COMMENTARY / OPINION
Iran’s Plan for the 2024 US Election By John Mills
Sep. 3, 2024 1:40 pm – There are reportedly Iranian attempts to make sure former President Donald Trump does not return to office. There is reportedly both the high-end threat of direct assassination and malign influence activities through cyber and social media.
Walid Phares, a respected expert on Middle East matters, has said: “The Islamic regime in Iran is trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump, with hopes of doing so by Nov. 5, Election Day.” [Emphasis added]
“Multiple governmental sources associated with U.S. allies across the Mideast have informed me of the danger.”
Even before the July 13 Butler shooting that injured Trump (which is not known to be linked to Iran), there was concern that Iran was plotting to kill the former president.
In addition, Iranian cyber units appear focused on the Trump campaign.
In the 2024 presidential election, there is allegedly a real and malign foreign election interference operation led by Iran. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released a joint statement squarely blaming Iran for seeking to use cyber methods to break into the Trump campaign.
The statement reads in part: “The Intelligence Community (IC) has previously reported that Iran perceives this year’s elections to be particularly consequential in terms of the impact they could have on its national security interests, increasing Tehran’s inclination to try to shape the outcome. We have observed increasingly aggressive Iranian activity during this election cycle, specifically involving influence operations targeting the American public and cyber operations targeting presidential campaigns.”
The Iranian hacking operation reportedly has a face and identity. It is allegedly known as APT (advanced persistent threat) 42 or CharmingKitten. APT42 is thought to be embedded in and associated with the intelligence division of the Iranian military, the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iran as a Proxy of China
There has been an evolution of the longstanding Iranian tension with the United States. Iran has become China’s premier worldwide proxy. China is the dominant provider of support to Iran, and Iran’s economy is beholden to energy exports to China.
Henry Rome of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy has said: “The economic relationship is fundamentally asymmetrical, so I’d call it a one-way strategic partnership. … It’s certainly strategic for Iran: China is Iran’s most important economic partner and is the lung through which the [Iranian] economy breathes.”
The connection between Iran’s IRGC, military, and intelligence activities and China has become pervasive. Chinese defense ministers have traveled to Iran to establish deep and formal relations with Iran, with a possible focus on arms transfers; drone, dual-use, and missile technologies; and cyber and intelligence capabilities. Iran is now reportedly seeking advanced Chinese spy satellites to give Iranian intelligence and influence operations a broader, worldwide reach.
With Russia decisively focused on the Ukraine War and now attempting to respond to a sudden Ukraine thrust into the Kursk Oblast of Russia, Iran has become the senior “colony” to China. It is not unreasonable to conclude that because of the defense and intelligence agreements between Iran and China, Iran’s objective of ensuring Trump does not return to office has at least the tacit approval of China if not some involvement in the planning and direction of the Iranian election interference operations.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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This article first appeared in Epoch Times and was reprinted with permission.
Irish Teacher Arrested for the Third Time for Refusing To Give in to ‘Trans’ Agenda By Margaret Flavin
Sep. 3, 2024 3:20 pm – Enoch Burke is a devout Christian teacher who formerly taught at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co. Westmeath, Ireland.
According to their website, while the school is associated with the Church of Ireland, they appear to bow to the trans agenda.
In 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported that Burke was put on paid administrative for refusing to address a trans student as “they.”
Despite an order barring him from the campus, Burke continued to show up on campus and was arrested and jailed for contempt of court and spent three months in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison.
Ultimately, the school board dismissed Burke.
Despite the firing, Burke continued to show up to the school, and in September 2023, he was arrested again.
At the start of the 2024 school year, Burke was arrested for a third time and taken into custody by Ireland’s Garda (police force).
Burke protested his right to be at the school and told arresting officers, “I have a right to work here, I have a right to be here.”
“I’m not going to turn my back on my duty to my students.”
Following the arrest, Burke was sent back to Mountjoy Prison with a review of his case scheduled for October 11.
