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So something's been going on on the other side of
the planet that has relevance to what we are seeing
in America. Yesterday I talked at great length. Some might
say too lengthy, but not me. But it has implications
and similarities to what we're seeing today, literally today and
yesterday after the shooting of the woman in Minneapolis by
an Ice agent and then a shooting by a Border
patrol agent at two people that were fleeing from them
up in Portland, right, I think it was Portland. I
have the story here and we'll get to it. So
I want to start though, on the other side of
the world with Iran because this is instructive to what
we are seeing in America. I have played a clip
from this attorney slash commentator before. Her name is Elka Lebon.
I believe she's Iranian. I believe she lives in Britain.
And she spells out a brief history here of how
of the protest guests that have erupted in Iran. I
mentioned it last week. Well, I guess almost two weeks
ago when they first started. And I am in full
support of the uprising against the Islamic regime. I offer
prayers and support to the people who are taken to
the streets, knowing that these people know that they are
probably going to be imprisoned and or killed, and many
of them have been for trying to topple the regime
after almost fifty years under their oppression and rule. So
this is again her name is Elka Lebon, and she
posted this sort of rundown. And as soon as she
starts getting into how the regime came to power, you're
going to understand the connection here.
Speaker 3: Iranian woman here to tell you what is going on
in I wrong and why you should be paying attention. Hint,
because it is a very familiar story. Most people believe
that the story of Iran begins in nineteen seventy nine
with the Islamic Revolution. But our story actually goes much
further back. It begins with the Red Green Alliance, the
alliance of the far left Marxists of the far right Islamists.
Their union not only destroyed Iran, that ideology infected the West.
That is why I say Iran is not the past.
Iran is a warning of what happens when that ideology
goes unchecked. And I'm about to tell you so. Let's
go back in time for a few sure seconds. How
did socialism make its way to Iran? A lot of
people don't know this, but the Soviets actually entered Iran
in the early nineteen twenties and the next a northern
part of its territory, turning it into a socialist state.
Well like all other socialist states, it was obviously doomed
to fail, and failed it did. But that wasn't before
the Marxist ideology went underground in Iran, infecting Iranian textbooks,
academic life, education, and the interectual elite. But most importantly,
what did this Marxist ideology teach young Iranians? It taught
them that the West was their enemy and it was
their moral duty to fight Western imperialism. This is what
I call the Great lie why because it was never
about fighting the West or even making Iran a better place.
It was about using our lands as a revolutionary launch
pad for their communist dreams. Then came the turning point.
In the nineteen sixties. The Shah introduced the White Revolution.
That was a modernization project. It increased women's rights, women's suffrage, education, literacy,
land reforms, industrial expansion. It was supported by the Iranian
people by referendum. But guess who rejected it, of course,
the Red Green Alliance. They said that that type of
modernization was westernization and that couldn't happen anymore. That was
when the Marxists and the Islamists began setting fire to everything.
That's why they set fire to rex cinema famously, because
they said cinemas were a symbol of westernization.
Speaker 2: She's saying cinema, the movie theaters. They started torching movie theaters.
Speaker 3: That movement eventually led to the nineteen seventy nine revolution
that overthrew the Shah and ushered in the Islamic regime.
And who, pray tell, was the leader of this revolutionary movement,
Iotola harmony. Like every practitioner of the Great Line, he mastered,
borrowing Marxist language to promise free everything, free water, free education,
free healthcare, free housing, free transportation. Well, Iranians discovered very
soon thereafter, turns out there's no such thing as a
free lunch. It was, of course a gigantic rift. What
came next We've all seen a hands made tal style
totalitarian theocracy, hanging, lynching, shooting, blinding people just asking for
basic human rights. And who were the very first people
to be executed as soon as that regime came to power,
the same leftists that ushered them in convinced of the
Great Line. Now, almost fifty years later, after multiple attempts,
this is what the Iranian people are rising up to
free themselves from. And it is very important to pay
attention to exactly what they're chanting. They're not just saying
down with the dictator. They're saying in a Jarri inna
badd pa Lavi bad migada. What does that mean? It
means this is the last battle, then Pa Lavi will return.
