(For some reason the system grabbed the wrong poster frame for this video but it is the right video. I will add more on who this man is and why it matters when it comes in. Thank you Brian of London for the clip)
Category Archives: Geopolitics
Analysis of the US Iran issue, and the downed Ukrainian aircraft
(Which would be perfectly consistent with the real state of Iran’s military in fact.)
RT reports that the aircraft was in perfect condition as was the crew
(In essence, it is that President Trump has trashed a standing policy of allowing Iran to deny actions against the US by its proxies in order to create the illusion of stability. But that hasn’t been working at all so, this makes a great deal of sense. Lets all hope its true. Because it means that Iran really cannot do much but plant red flags on buildings and cut off pistachio exports.)
Iran exports energy, pistachios and terror
Thank you Johnny U., and Brian of London.
Ukrainian passenger plane crashes in Iran
BBC:
A Ukrainian Boeing-737 with 180 people onboard has crashed in Iran, according to local media.
The aircraft belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed just after take-off from Iran’s Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, said the Fars state news agency.
Preliminary reports suggest that the plane was en route to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
It is unclear whether the incident is linked to the Iran-US confrontation.
Rescue teams have been sent to the area, near the airport, where the aircraft crashed.
“The plane is on fire but we have sent crews … and we may be able to save some passengers,” Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran’s emergency services, told state television, according to Reuters news agency.
H/T ML.
“If they could, Iran would raze every American cultural site and put a mosque on top of it”
Thank you MissPiggy
Mike Pompeo Reveals What Iranian Terrorist Qasem Soleimani Was Planning That Led To Strike
Brad Johnson update: New events with Iran, and a look at CBC propaganda on the matter
Brad Johnson and Barry Webb on Turkish ambitions for the region via Libya
SECOND U.S. Airstrikes North of Baghdad – Three Vehicle Convoy of Iran-backed Shia Militia Leaders…
From the Conservative Treehouse:
Reports of new late-night U.S. airstrikes north of Baghdad are starting to be confirmed. According to developing reports a convoy of two or three vehicles carrying Iran-back Shia Militia leaders was targeted near Taji in Northern Baghdad. [Convoy pic below]
Trump Does It Again – Second Terrorist Convoy Carrying High-Value Targets Just Obliterated In Iraq…
Shibl al-Zaydi, leader of the PMU has been confirmed dead after the US conducted another air strike targeting his convoy in Taji. Two vehicles hit. Story is developing.
6 killed in airstrike north of Baghdad targeting convoy carrying Shia militia members – report
A convoy carrying members of the Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias, was hit by an airstrike while traveling in Baghdad, media report.
The three-car convoy was struck in the northern outskirts of the Iraqi capital in the district of al-Taji, according to an Iraqi military source cited by Reuters. Six militiamen were reported killed in the attack, with three others critically injured. It remains unclear who carried out the strike.
The six killed in the strike have yet to be named, but early reports suggesting they hit two paramilitary commanders – Shibl al-Zaydi, secretary general of the Kataib al-Imam militia, as well as Qais al-Khazali, leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq – were refuted by the PMF in a statement.
The US unofficially denies this strike
Brad Johnson on last night’s strike on Iranian military leaders
Iranian backed commander who attacked the US Embassy killed in missile strike at Baghdad Airport: Links 3, January 2, 2019
1. California going communist as fast as it can
2. January 2 2020: Populist Leader Tops Confidence Poll in Sweden for First Time
Swedish populist leader Jimmie Åkesson, the leader of the Sweden Democrats (SD), is now tied with Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch-Thor as the party leader with the most confidence of Swedish voters.
The survey, conducted by polling firm Novus, is the best result ever for the SD leader showing him tied with Ms Busch-Thor at 31 per cent, and three points ahead of second-place winner and leader of the Left Party Jonas Sjöstedt, broadcaster SVT reports.
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, the leader of the Social Democrats, has seen a steep decline in confidence among voters according to the survey, dropping six percentages points to 23 percent, putting him in 4th place.
