Russia to Supply Iran with Advanced Satellite System that Will Boost Tehran's Ability to Surveil Military Targets - Joby Warrick
Russia is preparing to supply Iran with an advanced satellite system that will
give Tehran an unprecedented ability to track potential military targets across
the Middle East and beyond, according to current and former U.S. and Middle
Eastern officials.
The Iranians will receive a Russian-made Kanopus-V satellite
equipped with a high-resolution camera that would greatly enhance Iran's spying
capabilities, allowing continuous monitoring of Persian Gulf oil refineries,
Israeli military bases, and Iraqi barracks that house U.S. troops. Iran would
be able to task the new satellite to spy on locations of its choosing, as often
as it wishes.
Leaders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have made multiple trips to Russia since 2018 to negotiate the agreement. This spring, Russian experts traveled to Iran to train ground crews to operate the satellite from a new facility near the northern city of Karaj.
"This capability will allow Iran to maintain an accurate
target bank, and to update that target bank within a few hours" every day,
said a Middle Eastern official. Equally concerning is the possibility that Iran
could share the imagery with pro-Iranian militia groups across the region,
including Hizbullah in Lebanon and Shiite militias in Iraq. Pro-Iranian
militias have been linked to repeated rocket attacks on Iraqi military bases
that are home to U.S. troops. (Washington Post)
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Subject: THE WASHINGTON POST HITS OBAMA
Finally, the Washington Post speaks out on Obama! This is very brutal, timely though. As I'm sure you know, the Washington Post newspaper has a reputation for being extremely liberal. So the fact that its editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama in its newspaper makes this a truly amazing event and a news story in and of itself. At last, the truth about our President and his obvious socialist agenda are starting to trickle through the protective wall built around him by our liberal media.
I too have become disillusioned
By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.
He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.
Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves. Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop- out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is.
And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.
And what about his character?
Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our past president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
And now Obama is back, with his hand up Biden's (you know what) moving his demented mouth........ the USA is in real trouble.....
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Joe Manchin apparently means no when he says no:
Joe Manchin like you’ve never heard him before; Our Interview
By Salena Zito
Joe Manchin like you’ve never heard him before;
Our Interview
Click here for the full story.
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| Denmark: NATO, the European Union, and the Future of the Transatlantic Community Featuring H. R. McMaster and Anders Fogh Rasmussen via Battlegrounds In this episode of Battlegrounds, Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow H. R. McMaster interviews Anders Fogh Rasmussen, prime minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009 and general secretary of NATO from 2009 to 2014. Topics in this conversation include Russian aggression in Europe, especially in the Baltic Sea region; China’s attempts to coerce European societies through investments in infrastructure and businesses; and what strategies can be deployed to promote unity within Europe and strengthen the resilience of the world’s democracies against the forces of authoritarianism. +++ The United States’ Strategic Competition with China Matt Pottinger explains that following the Cold War, the United States replaced the Soviet Union as China’s primary security concern, leading Beijing to devise a grand strategy aimed at supplanting American power in Asia and dominating the global order to promote an authoritarian model of governance. He explains that, currently, Beijing is attempting to leverage its dominance in international production chains to pursue its political objectives. Pottinger advises that American policy makers adopt a counterstrategy against the policies that China initially set 30 years ago. This would include addressing immediate challenges such as bypassing Beijing’s communication firewall and establishing common cause with China’s middle and entrepreneurial classes; ensuring that the financial activities of American citizens aren’t supporting China’s modernization of its military or Beijing’s human rights abuses; winning the race against China for supremacy in technological innovation; and increasing funding for Taiwan’s military to deter People’s Liberation Army aggression against the island nation. +++ At least someone has the courage to stand up and be heard: Black Mom Torches Critical Race Theory: It’s ‘Racist,’ It’s ‘Teaching Hate,’ Will Destroy America +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Biden left yesterday to attend a G7 meeting, have tea with the Queen, go to a NATO Meeting then have a one on one with Putin. At the G7 Meeting he told our allies we were back being their friend which means you can walk all over us as you did before Trump. NATO remains a paper tiger and Biden is selling the message Democracies and Capitalism can beat oligarchies. There is some truth in that if the Democracies are co-ordinated and on the same page but that is not currently the case or Germany would not have chosen to be dependent on Russian oil and Biden would not be agreeing to Russia opening their pipeline in Europe while he is closing them in America. No telling what Biden will agree to with Putin. +++++++++++++++++++++++ It never hurts to understand the meaning of words:
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