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Will Congress Save Itself by Stopping the Iran Deal and Biden’s Imperial Presidency?

The United States, rather than maintaining its status as a republic, has been backsliding toward a monarchy, according to a 2020 report by then-Cato Institute Constitutional researcher Trevor Burrus. The continuing trend of broad expansions of presidential powers, Burrus notes, is eroding the powers of the legislative branch. Two examples are the Obama Administration’s 2016 “Dear Colleague” letter that had the effect of changing the definition of gender for choosing what bathroom one wished, and President Donald Trump’s 2018 imposition of steel tariffs in the name of national security, a decision that was upheld in court.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2023August 13, 2023•0•Iran, Israeli - Islam Conflict, USA

White Americans Under 18 Are Already Ethnic Minorities in the U.S.

Generation Z—Americans born between 1997 and 2012—will be the last generation in U.S. history with a white majority population, with ‘generation Alpha’ (those born after 2010), set to inaugurate a new ‘majority-minority’ age sometime in the mid-2040s, an analysis of census data has revealed.

Ethnic minorities already comprise more than half of the population in the United States that is under the age of 18, according to the figures.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2023August 13, 2023•0•Demography, USA

Biden Administration Abandoning Israel for Ruling Mullahs of Iran?

The Biden administration’s appeasement policies towards the ruling mullahs of Iran are empowering their Islamist and radical regime in the region, all while undermining America’s democratic ally in the Middle East, Israel.

As the Iranian regime continues to sponsor, fund and arm terror groups on the borders of Israel, the Biden Administration is carefully looking the other way.

According to Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, a former deputy commander of the Israel Defense Forces’ Gaza Division, “For the last year and a half, Iran stated clearly that its main strategy is to make the Samaria region another Gaza.” The Iranians, he added, are “pouring money and smuggling weapons into the region. They are supporting Hamas and the PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] and other factions within the Palestinian Authority.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 12, 2023August 12, 2023•0•Iran, USA

The Song That Screams From America’s Soul: Oliver Anthony’s ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’

I haven’t been this affected by music since the first (and second, and hundredth, and thousandth) time I heard “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” or “The Weight” by The Band. Oliver Anthony, with a slightly different style, has just as much soul in his voice as Levon Helm.

by Blazingcatfur•August 12, 2023August 12, 2023•0•USA

Shock: Illegal Aliens Killed 33,000 Americans Between 2010-2015

On July 13, 2023, Don Rosenberg, the father of Drew Rosenberg who was killed in a grisly crash by an unlicensed illegal alien in 2010, testified before the House Judiciary Committee on “The Consequences of Criminal Aliens on U.S. Cities.”

The revelations revealed by Rosenberg who is the president of Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC) in his testimony were quite shocking and would have most Americans up in arms if only the media would have covered it (instead of ignoring it).

h/t Kiki9

by Blazingcatfur•August 12, 2023August 12, 2023•0•Camp Of The Saints, USA

U.S. Reaches Deal With Iran to Free Americans for Jailed Iranians and Funds

The United States and Iran have reached an agreement to win the freedom of five imprisoned Americans in exchange for several jailed Iranians and eventual access to about $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue, according to several people familiar with the deal.

As a first step in the agreement, which comes after more than two years of quiet negotiations, Iran has released five Iranian American dual citizens into house arrest, according to officials at the State Department and the National Security Council.

“This is just the beginning of a process that I hope and expect will lead to their return home to the United States,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Thursday. “There’s more work to be done to actually bring them home. My belief is that this is the beginning of the end of their nightmare.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 11, 2023August 10, 2023•0•Iran, USA, WTF?

Canada and Massachusetts open the door to the quartering of soldiers—oops, I mean unhoused populations

As a colleague noted, there are no property rights in a socialist state.

It should come as no surprise that Canada, with its notoriously socialist and interventionist government, is in the midst of a housing crisis. Who woulda thunk it?

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 10, 2023•0•Canada, Communism, Communists, USA

US Navy sailor accused of selling documents to China was encouraged by mother: feds

A China-born US Navy sailor accused of selling sensitive ship information to the Chinese government was denied bail on Tuesday after prosecutors said his mother encouraged him to participate in the scheme.

Jinchao Wei, 22, faces four charges in San Diego federal court related to his alleged deal with an unnamed Chinese military intelligence officer to provide “documents, sketches, plans, notes and information” in exchange for cold, hard cash.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 10, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

America is now a zombie state

Demonic nihilism has infected the nation

“Every nation gets the government it deserves,” wrote the philosopher Joseph de Maistre, and some are getting it good and hard right now. De Maistre’s moral interpretation of politics admits of exceptions, but the United States in 2023 is not one of them. A wasting tide of bad education and corruption is rotting the cultural and constitutional piers that, since the Civil War, have kept the US above the waters of chaos.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•USA

The FBI and ‘Radical’ Catholics

New evidence suggests the bureau probe was wider than director Christopher Wray said.

Remember the tempest this year when the Federal Bureau of Investigation was found to be targeting some Catholics as “extremists?” The bureau cast it as the work of a single rogue field office. Well, it looks like the effort was more widespread than our G-men admitted to the public.

That’s the news from a less-redacted internal FBI document released Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Jim Jordan wants more information from the FBI on how broad this investigation really was.

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2023August 9, 2023•0•Catholic Church, FBI, USA, WTF?

Gen Z will be last generation with white majority in US, study finds

Gen Z Americans – who were born between 1997 and 2012 – will be the last generation with a white majority and will give way to a post-2012 “majority minority” Generation Alpha, according to a new study of updated US census data.

That change – when non-Hispanic white people will fall below half as a share of the overall US population – should come around 2045, the study predicts.

Projections of the nation’s demographic makeup, including age structure and race-ethnic composition, also show that the fastest population growth is occurring among the older population while the youth population declines.

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2023August 9, 2023•0•Demography, USA

Massachusetts Declares a State of Emergency Over Illegal Immigration

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has declared a state of emergency over the illegal immigration crisis. Massachusetts has been considered a “sanctuary state” since 2017 when its court ruled that law enforcement officers could not arrest a person suspected of being in the country illegally unless criminal charges apply.

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2023August 8, 2023•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

How the US weaponised the war on Covid

ON June 17 Sasha Latypova, a retired pharmaceutical industry executive, gave an interview to Jan Jekielek, a senior editor of the Epoch Times, about the military machinery behind the global Covid-19 response. Latypova told him: ‘So right from the start there was a huge deception going on. They’re treating it as war and they’re telling people it’s a health event. They’re covering up military activity with this representation of health event and a response to a health threat.’

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2023August 8, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease", USA

Disabled Veterans Fight Drug Dealers Over First Dibs on Selling Legal Pot

I can understand how people in the 70s felt when the country seemed to have become unrecognizable in two decades and the average story now seemed to be coming from another planet or the mind of a satirist.

But here we are in this exciting world whose stories would be implausible and insane by 2001 standards.

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2023August 8, 2023•0•Marijuana, USA

China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, officials say

In the fall of 2020, the National Security Agency made an alarming discovery: Chinese military hackers had compromised classified defense networks of the United States’ most important strategic ally in East Asia. Cyberspies from the People’s Liberation Army had wormed their way into Japan’s most sensitive computer systems.

The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on — plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2023August 7, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Japan, USA