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Lawfaring 2A Again, SCOTUS Unprotects Texas, Putin’s Alaska, DeleteGate, Ambient Powering

Lawfaring 2A Again, SCOTUS Unprotects Texas, Putin’s Alaska, DeleteGate, Ambient Powering

FREEDOMIST INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR

Presents

MINDFUL INTELLIGENCE

TUESDAY JANUARY 23, 2024

editor Paul Collier

A sitrep of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
with breaking news added at the time of publication (released weekdays by 10AM eastern time).

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(News recap from 6a January 22 to 6a January 23)

“(Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. “1 Corinthians 13:6

LAWFARING 2A AGAIN, SCOTUS UNPROTECTS TEXAS, PUTIN’S ALASKA, DELETEGATE, AMBIENT POWERING

TOP STORIES

U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES FOREIGNERS CAN SUE AMERICAN GUN MANUFACTURERS A Boston-based U.S. Appeals Court ruled against American liberty, including the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution, when it ruled that a foreign power, Mexico, can sue American gun manufacturers over crimes committed with guns they made. The ruling is intended to price gun manufacturing out of the market through lawsuits such as these. The fact that the treasonous judges on this court are so desperate to destroy our right to bear arms they are willing to empower foreign governments to do so should get these judges not only disbarred, but arrested and tried for treason.

Yet should civic authority fail to do its duty, then we can only surmise these judges are a righteous judgment on a land that rejected God. The lawsuit is for $10 billion, a figure intended to bankrupt American gun manufacturers, something these seditious judges seem more than willing to facilitate as they serve the party, the DNC-CCP, not the republic.

SCOTUS RULES TEXAS CANNOT PROTECT ITS OWN BORDERS – The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the state of Texas cannot defend its borders even when the Federal government is not doing so. The ruling not only prevents Texas from defending its borders, but it also empowers the Federal government to do what they’ve been doing, aiding and abetting criminal activity as they continue to encourage illegal immigration.

This writer doesn’t know the full legal details of the justification for this ruling, so I will reserve judgment on a ruling that, at least on its face, seems blatantly unconstitutional. If Texas were to determine that it is, in fact, blatantly unconstitutional, then this writer encourages Texas to defy SCOTUS. If it isn’t, Texas needs to pass whatever laws it needs to that might give it power to defend its borders against all enemies, foreign and domestic, which would have to include the Biden administration at this point.

PUTIN DECREE SEEMS TO CLAIM ALASKA IS NOW RUSSIAN – Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, decided to poke America by announcing the funding of a project to assess the value of Russian property, both at home and abroad, including territory previously in the Russian Empire, which includes Alaska. The declaration seems to be Ukraine times a thousand as Russia may have just announced plans to annex Alaska and most of Eastern and Central Europe.

Russia has plenty of sympathy generally from right-leaning factions in America. This decree, however, might cause Russia to lose at least some support among the right, none of which would likely be keen on seeing Alaska turned back off to the Russians.

PELOSI’S DELETEGATE GETS WORSE – Quisling former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently masterminded the deletion of files, exculpatory files, in the January 6 rigged kangaroo court hearings in which she used her tax-paid platform to spread vicious lies about the DNC-CCP’s political opponents.

Before the Republicans took over, she is alleged to have deleted 117 files containing “critical information.” One can assume that deleted information would have countered their fabricated “insurrectionist” narrative they have used to justify arresting and imprisoning scores of Americans for merely exercising their right to doubt the outcome of elections, let alone Mass Mailer elections, which are no elections at all.

DRAWING POWER FROM MAGNETIC FORCES – A sensor developed by MIT researchers creates its own power by drawing from magnetic forces around it. Wherever there are magnetic forces at work, like, say, in a car engine, these sensors can be used without need of batteries and without interfering with the performance of the engine whose magnetic forces are creating power for the sensor.

“This is ambient power — energy that I don’t have to make a specific, soldered connection to get. And that makes this sensor very easy to install,” says Steve Leeb, the Emanuel E. Landsman Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Leeb is a member of the team and senior author on the paper the team produced.

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HEADLINES

TRENDING (M-F)

FEDS GIVE SCHOOL TEACHERS AGITPROP “TRANS-AFFIRMING TOOLKIT” – The Federal government that is the Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee decided is was wise to use taxpayer dollars to send a trans-fascist ideological “toolkit” training teachers to identify and groom children who might be willing to become guinea pigs in their trans-fascist dystopian fantasies.

The toolkit tells teachers lies like gender is a social construct, encouraging teachers to identify potential trans kids and send them down the path of genital and chemical mutilation, all to serve their trans god, the Moloch of the 2st century. As usual, they pull out their white devil trope to justify their insanity, stating, “Gender binary is a colonial and white supremacist structure rather than a natural and indisputable truth.”

COMMIES ARE GOING BROKE – The Democratic Socialists of America, the real party of anti-American activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her cohorts of seditionist House representatives (called “The Squad) is apparently going bankrupt as funds have been drying up for the anti-American terror group.

They pleaded to their “supporters,” “We will cut $500,000 from staff-related expenses. We will first ask for volunteers from both director-level and bargaining unit staff to have their position cut and receive severance. If necessary, we will then explore initiating lay-offs according to the DSA union’s contract.”

WORLD (M-F)

EU CONTINUES TO PUSH FOR PALESTINIAN STATE – Despite Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu making it clear to anyone interested in listening that the state of Israel cannot afford to support a Palestinian state, the European Union is still insisting that a Palestinian state must be created in order for there to be peace in the Middle East.

That state, given the current culture of the Palestinian people, would exist for one reason and one reason only, to purge the entire land, from the river to the sea, of Jews. One doubts anyone would welcome giving a neighbor state power and authority who has made it clear they intend on murdering you the first chance they get.

SATELLITE PHOTOS SHOW NORTH KOREA MOVING ARMS TO RUSSIA – Satellite photos from the UK Defense department show North Korean arms being shipped to Russia. The photos were released as part of an overall report on North Korea’s efforts to sell Arms to Russia in support of their war against Ukraine. The report asserts “Russia has likely begun shipping North Korean munitions at scale.”

