May 12, 2026
Scumbag Brennan Admits the Deep State
Timothy Birdnow
Straight from the horses a, er, mouth:
Brennan just admitted the existence of the Deep State and that they are trying to negate the policies of the President, the policies voted for by the public.
FTA:
"What still exists in the system to slow that down?” Nicolle Wallace asked Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan.
"There’s still a legion of professionals in the law enforcement environment, Department of Justice, as well as the CIA and other places,” Brennan said.
"The ones who are refusing to follow politically motivated prosecutions, those who are refusing to support any type of political activities in the part of the Trump administration that are inconsistent with the authorities, the responsibilities of the intelligence community, law enforcement community, and Department of Justice,” Brennan confidently said to Nicolle Wallace.
"So, we have to rely on these individuals to stand up to their professional responsibilities and also to courts, to the judges…” Brennan said.
Brennan continued, "What has happened to our institutions is really going to have longstanding damage to these institutions.”
AS to that last I say GREAT! What we had was a cabal of unelected dirtbags overriding the will of the People and the Constitution at the same time. We had an oligarchy, the very thing the Left is not trying to accuse the Trump Administration of being. A bunch of hidden little monarchs who ran the country as THEY saw fit as opposed to how we see fit.
That is why we need to win in '28 again and continue to cleanse the citadels of power from these vermin.
I hope and pray we find an obvious act of treason by Muzzie John and can convict him - and throw the book at him. We need to make an example of someone and the Communist Muslim former CIA scumbag is perhaps the best man to use for that purpose.
A death penalty or life imprisonment would go a long way to cowing this deep state.
For the record John Brennan admitted to voting for the Communist Party USA and was amazed the CIA hired him anyway. And there have long been rumors he converted to Islam - he certainly has a soft spot for it. Now he's admitting to being part of a star chamber, a cabal that makes it's own policy and undermines the policies the American People have demanded.
Oh, the DOJ is interrogating CIA bigwigs to get to the bottom of what Mr. Brennan knew and when he knew it.
The walls are closing in on Muzzie John.
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Toldja So!
Timothy Birdnow
Toldja so!
No fewer than 40 of these labs were in the Ukraine.
I said when the Russo-Ukrainian war broke out that this was one of the reasons; we would be completely furious to learn that, say, Mexico was running biological research labs with the potential to make deadly weapons right along our border and we would take steps to stop it up to and including military action. Russia could not afford to have 40 U.S. funded biological labs right next door to them.
The Soviets had an aggressive biological weapons program through the Cold War (even though Richard Nixon banned ours after learning of the true horrors being created in our labs). Putin, an old KGB, understands what can be done with these diseases.
The old DOD was paying for this research under a program designed to get rid of old Soviet weapons. Gain of Function research was intended to purposely mutate diseases to study what was produced on the theory that we could " get out in front" of a natural or purposeful mutation.
The lab leak (if it WAS a leak and not an attempt to meddle with the American elections as I rather suspect the Chicoms and people in this country sought to do by releasing a nasty cold virus to stampede the public into rejecting the Administration) proved that these sorts of programs cannot be administered responsibly.
So imagine what the Russians are thinking. They knew Covid 19 was a lab leak. They knew the Americans had funded it. They knew we were also funding forty labs right on their border and that if a disease could escape and cause a pandemic or be purposely released then Russia was ground zero. Remember; Ukraine was the original source of Crimean Congo Hemmorhagic Fever, a terrifying disease that causes people to bleed out of every opening in their bodies (resembling Marburg or the Ebolas but not related to them.) It is logical to assume these labs were playing with CCHF, among other things, and they would quickly overrun all of Russia.
I have no doubt this went into the calculus behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine. NOT the only reason, or maybe even the primary reason, but it was certainly a concern.
Anyway Tulsi Gabbard vows to root these things out. She says:
"Yet despite these obvious dangers, politicians, so-called health professionals, like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of these US-funded and supported biolabs and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.”
And this should never, ever have been kept from the public.
The Biden Administration, in usual Pinocchio fashion, denied any U.S. involvement:
"The Biden administration released a statement insisting that "the United States does not own or operate any chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine.”
