity among its large number of members. To describe the government as a fragile coalition would be more accurate.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, an ardent critic of Israel, is the authority behind South Africa’s actions condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Ramaphosa is also a leading figure in BRICS – a group of nations seeking to bypass America’s dominance of world trade, and global financial and monetary control. As part of South Africa’s realignment from the West towards BRICS, the ANC has adopted Russia and Iran as replacement benefactors, and has strengthened ties with China.
A November 2024 report by the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy warns South Africans of the “ANC government’s dangerous alliances with Iran, Qatar and Hamas.” A press release announcing the report states:
“The report raises concerns about the timing and financing of South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ. It highlights how, in early 2024, shortly after the South African government announced its case against Israel, the ANC mysteriously managed to stabilize its finances with an influx of money, despite being on the verge of bankruptcy… this occurred after high-level meetings between Hamas, Iranian, and Qatari leaders with ANC ministers, both of which have vested interests in challenging Israel on the global stage…
“South African government plays a critical role in facilitating Iran’s entry into the BRICS group of nations, thereby granting the country enhanced political legitimacy and access to an influential economic bloc.”
South Africa not only geographically abuts the Islamist-threatened country of Mozambique, but has an active and influential Muslim sector supportive of Hamas and Palestinian land claims. Coupled to its pathetic intelligence services, and its lamentable military and police forces, South Africa is ill-equipped to counter Islamist infiltration from neighboring regions or its growing internal extremist movements.
Despite its onerous race-based laws, and although a politically and socially unstable country, South Africa is the wealthiest country in Africa and therefore its most desirable nation for investment. It remains a highly attractive target for Russian, Chinese, Iranian and Islamist influence, whether financial, military, commercial, political or ideological. It has porous borders with six other African countries, all of which also remain susceptible to both state and non-state actors staking their interests in southern Africa.
ANC-led South Africa is on the verge of becoming a failed state. This contention is evident from a litany of factors which makes it vulnerable to social and political chaos. The escalating breakdown in essential services can be seen from a few recent press headlines:
- “Rupert [South Africa’s richest person] sends a warning to South Africa – especially farmers and automakers” (Nov 29, 2024)
- “Critical workers are quitting in South Africa” (Nov 28, 2024)
- “VW joins the chorus of warnings for South Africa” (Nov 28, 2024)
- “South Africa’s water quality crisis” (Nov 28, 2024)
- “Government flushes another R14 billion down the drain” (Nov 27, 2024)
- “South Africa heading for a cliff, warns Ramokgopa” (Nov 28, 2024)
- “84 people murdered every day in South Africa” (Feb 16, 2024)
- “Inside the spooky South African shopping mall where most shops are empty” (Dec 2, 2024)
- “South Africa is in the world’s ‘top five most dangerous countries'” (Nov 20, 2023)
- “South African municipalities in crisis – one in three councillors don’t have a matric [high school diploma]” (Sep 12, 2024)
- “South Africa’s rivers of sewage: More than half of SA’s treatment works are failing” (Apr 26, 2021)
- “Two Durban beaches closed due to high E. coli levels ahead of festive season” (Dec 4, 2024)
- “South Africa making enemies with the wrong countries” (Dec 6, 2024)
These headlines indicate crises common to a failed state, but the situation is actually worse. The ANC, with allies from the Communist Party and the powerful labor unions, are determined to enforce their tightening neo-Marxist strategy on the populace.
This latest attempt consists of nationalizing private health care by forming a so-called National Health Insurance. The public health care system has all but collapsed, while the private health care system is top-class. The ANC’s approach amounts to this: ‘Well, we cannot fix the public health service, so we will appropriate the private sector’s health system which works well. We will offer the poor the same level of health care as hitherto available only to a privileged few able to afford it.’
The outcome is predicable: the private system will refuse to become incorporated into this nefarious scheme but, if forced to do so, will simply close down and create an alternate structure. Highly-trained medical practitioners will probably leave the country or retire. Private hospitals will become insolvent, as is the case in public service facilities.
The ANC’s proposed Basic Education Laws Amendment Act (BELA) is a highly controversial attempt by the ANC to authorize the regime’s severe intrusion into private school education. Like everything else there, the public school system is disastrous. The ANC wishes to control the private school sector, in the mode of Soviet-style, authoritarian regimes. The official opposition, the Democratic Alliance party comments that BELA is a “power grab by the government, effectively centralising control over schools and reducing the autonomy of local communities and parents.”
Apart from succeeding in overcoming Apartheid, all that the ANC and allies have put their minds to since, ends in dismal failure. Every state-owned enterprise is broke and/or dysfunctional, including the national airline South African Airways, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the arms manufacturer Denel and the South African Post Office. The same applies to government departments such as Transnet (which manages ports, rail freight transport and pipelines), the South African National Defence Force, the South African Police Service, PetroSA (oil and gas), the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, and so endlessly on.
As a mineral-rich country with a strategic geographical location and easy access to hinterland African states, South Africa is a prime target for a hostile takeover by opportunistic authoritarian state players. Russia is strongly positioned already; it has a long history of supporting African national liberation movements, especially the ANC, and has frequent interpersonal visits with ANC politicians. South Africa conducts joint military exercises with both Russia and China, and is accused of supplying Russia with munitions for its crusade against Ukraine. Iran and its proxy Hamas are both a cause célèbre among ANC politicians, with Hamas having permanent representatives in Cape Town.
President Ramaphosa has remained silent about an attempted terrorist bombing of the Cape Town Jewish community center on December 5 — despite the condemnation by many world leaders of the incident. The South African Jewish Board of Deputies wrote:
“This was an act of antisemitism aimed at the Jewish community, whether intended to intimidate or to cause physical harm. It was an illegal act that constitutes a hate crime.”
Should Ramaphosa eventually decide to condemn the action, his May statement to the effect that “Palestine will be free from the River to the Sea,” would surely mitigate the credibility of his belated comments.
The West is “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to Africa generally, and South Africa in particular. South Africa enjoys the benefits of trade concessions from the United States under its African Growth and Opportunity Act, but politically, ideologically, economically and militarily, South Africa stays close to China, Russia and Iran.
Of the three, China, with its vast financial and political investments in Africa, carries the most influence, and this will no doubt increase beyond the West’s capacity to match it as time passes. At this moment, with its primary focus on the Middle East and Ukraine, the West is unable or unwilling to match China’s multi-faceted influence in the region and thus offers China unbounded freedom to accelerate pursuit of its interests there.
The future for liberal democracy in Africa therefore does not appear favorable, and the West’s loss of influence in the region might be greatly regretted for decades to come.
Nils A. Haug is an author and columnist. A Lawyer by profession, he is member of the International Bar Association, the National Association of Scholars, a faculty member at Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. Retired from law, his particular field of interest is political theory and ethics interconnected with current events. He holds a Ph.D. in Apologetical Theology. Dr. Haug is author of ‘Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden – the Quest for Identity’; and ‘Enemies of the Innocent – Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age.’ His work has been published by First Things Journal, The American Mind, Quadrant, Minding the Campus, Gatestone Institute, National Association of Scholars, Israel Hayom, The James Wilson Institute (Anchoring Truths), Document Danmark, Jewish Journal, and others.
