After sanctions on Iran were lifted in February, three US Congressmen demanded entry visas into Iran. Representatives Mike Pompeo, Lee Zeldin, and Frank LoBiando, all of the GOP, stated their purpose was to inspect Iranian nuclear facilities, interview some Americans incarcerated in Iranian jails, and get a formal accounting from the Iranian Military about the USMC's humiliating surrender to the Iranian Coast Guard. They also wanted to monitor Iranian elections.
On April 12th, the Congressmen sent a follow-up letter, having received no response from Iran. After the Congressmen made a fuss in the media, the Iranians sent their reply and released a copy of it to the press, explaining their reasons for denying the visa request.
For all of their faults, the Iranian leaders are never reticent about expressing their positions, regardless of Political Correctness. Cowardly EU/NATO politicians and American business leaders should take note, because Iran has given us a lesson on the proper way to respond to Beltway bully-boys. Here is the text of the letter in its entirety:
"The Foreign Minister has been informed of your letter of April 12th, 2016, concerning your purported visa request. In this regard, we draw your attention to the following:
"Despite what you seem to presume, members of the US Congress do not get to dictate the policies of other countries. This clearly applies to Iranian visa policies. Bear in mind that, as members of the US Congress, you are not a global authority.
"The nuclear agreement known as JCPOA has clearly specified that the sole body competent for monitoring the implementation of its nuclear provisions is the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). No JCPOA participant, including the United States, and certainly no citizen or official of these countries, can arrogate any such right to monitor the implementation of JCPOA to itself; nor are they authorized by the JCPOA or other provisions of international law to encroach upon Iranian sovereignty by claiming such monitoring authority.
"In the modern era, visits to sites or parliamentary or other delegations to monitor elections are made upon invitations or through bilateral agreements between sovereign states based on reciprocal arrangements, and not upon unilateral demands by self-arrogating individuals or legislators. It bears remembering that Iran and the United States do not have diplomatic relations, and as such, there are no reciprocal monitoring arrangements between the two countries.
"The US Congress has recently enacted rules barring people---ordinarily subject to visa waiver rules---who travel to Iran entry into the United States with obtaining a visa. And when Secretary Kerry, in fulfilling US obligations under JCPOA, promised to waive such restrictions on people who have travelled to Iran, some of you are on record as saying that 'waiving restrictions on persons who have travelled to Iran or who hold Iranian citizenship would put our people at risk.' Surely it is ironic that you believe that going to Iran would radicalize and turn persons of all other countries into potential security risks for the United States; yet you seek to visit Iran and believe that such a visit will have no radicalizing effect on you.
"In spite of your claim, since 1980---when the US broke off diplomatic relations with Iran---Iranian government officials are generally barred from entering the US. We are only permitted ---on a case-by-case basis and after a very lengthy, unusually difficult, and highly selective process---to enter the US to attend meetings of international organizations on US soil. This, while the US is legally required to grant free and unrestricted access as per its international obligations under relevant multilateral agreements. The obligation has never been faithfully or consistently observed. And despite what you seem to believe, Iranian diplomats and nationals who work at the United Nations or come to New York to attend UN meetings are all restricted to a 25-mile radius of Columbus Circle in Manhattan. This is the extent of the hospitality which you boast about in your letter.
"From the time when the manufactured 'nuclear crisis' has been settled through the JCPOA, tens of thousands of tourists, academics, investors, students, and businessmen from throughout the world---including many Americans---have obtained visas and travelled to Iran without any delay or complication. But they have been able to do so by making requests consistent with the relevant regulations of the host country in an appropriate and respectful manner, and not in the completely inappropriate way that you have demanded to visit Iran and interfere in what is of no relevance to your official functions. We doubt that any self-respecting country would grant a visa under such conditions.
"In sum, we consider your visa request to be a publicity stunt and not an appropriate request to visit a sovereign country, and therefore has, and will continue to be, treated in that spirit.
"Signed, Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran."
It's too bad that it took Iran to put these guys in their places, but it's about time somebody did.
To the chagrin of US Media Cartels, the Russian media group RIA hosted an international journalism forum in Moscow on June 6th and 7th. The New Era in Journalism Conference brought together top media figures from Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to discuss the crying international need for alternatives to the Western Media monopolies.
"The forum will feature discussions on today's journalism, and its transition to post-mainstream, the evolution of alternative media, and the MSM and their sponsors' loss of their monopoly on forming the universal agenda for the world's information; and the new media's responsibilities of guarantors of freedom of information."
