I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.
Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I…
My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there.
In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help.
The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them.
Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship.
This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally.
This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged.
On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries.
On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home.
I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform.
Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center.
It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together.
Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen.
In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] It's one of the wealthiest states in America, with residents of its fanciest zip code luxuriating in $3 million red-brick apartments.
But the writing is on the wall for Massachusetts, says an alarming new study.
The 50,000 non-legal migrants colonists who've entered the state since Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... became president are putting a costly strain on schools, healthcare, and other services.
Jessica Vaughan, author of the report for the Center for Immigration Studies, says the state is destined for bankruptcy.
That's because migrants colonists will drain state coffers of a staggering $1.8 billion over the next two years.
#8
NN2N1 it's already happening here in east Tennessee. They are buying up property sight unseen and paying more than asking price thereby pricing locals out of the market. I bought my 1200 square foot house built in 1930 with 5.5 acres of land in 2009 for 135000. No according to the realtor I used I could easily get 300 grand.
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Bay area liberals have been doing this in interior Northern California for the past five+ years. We moved back into the actual United States again to lovely Northern Nevada. The AWFL's are relentless and blind to what they are ruining, but live well enough to be mostly insulated to the rot they create. Worst of all, it is in the schools they do the most damage!
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Stumbled across a little bit of NPR pissing kittens about this. Basically they were saying Boston is super-saturated, and are putting a rationing system on their illegal migrant centers, can only stay what three days? in a shelter before they have to move out, with some exceptions.
I'm going to guess that the illegal migrants will try to rotate about to score that 72 hours of shelter at a new location. Of course, this new location should be first come first serve, so like a busy nightclub there will be lines and camping.
Two problems with this. It has been my experience a line like this stokes arguements among the line goers with different cultural groups and if there is line jumping, oh boy. Second, as shelter becomes premium real estate, booting those whose time is up becomes more difficult.
They have a real mess on their hands, especially as more illegal migrants continue to enter the Boston market and increase demand, bless their hearts.
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[REGNUM] The United States is in the midst of another round of legal wars. The administration of Joe Biden, who has already become a lame duck, has come out with its last major initiative that can be implemented before the elections.
This is the largest judicial reform in the United States in at least the last 100 years. The struggle for control over the judicial branch of government threatens to destabilize the situation in America on the eve of elections and a turbulent period of transition of power.
The politicization of American courts has been going on for a long time. Judges do not exist in a vacuum: they are representatives of the same American society, which is mired in division and terribly polarized.
Moreover, federal judges are selected by the White House and confirmed by the Senate. Both parties, Republicans and Democrats, are actively practicing appointing as many loyal judges as possible while they can.
There have been periods in U.S. history when the judiciary was dominated by progressive judges, such as during the 1960s.
But since Ronald Reagan and then George H. W. Bush, the pendulum has swung the other way. Conservative judges have come to dominate both the Supreme Court, the nation's top judicial body, and many lower-level appellate courts.
This rightward turn has become especially pronounced during the presidency of Donald Trump. He served only four years in office, but during that time he managed to appoint three of the nine Supreme Court justices.
And at the same time, hundreds of federal judges, close to Trump in views and with conservative convictions, appeared in lower courts.
The result was a series of victories for Republicans on the judicial front.
In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Now, individual states once again have the right to restrict or even ban abortion. Republicans worked on this issue for 50 years and finally succeeded in overhauling abortion laws.
In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that so-called "positive discrimination" practices in university admissions were unconstitutional. In fact, it allowed applicants to be selected based on skin color or gender. That is, racial and gender quotas were established, and those who did not fit them were discriminated against.
For several years, applicants of Asian descent have been suing Harvard, demanding compensation for all cases of discrimination. During the trial, it was revealed that at Harvard, an Asian applicant, all other things being equal, has a 25% chance of being admitted, a white applicant has a 35% chance, a Hispanic applicant has a 75% chance, and a black applicant has a 95% chance. All for the sake of supporting “oppressed minorities.”
Therefore, many invented fictitious roots for themselves, just to get into the necessary quotas. Since 2023, this has been officially banned.
The Supreme Court has since encroached on the powers of the U.S. government, overturning the 1984 Chevron decision that allowed U.S. officials to interpret how they regulate businesses. Republicans are already hoping to use that to enact massive deregulation of the U.S. economy if they win the upcoming election.
The Supreme Court also played a role in the election wars. It secured the right of the US President to partial immunity from prosecution.