[Ed.: Genesis 12:3: “And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you.”]
Will Nuke False Flag Keep Trump Out of Office – Steve Quayle [VIDEO 50:15] By Greg Hunter
December 17, 2024 USAWatchdog.com
Renowned radio host, filmmaker, book author and archeological dig expert Steve Quayle is telling the public to brace themselves for the evil deeds that will be done to try to keep President Elect Donald Trump from taking office. This includes a false flag nuke that will be blamed on Russia. One side of government is trying to nuke America, and another side of government is trying to stop it. This is what some say all the drone traffic is about. Quayle explains, “A false flag is when you initiate an illegal act. In this case, we are talking about the detonation of not only ‘dirty bombs’ but also nuclear warheads. The rumors are there are active nuclear warheads. . . .They that hate Trump and want to literally destroy this country to save the majority of the Democrats and Republicans that appear to have an affinity for China. That came out in the Australian News about how many US politicians are on the China payroll.”
Lots of crime and treason have been going on in Washington D.C., and it only got worse in the Biden Administration. The so-called Swamp is scared. Quayle says, “They are scared because of the revelation that President Elect Trump is sending public signals that he’s going to clean house. . . . The bottom line answer is if you have sold out to the Chinese. . . . Our government was in collusion with the Chinese. We funded (CV19) gain of function experiments that resulted in the deaths of people who were vaccinated . . . and participated in the knowing and willing destruction of American citizens. . . . A top Communist Chinese Party member said . . . with our bioweapon, we defeated the United States. . . .They are afraid because they know what they are guilty of. . . . President Trump has the goods on them — there is evidence.”
Quayle says there is another government group who is working to stop any false flag. Quayle contends, “They are going to use everything in their bag of evil tricks, including false flag nuclear detonations. The Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) are good guys, and they are working tirelessly. They really want to stop this nuclear false flag,”
These people who are against Trump are both desperate and evil. Quayle says, “They will do anything, including detonation of nuclear warheads in the US to stop Donald Trump. These are soulless creatures. . . . Their sole purpose is to destroy mankind. . . . There is only one reason to provoke a nuclear war with Russia, and that is they don’t want Trump in office. They are Luciferian, and they want a mass sacrifice of 250 million Americans.”
In closing, Quayle says to be on the lookout for the big lie coming in the future. Quayle says, “The big lie is aliens created us . . . and there is no God. . .”
There is more in the 50-minute interview.
WATCH [50:15]
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes one-on-one with Steve Quayle who talks about evil demons that will try a nuclear false flag detonation to stop Donald Trump from taking office for 12.17.24.
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Russian general assassinated in front of his home; Moscow vows to avenge death of officer who blew the whistle on U.S. biolabs operating in Ukraine LEO HOHMANN
Ukraine claims credit for targeted assassination of Lt. General Igor Kirillov but this bears all the hallmarks of CIA hit job, further stoking WWIII
DEC 17, 2024 – Reuters reports that a top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service on Tuesday morning near his residence.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, 54, (pictured above) was chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops. He was killed outside an apartment building along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off, according to Russia’s top criminal Investigative Committee.
The scooter containing an improvised explosive device was remotely detonated, killing both Kirillov and his aide as they stepped out of a building on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow, Russian media reported.
A source within the Ukrainian secret police, or SBU, told Reuters that it was behind the hit, stating “The liquidation of the chief of the radiation and chemical protection troops of the Russian Federation is the work of the SBU.”
The U.K.-based Reuters news outlet conveniently failed to mention that the Ukrainian SBU operates as a virtual arm of the CIA and was unlikely to pull the trigger on such a high-profile assassination without the approval of the U.S. intelligence agency.
Sputnik International, a Russian media outlet, speculated that the real reason the Russian general was killed had nothing to do with unverified reports about the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops. Sputnik says Kirillov was targeted because he was the one responsible for the discovery of more than a dozen biolabs operating in Ukraine under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of State. These biological experiments allegedly started under former President Barack Obama.
According to Sputnik, the U.S. State Department has been directly involved in these biological programs, despite its repeated denials.
It is a fact that under Obama, U.S. biological warfare programs were advanced on foreign soil at the recommendation of the State Department because they were considered too risky to continue in the U.S. These experiments in bioweaponry typically are carried out under the auspices of developing “vaccines” against certain pathogens, when in fact they are “gain of function,” making the pathogens more deadly to humans and more easily spread among humans. The development of U.S. bioweapons allegedly has taken place at biolabs in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Ukraine and Africa.
The U.S. government engages with third-party contractors as intermediaries to further disguise its involvement in this illegal and destructive bioweapons development. This is how Dr. Anthony Fauci could lie in the face of Senator Rand Paul a couple of years ago when he said the U.S. is absolutely not engaging in deadly gain of function research. He was afforded plausible deniability by the fact that his agency had outsourced the work to NGOs such as EcoHealth Alliance.
The bottom line is this: Both the U.S. and Russia are accusing each other of violating international norms on the experimentation, deployment and/or use of biological and/or chemical weapons. No doubt both countries are up to their ears in this nasty business.
But at least you will have both sides presented here, unlike in the mainstream media, which will feed you only one side of the story, telling you only what the U.S. government wants you to know.
Reuters reports that Kirillov is the most senior Russian military officer to be assassinated inside Russia by Ukraine and his murder is likely to prompt the Russian authorities to review security protocols for the army’s top brass and to find a way to avenge his killing.
Former president Dmitry Medvedev, now a top advisor to Putin on issues of national security, was cited by the state RIA news agency as saying that Ukraine’s military and political leadership now faced imminent revenge for Kirillov’s assassination.
But Russia knows who is really in charge of the Kiev regime, so I would not rule out a further act of revenge against the United States or its assets around the world.
Countdown to Chaos? Dangerous Weeks Before Inauguration by Frank J. Gaffney
December 17, 2024 at 5:00 am Gatestone Institute
- While much national attention is on the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 presidency, there is growing reason to be concerned about the final days of Joe Biden’s term.
- Among those with a powerful interest in disrupting the peaceful transfer of power to a new Trump administration are: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), world government globalists, Sharia-supremacists, deep state bureaucrats and assorted homegrown and foreign-enabled terrorists, jihadists, and other revolutionaries.
- These hostile forces’ ability to create chaos in the United States – especially collectively – cannot safely be ignored.
While much national attention is on the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 presidency, there is growing reason to be concerned about the final days of Joe Biden’s term.
Among those with a powerful interest in disrupting the peaceful transfer of power to a new Trump administration are: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), world government globalists, Sharia-supremacists, deep state bureaucrats and assorted homegrown and foreign-enabled terrorists, jihadists, and other revolutionaries.
These hostile forces’ ability to create chaos in the United States – especially collectively – cannot safely be ignored.