The conference was a great success, and drew attendees from all over the world, including many dissident Western media figures. RIA chairman Dmitry Kisilev opened the forum. He stressed that American media monopolies had, in particular, employed their power on the world stage to advance the economic, military, and cultural agendas of the Western elites.
"People in the world do not like this much." Kisilev stated. "And there is a demand for alternative information. That is what post-mainstream journalism is...Currently, professional journalism is facing the challenge of whether it will continue to exist at all. But this challenge is also an opportunity. It shows that relying on solid sources, one's own brand and its accumulated credibility is valued even higher in the era of information noise."
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the second day of the conference and spoke of the need for transparency. Putin pointed out that this includes the type of unofficial censorship that is widely practiced in the Western MSM. In a truly free society, Putin noted that "there can be no situations where certain authorities like certain information---protecting it and calling it free speech---and then object to certain information as propaganda serving the interests of opposition political groups or certain countries."
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, spoke to the Conference via teleprompter from the Ecuadoran Embassy in London where he has sought asylum from Beltway vengeance since 2012. Assange revealed the machinations between US corporate interests and the US government. He noted that 80% of the NSA budget is outsourced to corporations---especially to media giants like Google.
Hassan Ben Jeddou, chairman of the Arabic news agency Al-Mayadeen proposed the creation of an international press pool, as counterweight to Western media monopolies. The proposed media bloc would be designed along the lines of the BRIC union or the Chinese-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which are alternatives to the G-7 and World Bank respectively.
Jeddou is correct about this. Regrettably, the era when American news networks and the BBC were the sources of information the free world trusted, has passed. Corporate interests; the symbiotic relationship between the government and media; the Ameroboob's insatiable thirst for disinformation and mindless Infotainment has rendered the Western media practically useless for anything other than increasing Wall Street profit margins.
And the situation is not likely to improve soon, as all three current US presidential candidates are avowed enemies of the Free Press. At the conference, Assange warned of Hilary Clinton in particular; and cited her relationship to corporate media titans. Donald Trump has called for lifting certain legal immunities journalists possess, and Bernard Sanders believes strongly in state-controlled media.
American investigative reporter Eva Golinger, who attended the conference agrees.
"The Mainstream Media has become superficial, scandal-mongering, and based on headlines and selling for profit." she told Sputnik News. "And most alternative media lack a professional approach and factual evidence in their stories."
That statement describes the current state of affairs in Western journalism perfectly.
Other issues raised at the Conference included the CEO of SANA presenting evidence of Western media cover-ups of atrocities committed by Jihadists and their confederates in Syria. Russia's Human Rights Commissioner presented evidence of journalistic suppression in the United States. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
also addressed the Conference on a cause that she has taken a personal interest in: the MSM's employment of images of children for propaganda purposes.
In 1962, Jack Webb produced a dramatized documentary titled The Red Nightmare which depicted life in an America that had adopted Soviet-style Communism. The Red Nightmare has, in many ways become a prophecy. And it's unique plot perspective presumed that Americans had accepted Communism voluntarily. The American Dream turned into the Red Nightmare in this scenario. We are living in that type of society today. One can hardly distinguish the positions advocated even by nominal Conservatives today from those advanced by the Soviet Union.
As a specimen of this trend, one of the Manospherian Game Cultists who operates under the name of The People's Voice, has written an article which has drawn some criticism among Christian bloggers. His latest attempt at posing as an ideologue is titled, Your Skin is Your Uniform, and simply from the title we can likely guess what is coming next. Reading his entire farrago, one gets the visual impression of Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on the UN podium "Decadent Westerners! We will bury you!"
Like some Haymarket Square Anarchist, The People's Voice begins thus:
"Everywhere you go, from San Jose to Melbourne, the race war will find you. Vibrants don't give a d--n that you are a good anti-racist...They understand, as you do not, that there is no such thing as racial equality...no such thing as a Brotherhood of Man."
This is, of course, the Marxist dogma of the 'Class Struggle' repackaged in racial terms. He continues:
"They hate you for the simple reason that you are not them. And they will attack you, unprovoked, every chance they get."
No: people who hate and attack for those reasons are fanatics. Which rarely has anything to do with race. Witness, for example, Jihadist Arab atrocities against other Arabs; as recently occurred in Zara, Syria. Or, the white Liberal Sanders supporters attacking white people who supported Trump in San Jose.
"There will be peace through segregation or there will be war for dominance and control." he pontificates, "The various races can be friendly and respectful neighbors or they can be locked in a violent death-struggle for power over one another. Whites from Australia to America must accept the simple fact that the Equality Doctrine is a poisonous one."
