| From: Joachim K | 11/12/2022 9:13:50 PM | | | | | | ROYAL PAIN: Jordan Peterson lambastes 'sanctimonious' Meghan Markle
Brad Hunter
Nov 12, 2022
Jordan Peterson and Olivia Wilde are seen in this combination file photo.
Provocateur Jordan Peterson has slammed Meghan Markle as a “sanctimonious, faux compassionate” hypocrite after she called him “crazy” on her saccharine podcast.
Peterson made his comments on Piers Morgan’s show in response to the former Suits actress taking issue with the Canadian academic on her Archetypes show.
She aired a clip of Peterson saying: “I don’t think that men can control crazy women.”
But on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the host asked the author how he felt about being cast as a “villain” in the Megsverse.
Meghan Markle appeared on Deal or No Deal in 2006. PHOTO BY NBC“Her voice drips with the same falsehood that the voice of Kamala Harris drips with,” he told Morgan.“It’s this sanctimonious, faux compassionate, talking down to her audience.”
The former University of Toronto professor got some yuks when he imitated Markle.
He joked: “Trying to be sure that we’re all really on the same compassionate page here and we’re all being victimized by terrible forces that are arrayed against us and none of that’s really fair. It, just grates on me.
“And I do believe that it is the case that it’s very difficult to control female anti-social behaviour often of the type that’s been pilloried as hysterical and I think that there is no shortage of clinical evidence to support precisely that claim.
SOAKED IN SANCTIMONY: Prince Harry (R) and Meghan Markle attend a wheelchair tennis match during the Invictus Games 2017 at Nathan Phillips Square on September 25, 2017 in Toronto. PHOTO BY CHRIS JACKSON /Getty Images“It’s very difficult for women to control female anti-social behaviour and females who are anti-social that feminine pattern is reputation salvaging under the guise of compassionate care and it’s extraordinarily destructive, so I stand by my words.”
Markle joins actress Olivia Wilde in criticizing Peterson, who claimed a toxic character in her Don’t Worry Darling film was based on the author.
“We based that character on this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community,” she told Interview magazine, adding that incels are “disenfranchised, mostly white men who believe they are entitled to sex from women.”
Jordan Peterson came under fire for saying plus-sized SI model Yumi Nu is “not beautiful.” PHOTO BY HANDOUT /SPORTS ILLUSTRATEDShe added: “This guy Jordan Peterson is someone that legitimizes certain aspects of (the incel) movement because he’s a former professor, he’s an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real philosophy that should be taken seriously.”
But Peterson was brought to tears in an earlier interview with Morgan about Wilde’s statements.
Morgan asked: “This insane man, this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community, incel being these weirdo loner men who are despicable in many ways. Is that you? Are you the intellectual hero to these people?”
PODCASTING PLATITUDES: Britain’s Prince Harry’s fiancée US actress Meghan Markle listens to a broadcast through headphones during a visit to Reprezent 107.3FM community radio station in Brixton, south west London on January 9, 2018.
Peterson replied: “Sure, why not. People have been after me for a long time because I have been speaking to young men, what a terrible thing to do.”
Then, breaking down in tears he added: “I thought the marginalized were supposed to have a voice?” |
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| From: Joachim K | 11/13/2022 10:43:58 PM | | | | | | Putting the Wind up the Germans
Posted on November 13, 2022 by Baron Bodissey
The following report discusses the perverse and massive inefficiency of “sustainable” wind power systems in Germany as they are presently constituted.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from eXXpress. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Such is the inefficiency of Germany’s wind
Since the energy transition, Germany has relied entirely on renewable energies and has been promoting wind farms throughout the country. However, the operators do not reveal how high the utilization of their systems actually is. A media outlet calculated this and came to a depressing conclusion.
28,000 larger wind turbines are in operation in Germany. No one knows how many of these are profitable. Germany’s operators of wind farms guard their utilization “like a state secret”, writes the NZZ [Neue Zürcher Zeitung]. The Schweizer Tageszeitung therefore examined and calculated the utilization of 18,000 of these systems using a simulation. To do this, they “evaluated hourly weather data over a period of ten years”.
The result is sobering, sometimes even shocking.
All systems can survive only through subsidies
A system is not economical without a certain capacity utilization. According to the head of the Stuttgart Chair for Wind Energy, Po Wen Cheng, a capacity utilization of around 30% is required for this. According to research by the NZZ, just 15% of the systems have a capacity utilization of more than 30%. If one also considered that wind turbines are often switched off because of noise and environmental protection regulations, the proportion would be even lower.