This has allowed Donald Trump's lawyers to effectively freeze all key lawsuits against him. They will seek to dismiss these lawsuits, and the legal debate will take years. And the final verdicts will be announced well after the upcoming November elections.
While Republicans celebrate the Supreme Court's decisions, Democrats are indignant. They have long been campaigning to discredit conservative judges, and at least two of them have already been targeted.
Clarence Thomas was caught accepting gifts from major Republican donors and flying on their private jets.
Another justice, Samuel Alito, was accused of supporting the riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. On that day, an inverted US flag was flown over Alito's home - a symbol of those demanding a review of the election results.
And three years later, the Supreme Court began overturning lower court rulings that sent hundreds of Trump supporters to prison for those protests.
Democrats and the White House have been pushing hard to remove both justices, but to no avail. The Supreme Court is a de facto lifelong tenure, with many serving until death or old age. Impeachment procedures for justices exist, but they are difficult to implement.
So, to the Democrats' dismay, they have no control over the fact that of the nine current Supreme Court members, six are Republicans.
Even during Biden's first year in office, there was talk of trying to flood the court with newcomers. They said we won't remove the old ones, but at least add 5-7 liberal judges to offset the advantage of the right.
Roosevelt had similar attempts in the mid-1930s, when conservative judges were holding up his New Deal reforms. But then, as now, these undertakings led to nothing.
Now the White House has officially proposed another reform. It wants to limit the term of Supreme Court members to 18 years. And at the same time, give each president the right to appoint new judges every two years.
Moreover, Biden’s team has also conceived a separate amendment to the US Constitution, which should limit the president’s right to immunity.
It’s odd to see such a sweeping constitutional effort emerging with Biden just four months left in office, but it’s clearly part of the Democratic Party’s 2025 platform if Kamala Harris wins the presidency and Democrats take majorities in both houses of Congress.
They won’t be able to change the US Constitution – the process of adopting amendments is extremely labor-intensive, and in the current conditions of America’s division, it is unrealistic to implement this.
But the Democrats really can try to shovel the Supreme Court. After all, it has now received enormous power against the backdrop of how the political system in Washington has gone to pieces.
It is practically impossible to carry out a major reform in Congress, so the parties are forced to use all opportunities to appoint more of their judges. And they will then make the necessary decisions.
Moreover, if we are talking specifically about the Supreme Court, these decisions will prevail over any law of Congress or decree of the president.
The US is hardly the first country where the judiciary has become overly powerful in a crisis of political order. The same thing is happening in Britain and Germany. Right now, judicial wars are raging in Israel and Poland.
US elections could trigger the collapse of the global liberal system
Wherever a split in society breaks the traditional political system, the courts become the final arbiter through which alone the necessary decisions can be made.
The aftermath of the judicial wars in the United States has seen trust in the Supreme Court plummet to record lows. Only about a quarter of Americans still trust their top judicial body.
And he faces a new challenge: hearing lawsuits challenging the election results on behalf of the losing side. Whatever the judge decides, it will anger half of America.
And if individual states refuse to recognize the Supreme Court's verdicts, this threatens to put the country on the brink of division or even civil war.
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[REGNUM] For the past hundred years, the basis of any land army's combat power has been tanks - heavy armored vehicles with heavy weapons. They ruled the battlefields of World War II and were subsequently considered the main weapon for World War III.
However, the development of modern science, unmanned systems and hand-held anti-tank weapons has turned the tank from a hunter into a prey. And although armored vehicles still have a serious impact on the course of military operations, military experts around the world are increasingly asking whether armored forces have a future or will they suffer the fate of the cavalry - being forced out of the battlefield by more modern technologies.
The problems of modern tanks became especially clear against the backdrop of a special military operation in Ukraine, where armored vehicles from all over the world are being used.
Right before our eyes, practically online, changes are taking place that radically alter not only the appearance of steel monsters, but also determine their place in the armies of the world and our own armed forces.
DRONES VS. ARMORED VEHICLES
Globally, the development of reconnaissance means puts an end to old concepts of tank use. Several years ago, NATO command officially announced plans to create such a powerful satellite group that it would allow simultaneous surveillance of the entire surface of the globe. Therefore, the transfer of large concentrations of armored vehicles in our time is becoming an extremely difficult task.