Why because Reso path Lavi is the son of the
last Shah who they ousted. Because of the Great Line,
the Iranian people will choose their own future by referendum,
but before they move forward, they must correct the mistakes
of the past. They are calling for Rezo path Lavi
as a closing of the Karmic loop, a symbolic return
to the Iranian civilization that we once knew before we
move into an even greater future. That is why you
should be paying attention to Iran, because Iran is not history.
Iran is a warning. They are not just in the
aftermath of tyranny.
Speaker 1: They are in the.
Speaker 3: Aftermath of the Great Line, and that lie is here
on outdoorsteps.
Speaker 2: Correct the Red Green Alliance, the Great Lie. Any kind
of modernization in Iran prior to the fall of the
Shah was demonized, right, this is a sign of westernization.
Can't have it rejected and then violent overthrow of the
government and people think, oh, this is going to make
our lives better. And what happens after the revolution is
that anybody who's not on board, who wasn't on board,
or who is a destabilizing force, they're first up against
the wall. That is as it has been throughout history.
It is always the same course. From John Sexton at
hotair dot com about the protest going on in Iran.
Iranian police clashing with protesters's resulted in dozens of deaths.
The protests, though continue. The BBC reports the protests have
spread throughout all of Iran's now thirty one provinces, presenting
the largest challenge to the country's clerical establishment since twenty
twenty two. Verified footage from the last ten days shows
evidence of anti government demonstrations and gatherings in more than
forty towns. In cities that number has increased, including in
several regions previously perceived as being highly loyal to the state.
More than one hundred videos which were geolocated and checked
for publication date paint sorry publication date paint a picture
of the scale of the unrest, with people taking to
the streets in many major cities of Iran and presenting
the largest challenge to the state since the Women Life
and Freedom protests in twenty twenty two. Regime tried to
soften the opposition classic socialist style by throwing some money
at it. Right, you get here, have some money. They
are offering a new monthly payment of seven dollars a month,
seven seven dollars at just seven dollars, that.
Speaker 1: Is a small fraction of the basic needs for most.
Speaker 2: Iranians, who basically need somewhere around two hundred dollars a
month for living expenses and such.
Speaker 1: From USA.
Speaker 2: Today, anti government protests appear to accelerate. Yesterday I saw
I was kind of hoping last night as I was
watching the feeds, that that the regime could fall last
night because the protesters were planning to march on the
Iranian revolution Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps their headquarters. There were
protest marches and people were slaughtered, which now raises a
question of when Trump promised to help the Iranian people,
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reporting anti government protests in Iran appear to accelerate on
January ninth. So yesterday sparked by anger over the collapse
of the country's currency and a broader sense of hopelessness
and disillusionment with Tehran's clerical leaders. Okay, well it could
also be I don't know, the fifty years of oppression
that might be it, along with the imprisonment and murdering
of political opponents, the beating of people and women for
not wearing the hey job right, the motorcycle gangs terrorizing
the population, the siphoning off of hundreds of billions of
dollars over decades to try to pursue a nuclear weapon
to murder a bunch of Jews and Americans. Meanwhile, Tehran
doesn't have running water, right like that might be a
that might be part of the issue too. Also, Iran
was filled with Persians and they were not Arabs, and
they were not predominantly Muslim, So there is also that
The uptick in unrest also comes as President Donald Trump
warned Iran's authorities against killing peaceful protesters, saying Washington quote
will come to their rescue.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2: I'm not expecting the president to say to the public
what that means, because there may be some leverage and
operational security that he's trying to maintain here. But the
regime has murdered its citizens that are protesting. Last night,
there were, uh, there was there was a mass slaughter
of people. And you know, there is video. I would
not recommend you go find it, but it is out there.
