Biden Weaponizes the Federal Government for His Own Reelection Campaign - Jeff Reynolds

 

by Jeff Reynolds

America's most radical president has hijacked every arm of the federal government to drag him across the finish line this November. And you're paying for it.

 

 

President Joe Biden has taken every part of the federal government and transformed it into his personal reelection machine, creating a hyper-partisan election apparatus out of supposedly neutral federal agencies. And American taxpayers pay for all of it.

Just since the beginning of April, several explosive revelations have surfaced that show the extent to which Joe Biden has weaponized the federal government in election matters. This should come as no surprise, as the administration continues to unfairly weaponize the federal courts against January 6 defendants, and state and federal courts maliciously prosecute Donald Trump, his rival in the presidential election.

The plan is as brazen as it is comprehensive, proving the Biden administration doesn’t want a fair election in 2024.

Using Charities to Encourage Illegal Alien Voting 

A non-governmental agency (NGO) that receives taxpayer money—and also lobbies the federal government—encourages illegal immigrants to vote for Biden once they get established in the United States. The Daily Signal, citing MuckRaker.com, reported fliers found all over a staging center for migrants in northeastern Mexico, on the US border:

An advocacy group based in Northeastern Mexico that lobbies U.S. lawmakers has distributed and posted flyers encouraging illegal immigrants to vote for President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.

Translated from Spanish, the Oversight Project notes, the flyers posted by the organization Resource Center Matamoros say: “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open.”

The Resource Center Matamoros (RCM) works with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), which the Oversight Project says “helps illegal aliens enter the United States.” Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas (D) formerly served on the HIAS board of directors. HIAS has received “numerous” grants from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

Many faith-based non-profits that take U.S. taxpayer money, including HIAS, help migrants cross the border illegally.

Independent war correspondent Michael Yon has spent significant time in the Darien Gap, a treacherous mountainous area on the border of Panama and Colombia. Yon documents the flow of illegal immigrants coming to America from across the world. In 2023, he recorded a HIAS employee as she instructed illegals how to make the long journey across Central America, through Mexico, and over the US border. Another video from Feb. 2024 shows the large caravans of migrants, sometimes aided in their journey with rides on brand new bus transports.

The U.S. House of Representatives delivered Articles of Impeachment against Sec. Mayorkas to the Senate on Apr. 16. This will have no effect on the almost 10 million illegal immigrants that have already come to the United States. The vast majority of those illegals will likely not vote in 2024. But if the election is as close as it was in 2020—in which Biden “won” the Electoral College with 81,139 votes in four swing states—it would take only a tiny fraction of those ten million illegals to vote and swing the election. Even if they don’t cast a vote, their mere presence on the voter rolls in swing states presents an inordinate opportunity for election malfeasance.

How Do Illegals End Up On State Voter Rolls?

According to the Voter Reference Foundation (VRF), while states have put in place several security steps to verify identity for new or updated voter registration records, no requirement exists to prove citizenship in order to vote in a federal election:

The only protection citizens have is the requirement for a registrant to attest that they are a citizen, and if an alien votes in a federal election, it is a crime under US law, punishable by fines and up to a year in prison. Many would argue that there need to be more controls and harsher punishments in place to deter bad actors and ensure only citizens are registering to vote, and we at the Voter Reference Foundation tend to agree. While the risk of non-citizens participating our election system is relatively small, the impact it can have on voter confidence is enormous and extremely disruptive to the electoral process.

In some states, illegal aliens can obtain driver’s licenses or driver’s cards distinct from a license. VRF notes that this presents a security vulnerability:

There are currently 31 states who do not issue drivers licenses to non-citizens, so any registrant information in those states would in-fact be checking for citizenship. The remaining 19 plus the District of Columbia do have programs that can issue drivers licenses to non-citizens with appropriate identifying information. All drivers’ licenses are not equal though, and in the [motor vehicle] databases there are distinctions between citizen and non-citizen drivers licenses that would indicate to the voter registration system the citizenship status of that registrant.

Midnight Flights Bring Illegals to Red States

According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), DHS has refused to publicly identify the “dozens of U.S. international airports for which it has approved direct flights from abroad for certain inadmissible aliens.” As of February, almost 400,000 “migrants” had flown to interior American airports under a program launched by the Biden administration in Oct. 2022. CIS Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman reports the vast majority of those flights landed in Florida, a state won by Republicans by an average of 20 points in the 2022 election cycle in statewide races. A smaller but significant number of those flights went to Texas, New York, and California.

Bensman reports that states have begun to sue the federal government for hiding the data from the public:

Public knowledge of where these flights deliver migrants should matter to local, state, and national leaders in cities struggling with migrant influxes, who could use the information to financially plan for their care, or petition the federal government to stop the flights. The information may also hold implications for litigation by Texas, Florida, and other states that have sued to stop the parole programs on grounds that the administration’s illegal abuse of the narrow statutory parole authority has directly harmed them.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody accused the Biden administration of “disproportionately taxing the resources of certain states.”

Undermining States’ Authority in Elections

Biden’s 2021 Executive Order (EO) 14019 directs all government agencies to “expand access to voter registration,” among other efforts. The Governmental Accountability Institute (GAI), run by author Peter Schweizer, has sounded the alarm. GAI raised the likelihood that the various agencies will exploit this order to target blue precincts and demographics that will vote for Democrats:

American federal elections are, by Constitutional design, administered by the states. This ingenious design was to prevent a tyrannical federal government from interfering in its own elections. The intent of Biden’s executive order undercuts that. And supporters of the effort think as many as 3.5 million new voter registrations will come of it.

How?

By “weaponizing” federal agencies that operate within the states to integrate voter registration efforts through careful targeting to their most reliable constituents. That’s why HHS has added voter registration assistance to the website Healthcare.gov, for example. It’s why the Treasury department is now integrating voter registration into the tax preparation services it offers to low-income people. It’s why the Housing and Urban Development department, which administers public housing, is integrating voter registration in the units the department manages, or why the General Services Administration has spent millions on translating voter registration forms.

