BREAKING: 2,500 Marines head to Middle East

The United States Marine Corps is dispatching more than 2,000 men currently stationed in Japan to the Middle East, where the joint U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury grows ever more intense.

The Wall Street Journal and ABC News first reported this shift in deployment, with Fox News later confirming it through a conversation with a federal official. Fox’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin posted on X: “US defense official confirms to Fox News that the Pentagon is sending the USS Tripoli, a Marine Amphibious Ready Group, and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to Mideast. The Tripoli is stationed out of Japan and would take about 2 weeks to get to the Mideast. Accompanying the ARG and the MEU are approx. 2500 US Marines.”

Before the inevitable chorus of alarm over boots on the ground begins, it should be noted that this movement is tied chiefly to air and naval assets, the very instruments upon which Operation Epic Fury has relied from the outset, as ABC News made clear. The 31st MEU, permanently based in Japan and operating within the INDO-PACOM theater, has now received orders to proceed to the Middle East.

This redeployment does not signal an intention to employ the unit as a conventional ground force inside Iran. Rather, it furnishes commanders with a suite of land, amphibious, and aviation capabilities should they prove necessary. The MEU in question includes a squadron of F-35 fighter jets and a squadron of MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft.

For half a century the terrorist regime in Iran has killed Americans directly or through its proxies, constructed a vast international network of murder, and at intervals butchered its own citizens who have the temerity to rise against the rigors of sharia law (more than 40,000 in January alone). As Donald Trump remarked on Thursday: “They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”

Trump clearly believes the campaign is advancing with such success that its conclusion draws near. He declared: “We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning. Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.”

This is the language of resolution, not hesitation; of a determination long deferred but now fully engaged. The spectacle of a regime that has sown terror across decades finding itself dismantled with precision and speed ought to concentrate the mind wonderfully on the consequences of sustained ideological malice.

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Biden leaks strike plans and IRGC Commanders go into hiding

"I'm mahaman hum beh dee dah man"

It looks as if our alleged President leaks in more ways than one. He and his administration have been repeatedly leaking plans of alleged retaliatory strikes against those who were behind the murders of three U.S. soldiers and wounding about 40 other personnel. Predictably, those responsible, the commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have gone into hiding to avoid being "Qasem Solemeinied."

Thanks Joe--we knew we could count on you for f*****g things up.

CBS News reported that Biden officials confirmed  “that plans have been approved for a series of strikes over a number of days against targets — including Iranian personnel and facilities — inside Iraq and Syria.”

[H/T The Daily Wire.]

He might as well have gotten on top of the White House with a megaphone and mumbled his plans out to the public to forewarn the terrorists that we're coming for them with plans to blow them to smithereens.

Jennifer Griffin of Fox News, responded to the CBS report by noting that “all of those IRGC commanders have already left Syria and gone into hiding leaving those bases.”

“The Pentagon usually does not telegraph so much if it wants the element of surprise,” she added, implying that Biden wanted them to leave so he could put on a show for the public that he's finally do something.

The Biden administration tried to diminish Iran’s involvement in the over 160 Iranian-backed terrorist attacks against U.S. forces in the region over the last few months, telling Politico that they don’t believe Tehran has full control of the terrorist groups that it funds. 

Why the administration is trying to take the heat off the world's biggest sponsor of global terrorism can possibly be explained by former Obama adviser Susan Rice, whose heart is in Iran.

Politico said that the “disclosure” by the Biden administration, “could lower the chance of the U.S. getting pulled into a direct confrontation with Iran,” as long as no terrorism commander gets hurt.

The Biden administration blames Israel for Iranian-backed terrorist groups attacking U.S. forces, saying that if Israel stopped trying to kill Hamas terrorists inside Gaza who carried out the October 7 terrorist attack, “there would at least be a tactical pause in the region by all Iran-backed groups,” Politico reported.

So all Israel had to do was to allow Hamas to do their thing and leave with no retaliation and those brave Americans would not have been killed.

The Biden administration is not only weak, it' cowardly and clearly anti-Semitic, because anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.

Useless Secretary of State Lloyd Austin was asked on Thursday about IRGC commanders running for cover back to Iran to avoid being killed by U.S. forces.