Net Blocks, which is an Internet watchdog, said that according
to its data, Iran's authorities had imposed a nationwide internet
blackout like you can see I've seen the the line
of like internet service, and it's kind of like this,
this line, you know, running across a chart, and it's
you know, running horizontally, and it's steady, steady, steady, and
then all of a sudden, boom, it just craters and
goes to like zero. They shut it all down, which
I think is indicative of the seriousness that the regime
is treating this uprising. Again, this is occurring in every
one of their thirty one provinces. It's occurring in all
of their major cities. It's hundreds and hundreds of thousands
of people, if not millions. So they had imposed a
nationwide internet blackout as well as other forms of strict
digital censorship amid the turmoil. This makes it difficult to
draw definitive conclusions about the scale and severity of the
demonstrations and the government's response. But some videos and images
have slipped out. They've been published on social media by
opposition groups and human rights monitors. In some protesters can
be heard calling for the overthrow of Iran Supreme leader
Ayatola Ali Khamanie and the return of the exiled son
of Iran's last king, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, Iran's last shah,
was overthrown in the nineteen seventy nine Islamic Revolution. His
son and heir, also named Reza Palavi, lives in Virginia.
Iran's religious rulers have for years struggled to bridge the
gap between their theocratic priorities and the expectations of a
young society that seeks more social, economic, and political freedoms.
Oh USA today, don't ever change my goodness. That's the yeah.
The the brutal Islamic authoritarian regime that is ruled with
an iron fist. They have They have struggled to bridge
the gap between their theocratic priorities, yes, their Islamic rain right.
They have struggled between this, like we have to we
have to kill all the infidels.
Speaker 1: We've got to kill all the Jews.
Speaker 2: We have to prioritize spending on a nuclear program to
kill all the Jews.
Speaker 1: Like I know, like this is what we are called
to do by Allah.
Speaker 2: I know, you want to get some avocado toast, But
priorities here, young'ins. No, you women, you're not allowed to
walk around without a head s fund can't do that.
The US based human rights Activist news agency reported at
least thirty four protesters and for security personnel have been
killed twenty two hundred arrested over the last twelve days.
By the way, you know what the Iranian regime has
been doing, and now the protesters have learned this.
Speaker 1: After the last few uprisings, which is.
Speaker 2: They go into the hospitals after a demonstration, they'll go
into the hospital and just take people out of the hospitals,
and they are not exactly picky about who they take,
so they raid the hospitals afterwards, and then they take
them off to the jails and kill them right. Iran
Human Rights, which is a Norway based monitoring group, said
at least forty five protesters, including eight children, have been
killed by Iran security forces. However, the demonstrations which began
in Tehran last month have spread to all of the
Iranian provinces have yet to reach the scale of unrest
that started in twenty twenty two and carried over into
twenty three, and were ignited by the death of Masa Amani.
According to the monitoring group, she was the twenty two
year old woman who died while in police custody after
being detained for allegedly violating Islamic dress codes. Members of
Iran's Guidance Patrol, It's so called morality police claims she
was wearing her he job incorrectly when she was arrested
and then beaten and tortured to death in custody. See
that's what you get with the Red Green Alliance, because
the Reds are not going to be able to beat
the Greens. Once the Red Green Alliance succeeds, the Reds
will be beaten by the Greens. The Islamists will murder
all the Reds. Iranians media has downplayed the scale of
the protests, posting videos of empty streets.
Speaker 1: And then they had a bit.
Speaker 2: They posted a video of a pro regime demonstration with
you know, thousands of people walking in the streets to
show look, everybody still is on our side or empty streets,
nobody's in the streets at all. Also, this was a
fun moment where Iranian State TV aired the Tucker Carlson podcast. Yeah,
Tucker Carlson talking about you know, Iran not being that
bad of a place and all of that or whatever,
and yeah, so they were broadcasting Tucker Carlson to their
with translation just in case you were wondering, like what
his content is serving. This a pretty good indication. I
don't know why, and I don't care. When it comes
to Carlson, I don't care. I talked a little bit
about the back in December. I have accumulated a whole
bunch of more stuff, and I will be revisiting this
topic of you know, the influencer or podcast to stand
as it's being referred to as.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that now.
Speaker 2: I will only say I used to enjoy watching Tucker Carlson,
but I haven't watched his show in a long time
because the stuff that he is doing is of no
interest to me, and I think borders on dangerous if
it is not dangerous itself. I've also ditched the Megan
Kelly program. Used to like watching her program, and now
I've unsubscribed to her. Not going to watch her anymore either.