GAI also reports that the US Marshals Service now offers voter registration to prisoners in pre-trial federal custody. They even plan to install voting booths in NINE HUNDRED federal prisons and jails for use on Election Day. Federal agencies even include voter registration on student loan application forms.

States with Republican Attorneys General have sued to stop all this, as GAI notes, calling them “partisan electioneering for Democrats, funded by taxpayer money.”

Campaigns should make these types of efforts. Federal agencies should not. The potential for partisan abuse is obvious.

Registering Voters for the Environment

The Daily Caller reported the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has handed out “millions of taxpayer dollars to a coalition featuring two immigration-focused activist organizations, one which pushes voter registration for traditionally Democrat-leaning demographics.” Under its Environmental Justice grantmaking program in December 2023, EPA gave $50 million to two “immigrant justice” non-profit organizations in the New York City area. These radical organizations explicitly engage in voter registration and GOTV efforts in heavily democratic precincts. The report also cites several studies showing immigrants “identify more frequently with the Democratic Party.”

Work-Study Pay for Registering Democratic Voters

In February, the Department of Education publicized a new rule taking advantage of EO 14019. The new rule allows colleges to use federal work-study funds to pay college students who work on voter registration campaigns:

This work can include supporting broad-based get-out-the-vote activities, voter registration, providing voter assistance at a polling place or through a voter hotline, or serving as a poll worker. We believe this reading is supported by the language of 34 CFR § 675.22(b)(5) and adheres to the meaning of the regulation when read as a whole, namely promoting student employment in the public interest while ensuring that such work is neither associated with any faction in election for public or party office, nor constitutes political activity.

Yet another policy by a federal agency targeted to expand registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts in demographics that strongly skew blue.

Bidenbucks > Zuckbucks?

The Federalist reports the Biden administration mandated federal agencies, under EO 14019, to work with “approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations.” In 2020, the Zuck Bucks grants, now illegal in 28 states, distributed over $400 million to state and county election offices. Ostensibly for election support in these “unprecedented times” of the pandemic, Zuck Bucks often targeted GOTV and voter registration efforts in heavily Democratic precincts.

Hold my beer, says the Biden administration. $400 million pales in comparison to the resources the federal government can throw at these mandates. The Biden administration has sent those resources through the Department of Agriculture (USDA)—not exactly noted for its voter integrity function. The USDA will work with state agencies to “provide local program operators with promotional materials, including voter registration and non-partisan, non-campaign election information, to disseminate among voting-age program participants and their families”—via the school breakfast and lunch programs in various states. “The left doesn’t have COVID to lean on this time around,” The Federalist reports, “so it’s using the full force of the federal government in its attempt to keep and consolidate its power.”

That is the theme of everything the Biden administration has done. Using the excuse of “expanding voter access” and “combating systemic racism,” it has weaponized federal agencies of all types to mount the largest Democrat GOTV in human history—all paid by your taxes.

Jeff Reynolds 

From voter registration, to voter turnout, to encouraging illegal immigrants to vote, America’s most radical president has hijacked every arm of the federal government to drag him across the finish line this November. And you’re paying for it.

Jeff Reynolds is the Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration of America. He is the author of the book, Behind the Curtain: Inside the Network of Progressive Billionaires and Their Effort to Undermine Democracy. You can find all his work at www.whoownsthedems.net.

Source: https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/21/biden-weaponizes-the-federal-government-for-his-own-reelection-campaign/

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Blinken’s willful blindness - Ruthie Blum

 

by Ruthie Blum

Failure to see the Palestinian body politic for what it is has served only to breathe new life into its decades-old death cult.

 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holding a press conference in Tel Aviv, Oct. 12, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Though it’s almost blasphemous to mention the Abraham Accords and the Oct. 7 massacre in the same sentence, the two have something important in common. Both exposed the lie that the “path to peace” must pass through Ramallah and Gaza City.

The first illustrated that previously hostile Arab and other Muslim-majority states—with modernization and self-preservation against the common threat of a nuclearized Iran in mind—were ripe for mutually beneficial ties with Israel.

The second proved, as if any additional evidence were required, that the road to hell—like that leading to the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust—was never paved with good intentions; it has been tarred all along by Islamist ill will and evil Palestinian deeds.

To Israel’s peril and America’s detriment, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden never internalized the former and has yet to acknowledge the latter. As soon as it took office, it began to undermine the historic agreements brokered by former President Donald Trump between Israel and the Gulf states.

At the Negev Summit in March 2022 in Sde Boker, where then-Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid hosted his Bahraini, Egyptian, Moroccan and Emirati counterparts, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that “regional peace agreements are not a substitute for peace with the Palestinians.”

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His resuscitation of this false premise was bad enough, especially as it coincided with an uptick in Palestinian terrorism in the streets of Israeli cities. But the fact that the overall context was Team Biden’s attempt to revive the nuclear deal with Iran from which Trump had withdrawn made it all the more significant.

This example of a disastrous foreign policy born of a disconnect from reality isn’t ancient history, by the way. The gathering in question took place a mere year and a half before Palestinian butchers broke through the Gaza border fence, raping, beheading, immolating and mutilating at least 1,200 Israelis (and foreigners), while abducting 250 others.

It should be noted here that though Hamas was the Iranian proxy whose honchos spearheaded the massacre, other terrorist groups gleefully participated in the mass sexual abuse and carnage. Palestinian Islamic Jihad was one. Fatah was another. You know, the so-called “moderate” faction headed by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Due to the extreme brutality against innocent men, women and children on that “Black Sabbath”/Simchat Torah holiday, Washington was shaken out of its reverie. So much so that Biden replaced the cold shoulder he’d been giving to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a warm embrace, at least initially.

Subsequently, what has followed since the start of “Operation Swords of Iron”—Israel’s justified war to destroy Hamas—is schizophrenic behavior on the part of Washington towards Jerusalem. Some may attribute Biden’s about-faces—rhetorical and military backing on one hand, and warnings and threats on the other—to his memory lapses.