And we were told the Russians just invaded the Ukraine for no good reason whatsoever. Biden and the other Leftists wanted us deeply involved in a war that was at least to a degree of our own making. Why were they so eager to get into a quagmire in Eastern Europe? Could it be to hide these labs?
Rand Paul@RandPaulThe DOJ may never act, but the American people know the truth: Fauci misled and defrauded this country. I won't stop uncovering the truth around the great COVID cover-up. That's why I will have a whistleblower testify before my committee this Wednesday.
Fauci can't be indicted, even now as the statute of limitations has run out (we've got to do something about that; these statute of limitations are WAY too short and that by design, to protect the Ruling Class) but we can at least ruin his financial opportunities and make his name one nobody uses without spitting on the ground. To a narcissist like Fauci that would be worse than a prison sentence.
At any rate President Trump has taken steps to end this practice, and he's also allowed the truth to be known. Thank the Good Lord; if Biden or Kamala had won this would be ongoing and eventually something REALLY nasty would come out - and the public, soured by the lies of Covid, would think it another scam and ignore it, perhaps until too late.
The Black Death killed a quarter of the entire population of Europe and was the end of the Middle Ages; society changed immensely after it, with cheap land leading to tenant farmers becoming owners, with labor shortages leading to the inevitable rise of truly free markets as employers no longer just told serfs what to do but had to bid for workers, with the rise of a middle class. The rather ossified Catholic Church was weakened and so Protestantism rose, as did it's afterbirth, the Liberal Movement which triumphed by the nineteenth century. Another serious pandemic would be profound and we have no idea where it would lead, but probably nowhere good. We are already overdependent on macines and this will metastasize the rise of ai and other such things.
We've long played a dangerous game with viruses and bacterium. Now we are playing with DNA, mixing animal species DNA together - even into ourselves. All creatures have diseases that evolved to prey upon them, and by mixing DNA we are opening the door to mutations of zoological diseases that could become human pathogens. I lay awake at night worrying about THAT sometimes. And with outright genetic manipulaton of pathogens...
Some day.
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And They Will Know that I Am the Lord: Lightning Almost Strikes Erika Kirk Protesters
Timothy Birdnow
Job 36:32 – "He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.”
2 Peter 2:12
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
A gang of brute beasts gathered outside of Hillsdale College recently to protest Erika Kirk for daring to speak at a commencement at the conservative Christian college. God shook the Heavens and the Earth to make it quite clear to them that it is HE who is in charge.
Lightning struck a tree mere feet from the protesters.
According to the article:
WILX-TV reported that Saturday’s protest, which consisted of a few dozen people, was organized by a group called Hope in Action.
A post on the group’s Facebook page listed several reasons for their protest of Erika Kirk, including saying that Turning Point USA "is a national right-wing political machine organizing young people into MAGA politics, anti-trans rhetoric, anti-DEI backlash, and culture-war extremism.”
"We are protesting the normalization of extremism. Giving honorary degrees and commencement platforms to figures tied to this movement tells students and the public that hate, disinformation, and authoritarian politics deserve celebration,” the group said.
Hope in Action’s Allison Bader told WILX, "We are here to make sure it is clear that we are not going to accept blatant racism, homophobia, and sexism in our communities any longer, and they have been continuously perpetuating Turning Point USA and Project 2025, and we want to put an end to that.”
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So it's now hate, disinformation, and authoritarian politics, racism, homophobia, and sexism to simply talk to young people who havre been steeped in the antithesis all their lives but particularly at the universities. And it's just fine to protest the widow of a man who was murdered for simply engaging in conversation.
Looks to me like God sees it differently.
These Chrisophobes are driven by hatred, hatred against God and against anyone who serves God. Do notice that everything they said about Erika Kirk and TPUSA describes them to a T. THEY are the ones who are racist, sexist, homophobic, authoritarian, disinformative, and hateful. It is THEY who assassinated Charlie and celebrated his death, just as the Book of Revelations says they will celebrate the two prophets sent by God being killed in the Tribulation. THEY are the ones who promote government power and control of the individual. It is THEY who lie and promote lies and stifle alternate views. It is THEY who promote racial policies that keep blacks poor and ill-educated and promote violence in their communities. It is THEY who push gullible young women into becoming feminists, placing them in an eternal war against "the Patriarchy" meaning men and against their own femininity. Who is the sexist? And homophobia? Americans are not afraid of homosexuals and in fact sympathize with them by and large. But Americans like Charlie and Erika Kirk also realize that it is a hard life, a very unhappy life, and out of love they hope to spare some children from going down that tortured path. Oh, and they worry about their eternal souls, something the oh-so-compassionate leftists couldn't care less
Bs about.