I'm just done. I don't know where, I don't know
what their principles are, and so I'm not going to
give them my attention because that's, you know, the attention economy.
If I have to choose between watching an hour of
her or watching an hour of say Michael Malice interview
Roseanne Barr. I'm actually going to get more out of
the Michael Malice interview, so I'm gonna spend my time
watching that. In his first major address to the nation
since the demonstrations erupted almost two weeks ago, coming E
said that Donald Trump should focus on problems in his
own country.
Speaker 1: He also accused.
Speaker 2: Iran's protesters of ruining their own streets to make the
president of another country happy.
Speaker 1: And he also, hang on a second, where is it here?
Speaker 2: M M, well, yeah, he said that they're doing the
bidding of Donald Trump all as well. And by the way,
speaking to Hannity on Fox News, Trump suggested that the
Ayatola may be considering leaving Iran, saying he's.
Speaker 1: Looking to go someplace.
Speaker 2: It's getting very bad, which would be awesome if that
guy were to get on a plane and flee the country,
probably land in Cutter, one of Tucker's favorite countries to visit,
or maybe go to Putin's Russia. Tucker likes that place too.
That would be awesome for the Iranian people. And do
you know the disruption in this terror matrix between the
ousting of Maduro the if the regime in Iran falls
like those are huge pieces of this network that now
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has been going on? I know it's halfway around the world,
but it actually matters. It matters to like the future
of the planet and how the the countries are going
to interact with one another. It matters to our security,
our allies security. Iranians have been taking to the streets
now for uh oh, it's like I think now probably
like ten or eleven or twelve days every day. Their
economy is in shambles. And this breaking news from Le
figaroau Viga ro figa Row.
Speaker 1: I think it's how that's pronounced.
Speaker 2: The family of Mohammed baguer Gli Bath, the speaker of
Iran's parliament, has filed requests for French visas to flee Iran,
which is great news. Watch where the families and the elites,
Watch what they are doing, watch where they are going.
This is it's another version of the preference cascade. I
talk about it all the time. Slowly at first and
then very quickly right, people don't know something is going
to happen, and then it's like a trickle, a trickle
and it's not really happening, and then boom, everything explodes. Which,
by the way, that is also what the theory of
change is for the leftists who are utilizing any and
all issues they can in order to destabilize the West.
That's why you're seeing these protests all across the country
over the shooting up in Minneapolis. Okay, that's the point.
Everybody sees the shooting. Everybody talks about that case taught
where the tires turning, were they spinning or was he
hit whatever. Everyone's focused on the case, on the issue,
on the details of that. That's not the that's not
the issue. The issue is never the issue. The issue
is always the revolution. You've got these networks that are
already in place. They have been doing their work. They've
been recruiting people, and they've been indoctrinating them to believe that,
you know, the democracy is at stake, that all is
lost unless you what As the lieutenant governor of Minnesota,
he said a couple of months ago that people are
going to have to be willing to put their bodies
in front of ice agents, and we said at the time,
like they're fomenting violence.
Speaker 1: This is a problem.
Speaker 2: This has been a growing problem, but a long term
problem on the left that people don't want to address
Democrats and media.
Speaker 1: But I repeat myself, they don't want to address this.
Speaker 2: They can hear every dog whistle while pretending not to
be the dog, but they can hear every dog whistle
from anybody on the right. But when you have people
in elected positions explicitly saying this stuff, they just can't
hear it. Can't I can't hear it. I have long
believed this is a theory of mine that in order
to make it in journalism, which I speak as a
former reporter. I was a reporter for a decade, went
to school, you know, got journalism training and all of that,
nobody ever offered me this offer. But I can only
assume there has to be some kind of an offer
that is made to people at some point, which is
this you can pick, you can choose to know the
ulterior motives of either all Republican officials or all Democrat officials.