The same can’t be said about Blinken, however. No, his conflicting messages, like his ideology, are deliberate.

Indeed, despite everything that’s emerged in the past six months—including proof that Tehran is the head of the octopus preventing stability in the Middle East; that the Abraham Accords helped form the coalition that intercepted Iran’s April 14 barrage at Israel; and that the Palestinians seek Israel’s annihilation, not a peaceful “two-state solution”—his worldview hasn’t shifted.

His mind frame enables equating the Jewish state with its foes and buying Palestinian propaganda about civilian casualties and “famine” in the Strip.

“Even as we’ve been dealing with the conflict in the Middle East and … the unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel, we’ve remained intensely focused on Gaza,” Blinken said in a press briefing at the close of the G7 meeting in Capri on Friday. “We urge the rapid implementation of Israel’s humanitarian assistance commitments—more aid, more crossings, better deconfliction, better distribution of the assistance to all who need it.”

He went on: “We also focused on the imperative of getting to a ceasefire with the release of hostages. Such a ceasefire would facilitate the dramatic expansion of the humanitarian assistance. It would also let [those] Gazans … who have been displaced from the north [return there].”

He then said, laughably, that Hamas “seems more interested in a regional conflict than it is in a ceasefire that would immediately improve the lives of the Palestinian people.”

Really?

Yes, he added, Hamas “continues to move the goalposts, and the world needs to know and … understand … that the only thing standing between a ceasefire and the Gazan people is Hamas.” 

Still, admitting that Israel isn’t the obstacle didn’t stop Blinken from reiterating his and Biden’s staunch opposition to an operation in Rafah, site of the last-standing Hamas battalions and likely location of many of the 133 hostages. This isn’t surprising, given what he told reporters during the question period.

“Let me … repeat what our focus has been and what it remains: de-escalation, avoiding conflict … and calling on all concerned to exercise restraint,” he said. “That’s what we’ve been doing over the last couple of weeks, and as necessary that’s what we’ll continue to do.”

Asked about the United States’ blocking on Thursday of a U.N. Security Council resolution to grant “Palestine” full membership as a state in the international body, Blinken reassured that American commitment to achieving a Palestinian state hasn’t wavered.

“We believe that is vital to having long-term, sustainable, durable peace and security. And, of course, it’s the only way to fulfill the … rightful aspirations of the Palestinian people,” he stressed. “But getting to that, achieving that state, has to be done through diplomacy, not through imposition.”

News flash to America’s top diplomat: No “long-term, sustainable, durable peace and security” is possible without the “imposition” of power, hard and soft, on all those bent on the demise of the United States and elimination of Israel.

Appeasement of the ayatollahs nearly unraveled the Abraham Accords, which the Palestinians were welcome to join, but refused. Failure to see the Palestinian body politic for what it is has served only to breathe new life into its decades-old death cult.

Ruthie Blum, an author and award-winning columnist, is a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Source: https://www.jns.org/blinkens-willful-blindness/

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US reportedly intends to sanction IDF unit - Mike Wagenheim

 

by Mike Wagenheim

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the measure against the IDF’s haredi battalion Netzah Yehuda “the height of absurdity and a moral low.”

 

U.S. President Joe Biden, joined by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is briefed on the terrorist assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, in the Oval Office of the White House. Credit: Cameron Smith/White House.

Israeli government officials reacted forcefully on Saturday to reports that the Biden administration intends to sanction the Israel Defense Forces battalion Netzah Yehuda for alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians.

“Sanctions must not be imposed on the Israel Defense Forces,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote in Hebrew on social media. 

“In recent weeks, I have been working against the imposition of sanctions on Israeli citizens, including in my conversations with senior U.S. government officials,” Netanyahu added.

“At a time when our soldiers are fighting terrorist monsters, the intention to impose a sanction on a unit in the IDF is the height of absurdity and a moral low,” the prime minister added. “The government I head will act by all means against these moves.”

If Washington sanctions the IDF unit, it would be the first time the United States has taken such a step against the Israeli military.

Netzah Yehuda is an exclusively male, haredi battalion which, until late 2022, served in Judea and Samaria. It has faced accusations of abuses, most notably in the 2022 death of 78-year-old Palestinian-American Omar As’ad, who died after he was initially detained by the battalion. 

It was reported that he died after being abandoned while still in restraints, drawing criticism from the U.S. State Department.

Under the reported sanctions, Netzah Yehuda, which now serves in the Golan Heights, would be barred from receiving U.S. weaponry, training with U.S. soldiers or taking part in any activities that the United States funds. 

The restrictions would fall under the banner of the Leahy Laws, which prohibit U.S. military assistance to individuals or units of security forces that commit gross violations of human rights and have not been held accountable.

Benny Gantz, an Israeli minister without portfolio who is part of the War Cabinet, also criticized the reported sanctions. Writing in Hebrew on social media, he called the battalion “an integral part of the IDF,” which falls under the jurisdiction of “strong and independent” courts that are capable of dealing with alleged violations and abuses.

“We have great respect for our American friends, but imposing sanctions on the unit is a dangerous precedent and sends the wrong message to our shared enemies at a time of war,” Gantz wrote. He pledged that he would “take action so this decision does not pass.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hinted at a weekend news conference in Capri, Italy that sanctions were imminent. 

“On Israel, there are reports that your department has made recommendations to cut military aid to certain Israeli units for possible human rights violations in the West Bank, before Oct. 7. Will you take action on those recommendations,” asked Olivia Gazis, of CBS News.

“I think you’re referring to the so-called Leahy Law and our work under that. So, this is a very important law, and it’s one that we apply across the board,” Blinken said. “When we’re doing these investigations, these inquiries, it’s something that takes time, that has to be done very carefully both in collecting the facts and analyzing them—and that’s exactly what we’ve done.”

“I think it’s fair to say that you’ll see results very soon,” Blinken said. “I’ve made determinations; you can expect to see them in the days ahead.”