An account on X run on Burke’s behalf shared, “BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke arrested at Wilson’s Hospital School after refusing to endorse and affirm transgender ideology.”
“Judge Barry O’Donnell, who made almost €400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest.”
“TUSLA is the Irish State ‘Child Protection’ agency, an organisation saturated with LGBT ideology, urging staff recently to learn about cross-dressers and drag performers, and making acceptance of LGBT and transgender ideology a condition for fostering children.”
“What a mockery to expect Enoch Burke, a Christian teacher, to sit before this man and expect justice.”
Victor Davis Hanson Video: ‘I Told You Something is Coming and Now It’s Here’ [8:52]
How universities are churning out graduates that are contributing to a national crisis.
September 3, 2024 Frontpagemag.com – Aug 12, 2024 – Are universities failing students and society? In this video, Victor Davis Hanson discusses the current state of higher education. He argues that universities are churning out graduates burdened with massive debt and insufficient skills, contributing to a national crisis.
Hanson explains how the push for diversity and equity has led to the dilution of academic standards and the devaluation of degrees. Many young people, especially men, are not marrying, buying houses, or having children, partly due to the financial strain of student debt. Hanson suggests that universities should be transparent about the true costs and potential earnings of different degrees and should take responsibility for student loan defaults.
He also highlights the problem of universities rejecting highly qualified students to meet diversity quotas, leading to a decline in the quality of graduates. Employers are now favoring graduates from less prestigious schools because they are better trained and less entitled. Hanson calls for a revolutionary movement in education to prioritize practical skills and accountability, moving away from the current system that prioritizes credentials over competence.
On petitions, hostages and hypocritical rabbis MOSHE PHILLIPS
Refusing to call on Qatar and Egypt to pressure Hamas suggests that they are primarily interested in pressuring only Israel.
(August 29, 2024 JNS – More than 90 rabbis and cantors signed a letter this month to Israel’s prime minister, demanding that Israel cease firing at Hamas and release a large number of terrorists to gain the release of the hostages in the Gaza Strip. When the same clergy were asked to sign a letter calling on Qatar and Egypt to pressure Hamas to release the hostages, guess how many signed on?
Five. That’s right, just five.
The letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which was organized by the “Bring Them Home Now” campaign, urged him to “finalize the deal on the table.” According to media reports, the two main components of that deal are that Israel will stop pursuing the gang rapists and baby-beheaders of Oct. 7 and will release many hundreds—perhaps even thousands—of terrorists who have murdered or attempted to murder Jews.
It’s peculiar to use the slogan “Bring Them Home Now,” which indicates that it is within Israel’s power to do so. A more appropriate slogan would have been “Let My People Go” because that would be aimed at Hamas, which is holding the hostages, and at the governments that support Hamas and could exercise leverage on it. “Bring Them Home Now” puts most or all of the onus on Israel.
That appears to have been the intent of the letter of the nearly 100 rabbis and cantors—to put pressure on Israel, to put the blame on Israel, to put all the responsibility for the fate of the hostages on Israel’s shoulders.
Nowhere in their letter did the 99 rabbis call on Hamas to surrender. Nowhere did they call for action by Qatar, which finances Hamas, or by Egypt, which controls Gaza’s western border.
So, we at Americans For A Safe Israel (AFSI) decided to organize a second letter to correct the imbalance. We sent it to all the rabbis and cantors who signed the first one.
As I explained in my cover note to these rabbis and cantors, our letter deliberately mimicked the language of the first letter, except ours was directed at Qatar and Hamas. We used the same language to make it as comfortable as possible for all 99 rabbis and cantors to sign on. If they were satisfied with the language of the first letter, then they should have been satisfied with the language of the second one—or so we assumed.