U.S. POLITICS (M-F)

BIDEN FAMILY CITED NUMEROUS TIMES BY CIA FOR “CONFLICT OF INTEREST” – Apparently there are still some Americans left in the CIA, as can be evidenced by the fact that between January 2021 and May 2023 there were no less than 32 “form 202 conflict of interest referral notifications” filed by CIA operatives against the Biden family. None of these filings were followed up with, as the CIA and DOJ are, from the top, corrupted with anti-American activists who put the DNC-CCP’s interests over the American republic.

DID CONGRESS PASS ITS SPENDING ACT ILLEGALLY? – The U.S. government is on trial in Texas for allegedly passing a $1.7 trillion package illegally. A court in Lubbock, Texas will consider a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).

He alleges the House passed the final version of the bill without the required quorum, passing it with only 203 members present. The vast majority of the votes were cast through proxies, which Paxton asserts does not a quorum make. You can’t meet a quorum with anything less than the physical presence of the lawmaker, his lawsuit asserts.

EDITOR’S CHOICE (T & F)

ALARM-PULLING CONGRESSMAN WANTS WHITE PEOPLE TO PAY BLACK PEOPLE $14 TRILLION – Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) made the racist claim that white people should essentially pay black people $14 trillion because ‘we wuz slavez.” The black supremacist and anti-American activist congressman claimed he could get the government to pay this money to black people without raising taxes.

“Who says the $14 trillion needs to be paid out in one shot?” said Bowman. “It might be possible for it to be paid out over 5 or 10 or 20 years. You could take that $333,000 and break it up into monthly checks over X amount of time. There are creative ways to do the right thing and do what needs to be done.”

OKLAHOMA STATE SENATOR INTRODUCES COMMON-SENSE JOURNALIST-CONTROL BILL –  Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm has introduced a bill called the “Common Sense Freedom of Press Control Act” that is clearly meant as a larp and an example to the seditious left of how ridiculous their “common sense gun control” laws are. Common sense here is illustrated as a dog whistle of “overt violation of Americans’ constitutional rights.”

Publications like the Daily Kos have been writing pieces on this legislation as if it were a serious proposal, not realizing how they’re being trolled into illustrating through their rightful assaults on such a dangerous violation of our constitutional rights just how unconstitutional their “common sense” gun control laws really are.

SCI-TECH (T & F)

THIS NUCLEAR BATTERY COULD POWER DRONES FOREVER – CCP-controlled Chinese company Betavolt New Energy Technology is claiming it has developed a tiny nuclear-powered battery that can power your cell phone for 50 years without needing a new charge. They also claim their small batteries could enable light drones to fly “forever.”

PIG-LIVER DIALYSIS FOR HUMAN? – Researchers out of the University of Pennsylvania used a genetically modified pig liver to clean the blood of a human in what could amount to life-saving temporary treatment for people suffering from acute liver failure. The liver was connected to a human body. That human who, while alive, was ruled brain dead, making them “eligible” for the experiment.

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MSM/ALT MEDIA NEWS AGGREGATION:

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agitprop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agitprop intended to undermine American liberty values. The agitprop is not always revealed in the headlines alone.

from www.economist.com – Why politicians are obsessed with mythical Chinese land grabs

from uk.news.yahoo.com – Report Claims Inflation Woes Driven Largely By Corporate Greed

from www.politicususa.com – Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Biden And Hands Greg Abbott Border Defeat

from www.dailykos.com – Yep, all that ‘inflation’ is largely corporate greed

from crooksandliars.com – Marjorie Taylor Greene Thinks Patriot Front Is A ‘Fed Front’

from www.salon.com – Trump’s criminal rebrand of the Republican Party is complete

from www.vice.com – Former Pentagon UFO Investigator Is Pissed Because Congress Believes In Conspiracy Theories

from trendingpoliticsnews.com – Joy Reid Gets Obliterated By A Mother On Her Show, Melts Down: ‘I’m Interviewing You!’

from www.politicususa.com – Elise Stefanik Humiliates Herself Trying To Spin Trump’s Cognitive Decline

from www.msn.com – Biden expands abortion & contraception protections on Roe anniversary – msnNOW

from www.huffpost.com – Trump Goes On Another Unhinged Tirade Against E. Jean Carroll After Trial Gets Delayed – HuffPost

from www.politicususa.com – Florida Newspaper Rips Ron DeSantis After He Quits And Endorses Trump

from www.salon.com – “It will cost him”: Experts warn new E. Jean Carroll filing signals bad news for Trump

from crooksandliars.com – Matt Gaetz Heckled At Trump Event For (Maybe) Dating Underage Girls

from www.dailykos.com – Trump uses court delay to attack E. Jean Carroll more than 3 dozen times

from floridaphoenix.com – ‘Bad bills’ in the FL Legislature threaten free expression; some are ‘blatantly unconstitutional’

from www.kentuckytoday.com – Most U.S. adults respect religious diversity as hate crimes rise, poll finds | Baptist Life

from europeanconservative.com – Leftists Claim ‘Neo-Fascism’ on the Rise, but Can’t Be Bothered to Attend Debate The European Conservative

from www.truthdig.com – How Twitter Turned Journalism Into a High School Cafeteria

from amp.scmp.com – Opinion | ‘Gutter talk’: is Manila overcorrecting its China policy post-Duterte? 