So who are the homophobes? Who better represents each and every complaint prompting this protest?
Who murdered Charlie because they could not bear his words? How does that make HIM the authoritarian?
I think God Almighty just spoke to these people and gave them a grave warning; they had better listen. God only warns so much before He acts and it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.
During the War of 1812 the British took Washington D.C. and burned the place. But they lost that battle in a big way, and fled in terror. Know why? In their own words, God Himself was fighting against them. Storms rose, a tornado moved straight through their camp (an unseasonable tornado at that) and some of them were struck by lightning. Many of the career officers there were terrified because they understood what had happened, and the United States became a legend among the nations as a place protected by God. Many years later it was remembered by Otto Von Bismarck:
"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. "
And that same Providence protects His special prophets. Charlie and Erika were such and God will not be mocked.
Ezekial 25:17 I will execute great vengeance against them with furious reproof. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.'
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May 11, 2026
Why Callais is a Huge Ruling
Timothy Birdnow
The Callais ruling by the Supreme Court is far, far more important than we realize.
If the title of this column seems to exaggerate the potential impact of last week’s Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, it’s probably because most political pundits have focused on its effect below the Mason-Dixon Line. But the majority-minority congressional districts that will need to be altered pursuant to the Court’s ruling are far more pervasive than most realize. Ballotpedia, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey, estimates that these racially gerrymandered districts account for 148 seats in the House of Representatives. This is about one third of the House’s 435 districts and 122 of them are held by Democrats — more than half of their 212 seats.
Which means the Democrats will face a bloodbath in years to come as they will be shown as the minority party they always have been. The "razor thin margins" have always been an illusion.
The article continues:
This will be no small undertaking. According to Ballotpedia, the 148 majority-minority districts are spread across no fewer than 28 states. And not all of them have been mandated by the courts pursuant to the VRA, though the "experts” are curiously vague concerning exactly how many have been gerrymandered as the result of lawsuits filed by Democrat-aligned law firms. It’s probable that some majority-minority districts are organic, particularly in the southwest, and it should be remembered that the Supreme Court ruled, in Rucho v. Common Cause, that strictly partisan redistricting is "non-justiciable” by federal courts. Yet it is a little suspicious that over half of the Democrats in the House represent majority-minority districts.
It is even more curious that Democrats represent every single majority-minority district where black voters constitute the majority. Stranger still is the voting pattern of districts dominated by Asians. Is it plausible that not one Republican represents a majority-minority district in which Asians make up the majority? In districts where Hispanics and Latinos make up the majority of voters, there are a few GOP representatives, but most of these districts are represented by Democrats. And then there are the districts in which "coalitions” of Black, Latino, and Asian voters are dumped into single legally protected majorities. If the Democrats are reduced to this kind of skulduggery they’re done. Can you hear the fear from the ACLU?
This could wind up being a VERY big deal. Maybe not so much in the next election as down the road. Racial gerrymandering was one of the principle tools used by Democrats to acquire and hold power.
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Starmer Blames Brexit for Economic Malaise HE Caused
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Timothy Birdnow
Keir Starmer blames ever bad thing that happened to Britain on Brexit and Nigel Farage.
: "’I want to remind you what Nigel Farage said about Brexit. He said it would make us richer. Wrong. It made us poorer. He said it would reduce migration. Wrong. Migration went through the roof. He said it would make us more secure. Wrong again. He just fled the scene and now he will talk about almost anything other the consequences of what they delivered. He is not just a grifter, he’s a chancer.”
So typically leftist; blame the guy trying to save the country for what you yourself caused.