FIDF Briefing: Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Israeli Scholar of Arab Culture – Sept. 1, 2024 [1:02:17]
Sep 1, 2024 Friends of the IDF – FIDF – FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil welcomes Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Israeli Scholar of Arab Culture, Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, and Vice President of NEWSRAEL to offer his expert insight into Israel’s conflict with Iran within the broader context of Middle Eastern, Islamic, and world histories. Dr. Kedar elaborates on the various internal divisions within the Muslim world–particularly the Shia and Sunni sects–and how their conflicts are impacting Israel’s geopolitical reality and fueling wars throughout the Middle East. Steve and Dr. Kedar also discuss the dangers posed to Western societies around the world by the extremist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood. Finally, Dr. Kedar provides his views on the current and future situation with Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.Donate NOW at FIDF.org for the fastest and most direct way to give IDF soldiers what they need most. 100% of your contribution goes toward meeting their emergency humanitarian needs.
After Hostages Executed, Left Blames Bibi [49:43] Caroline Glick In-Focus
September 1, 2024 JNS TV – But why would Gallant blame Netanyahu—and more importantly, why does the premier continue to keep his defense minister on board?
On today’s episode of “In-Focus,” JNS senior contributing editor Caroline Glick discusses the motivations behind Gallant’s actions and how they connect to the larger effort to topple Netanyahu.
She also reveals the details of Hamas’s terms for Israel’s capitulation; the inner workings of the Jewish state’s establishment; and developments in the continued war against Palestinian terror.
Chapters
0:00 Terror wave continues
10:10 Hostages found
14:00 Establishment left creates chaos
20:00 Terms of capitulation
25:00 Gallant goes to Washington
36:00 Breaking down the internal subversion
45:00 Why hasn’t Gallant been fired?
Jonathan Pollard: Torah Requires Constitutional Monarchy [44:15]
September 1, 2024 Machon Shilo
We Are Facing the Breakup of America as We Know It General Flynn
September 1, 2024 – We are facing the breakup of America as we know it, advancing into some of the most challenging times in U. S. history, including the days of the American Revolution.
After analyzing the messaging throughout the DNC, it’s important to understand that this election is not simply about policy, it’s an opportunity for every American to choose between competing ideologies.
Americanism is based on our constitutional republic, our bill of rights, the rule of law, our freedoms, and the idea that we the people have the absolute say in the direction of our country. In opposition is a totalitarian tyrannical oligarch running as a group of communists and managing our lives at the top by an overarching federal government. There is a stark difference.
It can feel as though our nation is divided into two camps, but one camp is substantially smaller. The ideology of communism pervades inside of our current government structure, particularly in the white house, the executive branch and even in parts of congress. The number of people in our country who truly believe in this is larger than you would think but it’s not half the country the way that the left will make you believe. It is a small group that has infiltrated the political class. The challenge is that they hold significant power.
An additional challenge that we face is that we have an establishment class on the conservative side. Republican Party leaders that don’t like President Trump because he’s not one of theirs. He continues to be an outsider and does not participate as a part of the establishment. Again, the establishment is a small segment of the Republican party, but they are prominent in the political class. They want to take care of our lives, and don’t want us to get involved.
Republicans are in charge of the House of Representatives right now, and should be fighting tooth and nail, but instead, they are out on vacation. We have an extremely weak Speaker of the House, who hasn’t done anything to speak of. We have a Weaponization Committee, which has done even less. Meanwhile, we continue to watch conservatives being thrown into prison with an Attorney General who recently announced that more J6ers would be indicted.
Never mind the recent news that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, just acknowledged that his social media platforms participated in making sure that the people of this country were lied to for the purpose of swaying the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, which was won by less than 45K total votes. And apparently, we’re meant to simply forget about the 51 Intel leaders that signed a letter that clearly misled the public about Hunter Biden’s laptop (and likely swayed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election).
So, the question remains, where is the accountability? Will there be any action taken or does Zuckerberg get a hall pass offered by Jim Jordan and the judiciary committee? Congress should immediately call these people in and place them under oath, but congress in their illustrious way is still out on recess.