The Chinese Communist Party, since May 2019, has been telling the people of China that their country is at war with the US. And the CCP has for years been preparing for a shooting conflict in the Western Pacific, as well as, over the past two years, inserting tens of thousands of its military personnel into the United States. Their mission could well be to carry out attacks on the US electric grids, transportation, communications, water resources and as much other critical infrastructure as possible. They have not been sent to vacation at the Grand Canyon.
Whether Chinese Emperor Xi Jinping will pull the trigger in the immediate future will probably be a function of his pressing economic, political and demographic challenges at home and the prospect of the replacement of his controlled asset, Joe Biden, by his nemesis, Donald Trump.
Yet, even now, Wall Street persists in underwriting and, thereby, enabling such threats to the U.S. and its allies. America’s largest money managers are sluicing the pension and other funds of American investors – largely without their knowledge – to CCP-controlled companies. Many of those corporations are helping the regime build weapons to kill us and the means to intensify their repression of the Chinese people.
Trump seems likely to restrict, if not end altogether, this insane practice of underwriting our mortal enemy. And the Chinese Communist Party, their “old friends” in the U.S. financial markets and other “captured elites” have abundant reason to want to stop him.
Globalists see Trump as a threat to their ambitions to create world government. And they recently secured enhanced capabilities to advance that agenda in the form of two international accords that give international bureaucrats at the World Health Organization and the United Nations the authority to declare emergencies and dictate what nations must do in response. Pandemics, migration, climate change, conflicts, “gun violence” and “black swan events” can all be cited at their whim as pretexts for dictating what actions must be taken in response.
Neither treaty has been submitted to the U.S. Senate for its advice and consent, let alone been approved by two-thirds of its members. And Trump has made clear he opposes such affronts to our sovereignty.
So these agents of global governance dread the prospect of Trump’s return to office. They could see in the declaration of another public health emergency or “complex global shock” and dictated responses that disrupt American society economically and politically a means of staving off a Trump presidency 2.0.
Meantime, Sharia-supremacists are similarly determined to bring about a new world order, unimpeded by America and its allies like Israel and the Europeans. They are on the march in Syria, Egypt, Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. While their immediate objective is the destruction of Israel, the ushering in of a global caliphate is, they believe, their Allah-directed destiny.
They have made great strides in that direction, thanks to decades of largely unchecked immigration, especially to Western European nations, from Sharia-dominated nations. In most of the host countries, there is rising jihadist violence and political disruption.
There are also untold numbers of imported and home-grown Hezbollah, Taliban, Iranian, Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist operatives ready to wage jihad here, as well. As was evident on college campuses in the spring of 2024, their capacity for disruptive violence must not be underestimated.
In addition, as the riots in 2020 demonstrated, Marxist/Maoist groups such as Antifa, black identity groups such as Black Lives Matter and numerous fellow-travelers are poised at any time to re-launch a “color revolution.” Their attacks on businesses and communities, and the chaos thus induced, were tolerated by deep state bureaucrats and applauded by Democratic politicians. A reprise of the chaos such radicals can inflict could create civil unrest and, especially if others enemies pile on, impact the transition’s timing and successful completion.
Observing that one or more of these scenarios may occur in the next few weeks is not to posit their inevitability. Rather, it is to impress upon a public susceptible to taking at face value Biden’s public promise to Trump of a peaceful transfer of power that it may not happen.
Under present circumstances, it is simply prudent at least to be aware of these potential dangers and doing everything possible to prevent them from being actualized in the United States.
The bottom line is that any one of these elements is capable of creating or greatly exacerbating chaos that could be used to justify martial law, try to derail the inauguration and thwart the on-time transfer of power to the incoming administration.
As the federal government may for the next few weeks be part of the problem, it will fall to liberty-loving states to pursue six steps that can help mitigate this dangerous situation:
- Raise awareness of the existence of threats.
- Crowdsource information about the whereabouts and status of potentially hostile elements.
- Enhance personal and community preparedness.
- Heighten the readiness of the National Guard, constitutional sheriffs, other state and local law enforcement.
- Protect critical infrastructure and likely targets.
- Plan for contingencies, such as any effort to respond to chaos-inducing events with a declaration of martial law and efforts to postpone the inauguration.
In addition to action at the level of state and local governments, it behooves every patriot committed to the American experiment to be alive to these dangers. Collectively, we can bring to bear the kind of “situational awareness” that can help detect and expose the potential for harm before it is inflicted. And, thereby, millions of us can assist in ensuring the on-time, peaceful transfer of power and national course-correction for which the majority of Americans voted on November 5th.
Frank J. Gaffney, formerly acted as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Pentagon. He is currently the President of the Institute for the American Future and host of “Securing America” on the Real America’s Voice network.
Mysterious drones, ‘loose nukes,’ and baseless viral takes JORDAN SCHACHTEL
There is a worldwide epidemic of people without the slightest ability to reason and think rationally.
DEC 16, 2024 – Social media is ablaze with speculation about the apparent mysterious drones flying over New Jersey and elsewhere in the U.S., with some coming to truly bombastic conclusions to explain the situation.
One such commentator, a Kansas resident named John Ferguson, who runs a company named Saxon Unmanned, submitted an explosively viral take on the drone incidents. His video, originally uploaded to TikTok, received hundreds of millions of views across several platforms after it was shared by Joe Rogan, Shawn Ryan, and several other popular commentators. Because of that, it was picked up by lots of media outlets.
I’ll upload it independently below so that you can follow along with me:
After watching the video, I came away shocked and appalled.
Shocked and appalled that so many people would buy into this laughably inconsistent and entirely unsourced narrative of events.
There is a worldwide epidemic of people without the slightest ability to reason and think rationally.
Let me share my thought process with you.
Ferguson begins by establishing his credibility. He runs a company in Kansas called Saxon Unmanned, which, on its webpage, claims to be a “leading solutions provider for unmanned and autonomous remote system technologies for the government, energy, infrastructure, agriculture, and private industry.” Now, after a quick search, it became unclear if Ferguson had any contracts with the government. And he runs a very small shop, with most sites listing him as having fewer than five employees. Nonetheless, he established some semblance of credibility because this is his bread and butter.
Now, he gets right into the meat, which is his claim that there is a missing nuclear “warhead” in the United States.
Wow! That’s a big statement.
Some background: There have long been general concerns about “loose nukes” during the post-Soviet period (a 40-year-old issue), but there is no evidence of his claim that “80 nukes” went missing from Ukraine. He also brings up the notion that this is some kind of ploy to hook us into war with Russia, further complicating everything. For people who can reason, Ferguson’s loose speculation and politicization of what should be a major national security issue should light up major red flags in your head.
It gets even more flimsy.
Ferguson then claims he spoke to “a gentleman” (who does not get a name. RED FLAG) with access to high levels of government. This “gentleman” has told Ferguson, Ferguson says, that the government ignores him. Ferguson says that the “gentleman” has “physically touched” a warhead leftover from Ukraine and that the nuke is being shipped (?) from Ukraine to the United States.
Now, the story is a total mess. Ferguson doesn’t even have first-hand knowledge. And his source remains unnamed.
Bonus info: There are no nuclear warheads in Ukraine, so the geopolitically astute would poke more holes in the story right away. Ukraine agreed to dissolve its nuclear program over 30 years ago.