“Has there been too much telegraphing, or is the point not to kill any Iranian commanders?” a reporter asked.

“In terms of telegraphing about strikes and whether or not people leave or would have left, you know, I won’t speculate on any of that,” Austin said, proving he's a 'good company man' who's should know the answer to that question. “I will just tell you that, you know, we will have a multi-tiered response, and again, we have the ability to respond in a number of times depending on what the situation is.” 

Blah, blah, de blah.

Tom Cotton (R-AR) blasted the Biden boobs on Thursday for tipping off the terrorists saying that it's a reflection of  “Biden’s policy of fear and appeasement and conciliation.”

“Just like with Ukraine and before that with Afghanistan, he’s scared of his own shadow,” Cotton said. “He keeps worrying about escalation. What we saw over the weekend was a massive escalation by Iran. The only way to solve that threat is to directly target Iran’s terrorist forces throughout the region and in Iran itself, to make it clear that we will never tolerate the deaths of our fellow Americans.”

And for G_d's sale. quit blaming the victim, Israel.

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China is creating "brain-control weaponry" say officials

"You know you make me wanna Shout! Kick my heels up and Shout!"

The Biden administration set sanctions against a number of Chinese entities in December declaring that the nation that gave us COVID-19 and noodles was employing biotechnology to create "brain-control weaponry" along with other innovations that is a threat to U.S. national security.

“New intelligence shows China is using technologies like gene editing, and brain machine interfaces to enhance military capabilities and control its own people, machines that could allow a Chinese commando to discharge a weapon with just a thought, not a trigger finger,” Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin said. “This month the Biden administration targeted the emerging threat by levying sanctions on 37 Chinese biotechnology companies that have ties to this research that experts say include so called ‘mind control weapons.'”

Meanwhile, the Wuhan Lab is still humming full steam and Anthony Fauci is still calling the shots.

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe warned that the U.S. is not going to use the same questionable practices that China is. “We’re not going to place our own soldiers, sailors, and airmen at risk, which is what the intelligence tells us the Chinese are willing to do,” he said. “They want to advance at any costs, including those that are harmful to their own population.”

“The Pentagon says Beijing already uses these technologies, including biometric surveillance tools and facial recognition to track dissidents and journalists and to suppress the Uyghurs,” Griffin added.

The U.S. Commerce Department said in a statement on December 16th:

Today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) took action to address the ongoing threats to U.S. national security and foreign policy presented by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s efforts to develop and deploy biotechnology and other technologies for military applications and human rights abuses. BIS is also taking action against entities operating in the PRC, Georgia, Malaysia, and Turkey for diverting or attempting to divert U.S. items to Iran’s military programs.

“The scientific pursuit of biotechnology and medical innovation can save lives. Unfortunately, the PRC is choosing to use these technologies to pursue control over its people and its repression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups. We cannot allow U.S. commodities, technologies, and software that support medical science and biotechnical innovation to be diverted toward uses contrary to U.S. national security,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo. “The U.S. will continue to stand strong against efforts by the PRC and Iran to turn tools that can help humanity prosper into implements that threaten global security and stability.”

The final rule issued by the Commerce Department said that the actions taken against CCP entities were due to China using “biotechnology processes to support Chinese military end uses and end users, to include purported brain-control weaponry.”

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A senior U.S. official told The Financial Times that China was seeking to use emerging biotechnologies to try to develop future military applications that included “gene editing, human performance enhancement [and] brain machine interfaces.”

If this doesn't sound Orwellian, then nothing does.

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Catch and Release and Catch

Release and catch, a new way to fish for terrorists. First we catch them and put them away in Gitmo, then we release them, because it's just the nice thing to do. Now we have to catch them again because the "rehabilitation" program in Saudi Arabia works as well as prison rehabilitation programs work for sex offenders in the US. That is, they don't work well at all.

Now there's a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of Ibrahim al-Rubaysh (his friends call him "Abe"). It seems that Abe was released back in 2006 during the George Bush administration and the guy has gone and joined Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. If you know anything about this organization, you know it's terrorism 2.0 and the most dangerous affiliates of all the Al Qaeda folks.