In almost a quarter of the wind turbines examined, the capacity is less than 20%. “Such systems are only viable thanks to the German subsidy system, which also rewards bad locations.” The nationwide average utilization of the wind turbines is just 24%.
Where there is industry, there is no wind
The situation becomes even more worrying when one considers how the wind turbines are distributed geographically. Most electricity is needed where German industry is located. The problem: The wind does not orient itself to the locations of the industry. It blows mainly in the north, which is why the majority — 83% — of the well-utilized wind turbines are located there.
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However, industry is located mainly in the Ruhr area and in the southernmost federal states — Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The power gap is also the greatest in these regions. But the south in particular is extremely windless, which is why the poorly utilized wind turbines are primarily located there. While in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost federal state, the utilization of the wind turbines is an average of 31%, in Baden-Württemberg, where there is little wind, it is only 17%.
Therefore, huge power lines are now being built to transport the electricity to where it is actually needed, reports the NZZ.
There are hardly any investors
Little good can be expected for the future, so Germany’s energy policy promises little hope. By the end of 2023, all Federal States must reserve two PERCENT of their area for wind power — despite these enormous differences. The NZZ doubts that they will find investors for it. Especially in the south, where electricity is needed most urgently, hardly anyone wants to invest. That is not surprising.
Afterword from the translator:
Let me get that straight; 15% of the systems have 30% and 25% have 20% utilization. That’s what I call efficiency. So if you install 1 GW, the result of the 40% of the systems is: 0.15 * 0.3 + 0.25 * 0.2 = 0.045 + 0.05 = 0.095 or approximately 10%.
If the remaining systems deliver the same, then they deliver about 20%. You then get 0.2 GW from 1 GW of installed capacity. And that is supposed to be sustainable? Is that why they are still so hell-bent on the jab in Germany?
And then these bird- and bee- and bat-shredders (wind turbines) also change the local climate because they disturb the western wind flow and therefore more warm and dry winds from the south and Sahara come to Europe. That’s why it’s often warmer in Europe in the summer than in the Canary Islands where a old school friend of mine lives. During the summer he tells family and friends, “If you want to cool off, fly to the Canary Islands.”
The figures given are very optimistic, according to a report from ZDF, the “exploitation of bird- and bat-shredders” should be 10% on the lake and 8% inland. Don’t ask me where they got those figures from; could be from Greta Thunfish or other such exalted Climate EXPERTS.
And then there’s the infrasound of the “bird- and bat-shredder”, which apparently causes cancer. Adolf already knew that when he tried such infrasound weapons out for the “Endsieg”. Infrasound, which we don’t hear, causes tissues to vibrate, and particles that every animal has in its body, damages the DNA of the animal (man is just an animal, too).
Climate experts (not the inexperienced pro-government baby babblers) warned years ago about the negative impact of wind turbines on the climate. Recently, looking at the weather maps, I noticed that Germany is almost always divided in two: A diagonal from the North Sea to Saxony or Thuringia divides the country into rainy and dry areas. No wonder that in the East even the grass does not grow normally and the leaves of the trees hang down as if withered. This is, at least in my humble opinion and how I understand this, due to the wind turbines in the north, which slow down the humid air. And the predicted air flow from the Sahara has now also occurred. But the [stupid people] are happy about the oh-so-beautiful red sunrises or sunsets. |
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| From: Joachim K | 11/13/2022 10:46:01 PM | | | | | | State Department stonewalls investigation into how it spent $1,100,000,000 in Afghanistan since Taliban took over
NOV 13, 2022 4:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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What are they hiding? To whom did this money go? We will likely never know, because the people who would hold the State Department accountable are just as corrupt as the State Department, and on the same side.
“White House Won’t Say How It Spent $1 Billion in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 11, 2022:
The State Department says it will not comply with a government watchdog’s investigation into how more than $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds was spent in Afghanistan since the Taliban terror group retook control of the country.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction ( SIGAR), a government watchdog established in 2008 to perform oversight on America’s $146 billion reconstruction project in the war-torn country, announced that for the first time in its history, the State and Treasury Departments will not comply with its investigations.
