Is anything real?
Month: June 2025
Make Iran Terrorists Again: DHS issues domestic terror bulletin
Imagine how many sleeper cells were allowed to walk into the country the past four years. If you know anything about the softness of soft targets, and the incapacity of local LEO to contain even a small coordinated force, you would understand what a big deal this is. The illegals in LA managed to disarm LAPD with flags in one hand and rocks in the other. Imagine Iranians with AKs vs soft targets.
“The ongoing Iran conflict is causing a heightened threat environment in the United States. Low-level cyber attacks against US networks by pro-Iranian hacktivists are likely, and cyber actors affiliated with the Iranian government may conduct attacks against US networks. Iran also has a long-standing commitment to target US Government officials it views as responsible for the death of an Iranian military commander killed in January 2020. The likelihood of violent extremists in the Homeland independently mobilizing to violence in response to the conflict would likely increase if Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the Homeland. Multiple recent Homeland terrorist attacks have been motivated by anti-Semitic or anti-Israel sentiment, and the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict could contribute to US-based individuals plotting additional attacks.”
Duration
Issued: June 22, 2025
Expires: September 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET
https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-june-22-2025
Quick refresher on Just War Theory
I’m having flashbacks to 2003, having to explain to neocons yet again that you cannot just go to war with a country that hasn’t done anything to you. At least back then (Iraq), they could blame blinded by “patriotism.” It doesn’t matter how much intel you think you have about WMDs, nukes, whatever. If the other country has taken no action against you, your preemptive aggression is unjust. While there are other, more nuanced aspects of Just War Theory, this one here is basic enough for a third grader to understand. Needless to say, the fact that this was done as proxy for a third country makes it even worse.
The Great Supper of Corpus Christi and the Eternal Beatitude
Trump Bombs Iran
Updated 5:55 PM MST, June 21, 2025 Share TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency early Sunday acknowledged an attack on the country’s Fordo nuclear site. Quoting a statement from Iran’s Qom province, IRNA said: “A few hours ago, when Qom air defenses were activated and hostile targets were identified, part of the Fordo nuclear site was attacked by enemies.” The IRNA report did not elaborate. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict. There was no immediate acknowledgment from Iran of any strikes being carried out. The decision to directly involve the U.S. in the war comes after more than a week of strikes by Israel on Iran that aimed to systematically eradicate the country’s air defenses and offensive missile capabilities, while damaging its nuclear enrichment facilities. But U.S. and Israeli officials have said that American stealth bombers and the 30,000-pound (13,500-kilogram) bunker buster bomb they alone can carry offered the best chance of destroying heavily fortified sites connected to the Iranian nuclear program buried deep underground…
Saturday Send-off: B-2 bombers depart U.S. for Indian Ocean
American B-2 stealth bombers left the US and appeared to be heading toward Diego Garcia, a strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, on Saturday.
The warplanes were using the call sign MYTEE21, which has previously been associated with stealth bomber missions. The bombers were accompanied by eight supply planes.
The B-2 Spirit is designed for long-range strike missions and is capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear weapons.
It is the only aircraft capable of delivering the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, also known as the bunker buster bomb. Bunker busters could be used in a possible attack on Fordow, the Iranian nuclear facility buried 300ft inside a mountain.
It was unclear whether the bombers were heading to Diego Garcia or a US military base in Guam.
Did Minnesota political shooter have advance orders?
(Probably a distraction amid all the others, but it is interesting this is being reported by MSM. -nvp)
By Jeff Day,Ryan Faircloth and Jeffrey Meitrodt
The Minnesota Star Tribune
In a rambling, conspiratorial letter addressed to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter claimed Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate, according to two people familiar with the contents of the letter.
The letter is the clearest evidence yet of Boelter’s mindset after the targeted violence against Minnesota politicians last week. It is incoherent, one and a half pages long, confusing and hard to read, according to two people familiar with the letter’s contents. It includes Boelter alleging he had been trained by the U.S. military off the books, and that Walz, who is not running for Senate, had asked him to kill Klobuchar and others…
Feast of Corpus Christi: “He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him”
“And I in him.” Read that again and again, and vow to assist at daily Mass as often as possible. You will bear much fruit.
Please, please, try to understand the power of the Eucharist. Harness Its power the way He intended for you. While we can never understand it fully, by practicing frequent worthy reception, you will quickly deepen your relationship with Him. He explained it quite plainly, even knowing the multitude would reject Him.
GOSPEL John 6:56-59
At that time, Jesus said to the crowds of the Jews: “For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for ever.”
For good measure, read the entire sixth chapter of Gospel of St. John HERE.
It is the very meaning of being Catholic.
Blessed Feast, everyone!
When Bad Theology Starts a War: Ted Cruz, Genesis 12, and the Road to Iran
(Sorry for the lack of posts. I am traveling for work. By all means, start following Chris Jackson at http://bigmodernism.substack.com/)
How a Protestant misreading of Scripture may lead America into a catastrophic holy war
Senator Ted Cruz believes the United States must support modern Israel, unconditionally, militarily, even preemptively against Iran, because of a single verse from Genesis: “I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.” In his eyes, this is a geopolitical strategy, authored by God.
Cruz stated it bluntly in his interview with Tucker Carlson. When asked why America should support Israel in striking Iran, even if it meant regional or global escalation, Cruz appealed not to prudence, nor to U.S. self-interest, but to Genesis 12. “Those who bless Israel will be blessed,” he said. End of story.
This is not a marginal view. It’s a core conviction of American evangelicalism, particularly among its political class. Members of Congress, presidential advisors, and even Pentagon insiders carry this belief into their policy calculations. But the tragedy is this: they are wrong.
Genesis 12: Not a Foreign Policy Manual
The passage Cruz invokes was spoken to Abram, personally, as part of God’s covenant with him and his descendants. It was not a blanket policy for Gentile nations in 2024. It certainly wasn’t a divine endorsement of whatever geopolitical entity calls itself “Israel” at any given point in history. The modern state of Israel, founded in 1948 by secular Zionists, many of them agnostic or atheist, is not a theocracy, not the Old Covenant nation, and not a valid fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
The Church Fathers knew this. Saint Paul, writing in Romans 9, makes it clear: “Not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.” The promises of the Old Covenant were fulfilled in Christ and extended to the New Israel: the Church. “If you are Christ’s,” says Galatians 3:29, “then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.” The Church, not a Middle Eastern nation-state, is the inheritor of the covenant blessings.
Yet Cruz and his fellow Christian Zionists turn this upside down. They read Genesis as though the U.S. must serve modern Israel, or else suffer divine wrath. That’s dispensationalism, a 19th-century heresy barely older than Mormonism.
From Bad Theology to Real Bombs
Cruz insists that supporting Israel means preemptively destroying Iran’s military and nuclear infrastructure…
Read the rest: https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/when-bad-theology-starts-a-war-ted
Say what?
“We” ??