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MINNEAPOLIS – WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING

 

Eric Schwalm
@Schwalm5132
As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

BLOODBATH IN IRAN

 

You can also listen to this article by clicking on the link.   Nancy

Reports: Iran Crackdown Among Deadliest in Modern Times; 36,000+ Dead, Hospital Executions, Stuffed Alive in Body Bags

By Joshua  Klein   January 15, 2026
A two-day crackdown that new reporting says killed as many as 36,500 Iranians — a death toll placing it among the deadliest short-term mass killings documented in modern history — followed an order by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to mercilessly crush nationwide protests “by any means necessary,” including accounts of wounded civilians executed inside hospitals, living victims stuffed in body bags, and a surgeon who described the scenes as a “nightmare” unlike anything he had seen. 
A wave of major investigations published Sunday provides the clearest account yet of how the Islamic Republic responded after protests that began on December 28, initially sparked by merchant strikes in Tehran before spreading nationwide amid economic collapse and political repression.

Among the most chilling new revelations, The Media Line reports that Iranian security forces shoved wounded protesters — still alive — into body bags, transported them to forensic facilities, and executed those who showed signs of life.

The outlet cited testimony from the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, which documented the case of a young protester who survived by pretending to be dead inside a body bag, hearing gunshots as security forces executed wounded civilians who moved or moaned. The survivor remained motionless for three days, escaping only after families stormed the facility in search of loved ones.

A forensic medicine specialist in Tehran told the outlet that wounded protesters were piled atop one another in hospital corridors, transferred alive to morgues, and placed in body bags, describing brutality by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps so severe that many healthcare workers suffered psychological shock. Medical staff reported seeing bodies with oxygen tubes, ECG leads, and catheters still attached — evidence, they said, that patients were removed mid-treatment and left to die or executed.

The Media Line also obtained a message from a nurse who said patients were being systematically executed, including wounded individuals taken directly from operating rooms and shot at close range — testimony the outlet reported was sent shortly before the nurse herself was killed.

According to classified intelligence materials reviewed by Iran International, the regime launched its decisive crackdown on January 8 and 9, deploying IRGC and Basij forces across more than 400 cities and towns, with over 4,000 confrontation sites reported nationwide as live ammunition replaced crowd-control tactics.

The outlet reported that authorities imposed a near-total communications blackout, cutting internet access, mobile networks, and external lines of contact as security forces moved to suppress demonstrations and obscure the scale of the killings.

According to the classified materials, senior commanders were briefed following a January 9 address by Khamenei, after which orders were issued instructing forces to violently suppress the protests, invoking phrases such as “victory through terror” and directing units to eradicate what the regime labeled “sedition” — effectively authorizing unrestricted lethal force against demonstrators.

Subsequent internal updates sharply escalated those figures. Documents later provided to parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee listed 27,500 killed, Interior Ministry consolidations placed the toll above 30,000, and later IRGC intelligence reports dated January 22 and January 24 cited more than 33,000 and over 36,500 deaths, respectively, according to multiple officials familiar with the data reviewed by the outlet.

Most alarming, Iran International reported evidence of systematic extrajudicial executions, including morgue images showing victims shot in the head while receiving medical treatment, some with breathing tubes, IV lines, and cardiac monitors still attached — details medical professionals said indicate deliberate “finishing shots.”

Doctors and nurses told the outlet that security forces entered hospitals, removed wounded protesters mid-treatment, and in some cases executed patients on site or inside ambulances.

CHINESE CYBER ATTACKS

 

Critical infrastructures face major threat from Chinese cyberattacks, nominee warns

Experts say deterring Chinese cyberattacks has failed, offensive cyber is needed

By Bill Gertz  The Washington Times  Tuesday, January 20, 2026

China has conducted aggressive cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructures, and the U.S. needs to step up efforts to block the planting of malicious software in control networks, the general slated to be the next commander of Cyber Command told Congress.

Army Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd, who is also nominated to be director of the National Security Agency, disclosed new details about cyberattack threats to infrastructure in recent congressional testimony.