Mike Wagenheim

Source: https://www.jns.org/us-reportedly-intends-to-sanction-idf-unit/

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In whiplash twist, Michael Avenatti considers testifying for Trump, calls trial ‘travesty’ - John Solomon

 

by John Solomon

From his prison cell, convicted Stormy Daniels' lawyer blasts NY prosecutors in marked shift in tone.

 

Once one of Donald Trump’s fiercest critics, convicted attorney Michael Avenatti has been discussing possibly testifying on behalf of the former president in his hush money trial after he unleashed a tirade of criticism against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

In X posts from his Los Angeles federal prison cell and in news media interviews, Avenatti has questioned the legitimacy of Bragg’s prosecution against Trump, even suggesting it was an interference in the 2024 election.

“There’s no question it is politically motivated because they’re concerned that he (Trump) may be re-elected,” Avenatti told The New York Post in an interview published this weekend.

"If the defendant was anyone other than Donald Trump, this case would not have been brought at this time, and for the government to attempt to bring this case and convict him in an effort to prevent tens of millions of people from voting for him," he added. "I think it’s just flat-out wrong and atrocious."

He added: “I think there’s a significant chance that this is going to all backfire and is going to propel him to the White House.”

Avenatti confirmed to the newspaper that he has had discussions with Trump’s defense team about possibly testifying at the Bragg trial, where opening arguments are set to begin Monday.

“The defense has contacted me," he said. "I’d be more than happy to testify, I don’t know that I will be called to testify, but I have been in touch with Trump’s defense for the better part of year."

A source close to the situation confirmed to Just the News on Saturday that Avenatti has had discussions with Trump’s legal team, though nothing had been settled.  

Avenatti is serving a prison sentence in Los Angeles for fraud, extortion and other crimes. For most of Trump’s first term, he was a relentless critic of the 45th president even suggesting he was his “most dangerous enemy.”

Avenatti, as the attorney for adult-film star Stormy Daniels, appeared on at least 108 interviews on cable news outlets CNN and MSNBC from March 7 to May 10 of 2018, according to an analysis by the conservative Washington Free Beacon. But in recent weeks, starting on social media and continuing in news interviews, the disgraced lawyer has sounded a marked shift in tone.

On MSNBC last week, Avenatti lamented that the trial could “potentially deprive tens of millions of Americans of their choice for the presidency of the United States ... based on a case of this nature.”

On the X social platform, he pleaded with fellow liberals to see the trial as a mistake.

“To my friends on the left who insist they want to ‘preserve Democracy’ and ‘Justice,’ you should be equally outraged by this,” he wrote. “Constitutional protections either exist for all (including Trump) or they don't exist for any. What is happening in the hush money case is a travesty.”

Avenatti also raised concerns that his former client, Stormy Daniels, and former Trump fixer Michael Cohen had been allowed to talk in the news media, relentlessly criticizing Trump in recent weeks, while Trump faced a partial gag order from the judge.

“The fix is in,” he wrote on X. “Never before has there been a high-profile criminal case in America where a prosecutor (Bragg) permitted, and likely encouraged, two critical witnesses (Cohen & Daniels) to use the media in the days leading up to trial to trash a gagged defendant (Trump) and violate his right to a fair trial.”

John Solomon

Source: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/sunin-whiplash-twist-michael-avenatti-discussing-testifying-trump

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Hamas Claims That Israeli Hostages Left Captivity ‘Happy and Laughing’ - Hugh Fitzgerald

 

by Hugh Fitzgerald

The denial and perversion of monsters.

 

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We all know that Hamas threatened the Israelis hostages that it was just about to release last November to put on happy faces, and wish their former captors “Shalom” for the cameras, and those who could manage it did as they were told. They had been warned that if they did not collaborate, it would go hard with the hostages still being held captive, whom they were leaving behind. But when they arrived home, the released hostages proceeded to describe the horrific conditions in which they had been held. They spoke of living on one piece of pita bread each day,or being occasionally given rotten meat. Many of them lived in the tunnels, enduring the cold and the darkness. None had received a visit from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). And finally, after many months, some of them finally spoke publicly of the sexual abuse they had endured every day, including rapes, and revealed that all of the female hostages were still being similarly abused.

Christine Douglass-Williams wrote about this here, and more on this sexual abuse, and Hamas’ blanket denial, can be found here: “Outrageous lie: Israeli hostages in Gaza “left happy and laughing” – they received “generous treatment” – PA TV interview,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, April 4, 2024:

Recently, an Israeli woman aged 40 who was held hostage by Hamas revealed that she was sexually assaulted by her captor. And she is not the only one. Other hostages have also testified about sexual abuse, torture, and beatings while being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

As more testimonies from Israeli hostages who were freed last November after almost two months in Hamas captivity are being published, the war of narratives has become urgent.

The meager rations, the beatings, the confinement in dark and cold tunnels, were the common lot of the hostages. Several dozen hostages have also been murdered while in Hamas’ captivity over the past six months.

The Palestinian and Arab narrative is entirely fictitious and is intended to humanize Hamas and deny its atrocities. One example is this outrageous claim made to official PA TV by a lecturer at Cairo University that the Israeli hostages received “generous treatment” and left captivity “happy and laughing”:

Head of Radio and TV Department at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communications Ashraf Jalal: “The generous treatment Palestine gave the Israeli prisoners (i.e., kidnapped women and children) caused an enormous positive response, because after [the Israelis] lied and said that [Hamas] is abusing them, the [Israeli] people left [Gaza] happy and laughing… What is required is that we redirect the media spotlight to this issue.”

[Official PA TV, From Cairo, Feb. 12, 2024]

This brazen lie follows those made by senior PA officials, which have been documented by Palestinian Media Watch. In November 2023, Minister Qadura Fares, who is the director of the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, said that Israel “made up this story and said: They [the Palestinians] raped, killed, and burned” [Official PA TV, Nov. 20, 2023]. In December 2023, PLO Executive Committee member and PLF Secretary-General Wasel Abu Yusuf said: “Since October 7, there has been a Zionist version that [Israel] has attempted to spread worldwide out of tendentious propaganda, [claiming] that there was murder of children, rape of women, crimes, and the like” [Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Dec. 3, 2023].