TRENDING

from japantoday.com – Suspect in killing of 8 people in suburban Chicago has fatally shot himself in Texas, police say

from www.thesun.co.uk – Navy Seal Christopher Chambers leapt into sea to help comrade Nathan Gage Ingram before pair died on Houthi arms mission

from www.thecollegefix.com – HOAX: ‘Black feminist theory’ PhD student raised $40K on false assault claim, police say

from www.bizpacreview.com – Consumers’ Research urges parents to be alert for ‘woke’ toys, ‘extreme LGBTQ agenda’

from www.usatoday.com – Washington, D.C. sees spike in killings as homicides decline elsewere.

from www.express.co.uk – Ukraine’s frontlines plagued by rodent epidemic as gory diseases among soldiers surge | World | News

from republicangazette.com – Panera Bread Faces Lawsuits Over Highly Caffeinated Charged Lemonade Drinks Linked to Deaths

from globalnews.ca – China landslide leaves dozens missing as rescuers battle snow, frigid cold – National

from www.dailywire.com – Harvard Slammed For Choosing Prof Who Called Israel ‘Apartheid State’ To Co-Chair Anti-Semitism Task Force

from www.washingtontimes.com – U.S. Jewish schools see 47% increase in security costs since Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel

from www.thestar.com – Top religious leaders in Haiti denounce kidnapping of nuns and demand government action

from www.chicagotribune.com – Possible Trump testimony in sex abuse defamation trial postponed due to juror illness

from amp.theguardian.com – Powerful earthquake hits China-Kyrgyzstan border | China

from amp.cnn.com – Fed’s Barkin: March rate cut isn’t out of the picture. ‘You make the call when you get to the meeting’

from www.breitbart.com – Democrat-Run Oakland Loses In-N-Out Burger Due to Crime

from www.heraldpalladium.com – In this Oklahoma town, most everyone knows someone who’s been sued by the hospital | National

from redstate.com – Supreme Court Agrees to Take Up Major Death Penalty Case – RedState

from www.cbsnews.com – Ron DeSantis announced his campaign’s end with a Winston Churchill quote — but Churchill never said it

from www.cbsnews.com – CBS News team has close call in Gaza as fierce fighting continues

from learningenglish.voanews.com – Panama Cuts Canal Traffic as Water Levels Drop

WORLD

from news.yahoo.com – Ukraine’s Defense Ministry calls for Russia to relinquish nuclear weapons in post-war negotiations

from www.dhakatribune.com – Myanmar junta bolsters forces in Rakhine amid ongoing war

from – Strikes, explosions seen in Yemeni capital of Sana’a as US and UK target Houthis – video – The Guardian US

from www.usnews.com – Ecuador Police Capture Leader of Colombian Dissident Rebel Group – U.S. News & World Report

from www.applevalleynewsnow.com – Netanyahu again rejects Palestinian sovereignty amid fresh US push for two-state solution | World News

from amgreatness.com – Zelensky’s Ukraine is ‘Increasingly Autocratic’ and ‘Moving in Wrong Direction’ › American Greatness

from time.com – Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Demands Palestinian State

from hornobserver.com – Al-Shabaab storms UAE-trained soldiers’ camp in Mogadishu

from www.rfi.fr – Liberia’s new president Boakai vows to tackle graft as he takes the helm

from english.ahram.org.eg – EU sanctions firms backing Sudan warring rivals – War in Sudan – War in Sudan – Ahram Online

from www.wsws.org – Papua New Guinea government intensifies emergency crackdown

from time.com – Poland’s Tusk Arrives in Ukraine to Reset Frayed Ties

from www.timesofisrael.com – Today’s rocket barrage was fired from Gaza area from which IDF troops recently withdrew – The Times of Israel

anwire – from www.tehrantimes.com – Iranian capital mourns advisors assassinated by Israel

from amp.theguardian.com – Sunak’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda receives first parliamentary defeat | Immigration and asylum

from www.thesun.co.uk – Support the Ukraine invasion or lose your HOUSE, Putin ally threatens in chilling echo of Stalinist witch-hunts

anwire – from www.nbcnews.com – Hostage families storm Knesset hearing; Netanyahu says ‘no real proposal’ from Hamas

from en.royanews.tv – Turkey imposes economic sanctions on “Israel”

from amp.theguardian.com – Middle East crisis live: Relatives of Israeli hostages storm Jerusalem parliament session; Israeli troops ‘arrest medical staff’ – The Guardian

from www.thesun.co.uk – Houthi rebels ‘ask Iran for more weapons to step up Red Sea attacks’ as UK warns militants are ‘playing dangerous game’

POLITICS

from www.washingtontimes.com – Ron DeSantis’ exit leaves Donald Trump with 19 points over Nikki Haley in latest New Hampshire poll

from www.wicz.com – Nikki Haley sweeps 6-person midnight vote in New Hampshire – WICZ

from www.wsj.com – Buy My Vote! A Startup Is Letting Shareholders Sell Their Proxies – The Wall Street Journal

from legalinsurrection.com – ‘Devout Catholic’ Biden Wants to ‘Strengthen Access’ to Abortion, Contraceptions

from freebeacon.com – Bob Menendez Spent Thousands To Retain Dem Super Lawyer Marc Elias and Hunter Biden’s Firm

from www.usatoday.com – Taylor Swift gets young voters out to the polls, affects elections

from www.blacklistednews.com – Government’s Cancel Culture Efforts to Censor, Ostracize & Shun Politically Unpopular Viewpoints on the Rise!

from www.thenation.com – President Biden Needs to Go to Congress for Authorization on Yemen

from www.washingtonexaminer.com – Doug Burgum will not run for third term as North Dakota governor

from www.kake.com – Republican AGs back Texas and Florida social media regulations at US Supreme Court

from time.com – Johnson At Risk of Becoming a SINO: Speaker In Name Only

from www.dailysignal.com – Memo Spells Out Why Biden Should Have Known Austin’s Location

from www.politicususa.com – Investigation Opened Into Voter Suppression Effort Against Democrats Using Fake Biden Robocalls

from www.usacarry.com – Alaska Proposes ‘Safe Schools Act’ Mandating Concealed Carry on Campus

from emeatribune.com – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: Biden Needs To Be More ‘Blunt’ About Abortion – EMEA Tribune, Breaking News, World News, Latest News, Top Headlines

from blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com – Hawaii Bill Would Reform Civil Asset Forfeiture Process, Opt State Out of Federal Program

from cardinalnews.org – (VA) General Assembly committees advance bills to limit assault-style weapons

from theindependent.sg – Nikki Haley after DeSantis’ drop: “May the best woman win”, conservatives fear she may start wars if she wins … – The Independent

from themessenger.com – Tickets to Nikki Haley Wall Street Fundraiser Going for as Much as $33,000

from www.cbs58.com – Biden campaign puts reproductive rights front and center as it plans to tie Trump to abortion bans