To recap, Ferguson has no first-hand information. He is unaware that Ukraine doesn’t have any nukes. And we have to trust him that his source is not your local conspiratorial pharmacy tech at CVS.
And speaking of “warheads,” Mr Ferguson is constantly referring to the apparent missing weapon in this fashion. The warhead is the part that contains the explosive mechanism. However, a warhead needs to be mounted on a delivery system to work. Is the delivery system also part of this apparent Ukrainian or Biden plot to throw America into a war with Russia?
Ferguson continues the brain cell eliminator that is his TikTok tale. To back up his scorching hot takes, he baselessly claims nukes went missing a few years ago in Colorado, and they were traveling on a major highway and that drones were looking for the nukes. He does nothing to substantiate this claim.
The self-proclaimed drone expert then pivots to the idea that drones have “no reason to be in the air at night” unless you’re doing military recon work. Again, it’s a completely silly and irrational take. Drones are accessible to anyone with $100 in their bank account. And let me tell you, as someone from New Jersey, we love to troll people for no reason.
The screed is not over. The Kansas man declares that drones have “special sensors that can detect radioactive material.” But so do other devices that are more useful than drones. If a nuke was missing in Jersey, you better believe that they wouldn’t just be flying around drones at night, and only at night, with the hopes of recovering the material.
Ferguson then brings us back to “this gentleman” who says a rogue nuke warhead “left Europe, and now it’s gone” into the continental United States. If only we knew the identity of this all-knowing “gentleman.”
So, based on this conspiracy, he concludes that the drones are “trying to smell something” on the ground, aka, the rogue nuke that somehow found its way to America and got lost in Jersey.
Again, I came away stunned that so many people believe the absolute nonsense coming out of this man’s mouth. His credibility is suspect. His “evidence” is non-existent. He has no first-hand knowledge. All of the information he is supposedly relaying is sourced to an anonymous “gentleman.”
“But Jordan, what is your take on the mysterious drones?”
I’m not sure, but I sure as heck know that there’s nothing credible about the “loose nuke in Jersey” case.
It’s time to make America rational again.
Innovation & Safety Are Products of Open Source REBECCA FINLAY, MARK SURMAN
AUG 14, 2024 Tech Policy Press
Rebecca Finlay is CEO of the Partnership on AI and Mark Surman is President of Mozilla.
Once a niche topic in research labs, AI applications are now in the hands of millions across the globe. With the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, generative AI captured the attention of the public, policymakers, and the business community like few technologies before it. Although the exact impacts of generative AI and foundation models on the economy and society are unclear, what is indisputable is that AI in all its forms has already deeply permeated our lives, from how we work and learn to how we entertain ourselves at home.
But while the public has marveled at the growing capabilities of generative AI, there has been a larger debate unfolding over the future of AI and whether the technology should be open or closed. As arguments abound over the risks and benefits of building a technology as important as AI in the open, it is important to remember that today’s AI era would not have been possible without open publication of AI research: the transformer method that undergirds the performance of today’s generative AI applications was published in a 2017 industry paper made accessible to all and not as proprietary intellectual property.
Recognizing the potential impact of AI, the Biden administration released an Executive Order (EO) to drive action on AI across the United States federal government. The EO directs more than 100 actions across dozens of federal agencies, including one which required the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to examine the benefits and the risks associated with making foundational AI models open and widely available.
On July 30, NTIA released its report on AI openness, covering different scenarios, risks, and benefits. Based on the collected evidence, the report shows that the government should keep supporting an open AI ecosystem. It also suggests creating a system to gather important information for making future decisions on AI as it evolves.
We believe the next administration should not only follow NTIA’s recommendations to keep AI open, but also take additional actions that promote open innovation and ensure that the benefits of AI are shared widely across America, not just in coastal tech hubs. First, the government should protect citizens’ privacy and act to reduce the online harms of synthetic media on vulnerable populations. Second, articulate a vision to build and invest in an AI infrastructure that serves the public interest. This includes a commitment to publicly funded research to apply AI to the world’s most challenging questions. It also means providing increased access to computing power and open, high-quality datasets. Third, invest in citizens and communities through worker protections, media literacy and skills development.
These actions would create an opportunity to shift the benefits of the new wave of technological innovation from Silicon Valley to the rest of the United States, creating new jobs and real opportunity for all Americans. Today, we see the power of open-source AI in a huge range of applications, from Mozilla’s open-source Common Voice, which is helping to preserve the linguistic culture of millions worldwide, to Stanford’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, which is working to expand what is already “the world’s largest free repository of AI-ready annotated medical imaging datasets.” Independent organizations like Partnership on AI have openly published tools to advance responsible AI governance.
We, like many others, think that AI is too important to be developed in secret. It must be built in the open, allowing everyone, not just big companies, to contribute to its progress. Open-source technology has proven time and again to be a net benefit for society: A recent Harvard Business School working paper found that open source software (OSS) is, “a global public good that plays a vital role in the economy and is foundational for most technology we use today,” estimating the supply-side value of widely-used open source software at over $4 billion while the demand-side value was estimated to be more than $8 trillion. A Columbia Business School report found “a clear correlation between countries with higher contributions to OSS and the number of new technology ventures founded in the following year.”
And the merits of openness stretch much further than software. Building in public and providing access creates accountability and allows for the wisdom of the crowd to help solve pressing societal issues. Take OpenFold, for example, which is a nonprofit research consortium promoting the development of free and open source software tools for biology and drug discovery. Likewise, OpenStreetMap has embraced open source principles to create real-time and open map data that enables disaster responders to reach those in need.
Rather than debate the nuances of open vs. closed models, the newly released NTIA report underscores the necessity of sustained research on AI’s capabilities and risks. This research is crucial to advance safety and accountability in all model development and deployment. Equally important, the report urges innovative policy ideas to invest in the infrastructure needed to advance AI for everyone.
If governments embrace open innovation and put the right tools, standards, and institutions in place for testing and accountability, companies and start-ups can use AI to drive innovation in all areas – to help solve unique problems and support many different communities. This will enable new voices and contributions to create a whole much greater than the sum of its parts.
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DEC 16, 2024 – I know nothing about the latest school shooting in Madison but what I do know is that whenever they want to distract your attention from what they are doing – they send in the gun grabbers to murder innocent people or create a patsy and a narrative to do the same.
I have no doubt this is more of the same. EVIL EVIL EVIL. This shooting will hijack the news cycle for days and put fear in the hearts of parents.
Watch them come out over Christmas and call for Americans to hand over their g*ns to the Government to “keep us all safe.” Right.
Below is a link to a three-part series on how they have used school shootings all over the world to confiscate weapons from We the People. It’s worth your time as you watch this story unfold. They will do anything – even murder innocent children.
PRAY FOR THE CHILDREN AND THE FAMILIES THAT LOST THEIR LIVES AND HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED ON THE ALTAR OF BAAL AND MOLOCH.
