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-Great Cultural Revolution
Jussie Smollett, the Obamas and the Chicago Way
[JohnKassNews]
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2024 11:28 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  When justice is constantly denied in the courts, it will be found in the street without mercy or appeal
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/24/2024 13:19 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Introduction to the Safari Club
[GreyDynamics]
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 || 11/24/2024 08:51 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:


Overcoming hard things is empowering
[FoxNews] I trained with the Navy SEALS for a day. This is what I learned.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/24/2024 00:47 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Terror to the South: Hezbollah in Latin America
[RealClearDefense] The reelection of Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
has sent ripples across terror-supporting and anti-Israel regimes. In the Middle East, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
claimed it would rescind its longtime asylum for Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
leadership, and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
is reportedly recalibrating its retaliation for Israel’s recent Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s. But the new Trump Administration should also be focusing on Latin America, where complicit nations have enabled Hezbollah to thrive. The U.S. must curtail Hezbollah’s active regional fundraising which not only supports attacks against Israel but transnational criminal activity, including bringing drugs and potential turbans across America’s southern border.

Both Luis Arce, socialist president of Bolivia, and Nicolás Maduro
...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground. Unlike Qadaffy and Hugo Chavez, he's not dead yet...
, the authoritarian president of Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...

, have not only made horrifically antisemitic comments, but completely severed diplomatic ties with Israel. Maduro mourned the death of terrorist and Hezbollah founding member, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
, expressing support for the terror group while condemning Israel.

In the early 90’s, Hezbollah bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and two years later the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
(AMIA) Jewish cultural center. In November of 2023, police in Brazil foiled plans for a major terrorist attack on multiple Jewish targets in the country—home of Latin America’s second largest Jewish population second only to Argentina.  

Hezbollah’s patron, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, facilitates Hezbollah’s presence in Latin America by building advantageous relationships with authoritarian-leaning countries in the region.  

In July of 2023, the BBC reported that Iran and Bolivia signed a bilateral agreement to expand "cooperation in the fields of security and defense." The Iranian defense minister, Mohammed Reza Ashtiani, acknowledged that the deal involved "the sale of equipment and the training of personnel," including the purchase of Iranian drones by Bolivia. Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year cooperation agreement in 2022 to increase ties in the oil, petrochemical, economic, and military sectors.  

Bolivia and Venezuela are rich in uranium and other resources. In 2009, Iran helped Venezuelan engineers with "geophysical aerial probes and geochemical analyses (to find) uranium deposits" as reported by EcoAmericas. By contrast, while the presence of uranium deposits is known in Bolivia, the government has labeled information on the topic as "reserved", meaning the location, size, and potential for mining are not publicly disclosed. Around the same time Venezuela and Bolivia had discovered uranium deposits in their regions, a secret Israeli government report obtained by AP news found that: "Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program." In fact, in late October 2024, Bolivia produced its first nuclear fuel for a research reactor .  

Furthermore, both countries are linked with narcotrafficking markets, in which Hezbollah and other terrorist groups are involved. Historically, Bolivia is one of the largest producers of the coca leaf. Due to its abundance, Bolivia naturally played a large role in the Latin America drug trade and supplied an estimated 15% of the cocaine market in the United States during the 1980’s. According to a 2022 White House blurb, Bolivia’s steadily growing cocaine production poses a public health threat to the U.S. due to increasing cocaine related overdoses. As of 2009, Bolivia’s president at the time Evo Morales, expelled the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) from the country after nearly three decades of maintaining a presence.

Venezuela is also involved in the cocaine market. Through collaboration with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border.
(FARC), a known Hezbollah ally, Venezuela serves as a main export hub for cocaine into the United States and Europe. Early in the Biden Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice announced several narcoterrorism indictments against the Maduro regime, including Nicolás Maduro himself, for conspiring with FARC to facilitate and profit from the cocaine trade.  