EDITOR’S CHOICE

from www.americanthinker.com – FAIL: Cuba’s economy is collapsing, so communists hike taxes 20%

from www.blacklistednews.com – New Documents Provide More Insights on Moderna’s Online Speech Monitoring Efforts

from www.aljazeera.com – Russian lawmakers to debate seizing property of those who ‘discredit’ army | Russia-Ukraine war News

from www.breitbart.com – Feds Asked Banks to Search Americans’ Records for Gun Retailers

from reason.com – Democratic Attorneys General Ask SCOTUS To Bolster Censorship Powers

from www.weeklytimesnow.com.au – ChatGPT owner OpenAI bans its tools for political campaigning, Microsoft says onus is on users to combat fake news – The Weekly Times

from www.msn.com – Alleged leaked CVS internal documents on DEI sparks violation of Civil Rights Act according to conservatives – msnNOW

from www.foxnews.com – Group calls on Johns Hopkins to eliminate DEI program after post on ‘privilege’ draws harsh criticism: report

from www.washingtontimes.com – Letter to the editor: Christianity is not hate speech – Washington Times

from www.americanthinker.com – The truth about Christian Nationalism

from arstechnica.com – FCC officials owned stock in Comcast, Charter, AT&T, and Verizon, watchdog says

from www.cbsnews.com – New law meant to catch money launderers could catch many small business owners in Colorado off guard

from www.enewspf.com – Toward Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Repeat Gun Offenders

from www.wsj.com – Votes for Sale! A Startup Is Letting Shareholders Sell Their Proxies – The Wall Street Journal

from www.jurist.org – Coalition of US states sues EPA over rule tightening deadline for Clean Air Act implementation plans – JURIST

from thenewamerican.com – Javier Milei at the WEF — Attacking Socialism, Defending Monopolists?

from www.techdirt.com – Florida Has Yet Another Unconstitutional Social Media Bill; Wants To Ban Kids From Social Media

from www.audacy.com – Feds convict Chicago man who sued over Facebook comments

from www.manilatimes.net – Journalists arrested at Guinea press freedom rally

from theintercept.com – EPA Is Backing Down From Environmental Justice Cases Nationwide

SCI-TECH

from uk.news.yahoo.com – Surgeons develop 3D-printed liver models to plan complex cancer surgery

from www.thesun.co.uk – Britain blows up drones with £140m LASER dubbed ‘DragonFire’ in incredible first

from readwrite.com – Donated bodies are powering gene-edited organ research

from www.nanowerk.com – Mini-robots modeled on insects may be smallest, lightest, fastest ever developed

from medicalxpress.com – 3D bioprinting sheds light on why blood vessel curvature may foster brain cancer metastasis

from cosmosmagazine.com – An immune cell can transform itself to control melanoma

from scitechdaily.com – Harvard Scientists Discover Surprising Hidden Catalyst in Human Brain Evolution

from www.unite.ai – Researchers Make Breakthrough in Artificial Muscle Technology

from phys.org – Quantum physicist uses graphene ribbons to build nanoscale power plants

from www.techexplorist.com – Stem cell-derived brain organoids to improve modeling for neurodegenerative diseases

from www.sciencedaily.com – DNA origami folded into tiny motor

from www.wired.com – Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment

from www.sciencedaily.com – Clutch-stack-driven molecular gears in crystals could propel material innovation

from phys.org – Scientists make COVID receptor protein in mouse cells

from www.futurity.org – Newly discovered virus kills ‘sleeping’ bacteria

from www.scientificamerican.com – Long COVID Signatures Found in Huge Analysis of Blood Proteins

from thedebrief.org – Engineers Develop ‘Breakthrough’ Method for Creating Infinitesimally Small Objects Using the Power of Light

from cosmosmagazine.com – COVID waves are causing less severe illness, but one group remains especially vulnerable

from scitechdaily.com – The Hidden Cause of Neuron Death in Alzheimer’s Uncovered

from www.universetoday.com – Astronomers Have Mapped the Milky Way’s Magnetic Fields in 3D

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‘“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. ‘ Ezekiel 3:17-19

The Forgotten War

 

 

 

 



 

There are wars, and rumors of wars, all over the world as 2024 dawns. Russia and Ukraine continue to bludgeon each other relentlessly. Israel’s war against Hamas grinds on, threatening to expand into the southern territory of Lebanon under the control of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group. To the south and east, the Houthis in Yemen are waging a “pin-prick war” that has diverted some 12% of the world’s commercial shipping, forcing extensive delays and threatening to log-jam global trade on a scale that rivals the dislocations of the COVID pandemic, as their backers in Iran rattle their own sabers and threaten the oil export structure of the Persian Gulf.

Across the Red Sea from Yemen, wars rage in Sudan and Ethiopia, while Ethiopia’s own actions threaten wars with Eritrea and Somalia. To the north, Egypt and Jordan – for different reasons – are on the verge of internal collapse. Throughout the rest of Africa, nations struggle with internal, interminable and seemingly unsolvable issues, with many states facing continued attacks from radical jihadist militias. In Myanmar, the military government is clinging to power by its proverbial fingernails. In South America, Venezuela continues to threaten the annexation of Guyana, while Bolivia and Ecuador are the new battlegrounds in the war of the drug cartels.

Naturally, with all of these long-running – or suddenly appearing – conflicts, most of them remote, obscure and obtuse to outsiders, there are other conflicts that get lost in the shuffle…but those conflicts are no less important; in fact, many of them are not petty in any way, with the victims not simply being on the short end of the stick, but who were actively abandoned to the whims of ‘realpolitik’.

The war in Kurdistan is just that kind of conflict.

The wars and depredations inflicted on the Kurdish people for over one hundred years have largely been caused by the West, primarily Britain and France…but the United States hasn’t helped. And that war continues, not only against Syria and Turkey, but against Iran.

