90 Miles From Tyranny

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Sanctioning Revolutionary Guard as Terrorist Group Will Hit Iran Hard. Here’s Why.

In a historic move on Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization.

This is the first time the U.S. has given the designation to part of a government.

The designation will enable the U.S. to further ramp up sanctions against Iran’s tyrannical regime under the administration’s “maximum pressure” policy.

The Revolutionary Guard Corps is both the sword and shield of Iran’s Islamic revolution, dating back to 1979. It is charged with attacking Iran’s enemies overseas, supporting Iran’s network of foreign terrorist proxies, and crushing political opposition to Iran’s revolutionary regime at home.

Last week, the Pentagon released an updated assessment that blamed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for enabling Iraqi proxy forces to kill 603 American servicemen in Iraq. That accounts for about 17% of the total deaths of U.S. personnel from 2003 to 2011.

The Revolutionary Guard also controls Iran’s ballistic missile program, military aspects of its nuclear program, and key portions of Iran’s state-dominated economy.

The designation as a foreign terrorist organization will become effective next Monday, at which time the U.S. government will gain additional tools for applying sanctions against the Revolutionary Guards and all foreign entities that do business with them, their subsidiaries, and their front companies.

This will allow U.S. sanctions to hit harder at strategic sectors of Iran’s economy, since the Revolutionary Guard is extensively involved in Iran’s oil, construction, and defense industries. As CIA director in 2017, Pompeo estimated that the Revolutionary Guard controlled about 20% of Iran’s economy.

These added sanctions will drain away resources that could be used to export terrorism, thus helping bolster the security of the U.S. and its allies. This will also benefit the Iranian people, who are the chief victims of the Revolutionary Guard.

The new sanctions also will ratchet up pressure on foreign firms that continue to do business with Iran. Such firms could now face prosecution in U.S. courts for providing material support for terrorism if they engage in...

UK rape victim denounces plane passengers who stopped deportation of her Muslim migrant rapist

“How could ‘bleeding heart’ plane passengers stop my rapist being deported? Young mum whose ‘screaming’ Somali attacker was kept in the UK by Heathrow mutiny reveals her fury at their intervention,” by Mark Hookham, The Mail On Sunday, April 7, 2019:

The 27-year-old mother sitting beside me on a suburban park bench is trembling with a mixture of fear and rage. She can barely suppress her anger as she recalls the moment she watched a video of a refugee being escorted from an aircraft at Heathrow after a mutiny by passengers halted his deportation.

As The Mail on Sunday revealed last year, that man was Yaqub Ahmed, a Somalian who a decade earlier had been convicted and jailed with three others for a sickening gang rape.

Today his victim breaks her silence and, in an exclusive interview, condemns the holidaymakers who stepped in to defend him, ignorant of the horrifying attack that ripped her life apart.

In the video, filmed by a passenger, Ahmed, 29, is seen screaming as a group of people on board bellow at officials to ‘take him off the plane!’

For Hannah (not her real name), those pantomime-style cries were as nothing compared to her terrified screams as she fought for her life during Ahmed’s gang’s attack in a dingy flat in North London in August 2007 when she was just 16.

‘You think that was a bad scream? Try hearing the screams that I made,’ says Hannah in a powerful message to the ‘bleeding heart’ passengers who decided to intervene in Ahmed’s deportation.

And she asks them: ‘How could you defend a rapist? How could you intervene? He was in handcuffs, he was being taken out of the country… who are you people to...

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Epic stupidity: Liberal professor claims the very concept of “time” is now RACIST

A black professor who teaches “Women’s and Gender Studies” at Rutgers University in New Jersey recently came forward with a bizarre theory she invented, claiming that the very concept of time itself was created by white people, and is thus “racist.”

Associate Professor Brittney Cooper, who also once blasphemously claimed that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is “queer,” recently told a TED Talk audience that she also believes that white people “own time” – which in her mind makes time “evil” and something to be resisted and shunned by progressives.

“If time had a race, it would be white,” Cooper stated on record before her listening audience with a straight face. “White people own time,” she added in the same breath, also still completely serious.

When asked for some type of rationale by the interviewer as to why she believes this, Cooper offered a vague retort about how Europeans supposedly came up with the idea of time, denigrating it as a product of “Western thought,” which she clearly rejects.

“After the Industrial Revolution, suddenly, we begin to talk about time as spending time,” Cooper stated, insinuating that, prior to the Industrial Revolution, there simply was no time. “It becomes something that is tethered to monetary value.”

Cooper then went on to ramble about hourly wages, black and brown people, Western ideals, and various other incoherent and unrelated topics, circling back to her contention that white people created time, and continue to use it as a form of oppression against non-whites.

“Time has a history, and so do black people,” she further stated. “But we treat time as though it is timeless, as though it has always been this way, as though it...