If Britain is poorer it's not because of Brexit but because of terrible economic policy advocated by Labour and the Conservative fellow travelers. If didn't reduce migration because Labour and the Conservative fellow travelers refused to enforce immigration law. I'm not sure how Stammer, er, Starmer thinks Britain is any less safe now then when it was part of the Euro-blob, but he just says it so it must be true!
As always with the Left he accuses others of what he himself is most guilty.
The British elites never forgave their people for leaving the E.U. and have been utterly determined to get them back in. They want to punish the citizenry by doubling down on the policies that drove the people to reject union with Europe in the first place.
BTW despite the Covid lockdowns and the vast economic damage done by Covid the British economy is about in the same position as it was in 2015. despite a large loss from Covid.
The article states:
"Despite the economic headwinds of Brexit and COVID-19, the UK economy is expected to grow by four percent in 2021, and then by 7.3 percent in 2022. Much of this growth will be driven by the British economy returning to full strength after lockdown ends, which may be as early as Summer 2021 due to the UK's successful vaccination drive. This is in contrast to the rest of Europe whose vaccination response has been hindered by supply issues, vaccine hesitancy, and a generally slow bureaucracy."
And yet last year it grew at a pathetic rate, barely over 1%. Starmer and Labour are trying to pin the blame on Brexit but in reality it is because the socialist Labour party took over and has implemented policies that are ruining the economy. The public sees that, among other things, which is why Labour got creamed in municipal elections.
As Margaret Thatcher said, the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money. That's precisely what has happened in lesser Britain.
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Timothy Birdnow
The media has long taken a handful of protesters and made it sound like there was a vast throng, but how can they possibly spin THIS?
You have to give her credit; nobody will ever accuse her of lacking fortitude.
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Minnesota's "Voucher" System
Timothy Birdnow
Oh, I'm sure nothing at all could go wrong with this.
Minnesota allows someone to have another person vouch for them when doing same day registration rather than force them to provide proof of residency.
You just have to get someone to say "yeah; I know him and he lives here".
I mean, we all KNOW that nobody (except maybe Republicans) would abuse that system, don't we!
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Democrats Plot Massive Fraud in November
Timothy Birdnow
Chuck Schumer has hired Eric Holder and Marc Elias (the man who masterminded the 2020 election theft) to run a campaign for "voter integrity" meaning he intends to cheat in the upcoming midterms and President Trump has called him out for this plot.
Trump said, in his usual fashion on Truth Social:
"Palestinian Chuck Schumer is hiring Eric Holder, famous for handing guns to Mexican cartels under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, as part of a Democrat-led 'Election Integrity Group' that will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters, and interfere in our Elections,"
That is EXACTLY what this is about. They will no doubt use lawfare, going to pet judges to suppress Republican votes or to allow polls to stay open late or any other dirty tricks they can pull.
Eric Holder was the self-proclaimed "wing man" of Barack Obama and he prosecuted political opponents of the BHO, plus was involved in all manner of shady things (like Fast and Furious and the "Russian collusion" hoax). Marc Elias is one of the most corrupt and just plain evil Democrats on this Earth who was behind almost every form of lawfare against Donald Trump.
Bringing these two together is rather like O.J. Simpson assembling his "dream team" to steal an acquittal.
And the GOP has shown itself feckless as ever and while Mr. Trump says we are ready for them I have my doubts. The current RNC seems to be just as bad as it ever has been.
I sure hope Trump's team knows what it is doing. They are in the NFL now.
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Va. Dems Advised to Fire whole State Supreme Court
Timothy Birdnow
Power is all that matters to the Left and they will do anything to retain it.
Here is a proposal by a Leftist lawy professor to "fix" the recent state supreme court decision striking down Virginia's gerrymandered districts by simply lowering the age of retirement to 53, which was the youngest age of the justices who voted to overturn the constitutional amendment allowing the Democrats to gerrymander.
So basically they want to use a loophole - the power of the state legislature to set a retirement age - to fire entire supreme court and start fresh with a bunch of political hacks chosen by the Democrats.
Basically they want to burn everything down.
While this is a long shot and will likely not be done it's entirely within the sphere of insanity that dominates a party absolutely determined to seize and keep power at any and all costs.