While the Kurdish nation has been noted as a separate and distinct people since the 11th Century, when the term “Kurdistan” was noted by the Seljuk Empire, it was only after World War 1, and the last, vile gasp of debased European imperialism – the Sykes-Picot Agreement – that the real agony began.

Neither Kurdistan nor its people were given more than lip service by Britain and France. Bolshevik (Communist) Russia repudiated any Russian claims associated with the agreement after the revolution that unseated the Tsar, as they had far more pressing problems. The signatories, channeling previous agreements covering African and Asia, cavalierly split what they, themselves, knew to be ethnically Kurdish areas between themselves to rule. While subsequent, limp-wristed treaties “graciously” allowed for the possibility of a Kurdish state (despite several Kurdish states being organized from 1918 to 1930), the European powers threw up their hands in 1923, and washed their hands of the Kurdish areas, for the most part, with the Treaty of Lausanne, which made no mention of the region at all, condemning the Kurdish people to be split between what is now Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The Kurd’s only ally of significance was Winston Churchill, who argued for a separate Kurdish state, but his political influence in the 1920’s was very limited, compared to what it would become in later decades.

 

Lt Col Francis R. Maunsell’s map, Pre-World War I British Ethnographical Map of eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and western Persia, 1910. Kurdish regions are in yellow. Library of Congress.

 

The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres was a draft treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Principal Allied Powers. It was ultimately shelved because of Turkish non-ratification and was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne. Map by User:Zero0000 CCA/4.0

 

But the Kurds wouldn’t give up.

The Kurds sent a delegation to the San Francisco Peace Conference of 1945, which would form the United Nations, to argue for an independent state; they were, of course, refused. But, armed Kurdish groups continually waged low-level guerrilla wars against the states they had been relegated to; the wars’ ferocity depended on how intense the ruling government’s programs to suppress Kurdish culture were at the time.

However, this would occasionally swing into full-on war crime territory, as happened in the Halabja Massacre of 1988, when the Kurdish village was attacked with lethal “war agent” chemicals weapons, primarily mustard gas, but also with a mix of nerve and blood agents. It is generally assumed that Saddam Hussein’s government was responsible for the attack, although allegations have long been made against Iran.

When the 1991 Persian Gulf War ended, US President George H. W. Bush made casual, off-hand remarks, that left many in Iraq – including the Kurds – believing that if they rose up to overthrow Saddam Hussein, they would get at least some help from the United States. Unfortunately for them, the Kurds in the north and Shi’a Iraqis in the south read far too much into the first Bush’s words, and were left stunned (assuming they lived) then they rose up…and the United States barely lifted a finger, seemingly completely surprised that the subject peoples of a brutal dictatorship might actually have the gall to rise up in armed revolt against said brutal government.

The absolute cheek of little people.

Shamed into doing something, though, the Bush administration launched “Operation Provide Comfort” to protect Kurdish refugees fleeing the Iraqi Army units not destroyed fighting the United States and its allies in Kuwait.

Quite unintentionally, this would be the first real break for Kurdish autonomy since 1918. The strict limiting of Iraqi military abilities against the Kurds left the northern people able to organize in safety, and begin building a formal military organization, the Peshmerga, from scattered guerrilla forces. While remaining in “recognition limbo” – without formal recognition as a sovereign state – the Kurdish authorities could not legally purchase military weapons on the open world market, forcing them to develop a “cottage industry” for making weapons, alongside reusing weapons captured from Iraqi forces when the government in Baghdad drags its feet on providing any, buying weapons on the black market and the occasional under-the-table crumbs offered by a scattering of Western states.

With the overthrow of Saddam in 2003, and the resulting upheaval in the aftermath, this organization became much more formalized and professional, at least compared to where it had been. It still has serious internal issues, a reflection of thirty-odd years of disordered and fragmented political organization, leading to a fragmented command and operational structure.

Kurdistan deserves better, not least because they have carried the United States water in the region with little return for their money. Kurdistan, from 2003 onwards, made themselves into a safe area for the US and its allies, doing what it could against Al Qaeda-aligned jihadist groups, for very little return.

Kurdistan remains split between four nations, with no prospect of real help from anyone else. Syria, still embroiled in its decade-and-a-half long civil war, has no intention of allowing its Kurdish regions to leave the country; the autonomous region known as “Rojava” formalized in 2018 is nothing more than a convenience for Bashar al-Assad’s government in Damascus.

The United States is unlikely to attempt to rein in the extreme excesses of Turkey’s operations in its own Kurdish areas, nor the northern parts of Syria and Iraq. This is because Turkey, as a member of NATO, is vital to European security…even as the Turkish state keeps expanding its influence throughout the world.

Likewise, Iraq is not about to allow its own Kurdish areas to actually leave, as that would remove a large oil-producing area from the country, fundamentally weakening the shaky government in Baghdad.

And then – there is Iran.

The mullahs in control of Iran view its Kurdish population as a useful foil that allows them to accuse any number of nations of trying to undermine them, while occasionally killing people wholesale to intimidate all of its ethnic minorities.

Now, however, with wider wars exploding throughout the region, as well as the rest of the world, the faint glimmer exists that the Kurds may soon have a chance to finally establish themselves as an organized state. The chances are remote, and it will be neither easy nor bloodless, but the chance is there.

The question is: Can the Kurd’s leadership come together to capitalize on the opportunity?

If they can, the United States should help make it happen – that’s not “imperialism”. That’s helping your actual friends, who have sacrificed to help you in the past, with no prompting.

 

 

 

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Robbing Peter To Pay Paul

 

 

 

 

 



It would seem that 2024 is off with a bang, if the Reader will forgive the pun.

Beginning on October 7th of 2023, of course, Hamas launched its suicidal Don Quixote war with Israel, showing that the debased savagery of the Islamic State is alive and well. Shortly after, on October 13th, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abey Ahmed announced what can only be termed a policy of “lebensraum” for Ethiopia, demanding free access to the Red Sea. And, as if on cue, the Houthi rebels in Yemen began attacking any unarmed commercial vessels they could draw a bead on in the nautical chokepoint of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, controlling the southern access point to the Red Sea.