But we have the testimony about the murdered children, the rapes, the mutilation of bodies from Israeli survivors who witnessed or overheard these events from their hiding places. We also have the videos of these atrocities that were taken at the time by those who committed them, so proud were they of how they had terrorized, tortured, raped, and killed the hated Israelis. And, of course, we have the 1,200 corpses of those who were burned to death, or stabbed or shot, with the females having had their breasts sliced off, and genitalia cut off men, as well as their eyes gouged out.

It’s not the charges of murder and kidnapping that Hamas feels the need to deny, but the charge of “sexual abuse” — meaning “rape.” That is seen as beyond the pale. Pass out candies and celebrate the murders of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, but remain silent about the mass rapes which Muslim men are not supposed to engage in. “We have our standards,” they imply, and rape is not allowed. It’s absurd of course: there were endless rapes on October 7, and then more sexual abuse, including rapes, of female hostages by their Hamas captors in Gaza that continue right up to the present day. So please understand the threats that made some of those hostages — only a few could manage it — appear to be “happy and laughing” for the whirring cameras as they left Gaza, freed in the November hostage-for-prisoner exchange. And months later, concentrate on the full horror of what the remaining hostages — starved, beaten, held in cold, dark tunnels, with sexual abuse and rape a daily occurrence – must still endure.

Hugh Fitzgerald

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/hamas-claims-that-israeli-hostages-left-captivity-happy-and-laughing/

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Satellite pics show Iran air base damage after IAF strike - JNS

 

by JNS

An air defense system near the Natanz nuclear facility was hit.

 

An F-15 fighter jet is seen at an unidentified airbase after successfully protecting Israel’s airspace from an Iranian attack, April 14, 2024. Credit: IDF.

Satellite images published over the past 24 hours show damage to an air base near the central Iranian city of Isfahan following an Israeli strike carried out early Friday morning.

Two images of the Shikari Air Base analyzed by the BBC show that part of an air defense system was damaged. BBC Verify analyzed optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite imagery captured over Isfahan on Friday.

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— חדשות 13 (@newsisrael13) April 21, 2024

The United States said that Israel carried out a missile strike, while Tehran said that the attack involved three small drones that were neutralized. Jerusalem has not officially confirmed the attack.

According to a Kan News report, the Israeli-made “Rampage” air-to-surface missile was used in the attack. The 4.7-meter (15-foot) projectile can travel at supersonic speed (Mach 1.0–Mach 1.6), making it difficult for air defense systems to counter.

Shikari is located close to the Natanz nuclear site and is reportedly supposed to protect the facility.

The New York Times reported on Saturday that a high-tech missile hit a Russian-made S-300 air defense system at Shikari, citing two Iranian officials. Western officials told the newspaper that the strike was intended to show Tehran that Israel could break through Iran’s defense systems undetected and paralyze them.

According to the Times report, the missile was from a warplane fired “far from Israeli or Iranian airspace” and did not enter Jordanian airspace so as to not to involve Amman after it assisted in shooting down hundreds of Iranian aerial threats launched at Israel last weekend.

An Israeli official told The Washington Post that the assault “was intended to signal to Iran that Israel had the ability to strike inside the country.”

Jerusalem reportedly told the United States on Thursday that it planned to retaliate within a 24- to 48-hour window for Tehran’s massive drone and missile assault on April 14.

Russia is set to deliver the latest batch of Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets to Iran in the next few days, according to unconfirmed media reports, underscoring deepening ties between Moscow and Tehran. It was reported by Germany’s dpa news agency, citing Iranian media sources. It is part of a deal between the two countries announced last November.

The deal also included Yak-130 trainer aircraft and Mi-28 helicopters.

Russia has received attack and reconnaissance drones from Iran during its war with Ukraine, which it has deployed on the battlefield, using the kamikaze UAVs to target Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure.

JNS

Source: https://www.jns.org/satellite-pics-show-iran-air-base-damage-after-iaf-strike/

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Hospitals facing increasing threat of cyberattacks, costing millions of dollars - Jim Talamonti

 

by Jim Talamonti

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, large ransomware breaches in the health care sector increased 278% from 2018 to 2022.

 

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Hospitals across Illinois and the United States are dealing with increasing numbers of cyberattacks.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, large ransomware breaches in the health care sector increased 278% from 2018 to 2022. Matt Dean, senior fellow for Healthcare Policy Outreach at The Heartland Institute, said hospitals can’t just go to the police when cyberattacks happen.

“What if your private medical data was on the other side of that equation? It makes it really tough for a hospital administrator, a hospital president trying to deal with this. It’s a pickle,” Dean said.

Cyberattackers went after Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago earlier this year.

“It wasn’t just billing or records. It was access to medical records, so you couldn’t bring up your file if you have your portal where you log on with your password. They had to shut it all down,” Dean said.

The cyberattacks have led to difficult decisions for hospitals and health care facilities.

“They have your data, your electronic medical record, all of your sensitive data that they are duty-bound to not share anywhere, ever. And somebody might leak that, they’ll say, unless you pay us money,” Dean explained.

Dean said hospitals can’t afford to pay ransom to people in other countries every time they want money.

“Our smaller rural hospitals, I mean, they’re just one instance away, an average of ten-million bucks when they’re breached. That can put a small hospital out of business,” Dean said.

St. Margaret’s Health in Peru and Spring Valley, Illinois closed last June, in part due to a ransomware attack in 2021.

Dean said the federal government should do its job and protect its citizens.

Jim Talamonti

Source: https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/hospitals-face-greater-threat-cyberattacks

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Critics blast Biden administration’s new ‘conservation leases,’ which they say are illegal - Kevin Killough

 

by Kevin Killough

Conservation leases, which have been rebranded as "restoration leases" work just like oil and gas or cattle grazing leases, except the “use” of the land would be to conserve it, which typically means erasing or eliminating impact on the untouched landscape.

