Much of the UKs new muslim citizens are of Pakistani (Sunni) faith, and Iran is Shia.
How far are we from North korea? Seriously communism is slow walk there. Healthcare crumbling and people get poorer and it is matter of time.
Apart from migrants, all those points checkout. NK just doesnt have as fancy datacenters and CCTV. Essentially they are still part of global government coz Kim forces them to work for cheap abroad to bring revenue home for elite.
Ah, I dont see big diffence. Unless jihadism is only sunni thing. I think both flavors have mosqs in London though. Forgot which flavor hamas supporters and hizbollah are, I dont think Iran “discriminates” there for higher cause.
Gaza/west bank are majority sunni, small group of shias and ahmadi muslim.
That’s way more than fair share of covid jabs, maybe 20-30$ a pop, for 5.2mn NZ population. She looks manchurian candidate WEF and globalists love to use. Analog in corporate world is company is in trouble, they hire “chainsaw man” leader, who reorganizes and chops company to pieces to sell quite cheap to competitors, takes fat bonuses and leaves for vacation. Then rinse and repeat a bit later in other company.
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They are asking us to believe:
- The Iranians didn’t disperse their program long ago, or in the very least this week, before the most telegraphed attack in history, on the schwerpunkt of their national defence.
- The Iranians didnt concentrate their air defence effort around the above sites, or if they did, they saw nothing - even 5th gen stealth fighters are detectable at around 10km with enough radars, and B2s are larger and older.
- Despite the US telegraphing they would use the (GPS guided) The Iranians didnt jam the GPS signals around Fordo yet they were doing so around Hormuz
- The US, having admitted that ONE GBU 57 didnt have enough penetration to reach the tunnels, managed to drop TWO near simulataneously down each of 6 holes (again with sufficient GPS precision !)
- In each of these ‘double taps’… the first bomb drilled a neat hole that stayed open for the followup bomb … it didnt collapse and fill with debris, nor did the inevitable storm of ejecta influence the follow-up bomb
- The follow up bomb found a nice straight hole to drop into down to 60m, said first hole not only having stayed open, but being pencil straight even after the first one exploded at depth…
- The Iranian facility was obliterated… trust us … just look at the satellite pic we produced with 6 holes in the ground…
I could go on…
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Right, and those big shots will just move while the small restaurant owners who invested their life’s blood get hosed.
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Excellent Signal hour Chris and Evie. Thank you
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If I was rich and hated the USA, I’d corrupt the government by causing the worst options to get into office.
Then, I’d gaslight everyone into believing the person got in honestly, until such people could win naturally.
Politicians are cheaper than bombs.
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Speaking of breaking societies. Who was behind the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa?
At university, Nelson Mandela met the people who would champion an end to apartheid and his ascent to president:
- Helen Suzman ( née Gavronsky)
- Harry Heinz Schwartz
- Yossel Mashel “Joe” Slovo
And now SA is where it is.
You can look at the wiki pages of the above people if you doubt your instincts.
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There are 223 representatives in Iran’s version of congress. 221 of them just voted in favor of Iran abandoning relationship with the IAEA. No votes against. So with 2 abstentions or absences it was unanimous across domestic party lines. This means that Israel and the US managed to unite Iran’s domestic opposition to the existing regime with the regime’s proponents for the shared goal of resisting and sending a message to the West and Israel. And as a result, the IAEA loses access to Iran’s nuclear research and development facilities.
Despite Trump’s erroneous claims - which were based on bad analysis via Palantir’s Mosaic AI algorithm - and the nefarious coordination between Israel and the EU3 (France, Germany, UK) to provide Trump and the world false information, neither IAEA nor the 18 spy agencies of the US government had found any evidence of Iran striving for a nuke, despite more than a decade of active inspections of Iran’s nuclear activities in the years leading up to Israel’s baseless and unjustified assault. But now, thanks to stupidity (in the form of failing to think through an initial plan to the range of potential outcomes and how to address them) and hubris (the certainty that Iran would collapse following the decapitation strikes, and couldn’t mount an effective counterstrike in any event), the West will no longer be able to reassure itself that Iran is not pursuing nukes.
Remember, even though Trump in his last presidential term abandoned US participation in the JCPOA, Iran continued to abide by its provisions unilaterally. Makes one wonder which country and leadership is the honorable and above board actor, doesn’t it? But now, that’s gone. And it wouldn’t surprise me to learn down the road that it was after this mugging that Iran changed course and began developing its own nuke, purely for self-defense. After all, it’s clear the West will return to its own vomit eventually - probably sooner than later - and make another attempt to gobble up Iran.