CHAPTER 34: In a World Obsessed with Feelings, Whose Feelings Matter? by Linda Goudsmit
Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is*
September 1, 2024
Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.
Hidden deep within the Gospel of Yuval Harari is the question “Do children belong to their parents or to the state?” Harari’s position clearly favors the state, because the “intelligent design” he describes is an arm of the state body politic. To repeat what he said at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos on January 24, 2020:
In the coming decades, AI and biotechnology will give us godlike abilities to reengineer life, and even to create completely new life-forms. After four billion years of organic life shaped by natural selection, we are about to enter a new era of inorganic life shaped by intelligent design.
Harari’s “evolutionary” biology sees human beings as hackable animals whose future will be shaped by artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and the reengineering of life into new life-forms. The new life-forms Harari refers to are transhumanist beings totally controlled by the globalist elite—the “intelligent designers.”
To “transcend” means to go beyond the range or limits of something. Transhuman means going beyond the current limits of being human and acquiring the powers and abilities of an enhanced human being in what the World Economic Forum calls “Humanity 2.0″—the stated goal of “intelligent design.” Harari’s narrative is grooming your children for Humanity 2.0.
To understand the insidious plan to move humanity from Humanity 1.0 to Humanity 2.0, it is necessary to examine the tactical shift away from meritocracy—the traditional metric of achievement foundational to American life, progress, and success.
In a society that eliminates meritocracy by shifting its metrics from achievement to feelings, whose feelings actually matter? What is the political purpose of the shift?
BREAKING: Don Jr JUST shared the CRAZIEST WARNING!! [21:52] Stephen Gardner
AUGUST 30, 2024
Love is choosing for another’s HIGHEST GOOD TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
AUG 31, 2024 – I wasn’t going to write another newsletter until next week, but one of my friends asked me this question this morning and I took it as a sign that I was supposed to tell you about it before the holiday:
Peggy, what do you say to people who answer the illegal immigration charge with “you can’t have illegal immigration with a country that stole from the Indians” & “borders are illegal” & “you stole from the Indians.”
Here is how I suggested he answer back:
If you believe in the idea that any one people have an inherent right to land because they were there first, then every nation on earth is on stolen land, because there is no country today that is inhabited by the same people that it was 2000 years ago. Or even 500.
Back then, Native American tribes would rape, murder and pillage the people of OTHER tribes and sacrifice their children. They would take land by force and hold other tribes under slavery. In fact, Native Americans were the ORIGINAL slave traders in what we call modern North America.
This is nothing new. Nobody is taught this truth in school. I wish people would do their homework before they start parroting propaganda about how bad America is compared to the rest of the world.
Today, there are still 45 million enslaved people on the globe – mostly in Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and India. African slaves are sold for $200 on the streets and then mutilated and “cooked like kebabs” by violent African gangs. You must teach this truth to your children.
If you disagree with my answer or would like to add your own thoughts, send me an email by replying to this newsletter. If you have other questions you’d like me to address, reply to this newsletter or send me an email. Thanks!
As you prepare to spend the holiday weekend with friends and family, I’d like to take the time to briefly address something else.
I know many of you are parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts to children and young adults who have been indoctrinated into Communism and Satanism at our liberal schools and colleges…not to mention the daily assault on our children with lockstep propaganda from the fake news! They are all in on it together and it’s relentless – and the latest is all about fake JOY.
IMHO, you are NOT doing the next generation of Americans any favors by going along to get along or even accepting their new “learned philosophical mindset” in order to keep the peace.
If you LOVE THEM – you will set them on the right path – gently, calmly and intelligently – no matter what the cost to you. LOVE IS seeking the HIGHEST GOOD for another. LOVE IS NOT allowing another to be swallowed whole by evil under the guise of “joy.“
In case you still don’t know – STRENGTH THROUGH JOY was a campaign line for the NAZI PARTY – otherwise known as the National Socialist Worker’s Party of Germany. The “fact checkers” are trying to dispute this – but it’s very very true.