CIA, Mind Control & MKUltra: Part One TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
OCTOBER 27, 2023
On October 25, 2023 a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine killed 18 people and injured 13. The alleged shooter, Robert Card, 40, was pictured with a “long gun.” The suspect was caught on camera (although the pictures look different from shot to shot) – went on the run – and the motive remains unclear. Details about his “
Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order Kevin D. Roberts, President, The Heritage Foundation
OCTOBER 2024 | VOLUME 53, ISSUE 10
The following is adapted from a talk delivered in Christ Chapel at Hillsdale College on October 23, 2024, as part of the Drummond Lectures in Christ Chapel series.
The top-down, elitist brand of politics that has dominated the United States since the end of the Cold War—under Republican and Democratic administrations alike—has failed. Yes, we are materially richer than we were in 1991, and our largest corporations are more profitable. But we are militarily and strategically weaker, fiscally endangered, and spiritually enervated. As a result, public trust in the vaunted institutions that our elites control—political, scientific, journalistic, educational, religious—has evaporated. And populism—especially on the conservative Right—is on the rise.
Although I will focus on the U.S., this rise of populism is widespread. From Argentina to Italy to France to the United Kingdom to Hungary, there are similarities. The new populism tends to be economically and politically nationalistic. It tends to be culturally patriotic and socially conservative. It tends to sympathize with workers over corporations. It is also self-consciously, defiantly—often mockingly—anti-establishment.
It is not a coincidence that so many of the West’s populist leaders—Javier Milei, Jair Bolsonaro, Viktor Orbán, Giorgia Meloni, and Donald Trump—have, shall we say, colorful personalities. Their political swagger may threaten elite politicians almost as much as their policy agendas do, because it punctures the bubble of credentialed, institutional authority that insulates elite power from public scrutiny.
With few exceptions, the Left as we know it today has rejected populism out of hand, embracing instead Big Government, Big Business, Big Banks, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Labor, Big Ag, Big Media, and Big Entertainment. For the most part, today’s Left is hard at work fortifying the power these institutions wield against the rigors of democratic accountability.
Thus the only hope for a sustainable, democratically legitimate populist reform movement today is on the Right. The question is whether the leaders of the movement can harness the highly negative energy from which the populism emerges and channel it toward a coherent, positive politics of national renewal and reform.
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To see what today’s populists are reacting against, think back to 1991. The end of the Cold War appeared to be a great victory for the Washington establishment—never mind that most leaders of that establishment opposed Reaganism, which was instrumental in bringing down the Soviet Union. Regardless, this victory earned Western institutions a high level of public trust unimaginable today. In November 1989, for instance, when the Berlin Wall fell, President George H.W. Bush’s public approval rating hit 70 percent and would climb to 80 and even 90 percent in subsequent years.
With the Cold War over, one would have expected a recalibration of American foreign and domestic policy. It should at least have been a time for a national debate about those topics. For four decades, we had strung tripwires for nuclear war around the world to contain a foe that suddenly no longer existed. Working families who had invested two generations of blood and treasure during what President John F. Kennedy called the “long, twilight struggle” were ready to focus on problems closer to home.
But the Washington establishment had other ideas. President Bush himself, in the lead-up to the first Gulf War, pledged allegiance to a “New World Order” that would be governed by the United Nations and policed, at its behest, by the U.S. Between that tin-ear approach and his backtracking on conservative economic policies, Bush squandered his popular support so badly that he suffered an embarrassing electoral defeat in 1992.
President Trump – Beware of HTS and the Moslem Brotherhood Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
December 16, 2024
*The success of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorists to topple the Assad regime is traumatizing all pro-US Arab regimes, which, for decades, have had the machetes of Iran’s Ayatollahs and the Moslem Brotherhood at their throats.
*Contrary to some Western policy makers, journalists and academics, the pro-US Arab leaders do not take HTS’ moderate statements at face value. They are aware of the fanatic, religious vision, which has guided the HTS, and are familiar with the Middle Eastern gap between the talk and the walk, and with the Islamic tactic of Taqiyya (dissimulation). Taqiyya was also employed by Bashar Assad upon assuming power in 2000, when his moderate talk led US legislators (e.g., Senator John Kerry), Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and NYT’s Tom Friedman to view him as a potentially peaceful leader. It was used by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1978/79, ahead of assuming power in Iran, convincing President Carter and the State Department that he would be “an Iranian edition of Ghandi…. preoccupied with tractors, not tanks.” The Houthis issued moderate pronouncements that led to their delisting from the list of terror organizations in 2021 by President Biden. Also, Arafat issued peaceful statements upon concluding the Oslo Accord, which won him the Nobel Prize for Peace, and led Tom Friedman to wonder: “Who’s Arafat? Is he Nelson Mandela or Willie Nelson?”). Etc.
*The vision of the HTS is not limited to Syria. It aims to topple all national Islamic regimes, and establish a universal Islamic entity, as prescribed by the precepts of the Moslem Brotherhood, which has pursued its goals through politics, education, social welfare and affiliates, splinters and offshoots that engage in terrorism.
*The initial strategy of HTS, as suggested by their name (al-Sham = the Levant) is to “liberate” the Levant, which was “Greater Syria” (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Cyprus and Turkey’s Hatay province), then the entire Middle East, the “Abode of Islam,” and finally the “Abode of the Infidel,” preferably via peaceful means, or militarily, if resisted by the “infidel.”
*The Moslem Brotherhood is inspired by the HTS’ success in Syria, to be replicated in additional Moslem countries. Therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood branches in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and other Moslem countries have congratulated HTS for achieving the first goal of the Sunni Islamic revolution, expecting a robust tailwind to bringing down additional national Moslem regimes.
*HTS considers the toppling of Jordan’s pro-US Hashemite regime as a top priority, as does a chief enemy of HTS, Iran’s Ayatollahs. Both have intensified subversion, terrorism and drug trafficking in Jordan, leveraging the presence – in Jordan – of 2 million refugees from Syria and Iraq, a solid operational foundation of the Moslem Brotherhood, the presence of Palestinian terror organizations, and the intra-Bedouin animosity.
*The HTS’ success in Syria is inspiring the Moslem Brotherhood in its attempts to topple the pro-US General Sisi regime in Egypt, which is the 1928 birth site of the Moslem Brotherhood. In 1949, the Moslem Brotherhood assassinated Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud Nuqrashi; in 1954, the Moslem Brotherhood failed in its attempt to murder Egyptian President Nasser; in 1981, the Moslem Brotherhood’s offshoot, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, murdered Egyptian President Sadat. The Islamic Jihad merged with Al Qaeda.
*Prof. Albert Hourani, a leading Middle East historian, Oxford University’s St. Anthony’s College, noted the following tenets of the Muslim Brotherhood (A History of the Arab Peoples, pp. 445-446): “A total rejection of all forms of society except the wholly Islamic one…. The true Islamic society…regarded the Quran as the source of all guidance for human life…. All other societies were societies of Jahiliyya (ignorance of religious truth), whether they were communist, capitalist, nationalist, [followers of] false religions, or claimed to be Muslim but did not obey the Sharia…. The leadership of Western man in the human world is coming to an end… The turn of Islam has come….Those who accepted [the Muslim Brotherhood] program would form a vanguard of dedicated fighters, using every means, including Jihad… The struggle should aim at creating a universal Muslim society…. The Western age is finished…. Only Islam offered hope to the world…. [The Muslim Brotherhood] were prepared for violence and martyrdom.”