That's the only thing I can figure out, because for
some reason media has no problem deciphering all of the
ulterior nefarious motives about why Republicans may be doing something
that they're doing, But for some reason, they can never
they can never quite figure out if there may be
another motive for somebody on the other side of the
political aisle. Very weird, so very weird. The issue isn't
the issue. The issue is the revolution. Let me get
a couple of messages on here. This is from hell
In who says Elon needs to turn Starlink loose. I
think it's already he has said. Elon said he has
activated Starlink I think for free in Iran, so he's
already done that. The issue is you got to get
the hardware smuggled in. But that is reportedly happening, and
I suspect that's why we're getting some of the stuff
that we are getting, is that some of this hardware
has made it in now. I've also seen some concerning
reports that Iraqi militias and I think some Syrian militias
maybe have been coming into Iran now to help put
down these protests. Yes, but we shall see high pete calendar. Okay,
that's seven oh four number. That's not it's not calendar.
There is no D in calendar. It's k A l
I N e R. Anyway, I've been watching a YouTube
channel called two C TV or tao C t O
U s I E t V. It's Iranian. They have
a lot more information about the new Iranian revolutions. Suggest
you watch it to be better informed. You're not really sure.
Random person on the text message line, what are they saying?
Speaker 1: Is it an.
Speaker 2: Iranian regime YouTube channel? I don't need to hear a
single damn thing coming out of that regime. The only
thing I need to the only information that the regime
would say that I would be interested in is that
they're leaving. Because the only reason to listen to the
regime is to know what they want you to think
and then assume the opposite. That's the way the Soviets
used to go about their daily lives. People in the
former Soviet Union they would read Pravda, they would read
the state media, but they only read it to know
what the state wanted them to think.
Speaker 1: That was it.
Speaker 2: They knew that they were being lied to, and the
state knew that the population knew, but it didn't matter.
That's how totalitarian states operate, so no, um, I'll look
I'll look it up during the break and see if
it's a regime channel or not. But that is I
will say this is one of the things that is
remarkable about this uprising is that it is getting far
more coverage. It is being driven by and covered by
social media, not the legacy media like the Babes has
been abused for the last week for not covering what's
been going on in Iran, and then I think the
first story that they did was something like basically a
press release rewrite from the regime. Russ says, Pete brother,
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state governance, and now the start of the Red Green Revolution.
I really do believe that this kind of content is
your superpower. Well that and juvenile humor. Yeah that worked. Yeah,
that's fair. That's fair. Look, I've said this many many
times over the years. Okay, Eddie says, it's not a
regime show, it's anti regime. Okay, well, then I will
look into it, thank you, Eddie, because I have not
seen two see or teuse channel.
Speaker 1: Oh I've said this before, which is.
Speaker 2: I understand that most people who are productive members of
society don't have time to go deep onto all of
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being a productive member of society, I would not have
the time to do it either.
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the landscape from Gary, the video from the ice agent's
phone that shot the protest or in Minneapolis has now
been released.
Speaker 1: I tagged you on Twitter. Okay, I'll take a look
at that during the break. What is this?
Speaker 2: Eighth three Numbers says Since this morning at seven am,
I have had nineteen phone calls, sixteen emails, and twenty
two text messages. None of the people on either end
of these communications have been shot by ice. I think
it's because they were working and not interfering with federal
agents also trying to do their job. That's a good
I mean, that's a good guess. It's hard to know
for sure. Seven oh four number ass can't the radical
leftist run amuck and just wait for the next Democrat
president to pardon them?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes they can.
Speaker 2: And as I went over yesterday, this is the dilemma
that the theory of change Marxists are forcing the administration into,
is that you you accelerate, you amplify, you get more
and more aggressive, you escalate, and then it eventually forces
the FEDS to do something. Because in the theory of
change that the Marxists supply, the action isn't always the action.
It's the reaction that you're trying to that you're trying
to induce. And when you get that reaction, it could
it's usually some sort of a decision point that has
to be made. And in this case, with all we're
seeing regarding the enforcement of law, which that's what this
is a that's what this is about. That's what all
of the protests and the opposite to ice and all
of that. This is democrats at the state and local
level attempting to nullify US law.
Speaker 1: That's what sanctuary cities are.
Speaker 2: That's what the refusal to enforce federal law was under
the Biden administration, letting in of millions and millions of people.