They have to because Iran is the lynchpin to the success or failure of the BRICS-oriented alternate trade corridors, and either a shield against, or a soft underbelly to, threatening territorial Russia. The West needs to control Iran to maintain its hegemony. Russia and China need to prevent that in order to solidify a multi-polarity future.
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Steve Bannon warned on “The Glenn Beck Program” that “we’re already in the beginning of the kinetic part of the Third World War.” But is Iran the biggest threat to America, or is the real threat what Iran represents: the political form of Islam that is spreading and the new relationships that have now been exposed among communists, radical leftists, and Islamists? Glenn reveals tape from a Michigan imam who details the real goal of Iran and Islamists: ending Western civilization. It’s what Glenn Beck predicted years ago on Fox News. “Globalize the intifada” is no longer a death chant by Hamas jihadis in Gaza; it’s now basically the slogan from New York City’s Democratic Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani. The evidence is clear — radical Islamic ideology has spread from the Middle East to Europe and has made a home in America. Wake up.
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Didn’t know Iran was vital to BRICS.
The link I posted to Johnson-Horton interview is interesting regarding Iran/IAEA.
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This polarization would be what they need to provoke and get more propaganda material for US use… “see? they all oppose US. we need intervention!”
So far iranians dont like their government but also dont want war. This polarization would enable path to provoke both sides.
Mamdani in NYC would provide excellent reasoning why iran is bad. As few can read arabic(local language in iran?) we cant really see their viewpoint.
As VTGothic said taking over Iran somehow is strategic interest, but doing more than B2 campaign would need huge popular support in US.
This characterisation of the anti-apartheid movement within and outside of South Africa is simplistic at best.
Nelson Mandela was a Methodist.
Helen Suzman and Harry Schwartz were classic liberal politicians (not liberal in the US sense) who opposed Apartheid through political parties in the SA parliament, and did their best within the confines of SA laws.
Joe Slovo and Ronnie Kasrils were members of the Communist Party that was banned and demonised, and campaigned against Apartheid from exile. They were also anti-Zionist, FWIW.
The latter 4 were all Jewish, yes. Mandela was not.
There were many Jews inside and outsize South Africa who were opposed to Apartheid on moral grounds, and spoke out accordingly. Some, like Harry Oppenheimer, put their money where their mouth was and funded opposition political parties, schools, charities, etc. I attended one of those schools, and voted for one of those parties.
But you should also be aware that many many Christians in South Africa opposed Apartheid on moral grounds, both within the ANC and in the broader anti-Apartheid movements within and outside the country. Trevor Huddleston and Desmond Tutu were prominent Anglican opponents. The South African Council of Churches played an important role too.
Opposition to Apartheid came from a broad spectrum of religious and civil society groups, including trade unions, churches, NGOs, Synagogues, temples, mosques, political parties, student groups like the End Conscription Campaign and NUSAS, and human rights groups like the Black Sash the IRR and the Legal Resources Centre.
Anyone who tries to tell you that the ANC and the Congress Alliance were “the sole liberators of South Africa” is lying. As it has turned out, the ANC hasn’t ended Apartheid. They have enacted 141 new race-based laws.
Part of the current SA government’s antipathy towards Israel stems from the perception that the Israeli government is implementing Apartheid policies by turning the West Bank and Gaza into a Bantustan. Much of that anti-Zionist rhetoric comes from the SA Communist Party, and the Muslim members of the ANC, such as Naledi Pandor.
I hope this post adds further insign to the South African story.
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Persuade someone with winning words because a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still
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I think the American Indians called us non-agreement capable long before Russia
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It’s always the kids with the most bizarre backgrounds that end up socialists it seem. His father is “Ugandan” but actually Indian. Mother is straight from Hindustan.
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Yeah, it’s an interesting hub - a cross-roads. Belt & Road goes East-West through Iran, and the International North-South Trade Corridor goes North-South through Iran. Thus the interest in Iran’s fate by both China and Russia.
The INSTC particularly fascinates me. It runs from the Arctic Sea (via a branch from near St. Petersburg) down the Volga, across the Caspian and Iran, then by short sea route to India. It branches, also, along the Dan into the Sea of Azov, thence to the Black Sea and Mediterranean (which helps explain Russia’s determination to get the settlement it wants in Ukraine).