Löfven commented on the results blaming the sharp increase in bombings, the high number of shootings and gang-related violence in 2019 saying, “It is not so strange with the situation we have had in the autumn with far too many shootings and too many blasts. There is a worry and there is anger.”
3. UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge’s diversity statement
“[…] Although I am aware and respectful of the many dimensions within which a university properly seeks a diverse faculty and student body, I have long been particularly concerned with the lack of intellectual diversity at the law school. A survey of U.S. law professors in general found that white Democratic professors (both male and female), Jewish professors, and nonreligious professors “account for most (or all) of the overrepresentation among racial, gender, religious, and ideological groups in law teaching.”[1] The groups that “account for most of the underrepresentation among racial, gender, religious, and ideological groups in law teaching” are Republicans (both male and female), Protestants, and Catholics.[2] This disparity persists even though “religious and political diversity are probably more important for viewpoint diversity than gender diversity and roughly as important as racial diversity.”[3]
At UCLA, we know that the campus as a whole leans substantially to the left. “A study of various university faculties showed that at Cornell the ratio of liberal to conservative faculty members was 166 to 6, at Stanford it was 151 to 17, at UCLA it was 141 to 9, and at the University of Colorado it was 116 to 5.”[4] Conservative students at UCLA have been “harassed, stalked, and threatened.”[5] I recently searched the opensecrets.org donor database for political contributions made by persons who claimed UCLA School of Law as their employer. Thirty-eight of those persons contributed solely to Democratic candidates, the Democratic Party and various affiliates, and liberal PACs. One person contributed to both Republicans and Democrats. Three persons contributed exclusively to Republican candidates, the Republican Party, and various NRC affiliates. Of the faculty members who contributed exclusively to Republican candidates, the most recently hired of the two was hired in 1997. As a monetary matter, 92.67% of all contributions went to Democrats and affiliated groups.[6] […]”
4. AFP refers to Indian refugee bill as an “Anti-muslim law” using the same communist and bastardized meaning as the media apply to President Trump’s attempt to double check immigration from nations that export terrorists.
It should be noted that if this is an “anti-muslim law” then Canada’s refusal to take Nazi refugees after WW2 was an anti-nazi law.
5. London parents upset after school changes lyrics to Christmas carol to be ‘more inclusive’
Parents and staff at a London primary school are upset after the headmaster changed the lyrics to a popular Christmas carol “in the name of inclusion and political correctness,” according to a watchdog group.
Zakia Khatun, the headteacher of Whitehall Primary School in East London, told students they were not to sing “Lord” in “Away in a Manger,” and replaced it with “little baby” so “all pupils” could participate in an annual Nativity Tuesday.
A parent told Christian Concern, a London-based Christian non-profit, she was “shocked” when she found out.
“I picked up my children at the end of the day and they were so upset, saying to me, ‘Mummy, today in assembly the headteacher told everybody that she would be changing the words to the Christmas song.'”
(In Stephen Coughlin’s strategic brief, he explains dialectical negation and aufhaben Der Kulture, more or less as the introduction of a hostile group to the target group and then the destruction of the target by pretty much exactly the means in the example above. Notice how for the moment at least, there is no attempt to change or eliminate any Islamic practices or traditions in the name of multiculturalism. Please read the whole article at the FOX link above)
Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani, the powerful head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad International Airport, Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials officials said Friday.
The officials said the strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, which were responsible for the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
An official with the PMF blamed the U.S. military for the strike. ‘The American and Israeli enemy is responsible for killing the mujahideen Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani,’ said Ahmed al-Assadi, a PMF spokesman.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that strikes had been carried out against two targets linked to Iran in Baghdad on Thursday but declined to give any further details.
American officials have made no public comments on the strike yet. The Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to inquiries from DailyMail.com.
US Embassy attacked in Baghdad by guest of Obama White House?