A tank train is a very convenient target for a missile strike, which has been demonstrated more than once by Russian troops, destroying enemy forces during the SVO. In theory, it is possible to concentrate a large concentration of armored vehicles, transferring them in small batches of one or two vehicles. But it will be simply impossible to hide them near the front line due to the development of drones, which can track the movement of each tractor and each train at a distance of up to one hundred kilometers from the front line.
It is becoming practically impossible to concentrate a large tank fist that would go, “roaring with fire, sweeping away with the glitter of steel” through the enemy’s rear, notes military expert and reserve tank officer Alexander Mikhailovsky in a commentary to IA Regnum. But during the Cold War, it was assumed that it was precisely huge concentrations of armored vehicles that would have to march hundreds of kilometers across the radioactive plains of Europe after massive nuclear strikes.
The Soviet concept envisaged a "dash to the English Channel" from East Germany, the American one - a counterattack from the territory of the FRG. This strategy has been criticized before, but with the experience of the Central Military District it becomes obvious that the era of such "blitzkriegs" is a thing of the past.
"Probably the main result is that tanks are no longer a weapon for breaking through layered defense in the best traditions of the blitzkrieg. The armored monsters that used to rush through the enemy's rear and close the encirclement ring are no longer what they used to be. And this requires rethinking the concept of not only tanks as such, but also warfare in general," the expert notes.
THE CONCEPT OF THE "TURTLE TANK"
Even the use of a limited number of armored vehicles, down to single vehicles, today carries enormous risks. First of all, due to the development of unmanned technologies. Every tank spotted by a drone becomes a convenient target for artillery or anti-tank missile system operators. Therefore, armored vehicle crews operating on both sides of the front have to act according to the “hit and run” tactics. The slightest delay in position can cost the crew their lives.
In an interview with Regnum, Odessa resident Maksim Surovikin, who at that time headed the armored group of the Pyatnashka international brigade in Donetsk, spoke about the specifics of using his vehicles: supporting infantry during assaults and "roll-overs" plus working on targets identified by reconnaissance as mobile artillery. At the same time, the enemy in the person of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who were then still sitting in the fortified area of Avdiivka, practically stopped using armored vehicles: their fate was predetermined in advance.
"They use equipment minimally, we burn it right away. Or take it away. You won't see any Leopards or Strikers here - nothing like what's in the Zaporizhzhya direction," said Surovikin, whose vehicles were mostly captured. Butthe drones themselves pose a much greater threat, and not just as a means of adjusting artillery fire.
At the early stage of the SVO, both sides used primitive copters equipped with a device for dropping a fragmentation grenade, a small munition. But such a threat was met with a simple but effective defense - equipping the tank with additional welded structures a la "visor" or, as it took root in social networks, "barbecue".
Initially, the tactics of tank destruction were built in two stages: immobilize it by blowing it up on a mine, force the crew to leave and throw a grenade into the open hatches. A minimal "visor" made of reinforcement allows you to protect the vehicle from attacks from above.
The design turned out to be so successful and simple that the “barbecues” are now welded onto Israeli tanks deployed in the Gaza Strip, and onto armored vehicles of the armed forces of India, Pakistan, and a number of other countries.
But after small commercial copters came heavy drones (for example, the famous Ukrainian "Baba Yaga"), which can drop 82 or even 100 mm caliber mines. Also, a new method of using anti-tank mines was adapted for drones - they are not laid in the path of the tank, but dropped on the vehicle from above.
FPV drones with a warhead from an anti-tank grenade launcher, essentially an RPG charge with wings, capable of hitting a tank not only from above, but also from any direction, acquired a military purpose. Therefore, the tank "visor" gradually grew and gradually covered the entire tank hull. This is how the "turtle tank" design was born.
"The basic concept of tank armor has not changed since World War II. The frontal armor is strong, but it is weaker at the top and rear. The development of drones has eventually forced the creation of another layer of armor to protect the vehicle's hull from a cumulative grenade launcher munition. But this is a temporary solution tailored to specific tasks. In general, the tank concept needs to be rethought," notes Alexander Mikhailovsky.
THE DEATH OF THE ABRAMS AND LEOPARD
Before the start of the SVO in Ukraine, there was a widespread opinion in the Western media that Soviet/Russian-style armored vehicles were too vulnerable and not adapted to the realities of modern combat. This conclusion was made based on their high losses in a number of Middle Eastern conflicts.
All these materials were illustrated with footage of destroyed T-72 tanks in Syria, Iraq and Libya. At the same time, Western-made tanks were held up as an example to Soviet machines.