 

The Biden administration Friday rolled out three decisions aimed at greatly restricting oil and gas drilling, as well as mining activities needed for renewable energy, on public land.

The decisions include shutting down the Ambler Access Road project, which would have opened up part of Alaska to mining needed for renewable energy, and blocking oil and gas drilling on up to 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Conservation Leases

The third action the Interior Department took Friday was the finalizing of the Public Lands Rule. According to a statement from the Department of the Interior, the rule is meant to “guide the balanced management of America’s public lands.”

The rule creates a regulatory structure to facilitate what the department is now referring to as “restoration leases” or “mitigation leases.” These leases were rebranded from the original Bureau of Land Management proposal published in April 2023, which referred to them as “conservation leases.”

The leases work just like oil and gas or cattle grazing leases, except the “use” of the land would be to conserve it, which typically means erasing or eliminating human impact on the untouched landscape.

Critics of the proposal said that it would effectively take public lands off the table for any uses, including recreation, but supporters have said it would only allow for restoration and mitigation activities alongside other uses.

The BLM’s final rule, with the renamed new types of leases, describes them as a means to put conservation work on “equal footing” with grazing and mineral development.

“These leases will be issued at the discretion of BLM and must not conflict with valid existing rights or previously authorized uses. Restoration leases are designed to add to the toolbox of management options supporting multiple use and landscape health,” the agency explains in a fact sheet on the final rules.

As an example, the fact sheet puts forth a scenario in which an environmental group or state agency leases land for restoration of mule deer or elk habitat, and with the lease in hand, the owners would “be assured the work could take hold and flourish.”

Multiple use

Conservation groups lauded the new rules. The Wilderness Society accused the BLM of being the “Bureau of Livestock and Mining,” as it seemed concerned with little else.

“That grim era has finally ended with the roll-out of the finalized. A major victory for communities and nature alike,” the group said in a statement.

The National Mining Association said the rule is at odds with the federal government’s legal obligation to manage public lands for multiple uses, which includes protecting the environment and resource development.

“By putting its thumb on the scales to strongly favor conservation over other uses, this rule will obstruct responsible domestic mining projects and compound permitting challenges, further deepening our already grave foreign mineral import reliance,” Rick Nolan, president of the association, said in a statement.

The Functional Government Initiative (FGI), a government watchdog group, said rules like the BLM’s Public Lands Rule impede resource development, which means for most Americans higher energy prices, lower economic growth, and more inflation as has been the case for the past three years.

The group previously, through Freedom of Information Act requests, obtained documents that showed the Interior Department and related agencies met secretly with environmental groups, such as the Wilderness Society, in the lead up to the Biden administration’s decision to block an area of Minnesota off to mineral development.

“Today’s action is a win for China and the radical environmental lobby. For the rest of us, it’s just more of the same,” Pete McGinnis, communications director for FGI, told Just The News.

Legal action

Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said in a statement emailed to Just The News that the rule seeks to upend the balance that Congress and the Interior Department achieved over many decades on multiple-use public lands that are appropriate for productive uses such as energy, grazing, mining and recreation.

Sgamma said that the rule will be facing legal action. Defining conservation as a use, she explained, is legally vulnerable under the direction of Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, which set forth the BLM’s mission as one of “multiple use and sustained yield.” It’s also a violation of the Mineral Leasing Act, which requires the BLM to hold quarterly oil and gas lease sales. Sgamma said the Public Lands Rule is contrary to the will of Congress when it overturned a BLM planning rule in 2017 using the Congressional Review Act.

“This is a classic example of overreach by the Biden Administration, which has no problem ignoring basic law, and would be detrimental to rural communities all across the West that rely on responsible economic development on non-park, non-wilderness public lands. We have no choice but to litigate,” Sgamma said.

William Perry Pendley, who headed the BLM under former President Donald Trump, told Just The News that the Biden administration acts with a level of lawlessness that he said is unparalleled. A federal judge, for example, torpedoed Biden’s moratorium on oil and gas leases for violating the Mineral Leasing Act. Despite that, the Biden administration’s five-year plan for the Gulf of Mexico offers only three lease sales over the next five years.

It’s not just matters involving energy, either, Pendley said. Despite the Supreme Court shooting down his plan to cancel student debt, Biden continues to pursue actions to cancel these debts in other ways.

“The Supreme Court has unequivocally told the president of the United states you have no authority to do this. And Biden steps in front of the microphone and laughs, and says the court told me I couldn’t do it. But I’m going to do it anyway,” Pendley said.

The American Exploration & Production Council (AXPC), which submitted comments on the proposed rule, also hinted at the possibility of litigation in a statement criticizing the rule for exceeding the agency’s authority.
“This rule amounts to an attempt by the administration to go around Congress to prevent reasonable mineral development that has been previously directed and authorized by Congress. AXPC is evaluating the next possible steps to address this flawed rule,” Anne Bradbury, CEO for the council, said in a statement.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said in a statement that he and Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., will be introducing a resolution under the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to block finalized federal regulations. “The people of Wyoming depend on access to public lands for their livelihoods – including energy and mineral production, grazing and recreation. With this rule, President Biden is allowing federal bureaucrats to destroy our way of life,”  Barrasso said.

The new rules, like many of the rules the Biden administration has passed, will face legal challenges, but it can sometimes take years for courts to hand down a decision. In the meantime, the three rules the Interior Department passed Friday will be popular with environmentalists. With the presidential election on the horizon, Biden is likely more concerned with their votes this year than court decisions down the road.

 
Kevin Killough

Source: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/critics-blast-biden-administrations-new-conservation-leases-which-they-say

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Socialism’s Survival: The Endurance of an Ideological Paradox - Roger Kimball

 

by Roger Kimball

We remember the past. Are we still condemned to repeat it?