This scheme would put this retirement age (down from 73) into action immediately if it is passed through appropriations rather than through the normal channels.
The author - Quinn Yeargain - is an Associate Professor of Law at the Michigan State University College of Law and 1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy, whatever THAT means.
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Europe: a Continent of Children
Timothy Birdnow
The Europeans really are crying little babies.
Now that they have asserted themselves and told the U.S. they won't play with us they are crawling to their new bestie - Vladimir Putin.
This of course is utter nonsense and the Europeans should have been talking to Putin all along. It was THEY who wanted to get into this war in the Ukraine, not the U.S. They were the ones who made Putin out to be Hitler and Russia Nazi Germany. But now that the U.S. is rethinking our relationship with a bunch of erstwhile friends who won't stand with us even when it is to their benefit they are talking about a "separate peace" with the Russians as if that is going to frighten us.
News flash Euroweenies; we don't care. Russia is not the old Soviet Union and we no longer need a coalition to contain her. She's your problem, not ours.
At any rate there isn't really a story here; just an idle threat by Europe to "talk with Putin" something that should have happened long ago.
Europe is like a teenager trying to pretend they are grownups and angry when their parent tells them to take out the trash. They want pride in themselves but are completely unwilling to do anything to actually justify that pride. They are still entirely dependent on Daddy and angry Daddy still treats them like the spoiled brats they are. They waste money on democratic socialism and enjoy their lives while their benefactor works and provides for their safety. Juvenile through and through.
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May 10, 2026
Enriched Uranium Taken Out of Venezuela
Timothy Birdnow
I had no idea whatsoever!
FTA:
WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced the removal of 13.5 kilograms of enriched uranium from Venezuela’s RV-1 research reactor. The uranium, which had been unused since the reactor ceased operations in 1991, was securely transported to the U.S. for processing and reuse.
DETAIL: Officials said 13.5 kilograms, or roughly 30 pounds, of uranium enriched above the 20 percent threshold was safely packaged and transported about 100 miles across Venezuela before being shipped by a specialized British nuclear transport vessel to the United States. The material arrived in early May and was transferred to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, where it will be processed for reuse in advanced nuclear energy programs. The National Nuclear Security Administration described the operation as a significant nonproliferation success, noting the uranium had remained at the reactor since research activities ended in 1991. NNSA Administrator Brandon Williams credited President Donald J. Trump’s leadership for accelerating the mission, saying work that normally would have taken years was completed within months. The operation comes amid renewed diplomatic and commercial ties between Washington and Caracas following Trump’s ouster of Venezuela’s Marxist dictator, Nicolas Maduro.
While this had been sitting around for some time it could easily have been turned into a couple of nukes if Maduro had been able to further enrich it. This goes to show how nuclear weapons are possible for anyone with nuclear reactors.
I wonder; did Trump strike Venezuela and take out Maduro because of this? Did the intelligence community think they were about to pursue a nuclear device?
And if Venezuela was reasonably close to a bomb without even trying what does that say about Iran, which WAS trying?
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Democrats Censorship Bill "For the Children"
Timothy Birdnow
When Democrats are talking about child safety you know they have a dirty trick up their sleeves.
So asking for an I.D. to vote is onerous and too hard a burden but demanding it to use the internet or a smart phone is just "protecting kids"?
Since when do Democrats care about kids? They murder them in the womb. They support letting sex traffickers shlep them around the country. They have fought every privacy attempt the Republicans have ever proposed. They want pedophiles teaching them in our schools. They want men wearing dresses in their locker rooms and bathrooms. They were happy with illegal aliens stealing babies' social security numbers and ruining their nascent credit.
But now we are supposed to believe they want to keep our kids safe by forcing them to be i.d.'d to tech companies (who will either data mine them or sell their data or get hacked and LOSE it) and of course more disturbingly to be easily followed by the government. The government will wind up with this data in the end.
And they dare call it the "Parents Decide Act". Funny; they don't want parents to decide when it's about abortions, or contraception, or transitioning genders. But now it's all about the kids!