This idea actually comes from Vladimir Lenin, closely enough to be a paraphrase. Lenin believed in the superiority of Communism; and by segregating Communism into one nation, he could build a central point from which to dominate his neighbors. Of course, the Marxists all claimed they too would be friendly neighbors. But that was belied by their Class Warfare rhetoric which the Gamers have also adopted.
The Game Cult teaches it holds a superior philosophy and those who embrace it are destined to rule as Alpha Leaders. The Communists taught a variation of the same thing. One when a group believes it has a natural right to dominate and all other groups hate you for the simple reason that you are not them, then it is logically impossible that segregation would ever bring a lasting peace.
Civilization does not advance through isolationism and segregation; it advances through the free exchange of ideas and cultures. If cultural segregation actually worked as the Game Cultists claim, then logically North Korea and Saudi Arabia should be the two most advanced societies on Earth. Sanctions---as a diplomatic weapon---should logically make the targeted country stronger. The only reason behind a segregationist policy is when the party proposing it is operating from a position of weakness. The Communists put up the Iron Curtain precisely because Faith and Freedom were a threat to their system. In contrast, Western Christian democracies tolerated Communist parties on their own soil because our (then) shared belief in God and Liberty had nothing to fear from it.
The White Nationalists and the Game Cultists fear other races and religions for the same reasons. The reason for our current cultural decline is because, for 30 or so years, the so-called Silent Majority has stayed silent; and in fact participated in and profited from the cultural decline. White America, since the early 1990s, has chosen to rest on the laurels of their forefathers while passively allowing the Cultural Marxists to rampage through our society like a juggernaut. They are no different than the modern American Black militants, who did the same thing. Americans were perfectly willing to accept the handouts and freedom from responsibility that the Cultural Marxists offered in exchange for our liberties, culture, and family. Those who do value those things expose our weakness.
"The violent Nationalists who WILL address the problems you caused are no more to blame for the necessity of their terrible actions than white blood cells can be blamed for the diseases they attack." says the Gamer, and so said every Bolshevik who wanted a pretext for his violent deeds.
One thing, though, we can say with absolute certainty is that not one of the Game Cult or White Nationalist leaders and spokesmen will be risking their own lives in these terrible actions. No, they will leave that for their dupes.
The way to defeat the Cultural Marxists is not to adopt their means, methods and goals. We won the Cold War by being better than the Marxists, not by behaving like them. But the Gamers know nothing about this, because Power is the only god they really worship.
Manly Alpha Leaders in Action
The Rainbow-Pride American aerospace program is facing a problem. It seems that they have a critical shortage of rocket engines, which is about to get worse. Actually, the problem has been ongoing for some time; though Ameroboobs have chosen to ignore it. But the problem boils down to this:
American schools are failing to produce engineers, and the American government is failing to fund any aerospace research and development. The American public is preoccupied with dollar-chasing, mindless media distractions, and doing drugs. This state of affairs has put the Pentagon and NASA in the humiliating position of obtaining critical aerospace equipment from foreign countries. Meanwhile, our leaders focus on more pressing issues like gender-neutral toilets and banning Christmas displays.
Now it happens that Russia is still producing rocket engines, and still operating manned flights to the Space Station. So even after Obama's retaliatory economic sanctions against Russia and his military build-ups on the Russian border, the US Congress has been shamefacedly obliged to bow to Russia and exempt aerospace technology from their otherwise bellicose policies.
This hasn't set well with the neo-Right, and Senator John McCain has cut the funding for future purchases of the advanced RD-180 Russian rocket engines. Eager to 'get back at them ol' Russkies', the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act would speed up phasing-out of the RD-180. The Pentagon, though, has brought up a minor detail.
According to one Pentagon bureaucrat, Robert Work, the Pentagon hasn't a comparable available source and proposed projects could be delayed up to two years, if we stop using the RD-180.
The logical course of action would obviously be to revive America's moribund aerospace industry. But to do that would be to admit that ours is actually failing. So the likelihood will be that, our program will be completely nonexistent in a few years while China and Russia are actively conquering Space.
The Ameroboob presidential candidates, who all favor embargoes and sanctions, should take note that it is probably a good idea to make sure that we actually produce things here before suspending imports. Now a few pundits pompously argue that American Exceptionalism---something that disappeared along with our aerospace program---will miraculously and spontaneously arise to fill the gap. The Media has been promoting one such entrepreneur in Colorado, who is hoping to build an environmentally-friendly copy of the RD-180 and believes that a whopping two engines will be produced by 2020.