This weekend would be a good time to start giving your friends and family a history lesson!
CS LEWIS: “Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s False Apology JEFF CARLSON & HANS MAHNCKE
Zuckerberg’s actions over the years speak far louder than his words
AUG 28, 2024 – Mark Zuckerberg made some startling admissions in his recent “mea culpa” letter to Congress. He admitted that the Biden-Harris Administration “pressured” Facebook to censor stories on the origin of Covid. He admitted that the FBI pressured Facebook to censor the Hunter Laptop story. And he admitted that Facebook did what the government asked him to – censor American citizens.
Zuckerberg also (sort of) addressed his personal financial contributions during the 2020 election. His letter gave the appearance of a public apology – he appeared almost contrite for his actions in the 2020 election and the Covid Pandemic, but is Zuckerberg really sorry? Or is he simply worried because he got caught? A closer look at the involvement of Zuckerberg & Facebook with the DNC over the years may answer that question.
A pattern of close collaboration between Zuckerberg/Facebook and the DNC goes back to at least 2012 — when Facebook shared their user data with the Obama campaign.
Obama’s Election Team was given full access to Facebook’s data in 2012. Access that was not – and would not have been granted to Conservatives.
As a result, any time people used Facebook’s log-in button to sign on to the campaign’s website, Obama’s data scientists were able to access their profile as well as their friends’ information. That allowed them to chart the closeness of people’s relationships and make estimates about which people would be most likely to influence other people in their network to vote.
Carol Davidsen, who was director of data integration and media analytics for the Obama Campaign, was surprisingly clear about what happened. “We ingested the entire U.S. social graph,” Davidsen said in an interview. “We would ask permission to basically scrape your profile, and also scrape your friends, basically anything that was available to scrape. We scraped it all.”
Davidson also highlighted the favoritism Facebook gave to Obama’s campaign, noting that Facebook “came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”
Which raises an important question. If Facebook gave the Obama Campaign access to valuable data worth millions of dollars to bolster Obama’s chances of winning the election, why wasn’t this access counted as in-kind political contributions by the Obama Campaign?
We’ve all heard how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg infamously privatized elements of the 2020 presidential election when he sent nearly half-a-billion dollars to local election boards in key states to turn out likely Democratic voters.
To put that amount into perspective, Zuckerberg alone spent almost as much money funding government election offices as the entire federal government spent on the 2020 election.
Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess? BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER
AUGUST 30, 2024 – Consider Mark Zuckerberg’s revelation and its implications for our understanding of the last four years, and what it means for the future.
On many subjects important to public life today, vast numbers of people know the truth, and yet the official channels of information sharing are reluctant to admit it. The Fed admits no fault in inflation and neither do most members of Congress. The food companies don’t admit the harm of the mainstream American diet. The pharmaceutical companies are loath to admit any injury. Media companies deny any bias. So on it goes.
And yet everyone else does know, already and more and more so.
This is why the admission of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was so startling. It’s not what he admitted. We already knew what he revealed. What’s new is that he admitted it. We are simply used to living in a world swimming in lies. It rattles us when a major figure tells us what is true or even partially or slightly true. We almost cannot believe it, and we wonder what the motivation might be.
In his letter to Congressional investigators, he flat-out said what everyone else has been saying for years now.
In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree….I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.
A few clarifications. The censorship began much earlier than that, from March 2020 at the very least if not earlier. We all experienced it, almost immediately following lockdowns.
After a few weeks, using that platform to get the word out proved impossible. Facebook once made a mistake and let my piece on Woodstock and the 1969 flu go through but they would never make that mistake again. For the most part, every single opponent of the terrible policies was deplatformed at all levels.
The implications are far more significant than the bloodless letter of Zuckerberg suggests. People consistently underestimate the power that Facebook has over the public mind. This was especially true in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles.