And while delineating the many things this bill will require the last I find most disturbing:
A trusted multi-platform standard that bans children from accessing what the government labels "harmful” or "explicit” content on any device made by any OEM on any software platform. On the surface, this can include adult content and conversations with AI chatbots, although "harmful” or "hateful” speech has taken on different meanings to the left over the years, usually to describe speech that doesn’t align with their views.
You know wahat that means; the government will set standards for what is "harmful" or "explicit" and that will mean any criticisms of lettist ideology. Blogs like this one will be "disappeared" and young people will not be able to access it.
This is clearly an attempt to backdoor government censorship.
The Left only wins when they ensure ignorance. Their ideas cannot win in a fair competition. This is just more of the same and I hope the Republicans have the good sense to kill this bill.
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Obama Accuses TRUMP of Weaponizing the Law
Timothy Birdnow
The male doesn't have elephant balls; he's got blue whale balls!
The BHO had this to ay:
"The White House shouldn't be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever, The idea is that the attorney general is the people's lawyer. It's not the president's consigliere."
He apparently doesn't remember Eric Holder, his own Attorney General, referring to himself as Obama's wingman. He doesn't remember the bogus prosecutions of political enemies under Holder, nor his IRS chief denying tax exempt status to political enemies. It was HE and his people who started the lawfare that has led us to this.
Or Merrick Garland trying to imprison Donald Trump along with multiple allies of the President (and succeeding in doing so).
The really scary thing about Obama is I think he believes this when he says it. He is a pathological liar.
We know, for instance, that Obama was intimately involved in disseminating the hoax that Trump was colluding with Russia. He knew better but let lawfare play itself out anyway.
Mr. Obama was a communist, joining the infamous New Party in Chicago in the '90's. He would later leave the organization, no doubt for tactical rather than ideological reasons.
And Mr. Obama never won an election fairly; he always found ways to clear the field (with accusations of corruption against his opponents) or just out and out cheated. His first election to the Presidency was probably the only fair fight the sniveling little weasel ever won.
Communists always use dirty tricks and vicious attacks. And they never tell the truth.
So now Obi Bam Balogna is out there pretending it wasn't HIM who weaponized the law but Mr. Trump. The DOJ is only investigating and prosecuting the crimes committed under Obama and his very brown nosed former Veep Joe Biden.
Of course the media won't remind any of us about that. Their noses have always been browner than Biden's.
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Iran Pursuing Plutonium?
Timothy Birdnow
Remember, North Korea skipped using uranium for a nuclear device and went straight to the more difficult plutonium.
A while back I read a Union of Concerned Scientists report about how Iran was developing implosion technology for triggering an uranium bomb (which cuts down on the weight). The same technology works wonderfully for plutonium (and was the trigger for Fat Man, the Nagasaki bomb.)
If Iran has produced plutonium in secret..
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The concern is not academic. According to reporting by Benjamin Weinthal at Fox News Digital, Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and a former Pentagon nonproliferation official under President George H.W. Bush, has argued that Iran already possesses enough plutonium in spent fuel at Bushehr to fashion more than 200 nuclear weapons. The figure is staggering, yet barely registers in the public debate over Tehran’s atomic ambitions.
That blind spot is precisely the problem. Washington has spent two decades obsessing over uranium enrichment percentages, breakout timelines, and centrifuge cascades. Meanwhile, the mullahs have quietly maintained a parallel route to a weapon — one that requires no spinning rotors, no cascade halls, and no obvious enrichment signature for satellites to photograph.
Of course building nukes and testing them are two different things and the Iranians have not tested them yet (although the U.S. does virtual tests using computers and perhaps that may work for Ian as well.) So if they have nuclear weapons they can't be sure they won't be duds.
I wonder; when Iran fired thos missiles at Diego Garcia was that perhaps to test the delivery system? These bombs did not damage but proved such weaponry can go that far. I'm not sure of the weight restrictions of those missiles but I suspect they are pretty close to an implosing device weight - especially a plutonium device.
Fat Man weighed 10,300 lbs. Of course Fat Man was very primitive; no doubt our modern plutonium bombs are far more svelt.
The most likely candidate was the Khorramshahr missile, which has a single stage and certainly couldn't carry that much weight. But the Israelis think it was a two stage rocket which would rule out the Khorramsahr.
