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German Intelligence: Iran, Syria, and Pakistan are Producing Weapons of Mass Destruction

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This should be well known among all Western leaders and citizens alike, but it’s good to see it backed up by an intelligence report. The threat of states such as Iran and Pakistan, and Syria also to a lesser degree, is based in large part on Islamic doctrines of warfare against unbelievers. The chief threat is, […]

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Sane people remind Biden of 9/11 after he calls Capitol storming ‘worst attack on our democracy since Civil War’

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Biden is rightly being ridiculed for this ridiculous statement, but make no mistake: beyond the silliness and hysteria is an insidious agenda. Biden’s handlers mean to stigmatize, demonize and silence all dissent from their far-left agenda. Wildly exaggerating what happened on January 6, and the concomitant “white supremacist agenda,” is in service of that agenda. […]

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Meet the Swiss Billionaire Behind Arabella Advisors’ “Dark Money” Empire

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New York Times reporter Ken Vogel recently revealed the efforts by Swiss billionaire and leftist mega-donor Hansjörg Wyss to purchase the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and other failing newspapers around the country. It’s laudable to see such genuine investigative journalism—especially since it likely led the billionaire to withdraw his $100 million bid. When so many framed Wyss as a liberal […]

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Biden’s Team of Israel-Haters

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Just days after Joe Biden was inaugurated, pro-Erdogan Turkish journalist Hakkı Öcal, according to Ahval News, “highlighted a report on the strong presence of Jews in the cabinet of U.S. President Joe Biden.” The report claimed that there was an “over 50 percent Jewish presence in the new U.S. cabinet,” and pointed Secretary of State Antony […]

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When Generals Stray Into Politics…

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This week–despite the resounding failure of the “land-for-peace” formula—3 former IDF generals penned an Op-Ed, urging the Biden administration to “keep open a path to an eventual two-state solution.” “La guerre! C’est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaires”— George Clemenceau, commonly paraphrased as “War is too important to be left to […]

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STUDY: Religious Scriptures that Legitimize Violence Cause More Believers to Support Terrorism

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“Study authors suspect the reason for this dramatic difference between the faiths is because a large number of Muslims adhere to a ‘fundamentalist interpretation’ of their faith.” It’s actually because of the contents of the Islamic scriptures, which contain direct exhortations to do violence against unbelievers. Jewish and Christian scriptures contain some violent passages, but […]

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Biden’s Curious Choice to Lead Customs and Border Protection

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As Tucson Police Chief, Chris Magnus refused to assist Border Patrol. The disaster on the U.S./Mexican border has catapulted the issue of border security to new levels of importance. Therefore, the Biden administration’s pick for the Director of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an always important position, has taken on additional significance. On April 12, […]

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SKY NEWS: ‘Joe Biden’s stupidity is now a threat to the West’ [Video]

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 A rare, wonderful truth-teller — yes, Virginia, they still exist. ‘Joe Biden’s stupidity is now a threat to the West’: Bolt By: Andrew Bolt, Sky News, April 26, 2021: Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the “stupidity” of US President Joe Biden is now a “threat to the West”. Mr Bolt said Biden’s recent climate […]

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NEW YORK CITY: Muslim migrant gets life in prison for jihad bombing on subway in 2017

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“Akayed Ullah, 31, of Brooklyn, New York, and a lawful permanent resident of Bangladesh…” Why was he here at all? Why did vetting procedures, if any, fail? What is being done to make sure this doesn’t happen again? Why, nothing, of course. Just the opposite. Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for ISIS-inspired Bombing in […]

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China’s Push for Global Power

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY’S ANNUAL 2021 THREAT ASSESSMENT One of the unique aspects of the United States Intelligence Community is that it often publishes its collective thinking in the public domain. Each year, for instance, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence produces an unclassified version of a report of worldwide threats […]

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China’s Strange Endorsement of “Net Zero”

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You have to hand it to Xi Jinping. The Chinese “president for life” last September schmoozed the royalty of the United Nations with his unexpected pledge that his country aims “to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality (Net Zero) before 2060.” Xi then urged other nations “to pursue innovative, coordinated, green and open development […]

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House passes bill stopping any future president from imposing ‘travel ban on the basis of religion’

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The list of countries of concern that the Trump administration outlined in an executive order was based on the document devised by the former Obama administration. Despite the fact that it was Obama who set the foundation, it is Trump who is persistently criticized as being discriminatory against Muslims. Obama restricted visa waivers for seven Muslim-majority countries: […]

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Interior Enforcement And The Border Crisis

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The one issue intentionally ignored by our corrupt political elites. There is no shortage of news coverage about the immigration crisis on the U.S.-Mexican border, with much of the coverage focusing on the horrific conditions in which unaccompanied minors are being kept. What is almost never discussed, however, is how the lack of interior enforcement […]

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China’s Espionage Assault on the United States

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In an earlier article, I discussed the meaning behind the “China Dream” of “rejuvenating” China as a great power – which essentially means supplanting the United States to create an authoritarian, China-centric global system (What Does China Want? Xi Jinping’s “China Dream” . In pursuit this objective, China uses all of its instruments of national power, […]

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NYC: YouTube Prankster Tells Restaurant Patrons He Has Bomb, Will Kill Them for Allah

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It was all a big joke, you see, and really, what’s funnier than a jihad bombing? Back in February, a young man named Malik Sanchez, who refers to himself by the spectacular misnomer of “Smooth Sanchez,” published a nearly three-and-a-half-hour-long video on his YouTube channel, which has 5,400 subscribers, featuring himself walking along the streets of […]

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Cities, Countries, and Economies Were Built With Derivatives From Oil, Not By Electricity

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Before world leaders move too fast to consummate their climate policies, they need to be cognizant of two “aha” moments: 1) wind and solar can only generate intermittent electricity, and 2) electricity cannot manufacture the oil derivatives that are the basis of the thousands of products that have built the world’s cities, countries, and economies […]

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When did Palestine become Palestine?