Now, as the second week of January 2024 closes, Iran has entered the fray, seizing the oil tanker St. Nikolas off the coast of Oman, in the Arabian Sea, significantly widening the security problem – and potential naval combat area. Iran’s explanation for the seizure is a flimsy claim to Iranian ownership, a claim even flimsier than the excuse of the Houthi’s for attacking ships in the Red Sea.

Obviously, as we reported last week, all of this military action has begun to significantly impact world commerce, as increasing numbers of shipping lines abandon the critical Red Sea route, opting for the much longer transit around the Cape of Good Hope.

The question for most Readers is, obviously, “Where is the US Navy in all of this?” Good question.

The United States Navy is, unquestionably, the most powerful navy the world has ever seen. Disputing that statement is, frankly, ludicrous. The United States currently operates more aircraft carriers for fixed-wing operations than the rest of the world, combined…and this is before the various US Marine Corps aviation squadrons are added to its figures. It operates some seventy-six Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, regarded as the most capable destroyer class ever designed. Likewise, the US Navy maintains amphibious and supply forces that no other nation can match, giving it a truly global reach. It is not an exaggeration to say that a US Navy carrier battle group can deploy more firepower to a region than can be mustered by most nations’ entire militaries.

So – handling the Houthi’s, or even Iran, should present no great trouble for the United States, right?

Well…it’s complicated.

While the United States does, indeed, have a vast and capable military, like the armed forces of Great Britain before it, it has a major problem. It is not really a question of how good your weapons are; the greatest warship ever designed is completely useless if it isn’t where you need it to be, when you need it to be there.

The US military, and specifically the US Navy, cannot be everywhere at once. Aside from the chronic, military-wide problems with both recruiting and retention of personnel, the political leadership of the United States has, for the preceding forty years or so, almost uniformly failed to make even reasonably good choices in economic, military, social and foreign policy decisions. These failed policies have led to critically short numbers of personnel in almost all of the armed services, which translates into too few forces being available to deal with multiple threats. Indeed, while the US Navy, as of 2019, had some four hundred and eighty ships in commission, it could only deploy about two hundred and ninety.

What does this mean in the modern day, of January 2024?

As US and Western industry still struggles to supply the war in Ukraine, that situation is now worse, as the limited supply of ammunition is further divided to support Israel in its war against Hamas. Added to this, is the double threat from Iran and it’s Houthi proxies, a threat that is already damaging world commerce.

And then – there is Communist China…more on that, later.

Many people fail to grasp the impact of world shipping. Like it or not, everything you rely on is tied into global commerce in some way. Even if nothing you directly interact with physically transits the Red Sea, the major delays created will affect the prices of the everyday item you pay for. Likewise, the rising interest and insurance rates caused by the fighting will impact the Reader in a very real way, as those industries have to spread out the damage.

And then – there is Communist China.

A week ago, Communist leader Xi Jinping launched a purge of the upper echelons of the Communist state’s military leadership. While a relatively common practice among Communist states, it remains to be seen if Xi will go to the extent of other Communist dictators.

The end result of actions like this, is universally bad for the capabilities of a nation’s military forces, overall, as it significantly hampers military initiative, in favor of rigid obedience to political dogma – translation: Scare your military enough, and they will be too busy avoiding being shot by your political officers to fight your actual enemies.

However, there are many forms of warfare, and Communist China has learned that throwing money at a problem can make that problem either go away, or at least not bother it…and undermining an enemy while doing so is icing on the cake.

The bottom line? The West is failing. It is failing partially from it’s own success, but mostly from too many decades of throwing pasta at walls to see what sticks. The desire for profit beyond the dreams of avarice has led to a simultaneous weakening of Western industry, and to “good enough” levels of technological and industrial capacity leaking out to nations and groups who hate the West.

In a word: they hate you. It’s not so much that they hate you, personally – but they hate the society you grew up in, and are more than happy – and capable – of burning the world to the ground to spite you.

As of this writing, there are two hundred and ninety-seven days to the 2024 election. One way or another, you need a plan for what happens when we get there.

Assuming, of course, that we get there.

 

 

 

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China’s Chips Rule America’s Seas

The U.S. Navy has allowed its defense procurement to be infiltrated by the CCP, leaving America’s carriers dependent on Chinese computer chips to operate. The process of allowing the CCP to infiltrate America’s defense industry was a long one, one allowed by the treasonous DNC-CCP and its token opposition, the GOP-DNC.

A report from the data analytics firm Govini alleges China’s infiltration of our defense supply chain is so profound that we cannot hope to lock them out without completely dismantling and rebuilding the whole system. Again, remember, this was a slow process that happened under both DNC-CCP administrations and GOP-DNC administrations.

The report claims, “U.S. domestic production capacity is a shriveled shadow of its former self. Crucial categories of industry for U.S. national defense are no longer built in any of the 50 states. With just 25 well-constructed attacks, using any of a variety of means, an adversarial military planner could cripple much of America’s manufacturing apparatus for producing advanced weapons.”

From Forbes:

… over 40 percent of the semiconductors that sustain DoD weapons systems and associated infrastructure are now sourced from China. Second, from 2005 to 2020, the number of Chinese suppliers in the U.S. defense-industrial supply chain has quadrupled. And third, between 2014 and 2022, American dependence on Chinese electronics increased by 600 percent.

The seriousness of the vulnerability of American weapons systems and munitions to Chinese supply and control is vividly illustrated by the number of Chinese supplied semiconductors on which they run.

According to Govini, the U.S.’ newest Ford-class aircraft carriers depend on over 6,500 Chinese-sourced semiconductors to operate. Many other U.S. Navy ships and aircraft are similarly dependent on thousands of Chinese semiconductors to function as instruments of U.S. defense and power projection.

The people who allowed this to happen are all enemy combatants, in this writer’s opinion, and should be facing capital offense charges for their crimes against the American republic, and that includes the Presidents who either did nothing to reverse this or facilitated it happening. No American President, no Secretary of Defense should ever have allowed the Chinese Communist Party to become involved in any way, shape, or form in our defense manufacturing.