So we do not know what they shot at our forces but it went a heckuva lot farther than we thought was withing their capabilities.
I wonder if this wasn't a dry run test.
The article continues:
Not every expert agrees the plutonium threat is imminent. David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security told Fox News Digital he is "highly skeptical” Iran would actually use Bushehr’s spent fuel for weapons. He noted that Iran would need a plutonium-bomb design it has not developed, that any diversion would likely trigger Russia to suspend uranium fuel supplies and shut down a multibillion-dollar investment, and that most of the plutonium in Bushehr’s spent fuel is reactor-grade rather than weapons-grade.
But of course North Korea has this capability and would be happy to do it for them, no doubt. Also, anyone who thinks the Russians would suspend suspend nuclear fuel supplies in the middle of a war in which they need Iranian drones is smoking something besides the peace pipe.
The reality is Iran has the means, the motives, and has had the opportunity before now. We cannot base our policy on wishful thinking. Iran has played games with us to the point where we can't trust anything they say, and thus we have to assume the worst.
If Iran has no enriched uranium or plutonium then fine - but we have to act on the assumption they have it, just as George W. Bush had to act on the assumption Iraq had it based on Saddam's behavior. This is not something you risk.
Iran is rather like Kudzu; a nasty weed that you chop back and it just grows right back. I fear the only way to truly guarantee our safety is to overthrow the regime or bomb the place back into the stone age - both things we aren't going to do.
Iran is an apocalyptic nation and will likely trigger the Big One in time. All we can do is trust that God will not allow it.
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On Suffering
Timothy Birdnow
Vincent Thomas Ignatius posted this essay on Facebook about the value and great gift of suffering. I replied after in a comment more driven by my brain then my feelings, I assure you:
Vincent Thomas Ignatius
To add to the list of things we lose when we lose God....
On this list already is...
Morality
Science
Art
The value of life
Individual Liberty
Civility.
Today, I want to add something many wouldn't put on this list.
With the loss of God comes the loss of Legitimate Suffering.
Yes. Suffering and hardship.
One of the ideas both the Catholic and Orthodox churches get right is the value and need for legitimate suffering. It is also embraced in legitimate schools of Psychology, such as Jungian Psychology.
The key word here is LEGITIMATE.
It is legitimate suffering that draws us closer to God and closer to the unconscious aspects of who we are. It is necessary for mental/spiritual growth.
"Wait just a sec, Ignatius!" "I listen to Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland! My church and its Pastor says God wants us to prosper and be filled with joy! What nonsense is this that we must suffer?"
I guess we are greater than the Apostles, almost all of who died horrible deaths. I guess we are greater than the Blessed Virgin, who was told a sword will pierce her heart. I guess we are greater than the Master Himself, Jesus Christ," a man of suffering, familiar with pain."
It is this legitimate suffering that breaks the outer shell and releases the Spirit and Light of God. It is this suffering that paradoxically leads to the peace which passes all understanding.
In the words of Khalil Gibran in his excellent book, The Prophet.... "You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet your rise above them naked and unbound."
And....
"Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears."
With the loss of God comes the loss of legitimate suffering. We run from it. We seek a life of comfort, free of adversity. We see difficulty and pain as a curse, not a blessing. Our culture is full of people who avoid suffering as much as they avoid God.
We look at the phony lives of others, through our self deceiving eyes, comparing us to them. When suffering comes, we hide it, suppress it, avoid it. We, in our primal fear, will do anything to avoid it.
That anything includes illegitimate suffering. That is, the pain and difficulty we cause...the neurosis we embrace...which, funny enough, is far worse than the legitimate pain God sends our way. This pain destroys. God's suffering builds.
Offer your legitimate suffering to God. Contemplate on the suffering of the Christ, His Mother, and His Apostles.
There is more gold and joy hidden within this than you will find anywhere else, and through it, you will find yourself, and find God.
I replied:
Agreed. Anyone who has not endured legitimate suffering is not a whole, mature person but is trapped in adolescence. (I suspect that's a big part of what's wrong with the younger generation these days - life's been too easy. In fact it's been so easy they have had to invent problems for themselves because in their hearts they know they have missed out somehow. I believe this is why the whole trans thing caught on despite being completely insane.)