“SIGAR, for the first time in its history, is unable this quarter to provide Congress and the American people with a full accounting of this U.S. government spending due to the non-cooperation of U.S. agencies,” the watchdog disclosed in its latest report to Congress. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which allocates American aid, “and the Treasury Department refused to cooperate with SIGAR in any capacity, while the State Department was selective in the information it provided pursuant to SIGAR’s audit and quarterly data requests.”
SIGAR says the Biden administration’s refusal to cooperate with its investigation into the allocation of $1.1 billion in taxpayer funds since the Taliban regained power constitutes a “direct violation” of the watchdog group’s congressional mandate. The administration also is withholding evidence related to the collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government, as well as information about whether the State Department is complying with laws prohibiting the transfer of American funds to the Taliban. “No federal agency has challenged SIGAR’s authority to conduct oversight of such programs until now,” the watchdog agency said…. |
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| From: Joachim K | 11/13/2022 10:47:57 PM | | | | | | At Climate Summit, Elites Chow Down on Gourmet Meats While Telling Us to Eat Bugs
NOV 13, 2022 6:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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George Carlin said it years ago: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.”
Need proof? Check out the United Nations’ big COP27 climate summit that is going on in Egypt right now, attended by Old Joe Biden and other alleged world leaders: while telling us to eat bugs, they are dining on the most sumptuous fare imaginable. Are they so secure in their elite status that they can flaunt it in front of our faces without fear of adverse electoral consequences? Sure looks that way.
The UK’s Daily Mail reported Monday that “officials who land a spot at the conference’s exclusive VIP restaurant will be able to dine out on an array of pricey meat and fish dishes served up during the 12-day climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh this week. Those with a taste for the luxurious can snap up an angus beef medallion with sautéed potatoes for a pricey $100 (£90) or a creamy salmon for $40 (£35), after scoffing back a $50 (£43) seafood platter for starter.” Hypocrisy? Off the charts.
These are the same people, mind you, who want us to eat bugs. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) declares: “Edible insects contain high quality protein, vitamins and amino acids for humans. Insects have a high food conversion rate, e.g. crickets need six times less feed than cattle, four times less than sheep, and twice less than pigs and broiler chickens to produce the same amount of protein.”
This isn’t just abstract speculation. As far back as 2013, the UN was trying to sell this disgusting notion: “While the idea of eating a worm, grasshopper or cicada at every meal may seem strange, FAO says this has many health benefits. Insects are high in protein, fat and mineral contents. They can be eaten whole or ground into a powder or paste, and incorporated into other foods. ‘Insects are not harmful to eat, quite the contrary. They are nutritious, they have a lot of protein and are considered a delicacy in many countries,’ said Eva Muller, the Director of FAO’s Forest Economics, Policy and Products Division.”
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| From: Joachim K | 11/13/2022 10:49:05 PM | | | | | | Biden Threatens ‘Transformational’ Change at UN Summit
NOV 12, 2022 3:00 PM
BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
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It’s transforming us from a prosperous nation to a poor one.
World leaders, activists and organization leaders jetted over to Egypt, a fantastically polluted county, for the COP27 United Nations summit, to save the planet.
If only someone would save the planet from them.
“My friends, I came to the presidency determined to make … transformational changes that are needed, that America needs to make and we have to do for the rest of the world, to overcome decades of opposition and obstacles of progress on this issue alone,” Biden threatened
With high fuel prices at the pump, runaway inflationary spending, like using the Inflation Increase Act to finance corrupt green energy policies, we can see those “transformational” policies underway.
With American energy production dropping sharply due to Biden policies, he touted new plans to depress our energy economy even further by allowing anti-energy leftist activists to partner with the EPA to go after oil and gas companies over so-called ‘methane leaks’.
Additionally Biden intends to further redefine our economy around carbon metrics by forcing federal contractors to adopt carbon targets. This further embeds ESG into our economy and forces us to live by the rationing of the carbon footprint.
This is transformational. It’s transforming us from a prosperous nation to a poor one and from a nation of free people to a cult of ESG slaves. |
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| From: Joachim K | 11/13/2022 10:49:33 PM | | | | | | Confused Biden Heads to Cambodia, Thinks He’s in Colombia
NOV 13, 2022 7:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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Old Joe Biden first said it on the South Lawn on Thursday, right after he said: “Look, I don’t think the conflict will be resolved with Russia and Ukraine until Ukraine gets out of —” Whoops! “Until Putin gets out of Ukraine.” He followed that one with yet another: “Anyway, you guys, I’m heading down to — first of all, going to Cairo for the — for the environmental effort, then heading over to Colombia and then — I mean, Cambodia. I was thinking — I’m thinking the Western Hemisphere.”