 

I have written about the death and rebirth of socialism periodically over the years.  But as André Gide said in another context, “Toutes choses sont dites déjà, mais comme personne n’écoute, il faut toujours recommencer”: everything has already been said, but since no one was listening, it is necessary to say it again.

Really, the socialist impulse is a hardy perennial.  How could something so frequently and thoroughly discredited persist in the hearts of men?  Some think it has something to do with the gullibility of the human animal, some (but I repeat myself) with the persistence of the utopian dream.  I suspect there are many explanations, of which the raw desire for power plays an unedifying but also underrated role.  I also favor the explanatory power of original sin, which has profound psychological as well as theological application to many of the more farcical aspects of human experience and what is more farcical than socialism?

At any rate, the career of socialism is a powerful argument for the phenomenon of life after death. Remember: the death of socialism in the United States (except on college campuses) had been solemnly pronounced over and over during the 1980s and 1990s. But for the past several years, we have seen multiple sightings of the beast.

Back in 2018, for example, the actor Jim Carrey told Bill Maher: “We have to say yes to socialism—to the word and everything. We have to stop apologizing.”

I’m pretty sure that no one told this poor fellow that, were socialism to be instituted in the United States, one of the first things that would happen is that people like Mr. Carrey would be instantly pauperized.

Did I say “poor” fellow?

As of 2023, Mr. Carrey had an estimated net worth of $180 million. But what are the two fundamental pillars of socialism?

One: The abolition of private property.

Two: The equalization of wealth.

I can’t forbear to point out that Mr. Carrey actually starred in a movie called “Dumb and Dumber,” which is about “two unintelligent but well-meaning friends from Providence, Rhode Island.”

Talk about art imitating life.

Mr. Carrey’s self-congratulatory naïveté is repeated everywhere these days. It’s an attitude that’s especially prevalent among historically innocent beneficiaries of the free market whose lives have been blissfully untouched by the blunt and unforgiving imperatives of socialist dominance.

Given the prevalence among the tender-hearted of socialist fantasy, on the one hand, and animus toward the free market, on the other, I thought it might be useful to say a few words in defense of the latter.

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith noted the paradox, or seeming paradox, of the free market, aka capitalism: that the more individuals were left free to follow their own ends, the more their activities were “led by an invisible hand to promote” ends that aided the common good.

Private pursuits conduced to public goods—that is the beneficent alchemy of the free market. (I forbear to say “capitalism” because the term, though not coined by Marx, was popularized by him as a synonym for “exploitation,” when in fact its operation has been almost wholly about liberation.)

In The Road to Serfdom and other works, Friedrich Hayek expanded on Smith’s fundamental insight, pointing out that the spontaneous order created and maintained by competitive market forces leads to greater prosperity than a planned economy.

The sentimentalist can’t wrap his mind, or his heart, around that datum.

He (or she) can’t understand why “society” shouldn’t favor “cooperation” (a pleasing-sounding arrangement) over “competition” (much harsher), since in any competition there are losers, which is bad, and winners, which may be even worse. The unhappy truth is that socialism is a version of sentimentality. Even so hard-headed an observer as George Orwell was susceptible. In The Road to Wigan Pier,  Orwell argued that since the world “potentially, at least, is immensely rich,” if we developed it “as it might be developed . . . we could all live like princes, supposing that we wanted to.”

Never mind that part of what it means to be a prince is that others, indeed most others, aren’t royalty. (Or, as that admirable logician W. S. Gilbert put it: “When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody!”) As Hayek observed, the socialist, the sentimentalist, can’t understand why, if people have been able to “generate some system of rules coordinating their efforts,” they can’t also consciously “design an even better and more gratifying system.”

Central to Hayek’s teaching is the unyielding fact that human ingenuity is limited, that the elasticity of freedom requires the agency of forces beyond our supervision, and that, finally, the ambitions of socialism are an expression of rationalistic hubris. A spontaneous order generated by market forces may be as beneficial to humanity as you like; it may have greatly extended life and produced wealth so staggering that, only a few generations ago, it was unimaginable.

Still, it isn’t perfect. The poor are still with us. Not every social problem has been solved. In the end, though, the really galling thing about the spontaneous order that free markets produce isn’t its imperfection but its spontaneity: the fact that it’s a creation not our own. It transcends the conscious direction of human will and is therefore an affront to human pride.

The urgency with which Hayek condemns socialism is a function of the importance of the stakes involved. As he put it in his last book, The Fatal Conceit, the “dispute between the market order and socialism is no less than a matter of survival” because “to follow socialist morality would destroy much of present humankind and impoverish much of the rest.”

We get a foretaste of what Hayek meant whenever the forces of socialism triumph. There follows, as night follows day, an increase in poverty and a diminution of individual freedom. The curious thing is that this fact has had so little effect on the attitudes of intellectuals and the politicians who appeal to them. Are you listening, Joe Biden?

No merely empirical development, it seems—let it be repeated innumerable times—can spoil the pleasures of socialist sentimentality. This unworldliness is tied to another common trait of intellectuals: their contempt for money and the world of commerce. The socialist intellectual, especially the well-heeled one, eschews the “profit motive” as something beneath his dignity. He recommends instead increased government control of the economy. He feels, Hayek notes, that “to employ a hundred people is… exploitation, but to command the same number [is] honorable.”

Not that intellectuals, as a class, don’t like possessing money as much as the rest of us. But they look upon the whole machinery of commerce as something separate from, something indescribably less worthy than, their innermost hearts’ desires.

Of course, there’s a sense in which this is true. However, many intellectuals fail to appreciate two things. First, the extent to which money, as Hayek put it, is “one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented,” opening “an astounding range of choice to the poor man—a range greater than that which not many generations ago was open to the wealthy.”

Second, intellectuals tend to ignore the extent to which the organization of commerce affects the organization of our aspirations. As Hilaire Belloc put it in The Servile State, “The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.”

The really frightening question wholesale economic planning raises isn’t whether we’re free to pursue our most important ends, but who determines what those “most important ends” are to be. Is it battling “climate change?” Abolishing “racism?” Forbidding gas stoves or air conditioning? “Whoever,” Hayek notes, “has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rated higher and which lower—in short, what men should believe and strive for.”