Suffering is a most unwelcome gift to most people (myself included) because, well, it SUCKS. But it is absolutely necessary to become the person you were meant to be. Without it you continue as a child.
So why did God set it up like this? Why not just make us perfect and be done with it?
I suspect it is to give us a special gift. He wanted us to be partners in our creation, to have free will to choose what is right and good or not (and face the consequences) and in the end we will be proud of ourselves for having stayed the course painful though it may have been. And just to make sure we got the point He Himself became one of us and went through much worse than we will. In life there are some good things but in the end we don't remember them - we remember the great things, and they always involved overcoming pain and adversity. There is a reason why most successful movies, books, and television programs are about crime or medical drama or other things involving people overcoming adversity and making great sacrifices; we know instinctively that is the case.
But it sure isn't fun when you are going through it.
Satan, on the other hand, wants us to suffer needlessly because he's, well, an a-hole and so he gets us to do things to avoid suffering that causes suffering. You are absolutely correct. While it's not rational to SEEK suffering (and there are some Christians who do, which I find odd) it is equally not rational to avoid it at all costs. (BTW this is one piece of evidence in support of the "God Hypothesis"; i a world that was driven entirely by random, mechanical forces we wouldn't be complaining about suffering as it would just be what it is. We wouldn't say "it's unfair!" It's only unfair because we know there is some kind of standard and we are suffering in spite of it, perhaps.)
But knowing this doesn't make it suck any less! But at least there is comfort in knowing you are profiting by it, much like Ebeneazor Scrooge accepted the Third ghost in a very different spirit than he did the first because he now understood this was an attempt to help him, not just an arbitrary thing.)
Great post! Oh, and by the way, a most timely one for me as I've been rather bitter since my wife and father died recently.
Oh, and I notice there are only three likes to this post; no surprise considering you are asking people to be grateful for misery. It's a tough sell but you did a great job of it!
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Great Danes? Starving the Elderly
Timothy Birdnow
I predicted this sort of thing a long time ago at American Thinker. Sadly I was right.
Read my article Where's the Beef at American Thinker.
Seems the screwballs running Copenhagen are trying to restrict the amount of meat that senior citizens will be allowed to consume because, like, climate change and stuff.
That's just 2.8 ounces of meat per week - less than a single Big Mac contains (3.2 oz.)
Elderly people need protein - that's a medical fact.
There are a number of things that go into this. One is an obvious nod to the Vegan/Vegetarian wing of the whackos. Another thing is to get people to stop eating meat at all so as to create a world diet. Another reason is to stretch our food reserves; most leftists are neo-malthusians, having bought the lie of The Population Bomb and Paul Ehrlicht and it takes four pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, and these idiots believe we are going to have to start learning to eat no meat now before the population gets too high and we all have to eat grain (or bugs). And they also want to break our spirits. I am mindful of Oliver Twist when the Beetle berates Twist's foster parents for feeding him meat and thus failing to properly break his spirit. Oh, and one last thing; not feeding meat to the elderly will mean they will die earlier and thus reduce the surplus population.
Of course the stated reason is climate change and cow farts. The Left is obsessed with the digestive tract of barnyard animals.
The Left is at war with normal people and has waged it for generations now. Anything that brings joy they try to destroy. That is good strategic thinking, as Sun Tzu observed "seize that which the enemy holds dear". Remember, they are trying to break our wills. That's why the Left is so joyless; joy makes hardships bearable. The Left wants us so angry and frightened and unhappy we will turn to them to guide us out of the pit of despair they created for us. It's what Saul Alinsky meant when he admonished the radical to "rub raw the wounds of discontent." To rub those wounds raw one must first inflict those wounds. Happy people do not have wounds of discontent.
So this story is truly a model for Leftist tactics in so many ways. It is the intersection of all of their rotten and hateful beliefs rolled up together in a fetid bouillabaisse.
This is the paradise they have planned for us; a world where others make all our decisions for "the greater good" and where anything that give us joy or pleases us will be taken from us just to show they can take it. Leftism is truly the belief system of the demonic.
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