Yeah, that explains it. Except in Phnom Penh on Saturday, Old Joe did it again: “And I want to thank the Prime Minister of — for Colombia’s leadership in the ASEAN — as ASEAN chair and for hosting all of us.” Does the ostensible president of the United States have any idea where he is at any given time?
Now, you might think that the old man should be cut some slack on this one since both countries start and end with the same letters and have the same number of syllables. But it’s embarrassing enough in itself that we have to resort to rationalizations of this kind so very frequently in order to cover for the statements of the man who is supposed to be president of the United States. After all, the dementia-ridden Chief Executive makes errors like this all the time with a frequency that has made them commonplace and largely not even worth mentioning. The Washington Free Beacon reported Friday that “This week, for example, the sludge-brained commander in chief touted his efforts to ‘quote: help turbocharge’ the ‘clean enerny’ economy, and slammed critics who accused him of being ‘apalapakehpakapakacapa.’”
So why is he still the Chief Executive at all? It was widely expected that after the shellacking the Democrats were expected to get in the midterms, Biden’s handlers would finally pack him off to his walled Delaware beach house and hand the keys to the Oval Office over to Kamala Harris, so as to situate the Cackler as a smooth, experienced president ready in 2024 for a term of her own. But the red wave dissipated into a ripple at best, and Old Joe is buoyant, crowing that he was going to maintain the disastrous America-Last policies of the first two years of his administration: “I’m not going to change anything in any fundamental way.”
After the Democrats did so unexpectedly well in the midterms, it will be much harder for the people who are running this administration to put Old Joe out to pasture. But he reminded us all Wednesday that he is still not the man in charge, saying at one of his show press conferences: “Now, I’ve been given a list of 10 people that I’m supposed to call on.”
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| From: Joachim K | 11/13/2022 10:50:22 PM | | | | | | Iran Lashes Out, Warns UK to Stop Coverage of Protests
NOV 13, 2022 10:00 AM
BY HUGH FITZGERALD
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Like a wounded animal, Iran’s government is lashing out wildly. It’s no longer just America, the Great Satan, and Israel, the Little Satan, that worry the regime in Tehran. The protests by Iranians keep on, and they are getting larger, despite the Basij and police using live fire against the protesters. So far, nearly 400 protesters have been killed, including 50 women and 35 children. Protesters are not intimidated. They have engaged in a new sport, knocking the turbans off the heads of clerics, as a sign of contempt for, and rage against, the theocrats who have ruled Iran since 1979. Iran’s doctors have joined the protests en masse; they are treating wounded protesters, and in so doing, risk their own lives. Students at 130 Iranian universities have gone out on strike against the regime. Shopkeepers (bazaaris), workers at oil and gas rigs, and in the steel industry, have now gone out on strike in solidarity with the protesters. It all started with the death of Mahsa Amini and the tearing off of hijabs. Now the protests are about much more than the mistreatment of women by the morality police; they now pointedly call into question the regime’s very existence. The crowds now chant, not “woman, life, freedom” but, more ominously for the rulers, “Death to the Islamic Republic!” and “Death to the Dictator!”
The regime wants to shut down the sources of information about the protests that are now broadcast into Iran by Iran International, a station run in London by Iranian exiles. It has been, and may still be, financed by Saudi nationals. Hence the threats from Iran being made against the U.K., an addition to the threats constantly being made by the regime in Tehran against the U.S., Israel, and Saudi Arabia. The Iran wants the British government to shut down Iran International. That, of course, won’t happen. More on the Iranian regime’s latest threats can be found here: “Iranian official threatens UK over coverage of ongoing protests,” by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, November 9, 2022:
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib claimed that the UK was leading “propaganda” efforts and feeding the ongoing protests sweeping Iran since the killing of Mahsa Amini by Iranian “morality police,” in statements on Tuesday.
Khatib complained that the US, UK, Israel and Saudi Arabia had conducted “the greatest ‘influence operation’ on a country taken to destabilize that country and create unrest in it through hybrid warfare.”
The only thing that the US, UK, and Israel have done is broadcast the truth about the protests to the people of Iran. Nothing else – no “propaganda” – need be broadcast, and none is. The truth itself is horrifying enough. Whether it is the BBC Persian Service, the VOA’s Persian service, or Israel’s state-run radio (that has been broadcasting programs in Farsi for the last 50 years), they are all in the business of getting the truth to Iranians. Saudi Arabia is also a danger to Tehran because its nationals have provided the early financing for Iran International, run by Iranian exiles in London.