*The Muslim Brotherhood, just like the HTS, have been very skillful in obfuscating the West through Taqiyya and a two-pronged operation: the religious, educational, social and political screensavers, as well as the operational (subversive and terroristic) modes. In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood poses the following proposition: Submission to Allah and the Koran, or else…!
*Before embracing the Muslim Brotherhood’s and the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s moderate talk, Western policy makers are advised to study the following observations by Sir John Jenkins, a top specialist on the Moslem Brotherhood and the Middle East, and former Executive Director of the British International Institute for Strategic Studies – Middle East branch:
“[The West] should resist the temptation to seek to understand the Muslim Brotherhood through our own cultural or epistemological [knowledge] categories…. [The Muslim Brotherhood] continues to threaten the constitutive basis of most contemporary Muslim majority states…. Some may still be tempted to hope that when a malign or otherwise unsatisfactory regime is overthrown the subsequent trajectory must be progressive. [Middle East] experience suggests the reverse…. Authoritarianism is not weakened in such circumstances: it recurs….
“[Hassan Al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood] urged his followers to scorn life; claimed that ultimate martyrdom could only be attained through death in the service of the divine; articulated a doctrine of armed physical force…. The writings of Sayyid Qutb – its most significant and protean ideologue [who was executed in Egypt in 1966] – remain central to Brotherhood thinking everywhere and continue to be used to justify multiple forms of Islamist violence….”
“The Brotherhood… gives little space to tolerance, choice and individual freedoms…. no commitment to democratic choice…. It is constitutively antisemitic and homophobic….”
Everything in the Middle East Means the Opposite by Daniel Greenfield
The easy way to make sense of Syria, Gaza, Lebanon and Israel
December 16, 2024 at 4:00 am
- After saving Syria from Assad, who will save it from the saviors?
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is going on a tour to persuade the Turks and their Jihadis to establish an “inclusive” government in Syria. But inclusivity now means Sunni Jihadis, backed by Turkey, repressing and killing everyone else. This will be a fundamental liberating change from the old order, in which Shiite Jihadis, backed by Iran, repressed and killed everyone else.
- Turkey bombing and displacing Kurds in Syria is considered “inclusivity”, but Israel bombing Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists in Gaza and Lebanon is termed “genocide”.
- “Genocide” is another of those many words that have different meanings in the New Middle East Dictionary. Amnesty International has come under fire for changing the definition of “genocide” in order to be able to accuse Israel of it.
- War becomes genocide. But only in the case of Israel. Meanwhile, actual genocidal efforts by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and by Turkey in Syria to target ethnic groups, are redefined as “liberation”.
- Over 1 million tons of food have entered Gaza since October 7, 2023. That’s half a ton for every terrorist supporter. Half a ton of food for every man, woman and child is… “starvation.”
- The Arab Spring redefined Islamist takeovers as “democracy movements”.
- When Muslim Jihadis commit genocide, it becomes liberation. And when anyone fights back against them, it’s genocide.
- Redefinition makes everything in the Middle East factually opposite, to make it morally opposite.
Even as Islamic Jihadists are taking over Syria, ethnically cleansing Kurds and terrorizing Christians, the media is hailing the new “inclusive” regime which “liberated” Syria.
The regime is indeed inclusive if you consider bearded men with assault rifles to be the measure of inclusivity. And terrorizing minorities to be the exciting new diversity.
“This victory, my brothers, is a victory for the entire Islamic nation,” Abu Mohammad al-Jawlani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former Al Qaeda and ISIS-allied group, declared in the Umayyad Mosque. The mosque is a symbol of the old Caliphate, and it echoed the speech given by his old friend, the former ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in Mosul’s Great Mosque of al-Nuri, declaring his own caliphate. But it will no doubt be a most inclusive caliphate.
As Jawlani had previously said:
“some people limit the issue of implementing the rule of the sharia to just imposing some of the Hudud punishments, chopping off hands, stoning whomever, whipping someone who drinks alcohol, and so on. But this is a very basic part of the very big concept of implementing the rule of the sharia.”
There’s a lot more to Sharia Islamic law than just chopping off hands, but you have to work on the basics of hand-chopping before going big.
Syria’s newly appointed Prime Minister Mohammad al-Bashir appeared in front of a white Jihadist flag with the Islamic declaration that rejects all other religions except Islam. Bashir’s credentials include a degree in Sharia Islamic law and membership in the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Syrian Salvation Government.” After saving Syria from Assad, who will save it from the saviors?
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Operation Drone Invasion, the DoD, and Doomsday DR. PETER AND GINGER BREGGIN
Something incredible is going on….
DEC 15, 2024
Something incredible is going on, not just in the world of drones gone wild, but in the minds of most Americans. Almost no one seems able to care enough to hide or stay at home, or to respond in any meaningful way to these bizarre threats to our security.[1] Nor do they feel overwhelmed by this latest seeming catastrophe. Have we all become too apathetic or numb to respond anymore?
In the beginning, the government denied the existence of the drone displays and incursions, some of which breached military bases and others of which appeared in Washington, DC. Then, on December 12, 2024, John Kirby, White House National Security Advisor, gave a dithering press conference about the mysterious drones. He said essentially nothing other than any security threat was “minimal.” He did tell us that President Biden would, if concerned, let the military know.
So President Biden allegedly wants to reassure us that he is in charge and we are safe, regardless of what we see in the sky. But the truth is that the President of the United States, even when Donald Trump was in office during his first term, does not tell the DoD what to do. Instead, the DoD tells the President what to do or simply acts without his permission. Later in the column, we will remind you that it turned out that the DoD, and not President Trump, was wholly in charge of Operation Warp Speed![2]
Here is what Trump had to say about the drones on TruthSocial on December 13, 2024:[3]
President Trump, we know that you, as the President-Elect, are receiving daily security briefings and we can see that you are unfazed by the drone displays. Please do not be taken in again by the Deep State as they hoodwinked you into pushing Operation Warp Speed on yourself and us.[4] Do not believe anything your daily briefings tell you about the drones or their purposes. Everyone in the U.S. Government must be treated as your enemy and ours until proven otherwise.
We believe we have nailed down two very specific purposes of the drone displays and the indifference shown by the government to any threat.
First, the power-driven DoD controls the drones. As an arm of the global predators,[5] the DoD wants more capacity to use its military forces on American soil for the purpose of controlling Americans and is playing helpless over the drones.
The DoD’s seeming helplessness in the face of the drones is a scheme to give them more control over domestic drones and hence more control over American citizens. The globalists need our nation more under the control of the military in order to crush America on its way to increasing its world governance. Right now, the DoD is pushing for new legislation to allow it to more closely monitor and to shoot down drones, which will give the military a greater foothold within the nation itself. Think of how 911 and the anthrax attack in DC were used to push forward the Patriot Act which became a huge weapon against freedom in America.
