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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote.
Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation Iran Protests Easing After Deadly Crackdown: Rights Groups  Iran's deadly crackdown appears to have broadly quelled protests for now, according to a rights group and residents, as state media reported more arrests on Friday in the shadow of U.S. threats to intervene if killing continues. After President Donald Trump's repeated threats of military action against Iran in support of protesters, fears of a U.S. attack have retreated since Wednesday, when Trump said he'd been told killings in the crackdown were easing. U.S. allies including Saudi Arabia and Qatar conducted intense diplomacy with Washington this week to prevent a U.S. strike, warning of consequences for the wider region that would ultimately impact the United States, a Gulf official said.
Iranian commander’s distraught daughter reveals leaders are killing their own children  An Iranian commander’s distraught daughter has revealed ruthless regime leaders are now slaughtering their own children — as she sobbed that her father has ordered her to go out and kill innocent civilians. The woman broke down as she detailed the horrors of the Islamic Republic’s deadly crackdown on protesters in a gut-wrenching interview with Persian media outlet Manato TV on Thursday. “They are killing their own children, suppressing them,” she said of the regime’s commanders. The daughter, who said she has been beaten in the past for being involved in anti-regime protests, fears she could be next for speaking out about her father’s brutality. The disturbing reason Iran appears to have stopped slaughtering protesters  The ruthless slaughter of anti-government protesters in Iran appears to have stopped — but only because residents are being held hostage in their homes by machine gun-wielding security forces that have flooded the streets, sources told The Post Thursday. After weeks of anti-regime protests across Iran left thousands dead, the mass mobilization of security forces has suppressed the demonstrations, with many too afraid to set foot outside now. “There were tanks out — there’s tanks everywhere,” the source told The Post after speaking to family in Tehran about the current situation. Another person in Tehran said fear has gripped the capital as police and security forces patrol the roads and conduct stops. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado reveals why she gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal  Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado had a simple explanation for why she gifted President Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal at the White House Thursday. “Because he deserves it,” Machado told “Fox & Friends” during an interview that aired Friday morning. “And, um, it was a very emotional moment.” Machado, 58, added that she had presented Trump, 79, with the medal in a frame “on behalf of the people of Venezuela” following the Jan. 3 arrest of socialist authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro on federal drug and weapons charges in a daring US special forces raid on Caracas. Venezuela’s “Iron Lady” — who was awarded the Peace Prize this past October in recognition of her efforts to promote democracy in her home country — heaped praise on Trump for “what he’s doing to liberate Venezuela and for freedom in the Americas.”
Hunter Biden’s baby mama calls for ex-first son to be arrested after failing to keep child support deal  Hunter Biden’s former girlfriend and the mother of his 7-year-old daughter has called for the disgraced former first son to be “incarcerated” over his “antics” in failing to hold up his end of their child support deal. Lunden Roberts urged an Arkansas judge Tuesday to reopen the long-running case between the former lovers and arrest the felonious 55-year-old until he complies with the agreement they settled on in 2023, according to court records viewed by The Post. “Incarcerate him in the Independence County Detention Center as a civil penalty until he purges his contempt by complying with this court’s orders,” the motion read. As part of the agreement, Roberts dropped her demand that her daughter be allowed to take the Biden last name and agreed to slash her monthly child support payment demand from $20,000 to $5,000. Hunter Biden had long denied fathering the young girl until a court-ordered DNA test confirmed his paternity in 2019. This fine print in California’s wealth tax is what’s really roiling Silicon Valley  California’s wealth tax is roiling Silicon Valley — and it isn’t even the 5% rate that has techies furious and seriously contemplating leaving the Golden State. It’s what’s in the fine print. The proposed “billionaire tax” treats voting shares as if they were actual ownership, taxing founders on control they hold rather than wealth they actually possess. It punishes innovators for maintaining control of their companies and discourages them from launching startups where they have a majority say. “The treatment of voting shares for founders is so onerous it’s unclear if this was intended,” Jared Walczak, a state tax expert at the Tax Foundation, told me. “There are significant consequences even if they’re unintended.” The issue affects every tech founder who retained control through dual-class stock — which is a key part of the reason Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin left Google in 2019. Trump Threatens Insurrection Act for Minnesota  President Donald Trump warned Minnesota officials Thursday morning that unless they stop encouraging "professional agitators and insurrectionists" from attacking federal law enforcement officers, he will send U.S. troops to quell the violence. In a Truth Social post, Trump blasted what he called "corrupt politicians" in Minnesota and said if they "don't obey the law" and don't stop attacks on the "Patriots of I.C.E.," he is prepared to invoke the Insurrection Act to "quickly put an end" to the unrest. The president's warning comes as tensions spiked again in Minneapolis after a federal officer shot a man in the leg during an arrest attempt Wednesday night, federal officials said.