The minister [Esmail Khatib] pointed to Israel as the main factor in “implementation,” saying that “in terms of propaganda, England’s role was clearer.” Khatib added that Saudi Arabia was funding the alleged “influence operation” as well.
Khatib is right to blame the U.K. both for the BBC Persian Service, which broadcasts not “propaganda,” but even more dangerous for the Tehran regime, the truth about what’s going on inside Iran, and provides a secure home for the headquarters of Iran International, broadcasting from London. It is Iran International, with its network of informants reporting to it from all over Iran, that enables a resident of Iranian Kurdistan, for example, to find out what has been happening in Khuzestan or Tehran, and allows someone in Mashhad or Qom to find out about the latest massacre in Baluchistan. Information about both the continuing protests and the violent response by the government is sent surreptitiously by correspondents inside Iran to Iran International, which then beams those reports back into Iran. Iran International now has a 33% share of the Iranian radio audience. No wonder the regime is in a rage with the U.K. for hosting this dangerous purveyor of truth.
“Unlike England, we will never support acts of terrorism and the creation of insecurity in other countries,” said Khatib. “However, we also have no obligation to prevent insecurity in those countries either. Therefore, England will pay for the measures it has taken to try to make Iran insecure.”
“Unlike England, we will never support acts of terrorism.” Minister of Intelligence Esmail Khatib appears to have forgotten Iran’s support, with money and weapons, to two terror groups, Hamas in Gaza, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran is the greatest supporter of terrorism in the world today; it has been expanding into South America, where its agents have supported Hezbollah’s two biggest terrorist attacks, one the bombing in Buenos Aires of the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association in 1994, and the other the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in the same city in 1992. Iran has been expanding its operations, too, in West Africa, where recruits for Hezbollah, and thus for its puppet-master Iran, have been found among the groups of Lebanese Shi’a traders who have long been settled in the area.
Khatib additionally threatened the Iran International news network, based in London, calling it a “terrorist organization” and warning that its “operatives” would be pursued by Iranian intelligence. It was unclear if the minister was threatening to attack reporters in the UK.
“From here on, any kind of connection with this terrorist organization will be considered to be tantamount to entering the field of terrorism and a threat to national security,” warned the minister.
Khatib ridiculed Saudi Arabia for its alleged support of the protests in Iran, stating “our fate and that of other countries in the region are tied together due to our neighborhood.”
“From Iran’s point of view, any instability in the countries of the region is contagious, and any instability in Iran can be contagious to the countries of the region,” said the minister. “Faraway countries [America, the U.K.]are the destabilizers of the region. Throwing stones at powerful Iran by countries sitting in glass houses has no meaning other than crossing the borders of rationality into the darkness of stupidity.”
The threat expressed by Minister Khatib to Saudi Arabia, is clear. ”If we suffer from instability, then the Kingdom, too, should expect to suffer the same fate.” The instability is “contagious” only because Iran will make sure to spread it. What can Iran do to “destabilize” Saudi Arabia? First, it can provide the Houthis in Yemen with more armed drones to use against Saudi oil facilities and airbases, as the Houthis have already done in the past. Second, it can stir up trouble in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, where all of the country’s oil is located – and so are almost all of the country’s 3.5 million Shia, who might be susceptible to Iranian broadcasts detailing all the ways they were savagely suppressed in 2011 and 2012, and the bad blood between Shia and Sunni in the Kingdom has only worsened. If Iran has a mind to really stir up trouble, it could whip up, with its own broadcasts, anti-Saudi sentiments among that country’s Shi’a. Iran could also smuggle across the Gulf both money and weapons to the Shia in the Eastern Province. It is to this that Esmail Khatib alludes when he warns that “instability” in the region can be “contagious.”
Khatib additionally warned that Iran would not guarantee the continuation of “strategic patience” towards Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region amid what he called “the continuation of hostilities.
“Undoubtedly, if the will of the Islamic Republic of Iran is given to reciprocate and punish these countries, the glass palaces will collapse and these countries will not see stability.”
Iranian media has referred to Iran International as a “Saudi” news outlet, and IRGC officials have warned Saudi Arabia to “control” media outlets it deems as “promoting mischief” and “provoking” Iranian youth.
