Peloni:  In the test of wills with its enemies, there can be but one master of the seas, and that must inevitably be the American Navy.  As such, the imposition of the Panama govt to wage a economic war against the US should be seen in the light in which it was intended, as a sign of deference to China over the US, and with the return of Trump to office, it should be understood that this early warning shot towards Panama is in fact intended to represent the Trump’s refusal to let the American economy suffer such abuses from friend or foe.

Robert Spencer | December 23, 2024

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

First, President-elect Donald Trump tweaked Canada’s far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about becoming governor of the 51st state of the United States of America. Then he said that the Panama Canal should once again come under American control. Make that the 52nd state. And now, are you ready for a 53rd state? On Sunday, Trump renewed a call he made during his first term: that the United States should buy Greenland from Denmark. Could the man possibly be serious?

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Peloni:  The barbarians are inside the wire, and their savagery is already on full display with this being just the most recent assault on civilized norms, and it will clearly not the last of such assaults to come.

YouTube screen grab. ABC 7  NYC

Jason Hopkins  | Daily Caller | December 23, 2024

The man accused of burning a sleeping subway passenger to death is an illegal migrant who was previously deported from the United States, federal immigration authorities have confirmed.

The New York Police Department has detained an illegal Guatemalan migrant who they suspect is responsible for burning a woman alive Sunday morning at a New York City subway station. Investigators believe the suspect walked up to the sleeping passenger, who so far has remained unidentified, and used a lighter to set her clothing on fire, and then is believed to have stayed on scene to watch the victim succumb to her injuries.

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Peloni:  This is an important discussion of the many legal victories which have been won in recent years while challenging antisemitism in US courts, not the least of which led to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Peloni:  The only way to end the sway of Iranian influence and the flow of Iranian arms to the Houthis will be to end the regime in Tehran.

By Hugh Fitzgerald | Dec 25, 2024

Everyone now knows that Iran is rushing pell-mell to enrich enough uranium to the 60% level of purity, just one step below weapons-grade, to be able to produce several nuclear weapons.. Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, recently confirmed it. The Americans know that Iran, having seen its Axis of Resistance crumble into dust, with Hamas near total collapse, Hezbollah devastated and suing for a ceasefire with Israel, and Iran’s ally Bashar Assad, on whose regime Tehran spent $50 billion, fleeing to Moscow while Syria itself, under new management, is determined to produce nuclear weapons as its only certain defense against either the Little Satan, Iran, or the Great Satan, the United States. Syria now has gone overnight from ally to implacable enemy of Iran. And Iran itself is more susceptible to an attack by Israel than it has ever been, now that the IAF’s airstrikes on October 26 managed to destroy nearly all of Iran’s missile defenses, including the four S-300 anti-missile systems that protected Tehran. More on why Israel’s generals are now counseling an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities during this unprecedented window of opportunity can be found here: “Israel’s military leadership ‘recommends attacking Iran’ — TV report,” Times of Israel, December 22, 2024:

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His goal is to sabotage Trump’s ability to see his policy agenda implemented.

By: Thomas Gallatin | The Patriot Post | December 16, 2024

In the dying days of Joe Biden’s presidency, his administration has made it its mission to do everything possible to frustrate Donald Trump’s ability to implement his policy agenda when he arrives in the Oval Office next month.

 Unlike in 2016, when Barack Obama’s outgoing administration brazenly labeled Trump as illegitimate and promised resistance to his incoming administration, there is almost a resigned, defeated calm in Washington after Trump’s resounding victory in November. Democrats who threw everything they could at Trump and Republicans, smearing them as threats to democracy, have found that a majority of Americans have stopped listening and have rejected their foolishness.

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Amjad Taha tweeted the following:

Months ago, I highlighted in this video how the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists are following the West’s playbook: donning suits, ties, and clean-shaven looks to appear as ‘acceptable’ Islamists. Notably, al-Jolani has recently adopted this approach, presenting… pic.twitter.com/AgqLeAMVdi

— Amjad Taha ???? ?? (@amjadt25) December 22, 2024

Months ago, I highlighted in this video how the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists are following the West’s playbook: donning suits, ties, and clean-shaven looks to appear as ‘acceptable’ Islamists. Notably, al-Jolani has recently adopted this approach, presenting himself in a suit and tie to signal a shift towards a more moderate image.

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By Monica Showalter | Am Thinker | Dec 23, 2024

Does the radical left have anything better to do with its ample time than to champion the accused killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was gunned down two weeks ago in broad daylight in Manhattan?

Apparently not. They’re showing their colors with this rally flyer, which ought to make anyone who’s sane gag:

We live in a world where “my truth” increasingly directs an individual’s actions, regardless of the larger implications.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF | DECEMBER 24, 2024

LARGE SIGNS in Jerusalem show former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, each with the words: ‘Unity Now.’  (photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

October 7, 2023, was traumatic and revealing on many levels. It was also cathartic, meaning that the reality of what happened, compared to what we thought the state of things was, produced great soul-searching and introspection.

One of the shocking realizations was that the luxury of our heartfelt disagreements about several deeply felt issues had consequences. We had weakened ourselves, we had gnawed at the social fabric holding a wildly diverse society together.

