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https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/01/23/farmland-frenzy-whos-buying-now-and-why-fetterman-and-tuberville-are-fighting-back-n4936298

With all this talk about the Chinese government infiltrating the United States through TikTok, many have asked: Aren’t the Chinese already doing so through the purchase of U.S. farmland?

About a year and a half ago, Georgia Rep. Mike Collins delivered a speech to the U.S. House of Representatives, citing a 2021 report that China owned 384,000 acres of American agricultural land at that time —  a 30% jump between 2019 and 2020 — and some of that land surrounded an Air Force base in North Dakota, making it a clear threat to national security. Grand Forks, N.D., apparently ended up denying building permits to the Chinese-based food manufacturer that purchased that land and denied access to industrial infrastructure after the mayor called the federal response “slow and contradictory” and an Air Force official called it a “significant threat.” 

While on the campaign trail in 2024, Donald Trump called these types of Chinese investments a “threat to American farmers” and promised that if he were elected, he’d block Chinese nationals from purchasing any additional land. When he met with a group of farmers in Pennsylvania in September, they expressed other concerns beyond national security, such as driving up prices and eliminating a future generation of American farmers and ranchers.   

“My concern today is with foreign [sic] buying up farmland, young Americans can’t afford to buy a farm or even get started,” said beef farmer Todd Reamer, who has owned his farm for three decades. “I know there are young farmers out there who really aspire to own a farm or ranch but can’t because of the high costs. We hear the word ‘sustainable,’ but to stay sustainable we need to give Americans a chance to own farms and ranches so they can continue to produce the safest food supply in the world for generations to come.” 

https://www.frontpagemag.com/federal-benefactors-of-islam/

In any terrorist attack, facts about the perpetrators and victims are slow to emerge in any detail. In New Orleans on New Year’s Day, the primary fact was clear right from the start. The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to prevent a Muslim named Shamsud-Din Jabbar from perpetrating an act of vehicular jihad that claimed at least 14 innocent lives and wounded many others. The FBI was quick to augment the failure with falsehood.

New Orleans mayor La Toya Cantrell told reporters, “know that the city of New Orleans was impacted by a terrorist attack.” For FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan, “this is not a terrorist event,” and the FBI would be taking over the investigation. The result was what Americans have come to expect.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar flew a black Islamic State Flag. The FBI acknowledged the connection but found no evidence that the Islamic State had directed him to launch the attack. As it happens, back in 2014, ISIS told its followers: 

If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him.

So the FBI was wrong, and the New Orleans attack was hardly its first failure. As the people might recall, on February 26, 1993, the FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorists from bombing the World Trade Center in New York. The attack claimed six deaths, with more than 1,000 wounded, a warning of what was to come.

On September 11, 2001, the FBI failed to prevent a small band of Al Qaeda terrorists from hijacking airliners and crashing them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, with 3,000 dead and thousands wounded. After this massive attack, the worst since Pearl Harbor in 1941, the FBI failed to elevate its vigilance against Islamic jihad on American soil.

U.S. Army major Nidal Hasan proclaimed himself a “Soldier of Allah,” the definition of a jihadist. The FBI knew Hasan was communicating with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about killing Americans. Even so, the bureau’s Washington office “does not currently assess Hasan to be involved in terrorist activities.” In reality, he was.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/bourbon-street-massacre-is-what-globalize-the-intifada-looks-like/

As woke illiberalism replaced live-and-let-live liberalism as the animating ideology of the American Left, the state of Israel has increasingly found itself on the outs. Never mind that modern Israel was founded by, and for three decades politically dominated by, a bunch of left-wing socialists. Never mind that Harry Truman, an iconic liberal Democratic president, became the first world leader to recognize the fledgling Jewish state a mere 11 minutes after it announced its independence in 1948. None of that history matters on the left anymore, after wokeism supplanted liberalism.

In the fatuous neo-Marxist dichotomy of modern wokeism, Jews are deemed a “white,” “oppressor” class; Muslims, by contrast, are deemed a “brown,” “oppressed” class. To be a leftist in good standing, then, necessitates supporting the latter over the former — and, therefore, supporting Palestinian Arab jihadism over the Jewish people’s eternal will to survive. To the woke, the Palestinian Arabs’ quest to annihilate the Jews of Israel represents a vogue and chic cause — just like Black Lives Matter did five years ago, and just like same-sex marriage did five years before that.

The apotheosis of this bemusing sentiment was the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023. Sure, babies were beheaded, women were raped, beautiful young music festival attendees were butchered, and Holocaust survivors were executed in their homes — but “Palestine” was being “decolonized,” and every good leftist knows you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelet! The ends always justify the means, as Saul Alinsky famously taught. Accordingly, in the words of disgraced Cornell history professor Russell Rickford, the Hamas massacre was “exhilarating” and “energizing.”

The imperative now, as thousands of young jihadis infesting America’s university campuses have made clear, is to spread the “love”: to “globalize the intifada” and, in the words of the radical leftists who congregated in Times Square in New York City earlier this week, to foment a worldwide “intifada revolution.” The more, the merrier: Sharing is caring, after all!

https://www.thefp.com/p/globalize-the-intifada-comes-to-new?r=4crwli

The enemies of this country are clear about their aims. Have we lost the ability to defend ours?