Renee Good was shot four times, including in the head, fire report shows Minneapolis fire incident report shows Renee Nicole Good had four gunshot wounds  Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last week, was found with four gunshot wounds, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported, citing a fire department incident report. Good, 37, suffered two gunshot wounds to the right side of her chest, one to her left forearm and one "with protruding tissue on the left side of the patient’s head," according to the report by the Minneapolis Fire Department. Blood was also flowing from her left ear, the report said. Initial reports indicated Good had been shot three times during the Jan. 7 incident. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the ICE officer fired in self-defense after Good used her Honda Pilot SUV in a way that posed a threat. DHS said video showed Good interfering with ICE officers by parking her vehicle in the roadway in an apparent attempt to block federal vehicles. Minn. State Rep. Robbins: Walz 'Fully Responsible' for ICE Chaos  Gov. Tim Walz is "fully responsible for the chaos" surrounding clashes involving federal immigration enforcement, accusing state leaders of fueling unrest and urging cooperation with the Trump administration to avoid further escalation, Minnesota State Rep. Kristin Robbins saaid on Thursday. "Certainly, there are some lawful protesters, but there are many who I've seen video of who have been impeding ICE agents doing their job, attacking ICE agents," the GOP lawmaker, a candidate for governor, told Newsmax's "National Report." "We saw video this morning of a group that smashed into a law enforcement car and took out a weapons storage unit and took the guns and other material from the car, so it's very dangerous," she added. Douglas Murray: Trump has a chance to end Khamenei’s reign of terror in Iran For 46 years, the Revolutionary Islamic Government has tortured the people of Iran. From the moment that the Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile in Paris he managed to hurtle one of the world’s great cultures into a new dark age. Since 1979 that regime has slaughtered and executed its domestic political opponents. It has publicly hanged people convicted of “crimes against morality,” including people convicted for the “crime” of being gay. It has sponsored terrorism across the Middle East, Europe and America. The regime has been the biggest colonizing, imperialist power in the Middle East. And it has tried to kill a US president, a US secretary of state and a US national security adviser — among others — on American soil. Given all of that you might have thought that there would be marches against the Ayatollahs most weeks in Western cities. But there never has been. When the Iranian people have risen up in the past (as in the 2009 Green Revolution) they did so alone. Back then President Obama did nothing to support the pro-democracy movement in Iran. He just sat back and allowed female protestors to be shot through the head by the foul Basij militia and other government entities. How Minneapolis rioters are forcing Trump’s hand with the Insurrection Act By Rich Lowry If Minnesota officials don’t like President Donald Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, maybe they should do more to tamp down the insurrectionary activity in their state. After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was violently attacked by two illegal immigrants while making an arrest Wednesday night and shot one assailant in the leg in self-defense, anti-ICE activists — predictably enough — rioted. In response to the unprovoked attack on the officer, Mayor Jacob Frey once again blasted ICE. Minnesota’s elected officials might want to consider whether portraying federal law-enforcement officers as an alien, invading force is the best way to convince Trump that he shouldn’t resort to the Insurrection Act. |
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