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Peloni:  Highly recommended video.  Haifa University’s Dan Schueftan and Mike Doran provide a very contemplative, in-depth, and productive debate over Mike’s proposal of strengthening Turkey by empowering their role in Syria rather than confronting it.  Haifa University’s Dan Schueftan offers the balancing counter argument against Mike’s position, and he does so by raising the reality of Erdogan being Muslim Brotherhood which Mike disputes by suggesting that Erdogan is both a nationalist and a pragmatist despite his nearly consistent anti-Israel actions.  Dan challenges Mike with Erdogan’s extensive record of repeatedly acting against Israel to which Mike responds that Erdogan is not all powerful in Turkey.  Dan suggests the best policy for Israel is to have a weak Syria, and opposing Erdogan in every way possible in Turkey while resisting any move to strengthen the PKK in Turkey itself.  Mike once again responds that by doing so Israel risks turning the Turkish security apparatus against Israel.  He also challenges that Trump will pursue a policy which will ultimately empower Turkey in Syria, and that Israel will fail in its attempts to frustrate Erdogan’s ambitions in Turkey in any event, and that Israel should pursue common goals with the Turks in Syria, thus making Syria a buffer state.  Ultimately, the question comes back to Erdogan and the question of his Muslim Brotherhood affiliations.  The fundamental disagreements in this single aspect of Erdogan’s nature is what sets Dan apart from Mike on this topic, and it is why he emphatically opposes Mike’s proposal.  I completely agree with Dan – Muslim Brotherhood pose a significant threat to Israel and the West, in every iteration of its ideology.  I

It would be helpful to hear what other listeners have to comment on this debate.

by Linda Goudsmit | December 23, 2024

By Robert Spencer | Dec 22, 2024

Taleb is, of course, Taleb Abdulmohsen, the Christmas Market jihad mass murderer in Magdeburg, Germany. As he claims continue to circulate that he was “anti-Islam,” and even incited (somehow) to murder Christians by critics of Islam, here is more testimony from someone who knew him.

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Peloni:  Mcclellan’s reference of a need for redress is vital for America to return to a sense of normality.  Remedies must be instituted against the criminals and criminality which was perpetrated on the US and by consequence upon the world at large to demonstrate that equality before the law has returned to America.

Morning Intelligence Report

MG Paul E Vallely, US Army (Ret)

By George Mcclellan
Guest Editorial:

December 22, 2024

The revolution has started. It should be an effort determined and constitutional, but moving forward, what the hell is wrong with our GOP leadership? Well, apparently, we don’t have any, or what we have are too cautious and indecisive about making Trump-like decisions. “Everybody volunteers to carry the stool when it’s the piano that needs to be moved.” The Neocons refuse to leave, hoping to salvage America through the threat of continued military might, while the Freedom Caucus bunch, believing they are guided by principals, can’t arrive at a consensus on how to do it. At least ya gotta admire the Democrat’s strength in leadership, dangerous as they are! Like good socialists everywhere they stay loyal to their cause because the party demands it. After this recent massive election rejection, the Democrats are in disarray and may possibly even die off first, but don’t count on it while Republicans roll around like a bunch of pinballs spilled on the deck, looking for somewhere to stop. They got it in Donald Trump. Now, let’s move on!

Here we are, on the cusp of Making America Great Again, with the power of total government nearly in our hands, and the squabbling GOP leadership can only rise to its highest level of mediocrity. Chuckie Schumer speaks, and the Democrat sheep in his fold, all of ’em, do his dance in unison while our side, seeing complete victory, watches our leadership through the eyes of futility and despair, wondering how fast the GOP can fumble it all away.

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Peloni:  The return of Israeli control over the Syrian border recognizes reality on the ground in which the Syrian govt which Israel returned these lands captured in a defensive war no longer exists.  Also, as Avi explains, it extends Israeli protections to the local inhabitants to the native people living there.  Furthermore, it allows Israel to have an exclusive input into who might approach Israel’s border, by judging when or if this border region should be entrusted to the rising power in Syria as it had been entrusted to their predecessor, ie Assad.  Hence, Israel’s return to these territories was both reasonable and responsible and it will ultimately have a stabilizing effect on the region.

Peloni:  Mayor of Panama City responds to Trump HERE

On Blackburn’s upcoming podcast, Mike Huckabee praises her tough new anti-Hamas bill

Joel C. Rosenberg| All Israel News |  December 22, 2024

Senator Marsha Blackburn with President Donald Trump (Photo: Marsha Blackburn/Instagram)

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — As current Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew prepares to depart his post, the expected incoming Ambassador Mike Huckabee is meeting with U.S. Senators, hoping to gain their support ahead of confirmation hearings and a full vote in the new year.

Towards that end, Senator Marsha Blackburn – the Tennessee Republican – just recorded a conversation with the Evangelical leader and former Governor of Arkansas for her latest podcast, “Unmuted With Marsha.”

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | December 21, 2024

1. A bust of Judah the Maccabee is displayed at West Point Military Academy, along with those of Joshua, David, Alexander the Great, Hector, Julius Caesar, King Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon – “the Nine Worthies.”   In 1777, Chanukah candles were lit during the Valley Forge encampment, the turning point of the Revolutionary War, which solidified the victory of George Washington’s Continental Army over the British monarchy.  Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a player in the ratification of the US Constitution, paving the road to the Boston Tea Party, 1773: “What shining examples of patriotism do we behold in Joshua, Samuel, the Maccabees and the illustrious princes and prophets among the Jews…”   On December 6, 2013, Ambassador Hank Cooper, a former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, wrote: “We need modern day Maccabees to preserve the heritage of liberty for our posterity….”

2. NBC news, December 13, 2022: “An ancient treasure trove of silver coins dating back 2,200 years, found in a desert cave in Israel, could add crucial new evidence to support a story of Jewish rebellion…. The 15 silver coins were hidden [during] the Maccabean revolt from 167-160 B.C., when Jewish warriors rebelled against the Seleucid [Syrian] Empire….”

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