They're forcing a they're forcing a friction point, and like
right now, it is to try to induce Trump to
initiate the Insurrection Act, right to declare an insurrection insurrection
and go put these things down with violence. Basically, That's
that's what they want him to do because then they
can they can say, see, he's a tyrant. See he's
the orange hitler. See he's using the military against his
own people. But at the root of it, the flashpoint
is that they're going to They're going to demand that
states ignore federal law and not prosecute people who are
interfering with law enforcements.
Speaker 1: That's the tactic.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the massive waves of illegal immigration, here was
a story from the Aviationist dot com. A Chinese national
has been charged in the United States with unlawfully photographing
sensitive military infrastructure at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri
that is home to the US Air Force's B two
Spirit Stealth bomber fleet. The charges were announced by the
US Department of Justice and outlined in a criminal complaint
unsealed this week. According to the DOJ, the suspect thirty
five year old Killin Wu Wait. His name is Killin
really Qi l I n He's a Chinese national. He
was arrested and charged with unlawfully photographing vital military installations
and equipment. Federal prosecutors say he was observed taking photos
in the cityity, at wh Air Force Base and at
another base as well. According to the complaint, on December
tecond last month, the Whiteman Air Force Base Office of
Special Investigations investigated a report of a suspicious mini van
bearing a Massachusetts license plate near the perimeter of the
military base. Air Force patrolmen were dispatched to the area.
They encountered Wu, who stated that he was there to
observe the B two Spirit aircraft. The patrolman informed him
that he's not permitted to take photographs or make video
recordings of the military installation. The following day, according to
the complaint, AFOSI was notified that the same mini van
was again identified at a perimeter fence of Whiteman Air
Force Base. So agents went to the area to investigate
and lo and behold, who's there but Wo Woo's who.
Wu admitted to taking videos of the B two Spirit
aircraft and numerous photographs of the perimeter fencing, a gate,
and military equipment. Wu showed investigators his phone, including images
of I guess that is one nice thing. Like when
you get Chinese nationals that get busted doing this thing
and government officers show up and they're like, show us
your phone coming from the communist Chinese country, He's like, oh, yeah,
here you go.
Speaker 1: I'll open it up for you. Here, take a look.
Speaker 2: Like so accustomed to the state big brother behavior in
China under the communist regime that he immediately just turns
the phone over. Here you go take a look. Or
keep in mind, and we've talked a little bit about
this before. A lot of people who are allowed to
come to America from China, they are then instructed by
the Communist party back in China to engage in espionage
and information collection that if they don't do it, like
some harm will come to them or usually some harm
will come to their family that is still back in China.
So this guy may have been doing this because the
commis told him to and he had no choice. And
so when the patrolmens show up and they're like, show
us your phone, He's like, oh, thank you, please here
take this, send me back.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Wu showed investigators his phone. It had a whole bunch
of photos on it and recordings. They observed eighteen images
and videos. He admitted he had taken of the installation
and the equipment. He also admitted to having photographed another
US Air Force base and its military aircraft as well.
Speaker 1: It's not named. The other base is not named.
Speaker 2: He is a Chinese national who had unlawfully entered the country.
He crossed in in June twenty second, twenty twenty three,
near Nagallis, Arizona, and at the time he was arrested
by immigration authority. He was taken into custody, but due
to a lack of detention space, he was released on
his own recognizance to await immigration removal proceedings, which were
scheduled for February ninth, twenty twenty seven. We talked about
this during the Biden administration, when they just opened the
gates and gave everybody access to the CBP one app
and you could apply for a quote asylum. Right. So,
everybody's just flooding the system. The bed space is jammed up, right,
They've got no vacancies, personnel is overwhelmed. They just flooded
the system. Classic Cloward Pivet strategy. On December third, twenty
twenty five, ICE rearrested WU. While authorities have not publicly
connected this case twenty broader campaign at least so far,
it nonetheless reflects ongoing concerns within the defense and intelligence
community about persistent low level collection efforts targeting military facilities,
particularly those associated with nuclear deterrence. Remember my rule number
one about comis they lie. Never trust a comy. All right,
that'll do it for this episode.
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