Gen. Rudd, currently the deputy commander of the Indo-Pacific Command, said other adversaries also are threatening critical infrastructure, but less than the dangers from communist China.

“The United States faces a complex and multilayered cyber threat landscape, but there is no ambiguity about our primary threat: China is the most serious and sophisticated threat we face in cyberspace,” Gen. Rudd told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Gen. Rudd appeared before the panel on Jan. 15 but did not disclose details about Chinese cyberattack threats during his verbal testimony, which were contained in the written answers to policy questions.

Chinese cyberattack capabilities are well-resourced, highly skilled and integrated with Beijing’s national and military goals, he stated.

“Their clear intention is to challenge U.S. interests by penetrating our most critical systems, including our nation’s critical infrastructure systems,” he said.

To mitigate the dangers, the U.S. needs to accelerate efforts to counter and neutralize strategic-level adversaries’ efforts to “pre-position” malicious software and other cyberwarfare capabilities to attack critical infrastructure and civilian targets.

U.S. officials have linked China to large-scale cyberattacks against U.S. and overseas computer networks for at least two decades, with successive administrations offering little or no response, cybersecurity experts say.

Recent high-profile examples of those actions include Chinese-linked operations that cybersecurity experts code-named “Volt Typhoon.”

In those attacks, Chinese state actors were detected burrowing into networks of U.S. water, power and transit systems. Officials view the activity as deliberate pre-positioning of access points that could be used to hold American cities and communities hostage and enable disruption during a crisis or conflict.

“The threat posed by the placement of tools to attack essential services in the United States and the U.S. economy threatens stability and carries the unacceptable risk of causing civilian casualties, both in a potential conflict and in peacetime if left undefended,” Gen. Rudd said.

Cyberattacks by China and other U.S. adversaries, such as RussiaNorth Korea and Iran, show no signs of diminishing and will be used for espionage and disinformation and in military operations to bolster non-kinetic and kinetic weapons, Gen. Rudd said.

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THE BIBLE VS THE QURAN

 

No, the Bible does not promote violence like the Quran does

Christians understand the difference between descriptive and prescriptive literature

By Everett Piper  Sunday, January 11, 2026

OPINION:

Last week, in this column, I wrote of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to be sworn into office with his right hand placed on the Quran. I then asked some questions every logical observer should ask: Does Mr. Mamdani believe what this book teaches? For example, does he believe in its explicit endorsements of child slavery, forced marriage, institutionalized misogyny, forced conversions, capital punishment for sexual immorality and the beheadings of nonbelievers?

I went further. Is Mr. Mamdani an advocate of violent jihad and the military conquest of the Christian world? After all, the specific copy of the Quran on which he chose to take his oath was published during the time of the Ottoman Empire, when Islam’s military expansion was at its peak.

Why did Mr. Mamdani choose this specific edition of the Quran? Was it to highlight and extol Islamic imperialism? If not, why not?

Most readers understood why these are reasonable questions and why we would be foolish not to ask them. After all, the mayor’s chosen scriptures are replete with verse after verse that promote the aforementioned things. It is also irrefutable that the present behavior of millions of Muslims around the world seems to confirm that they take these Quranic instructions and the corresponding history of Islam quite seriously.

Some critics, however, responded to my column with some indignation.

“But what about your Bible?” they asked. “It also promotes slavery, misogyny, military conquest and the execution of nonbelievers. Most of this stuff is also allowed if not encouraged by your Christian God, so who are you to judge Muslims?”

How should we respond?

Frankly, this argument is very foolish. How many Christians do you know who believe in child marriage, capital punishment for adulterers, forced conversions or the beheadings of those who leave the faith?

I’ll ask it again: How many Christians do you know who believe this?

The answer is zero. Why? Because Christians understand the difference between descriptive literature and prescriptive literature.

Christians understand that the Bible is written in many genres and that God has revealed his truth through poetry, prose, prophecy, parables and, as I said above, both descriptive and prescriptive literature.