Also, see the explanation and graphics from a presentation to the 2023 iteration of the Valdai Discussion Club gathering for more detailed map.
Belt & Road crosses INSTC in Iran, on the northern coast of the Caspian, and at Moscow.
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The most interesting thing I find with the Red Queen is how 6 weeks before a general election she went from a relatively unknown back bench member of Parliament for Mount Albert to 5 months later to Labour Party leader who went on to win the election
Coincidence ?
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About that enriched uranium.
I asked Grok about the volume of 409kg of enriched Uranium, and it is pretty small. Less than a cubic foot.
But there’s a catch. In order to store weapons grade uranium safely (you don’t want to set it off by mistake), you need big “Type B” casks. Each one measures 1.5m diameter and 3m long. If you disguised them by putting all 41 of them in standard 20-ft shipping containers, you would need 11 such containers, or more, depending on how many places you want to move them to.
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/2025-us-military-carried-successful-106926587.jpg
The picture of Fordoz a few days before the bombing shows 16 trucks lined up. These are open-bed trucks, and one article I saw said they were bringing dirt and rocks to the site to block the entrances, not to remove anything. And it would be possible to track where the trucks went if they loaded up a big Type B cask ot two.
@cmartenson I’m a bit disappointed in the way you are muddling terms like “nuclear reactor”, and “nuclear facility”.
So far I have seen no reports of radiation leakage from active nuclear power plants, and no active nuclear power plants have been bombed.
The Israelis and US have targeted “nuclear facilities” like Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan. But these facilities are primarily focused on uranium enrichment, conversion, and nuclear research, not electricity generation.
Iran’s electricity-generating nuclear facility is the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, which is separate and not associated with these sites. An Israeli claim of a strike on Bushehr was retracted as a “mistake,” and the IAEA and Iranian authorities report no damage or radiation increase at the site. Strikes in Bushehr province targeted other infrastructure, like the airport, but not the nuclear plant itself.
I’m not writing this to defend any military action, but I think we need to filter out the signal from the noise.
Another example is the distinction between civilian and military. I think we can all agree that anyone who wears a military uniform and is actively engaged by the Iranian army or the IRGC is a “military target”, just like an active soldier in the IDF.
So what then about a nuclear scientist? Is one who works at Israel’s Dimona or Soreq Nuclear Research Centre part of the IDF? Probably not, unless they are reservists, but then their reservist activity would interfere with their research.
Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is managed by the civilian Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), focusing on uranium enrichment at Natanz and Fordow, with supporting facilities like Isfahan for conversion and research. Officially civilian, aimed at nuclear power (Bushehr) and research, the program’s high enrichment levels (60%+), restricted IAEA access, and historical weaponization research suggest a potential military dimension. The program’s dual-use capability allows for a rapid shift to weapons production if decided, but Iran denies military intent.
So if Israel targets top nuclear scientists in Iran, are they any military targets or not? We don’t really know.
Finally, there is the tricky question of human shields and embedding military infrastructure in civilian areas or facilities. The Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheba Israel was damaged by an Iranian missile. Iran claimed it was a military target because soldiers are treated there.
The nearest military installation to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba is an under-construction IDF army base, located just over 1 km (approximately 1.2–1.5 km) away. The IDF Southern Command base is the next closest, at over 2 km (likely ~2–3 km). Iranian claims of a military facility within 0.5 km (e.g., in the Gav-Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park) are unsupported by credible evidence and contradicted by Israeli statements and the civilian nature of the area.
On June 24, 2025, just before a ceasefire between Israel and Iran took effect, an Iranian ballistic missile struck a seven-story apartment block in Beersheba, Israel, killing four people, and injuring around 20 people. Soroka Medical Center, located in Beersheba, treated 10 of these injured, with two in moderate condition.
So was Soroka a civilian hospital or not? Residents of Beersheba say it is civilian, just as the apartment block is civilian. Except that one of the fatalities was an 18-year-old off-duty IDF soldier in the elite Multidomain Unit, killed in his family apartment.
Personally, I am opposed to war and refused service in the SADF. So I really don’t like the jingoistic approach of Donald Trump, the Deep State or the Neocons.
Winning a war is like winning an earthquake.
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The Red Queen aka Jacinda Ardern
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