Second, DoD is conducting a psychological operation or PSYOP to break America’s resistance to manipulation and to obscure what is really going on in the world.
Yep – Still the Smartest Guy in the Room By Joan Swirsky
December 15, 2024
How did President-elect Trump become a billionaire?
How did Donald J. Trump, billionaire businessman, bestselling author, mega-successful TV star, become President of the United States in 2016?
How did President-elect Trump defy, confront, and prevail over a malevolent Deep State cabal, an American government steeped in collusion, a craven leftwing media, and a mountain of lawfare attacks to win––overwhelmingly––his second bid for POTUS?
I always called him the smartest guy in the room. And I suspect that most people would answer those questions––either proudly or grudgingly––by agreeing that his intelligence and also his drive, instincts, charisma, and sheer bravado are the magic ingredients of his blazing success.
BUT…UH-OH!
So, why are some sophisticated, knowledgeable and longtime devoted Trump supporters, including seasoned conservative journalists, now suspecting that Mr. Trump is either:
- A closet Democrat.
- Controlled Opposition, essentially playing on the same team as his globalist opponents.
- A guy who values loyalty to a fault… overlooking clear conflicts-of-interest and potential moles and saboteurs in his midst.
Why these questions? Because of the great number of people he has appointed to high positions in his upcoming administration who have longtime leftist connections, have themselves played for the other team, and have eye-raising suspicions about their backgrounds or associations.
Journalist Kelleigh Nelson, a rock-ribbed conservative, questions most of President-Elect Trump’s appointee choices, starting with Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff.
Wiles, Nelson says, funded Trump antagonists Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and John McCain; was co-chair at Mercury LLC, a global leader that promotes the Deep State narrative; has spoken openly about being in favor of open borders, and was a source of information for Jack Smith’s special counsel investigation of Donald Trump’s role in the January 6th “insurrection” and his alleged mishandling of government records.
In a follow-up article, Nelson documents highly incriminating information about Pres. Trump’s co-appointee for DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) Vivek Ramaswamy, who went to Yale Law School on a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, as well as Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Doug Burgum (Governor of North Dakota) for Interior Secretary, Kristi Noem (Governor of South Dakota) for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, and Congressman Michael Waltz for National Security Adviser, among others.
And yet in a third article, Nelson clearly objects to the nomination of Pam Bondi for Attorney General, and Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary… a guy who was a partner at Soros Fund Management for decades, as well as Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General, a woman involved in a massive Medicare scandal, who described the COVID vaccine as a “gift from God” and who also served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council.
In addition, Nelson questions the appointment of Dr. Mehmet Oz, who holds dual citizenship in Turkey and the United States, to be the administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Nelson calls him a “Big Pharma shill” and adds: “Many of Trump’s choices are questionable, but Dr. Oz takes the cake.”
Clearly, writer Janet Levy agrees, adding her own shocking laundry list of objections to the Oz appointment, including conflicts of interest and this damning quote from the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics, which called Dr. Oz “a dangerous rogue unfit for the office of America’s doctor.”
Then there is journalist Yudi Sherman, who practically eviscerates the President-elect’s choice for Surgeon General, emergency room physician Dr. Janette Nesheiwat.
And that is not to omit journalist Cherie Zaslawsky who asks: Who will vet the vetters?
“Ultimately,” Zaslawsky writes, “it may hardly matter whether the spate of questionable appointments President-elect Trump has recently announced is due to Wiles and/or other members of Trump’s retinue attempting to undermine the MAGA agenda or is largely the result of putting a number of well-meaning novices in the position of suggesting candidates they are ill-equipped to properly vet. Yet some choices reek of intentional trickery.”
WHEELING & DEALING
It is probably true that businessman Trump’s decades in dealing with the cut-throat unions in New York City and all the Dons who run the Mafia in New York and throughout the country did not prepare him for the malevolent treachery of the liberal Democrats in Washington, D.C., but he does strike me as a “lessons-learned” kind of guy.
Meanwhile, the President-elect, with his signature ebullience, has de facto begun his tenure, jet-setting to Paris to meet with President Macron to visit the refurbished Notre Dame Cathedral and also to receive a floridly flirtatious look from First Lady Jill Biden…I bet she voted for him!
And there he is again, speaking on the phone to Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, about the border; hosting the feckless Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, at Mar-a-Lago; threatening the mass-murdering terrorists from Hamas to free the hostages before he is sworn in or there will be “Hell to Pay” and describing the tariffs and border wall and end-of-war actions he’ll be taking in about 36 days.
That includes not only the raging wars in Israel and Ukraine, but also Yemen, Darfur, and Myanmar, all of which did not exist four years ago when he was president!
IMAGINATION TIME
Can’t you just picture the conversation he had with Joe Biden on his visit to the White House a few weeks ago
DJT: Joe, you’ve been talking about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas/Hezbollah for about a year, but no luck there.
JRB: Well, what are you gonna do…. you’re dealing with Arabs. You’re dealing with Jews.
DJT: Listen, Joe, I can talk to Bibi. We get along. I can get that ceasefire, and you’ll get all the credit. How does that sound?
JRB: Sounds great! Ya think it will work?
DJT: It’ll work. And it will give me leverage with Putin when I tell him to stop that crazy war…I’ll give him a slice of Ukraine and he’ll be happy.
Well, whadaya know? A day later, or was it two or three? Poof!…a ceasefire is announced in the Middle East!
STILL THE SMARTEST GUY IN THE ROOM
My take is that President-elect Trump has attracted all these potential saboteurs––many of them lifelong Democrats like the formidable RFK Jr.––to his side, his thinking, his vision, his mission, his goal, which is simply to Make America Great Again!
Not one of these appointees has forgotten Mr. Trump’s most prominent and visible role before he became POTUS in 2016, which was as the star of the wildly successful, long-running TV show, “The Apprentice,” or his world-famous pronouncement: YOU’RE FIRED!
His appointees are well aware of that non-negotiable dictate and know to follow his vision or receive that order, while millions of leftists worldwide are now on anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medication, in long-term therapy, or on suicide watch.
As they say, all good.
Joan Swirsky is a New York based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com and her e-mail is joanswirsky@gmail.com.
Israel’s Elite Open ANOTHER Front Against Israel’s Voters | Caroline Glick In-Focus [52:24]
December 15, 2024 JNS TV – The Caroline Glick Show
“If you can’t beat them, sue them…” or so seems the modus operandi of Israel’s legal elite.
Just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the people of Israel begin to see light at the end of this long war, Israel’s permanent class has declared lawfare to accomplish what they can’t do at the ballot box.
Radiation-Detecting Drones over New York and New Jersey? JOHN LEAKE
U.S. Department of Energy press release in 2023 offers possible clue about identity of flying objects in the sky over New Jersey and New York
DEC 15, 2024 – It strikes me as extremely unlikely that the DoJ, FBI, CIA, and FAA do not know the identity of the flying objects spotted over New Jersey and New York City. According to multiple news reports, the FBI claims to be investigating these sightings, with an official acknowledging public concern while suggesting there might be a “slight overreaction.” The Pentagon has repeatedly stated the drones are not of foreign origin.