The Saudis are not about to rein in or censor the broadcasts — far less than what is broadcast about Iran on the BBC, VOA, and Israeli Persian-language stations — on their own television and radio stations about Iran. And even if they had wanted to, the Saudis could not now shut down, or censor, broadcasts from Iran International. That London-based station owed its existence initially to Saudi money, but now is believed to be under strictly Iranian (exile) ownership. Iran is the Kingdom’s mortal enemy; the Saudis take great comfort in the nationwide protests that are destabilizing the Islamic Republic. The warnings from the IRGC to the Saudis to “control” their media are futile. And what can Iran do to the Kingdom, other than what it is already doing, by encouraging Houthi drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities? If Iran itself – not the Houthis — were to hit Saudi Arabia directly, it won’t be the Saudis responding, but the Great Satan. A recent incident made this clear:
Last week, Saudi Arabia warned the US that there was an “imminent attack” being planned by Iran against targets in Iraqi Kurdistan and Saudi Arabia, prompting the US and other countries to raise their alert level, according to Western media. The US reportedly launched fighter jets towards Iran in response to the threats.
When no Iranian drones were launched, the planes turned back. But the incident showed American willingness to take on Iran directly, if need be. The U.S. cannot tolerate any further reduction in Saudi oil output, and will defend Saudi oil installations against any perceived threat from Iran – like the ones just made by Minister of Intelligence Khatib.
Iran International will continue to broadcast, its staff clearly unintimidated, from London. The Metro police will beef up security around the broadcasters’ headquarters and homes. Iran’s warnings to Saudi Arabia to censor Iran International’s broadcasts are pointless; Saudi nationals no longer own the station. Nor can the Iranians hope to frighten the three other main sources of truthful news about their country, that have a huge Iranian audience:: the Farsi-language services of the BBC, the VOA, and Israel’s national radio. The protests will continue to be covered; the murderers, ands, and the murderers, will be named. Iran will continue to flail and to threaten, but to no avail. In Iran, the protesters are shouting “Death to the Dictator1” The girls and women are still burning their hijabs. The Kurds and Baluchis are now chanting separatist slogans, causing tremors in Tehran. And now clerics are having their turbans knocked off. La lutte continue. |
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| From: Joachim K | 11/13/2022 10:51:12 PM | | | | | | Former State Department official says new Iran deal would be disaster for the U.S. and for the Iranian people
NOV 13, 2022 5:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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That does not at all mean that Biden’s handers won’t continue to pursue it when they calculate that they can do so with minimal political damage.
“Fmr State Dept Spox: Iran Nuclear Deal Dead as Anti-Regime Protests Surge,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 11, 2022:
The Biden administration’s negotiations over a revamped version of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are dead as the result of massive anti-regime protests that have swept across the Islamic Republic, according to the former Trump administration’s State Department spokeswoman.
“I don’t see any room or any space for [the administration] to build back into” the long-stalled negotiations, Morgan Ortagus, who served under former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, said during a panel discussion Friday afternoon at the Richard Nixon Foundation’s Grand Strategy Summit in Washington, D.C. “It would be a political disaster in the U.S. and a disaster for the people of Iran who are rejecting this regime.”
How could the Biden administration “financially empower the very oppressors of the women and teenagers we’re supposed to be standing up for and standing with?” Ortagus asked….
Upon entering office, President Joe Biden’s team “didn’t have a plan for Iran except for going back into the JCPOA,” the official acronym for the Iran deal, Ortagus said. If the administration had been able to finalize another “weak and pathetic deal,” Ortagus said that around three-fourths of the Senate would have rejected it. Iran, she added, “played [Biden] for 18 months” and “I don’t see any strategy” going forward.
Jon Alterman, a former State Department official who heads the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank, pushed back on Ortagus’s assessment. He said the Trump administration’s so-called maximum pressure campaign on Tehran—which included the toughest sanctions regime in history—failed because U.S. allies were not on board.
It is “deeply mistaken and perhaps dishonest to argue the Biden admin thought the JCPOA was going to fix Iran,” Alterman said. “Our record of changing governments and putting something better in their place is pretty checkered.”
Alterman said he agrees with the Biden administration’s response to the anti-regime protest movement in Iran.
“The Biden administration actually has been walking a reasonable line to criticize the Iranian government for its abuses, but to be careful not to speak for the protesters, not to advocate for the protesters.”… |
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