They did this in exchange for wealth, for power, that was meant to only enrich their own lives and those of their families. They sold America to the CCP for a metaphorical bowl of soup. May God have mercy on their reprobate souls and may he give us Americans to take back the reins of power and lawfully bring to justice the men and women who were part of this seditious scheme.

Let us also remember that vengeance is the Lord’s, not ours, and if it is His will that no such power will come to Americans again then let us face our righteous judgment with joy in praise of Him.

The Lion Stirs – The Murky War Upsetting World Commerce

 

 

 

 



 

In the week before Christmas of 2023, there are several large-scale wars going on, with several more potential wars in the making: Russia-Ukraine; Israel-Hamas/Hezbollah; the ongoing offensive of pro-democracy rebels closing in on the fascist junta in Myanmar/Burma; the never-ending battles across the African Sahel region, and the potential Venezuelan invasion of Guyana.

 

But, lurking in the background is another potential conflict, one that may be impacting and aiding the neo-con agenda: Ethiopia vs. Eritrea.

 

Ethiopia is unique in history, as the only African state that was never colonized by any European power. Although conquered and occupied by Italy in the years immediately preceding World War 2, that occupation was short-lived, as the country was fully liberated from Italian rule by 1943.

 

A truly ancient state, Ethiopia maintained its status as an imperial monarchy until 1974, with the Communist revolution that placed a brutal Marxist-Leninist government in charge of the country. This government would, in turn, be deposed in another revolution in 1989, as part of the wave of Communist states around the world that collapsed as the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact imploded, leaving Communist “economies” to wither on the vine.

 

In the aftermath of the Derg’s collapse, Ethiopia was left unable to stop a popular referendum in one of its most critical provinces – Eritrea – that resulted in that state becoming independent in 1993. While this may seem like a random “factoid”, it is actually of enormous significance.

 

Eritrea – long part of Ethiopia – occupies the coast of the Red Sea, and as such, was Ethiopia’s only access to world commerce…and after a series of wars in the 1990’s and early-2000’s, Eritrea has effectively blocked Ethiopia from using its Red Sea ports. With a population of over one hundred and seven million, Ethiopia ranks 13th in the top fifteen nations in the world by population – and is the only one of those states that is completely landlocked.

 

This translates to Ethiopia being forced to pay exorbitant, even “extortionate”, fees to export its goods to market through its only access to the Red Sea, via the Port of Djibouti, which handles an estimated 95% of Ethiopia’s foreign commerce.

 

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, takes this issue seriously…seriously enough, that he made statements on the 13th of October of 2023, that explicitly underlined Ethiopia’s ‘right to access’ to the Red Sea. Understandably, this rattled every other nation in the “Horn of Africa”, all of whom are vastly outnumbered in both population and military capacity by Ethiopia.

 

These remarks came less than two weeks after the Hamas terror attacks on Israel that commenced on October 7th. As a result, the wider world – obviously – paid little the comments little attention. But then, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen chose to insert themselves into that conflict on the side of Hamas, on October 19th…clearly a coincidence, surely.

 

And then, on January 1st, Ahmed dropped another bombshell, announcing that Ethiopia had inked a deal with the breakaway Somali province of Somaliland to use their port of Berbera to access the Gulf of Aden – well outside the current shooting gallery – reputedly in exchange of recognition of the breakaway state. This has obviously infuriated Somalia, which has never relinquished its claim to the province, despite the region being de facto independent since 1991 and the region’s independence being ratified in a referendum in 2001.

 

Now, in the first week of 2024, the Houthi missile attacks and piracy have attracted the attention of major powers around the world, many of whom have joined “Operation Prosperity Guardian”, in an attempt to guarantee safe passage through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait…albeit too late for world shipping giant Maersk, who announced on January 5th that they were ordering all of their vessels not already in the Red Sea to divert around southern Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, to avoid the fighting. While this, alone, will cause serious disruptions to global trade, many more cargo carrier lines are virtually certain to not take the risk and divert their vessels, for the same reason as Maersk. This could easily lead to a reprise of the shipping disruptions that happened at the height of the COVID pandemic.

 

As a result, there are increasingly serious calls within Washington circles to attack Iran directly, as they are the Houthi’s major source of money and weapons. This would be a Godsend to neo-con chickenhawks desperate to finally get the United States into their long-desired war with Iran…

 

…Which brings us back to Ethiopia’s moves on its future access to the Red Sea.

 

Ethiopia has three options: they can a) maintain the status quo, with limited access to world shipping solely through Djibouti’s port; b) conclude their deal to access breakaway Somaliland’s ports; or – c) invade at least part of Eritrea, to capture at least that nation’s port of Assab.

 

Obviously, the status quo is not working for Ethiopia; if it were, there would have been no need for the deal with Somaliland. Djibouti’s port is increasingly limited in capacity, and has little physical room to expand operations, which will soon severely stunt Ethiopia’s economic output…Conversely, the deal with Somaliland risks war with Somalia, as recognition of Somaliland’s independence would almost certainly gut Somalia’s hopes at stabilizing their nation, which was only reunified in 2012. Somalia would have to launch a military campaign to invade the territory to bring it to heel, presenting Ethiopia with the option of going to war with Somalia in support of a breakaway province, something Ethiopia would be loath to encourage, considering recent history.

 

As well, invading Eritrea to capture Assab carries significant risks on its own, because – all other things being equal in the absence of the current conflict in the Bab-el-Mandeb – Ethiopia could well face a UN-led coalition of military powers “riding to the rescue” of what has been described as the “North Korea of Africa”.

 

None of these seem like viable solutions, on their own…Unless the world is focused on a different series of conflicts that would combine to divert attention away from Ethiopia “readjusting” the local map, and allowing Addis Ababa to present the world with a fait accompli in the aftermath of the Houthi’s inevitable neutralization, as well as the likelihood of a massive US-Iran war…

 

…While the foregoing may sound like the implication of a dastardly plot on Ethiopia’s part, it is not…well, mostly “not.” But, the timeline of Ethiopia’s rhetoric regarding its right-to-access to the Red Sea is certainly suspicious, and indicates some level of foreknowledge of events beginning ion October of 2023, and having active plans and options ready to go.