This situation clearly illustrates the major flaw in American neo-Right thinking. Conservatives tend to believe that the American spirit of fifty years ago is somehow lying dormant in the American psyche---just waiting for the right crisis to arise and awaken it and make America great again. Crisis after crisis has arisen, and this spirit has shown no sign of arousing. That is because it is, in fact, dead.
Americans in the mid-20th had the luxury of living in an era before Narcissism, the Cult of the Victim, and Political Correctness were the new normal. That's why we could work together doing things then like winning WW2 and launching lunar expeditions. Today, Americans can't even agree on what gender differences are.
But not to worry, there's a pill for that.
So while the Russian and Chinese people reap the benefits of scientific achievement, the American people can go on conquering space in their own way:
When the Okinawan Legislature opens for business on Monday morning, things are bound to get lively. After a Pentagon crackdown on its obviously discipline-challenged personnel and assurances from Tokyo that the situation was under control, a few more Okinawans wound up in the hospital Saturday due to the actions of one of our brave men and women in uniform. Again.
It seems that US Navy sailor Aimee Meija was driving while intoxicated in the wrong lane and crashed head-on with another vehicle. Her blood-alcohol level was six times the legal limit. Two passengers in the other vehicle sustained serious injuries. Ms. Aimee, evidently a product of the Pentagon's demasculinization program proved at least that, by the standards of today's military, women really are the equals of men.
Considering that Okinawa's legislature only a few days ago presented Tokyo a formal demand to evict the Pentagon from their shores, this latest incident is liable to strengthen their resolve and fuel the movement for Okinawan Independence even more. General Nakatani, the Empire's Defense Minister, issued the usual regrets and filed the usual complaints, and an emergency meeting was held by Imperial and American diplomats. But these repeated incidences of military misconduct are putting the Japanese Empire into an increasingly delicate position.
Tokyo is being pushed into a position where they can no longer ignore the problem. Okinawans are not going to accept the Empire's excuses that the US military is occupying their island for the Okinawan's own good. On the other hand, once it has planted the Rainbow Flag and brought the gospel of Cultural Marxism to a people, the Pentagon strongly objects to being told that the populace doesn't want them.
But pragmatically, the Japanese Empire's most prudent course would be to cede to Okinawan demands and close the base. Otherwise, if the Okinawan people begin to push for independence in earnest, Japan is going to find itself in an even more precarious position. The Pentagon has no shortage of Far Eastern bases, especially now that Obama's good friend The Punisher is in control of the Philippines.
Optimally, though, Okinawans will move forward with independence regardless. Too long these people have been the expendable pawns in international chess-games. Tokyo does not have the Okinawans' best interests at heart and neither does Washington. Okinawa would be a prime area for developing a tourist, fishing, or financial industry if left to its own devices. Most importantly, Okinawa deserves the right of self-government.
That will not happen so long as the Japanese government considers Okinawans their inferiors and a subjugated people; nor as long the Pentagon uses the island as a cash cow.
Since his ignominious flight from Raqqa, Caliph Baghdadi, the Supreme Commander of ISIS has been rather quiet. Apparently, now he has broken his silence, though unintentionally. According to Allied media reports, an ISIS courier was captured outside Mosul, Iraq bearing dispatches from the Caliph.
Ammar al-Hakim, the leader of the Iraqi Shiite Party released some of the contents of the dispatches, the general tone of which was urging ISIS fighters to execute evacuation plans from Iraq and Syria.
"The people of Iraq and Syria do not deserve the sacrifices ISIS is making." the Caliph wrote.
Hakim told the press that this intelligence revealed that ISIS is on the verge of complete collapse on both fronts. Western propagandists are sneering at the report, however there are good reasons to accept its authenticity. There have been an unusually high number of Jihadi leaders and officials reportedly killed or captured recently---not on the battlefront but typically in the vicinity of a border. Likewise, the insane president of Turkey has deployed troops in Iraqi territory (and by some accounts in Syria as well) to facilitate the Terrorists' escapes. Allied Forces have demanded Turkish withdrawal, but the Turks are under US/NATO air cover and have yet to move. Which ought to demonstrate which other powers are involved in the ISIS ratlines.
Iranian Intelligence has long held that Turkey---with covert US/NATO aid---have been moving ISIS and Al-Qaeda through Turkish territory to Libya or onto terror cells in Western Europe and the US. Obviously, they are not going all the way to Libya without some kind of assistance.