In March of 2020, former Venezuelan-Syrian politician, Adel El Zabayar, was indicted by the Justice Department for conspiring with Nicolas Maduro and other regime leaders in a narcoterrorism plot involving Colombian FARC dissidents, Mexican narco mobs, and operatives from Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah to carry out planned attacks on the United States. Last month, Mijal Gur Aryeh, Israel’s Ambassador to Costa Rica, condemned Venezuela and Bolivia for hosting Hezbollah and Iranian terrorists. Earlier this year, Patricia Bullrich, the Security Minister of Argentina, also made the claim that "Bolivia hosts hundreds of members of the Quds Force," a branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

People on terrorist watchlists have been apprehended at the southern border of the United States, and at least one Hezbollah operative attempting to enter the country illegally. Since the October 7th attack on Israel, Hezbollah has launched over 8,000 rockets at the Jewish state, causing "over 70,000" Israeli’s to evacuate their homes.  

Hezbollah’s presence in Latin America should alarm Western defense officials. While the terrorist organization continues to volley missiles at Israel daily, it is also increasing its involvement in transnational criminal activity, as its financiers the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran increases its influence in the region. The incoming Trump Administration, with newly appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida...
—an unyielding opponent of repressive regimes—should work closely with its Latin American allies and Israel to destroy Hezbollah’s fundraising in the region which not only enables terrorist activity in the Middle East, but also threatens the southern border with illicit drugs and potential terrorism.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  "Hezbollah’s presence in Latin America should alarm Western defense officials." This has been known for decades. Under Stroessner, Paraguayan diplomats in Lebanon sold thousands of passport and immigrant documents to Hezbollah. Today, Paraguay's Ciudad del Este is run by Hizbollah, and its presence is noteworthy in Brazil's Foz de Iguacu where in the 90s it worked closely with members of the ruling family to gain access to southern Brazil.
Posted by: Albert Pelosi3459 || 11/24/2024 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Not to worry. Chyna won't allow any interference with their new colonies.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/24/2024 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Stop giving money to Iran. Increase domestic oil production and all of the Iranian proxies will shrivel like raisins.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/24/2024 11:56 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Why one of Australia’s best-known Aboriginal activists is taking a stand on Israel
[IsraelTimes] Nova Peris is an Olympic gold medalist, former parliamentarian, and well-known advocate for her people’s equality – and she’s bucking many on the left to support the Jewish state.
An interesting read.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2024 2024-11-24 00:14 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
Posted by: Glen M || 11/24/2024 12:23 Comments || Top||

#2  ACA JOE now Australian?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2024 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Why not Australian? He’s already been a nouveau riche Mexican expat (with busty, materialistic American girlfriend accessory) and a Romanian boiler room group, if I recall correctly.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2024 13:05 Comments || Top||

#4  He's also "Kim Jones"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/24/2024 16:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
GENERAL FLYNN: ‘The Deep State Cannot Afford to Allow President Trump to Implement His Plans to Reform America’
[Gateway] General Flynn shared the following post on social media on Saturday, November 23:

The truth is, the Deep State cannot afford to allow President Trump to implement his plans to reform America.

Scenarios to frustrate:

1. Assassination

2. Conventional Resistance

3. Violent Resistance

4. Provoking War

5. False Flag War

In this longer than normal OPED below (pls read), I briefly state the DNI and DHS threats, my personal threat assessment of the situation, analyze the 5 scenarios above, and offer a "So What."

...There is good reason to believe the Deep State has been involved in frustrating or overriding critical decisions made by American Presidents for at least three decades. Nearly eight years ago, Senator Schumer warned, or threatened, incoming President Trump not to criticize the Intelligence Community because "they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you." This threat has even greater relevance for his second term.


Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2024 14:22 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Doesn't take a general officer to see this one coming.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2024 14:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, Jan 20th can't get here soon enough.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/24/2024 14:59 Comments || Top||

#3  In that we all know what is coming including the RINO betrayals, it will be interesting to see what countermeasures Trump has planned. He certainly beat the steal. Musk is no dummy. RFK is no dummy. I’m pretty sure that some of his plan he has not verbalized or written down.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/24/2024 16:04 Comments || Top||

#4  The Gaetz Special Counsel tease must have heads exploding...

https://x.com/FmrRepMattGaetz/status/1860418143690031492
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/24/2024 17:55 Comments || Top||



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