There has been a great deal of agitation over inflation, rising interest rates, and troubling news from the banking industry lately. Probably, there’s more agitation to follow. We’ve been there, done that. Do we have to go through it again? There’s some irony in the fact that Hayek’s great opponent, John Maynard Keynes, provided a most penetrating criticism of the top-down rationalism that he himself propounded in economic matters.

Writing about Bertrand Russell and his Bloomsbury friends, Keynes tartly observed: “Bertie in particular sustained simultaneously a pair of opinions ludicrously incompatible. He held that in fact human affairs were carried on after a most irrational fashion, but that the remedy was quite simple and easy, since all we had to do was to carry them on rationally.” What prodigies of existential legerdemain lay compacted in that phrase “all we had to do!”

To my ears, anyway, it’s redolent of one of the most nauseating epithets in recent memory: “It takes a village.” We all know that more government intervention and control means high taxes, greater inefficiency, and economic stagnation. We’ve seen it happen dozens of times. We remember the past. Are we still condemned to repeat it?

Roger Kimball

Source: https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/21/socialisms-survival-the-endurance-of-an-ideological-paradox/

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This isn't the Iranian people's war, it's Ali Khamenei's war - Amil Imani

 

by Amil Imani

It is the mullahs vs. the people.

 

Military action between the Islamic Republic and Israel have thrust the Middle Eastern region into the spotlight.

However, it is crucial to delve deeper into the intricate dynamics at play beyond geopolitical maneuvering and saber-rattling. One key distinction often overlooked is the differentiation between the Islamic Republic and the Iranian people.

Iran means the land of Aryans.

The first step in supporting Iranians is to recognize and understand the distinction between the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic. It is essential to acknowledge that the Iranian people are distinct from the regime that governs them. This understanding can help prevent the conflation of the actions of the regime with the desires and aspirations of the Iranian populace.

Iran is NOT the Islamic Republic. Period.

The Ayatollah Khomeini went as far as stating:

“We do not worship Iran; we worship Allah,” he said, speaking in Qom in 1980. “For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”

The frustration felt by Iranians due to the world equating them with the regime cannot be overstated. It is imperative to recognize that Iran has a rich historical and cultural identity that predates the establishment of the Islamic Republic. Once referred to as Persia, it was the land of the Aryans. A civilization renowned for its contributions to art, science, and literature. The Iranian people, contrary to the regime's actions, yearn for peace and stability in their homeland.

It is the mullahs vs. the people.

Discontent with the Islamic Republic runs deep within the Iranian populace. Activists and ordinary citizens alike have voiced their opposition to the regime, often at great personal risk. The simmering ethnic tensions between the regime and segments of the Iranian population further underscore the internal strife that plagues the country.

Let's filter out the misinformation and know the Untold Story. Iranians face a daunting challenge in amplifying their voices amidst the cacophony of misinformation that surrounds them. "Crazy narratives" and "mass disinformation" about Iran often cloud the true aspirations and struggles of its people. The advent of social media, while a potential tool for activism, also presents its own set of challenges in a landscape dominated by state-controlled narratives.

This is a Call for Clarity.

It is essential to advocate for the use of precise language when discussing Iran. By distinguishing between "Iran" and the "Islamic Republic," observers can better understand the situation. This differentiation is crucial in acknowledging the Iranian people's desire to be recognized as a peace-loving society distinct from the actions and policies of the Islamic regime.

We can begin the process by discoursing Iranian voices. The world can better support Iranians by providing platforms for their voices to be heard. This can be done through international media coverage, support for independent journalism within Iran, and facilitating opportunities for Iranian activists and advocates to share their perspectives on the global stage. By doing this, the Iranian voices and the world can better understand the sentiments and aspirations of Iranian citizens.

Only then can we move on to the "diplomatic engagement" stage because diplomatic efforts that prioritize the well-being and aspirations of the Iranian people are the only significant form of support. This involves fostering constructive dialogue with Iranian civil society, human rights organizations, and representatives of diverse Iranian communities and diasporas.

Diplomatic engagement should aim to empower Iranians and address their concerns, thereby demonstrating solidarity with the Iranian people.

Advocacy for human rights in Iran is crucial for supporting Iranians. The world can advocate for the protection of fundamental rights, freedom of expression, and the release of political prisoners in Iran. By standing up for the human rights of Iranians, the global community sends a powerful message of solidarity and support for those striving for a more just and free society within Iran.

The final stage of recognition of the Iranian people is cultural exchange and collaboration. Promoting cultural exchange and collaboration with Iranian artists, intellectuals, and civil society members can foster mutual understanding and solidarity. Encouraging educational and artistic exchanges and collaborations in science, technology, and academia can build bridges between the Iranian people and the international community.

Therefore, it is imperative to recognize the complexities underlying the relationship between the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic. A more nuanced understanding that separates the people from the regime is crucial and respectful of the desires and struggles of the Iranian populace.

The time for a change has arrived.  The majority of the Iranian people refuse to be fooled and intimidated any longer. They refuse to obey orders from the beasts of Allah currently ruling Iran. Iranians have recognized the fundamental weaknesses of their oppressors. With a little help here and a little help there, they can be transformed overnight from seemingly subdued and helpless sheep into mighty lions.

It is time for the Iranians to strike, gather forces, organize, and especially demonstrate in the streets in increasing numbers, even in the face of massive, gruesome, bloody repression by the Islamic rulers, who still have a powerful armed apparatus at their disposal. It is time to unleash the wrath of the Iranian people on the Islamic zealots. It is time to become even more defiant and end the barbaric theocratic regime by massive participation in a freedom revolution to end this primitive Islamic nightmare.

Image: Arashk rp2, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0

Amil Imani

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/this_isn_t_the_iranian_people_s_war_it_s_ali_khamenei_s_war_says_reza_pahlavi.html

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