In other news from the Eastern Front; Iraqi forces have reportedly breached ISIS defenses and entered Fallujah. ISIS is fighting behind IEDs, suicide bombers, a civilians employed as human shields, so the battle is a protracted one. Yesterday, Iraqi forces liberated the village of Saqulawiya, a key position commanding the northern highway from Fallujah.
In Syria, Allied Forces repelled an ISIS counterattack to retake Deir Ezzur, Syrian Army troops have entered Raqqa Province along with the elite Desert Eagles commando force. The Desert Eagles are a hand-picked squadron trained and equipped by Russian Specnaz. They've proven themselves apt pupils in previous engagements against al-Qaeda and soon ISIS will have the opportunity to make their acquaintance.
In Aleppo, nearly 300 civilians were killed yesterday when the al-Qaeda moderate rebels launched US-made TOW missiles into a residential area. Russian bombers located and neutralized the al-Qaeda missile batteries. Iranian sources state that the al-Qaeda forces in Aleppo, frustrated by these reversals have purged their top commander.
In the aftermath of this week's riots in San Jose, a flurry of immigrant-bashing has arisen beginning with The Donald himself. Trump announced Saturday morning that "many of the rioters who attacked the peaceful Trump supporters were illegals. They burned an American flag and laughed at police."
As we showed in yesterday's post, the rioters not only were not Mexican immigrants, most were White and Hispanic Leftists educated in American public schools to embrace socialism and violence. Given the idiotic statements and conduct of San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo during this whole debacle, it is not difficult to imagine that such scenes are not uncommon in San Jose.
Michael Savage, a San Francisco-based pundit and Trump supporter, burst into a hysterical rage over the riots, saying on Friday that "hordes of illegals have been released on the streets! The invaders have arrived! They've sent their criminal gangs to take over! The coming Civil War! Build a Wall now!" and so forth.
What is actually behind all of this anti-Mexican rhetoric? It should be obvious by now even to the Ritalin-riddled American intellects that absolutely nothing is going to be gained by building walls and mass deportations. Considering how degenerated that the native-born population has become, an influx of traditionalist peoples would probably benefit us more that it would harm us. What the US desperately needs now is new blood: new ideas, innovators and producers. Inbreeding the current population will only make matters worse.
There are two forces driving the anti-Mexican movement.
First is Wall Street. American corporate interests have hated the Mexican government since Mexico's banking crisis in the 1990s. The Clinton Administration engineered a bank bailout. Wall Street was hoping to turn the crisis to their advantage with the election of Vicente Fox, who promoted privatization. While Fox privatized many Mexican industries, he kept them in the hands of Mexican interests. As we've seen with Operation Fast-and-Furious, US covert aid to the vicious drug cartels, and continual interference in Mexican elections; American financial interests are only too eager for an opportunity to destabilize and intervene in Mexico.
The second reason---though the American Right will never admit it---is anti-Catholicism. The following is a specimen of some of their more candid opinions on Catholicism, as penned by Maureen Mullarkey in The Federalist:
"When the future looks back on this Pontificate, Pope Francis might well be credited with having awakened the sleeping bogey of anti-Catholicism. His staged assaults on the immigration policies of the sovereign United States are the tactics of yet another community organizer, this one with a global constituency. Francis' Marxoid rhetoric, advancement of deceptive climate-change narratives, and cozy photo-ops with anti-democratic regimes rekindle old suspicions that popery is the enemy of free institutions."
Note how this writer deceptively interjects the chicanery of American electoral politics into global ecclesiastical matters. She continues:
"Francis' populist demagoguery directed at Capitalist systems is incendiary. and however couched in religious language is profane...Tropes of a Left-Wing agitator, his conduct reminds us that Catholic organizations are prominent in the open borders/amnesty movement."
The subtle message behind these and similar diatribes coming out of the neo-Right is simply that the Vatican doesn't take its marching-orders from the US government; and is therefore, an enemy. Note well that the American Left---also deeply anti-Catholic---hates Catholicism for the same reason. The Vatican prefers to answer to God and not to the Pax Americana.
Neo-Right pundits---Ms. Maureen included---imply that the Vatican is simply trying to fill empty church pews in the US by supporting; never does it occur to these people that immigrants from Mexico don't need to come to America to go to Church. And for that matter, increased church-attendance wouldn't hurt the American culture one bit.
What Trump supporters need to ask themselves is:
Do we agree with this
Or this?