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The Palestinian-Arabs’ claim for sovereignty over what they now insist is their long yearned-for homeland arose only after 1967—i.e. when it came under Jewish administration. The Arabs didn’t provoke war with Israel in 1967 to achieve Palestinian independence…Arab rulers could have established a Palestinian state in those territories whenever they chose to do so. But […]

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Turkey blasts Geert Wilders ‘anti-Islam’ tweet to start Ramadan

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To highlight the jihad during Ramadan, Geert Wilders released a tweet which drew stinging attack from Turkey — illustrating yet again the validity of Geert Wilder’s warnings about Islam. Listen to clip HERE. Stop islam. Stop #Ramadan Freedom. No islam. pic.twitter.com/YU1IBXDlGu — Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) April 12, 2021 For many, Ramadan is the month of jihad: A month of […]

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Pentagon to Root-Out White Extremists, but Silent on Black Man involved in Shooting at Fort Detrick

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I’ve been checking every day or so to see if there is news, any news, on the Navy medic, Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, who attempted to kill two fellow Navy men in Frederick, Maryland a week ago. I figured by today the military would be ready to report a motive for the attempted murder of a white Corpsman […]

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Situation Report: Antifa/BLM Riots Continue in Minneapolis and Portland

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Hundreds rioted in the Brooklyn Center suburb of Minneapolis after a police-involved fatal shooting April 11. 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed following a traffic spot. Police reportedly determined that Wright had “outstanding warrants” and were attempting to arrest him when Wright re-entered his vehicle and attempted to flee the scene. Body camera footage […]

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More About Joe and the Jews

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Democrat Jimmy Carter became the U.S. president in 1977, only 32 years after six-million Jewish men, women, children and infants were savagely starved, tortured, shot in cold blood, buried in mass graves and gassed to death by Hitler’s bloodthirsty Nazi regime in Germany and other East European countries. Yet, the longtime Sunday school teacher could […]

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Biden’s handlers to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan for four months beyond Trump’s deadline

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They say they will bring them home by September. We shall see. What four more months will accomplish in this long, catastrophic, pointless war is not clear to anyone, including those among Biden’s handlers who made this decision. All the four more months will establish is that Biden’s handlers are not Trump, and that they […]

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Arizona AG Says Kamala Harris Refuses To Respond to His Border Tour Invitation

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All hell (literally) has broken loose at the border – now in firm control by drug cartels, thanks to the illegitimate ‘Biden’ administration. As if that wasn’t bad enough, they put that silly clown in charge and she’s been MIA ever since. It’s was just a couple of months back we saw Trump handle the […]

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Democrats Play a Cynical Game at the Border

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America has a border wall that is very efficient at keeping out intruders. It hasn’t been breached once in over three months. Unfortunately, it protects only our political elites at the US Capitol, who are under minimal threat. Other Americans must make do with a wall that is highly porous, that leaks multitudes of illegal […]

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Arizona News – April 10, 2021

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The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers. Governor Ducey Should Follow The Science By Signing The “Mask Freedom” Bill Democrats Play The Long […]

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Chinese Propaganda Group Has Spent Years Cozying Up To Black Colleges

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A think tank that U.S. officials consider a Chinese influence agent has cultivated ties to Historically Black Colleges and Universities [HBCUs] since 2014. The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) has paid a consultant nearly $670,000 since 2017 to arrange student visits from the schools to China, as well as to make introductions to members of the […]

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Jordan’s ‘House of Cards’–The implications for Israel

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Israel could face a situation, where along its lengthiest border, there would no longer be a conservative, pro-Western monarchy, but an extreme Muslim regime, with incandescent hostility towards the Jewish state There is nothing certain, but the uncertain. ~ Traditional Proverb. Incoming media reports from Jordan indicate that the clash within the royal family earlier […]

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Farrakhan: Capitol attacker ‘would have been a star in the mission of the resurrection of our people’

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Farrakhan will never say anything like this, but in attacking Capitol police officers and murdering one of them, Noah Green did fulfill his potential as the Nation of Islam sees it. His action was a manifestation of the Nation’s hatred and bloodlust. “Nation of Islam Calls Supporter Who Assaulted U.S. Capitol ‘Brother With Such Great […]

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Monetary Policy in America Is a Mess. Things Are Even Worse in Europe.

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High inflation takes off where political forces are too strong to permit the implementation of harsh remedial measures with respect to taxation and monetary policy such as to prevent an implosion of the national currency. In the contemporary global financial marketplace, there has been fluctuating concern about the US heading toward this point, albeit at a […]

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Is Customs and Border Protection Covering Up the Arrest of Two Yemenis on the Terror Watch List?

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As if we needed still more illustration of the fact that the border is a national security issue and that jihad terrorists are exploiting Biden’s handlers’ open border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Monday that “U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector arrested two Yemeni men within the last 2 months that […]

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