However, with the start of deliveries of Western armored vehicles to Ukraine, the myth of the power of American or German tanks was shattered by the harsh realities of modern warfare. A video was recently published of a destroyed Leopard 2A4 tank near the town of Progress in Donbass. According to the Lostarmour portal, which analyzes data on armored vehicle losses in modern military conflicts based on open source materials, this is the 32nd tank of the Leopard 2 family lost by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In 2023, Ukrainian troops received about a hundred vehicles of this model, provided by Germany, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. That is, over a year of military operations, more than 30% of all delivered vehicles were out of order. American Abrams tanks did not have a better fate either. Last week, the 15th tank of this model out of more than 20 vehicles supplied by the United States was destroyed near the settlement of Vovchye. So the "sunset" of the era of modern tanks is an objective fact that requires a serious rethinking of the rules of war.
According to experts, there are three possible scenarios for the development of the modern tank concept. The first involves abandoning the tank as such. There is no need to make an expensive, heavy, and armored vehicle whose chances of surviving on the battlefield tend to zero. The second option is to create a concept for some kind of unmanned armored platform. Especially since various robotic combat systems are increasingly used in combat conditions today to solve a variety of tasks.
And the third is a serious rethinking of the existing tank concept and the creation of qualitatively new machines using new design solutions. As an example, the development of the domestic platform "Armata".
"I think that no one will give up tanks as such. You can't leave infantry without fire support. An unmanned tank is a separate topic altogether, but in short, we are simply not mature enough for this yet. So, in my personal opinion, the future belongs to vehicles with an unmanned turret and an armored capsule for the crew," Mikhailovsky sums up.
In the meantime, existing tanks are being covered with additional layers of armor and modernized for the rapidly changing realities of combat operations. Therefore, it is difficult to predict what armored vehicles will be like in six months or a year. But after the end of the SVO, all the experience gained will be studied in Russia and around the world and will definitely form the basis for promising future developments.
#9
The Age of Robots is almost upon us. A century ago, R.U.R. was staged and the word robot was introduced by Carl Kapek. It took time, but not the Age is just over the horizen.
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Always thought the Brits' Crusader series was a good looking vehicle.
I'm afraid we are near a time when we will long for the days of only having to worry about mass casualty attacks being NBC, without the R.
[IsraelNationalNews] Iran’s Ayatollahs and their Hezbollah proxy consider Latin America as the soft underbelly of "The Great American Satan" and have made political, technological and military alliances in Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela..
*The Washington DC-based Wilson Center think tank contends that "the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas against Israel, which killed 1,200 people [equal to 41,000 Americans], including 32 U.S. citizens, ...could inspire [Islamic] terrorist attacks in the United States and other regions, including Latin America....
*Iran’s Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani stated that "Latin American countries are of special significance in Iran’s foreign and defense policy, based on the importance of the very sensitive South American region."
*According to Arturo McFields, a Nicaragua diplomat in-exile (The Hill, May 2, 2024), the Ayatollahs’ threat to the US homeland cannot be underestimated. In fact, Iran has redoubled its political, technological and military alliance with Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
*A University of Texas at El Paso study concludes that "[the Hezbollah-Mexican drug cartels nexus] is a time bomb waiting to explode in our homeland.... The threat of an attack by Hezbollah against the US has always been present. It has become much more realistic due to the Hezbollah spread of activity and influence in Latin America [including underground tunnel construction along the US-Mexico border].... Hezbollah has many pieces in place to conduct an act of terror on U.S. interests.... Venezuela and Chile are hosting Hezbollah, and several more Latin American countries have also been supportive. The proximity of Mexico makes it more deadly. [The Hezbollah-Mexican drug cartels collaboration includes training in the areas of car-bombs, suicide bombing and Improvised Explosive Devices]...."
*Iran’s Ayatollahs and their Hezbollah proxy have considered Latin America as the soft underbelly of "The Great American Satan." They have established themselves in Latin America since the early 1980s, as a stepping stone toward the US mainland, leveraging large and financially successful Shiite Lebanese migrant communities. They have set up rogue initiatives — especially in the lawless tri border areas of Argentina-Paraguay-Brazil and Chile-Peru-Bolivia — to bankroll global terrorism, money laundering (powered by Crypto Currency), counterfeiting, weapon proliferation/trafficking, drug and human trafficking.