I believe it is a reasonable assumption that at least some members of these federal agencies know the identity of these flying objects, but are, for some reason, unwilling to disclose it to the public.
An October, 31 2023 press release issued by the U.S. Department of Energy—Radiation-Detecting Drone Soars Over Portsmouth for Collaborative Testing—may yield a clue about the flying objects spotted over New York and New Jersey.
Is the Department of Energy or some other federal agency using the drones to try to detect radiation? To phrase the question in a more alarming way: has some federal agency received intelligence that a radiation emitting device has been planted somewhere in the greater New York City area?
On a highly personal note: For some time now I have worried that at least some of the puppet masters now running the Biden administration are extremely nefarious actors who may be tempted to stage a false flag attack in the United States in order to blame it on Russia so that the U.S. government will declare full scale war on Russia before Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2025. This could also serve as a pretense for declaring martial law before Trump is sworn in.
Though I am certainly NOT predicting it, I would not be surprised if a so-called “dirty bomb” combining conventional explosives with radioactive material is detonated in the greater New York area, with Russia (or Iran) blamed for it.
As All Else Fails: PSYOP-UFO [VIDEOS] 2ND SMARTEST GUY IN THE WORLD
DEC 15, 2024
Nazi war criminal and former NASA director Wernher von Braun on several occasions admitted, “we had help (from extraterrestrials).” At the end of his life he also warned that a fake alien invasion hoax would at some point be used by governments as a psyop in a bid to further control their populations.
…when PSYOP-SCAMDEMIC, PSYOP-WW3 and PSYOP-CLIMATE-CHANGE all fail to sufficiently induce mass societal fear, then the final NWO globopedo fraud will be activated in PSYOP-UFO, thus ensuring that the government can yet again provide the “solution” (think: “free” “vaccines”) to the “problem” they are themselves perpetrating as the public overreacts, or so that is the hope for these technocratic Great Reset sociopaths.
Given all of the recent drone sightings across America, with the X social media platform instructed to trend hashtag UFO, it seems that this latest government fraud is now in play.
It is also important to remember that way back in 1952 this repurposed clandestine aerospace technology was flown around the White House, as the Air Force blamed the weather (it’s always the weather’s fault); the actual “UFO” footage:
Let us revisit what Nazi war criminal and former NASA director Wernher von Braun said about PSYOP-UFO:
…the last card is the alien card. We’re going to have to build space based weapons against aliens.’ And all of it, he said, is a lie.
Speaking of mendacity and utter fraud, here is PSYOP-MUSK’s deliberately irreverent X post:
The Fall of Syria: What You Need to Know by James Corbett
DEC 15, 2024 THE CORBETT REPORT
In case you haven’t heard yet, the world has just changed irrevocably.
After 13 years of battle, the alphabet soup of foreign-financed, foreign-armed, foreign-trained terrorist insurgents in Syria have finally accomplished their goal: the overthrow of Assad.
There are many questions to ponder here. What happened? How did a years-long military stalemate turn into a government-toppling checkmate seemingly overnight? And what does this mean for the future of Syria? For the future of the Middle East? For the future of the world?
Let’s find out.
The Story So Far . . .
If you only recently started turning off the nightly news and tuning in to reality, chances are you never really knew what this whole Syria kerfuffle was about or why it’s important. And, if that is the case, you have some catching up to do.
Luckily, I’ve been covering the Syrian debacle since it kicked off in 2011, and I have literally dozens of hours of media on the topic in the archives. If you want the one-hour summary, though, I invite you to check out my recent podcast on the subject, A Brief History of the War on Syria.
Dr Mordechai Kedar on RT about Syria, December 9 2024 [10:24] Dr. Mordechai Kedar – English
[Ed.: But Syriously!]
Droning On TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
DEC 14, 2024
I don’t know what’s going on with the drones and I haven’t spent much time on it. Here’s a few views and they all point to the theory the Obama-Biden-Kamala administration is orchestrating this or allowing this to happen to mess with our heads and the peaceful transfer of power. That’s what they do.
GLOVES OFF! Israel Makes Boldest Moves Since 1967 [50:19]
27,669 views • Premiered Dec 12, 2024 • The Quad
The past 14 months have seen a total realignment of powers in the Middle East, and the past week has been no different. Following the upheaval in Syria over the weekend, Israel quickly moved to destroy former President Bashar Assad’s entire arsenal out of fear of it falling into the wrong hands.
JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum—a former adviser at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office—joins “The Quad” for a heated discussion on everything that’s been going on inside the Jewish state and on its borders.
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Democrat Strategy to Entrench Power in Trump’s Administration @AMUSE
DEC 13, 2024 – The Biden administration is actively seeking to sabotage Trump’s second term by filling every federal agency with Democrat activists. Known as “burrowing,” it involves turning political appointees into permanent civil service employees just before an administration leaves office. Concerns about burrowing first gained widespread attention during the Reagan administration, as outgoing Carter officials sought to solidify their influence by converting political appointees into career roles. This practice has since become a recurring issue during transitions between administrations, particularly when power shifts between parties. This maneuver allows partisan operatives to secure long-term positions within agencies, where they wield significant influence shielded by civil service protections. While the media often brushes this off as routine staffing, the reality is a deliberate attempt to embed ideological allies deep inside the government, ready to resist future policy changes.
To borrow a phrase from the late William F. Buckley, we must “stand athwart history yelling stop” before this administrative rot solidifies any further. Reports suggest that Joe Biden, whose presidency has become a caricature of cognitive decline, has already nudged over a thousand political operatives into career roles within federal agencies—with almost none being properly reported as a result of a glaring loophole. Some expect that number to eclipse 3,000 by the end of his term—a grim milestone even Obama, the patron saint of bureaucratic entrenchment, failed to reach.
The Strategic Design of Burrowing
This isn’t mere happenstance; it’s a deliberate siege of the federal bureaucracy. Career positions were designed to insulate governance from the whiplash of elections, preserving nonpartisan stability and continuity. Yet the Democrats, ever adept at exploiting these safeguards, have turned the system into a weapon. By embedding loyal operatives into “neutral” roles, they create a policy firewall impervious to political change. This will be the most formidable challenge for Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Musk, a proven innovator with experience dismantling bureaucratic inefficiencies in industries like space exploration and electric vehicles, brings a disruptive mindset essential for tackling government bloat. Ramaswamy, a sharp entrepreneur and vocal critic of the administrative state, combines policy knowledge with a relentless commitment to reform. Together, they represent the outside-the-box leadership needed to confront a federal workforce entrenched with partisan loyalists. The burrowers will smile and nod as the DOGE team introduces reforms, then quietly deploy every bureaucratic and administrative trick in the book to stymie their efforts. From endless procedural delays to obscure rule interpretations, the burrowers will exploit the machinery of government itself to obstruct change. Biden’s administration clearly understands what Trump learned too late in 2016—burrowers aren’t passive placeholders. They’re partisan operatives who wield their positions to resist, obstruct, and sabotage any incoming conservative reform.
