The rise of Islam is real here in the
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United States. It's the fastest growing
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religion across America, and it's nearly
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doubled in size over the past few
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decades. Muslims aren't just outpacing
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the nation in birth rates. They're also
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outconverting Christians. Nearly a
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quarter of all US Muslims are converts
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and most of them used to be Christians.
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While Christian churches are losing
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members, mosque are gaining members and
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they're keeping them. And today, I'm
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here in Minnesota, home to one of the
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largest Muslim populations in all of
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America to witness the rise firsthand.
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I'll be speaking with Muslims, Christian
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Americans, all Americans, entering in
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the mosque, asking the questions you
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guys want answered from 9/11 to Shria,
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everything in between.
First thought as I watch: what will the numbers be a year or two from now, when many of the invited Somalis and such have left America, most stripped of the citizenship they gained under false pretenses? And ditto for some other countries following the American example in Europe and Latin America?
[American Dream] How close can we get to the edge without falling over? The largest military conflict in Europe since World War II is poised to go to the next level in 2026, war could erupt again in the Middle East at any moment, the U.S. is on the verge of starting a new war in Venezuela, and China is absolutely furious about a brand new weapons package that has just been approved for Taiwan. The dogs of war are clawing at the gate, and yet most people don’t seem too concerned. This is particularly true in the western world, and that is extremely unfortunate. We really are dangerously close to a nightmare scenario, and the clock is ticking.
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Aboutthe Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next”. He has also written nine other books including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.
I wonder what his prophecy batting average is?
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Predictions are very hard. Especially about the future.
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^Predictions about the future are very easy - ask any economist.
[International Man] The principal geopolitical foes of the US in the Western Hemisphere—Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua—are firmly in the China and Russia camp.
Other countries can shift depending on the outcome of recent elections.
Here’s an overview of some of the most geopolitically important countries in the Western Hemisphere to help frame the broader picture.
VENEZUELA
A military confrontation over Venezuela appears increasingly likely.
Since Hugo Chávez’s rise to power in 1999, Caracas has aligned itself with Russia and China. Venezuela’s vast oil and gold reserves make it a geopolitical prize. The country holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves—over 303 billion barrels, around 17 % of the global total—concentrated in the Orinoco Belt. That’s more oil than Saudi Arabia’s reported reserves.
For China and Russia, Venezuela represents a geopolitical foothold in America’s backyard—much like how the US uses Taiwan and Ukraine to do the same to Beijing and Moscow.
Trump’s renewed "war on drugs" is a thinly veiled pretext for the US to advance its geopolitical interests in the Americas.
Further, earlier this year, Washington labeled Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and the Cartel de los Soles as "foreign terrorist organizations," a dramatic escalation without precedent. The designations paved the way for military and covert actions under counterterrorism authorities.
The US has amassed an impressive naval force off Venezuela’s coast in what Trump described as a campaign against "narco-terrorism."
In reality, this looks more like classic gunboat diplomacy—the drugs-and-terrorism narrative is merely a thin patina of propaganda used to justify the policy. Venezuela is not a major cocaine producer, nor does it play any significant role in fentanyl trafficking.
Venezuela now stands at the crossroads of a changing world order. It’s difficult to imagine the US securing its sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere while Venezuela remains in its current geopolitical orientation—promoting an ideology that Latin America should be independent of the US.
[International Man] Notwithstanding the historic fluidity of borders, there is no case whatsoever that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was "unprovoked" and unrelated to NATO’s own transparent provocations in the region.
The details are arrayed below, but the larger issue needs be addressed first.
Namely, is there any reason to believe that Russia is an expansionist power looking to gobble up neighbors which were not integral parts of its own historic evolution, as is the case with Ukraine?
After all, if despite Rubio’s treachery President Trump does manage to strike a Ukraine peace and partition deal with Putin you can be sure that the neocons will come charging in with a false Munich appeasement analogy.
The answer, however, is a resounding no!
Our firm rebuke of the hoary Munich analogy as it has been falsely applied to Putin is based on what might be called the double-digit rule. To wit, the true expansionary hegemons of modern history have spent huge parts of their GDP on defense because that’s what it takes to support the military infrastructure and logistics required for invasion and occupation of foreign lands.
For instance, here are the figures for military spending by Nazi Germany from 1935—1944 expressed as a percent of GDP. This is what an aggressive hegemon looks like in the ramp-up to war: German military spending had already reach 23% of GDP, even before its invasion of Poland in September 1939 and its subsequent commencement of actual military campaigns of invasion and occupation.
Not surprisingly, the same kind of claim on resources occurred when the United States took it upon itself to counter the aggression of Germany and Japan on a global basis. By 1944 defense spending was equal to 40% of America’s GDP, and would have totaled more than $2 trillion per year in present day dollars of purchasing power.
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Not withstanding the historic fluidity of borders, there is no case whatsoever that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was "unprovoked" and unrelated to NATO’s own transparent provocations in the region.
The Ukraine gave up its nukes upon guarantees by Moscow and Washington of their sovereignty. You think that Putin would have grab the Crimea if the Ukraine still had those nukes?
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.
[YouTube] In this video I go to the Minnesota to investigate the rise of Islam as Somalians have taken over the city in areas like Cedar Riverside 
[International Man] The principal geopolitical foes of the US in the Western Hemisphere—Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua—are firmly in the China and Russia camp.