We know that over the centuries, God has communicated with humanity in the context of our brokenness and sin, and we understand the obvious: Just because the Bible describes David’s adultery with Bathsheba and his subsequent murder of her husband Uriah doesn’t mean God is prescribing that we go do the same.

he church has understood this interpretive principle for 2,000 years and has applied Scripture accordingly. For example, no Christian believes the Old Testament’s “war verses” that describe the Canaanite conquest are teachings for how we are to treat our neighbors and live today. No Christian thinks God’s description of how he judged an evil people who were literally sacrificing their children in the burning furnaces of Moloch is intended to trump the Sermon on the Mount or the story of the Good Samaritan.

So, no, child slavery, forced marriage, misogyny, legalized wife beating, beheadings and forced conversion at the point of a sword are never promoted in the Bible. Is some of this stuff described? Yes. Is it prescribed for followers of Christ? No. Never.

The opposite is true for much of Islam (as much as 80%, according to some Pew research). Why? The answer lies in the “doctrine of abrogation,” an Islamic principle that holds that the later verses in the Quran always abrogate (i.e., trump and supersede) the earlier ones.

Guess what. The Quran’s violent verses are the later ones, which is the exact opposite of Christianity.

Don’t let anyone tell you the Bible teaches the same thing as the Quran and that both books promote murder, slavery, rape, the subjugation of women and “death to the infidel.” It’s simply not true, and 2,000 years of Christian faith and practice prove it.

Has Western civilization stumbled a time or two over the millennia? Yes, but it’s Christian morality that has always been the correction, not the cause.

One final note on the matter of “imperialism and colonialism”: Isn’t it a bit ironic that any junior high reading of history shows that the most imperialistic and violent colonizer of the past 1,000 years was Islam? As I mention above, the Ottoman Empire serves as the quintessential proof thereof.

In fact, it was only after 500 years of Islam’s violent expansion across much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Mediterranean Middle East that Pope Urban II, at the behest of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, finally launched the Crusades to stop the butchery. Thank God he did, or we would all be living in a country much more like Iran than the United States of America.

• Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.

EYEWITNESS TO IRANIAN CRACKDOWN

 

The government  must be using facial recognition and other technology  to identify the protestors in Iran.  A very effective way  for  totalitarian regimes to identify, track and punish  protestors world wide.  Wasn’t that the way the Jan6ers were tracked and apprehended ?      Nancy   
 

Eyewitness in Iran Describes Overwhelming Courage Amid Regime’s ‘Bloodthirsty’ Crackdown

January 14, 2026    |   By Liz Peek Staff

Cut off from the world by a government-imposed media blackout, a young woman in Tehran managed to briefly connect with The New York Post this week, describing the bloodshed and determination unfolding in Iran’s capital. For safety reasons, she spoke on condition of anonymity.

She began with a devastating personal loss — the fifth death within her circle in recent days. Her friend’s cousin was shot in the face while shielding his wife during a protest. His family was forced to pay the government a “bullet fee” — roughly $5,000 — just to retrieve his body. The official death certificate listed a false cause of death: “impact of a sharp object.”

Despite state violence, despair has turned into defiance. Last week, Tehran’s streets were packed with protesters — families, elders, even pregnant women — demanding regime change. The government responded with tear gas, sound bombs, and eventually live ammunition. “This regime is so ruthless and blood thirsty that it is ready to kill everyone” she said, estimating casualties in the tens of thousands.

The woman shared, “the city is very unsafe, especially in the afternoon onwards. My friend’s brother was returning home from work on Saturday in the Mahdieh district and a group of thugs wearing paramilitary uniforms broke the windows of cars in traffic and attacked the drivers with machetes.”

By Saturday, elite anti-terrorism units joined the crackdown, using drones to identify demonstrators “so they could attack them.” Authorities have raided homes to seize satellite dishes — the last fragile link to outside news. At the same time, citizens receive threatening text warnings labeling them as “rioters.”