 

There are plenty of players in this global chess tournament, and too many “leaders” in the West – and elsewhere – are arrogantly blind to the knives in the dark, thinking that “bit players” cannot harm them.

 

…Rather like Britain, France and the United States from the 1950’s to the 1980’s.

 

Word to the wise.

 

 

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Iran Escalates Red Sea Tensions

 

 

 

 

 



 

The Islamic state of Iran has significantly escalated tensions in the Red Sea, by deploying the warship Alborz to the crucial Bab el-Mandeb Strait a day after US Navy helicopters drove off Iranian-backed Houthi pirates of Yemen following their attempted seizure of the Singapore-registered container ship Maersk Hangzhou, sinking several Houthi boats and killing an estimated ten pirates, on December 30, according to CENTCOM.

This also comes some 10 days after the Liberian-flagged tanker MV Chem Pluto was struck by a suspected Iranian drone while at sea, en-route from Saudi Arabia to India on December 23rd.

The Alborz, an Alvand-class frigate, was originally bought by the Imperial Iranian Navy in 1971.

The move by Iran raises the distinct possibility of hostile action between the Iranian vessel and the various, dozen-or-so warships of Operation Prosperity Guardian, assembled in late-December to counter repeated missile and boarding attacks on international shipping, claiming to be countering the Israeli response to the unprovoked attack on its civilians that began on October 7 by the Hamas terrorists operating in the Gaza Strip.

The Freedomist will continue to monitor the situation as it develops.

 

 

  • Updated at 5:50pm CST, with information and links to the attack on MV Chem Pluto.

 

 

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China Signals It Might Soon Divest Itself of U.S. Treasury Holdings

A top Chinese economist named Yu Yongding appears to be prepping the Chinese people and the world for a future move that will see the fascist state divest itself of all U.S. Treasury holdings. The economist wrote an editorial that would never have been published without CCP approval giving “economic” reasons why China should divest from U.S. Treasury holdings.

The move could be seen as a bargaining chip, and it might prove to be that, but it could also be a move to prepare the world for a near-future action, one that would most likely happen should the DNC-CCP not prevent Donald Trump from winning back the Presidency in 2024.

China urged to cut US Treasury holdings – www.thestandard.com.hk

Excerpt:

China must systematically decrease its holdings of US Treasuries due to low interest rates and the potential risks over America’s growing net debt overseas, a top mainland economist says.

Yu Yongding, a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences academician, said the ratio of US national debt to gross domestic product will persistently increase, signifying a continuous deterioration of the country’s overseas net debt over time.

The ongoing interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve may also accelerate the deterioration of the country’s overseas net debt, he added.

China, said Yu, must accelerate the adjustment of its overseas asset structure and enhance returns on overseas net assets. To achieve this, it should reduce the proportion of foreign exchange reserves in its overseas assets, he said.

 

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Multi-National Task Force Looks to Tackle Houthi Threat in Red Sea

A multinational task force led by the U.S. is set to confront the growing Houthi threat to world trade in the Red Sea. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said of the formation of the task force, “This is an international challenge that demands collective action.”

From dailycaller.com

Excerpt:

The U.S. and allies on Monday announced a multinational task force aimed at undercutting attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea as the Houthi rebels put a vice on shipping through a critical waterway, the Pentagon said early Tuesday in Bahrain.

Operation Prosperity Guardian will involve a multitude of nations including the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain and build on an existing regional task force established to ensure maritime security, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said while on a tour of the Middle East. The Iran-backed Houthis, based in Yemen, have launched barrages of missile and drone attacks on commercial shipping in recent weeks, while U.S. warships scramble to come to their rescue.

“This is an international challenge that demands collective action,” Austin said in the statement.

 

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Israel Kills Its Own Hostages

Three hostages that appear to have escaped captivity from Hamas met a tragic end when Israeli soldiers mistook the hostages for Hamas attackers and killed all three. The tragedy happened in Gaza city. Netanyahu called the incident one of the “burdens of war” and that it “broke (his) heart, broke the entire nation’s heart.”

Hamas has said it will not be releasing any more hostages until Israel stops attacking Hamas altogether after the incident. Israeli military officials said the soldiers who killed the hostages were not following the correct protocol.

From Israel’s own account, it appears the hostages approached the Israeli soldiers with their arms up, raising a white flag, but that didn’t stop one soldier from yelling “terrorists,” so everyone opened fire, killing two and injuring one.

The injured soldier fled for shelter and continued to try to plead with the soldiers to help them, only to be eventually killed as well.

Protests have picked up momentum from Israelis who see this action as yet another example of gross incompetence, deadly gross incompetence from the IDF, with Netanyahu receiving the brunt of the blame for that perceived incompetence.

The incident also raises more doubts as to how many Israeli citizens were killed by Hamas as opposed by their own military, which does not in any way exonerate Hamas from intentionally targeting civilians, including infants, for slaughter and rape as a terroristic weapon of war.

Norwegian Tanker ‘Strinda’ Struck By Houthi Missile

RED SEA, 12.12.2023, 1100hrs CST – The Japanese-owned, Norwegian-flagged general oil and chemical tanker MK STRINDA was struck by a missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen, while transiting the Bab el Mandeb strait, late on the 11th. the ship reported damage and a fire, but reported no casualties.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Mason responded to the tanker’s distress call, and is rendering assistance as of press time. The Mason, along with other US Navy warships, have engaged Houthi missiles and drones fire at Israel as part of the Houthi’s

This is the latest in the escalating piratical activities of the Iran-backed terror group in recent weeks, including their helicopter assault to seize of the M/V Galaxy Leader and their attempted seizure of the M/V Central Park.

The Houthi group is a religious sect that is the main party in a civil war that has raged since 2014. Although the hard-line Shi’a Muslim group is reported to be receiving assistance from many corners, no state has recognized them as a legitimate state. They were, and remain, a group of bandits, pirates and terrorists.

The Freedomist will continue to monitor the situation.

 

 

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