1. Youth in the Netherlands call police, scream Allah hu Ackbar and attack police with Fireworks
2. Something going on at US Embassy Baghdad. More will be added on this…
Here is a clue:
https://twitter.com/thestevennabil/status/1212046310624247808
It begins to fall into place:
And it gets more interesting:
Iranian Militia Leader Leading Iraq U.S. Embassy Raid Listed as Obama White House Guest
(I wonder if he was one of the people on board Air Force 1 when Obama overflew NYC with it weaving in and out of the skyscrapers followed by an F16 without informing the civil authorities at all.)
Iranian militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, one of several identified as leading an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, reportedly visited the White House in 2011 during the presidency of Barack Obama.
On Tuesday, a mob in Baghdad attacked the U.S. embassy in retaliation against last weekend’s U.S. airstrikes against the Iran-backed Shiite militia Kataib Hezbollah (KH), responsible for killing an American civilian contractor. KH is one of a number of pro-Iran militias that make up the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF/PMU), which legally became a wing of the Iraqi military after fighting the Sunni Islamic State terrorist group.
President Donald Trump has since accused Iran of having “orchestrated” the embassy attack and stated that the government would be “held fully responsible.”
Much more to come. Thank you Yucki for all the posts on the Embassy situation. There is likely much more in the Reader’s Links post for today. But there is much editing to do. If I can get to them and find them I will add them here.
May you all enjoy a truly wonderful New Year’s Eve tonight. Don’t worry about the site. All the horror will still be here tomorrow.
A trip into Sweden’s replacement of law with Orwellianism. An Interview with Åsa Westerberg
Please pay special attention to this video. This brilliant woman could not be more aware of the nature of what is happening to her. It raises the question as to whether that means they will feel compelled to abandon this farce of a trial for “hate” or double down to set the example. Which is of course what communists always do.
I believe this is the same woman giving a speech describing her arrest and the treatment she received at the hands of an increasingly totalitarian state.
This might also be a good time to consider why the 2nd amendment in the US constitution was a stroke of genius and prescience as well.
Turkish leader, Erdogan then and now. The plan is Islamic Manifest Destiny
Too few people know that the Turkish leader, a man who the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood declared to be the one true Caliph according to NSA’s Arabist, Barry Webb, spent 4 months in jail for reading an illegal poem early on in his career as an Islamic leader.
(This link to the video of Barry Webb works at the moment)
Erdogan, it seems, learned the opposite lesson from his stint in jail. In 1997, as mayor of Istanbul, he too spoke poetry to power. At a rally in the city of Siirt, Erdogan loosely referenced a poem by the Turkish nationalist Ziya Gokalp:
The mosques are our barracks,
the domes our helmets,
the minarets our bayonets,
and the believers our soldiers.
Flash forward to this week, November 15, 2019:
Erdogan: “Our God commands us to be violent to the kuffar”
On October 25, a leader of a NATO member nation openly incited violence against non-Muslims.
On that day, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the Friday prayers at the Great Çaml?ca Mosque in Istanbul. He was accompanied by Istanbul’s governor Ali Yerlikaya, mayor Ekrem ?mamo?lu, Istanbul’s chief of police Mustafa Çal??kan and the head of the Istanbul branch of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Bayram ?enocak.
After the prayers, the hafiz of the mosque recited the Koranic Verse Al-Fath, which means “victory, triumph, conquest” in English. Then Erdogan took the microphone, reciting a part of the verse in Arabic and then in Turkish. He told the congregants:
“Our God commands us to be violent towards the kuffar (infidels). Who are we? The ummah [nation] of Mohammed. So [God] also commands us to be merciful to each other. So we will be merciful to each other. And we will be violent to the kuffar. Like in Syria.”
It continues and deserved to be read over at Israel National News
So we know three things.
He was willing to do time in jail as Mayor of Constantinople to read a poem about Islamic global conquest.
He was named the Caliph by the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and the Muslim Brotherhood moved from Egypt to Turkey.
He has now been increasingly strident about the Islamic motivations for military actions, as witnessed by the linked article above.
This is more than a trend in general propaganda. Please see this MEMRI report on the Turkish invasion of Northern Syria to understand how Islamic scripture is the driving force behind contemporary Turkish military actions.
Video from today’s rocket barrage on Southern Israel
I agree with these guys.