The woman shared that “on Sunday, a message came to my husband’s phone saying that he’d been identified as present at illegal protests in the Sattar Khan neighborhood, and he was being monitored. The message said that he should leave the protest site immediately, otherwise you will be identified as a rioter. We were out at the protest and it was scary, but being in the crowd makes you feel stronger and braver.”

Life in Tehran, she explained, has become a mix of terror and suffocating hardship. Shops close unusually early. Paramilitary gangs attack people in traffic. Basic costs have soared — chicken and eggs up 35 percent in a month — while pollution, water shortages, and economic collapse deepen daily misery.

And yet, in cemeteries like Behesht Zahra, mourners chant “Death to the dictator” as they bury the young. The woman believes this wave of resistance feels different — suggesting it almost feels unstoppable.

“We are hostages in our own country,” she said, after noting the mass murder gripping the nation. “But we believe in a better future. We are fighting for our freedom

FBI QUESTIONED AGENTS’ SUPPORT FOR TRUMP

 

FBI wrongly questioned agents’ support for Trump, religious beliefs, COVID vaccine status

By Stephen Dinan  The Washington Times  Wednesday, January 14, 2026

FBI investigators conducting security clearance reviews wrongly asked agents and other witnesses about political and religious beliefs, the bureau’s inspector general said in a new report Wednesday.

Intrusive questions included asking about attendance at a pro-Second Amendment rally, wondering why an agent “reconnected with the Catholic Church,” and whether agents supported President Trump or objected to vaccines against the coronavirus.

The inspector general called such inquiries “concerning” and said they risked trampling on agents’ constitutional rights of expression, belief and association.

Investigators said the FBI’s Security Division, which handled the reviews of bureau employees’ security clearance, didn’t have clear rules to rein in those sorts of inquiries.

“We have found that in some investigations, SecD [Security Division] investigators asked or prepared vague and overly broad interview questions that, as worded, were not sufficiently tailored to address legitimate security concerns and unnecessarily intruded into potentially constitutionally protected activities,” Don R. Berthiaume, the acting inspector general, said in an alert sent to the FBI on Wednesday.

Mr. Berthiaume said that sometimes intrusive questions about religious or political beliefs might be relevant to a security clearance probe, but the Security Division needed to be a lot more careful in when and how it pursued those inquiries.

“To avoid inappropriate interview questions, training, policy guidance, supervisory oversight, and legal advice are necessary,” he said. “However, we found that SecD’s SOPs provide no guidance to assist supervisors or investigators with identifying and navigating these complex issues, and legal consultation regarding interviews in such investigations is lacking.”

The report is the latest in a string of audits to ding the FBI for its operations the past 10 years that some critics have said amounted to “weaponization” against Mr. Trump and his supporters.

That included the conduct of investigations into Mr. Trump himself.

The Washington Times has reached out to the FBI for comment on the new findings.

Mr. Berthiaume said bureau investigators first spotted the inappropriate questions while reviewing the case of an agent whose security clearance was revoked for actions on Jan. 6, 2021, surrounding the pro-Trump mob intrusion of the U.S. Capitol.

Wednesday’s memo didn’t mention any name, but the facts match the case of Brett Gloss, an agent whose security clearance was revoked and who was suspended from the bureau after the FBI said he entered a restricted area of the Capitol that day.

While probing the case, FBI investigators asked some witnesses if the agent had voiced support for Mr. Trump or had objections to taking the COVID-19 vaccine.

In searching other security clearance cases, they came across other intrusive questions.

MOVIE – GRINDING AMERICA DOWN

 

 I have sent this movie out before but it becomes more relevant with each passing year.  Nancy
 
MOVIE – GRINDING AMERICA DOWN
Mar 18, 2023
AGENDA: Grinding America Down – Agenda is a powerful exposé of the communist, socialist, progressive attempt to take over America. Though the word Communism isn’t used anymore, this film proves the ideas behind it are alive and well. See the evidence for yourself of how various people and groups have successfully targeted America’s morality and freedom in their effort to grind America down and make it succumb to the Communist AGENDA. All credit for this video goes to Curtis Bowers.
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