What would it look like if the masked mobs in our cities vowing to “globalize the intifada” got their wish? It might look like New Orleans on New Year’s Day, when Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed a pickup truck into the bodies of peaceful citizens, murdering young and old, then getting out and firing a gun at police officers who thankfully succeeded in killing him first, though two were hospitalized.

Eyewitnesses to the attack noticed that the murderer had an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant flag in his truck. The FBI later confirmed that Jabbar, the Texas-born Army vet turned terrorist, “was 100% inspired by ISIS,” which rapes and enslaves girls, beheads captives, and makes war on the West as well as what it considers “apostates” in the greater Middle East—including all Muslims who reject its vision of an Islamic caliphate. ISIS grew out of al-Qaeda a decade ago and has roots in the Muslim Brotherhood. Jabbar traveled to Egypt—the seat of the Muslim Brotherhood—in the summer of 2023, and the FBI is now investigating what, exactly, he did there.

Even before the New Orleans attack, terrorist vehicle-ramming had already been globalized, with murderous effect. Locations of previous Islamist attacks, which this one eerily resembled, include Nice, France; Berlin, Germany; New York; and, of course, Israel.

But you wouldn’t know any of that listening to Tom Wilson, the CEO of the insurance giant Allstate, who bizarrely felt the need to address the public since the terrorist attack forced postponement of the Sugar Bowl that Allstate sponsors: “We need to. . . overcom[e] an addiction to divisiveness and negativity.” He further urged those tuning in to the football game delayed by the ISIS-inspired mass murder to “accept people’s imperfections and differences.”

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/01/02/is-this-what-were-in-for-in-2025/

The New Year had barely begun when one and possibly two terrorist attacks were unleashed that claimed the lives of more than a dozen innocent people.

In New Orleans, 15 people have so far died after a driver rammed a truck through a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street Wednesday morning. The driver had an ISIS flag in the rented pickup and likely didn’t act alone.

Police have since reported pipe bombs with a remote detonator were in the truck, as well as others placed in the French Quarter. The FBI told reporters that it doesn’t think the driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, acted alone.

The Airbnb where he stayed and where bomb-making materials were found, also caught fire.

Later that same morning, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.

In a post on X, Elon Musk wrote that “We have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself.”

As it happens, both the pickup used in the New Orleans attack and the Cybertruck had been rented through the Turo app, which calls itself “world’s largest car sharing marketplace,” and lets users rent cars from “trusted hosts.”

Is this the beginning of a wave of terror attacks inside the U.S.?

There’s reason to worry.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/21/mayorkas-and-wray-refuse-to-testify-publicly-about-national-security-threats-facing-us/

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray decided to skip an end-of-year public hearing in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, suggesting that the threats facing the country are so grave they can only be discussed in a classified setting.

Republicans and Democrats alike reacted with outrage.

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-Mich.) strongly rebuked the officials, stating that their refusal to appear is a “shocking departure” from the 15-year tradition of holding the annual hearing on worldwide threats.

Both the FBI and DHS released statements saying the officials had already “testified extensively” in public about the threats facing the U.S. and offered to discuss further threats in a classified briefing.

The FBI has repeatedly demonstrated our commitment to responding to Congressional oversight and being transparent with the American people,” the FBI’s statement said.

“We remain committed to sharing information about the continuously evolving threat environment facing our nation and the extraordinary work the men and women of the FBI are doing — here at home and around the world — to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States. FBI leaders have testified extensively in public settings about the current threat environment and believe the Committee would benefit most from further substantive discussions and additional information that can only be provided in a classified setting.”

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*The Washington DC-based Wilson Center think tank contends that “the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas against Israel, which killed 1,200 people [equal to 41,000 Americans], including 32 U.S. citizens, …could inspire [Islamic] terrorist attacks in the United States and other regions, including Latin America….

*Iran’s Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani stated that “Latin American countries are of special significance in Iran’s foreign and defense policy, based on the importance of the very sensitive South American region.” 

*According to Arturo McFields, a Nicaragua diplomat in-exile (The Hill, May 2, 2024), the Ayatollahs’ threat to the US homeland cannot be underestimated. In fact, Iran has redoubled its political, technological and military alliance with Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

*A University of Texas at El Paso study concludes that “[the Hezbollah-Mexican drug cartels nexus] is a time bomb waiting to explode in our homeland…. The threat of an attack by Hezbollah against the US has always been present. It has become much more realistic due to the Hezbollah spread of activity and influence in Latin America [including underground tunnel construction along the US-Mexico border]…. Hezbollah has many pieces in place to conduct an act of terror on U.S. interests…. Venezuela and Chile are hosting Hezbollah, and several more Latin American countries have also been supportive. The proximity of Mexico makes it more deadly. [The Hezbollah-Mexican drug cartels collaboration includes training in the areas of car-bombs, suicide bombing and Improvised Explosive Devices]….”