*The State Department has adhered to its diplomatic option toward the Ayatollahs, notwithstanding the Ayatollahs’ attempts — as testified by FBI Director, Chris Wray - to replicate the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorism on US soil. Furthermore, the diplomatic option toward the Ayatollahs’ regime is still in effect, irrespective of the Ayatollahs’ 45-year-old track record as a leading epicenter of global anti US initiatives; despite the Ayatollahs’ anti-US constitution, school curriculum and mosque incitement, which aim to bring the "oppressive US" to submission. This is, also, regardless of the Ayatollahs’ oppression of women and all religious and ethnic minorities; and in spite of the Ayatollahs’ expanded collaboration with the drug cartels of Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Brazil, and all anti-US governments, especially Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba.
*The State Department’s latest annual report on global terrorism indicates that "Iran continued to be the leading state sponsor of terrorism, facilitating a wide range of terrorist and other illicit activities around the world."
*The Hill (ibid.) adds that in July 2023, Bolivia - the third largest producer of cocaine in the world, in addition to its lithium reserves, which are critical to nuclear fission and fusion technologies - signed a military cooperation accord with Iran. Bolivia has also requested drones from Iran. Argentina’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, disclosed that more than 700 members of Iran’s Quds Force are stationed in Bolivia. Iran’s Quds Force is a branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, specializing in external unconventional warfare and military intelligence.
*Moreover, in 2023, Venezuela and Iran announced a larger cooperation accord (mostly petrochemicals), increasing trade from $3 billion annually to $20 billion per year in the coming years. Iran supplied Venezuela fast attack boats and anti-ship missiles. Cuba and Iran signed six cooperation agreements, including $200-$500 million annual Iranian aid. Also, Brazil maintains robust commercial ties with Iran, which has a strong presence in the Caribbean, South and Central America. This poses a clear and present danger to the US national and homeland security.
*The intensifying Ayatollahs threat to all US’ Arab allies is gleaned through a recent report by Homeland Security Today, which underscores the intense subversive and terroristic offensive by Iran and its Syrian and Iraqi proxies on Jordan’s pro-US Hashemite regime. The Virginia-based media outlet reports that Jordan has launched a military offensive against Iran-supported terrorists and drug traffickers across its border with Syria.
According to HST, Iran’s illicit (drug production and trafficking) economy is estimated to be 35%-44% of GDP with a value of $160BN-$200BN. "Iranian opiates and methamphetamines have been seized as far away as the United States, Australia and South America, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds Force central to Iran’s global trafficking network."
*The State Department assumes that "money talks," and therefore, the hundreds of billions of dollars, which have been showered upon the Ayatollahs since their rise to power in February 1979 were supposed to induce the Ayatollahs to adopt peaceful-coexistence with their Sunni Arab neighbors, become good-faith negotiators and to abandon their fanatic, religious ideology. However, since the Ayatollahs’ rise to power — which was assisted by the US State Department - the Ayatollahs have demonstrated that their commitment to their ideology, which stipulates bringing "The Great American Satan" to submission, transcends financial and diplomatic considerations, and eclipses their determination to bring down the "infidel" Jewish State and the pro-US "apostate" Sunni Arab regimes.
*The dramatic transformation of Iran’s Ayatollahs into a clear and present danger to the US homeland security has been largely a derivative of the State Department’s policy toward Iran — top heavy on carrots but very low on sticks, yielding a tailwind to rogue regimes, posing a potential death sentence to all pro-US oil-producing Arab regimes, a dramatic setback to the US and other Western democracies and a bonanza to China, Russia, Iran’s Ayatollahs and the Moslem Brotherhood.
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He also stated that Harris “had a lot of success in the Northern Triangle. … The work she did in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala is now paying dividends.”
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Wonder who they're bringing in. Skidmark they are already here.
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Noticing the drop in violent crime in Venezuela over the last four years, the 'joke' is that Madura's 'voting' bloc/strength are criminals, and he lost the election because they are all in the USA.
Cross reference that with yesterday's story about Venezuelan gangs giving a green light to shoot Denver cops.
And the gangsters in Venezuela still have their firearms. They are riding around shooting anyone protesting the 'Madura Results'. Those conspiracy theorist sure are racking up a good batting average.
Cartel soldiers already come equipped with body armor, automatic weapons, cellphone jammers, explosives and military tactics. Just imagine what Jihadi's, Chinese Special Forces, and Cuban Black Wasps might have brought in. I fear it is going to get brutal and local very soon once (if) the nation returns to sanity.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
