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Encouraging news from Islam

| March 14, 2023 | 17 Comments
Encouraging news from Islam

Never thought I would see the day…an Islamic legislative group declared a ‘fatwa’ against Hamas for their treatment of Palestinians. The unprecedented declaration, published by the Islamic Fatwa Council, a non-government body of Shiite, Sunni and Sufi clerics headquartered in the Iraqi spiritual capital of Najaf, states that Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood […]

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Friday quickies – Iran, author update, tankers lose naming rights

| March 10, 2023 | 14 Comments
Friday quickies – Iran, author update, tankers lose naming rights

Our favorite folks in the Mideast, those crazy mullahs of mayhem, have announced the discovery of one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium. Think lithium-ion batteries – with all the push toward electrification, you can safely describe it as a strategic asset and Iran claims to have found about 8.5 million tons’ worth. If […]

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Iran’s activities in the Persian Gulf area has everyone’s attention

| February 22, 2023 | 7 Comments
Iran’s activities in the Persian Gulf area has everyone’s attention

It’s not just what they’re doing with a nuclear program, it’s the other things that they are also doing. Iran is conducting nonproductive activities in relationship to other countries in the region, including the hostile use of drones. Last year, the Iranians tried to confiscate a Navy water drone, but the U.S. Navy “convinced” them […]

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Ah, those trustworthy mullahs

| February 22, 2023 | 20 Comments
Ah, those trustworthy mullahs

  Several sources are reporting that Iran, that paragon of upright honest dealing, has been detected with uranium enriched at 84%. Iran has been enriching uranium to up to 60% purity since April 2021. Three months ago, it started enriching to 60% at a second site, Fordow, which is dug into a mountain. Weapons grade […]

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Thanks, Iran!

| February 18, 2023 | 39 Comments
Thanks, Iran!

Honestly, I never thought I would go on record as saying this, but a big Thank You! to the Iranian Government and (presumably) the Revolutionary Guard. Iran may have donated thousands of assault rifles and thousands of tons of ammunition to the Ukrainian war effort after the U.S. Navy confiscated the weapons from suspected smuggling […]

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Drone strike inside Iran

| January 29, 2023 | 23 Comments
Drone strike inside Iran

An Iranian facility related to its military experienced an explosion as a result of a drone attack. The Iranians claimed that the drones carried bombs and targeted an Iranian Ministry of Defense workshop in Isfahan. They reported that some damage was caused. They also claimed that air defenses hit one drone and defense traps destroyed […]

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Iran Unrest Turns Violent

| September 27, 2022 | 11 Comments
Iran Unrest Turns Violent

Mahsa Amini Died in Police Custody Street violence in Iranian cities was triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd. She was in a coma after being detained by the morality police in Tehran for not wearing a head covering. Thousands of Iranian men and women have taken to the streets for the […]

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Quick updates

| September 7, 2022 | 11 Comments
Quick updates

Want to know why I am pretty sure a recklessly careless killer will face few criminal consequences? No real updated info on  Alec Baldwin, but a quick Google search for the phrase “probation for manslaughter” turned up 4,440,000 hits. Unless it turns out he was staggering drunk, I’m predicting he will do little if any […]

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